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🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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0:00.0 | Will interest rates change again? |
0:02.0 | What's new where I live? |
0:04.0 | Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news on a wide range of stories. |
0:11.0 | Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk |
0:17.0 | Love towards the radio |
0:20.0 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime history, and the authors that have written about them. |
0:34.0 | Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime history. |
0:47.0 | True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski. |
1:01.0 | Good evening. |
1:03.0 | Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. |
1:14.0 | With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson family followed their leaders every order. |
1:19.0 | Their crimes lit a framed flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the 60s. |
1:25.0 | Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era. |
1:31.0 | When Charlotons mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia or dystopia was just an acid trip away. |
1:41.0 | Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. |
1:48.0 | Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the official story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. |
2:00.0 | When a tense interview with Vincent Bulagosi, prosecutor of the Manson family and author of Helter's Skelter, turned a friendly source into anemosis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. |
2:11.0 | But every discovery brought more questions. |
2:14.0 | O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love, to the shadowy sights of the CIA's Mind Control experiments. |
2:26.0 | On a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences, the product of two decades of reporting hundreds of new interviews and dozens of never before seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI and the CIA, chaos, mounts an argument that could be according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Stephen Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. |
2:51.0 | This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history. |
2:57.0 | The book to be featuring this evening is chaos. |
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