Charles Manson heads to hell! Youngest 'Family' member tells her story

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Charles Manson's life prison sentence has ended. Diane Lake was just 14 when Manson lured her into his "family," making her the youngest member of the cult when it was busted in the wake of a series of mass murders. Lake, who wrote about her experiences in her book Member of the Family, shares her story with Nancy Grace in this episode. Major crimes investigator Karen Smith and Manson expert Alisa Statman, author of Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice, also join the discussion.

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0:00.0	Climbs stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.
0:11.8	Is Charlie Manson crazy?
0:13.2	Whatever that means, sure, he's crazy as man as a head or what difference does it make?
0:16.8	I took the night and I started standing and I turned into an animal and I just completely
0:22.0	lay out on the toilet.
0:23.6	Did you tell the women to do their witchy things?
0:25.9	I said, if you're going to do something, leave something witchy.
0:30.0	Just like I would tell you, if you're going to do something, do it well and leave something
0:34.0	witchy.
0:35.0	Leave a sign to let the world know that you have a good gal.
0:38.9	Right now Charles Manson, the leader of the killer cult, is dead and his stay in the
0:46.8	penitentiary was just a pit stop to H.E.
0:50.4	Double L. A former convicted felon, he brings together dozens of young people.
0:59.1	Dozens of, let me just say, misfits, people that felt they were misfits anyway, whether they
1:04.0	were or not.
1:05.4	He brought them all together as a family.
1:08.6	They all settled in together kind of commune style at a ranch near L.A. but then for two
1:16.5	nights he instructs his followers to go on a murder spree and they do.
1:28.4	Horrific murder, some crime scenes, unlike anything police had ever seen before.
1:35.7	Words written on the walls and the victims of blood, dead bodies thrown through fancy
1:41.8	homes in the L.A. area.
1:45.4	I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories, thank you for being with us.
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