Hi and welcome once again to History Deweeps, the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.

My name is Tim, and today's podcast is part three of a four-part series.

It's Helter Skelter, the life and times of Charlie Manson and his family.

And if you didn't join us for the first two episodes, you may want to go back and listen to

those.

Or if you're okay, just dropping in wherever, then by all means, stick around.

That's how you live your life?

Yeah.

If you're not OCD, like some of us on this podcast and can go with the flow, then by all means, stick around and start with this one.

But this is episode three of a four-part series on Charlie Manson and the family.

And then in the first part, we discussed young Charlie Manson, his upbringing from the time

he was born until he was a young man, all the way to the time where he was released from

prison at age 32 in California.

And then in part two, we discussed the various members of the, what would become,

the Manson family.

So we're not really doing, it's just not really like chronological order.

We're jumping around quite a bit because we figure that most listeners are familiar enough with the story that this would make sense the way we're doing it. Hopefully it makes sense for you. But anyway, today we're going to talk about the murders that took place in 1969 and were

perpetrated by

the followers of Charlie

Manson. We're going to talk about those

murders, but before we do, let me

introduce my panel.

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