S20 Ep120: Peace, Love, & Murder: The Charles Manson Story w/Alan R. Warren
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 176 minutes
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Summary
In the late 1960s, America’s promise of peace, love, and freedom collided with a nightmare that would forever change the nation. At the center of it was Charles Manson—failed musician, self-styled guru, and one of the most infamous figures in criminal history.
Peace, Love, and Murder: The Charles Manson Story goes beyond the familiar headlines to reveal untold details about Manson, his followers, and the culture that allowed him to thrive. Alan R. Warren explores how the chaos and counterculture of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1960s created the perfect storm for Manson’s rise.
Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Warren also shines a light on the lives of Manson’s “Family.” Each member’s background is explored, showing how personal struggles, vulnerabilities, and the allure of belonging drew them into Manson’s orbit—and into history’s most shocking crimes.
This is more than a true crime story. It’s the unsettling account of how an era built on dreams of love and freedom gave rise to murder and madness.
On Today's True Crime Tuesday, we discuss the rise and fall of the Manson Family! We also get into the particulars of how Charles Manson was able to get his Family to kill for him, why Charlie continued the histrionics and isolationism from the trial and to behind bars. And, we talk about perhaps one of the most disturbing examples of devotion by the Manson Family that you may have never heard of!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the best in true crime podcasting. |
| 0:25.2 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.1 | Got a great show today, folks. |
| 0:29.5 | We're going to take it to the penultimate beginning. |
| 0:33.3 | Is that a good way to put it? |
| 0:34.4 | It's the place where everyone wants to go with the true crime show. |
| 0:39.8 | There's one subject that everyone wants to cover, and today we're covering. |
| 0:47.7 | There's one serial killer out there when you say true crime that everyone wants to go to. |
| 0:54.6 | And it's Charles Manson and the Manson family. |
| 0:56.8 | You know, they say eventually with enough time passing, the villain becomes the hero. |
| 1:05.4 | Not in this case. |
| 1:06.9 | And not in this story. |
| 1:08.8 | My guest today is a good friend of the show. |
| 1:11.1 | Alan R. Warren is our guest today. |
| 1:14.2 | And he has written not one but two books that we're going to cover today. |
| 1:18.0 | This first one is right here. |
| 1:21.3 | I have it right here in my grubby little paw. |
| 1:23.6 | It is the House of Mystery Radio Show presents the interviews book eight. |
| 1:28.4 | This is the companion piece that I want you guys to pick up. |
| 1:32.5 | I believe this book is incredibly important because it's got some of the interviews from over time that Alan's done with some of the players involved and some of the people who have interviewed some of the players involved |
| 1:45.1 | in the Manson family murders and surrounding the Manson family murders. |
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