Hey guys and welcome to the Moms a Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy.

How are you?

I'm doing pretty good.

How about you?

Doing good.

We're back at it.

I mean, too, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're doing

yourself on the back. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. So we don't really have anything exciting to announce.

It's just the middle of January now. That's just not an exciting time. Are you a calendar now?

Yeah. Well, you know, I don't know, sometimes some parts of the year are more exciting.

This is not one of them. We don't have anything to say. So we're just going to get right into

the episode. Right? Yeah, do it. With that glowing endorsement, let's do it. All right. So lately,

I have been spending a lot more time reading about murders that happened in the 60s and 70s.

And I spent some time going down the Charles Manson rabbit hole.

I will spare all of you the details about what I have learned in my studies, especially you, Melissa, because I think you

would probably reach through and strangle me right through your screen. But in the process of

going through all of that, I stumbled upon this week's story. And it took place around the same time

that Charles Manson was on trial and has some similarities and maybe a

potential connection. So I thought this one might be an interesting one for us to talk about.

And it is the story of who became known as the killer prophet, a man whose twisted crime

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