The Manson Family Goes Helter Skelter

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Everybody knows the story of cult leader Charles Manson and the Manson Family murders, but “Crime Weekly’s” Stephanie Harlowe joins to share a more-detailed look at Charles Manson as a person, and what led him to become a violent murderer and cult leader. She sheds light on his early childhood and upbringing, and his personality and how he was able to manipulate young girls in the 60s to joining the family. She has insight into Manson’s unlikely friendship with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Manson’s dream of becoming a rock star and why that never happened despite Dennis Wilson’s help, and the story behind Manson and famous record producer Terry Melcher. And of course she details the gruesome Tate and LaBianca murders committed by the Manson family in Los Angeles, what motivated the killings, and how the Family was eventually captured. Plus, Stephanie has crazy stories from the subsequent trials and sentencing that followed.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to talk is Jericho's the pot of thunder and rock and roll and we're
0:16.5	doing true crime today.
0:18.5	I got a great guest today.
0:19.7	His Stephanie Harlow, you might recognize her from her YouTube channel and her podcast
0:24.3	Crime Weekly.
0:25.6	She goes in depth on all kinds of true crime cases.
0:29.8	She was also in the Cecil Hotel documentary on Netflix.
0:33.4	That's why I saw her first.
0:34.5	So I invited her on talk is Jericho to take us deep into the story of Charles Manson and
0:39.0	the Manson family.
0:40.0	Pretty much everyone knows the story of Charles Manson and his cult.
0:44.2	They committed a series of nine murders over July and August of 1969.
0:49.8	Most famously that of actor Sharon Tate who was pregnant at the time and married to director
0:54.6	Rowan Polansky, you'll find out how Sharon and her friends ended up in the crosshairs of
0:59.4	the Manson family.
1:00.9	Manson also had his crazy interpretation of the Beatles, Helter Skeletor song and lyrics.
1:05.5	It started using the term Helter Skeletor to describe the race war he wanted to begin.
1:10.2	He was an aspiring musician and befriended Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and actually
1:15.3	lived in Dennis's house for a while.
1:17.3	It's a very weird, crazy and gruesome story.
1:20.4	Stephanie is going to share some of the details surrounding Manson's life and the formation
1:24.4	of his cult.
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