Hey everyone, have you ever wondered about the official narrative of certain famous crime stories?

Did you ever suspect the public wasn't getting the whole truth?

If I mention the name Charles Manson, I bet the first words that come to mind are Helter Skelter.

The motive used to convict Manson and his cult of the murder

of 10 innocent people, including actress Sharon Tate. But what if there was more to this story? What

was Helter Skelter? Was it really the reason that the murders were committed? In her true crime

book, The Manson Family, More to the Story,

author H. Allegra Lansing has laid out a chronology of the Manson family history that gives

a more transparent understanding of why the killings happened and what we can still learn from

these events all these years later. The Manson family, More to the story, is available on Kindle, Nook,

and a paperback through Amazon, or you can listen to the audiobook by visiting mansonfamily.net.

It's the summer of 2009, and Tony Sharpless, a 29-year-old single mother has been working hard.

Not only has she been busy raising her 12-year-old daughter,

but she spent several years first putting herself through nursing school and then working as a nurse

at Lancaster Hospital's infectious disease ward. So on the night of August 23rd, when her old friend

Crystal Johns offers her a night out in Philadelphia,

the normally low-key Tony said yes. She and Crystal stood off with the intention of dancing and

having a good time, but after ending up at the home of a professional basketball player,

things went very wrong for Tony, and she hasn't been seen to this day. When a person goes missing, there's a

special kind of pain in the not knowing. I want to tell the stories of those who never came home.

I want to tell you the story of Tony Lee Sharpless. I'm Coda Gallagher. And I'm Ethan Flick.

And this is, and then they were gone. Tony Lee Sharpless was born on December 27, 1979 to Donna Sharpless in Dowington, Pennsylvania, which is a suburb of Philadelphia.

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