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Truth and Lies: The Family Manson

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Charles Manson's tumultuous childhood, his devoted cult, the grisly murders of 1969, and his last network TV interview from prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight on 2020 it was a case that rocked the nation and breaking just this week.

0:05.0

One of Charles Manson's followers has now been released. 2020 starts now.

0:11.8

We have a weird, humid, and dry, border-killed taste slain.

0:15.6

It's incredible.

0:17.4

The brutality of these savage, nightmarish murders here was

0:20.5

Charles Manson converted intelligent middle-class kids into putty-like zombies.

0:26.8

It was very good only come to one verdict, guilty.

0:28.9

To explain Manson, it could not be done in words.

0:34.0

The most famous murder in the history of Los Angeles.

0:37.2

Sharon Tate was a young actress stunning even by movie star standards.

0:41.5

Sharon Tate, she's today's kind of girl.

0:44.8

Three friends were staying with her that night. The windows were open. A cool breeze was blowing.

0:50.5

It's simply going to be a quiet, comfortable night.

0:54.3

And of course it turned out not to me.

0:57.0

Charles Manson was a rock star wannabe and a madman.

1:02.8

He could literally get his followers to kill for him.

1:07.6

Everyone wondered how did he turn these all American women into monsters?

1:12.5

I knew that people would die.

1:15.4

I knew that there would be killing.

1:17.4

He controlled them and they did what he wanted.

1:21.6

They were so young.

1:23.3

What he wanted was murder, brutal murder.

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