Fifty years ago, the Manson murders sent shockwaves through the country. But has the real story ever been told?
And though not entirely conclusive — throughout his book, and over the course of two conversations with, he repeatedly insists that there is still much more work to be done — it’s definitely convincing. Perhaps those of us who thought we knew the story were misinformed, as well.
O’Neill questions whether Terry Melcher, 27, was honest about the extent of his relationship with Charles Manson.In the 400-plus pages of his book, O’Neill presents multiple examples, but in interviews with, a few stand out. Take Susan Atkins, who helped break the case after she was arrested that fall, and she began bragging to her cellmates that she and her friends were behind the Tate and LaBianca murders. Her cellmate immediately told the authorities, providing a huge break in the case.
Take, as well, the case of Terry Melcher, the hotshot record producer and son of Doris Day. He and his girlfriend, Candice Bergen, had lived at the house on 10050 Ceilo Drive until late December 1968, when they decided to move into one of his mother’s properties in Malibu.
O’Neill traced one of these threads back to San Francisco in mid-1967, during the Summer of Love, just a few months after Manson’s release from prison. There he found Roger Smith, Manson’s parole officer. There, Smith participated in a study called “The San Francisco Project,” an experimental parole program. As O’Neill reports for the first time in, he used Manson as his charge.
It’s around this time in the book, that O’Neill brings in the man he calls — after Manson and Bugliosi — the third main characte: Jolly West. West was a drug researcher who landed in San Francisco in the mid-1960s for the same reasons as the two Smiths: a fascination with narcotics.
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