Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New RepublicProsecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded...
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A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New RepublicProsecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. Both Helter Skelter and Vincent Bugliosi's subsequent Till Death Us Do Part won Edgar Allan Poe Awards for best true-crime book of the year. 50 pages of black-and-white photographs
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393322231 (0393322238)
ASIN: 393322238
Publish date: December 17th 2001
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 689
Edition language: English
What can I say? Vincent Bugliosi isn't just an amazing attorney but an amazing author as well. I've already read And the Sea Will Tell and loved it. It was so detailed, so thorough, and yet written in a voice that kept it from being stultifying or dry. Because of that experience I found myself awful...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, nonfiction, serial-killer, hippy-dippy-trippy-trash, massacre, true-grime, published-1974 Read on February 07, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuywL...Description: Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in o...
It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon. Those are the opening lines of Helter Skelter. Decades after I had first read it, I could recall that first sentence almost word for word. The b...
This is a very interesting book on a horrific murder in our history, one that no one will soon forget about, especially people who remember hearing about it on the news. (My mom was very upset with the fact that I was reading it.) It is written by the District Attorney who was in charge of the case ...
The only review I can think of is this: o_O
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