1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,560 Don't ask me what to do. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:13,280 I said you know what to do. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:18,680 Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people, then I would have felt better. 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,120 And when I felt like I really offered society something. 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:48,720 Welcome to Very Scary People. 6 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,640 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 7 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,760 Tonight we unravel the twisted tale of one of America's most despicable criminal minds, 8 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:56,760 Charles Manson. 9 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:01,680 A man whose evil resulted in a series of vicious murders that still haunt the nation's 10 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:02,680 conscience. 11 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,160 Decades have not erased the bloody trail of terror left by Manson and his deadly disciples. 12 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:12,040 He cold bloodedly commanded his hippie followers to carry out the brutal murders of innocent 13 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,880 people including actress Sharon Tate and Lino and Rosemary LaBianca. 14 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:23,440 Those horrific slanks indelibly seared his name at the very top of America's list of 15 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,400 very scary people. 16 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,400 But why did he do it? 17 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,400 Who was Charlie? 18 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,560 And how was he able to convince his followers, many of them bright young people, to commit 19 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:37,040 unspeakable acts of violence against unsuspecting strangers? 20 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,400 This is part one of The Devil's Work. 21 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:59,520 In August of 1969, 19-year-old William Gerritsen is a fill-in summer caretaker at 10,050 22 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,520 Cielo Drive. 23 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:08,040 It is an exclusive Beverly Hills property being rented by world-renowned film director 24 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:14,080 Roman Polanski and his stunning wife, actress Sharon Tate. 25 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:19,720 The owner of the property has to go out of town a lot, so he pays Gerritsen $35 per 26 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,760 week to pet set. 27 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,680 He was there to take care of a dog and to do some chores around the house. 28 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:32,720 But because the Polanskis and their friends are celebrities, Gerritsen is under orders 29 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,440 to never ever bother them. 30 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:43,400 Even though the main house is just 25 yards away, the young man has no idea that after 31 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,920 the night of August 8th, his life will never be the same. 32 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:57,400 Gerritsen was going to call in early and not go out. 33 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:06,280 Suddenly, Gerritsen hears loud voices coming from the Polanskis' house. 34 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:11,760 And then when he picks up the phone, the line is dead. 35 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,920 I think Gerritsen was probably scared to death. 36 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:24,880 As Gerritsen is hearing those screams, absolute carnage is happening on the lawn and inside 37 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,240 that house. 38 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,760 It was a killing spree that horrified the entire country. 39 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,800 People were slaughtered, including actress Sharon Tate, 8 and a half months pregnant 40 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,520 and married to movie director Roman Polanski. 41 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:45,520 What unfolds that night at 10050 Cielo Drive was set in motion by just one man, Charles Manson. 42 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,480 According to Charlie, he was the son of an unwed teenage prostitute who cared so little 43 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,240 about her son that once she tried to sell him for a pitcher of beer. 44 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:06,520 I spent the best part of my life in boys' schools, prisons and reform schools because 45 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,560 I had nobody. 46 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,440 Nobody would come and sign their name to take me out. 47 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,760 I never had no parents to speak of. 48 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,760 None of that's true. 49 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:25,680 Charles Manson's mother did go to prison when Charlie was 5. 50 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,400 She and her brother tried to rob somebody. 51 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,280 They were sentenced to two years in prison. 52 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:35,800 But little Charlie was taken in by loving relatives. 53 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,600 His grandmother, his aunt, his cousin Joanne, when his mother was released from prison 54 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,440 she certainly loved him and wanted him. 55 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:51,160 The problem was that Charlie himself was a rotten little kid from the word go. 56 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,960 He would lie about everything. 57 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,040 He was sometimes violent. 58 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:03,320 Charlie's cousin Joanne said that when Charlie's in first grade, a boy was mean to him and 59 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,880 When Charlie had some of the girls in class beat the boy up at recess, when the principal 60 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,880 said to Charlie, why did you do this? 61 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,440 Charlie said it wasn't me. 62 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,040 The girls were doing what they wanted to do. 63 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,560 He kept running away. 64 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,080 By the time he's 13, he's pulling armed robberies. 65 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:29,600 And I burgled out his grocery store and I stole the car and did not shift gears. 66 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,200 He starts in the reformatory system. 67 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:39,240 Charles Manson told me that he was abused at all these reform schools. 68 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,360 Physically beaten, sexually abused. 69 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,880 After being preyed on in his first few years, he became a predator himself. 70 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:54,000 At one point he was caught sodomizing another boy while holding a sharp object at the kid's 71 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,760 throat. 72 00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:03,720 There was no amount of harm or hurt that he could inflict on the world in his mind 73 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,720 that could ever fill the sense of being the victim. 74 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:08,720 Nobody cares. 75 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,400 When it comes right down to it, nobody cares. 76 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:18,720 It's only when he's 19, after seven years in institutions, that Charlie finally gets 77 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,240 out of the system. 78 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,720 Yet, Charlie soon reverts to what he knows best. 79 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:26,720 He's a criminal. 80 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:27,720 He's a criminal. 81 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,720 He's 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67, Manson heads north to San Francisco, and he comes face to face with the Age of Aquarius. 173 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,720 That was basically the beginning of the summer of love. 174 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,720 And they were free in their thinking. 175 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,720 And there was no fear or paranoia to them. 176 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,720 And they'd come up and say, well, we like you. 177 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:05,720 I say, you like me? 178 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,720 Hell, nobody likes me. 179 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:08,720 Everybody was a hippie then. 180 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,720 Peace, love, weed, sex, music. 181 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:13,720 He said, well, you give our kids drugs. 182 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,720 I said, man, your kids gave me the drugs. 183 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:17,720 They were already loaded. 184 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:22,720 And all sorts of weird gurus going around. 185 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,720 Charlie comes out of prison wanting to be a super pimp. 186 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:32,720 But people who know him say he quickly realizes he can't make money from sex when he's in prison. 187 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,720 And so Charlie reinvents himself as a guru. 188 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:41,720 And he has equal parts Dale Carnegie, the Bible, and his own prison BS. 189 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,720 And he goes out and starts preaching. 190 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,720 The target would be young, lonely, vulnerable women. 191 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,720 They came from good families. 192 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,720 So how do you make them feel? 193 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,720 They're not going to be able to do it. 194 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,720 They're going to be able to do it. 195 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,720 They're going to be able to do it. 196 00:09:58,720 --> 00:09:59,720 Vulnerable women. 197 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:01,720 They came from good families. 198 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,720 So how did they get sucked into Manson's cult? 199 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,720 It was an induction process, drugs and sex. 200 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,720 They would take LSD. 201 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:22,720 He would have sex and then he would like whisper in their ear and he would tell them about love. 202 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,720 Charlie showered me with love and affection and adoration and the girls too. 203 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,720 It was like, oh, I'm home. 204 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:44,720 The key to his power and control was to simply convince his followers that he was almost a messiah, that he held all the answers to their problems and that they could find peace and love and serenity in their lives. 205 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,720 If they would just do exactly what he said. 206 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:59,720 As time goes on, those women become even more manipulable, more malleable in his hands to a darker demonic future. 207 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:12,720 Manson was able to finagle an old school bus that would hold about 35 people painted it black for attention. 208 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,720 And so they would travel and they would live in the school bus. 209 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:25,720 Charlie worked his way to the Sunset Strip, L.A., which was the heavy music scene. 210 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:32,720 Charlie believes he is destined to be a rock star and to have everything he never had. 211 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,720 I think he came out of prison with like 80 some songs that he'd written. 212 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:45,720 Look at your game, girl. Look at your game, girl. 213 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,720 You wanted to be like at the Beach Boys or the Jagger, whoever you wanted to say. That's that was Charlie's ideal. 214 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:01,720 In May of 1968, Manson moved the family to Spahn Ranch, just outside Los Angeles. 215 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,720 Spahn Ranch was described as a movie set. 216 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:11,720 There was kind of a Western street with bored sidewalks and faux saloons. 217 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,720 It was pretty much a dump. 218 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,720 George Spahn, the old owner, was nearly blind. 219 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,720 The old man was the boss. Whatever the old man said, we did. 220 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,720 You dig? He let us stay there, free rent. You dig? 221 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:30,720 It didn't hurt to have girls tending to George on a regular basis. 222 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,720 You know, cleaning his house, giving him some sex. 223 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:43,720 Lynette Fromm was assigned by Manson to live with George and to fulfill his every whim. 224 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:50,720 And George liked to pinch her a lot and she would squeal. And George is the one that nicknamed her Squeaky. 225 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:57,720 Fast forward to 1975, the world will know Lynette Fromm as Squeaky Fromm, 226 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:04,720 who tried to assassinate then President Gerald Ford with a gun. 227 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:16,720 Charles Manson knew that somehow he was destined to enter the recording industry. 228 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:27,720 And it's just going to come down to, can he get one break, one random act, one introduction? And he does. 229 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:35,720 When he and his family first came to Los Angeles, he sent all the women out to troll for a famous musician. 230 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:43,720 As it happened, Pat Krenwinkel and another woman called Yeller were walking along the road, and here comes Dennis Wilson in his car. 231 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,720 It was the Beach Boys drummer. 232 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,720 I'm not surprising he took these two girls back to his house. 233 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:59,720 They were telling Dennis all about, you know, this cool little guy, Charlie, and got him intrigued. 234 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:06,720 Back then, a lot of musicians had gurus, you know, of Kent Stevens, the Beatles. 235 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,720 That was like the in thing is to have a guru. 236 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:18,720 But a lot of lives were destroyed because of that insane nonsense that Charlie was trying to sell. 237 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:46,720 At Olive Garden, all new, never ending stuffed pasta starting at $12.99. 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And Charlie drops down on his knees, kisses Dennis' feet, and said, Do I look like I'm going to hurt you, man? 267 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:26,720 It was shortly thereafter that there was just a small group of us that moved in to Dennis' house. 268 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,720 And the girls were taking off their clothes, ready to do anything Dennis wants. 269 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,720 Dennis said, Hey, Greg, you got to come down, man. You got to meet this guy. He's here with a bunch of girls. 270 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:46,720 Bruce Johnson, we were invited to dinner at Dennis' house, and we got there, and Bruce and I were the only people with clothing on at dinner. So I thought that was kind of unusual. 271 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:58,720 Endless orgies and endless drug parties. It was just all there with Charlie Manson orchestrating it. 272 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:05,720 Dennis was having, you know, issues with his ex-wife and custody of the kids. 273 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:14,720 Manson played on Dennis' insecurities. People like Charlie Manson can smell it. I mean, he's like a heat-seeking missile. 274 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,720 He could look at someone, he could size them up and gain undue influence over them. 275 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:25,720 Dennis had been with the maharishi, the same maharishi that the Beatles were with. 276 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:30,720 Dennis Wilson moved from the maharishi to the Manson. 277 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:36,720 Dennis was a celebrity that was available for reusing and abusing. 278 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:49,720 Dennis paid for the numerous sexually transmitted diseases that these girls had and paying for medical treatment for his friends who partook in these girls. 279 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:56,720 Charlie managed to consume Dennis' allowance, his living allowance, which is considerable. 280 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:03,720 They wrecked Dennis' Ferrari and I think part of the Rolls Royce too, and they wrecked that house out there. 281 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:14,720 Dennis Wilson said that he ended up spending over $100,000 correcting the damage. Manson and the family had done to his house. 282 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:24,720 Manson at Dennis Wilson's house met Terry Melcher. He was a famous record producer at the time. 283 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:30,720 You know, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Birds, a number of successful acts. Terry's mom is overstate. 284 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:35,720 Yeah, he's very high profile. His girlfriend is Candace Bergen. So Terry's a real star. 285 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,720 And Charlie was like, oh, this is my guy. 286 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:45,720 Here's the top of the food chain. Terry Melcher, the kid star producer for Columbia. He can sign Charlie. 287 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:53,720 At the time, he was living with his girlfriend, Candace Bergen, at 10050 Cielo Drive. 288 00:20:54,720 --> 00:21:01,720 This is about a year before the home is rented by the new tenants, Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. 289 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:11,720 In the summer of 1968, Dennis tries to start Charlie's music career with a session at the Beach Boys Studio. 290 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:19,720 Dennis took us over to his brother's house, Brian, and Charlie was going to do like a recording session. 291 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:29,720 Charles Manson, of course, was obsessive about his music, about his lyrics, about his artistic talent. 292 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,720 I think they wanted Charlie to change some of the words, change some of the music. 293 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:39,720 People who were there say Charlie pulls a knife on the engineer. 294 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,720 Next thing you know, Charlie came, you know, storming out of the recording studio. 295 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,720 I think things started to go south after that. 296 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,720 Dennis knew that he was never going to get rid of him, so he had to just leave. 297 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,720 He just abandoned the house. He just left. It was a rental house. 298 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,720 Still, Manson clings to the hope that his dream of becoming a rock star isn't dead. 299 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:08,720 It seems Dennis might still be willing to help him with one of his songs in particular. 300 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,720 Cease to Exist. 301 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:30,720 Cease to Exist was considered good enough to put on a Beach Boys album. 302 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:39,720 Dennis and Charlie reached an agreement. Now, God only knows what it was because this shouldn't really happen. 303 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:45,720 But Dennis got permission from Charlie to use the song, or anyway Dennis thought he had permission from Charlie to use the song. 304 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:53,720 Manson called his song Cease to Exist, and then Dennis Wilson changed it, Never Learn Not to Love. 305 00:22:53,720 --> 00:23:01,720 The Beach Boys actually perform the new version of Cease to Exist on the Mike Douglas Show. 306 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:11,720 Having that song Cease to Exist reworked, repackaged by the Beach Boys and put out under a different title without any credit given to Charles Manson, angered him. 307 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,720 And he felt betrayed by Dennis Wilson. 308 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:23,720 It came down to Charlie's decision to leave the show. 309 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,720 It came down to Charlie's decision to leave the show. 310 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:33,720 It came down to Charlie's decision to leave the show. 311 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:39,720 It came down to Charlie's decision to leave the show. 312 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:45,720 It came down to Charlie's decision to leave the show. 313 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:55,720 Charles Manson is angry at the world, and increasingly his thoughts are turning to deadly violence. 314 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,720 Charles Manson is angry at the world, and increasingly his thoughts are turning to deadly violence. 315 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,720 His rage against humanity is raised to new levels by unfulfilled dreams of rock stardom. 316 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,720 Now he conjures up a sinister solution to his hate. 317 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,720 He's ready to launch a space riot between blacks and whites that he calls Helter Skelter. 318 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:24,720 Manson's mission, to spark ethnic conflict based on his unfounded belief that the true meaning of the Beatles song Helter Skelter is a call to arms. 319 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,720 Manson is not about to give up his dream of a recording contract. 320 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,720 He now pins all his hopes on Terry Melcher. 321 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,720 Charlie was smart enough to know, okay, here's the guy that I want. 322 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,720 Here's the guy who's a record producer. 323 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:49,720 And that's when Greg Jacobson and Terry Melcher came to the Spahn Ranch, and we did like a little recording session. 324 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:58,720 I arrived and met a bunch of people. They all sat down and they played, I don't know, a dozen songs. It was a big campfire. 325 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:04,720 The man's been playing the guitar, and all the girls sang parts and harmonies and background stuff. 326 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:09,720 Charlie was really hopeful that this was going to end up in some kind of an album. 327 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,720 But at some point, Terry gave Charlie the classic speech. 328 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,720 You know, Charlie, I mean, you've really got a talent. I really appreciate your music, but you're just not my cup of tea. 329 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:25,720 In Charles Manson's mind, Terry Melcher had dashed his hope for a music contract. 330 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,720 Charlie was really upset about that. 331 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:37,720 I kind of remember Charlie like, you know, all those, you know, motherf*****. 332 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:54,720 In my opinion, that rejection is what led to his desire to kill, to kill the people that had wronged him, that had basically ignored his greatness. 333 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:05,720 Now that he was going to make a record that was going to then bring us money, they resorted to criminal activity. 334 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:12,720 They had arms at the ranch, but now they were really, really arming themselves. 335 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:22,720 What Charlie tells his followers is, look, we need money for guns. Now, how are we going to get that money? 336 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:30,720 Gary Hinman was a Buddhist musician that was a friend of many of the family members. 337 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,720 Manson mistakenly thought that Hinman had come into a large inheritance. 338 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:44,720 On Charlie's instruction, his friend Bobby Beausoleil and Manson family members Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner go to Gary Hinman's home. 339 00:26:52,720 --> 00:27:04,720 Gary didn't have money. I think he had a few dollars in the house, not much in his bank account. 340 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:17,720 Manson then came out. Manson had a sword and told Hinman that he wanted his property and Hinman, you know, I don't have anything. 341 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,720 And so Manson slashed him. 342 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,720 I cut his ear off. 343 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:27,720 And Manson left. 344 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,720 After Manson left the scene, Bobby Beausoleil reportedly calls Charlie. 345 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,720 I said, don't ask me what to do. I said, you know what to do. 346 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,720 It's very clear what Charlie Manson wants them to do to Gary Hinman. 347 00:27:47,720 --> 00:28:04,720 And then Susan Atkins held a pillow over his face so that he couldn't breathe. 348 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,720 They murdered Gary Hinman. 349 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:23,720 And so what they did with Hinman's blood on Charlie's order was leave what supposedly was a paw print sign and a word political piggy scrawled in blood. 350 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:31,720 It's the first time Manson manipulates his followers to kill for him, but it won't be the last. 351 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:50,720 Charlie had been sharing with us from really early on about what he had learned in reform school and in prison from the black man. 352 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,720 And that was that they were going to overcome whitey. 353 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:01,720 And so Charlie interpreted this as it was going to be like a black white race war. 354 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:07,720 A revolution that Manson referred to as Helder Skelder after one of the songs in the Beatles album. 355 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:16,720 The Manson. 356 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,720 It meant that the Beatles wanted to have a worldwide revolution. 357 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,720 Blacks against whites. 358 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,720 Of course, it was all nonsense. 359 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:32,720 One of Manson's goals was to make it appear as though black radicals had murdered prominent white people. 360 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,720 He thought that would then make the police retaliate. 361 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,720 There would be more riots in Los Angeles and that would kick off the race war. 362 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,720 And so Charlie decides they're going to have another murder. 363 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,720 He was testing the limits of how far he could go. 364 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,720 Could he get people to do violence? 365 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,720 Could he get people to kill for him? 366 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,720 I remember playing games like they're creepy color games where they would sneak in somebody's house. 367 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:14,720 You would enter someone's house so silently they didn't know you were in there so that if you'd wanted to, you could kill them. 368 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,720 All the women were issued buck knives. 369 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,720 Charles Manson loved knives. 370 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,720 His female followers. 371 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:34,720 They had to prove their love and loyalty to him by standing against trees and letting Charlie throw knives into the trees around their face. 372 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,720 Tex Watson had been holding training classes for how to commit murder. 373 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:50,720 When you stab somebody, you didn't just put the knife in. You pulled up on it after it to do more damage. 374 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,720 Manson, he thought we've got to kill somebody important. 375 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,720 And it began right here on Cielo Drive. 376 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,720 Quiet, leafy cul-de-sac overlooking Beverly Hills. 377 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,720 See this security gate? Behind it, there's a mansion. 378 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:15,720 The property where record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend, Candice Bergen, lived until January of 1969. 379 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,720 They moved out in January and the Polanskys moved in in February. 380 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,720 Roman Polanski was a very famous director at that time. 381 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,720 Sharon Tate, an up-and-coming young actress. 382 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:38,720 Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski had met three years earlier on Polanski's film, The Fearless Vampire Killers, in London. 383 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,720 I'm going to save you. We'll go our way together. 384 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:51,720 She was an stunningly beautiful young woman, as one person said to me. She literally turned heads when she walked down the street. 385 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,720 Sharon and Roman were married in London in January 1968. 386 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,720 The newlyweds had moved into 10,050 Cielo Drive just a year after they'd gotten married. 387 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,720 And one of the main reasons why they rented a house was because they were about to have a baby. 388 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:13,720 Sharon was just so looking forward to being a mom and having the child. 389 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,720 But for his film projects, Roman often needs to travel. 390 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,720 Sharon has friends who stay with her at the house, so she's not alone. 391 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,720 J.C. Bring, who was her boyfriend before she married Polanski. 392 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,720 J.C. Bring made his name as a hairdresser to the stars. 393 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:43,720 Wojciech Frakowski was a Polish emigre. His girlfriend, Abigail Folger, who was Folger, of course, was a prominent name. 394 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,720 She was, in fact, of the Coffey family. 395 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:54,720 Now eight and a half months pregnant, Sharon's at her most vulnerable to a threat she doesn't even know is coming. 396 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,720 From Charles Manson. 397 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,720 On Friday, August 8th, he said, now is the time for Helder Skelter. 398 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:23,720 Manson sends out three women. Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Linda Kasabian. 399 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,720 With Tex Watson to the Tate residence. 400 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:39,720 Manson instructs Tex that he's to go in there and kill everyone in a gory scene. 401 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,720 He wanted a bloodbath. 402 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:49,720 And Manson told the women, do whatever Tex tells you to do. 403 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,720 Do you know why they picked Sharon Tate? 404 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:53,720 No. 405 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,720 Is that purely bad luck? 406 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,720 I know now that it had something to do with Terry Melcher. 407 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:08,720 Manson knew that Terry Melcher and Candice Bergen didn't live there anymore, but he wanted to send a message to them. 408 00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:11,720 There, but for the grace of God, go you. 409 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:27,720 At 10,050 Cielo Drive, Sharon Tate and her friends, J.C. Bring, Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frakowski are settled in for the night. 410 00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:35,720 25 yards away from the main house in the separate guest house. 411 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:40,720 The fill-in caretaker, William Garretson, has decided to stay in. 412 00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:46,720 But late that night, Garretson gets a surprise visitor. 413 00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:56,720 Stephen Parent the night before had met the caretaker, William Garretson, and Garretson invited him to come up. 414 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:05,720 Meanwhile, the car with Tex Watson and the other Manson followers pulls up near the gate of the Tate house. 415 00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,720 Stephen Parent was on his way out. 416 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:19,720 Tex Watson is at that point cutting the own wires to the house. 417 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,720 Watson saw the headlights. 418 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:36,720 And then Watson approached Parent with his 9-inch, butt-lined, 22-caliber revolver. 419 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:42,720 Parent begged for his eye, at which point Watson shot him four times in the head. 420 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:46,720 He was just a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time. 421 00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:55,720 Watson and the women proceeded to the house. 422 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,720 This was a family that wanted to kill him. 423 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:01,720 They were going to kill him. 424 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:03,720 They were going to kill him. 425 00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:05,720 They were going to kill him. 426 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:07,720 They were going to kill him. 427 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:09,720 They were going to kill him. 428 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:11,720 They were going to kill him. 429 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,720 They were going to kill him. 430 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,720 They were going to kill him. 431 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:17,720 They were going to kill him. 432 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:19,720 They were going to kill him. 433 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,720 They were going to kill him. 434 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:23,720 They were going to kill him. 435 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:25,720 They were going to kill him. 436 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:27,720 They were going to kill him. 437 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:29,720 They were going to kill him. 438 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,720 They were going to kill him. 439 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:33,720 They were going to kill him. 440 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:35,720 They were going to kill him. 441 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:37,720 The women were coming up the driveway. 442 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:45,720 Tex Watson enters the residence through a window and then quietly lets in two of the women through the front door. 443 00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:49,720 But he leaves the third one outside as a lookout. 444 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:54,720 Wojtek Frykowski is asleep on the living room couch. 445 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:58,720 And he suddenly awakens to find Tex Watson standing in front of him, staring at him. 446 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,720 And he simply asks him, who are you and what do you want? 447 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:05,720 Tex said, I'm the devil and I'm here to do the devil's business. 448 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:11,720 The people in the house were all brought into the living room and tied up. 449 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:17,720 Susan Atkins recalls that one of the victims called out, what are you going to do with us? 450 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:23,720 And Tex Watson simply replied, you are all going to die. 451 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:29,720 And J.C. Bring, who's a former boyfriend of the very pregnant Sharon Tate, is pleading with Watson. 452 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,720 He's saying, she's pregnant. Can't she just sit down? 453 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:37,720 And for his protest, Tex Watson shoots J.C. Bring in cold blood. 454 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:46,720 Wojtek Frykowski. I had tied his hands with a towel and then was instructed to kill him. 455 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:55,720 Wojtek very easily undid the towel that I had tied his list with and he and I began to fight. 456 00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:00,720 He bolts for the front door and he makes it all the way out to the front porch. 457 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:07,720 But Tex runs him down and with that gun starts beating him over the head with the butt of the gun and stabbing him. 458 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:14,720 Fifty one times. I can remember seeing people just scattering in different places. 459 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:19,720 Abigail Folger manages to escape and run for the door and she gets outside. 460 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:24,720 She's alive, but Patricia Krenwinkel runs her down and Tex Watson is right behind. 461 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:28,720 Together they hold her down on the ground and stab her repeatedly. 462 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:33,720 And I was left sitting with Sharon Tate and she was talking to me. 463 00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:40,720 Susan Atkins. She said, Sharon, beg for her life. Please let me live so I can have my baby. 464 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:46,720 I just want my baby to be born. You can kill me later, but let the baby live. 465 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:49,720 I felt nothing. I felt absolutely nothing for her. 466 00:38:50,720 --> 00:39:00,720 Susan Atkins grabs Sharon Tate by the hands and holds her arms, holding her captive while Tex Watson stabs her in the heart. 467 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:06,720 Tex, the way he moved, the viciousness. 468 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:13,720 It was just like seeing somebody go crazy with more power than I've ever seen anybody. 469 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:15,720 I don't think he was in control of himself. 470 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:25,720 Charles Manson may not have been there, but he had given them very specific instructions. 471 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:27,720 Before you leave, leave a sign. 472 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:32,720 Susan Atkins picks up a towel and dips it in the blood of Sharon Tate. 473 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:36,720 And on the front door of the house writes the word, pig. 474 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:53,720 At 8 a.m., August 9th, housekeeper Winnie Chapman arrives at the 10,050 Yellow Drive. 475 00:39:53,720 --> 00:40:00,720 She first sees that the wires to the house have been cut. 476 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:07,720 She then goes through the back entrance and she looks through to the lawn. 477 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:14,720 She saw Wojtek Rekowski and Abigail Folger's bodies in the front yard. 478 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:29,720 She runs now through the front entrance of the house to the driveway and she sees a body slumped over in a car. 479 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:34,720 She runs frantically to get help. 480 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:46,720 In a scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religious rite, five persons, including actress Sharon Tate, were found dead. 481 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:51,720 Manson wanted a bloodbath and that's what he got. 482 00:40:51,720 --> 00:41:09,720 They found Sharon Tate had been stabbed to death, 16 stab wounds, and had a rope around her neck. 483 00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:17,720 And the rope went over a beam of the high beam ceiling. 484 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:21,720 The other end had been tied around Jay Sebring's neck. 485 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:28,720 You have this eight and a half month pregnant woman being hung while she was still alive. 486 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:32,720 Abigail Folger had been wearing a white nightgown. 487 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:36,720 You couldn't tell that it was white. There was so much blood. 488 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:42,720 Wojtek Rekowski's face had been swollen from the beating. 489 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:45,720 It was hard to tell his facial features at all. 490 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:52,720 When the police look in the driveway, they see a car. 491 00:41:53,720 --> 00:42:00,720 In the car there's a body of a young man who has been both shot and stabbed. 492 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:08,720 It was inexplicable because there was no apparent motive. 493 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:17,720 As LAPD investigators attempt to make sense of all this death, they suddenly hear a sign of life. 494 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:22,720 They hear a dog barking. 495 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,720 So that alerts them to the guest house. 496 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:37,720 Incredibly, 19-year-old William Gerritsen, the fill-in caretaker, had been just 25 yards away in the guest house. 497 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:41,720 When these five people were murdered the night before. 498 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:49,720 At first they thought, well, as this person alive, he had to know what was going on. 499 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:54,720 Their first order of business is to take William Gerritsen into custody and he becomes suspect number one. 500 00:42:54,720 --> 00:43:13,720 After killing Sharon Tate and her friends the night before, family members Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patty Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian had returned to Spahn Ranch. 501 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,720 Charles Manson was waiting for them. 502 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,720 I said, do you feel any remorse about your actions? 503 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:24,720 And they said, no. I said, do you feel that you did what you had to do and it was right? 504 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,720 And she says, yes. 505 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:31,720 What judgment could I make? I had no judgment. 506 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:38,720 Charles Manson has a long history of manipulating other people to do his violence for him. 507 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,720 He's not finished yet acting out his rage. 508 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:48,720 Believe me, if I started murdering people, there'd be none of you left. 509 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:57,720 The scene of brutal butchery at the Tate residence rattles even the most hardened homicide detectives assigned to the case. 510 00:43:58,720 --> 00:44:00,720 Hollywood celebrities are panicked that they may be next. 511 00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:07,720 Throughout Southern California, people scramble to beef up their home security and around the world millions more watch the news in disbelief. 512 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:12,720 Hoping to find out who did this and why, but Charles Manson will not be stopped. 513 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,720 He's already planning his next vicious killing spree. 514 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,720 The rampage continues. 515 00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:21,720 Part two of Very Scary People, The Devil's Work. 516 00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:24,720 Thanks for watching. I'm Donnie Wahlberg.