Summary and Analysis of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders: Based on the Book by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
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About Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry’s Helter Skelter:
In the bestselling true crime book Helter Skelter, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi provides a meticulously detailed account of the murders committed by the Manson family and their trial—one of the most sensational criminal cases of the century.
From the police investigation of the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and Sharon Tate, to the arrests, the courtroom antics, and the personalities and motivations of Charles Manson and his followers, Helter Skelter offers a haunting look into the horrific repercussions of cult mentality on a violent rampage.
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Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Timeline
Cast of Characters
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Vincent Bugliosi
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
Vincent Bugliosi published Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders in 1974, three years after the conviction of the Manson Family.
The nine murders they committed were a major news story, and Bugliosi—a lead prosecutor—had become a celebrity in his own right. The book was an instant bestseller. Bugliosi’s insider perspective of the crimes, investigation, and trial were in high demand, and Helter Skelter set the standard for the true-crime genre.
The Manson Family’s depravity is often seen as the symbolic end of the freewheeling decadence of the 1960s, the inevitable crash after a decade-long party. Charles Manson was a petty con man and drifter until he moved to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in 1967, where he observed the hippie culture and began picking up followers, mostly teenage runaways and prostitutes. Many hippies lived in communes,
or communal living spaces centered around a quasi-socialist ideology of sharing work and resources. Charlie and his early disciples established their base at Spahn Ranch, an old movie set for Westerns in the Simi Hills of Los Angeles.
As the Manson Family grew closer, Charlie used his charisma and political rhetoric to indoctrinate his followers, ultimately convincing them to fulfill his diabolical plan of instigating a race war through murder. The fame of the victims made the murders even more shocking: Sharon Tate, a well-known actress married to director Roman Polanski who was pregnant with his child; heiress Abigail Folger (of Folgers Coffee) and her boyfriend; and Jay Sebring, a hairdresser to the stars in Hollywood. Furthermore, Dennis Wilson, the drummer of the Beach Boys, had spent time with Manson and the Family.
The murders committed by the Manson Family would have interesting reverberations just around the historical corner. Patty Hearst was abducted in 1974, three years after the Family’s convictions, and in 1978, cult leader Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple convinced more than nine hundred of his followers to drink poison. These events shaped our current understanding of brainwashing and cult mentality.
Where are they now? Charles Manson remains in prison, as do most of the other Family members. In 2014, it was reported that Manson was engaged to a twenty-six-year-old woman, although the relationship fizzled out. He is up for parole