New Details MANSON About MURDERS

A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY POSES SOME THOUGHT-PROVOKING THEORIES ABOUT THE 1960s MOST INFAMOUS KILLING SPREE

- Louise A. Barile and Amanda Champagne-Meadows

After a seven-month trial that captivated the world, Charles Manson and three of his followers were convicted on January 26, 1971 of the murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. For the first time since the gruesome 1969 killings in California, Americans felt safer in their beds.

"The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning." -Charles Manson

Helter Skelter, a two-part television film based on the book by Manson's prosecutor, aired in 1976.

But what if the official story of the Manson family murders got it wrong? A new Netflix's documentary premiering March 7, Chaos: The Manson Murders, examines the roles the CIA, LSD, Jack Ruby and Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi might have played in the tragedy. “How did Charles Manson get those kids to kill on command — without hesitation, without regret?” documentary producers Robert Fernandez and Steven Hathaway pose to Closer.

In 2019, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood told an alternative history of the Manson story.