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Helter Skelter

book by Bugliosi

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Manson Family

  • Charles Manson
    In Charles Manson

    …array of books—including the best-selling Helter Skelter (1974)—as well as numerous films and documentaries. The interest continued even after Manson’s death in 2017.

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  • A guilty verdict
    In Manson Family: Aftermath

    …persisted, and prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter (1974; with Curt Gentry) remains among the most popular true-crime publications of all time. Additionally, the success of director Quentin Tarantino’s fictionalized film Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019) and journalist Tom O’Neill’s revisionist history Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret…

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