It took months for the police to catch up with Manson and his group of followers. Two nights later another family found their parents dead under similar circumstances as Sharon Tate’s murder but there was no connection between these two murders which meant they needed to look into other motives such as gambling connections since this was what happened to Leno LaBianca, one of the victims’ husband. There were no signs of robbery so the police assumed that whoever killed them might have been looking for drugs or money. The police investigated her murder because it seemed like someone who knew her killed her. The owner of the home was Sharon Tate and she had been murdered along with 4 others. In it, Bugliosi criticizes law enforcement agencies for their failure to catch these killers earlier than they did, while also describing gruesome details about the murders committed by them.īugliosi opens the book in 1969, at a house on Cielo Drive.

It’s written with help from Curt Gentry, who interviewed Bugliosi extensively for this book.

He wrote Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders as an account of how he and his team put these criminals behind bars. Buckles, Whiteley would later recall, lost interest when he mentioned hippies.1-Page Summary of Helter Skelter Overall Summaryīugliosi (1934-2015) was a prosecuting attorney in the Charles Manson murder case. It was an odd group, their leader, a guy named Charlie, apparently having convinced them that he was Jesus Christ. Beausoleil had been living at Spahn’s Ranch, an old movie ranch near the Los Angeles suburb of Chatsworth, with a bunch of other hippies. However, it was possible that he hadn’t been the only one involved in the Hinman murder. The arrest had occurred on August 6 therefore he had been in custody at the time of the Tate homicides. He had been driving a car that belonged to Hinman, there was blood on his shirt and trousers, and a knife had been found hidden in the tire well of the vehicle.

Whiteley also told Buckles that they had arrested a suspect in connection with the murder, one Robert “Bobby” Beausoleil, a young hippie musician. “On the wall in the living room, not far from Hinman’s body, were the words POLITICAL PIGGY, printed in the victim’s own blood.

Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi