The Manson Family Murders Part II

# Summary

In this two-part Stuff You Should Know episode on the Manson family murders, Josh and Chuck dive deep into how Charles Manson became obsessed with The Beatles' White Album and twisted its lyrics to support his apocalyptic vision of a race war he called Helter Skelter, which he believed would justify ordering his followers to commit the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969. The hosts explore how much of what we know about the case comes from prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's lens, examine Manson's own claims about what actually happened, and follow the complex legal proceedings that sent Manson and his followers to prison for life, where Manson later became a strange media sensation before being silenced and spending his final decades in relative obscurity.