'A nightmare B-side to the American dream': Helter Skelter is the bestselling true crime book of all time – but how true is it?
Approaching midnight on August 8, 1969, an old Ford left Spahn Ranch, an abandoned Western movie set outside Los Angeles. The ramshackle commune housed a group of misfits and renegades who would come to be known globally as the Manson family.
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