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Almost everything you think you know about the Manson murders came from one side of a courtroom.In the summer of 1969, nine people were killed in Los Angeles. A prosecutor won convictions with a theory about a coming race war, wrote a bestselling book about it, and that theory became the accepted history. It has been repeated for more than fifty years by writers who never told their readers it was a theory at all.This independent account does something different. It labels every significant claim. You are always told whether you are reading something proved in court, something a participant asserted under a grant of immunity, something a prosecutor argued to persuade a jury, or something nobody knows. Where the sources conflict, the conflict is reported. Where the record runs out, the book says so.You will learn how an unremarkable career criminal assembled a group of ordinary young people using techniques he picked up in a federal penitentiary, and why those techniques still work today. You will follow an investigation that held the answer in three separate filing cabinets for four months and never opened them together. And you will see the competing explanation for the killings that the jury never heard as the main theory, built on an arrest that happened just eight days before Cielo Drive.Above all, you will meet the nine people who died as people. Two full chapters describe their lives before a single killing is mentioned. There are no reconstructed crime scenes here, no invented dialogue, and no attempt to make the man responsible seem fascinating.If you want the version that respects both the evidence and the dead, scroll up and click Buy Now.
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