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Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders Mass Market Paperback – August 1, 1995

by Vincent Bugliosi (Author), Curt Gentry (Author)

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The story behind the Manson killings explains how Charles Manson was able to make his "family" murder for him, chronicles the investigation and court trial that brought him to justice, and provides a new afterword that looks at where the killers are today. Reprint.

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Mass Market Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Bantam (August 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553574353
ISBN-13: 978-0553574357
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.5 x 7 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 776 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,179,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4911 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > True Crime > Murder & Mayhem

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RATING FOR THE KINDLE VERSION - DO NOT BUY FOR KINDLE!

July 11, 2016

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This book is really good, but I should have listened to the previous comment about the KINDLE VERSION being difficult to read. The footnotes are not accessible and where pictures should be it just says "can't put photo" or something. I bought this one week ago exactly and it will not let me return it. I wish I could return it and get the hard copy, it is really a good book but I do not enjoy reading it on the kindle because I feel like I am missing a lot and that is no fun.

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Tom W. Chilek

"I am the devil and I have come to do the devil's business."

April 16, 2017

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Such chilling words which began, and subsequently made known, the brutal and unspeakable crimes of the Manson Murders. Vincent Bugliosi's account of the murders and "The Family" was well written and very detailed. His book presented a wealth of interesting information that you never hear about in any television documentary. By reading Mr. Bugliosi's captivating book, the reader, not only gets a better understanding of murders and the crazy, insane motive behind them, but a better understanding of all the people, good and bad, that were involved. It's fascinating to read about all the hard work Mr. Bugliosi put into the Tate - LaBianca investigation which allowed him to successfully obtain death penalty convictions of Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houton, and a few years later, Charles "Tex" Watson. The Manson Murders were terrible, tragic event and it utimately became Mr. Bugliosi's story, which was again, wonderfully told by him. I can see why it is considered the best crime book ever written. I highly recommend this book. :)

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The Irregular Reader

A Classic of True Crime

November 20, 2016

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Amazingly enough (especially considering my interest in the macabre), I had never before picked up this classic true crime account of the Manson Murders. I’m pleased to say that I have rectified that deficiency, and that I was not disappointed in the least.

Bugliosi (who was also the lead prosecutor of Manson and his co-defendants) begins the 600+ page book with the Tate murders themselves. We follow the housekeeper as she enters the property to begin her day, the trauma of the bodies being discovered, and the movements of the police who first entered the scene. We are next led along to the LaBianca murder scene (the murder of an elderly couple also committed by Manson’s “Family”). From these two bloodbaths, Bugliosi takes the reader along through the (occasionally horribly bungled) police investigation, letting us walk along with investigators as they try to make sense of such seemingly senseless killings.

As I said earlier, Bugliosi was the lead prosecutor of the case (and occasional investigator). This is certainly in evidence as Bugliosi approaches “Helter Skelter” like a trial in and of itself. Physical evidence, witness statements, and paper trails are carefully presented and thoroughly dissected for the reader. The sheer weight of evidence eventually brought together against Manson and his family is presented here in largely chronological order, and shows just how completely Bugliosi throws himself into his work. There is a good reason why Helter Skelter is considered one of the best true crime books written (easily up there with Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood).

So, grab this book and read it. For such a hefty tome, it goes by very quickly. Bugliosi’s style is intense, but highly readable. Any one who is interested in true crime will obviously love this book, but even if that isn’t your usual genre, this is a compelling read about a charismatic madman and the incredible influence he had, not only on his followers, but on the country as a whole.

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Edward K. LankfordTop Contributor: Fantasy Books

nearly 50 yrs later, this book stills stands up as a riveting and engrossing read

November 16, 2017

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"[The Beatles' White Album] was, and remains, a startling album, containing some of the Beatles' finest music, and some of their strangest. Its thirty songs range from tender love ballads to pop parodies to cacophonies of noise made by taking loops of very diverse tapes and splicing them together. To Charles Manson, however, it was prophecy...Of all the songs...Charlie 'spoke mostly of "Revolution 9."' He said 'it was the Beatles' way of telling people what was going to happen; it was their way of making prophecy; it directly paralleled the Bible's Revelation 9.'"

Like most people who grew up after the Manson Family murders, I knew some things about the case and the Family's mastermind, but not all. Vincent Bugliosi's book recounting the case is as engrossing as it is frightening, and is written like a murder mystery: beginning with the first witnesses who hear disturbing sounds in the night; tracing the police investigation whose detectives at first disbelieve the murders are connected; and, finally, concluding with a truly remarkable and dramatic trial of Manson and his minions.

There was a lot that I found surprising in this book: the link between Manson and Scientology; how the biggest breaks in the case were made in spite of investigators; and the precise motive that drove Manson to order these killings. I was particularly terrified by Susan Atkins and her testimony that revealed a wicked and disturbed mind (hers, not Manson's).

Now nearly 50 yrs later, this book stills stands up as a riveting and engrossing read.

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