Nov 2, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 16 segments
310# the manson family | the trial, the madness and the legacy — part 2 **The murders shocked America. But the story of the Manson Family was far from over.** In Part 2 of our deep dive into Charles…
Well, on August 9th in 1969, the night after the Cleo Drive murders, Manson and several followers set off again to go and do some... naughty stuff.
Sneaking out to do something.
Sneaky,
sneaky stuff.
This time the victims were Lennon and Rosemary LeBlanc or LeBlancor.
A married couple who lived in the Los Faisal neighborhood, I think is that? Is it the Los Faisal neighborhood in Los Angeles? I'm probably not pronounced that right.
I do apologize.
But They didn't even have a meaningful relationship with these people.
They basically had no personal connections.
They just basically picked a house at random.
And Manson would basically explain why they became a target later on.
So in one of those interviews that you kind of like, you know, there must have been a reason why he targeted them.
but at the time, nobody really knew.
Manson was involved in the events surrounding the attack and directly with others and directed others to carry out the killings.
Charles, Tex, Watson, Patricia, and Leslie Van Harten all participated in the murders of the couple.
And they basically were killed at their home.
Again, messages were left at the scene, including the phrase Helter Skelter, which was basically a misspelling of the Beatles song, Helter Skelter, which basically became something... synonymous with the murders and kind of like um a strange ideology that they kind of shared about it yeah so um the murder that that particular murder of the couple um you know became particularly important uh to the prosecution because it helped establish uh that the violence was not like you know you know, one of those things that, like, it was just like a one-off.
It was kind of like the attacks had left seven people dead at this point, you know, including the Tates and four other companions plus the couple.
So, you know, it did kind of raise a lot of questions about Manson's exact role and who he was to the community and what the hierarchy was.
Well, he was actually lucky because actually that night, the driver, who was a young girl, who'd only just joined him, actually was the one who grasped him up.
Basically, she'd become Crown's witness.
And she actually got away with it.
Well, this is the thing, though, because he didn't actually carry out the Tate killings himself.
No.
So, you know, obviously the prosecution could argue that, like, you know, he orchestrated the murders and exacted, you know, what was going to happen over the...
Well, on August 9th in 1969, the night after the Cleo Drive murders, Manson and several followers set off again to go and do some... naughty stuff.
Sneaking out to do something.
Sneaky,
sneaky stuff.
This time the victims were Lennon and Rosemary LeBlanc or LeBlancor.
A married couple who lived in the Los Faisal neighborhood, I think is that? Is it the Los Faisal neighborhood in Los Angeles? I'm probably not pronounced that right.
I do apologize.
But They didn't even have a meaningful relationship with these people.
They basically had no personal connections.
They just basically picked a house at random.
And Manson would basically explain why they became a target later on.
So in one of those interviews that you kind of like, you know, there must have been a reason why he targeted them.
but at the time, nobody really knew.
Manson was involved in the events surrounding the attack and directly with others and directed others to carry out the killings.
Charles, Tex, Watson, Patricia, and Leslie Van Harten all participated in the murders of the couple.
And they basically were killed at their home.
Again, messages were left at the scene, including the phrase Helter Skelter, which was basically a misspelling of the Beatles song, Helter Skelter, which basically became something... synonymous with the murders and kind of like um a strange ideology that they kind of shared about it yeah so um the murder that that particular murder of the couple um you know became particularly important uh to the prosecution because it helped establish uh that the violence was not like you know you know, one of those things that, like, it was just like a one-off.
It was kind of like the attacks had left seven people dead at this point, you know, including the Tates and four other companions plus the couple.
So, you know, it did kind of raise a lot of questions about Manson's exact role and who he was to the community and what the hierarchy was.
Well, he was actually lucky because actually that night, the driver, who was a young girl, who'd only just joined him, actually was the one who grasped him up.
Basically, she'd become Crown's witness.
And she actually got away with it.
Well, this is the thing, though, because he didn't actually carry out the Tate killings himself.
No.
So, you know, obviously the prosecution could argue that, like, you know, he orchestrated the murders and exacted, you know, what was going to happen over the...
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