Helter Skelter Page #6

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Anything you can tell us on that?

- No.

- How about the Tate homicides?

Know anything about those?

Well, no.

Do you?

Well, it's a steep learning curve,

I'll tell you that.

Murders, my goodness. No, I don't know

nothing about no murders.

I'm being held for, let's see,

alphabetically:

Arson and auto theft...

The people who were arrested

with you, Mr. Manson...

- Yeah, how about them? Where are they?

- Most have been released or bailed out.

Think someone will show up

with your bail?

Well, you know...

...you never can tell about that, can you?

Think anybody living with you on the ranch

might know something?

Yeah.

- Really?

- Yeah.

You got a pen and paper?

Got you good.

Now, did you see how serious he took out

that notepad? Did you see that?

That's funny.

Yeah. Well, now, is there anything else

I can do for you gentlemen?

Bus number two, local service to...

Passengers, have your tickets ready.

- Hi, Mom.

- Give me my girl.

Hey...

Hey, there's my pretty girl.

Oh, look at you.

You've gotten so big.

I missed you, I know.

I didn't know if I'd ever see you again.

I'm sorry.

You look different.

What happened to you?

What happened to you out there?

I'm definitely not worried about the cops.

I mean, they just suck. Stupid, man.

If they, re so stupid, why are we in here?

They got me in the wrong murder.

How's that for stupid?

There's a case, they, re so far off,

they don't know what's happening.

- What case?

- That thing up in Benedict Canyon.

Benedict Canyon.

You don't mean Sharon Tate?

You know who did it?

you're looking at her.

- Yeah, right.

- I did.

There were others,

but I killed the Polish guy.

They said that it was

a drug thing or something.

Paper's worse than the cops.

I heard one that said there were

hoods on their heads. Stupid.

There weren't any hoods.

you're saying that you killed

Sharon Tate...

...and the others?

We all did our fair share.

I did stab Sharon, though.

"Please don't kill me. I wanna live.

I wanna have my baby...

She was the last to die.

She had to watch the others.

I was gonna cut the baby out, but...

It's a long story, but believe me,

there, ll be plenty more.

We've already killed 11 people so far.

We're gonna travel the whole country

and kill families in the small towns.

Then we'll move on,

and we're gonna kill again...

...and it's all being planned.

When I was finished with Sharon,

I had this blood on my hands...

... so I tasted it.

What a trip. I mean,

to taste death, yet give life.

Have you ever tasted blood?

you're hard to find, Joey.

You guys ought to publish

your own phone book.

- List of street corners you sleep in.

- Why am I here?

A girl who was

in the Manson family...

...said you were close to Charlie,

knew what was going on.

- So?

- Let me tell you, Joey.

We like Manson and his group

for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

You got something to help us

with that, we'll help you back.

Well, I'll tell you, the thing is...

...I got a federal beef

for smuggling weed into Mexico.

And...

...also got a firearms beef, fed too...

Look, you level with us, we go out

for you 100 percent. Poof, all gone.

Okay. Let me ask you this: You ever

get a dead body with his ear cut off?

What about him?

Charlie bragged to me about

how he put the chop on some guy.

He used a sword to cut his ear off.

- Give me some more.

- Okay.

Anybody ever got

their fridge wrote on?

Charlie said something about

someone writing...

- ... on a refrigerator. In blood, he said.

- What was it?

Something about pigs.

Something like that.

You remember anything

about the night of August 8?

It's hard, because they didn't have

any calendars. No clocks, either.

This one night

everybody went out.

You gotta give me a date.

It was about two weeks

before I got arrested at the ranch.

So I seen Charlie

in the morning and I says:

.. Where did everybody go last night?

And he says:

"We knocked off five pigs last night."

I am pleased to be able to announce to you,

that after some 8750 hours of police work...

...the Los Angeles Police Department

has solved the Tate case.

Warrants have been issued

for three individuals:

Charles.. Tex.. Watson, 24...

...who fled the state after the murders

and is now in custody in McKinney, Texas.

Patricia Krenwinkel, 21, also known

as.. Katie... who is currently in custody...

...and Linda Kasabian, age and present

whereabouts unknown.

We anticipate at least two others will be

named in indictments from the grand jury.

These individuals, we believe...

...were also involved in the deaths

of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.

You can tell me.

Just tell me what happened.

Please. Linda...

Vincent Bugliosi, Deputy DA,

please meet Susan Atkins.

Accused murderess.

- Miss Atkins.

- Sadie.

Of course.

Your lawyer explained that the state

is offering you a reduced sentence...

...based on your truthful testimony?

- He said I didn't have much choice.

He told me you're not too happy

about it either.

- He'd be right about that.

- How come?

Well, Sadie, according to your statement,

you helped kill Gary Hinman...

...and you personally stabbed

Sharon Tate.

you're not my first choice

for a reduced sentence.

- Bosses upstairs, right?

- Something like that.

Bummer.

Well, what do you want me to do?

First, you testify to the grand jury,

then at the trial.

I heard you're the prosecutor with heart.

- Is that true?

- I doubt it.

My lawyer says you're the biggest gun

in the DA's office...

...that's why they assigned you.

You won 20 murder trials in a row.

I came to talk about you, Sadie.

Charlie's looking at us right now...

...and he can hear everything.

- Charlie's in jail up in Inyo.

I liked it better when

we were talking about you.

- Would you kill for Charlie?

- You wanna kill us, don't you?

You wanna give us the death penalty.

you're a Republican, like Nixon,

who wants to see us all die.

Do you believe Manson

is Jesus Christ?

He's my personal savior.

Besides, he has to be

who he says he is.

Why?

Because, if he isn't, then who

are we then? Nothing? No.

He's the soul. No doubt about it.

Tell me what happened those nights.

Tell me what went on in those houses.

Miss Atkins...

I have a photograph of the Rambler

driven by Steven Parent that night.

Is this the car you saw?

It looked similar to it, yes.

Is this the person you saw

Tex Watson shoot and kill?

That is the thing I saw in the car.

When you say.. thing...

you are referring to a human being?

Yes, human being.

After you helped Tex move the car,

you approached the house?

Hey, what time is it?

Be quiet. don't move, or you're dead.

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

I'm the devil...

...and I'm here

to do the devil's business.

Check for anybody else.

- There's three more people.

- I don't understand this. What do you want?

Go get them.

don't say a word.

Get up and go into the living room.

Go!

Get up and go into the living room.

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