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Throughout my travels in the online world of Manson researchers, I started to wonder.

How did everyone become interested in Manson, his followers, the victims, the crimes, etc.?

What interests you the most?

i first became interested in it because i agree with a lot of hippie ideals in theory and if we can make those ideals work in practice i think the world would be a better place. so, (and bare in mind this was before i knew anything about it) i was interested in how kids with peace and love ideals could suddenly turn into killers.
and i'm still interested in it because once i become interested in anything i want to know everything about it.

I think I'm intersted because of where I live and how close it is to the events that took place....
I use to go up to the Ranch in high school, when we would ditch...I never knew it's history until we came across some really weird people up there one day...that were tying red and blue ribbons in all the trees...my cousin then informed me where we were and what exactly happened there...that got me interested...What holds my interest...is obviously the official story is crap...it just doesn't make sense with the evidence...and it's obvious the police botched the whole thing...and after dating a LAPD officer for two years I figured out cops are stupid...they don't know what they're doing 90% of the time...but they will be right at any cost...so I like to notice where they F***d up and had to much pride to admit it...made up shit to make it fit...and now we're stuck with a bunch of lies and confusion...

Then when I heard Bug beat up his mistress ....it spoke volumes about his character so I knew he was lying...
The girls are probably the main reason....
I grew up without parents...my mom went to prison when I was very young... and I could totally see when I was lonely and lost...hooking up with a group like this...and looking the other way when shit went down...so I couldn't be rejected...again...
So I think it's the psycology of deals people had to make with themselves to justify their behavior...

Simply, what got me interested and keeps me interested is that there is no nuttier a crime story out there. The more you look at it, the more bizarre it is. And its not over yet....Sandy is out there...somewhere....

As a child I wasn't allowed to watch TV very often, actually in the very beginning only during school holidays. Some of the few news items of those days I remember are reports on the Apollo-flights, the death of Walt Disney and news about the Manson trials.

What I recall, you didn't get much information about the Manson trial itself. Just the outcome: some members of a hippy cult, who maintained they were innocent, had been convicted. Also in my memory, only one or two people had been shot, so I didn't understand why they had to sentence a whole group of people. For many years I felt to urge to find out some day what had really happened.

A couple of years later, when my parents were out, my brother and I watched "The fearless vampire killers" very late at night on TV. I almost fell in love with the movie's starring actress - what a beauty she was, I really felt like marying her later, even if she would be ten years older than me. At that time I didn't know she was somewhat connected to the other case.

I became interested when they Dug for bodies at Barker Ranch not too long ago. I knew Nothing of the case, I mean nothing. Never even heard of Sharon Tate, barely knew about Manson. At the Time the only thing I knew was that he may of been Jesus. LOL!! So I read about the Digging they were going to do and it mentioned they lived at Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth which is where I live. I never heard of the place unitl then. So I got the quick story off of Wikipedia and BOOM, I was hooked. I watched the trailer to Six Degrees of Helter Skelter and they showed where the Famous Family portrait rock was. So I went to see it for myself. NO DOUBT the area felt like no other. I found the cave and have been hooked to the story and locations of the Manson Family Murders ever since. I have read "Helter Skelter", "In his own Words", and "The Family". I think "The Family" is the best of those three. But thats my opinion. Helter Skelter was a good book, but I found it tiresome and times. In his Own Words, was a little better. I like hearing the different Manson Jail Stories in it. "the Family" to me was a great book from start to finish. I loved it.

I became interested when they Dug for bodies at Barker Ranch not too long ago. I knew Nothing of the case, I mean nothing. Never even heard of Sharon Tate, barely knew about Manson. At the Time the only thing I knew was that he may of been Jesus. LOL!! So I read about the Digging they were going to do and it mentioned they lived at Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth which is where I live. I never heard of the place unitl then. So I got the quick story off of Wikipedia and BOOM, I was hooked. I watched the trailer to Six Degrees of Helter Skelter and they showed where the Famous Family portrait rock was. So I went to see it for myself. NO DOUBT the area felt like no other. I found the cave and have been hooked to the story and locations of the Manson Family Murders ever since. I have read "Helter Skelter", "In his own Words", and "The Family". I think "The Family" is the best of those three. But thats my opinion. Helter Skelter was a good book, but I found it tiresome and times. In his Own Words, was a little better. I like hearing the different Manson Jail Stories in it. "the Family" to me was a great book from start to finish. I loved it.

I'm from Texas and when I was in high school I needed to do a report and I had get a A on it r do the class over the next year, the son of a man that worked for my dad told me to write my report on his dads cousin, and he went on to tell me the story I new about Manson from TV but I didnt beleave him so I asked my dad and he said it was all true the cousin was Tex, so I wrote the report not so much about Tex but about Manson got my A and I was hooked, Then I started writing a Tex f----up man and then wrote Leslie.

kristijoyk wrote:Then when I heard Bug beat up his mistress ....it spoke volumes about his character so I knew he was lying...
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I've never heard of this...an you provide some links for this info?

clangbangclang wrote:

kristijoyk wrote:Then when I heard Bug beat up his mistress ....it spoke volumes about his character so I knew he was lying...
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I've never heard of this...an you provide some links for this info?

On the Colonel's site he published some stuff on the Bug about a tiff Bug had with an old girlfriend. The Colonel has this thing about the Bug as if nobody was ever murdered at all. The Colonel is very jealous of Bug. I have heard theCol talk about it many times but I've never read the story. It's on the Official TLB Murders Blog. Where? I dont know.

BTW my interest in Manson/TLB was re-ignited one night online a few years back after I did a search. I was very familiar of the murders back in 69 but had moved on. However when the search turned up the Death Valley sagas I was fascinated once again with the case. I only regret that I got reacquainted after Bill Nelson died.