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“One of the best crime stories ever written.”
- Chicago Sun-Times

“[A] social document of rare importance.”
- The New Republic

Chapter Page
Illustrations 9
Cast of Characters 13
Part 1 The Murders: August 9-October 14, 1969 21
Part 2 The Killers: October 15-November 17, 1969 111
Part 3 The Investigation--Phase Two: November 18-December 31, 1969 163
Part 4 The Search for the Motive: The Bible, the Beatles, and Helter Skelter January-February 1970 283
Part 5 "Don't You Know Who You're Crucifying?" March-June 14, 1970 341
Part 6 The Trial: June 15-November 19, 1970 401
Part 7 Murder in the Wind: November 19, 1970-January 25, 1971 505
Part 8 Fires in Your Cities: January 26-April 19, 1971 541
Epilogue: A Shared Madness 599
Afterword 637
Index 671

The #1 True Crime Bestseller of All Time-7 Million Copies Sold

In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.

Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi." The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers…these elements make for a true crime classic. Helter Skelter is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of The New Republic, a "social document of rare importance."

50 pages of black-and-white photographs