EP16 - The Manson Family: Anatomy of a Killer's Charisma

In the summer of 1969, the utopian dream of the sixties was shattered by a series of brutal, ritualistic murders that terrified Los Angeles. The crimes seemed motiveless, the work of pure chaos. But behind the violence was a master manipulator, a failed musician and lifelong criminal who had turned a commune of lost youths into a death cult. This is the story of how Charles Manson weaponized charisma, perverted a cultural revolution, and convinced his followers that murder was an act of love.