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said, yeah, you're right. ha ha ha ha. >> a man who redefined the word evil. >> charles manson was born evil. >> >> and transformed a group of young girls into vicious killers. >> i fall in love with him continuously. >> now, 45 years later, exclusive interviews with people who were there, family, friends, the prosecutor and manson supporters. >> i am charles manson's wife. >> now, a cnn spotlight, charles manson. it was an unusually hot night on what some call the pathway to heaven. >> very secluded, very etear

y'all. behind closed gates. >> just after midnight, august 9, 1969, it was as close to hell as you could possibly get. 1 1 10050 cilo was the home of a jet set couple, director roman polanski and sexy actress, sharon tape. polanski was in london filming, a very pregnant tate was at home in los angeles. according to family friend, tate was having a quiet evening at home with friends. woe tech rick cow ski, his girlfriend, coffee heiress, abigail folger and celebrity hairstylist, jay sebring. >> have this normal scene happening and in the dead of the night the killers broke into the house and preceded to commit some of the most savage, inhuman, nightmarish murderers

that have ever occurred in this country. >> intruders cut the telephone lines, entered the secluded compound, killing one man in the driveway before continuing their barbaric rampage inside. >> there were 102 stab wounds, seven gunshot wounds, two of the victims were beaten so badly that one of them was just unrecognizable. >> and sharon, as we said, was 8 1/2 months pregnant. >> she was stabbed 16 times, she was stabbed three times in the heart. they hung her before they killed her. >> the murder scene was like something out of a horror movie. investigative journalist jeff gwynn says there was blood everywhere. >> the word pig was written in blood on the door. and the victims were soaking in it. >> abigail folger had been wearing a white nightgown. people thought it must have been red, there was so much blood. officers who attended the murder scene had not seen anything like it and we're talking about los angeles pd veterans. >> but, they would see something

just as shocking the following night. >> the bodies of a man and his wife found in their home. >> the peaceful suburban neighborhood of rosemary and lino la bianca. >> their bodies had been mutilated. they had been stabbed repeatedly. a fork was left in lino's abdom abdomen. someone had carved a word on his stomach there were words written in blood on the walls. and on the refrigerator. >> the words, rise, death to pigs and helter-skelter, written in blood, just as they had been at the tate house. >> they found no evidence of robbery, no suggestion of motive. a baffling crime and bizarre. >> the los angeles police department assigned almost 20 investigators. with seven people viciously murdered and no good leads, people started to blame the victims, rumors filled the newspapers. were the killings a drug deal gone bad?

a demented as soon as roar jie or even the actions of a jealous husband, roman polanski? >> people needed evil. they needed the victims to be evil because this didn't happen to normal god-fearing people. >> after rushing back to the states on august 19, 1969, at the beverly wilshire hotel, a dazed and grieving polanski faced the press. >> all of you know how beautiful she was. and very often i read and heard statements that she was one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful woman of the world. but only few of you know how good she was. >> police had no idea who killed sharon tate and the others and answers were slow to come. >> two separate teams of detectives who worked in the same room were doing the investigations. they didn't get along.

they weren't cooperating. if only they had talked to each other, they could have put everything together. >> turns out, the police had the killers under surveillance, yet didn't realize it. >> police said they were a pseudoreligious cult. people who worked on the ranch said they were heavy users of drugs. >> just weeks after the killings, officers in death valley, california, were watching a group of wanderers led by a man named charles manson. police suspected the group of auto theft, not murder. >> when the police swooped in a week after the murders, charlie thought, this was it, somehow, they've figured it out. and the police couldn't understand when charlie asked what the charges were and they said car theft, that manson started laughing. but add reason to laugh. he was relieved. >> and soon after, released on a technic technicality. a tragically missed opportunity. but eventually, a manson

follower named susan atkins would be jailed for auto theft. >> she couldn't help but brag to some other inmates about a murder she had been involved with and finally, everything was put together. >> the police returned to the death valley compound. nearly two dozen people were arrested but not the man atkins said was behind it all, charles manson. he had disappeared. the next day, police were back and this time, they found him, crammed into a bathroom cabinet. >> when charlie was arrested in death valley, he was booked as charles manson, aka, jesus christ, because he was telling everyone he was the reincarnation of jesus. >> four months after the murders, the police believed they had their killers, but it was hardly an open and shut case. coming up, how charles manson almost went free. >> the problem was that manson

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san francisco, 1967, summer of love was at its peak. free love, free drugs, dream living for hippies escaping the mainstream. but 32-year-old charles manson

arrived with much darker ambitions. >> you get these kids, these children, coming in to hate aig ashbury and someone named charlie manson saying how much he loves them and he wants to take care of them. it was made to order for them and he took full advantage. >> manson's destructive course through life was fixed from the start. >> i don't have any particular reality. >> he spoke to cnn from prison in 1987. >> i spent the best part of my life in boys' schools, prisons and reform schools because i had nobody. >> he blamed his mother for his trouble.ed youth. kathleen maddox gave birth to manson in cincinnati, ohio, at the age of 16 and went to prison when charlie was 5 years old. >> she got out of my life early and let me scuffle for myself. and then i became my own mother. >> but author jeff gwynn says

there's only one explanation for the life of charles manson. >> charles manson was born evil. >> in 2013, gwynn landeded exclusive interviews with manson's sister and cousin. >> little charlie was taken in by loving relatives, his grandmother, his uncle, his aunt, his cousin, joanne. but he always had people who loved him. the problem was that charlie, himself, was a rotten little kid from the word go. >> a rotten kid whose crimes escalated as he got older. from stealing cars to armed robbery, drug dealing to pimping. >> he was born to be in prison. >> but did he have an innate talent as a decent guitar player. >> charlie manson, listening to the radio in prison, hears the beatles. he starts writing his own songs, performing in prison shows.

♪ >> from then on, it's his dream to become the biggest musical star in history. >> bigger, he said, than the beatles. and san francisco was the perfect place to start. paroled after seven years in prison, he used his guitar and charisma to lure a flock of vulnerable young women. >> fall in love with him continuously. he is very brilliant. and yet, whatever he wants to be, i let him be that. >> i was mesmerized by his mind and the things he professed. >> manson transformed himself from a two-bit criminal into a self-styled spiritual guru. >> charlie sometimes said he was a scientologist. charlie sometimes said he was in the church of the nazarene.

the only church that charlie ever had was the church of charlie. >> the church of charlie got stranger as the manson family got bigger. leaving san francisco for l.a. to secure the big record deal charlie was sure was coming. the manson "family" made a dilapidated old movie set called spawn ranch their home. >> everybody was really happy and we would help taken care of the horses. garbage runs were a lot of fun, we would hop in the back of, you know, those dumpsters behind the stores and you'd find all kinds of vegetables. >> george pawn, the old owner, was nearly blind. lynette fromme was signed by manson to live with george and to fulfill his every whim and george liked to pinch her a lot and she would squeal and george is the one that nicknamed her squeaky. >> manson hosted lsd-fuel

orgies, gave persuasive sermons and made ensuring his success as a recording artist a priority. and charlie was angry. recordi ing recording executives weren't interested. by 1968, race riots, the black panther movement and anti-war violence convinced manson that armageddon was coming. he called it helter-skelter after famous beatles' song. vincent buggly yossie named his best-selling book after manson's strange philosophy. >> one of the songs stood out in his mind, "helter-skelter," which he felt was an apocalyptic war between blacks and whites, the last destructive final war on the face of this earth. are >> manson, increasingly paranoid and angry, hatched a deranged plan to ignite the race war himself by killing a handful of

rich white people and framing you the black panthers. >> friday night in los angeles, a movie actress and four of her friends were murdered. >> the brutal murders at the tate and la bianca homes left the lapd perplexed for months. but when the disturbing truth about the manson family surfaced, the stage was set. >> all the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. >> nearly a year after the murders, the trial began. >> on the evening of august 8th, 1969, charles manson sent out from the fires of hell four heartless, cold-blooded robots. that's what i told the jury. >> buggly yossie may have been the prosecutor, but charles manson was the star. >> the first day of the trial, charlie takes control and he comes in and he has cut an x

between his eyes and the top of the bridge of his nose because society has x'd us out. we don't count. a couple days later, he has put the little marks on it it's swastika. >> manson insisted he had no role in the murders. >> man, i ain't never killed nobody. >> former manson family members told a much different story on the witness stand. >> i was told to go get a change of clothing and, um, a knife. >> everything was preparing for helper the skelter. >> i remember the desert, when text was teaching us how to stab people, a murder school. >> it took 42 1/2 hours of begin rating -- >> the verdict came down on january 25, 1971. charles manson and three of his followers were to die in prison. b. gliosi pulled off what seemed impossible. the fact you were able to get a

conviction, a death sentence this guy wasn't even there >> i showed through witnesses that he was the dictatorial ruler of the family, the king, the maharaja and members of this family were slavishly dedicated to him. he said, you know, you haven't accomplished anything here, all i have a done is send me back to where i came from. he doesn't mind prison. he was totally institutionalized. so, i hate to say it, but in a sense, i's behe's beaten the ra >> coming up, is history repeating itself? >> people think you're crazy. each year, 95% of homeowners won't have a claim. that's why allstate claim free rewards gives you money back for every year you don't have one.

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remind me to tell her happy anniversary. [ cortana ] next time you talk to caroline, i'll remind you. [ siri ] oh no, i cannot do that. oh, and remind me to get roses when i'm near any flower shop. sure thing. remind you when you get to flower shop. i can't do that either. cortana, it's gonna be a great night. [ beep ] oh wow! thanks for the traffic alert. i better get going. now that is a smart phone. ♪ oh, wait ♪ it's 'cause you make me smile ♪

i was talking to myself to see if i was listening to myself. >> charles manson, the musician, long dreamed of fame and fans. and now he has both, despite being locked away and isolated for 45 years. >> charlie knows how to retain a presence. give the monster credit. he's good at it. >> if you search the internet, you can find music he made in prison. and paintings. there's lots of people who collect memoribilia. >> people can't stop watching him. charlie manson is the equivalent of a spectacular car wreck. we know we shouldn't look but we can't help it.

>> if i spit on you, that gives you the god-given right to spit on me back. >> this is the labianca home coming up on the left. >> people still pay to tour the murder sites. >> they left the word "war" carved in his stomach. >> there's a facebook page with tens of thousands of likes. and a youtube channel with hundreds of thousands of views. >> it's so obvious that charles manson was railroaded. >> she's 25, pretty, fiercely loyal to manson and then, there's this. >> i am charles manson's wife. >> wife. are you married? >> the paperwork hasn't gone through yet but we already consider each other to be husband and wife. >> are you in love? >> yeah. why would i marry somebody if i wasn't? >> people get married for all kinds of different reasons. >> well, i wouldn't.

>> but manson might. last year when star first told "rolling stone" magazine she planned to marry the nearly 80-year-old lifer, he told the reporter that's a bunch of garbage. we're just playing that for public consumption. >> people think you're crazy. >> i really don't care. >> star says she first discovered manson at 16, drawn to something manson calls atwa. >> if you want to breathe air and water and live in harmony, get with it. >> he claims it's his mission to save the planet's environment. >> atwa stands for air, trees, water and animals. >> 900 redwood trees at 1,000 years apiece, that's 900,000 years of sunlight you're taking off this planet. >> gray wolf is a long time follower. >> it's been his main focus all along but the media basically

has just covered that up and concentrated on the image that they have created of him. >> i ran with a cpack of wolves and i got to be a wolf. >> being crazy, horrific, threatening. he's as sincere about atwa as he was about helter-skelter. if procetalking about it can ea charlie a buck, if it can get him a few followers, fine. he will throw it out there for you to buy into. >> the only thing he's trying to manipulate people into doing is planting trees and cleaning up the earth. >> but after seven years living near manson's prison, visiting him regularly, star's main focus has switched to clearing his name. >> it's just not a true story. it's completely fabricated. >> manson has always maintained his innocence and he called star

from prison before our interview to stress it again. >> you know i didn't break the law. >> star is so loyal that when manson was tossed into solitary confinement, she shaved her head and carved an x in her forehead. >> it's a show of support, just like when they did it back in 1970 whatever. >> in 1971 when susan atkins, patricia krenwinkel and leslie van houten were on trial, they carved xs in their foreheads. all three girls went to prison. atkins died there of brain cancer in 2009. van houten and krenwinkel say they are rehabilitated but were denied parole multiple times.

>> i was raised to be a decent human being. i turned into a monster and i have spent these years going back to a decent human being, and i just don't know what else to say. i'm so ashamed of my actions. >> former manson follower barbara hoyt doesn't buy it. she now works to keep the family locked up. >> i think they are a danger to the public. i think their influence is dangerous. >> as for manson, almost no one believes that he will ever leave here, california's corcoran state prison. he has been denied parole 12 times, and the next time he's eligible, he will be 92 years old. >> charles manson will die physically in prison. >> i'm a human being. >> i think it will take at least another generation for charles manson to die in terms of fascination to the public. >> and it's my world. >> he's too much a part of our lives right now. he's going to live on in our memories for awhile longer.

>> well, god, i guess you're my best friend, being i invented you. because of the wonderful brave viewers of "the hunt" we had our first capture. >> mozdir pulled out a gun and began firing. he hit one of the detectives in the abdomen. he hit another in the leg. another was injured with what appears to be a shrapnel or bullet to the arm as well. they opened fire back, taking him down. he was killed, pronounced dead on the scene. >> charles mozdir, after two years on t a