. >> artists like bill robles. >> where did you sit? >> front row.n touching distance of the girls who were sitting right in front of me. >> a front row seat to the daily drama. like on august 3rd, 1970, several days into the trial. >> charlie all of a sudden picks up the newspaper and shows it to the jury. and it says, manson guilty and the lawyers argued for a mistrial but it didn't happen. >> are you guilty of any murders? are you guilty of plotting any murders? >> i killed a chicken once. >> no one from the press had one-on-one access to manson during the trial. no one except mary neiswender thanks to a source in the prison library. >> charlie could not use the telephone. so a friend was to call me at a certain time and charlie was to slide under the table and then hand him the phone. so i had three minutes to convince charlie that he should talk to me. >> neiswender earned manson's trust and set up many face to face jail house meetings, providing her with countless scoops during the trial and a rare insight into the mind of the suspected killer.