. >> a parole board panel is recommending the release of former charles manson follower leslie van houten. >> leslie van houten, a name on a list forever linked with one of the most famous crimes and criminals of the 21st century. charles manson! >> you don't understand me! that's your trouble! it's not my fault because you don't understand me! i don't understand you either! >> the story of charles manson and his family, and all the horror they rot, is buried in archives. memorialized in media. long obsolete. yet, somehow, it feels present. that hot summer night that caught the world utterly unprepared. when los angeles became, suddenly, a very scary place. it was august 9th, 1969. around 8 am. officer jerry was a young cop on the lapd working the day shift. >> the first call i got was the call to goes to cielo drive. it came out as a drunk in a car. >> officer cruised up to the big canyon. and found the dead streak called c l o drive. the neighbor flagged him down. and suddenly, the drunk in a car call became something else. >> he had told me that the maid came running back out, yelling,