1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. 4 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 3: The stories about the Beach Boys, specifically about their drummer, 5 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 3: Dennis Wilson, are insane. He lit himself on fire, got 6 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 3: into a fistfight with the singer and his band on 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 3: stage in front of thousands, partied with Steve McQueen, and 8 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 3: befriended and helped support unbeknowns to him, one of the 9 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 3: most notorious serial killers of all time. Dennis Wilson was 10 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 3: a handsome, sunny California surf kid who Brian Wilson, his 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 3: big brother, wrote all those Beach Boys songs about. But 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 3: he was also consumed by drugs, alcohol, and darkness. Much 13 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 3: of that darkness was due to his relationship with Charles 14 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: Manson and his guilt over the brutal murders of Sharon Tate, 15 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 3: Jay Sebring, and all who were felled by Manson's psychotic 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 3: homicidal rage. But Dennis Wilson made great music. That music 17 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 3: you heard at the top of the show that wasn't 18 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 3: great music. That was a preset loop from my melotron 19 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 3: called Monkey in a grind MK one. I played you 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 3: that loop because I can't afford the rights in the 21 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 3: year twenty five, twenty five by Zager and Evans. And 22 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: why would I play you that specific slice of futuro 23 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 3: doom Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the 24 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 3: number one song in America on August eighth, nineteen sixty nine, 25 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 3: And that was the day Charles Manson's killers crept into 26 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: the house of Dennis Wilson's friends to commit one of 27 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 3: the most gruesome murders in American history, an act that 28 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 3: had countless consequences, but for the Beach Boys forever put 29 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 3: to rest, the notion of their sunny innocence, marking with 30 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: authority the beginning of the end for one of the biggest. 31 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: Bands on the planet. 32 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: On this episode Future O Cheese, the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, 33 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 3: Charles Manson in the End of Innocence, I'm Jake Brennan 34 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: and this is disgraceland. Sam Cook had been dead for 35 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 3: almost four years, but his cherry Red Ferrari was very 36 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 3: much alive, and at the moment in nineteen sixty eight, 37 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 3: its new owner, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, was 38 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 3: using it to tear the ass off of the two lane. 39 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 1: Blacktop out on the pch. 40 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 3: Dennis downshifted the Ferrari's powerful engine as soon as he 41 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 3: saw them. Two hippie girls, one pregnant, both attractive, young 42 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: with their thumbs outstretched on the side of the road, 43 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 3: pacing backwards, slowly, cut off jeans, stems for days, bare feet, 44 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 3: visible dirt on their skin, loose flower children, blouses, matted hair, 45 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: sexy as fuck. Dennis slowed the car to the curb, 46 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 3: popped open the passenger side door. Both girls hopped in. 47 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 3: Dennis flashed that gazillion wat dumb beach bone, smile, hippie 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 3: hearts melted, first gear, it's all right, second gear, out 49 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 3: of sight, spitting tires, spitting sands, squealing rubber, and they 50 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 3: were off in no time. 51 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: They were pulling into his driveway. 52 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: But it was well understood before the front door of 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 3: Dennis's Sunset Boulevard bachelor pad even opened. 54 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: They were going to fuck. And so they did. 55 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: And for Dennis, one of Hollywood's most notorious stick men, 56 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 3: the sex was revelatory. It tapped into something within him 57 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 3: that he didn't know was there since splitting with his 58 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 3: wife Carol. The sex Dennis had been having as of late, 59 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 3: despite its randomness, at its wildness, it had grown stale groupies, 60 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 3: hitchhiking hippies, aspiring starlits, even bonafide stars Catherine Denote, Jane 61 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 3: Seymour and Goldie Hahn among them. He had been having 62 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 3: so much sex, so often, and with so many different 63 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 3: partners that it all seemed to blend together. In nineteen 64 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 3: sixty eight, sex for Dennis Wilson was more like masturbation, ordinary, 65 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 3: wrote functionary, but sex with these two filthy hippies was 66 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 3: something else. 67 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: Entirely. 68 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 3: It was like they'd been trained by a master discerned, 69 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 3: but not just to cater to connect. Dennis was lost 70 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 3: in the Minaja twa, completely out of his head. To 71 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 3: the unenlightened, his state during sex could be described as 72 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 3: being unconscious, but as he enlightened as the contrarian gurus, 73 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 3: as the teachers and the seekers, the Maharishi and Gurdjiath 74 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 3: in that fucking blockhead cousin of his and singer in 75 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 3: his band, Mike Love, as they would all agree, it 76 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 3: wasn't unconsciousness. It was pique consciousness. It was more than sex. 77 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 3: It was transcended When it was over, Dennis wiped himself off, 78 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 3: threw on his jeans and T shirt, and split for 79 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 3: his brother Brian's studio. He had a recording session that night. 80 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 3: He told the girls to hang tight at his pad. 81 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 3: He'd be back for round two in a couple hours. 82 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 3: In nineteen sixty eight, the Beach Boys were in a 83 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 3: tenuous state. They had experienced near immediate chart topping success 84 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 3: when they hit the scene in nineteen sixty three, but 85 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: by sixty eight all the vertigo of their ride to 86 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 3: the Top had finally hit and they were reeling inspired 87 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: by Dennis's genuine embodiment of the southern California surfer life, 88 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 3: filtered through the musical genius of his older brother Brian, 89 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 3: had guided to their initial recording contract by the Wilson 90 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 3: brothers overbearing and meddling father Murray. The Beach Boys had 91 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 3: built a throne out of surf rock on the West 92 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 3: coast of America, just as the Beatles were building their 93 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 3: own parallel throne out of britpop on the west coast 94 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: of England, and almost simultaneously, both bands transcended their pop roots, 95 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 3: shed their skins, and remade themselves as countercultural Visionaries. Murray 96 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 3: the Old Man was out as manager, so were the 97 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 3: skinny ties and candy striped matching suits. Brian's compositions grew 98 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 3: more operatic and experimental. The sixties, or at least what 99 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 3: we talk about when we talk about the sixties, had arrived. 100 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: By mid decade, the mutual admiration society between the Beach 101 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 3: Boys and the Beatles had produced several of the greatest 102 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 3: records of all time. The Beatles Rubber Soul inspired the 103 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,799 Speaker 3: Beach Boys, Pet Sounds and Pet Sounds inspired the Beatles, 104 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 3: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. Brian Wilson's artistic correspondence 105 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 3: with the artists he considered as peers resulted in some 106 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 3: of the greatest music of the twentieth century, and not 107 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 3: just his own. That is the very definition of cultural influence. 108 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 3: The Beach Boys caught a wave and were sitting on 109 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 3: top of the world, but the air's thin when you're 110 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 3: up that high, and Brian's constant need. 111 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,559 Speaker 1: To defy gravity left him light headed. 112 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 3: He had always been a sensitive soul, but the demands 113 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 3: of the throne of creative genius had led him from 114 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: that transcendent high into something scarier, weirder, more paranoid, extensive 115 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 3: drug use, LSD, experimentation, and all the other rights of 116 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 3: sixties rock Royalty had unlocked greater volatility and vulnerability in 117 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 3: Brian Wilson's fertile creative mind. When the result of that 118 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 3: was Brian literally living in an indoor sandbox, it was troubling, 119 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 3: to say the least. But when the result was something 120 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 3: like Good Vibrations, the pure piece of pop synthesis, intended 121 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 3: as a prototype for the sound that Beach Boys would 122 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 3: achieve on their next anticipated masterpiece album, Smile. While one 123 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 3: Good Vibrations foregave a lot of indoor sandboxes, Brian called 124 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 3: the song a teenage symphony to God. It was more tender, 125 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 3: loving care than three minute pop, more impressionist paint and 126 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 3: assembly line product. It was born out of a library 127 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 3: of individual sounds Brian had categorized by feeling. He used 128 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: them as brushstrokes to recombine and to a tract that 129 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 3: most likely made Paul McCartney see his jealousy. And yet 130 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 3: Brian had become too anxious to perform live. As he 131 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 3: dug in to record the full album, he became increasingly reclusive. 132 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 3: He suffered outright delusions that his songs were causing terrible 133 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 3: events out in the real world. The mind fuck was 134 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 3: too much for him. The release of Smile was canceled, 135 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 3: making it one of, if not the most notorious unreleased 136 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: album in the history of pop. 137 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 1: On a business level, it was moot. 138 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 3: Brian Wilson was either having a nervous breakdown or he 139 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 3: was such a sensitive soul that he was having a 140 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: premonition of things lurking out there in the darkness of 141 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 3: the future. While Brian Wilson spiraled, Dennis Wilson partied. The 142 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 3: Beach Boys next three album Smiley, Smile, Wild Honey, and Friends, 143 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 3: were received with disappointment, both critically and commercially. Each album 144 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 3: had its moments, particularly Wild Honey, where the band seemed 145 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: to remember what the Beatles never forgot that at their core, 146 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 3: stripped of all the hippie zeitegeist artifice, they were always 147 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 3: just a good little rock and roll band. Perhaps it 148 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 3: wasn't fully appreciated at the time the fact that the 149 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 3: band's creative turn south was due to Brian's mental health, 150 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: but regardless, their canceled performance at the Monterey Pop Festival 151 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty seven dealt an undeniable public blow to 152 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 3: their reputation in relevance. Yet here Dennis Wilson was in 153 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight, trying in his way anyway to keep 154 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 3: his and his brothers Brian and Carl Wilson's Endless Summer 155 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 3: of Love dream alive, jamming that afternoon at Brian's working 156 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: on the next album, with two dirty hippie sex pots 157 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 3: waiting back home for him. Record sales were down, but 158 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 3: so what. It was all good peace, love and lots 159 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 3: of sex, and his brothers loved him for it. Most 160 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 3: people loved him for it. Dennis was the type of 161 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 3: guy who showed up and left work with a smile 162 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 3: on his face. Charismatic isn't strong enough a word positive 163 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 3: to his core Back then, he seldom had a negative 164 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 3: word to say about anyone, except, of course, from Mike Love. 165 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: The Beach Boys by this point were splitting into two camps. 166 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 3: Camp won the brothers Wilson, Brian, Carl and their fierce 167 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,079 Speaker 3: defender and loyal brother Dennis and everyone else Mike, guitarist 168 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: Al Jardine and Bryant's road replacement Bruce Johnston. The latter 169 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 3: camp endeavored to keep the wheels on and ensure that 170 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 3: band remained a profitable, creatively satisfying endeavor worth everyone's time. 171 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 3: The former camp had well less formal intentions and was 172 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 3: clouded by a reservoir of alcohol and LSD. Beach Boys 173 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 3: fans divide themselves amongst these camps as well, with those 174 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 3: who consider themselves serious officionados aligning with Team Wilson. They 175 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 3: harbor real contempt for Mike Love and company. Brian, the sensitive, 176 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 3: drugged out creative genius, is viewed as the vulnerable mark 177 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 3: for the straight as an arrow machiavellian Mike Love, who 178 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 3: throughout the history of the band is steene as being 179 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 3: guilty for their greatest creative transgressions. Kocomo, anyone paging mister 180 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 3: John Stamos, Uncle Jesse, you're late for the gig. But 181 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 3: this is way too simple an explanation. The Beach Boys, 182 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 3: pretty much since their inception, were a total mess, creatively, financially, 183 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 3: personally in every which way, and a large part of 184 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 3: that mess was created and sustained by Brian Carl and 185 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 3: Dennis Wilson. Not that the Mike Love Camp's hands were 186 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 3: totally clean, but Mike Love is was more than a 187 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 3: creative boogeyman. More than a necessary evil, much more, he 188 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 3: was a great singer and astute lyricist and skilled songwriter 189 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 3: who brought out some of the best in his cousin 190 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 3: Brian Wilson, and in a lot of ways, Mike Love 191 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 3: was the engine that motored the Beach Boys forward through 192 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 3: blow after devastating blow. Without Mike Love, and to a 193 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 3: lesser degree, without Bruce Johnston, the Beach Boys would have 194 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 3: ceased to exist. 195 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: A long time ago. 196 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 3: Maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad thing. I 197 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 3: get why people would think that way, but I don't. 198 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 3: There'd be no wild honey either way. I digress back 199 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 3: to Dennis Wilson in the Hippie sex Spots. The session 200 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 3: was dragging, Brian was stuck, and Dennis was bored. He 201 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 3: bounced eagerly headed home for what he hoped would be 202 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 3: another round of mind bending sex with the two hitchhikers 203 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 3: he'd left back at his place, the one that called 204 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 3: herself no joke Cinderella, and the other one Katie. Dennis 205 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 3: pulled his car up the driveway at one four to 206 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 3: four zero zero sunset boulevard, killed the engine and made 207 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 3: his way up the stairs to his patio entrance. He 208 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 3: felt the California night air shift. Suddenly, there was a chill, 209 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 3: and then he saw something ominous and stop short on 210 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 3: the stairs. There feet in front of him was a small, 211 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 3: mean looking man, a long hair, standing in the light 212 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 3: of his doorway. He was disheveled, dirty. The menace in 213 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 3: his dilated pupils was immediately evident. In fact, his eyes 214 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: seemed to roll around inside of his head as he 215 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 3: stood there, near still, but oddly somehow pulsating his body. 216 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 3: His lips clinched, his cheekbones stretched themselves up the sides 217 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 3: of his face, and pressed his eyes into that insane 218 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 3: rolling spell they were now casting. The short man's chest 219 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 3: heaved slowly as he stood, moving ever so slightly, not bouncing, 220 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 3: not rocking, not quite shifting, but definitely moving softly, almost, 221 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 3: it seemed to Dennis hovering His arrow was obvious. It 222 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 3: was dark, compelling, witchy. Dennis spoke first, are you going 223 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 3: to hurt me? And the short man spoke, as if 224 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 3: the option was definitely on the table. Do you want 225 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: me to hurt you? Brother? Dennis stood silent, his heart 226 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 3: beating a rampant triple stroke roll total fear it was 227 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 3: clear that he didn't want the short man to hurt him. 228 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 3: That is, the shortman took a step toward Denis. Dennis 229 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 3: lean back impulsively, but otherwise remained still. His heart beat 230 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: quickened more fear, and then the short man dropped to 231 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 3: his knees and began kissing Dennis Wilson's feet. Dennis was 232 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 3: still in shock when the man finally stood and looked 233 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 3: up at him to say, welcome home, brother, My name 234 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 3: is Charlie. Steve McQueen loved Dennis Wilson as much as 235 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 3: the inner workings of Steve McQueen's holy headero mind would 236 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 3: allow him to love another man anyway. Steve, like Dennis, 237 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 3: was one of holly Wood's biggest hounds, notoriously sleeping with 238 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 3: as many as two women a day while on set 239 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 3: shooting his films. This is somehow unbelievable, gross, impressive, and 240 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 3: sad all at the same time. Free love meant a 241 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 3: lot of things to a lot of people, but the 242 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 3: guys like Steve McQueen and Dennis Wilson, rich, famous, handsome 243 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 3: beyond compare, it meant something entirely different. The opportunities for 244 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 3: promiscuous sex were endless, but Dennis Wilson was learning that. 245 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: Nothing is indeed free. 246 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 3: Dennis and Steve were hanging out behind the mobile station 247 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 3: up on the pch. 248 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: It was their spot. 249 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 3: They'd meet up, Dennis and his Ferrari, Steve and his Mustang, 250 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 3: smoke weed, drop acid, and calibrate their engines before dragging 251 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: up California's iconic Route One. The two got on great. 252 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 3: Steve could care less about the beach boys or who 253 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 3: Dennis was. The two had common interests and Dennis was 254 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 3: easy going and obviously didn't give a shit about who 255 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 3: Steve McQueen, the movie star was. The guy knew a 256 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 3: lot about fast motors, cycles, faster cars, and even more 257 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 3: about fast women, and that suited Dennis, who was in 258 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 3: the market for some advice. The gonorrhea was killing him, 259 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: at least it felt that way anyway. Charlie's girls were 260 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 3: becoming a real pain. Literally. Dennis had no idea which 261 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 3: when he contracted the std from Cinderella or Katie or 262 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: Marnie or Sadie May Gypsy or Blue Yellow or Yellowstone 263 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 3: or whatever her real name was. They all had it 264 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 3: and the billy ended up forking over to the Beverly 265 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 3: Hills doctor for the penicillin shots was upwards of one 266 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 3: thousand dollars. It wasn't just the clap. Charlie and his 267 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 3: girls had sapped Denis of about one hundred thousand dollars 268 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 3: in cash, food, clothes, you name it. 269 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 1: After all, he was. 270 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 3: A famous rock star and they had nothing, and they 271 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 3: were basically sand people. Dennis had been to their place 272 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 3: out in Death Valley, the old movie ranch owned by 273 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 3: that blind, pervy cowboy George Spahn. 274 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: It was bleak. 275 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: Other than some ramshackle old sets to sleep in, there 276 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 3: was next to nothing there except privacy, which was of 277 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 3: course needed for Charlie and his girls, the family as 278 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 3: they called themselves, to freak out on LSD orgy it 279 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 3: up and tune into whatever hoodoo guru vibes. Charlie was 280 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 3: laying down at the moment one day, while a record 281 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 3: spun on the house stereo. Charlie started preaching how in 282 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 3: a good song with the right lyrics, you were transported 283 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 3: to the state where you could see yourself and the 284 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 3: whole world reflected in a million different ways at the 285 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 3: same time, like the song was a prism. A good 286 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 3: song could bring the past back to life. Or show 287 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 3: you the future, harmless hippie talk. But Dennis thought of 288 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,159 Speaker 3: his brother's struggles and delusions trying to make smile and 289 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 3: felt that strange chill again. Then Charlie looked at him. 290 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 3: The room was rippling. Charlie asked, what if all of 291 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 3: life is like that all the time. What if you're 292 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 3: the prison you would have the power to do anything. 293 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 3: We would all have the power to know ourselves as God, 294 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 3: and all we have to do is just listen. Then 295 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,439 Speaker 3: he tweaked his finger in his ear violently, and it 296 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 3: broke the spell. Charlie Manson was something else man. Dennis 297 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 3: had never seen anything like him, except for maybe Steve McQueen. 298 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 3: Charlie was born the son of a gangster and Steve 299 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 3: the son of a prostitute. They both had charisma for 300 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 3: days and a long string of women ready and waiting 301 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 3: for them whenever they wanted. But unlike Steve, Charlie didn't 302 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 3: know shit about cars, others than how to steal them. 303 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 3: He didn't really know about music either, that we pretended to. 304 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 3: He fancied himself a musician anyway. It was part of 305 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 3: his whole prophet rap that he laid on anyone who 306 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 3: would listen, and in the beginning, Dennis Wilson's ears were 307 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 3: wide open. Charlie seemed like he was onto something genuinely, 308 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 3: like a real guru. Dennis's soulless cousin, Mike Love had 309 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 3: the Mahriishi in transcendental meditation, so Dennis would have Charles 310 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 3: Manson and his improvised tantric stick. It seemed like a 311 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 3: good deal for Dennis. Besides, Manson had better pussy than 312 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 3: the Mariishi. So Dennis encouraged Charlie in his music, and 313 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 3: Charlie was eager to tap into Dennis's music industry connections. 314 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 3: And this is at a time when the Beach Boys 315 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 3: had set up their own record label, Brother Records, with 316 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 3: a distribution deal with their major label, Capital Records, in 317 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 3: order to promote and sell more cutting edge and experimental artists. 318 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 3: Dennis thought Charlie would be a great fit. His brothers 319 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 3: Brian and carl did not share his enthusiasm, and neither 320 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 3: did Bruce Johnson or Al Jardine, and of course, from 321 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 3: Mike Love, Charles Manson was a hard note. But Charlie 322 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 3: wouldn't be dissuaded. He and his girls went on living 323 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 3: at Dennis's place, partying, pawning all Dennis's shit. 324 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: Off for cash. When he wasn't looking, two. 325 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 3: Of the girls wrecked one of Dennis's cars, which was 326 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 3: not insurance. It was a parasitic shit show. By the 327 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: end of the summer, Dennis Wilson had been milked by 328 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 3: the freeloaders to the tune of one hundred grand. Despite 329 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 3: all of this, and for reasons nobody really knows, perhaps 330 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 3: because of the power and influence of Charles Manson his personality, 331 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 3: or because of the sheer amount of LSD Dennis was 332 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: taking at the time, Dennis tried setting up Charlie with 333 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 3: his influential friend and producer of The Birds, Terry Melcher. 334 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 3: Dennis brought Charlie up to Terry's place at ten zero 335 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 3: five zero Cllow Drive in the Hollywood Hills, where Terry 336 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 3: was living with his movie star girlfriend Candice Bergen for 337 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: an audition. Terry heard Charlie sing in play and he 338 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 3: was not impressed. Like Mike Love for Terry Melcher, Charles 339 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:29,719 Speaker 3: Manson was a definite pass. 340 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: Manson was pissed embarrassed. 341 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 3: Dennis was positive as usual, and there would be other 342 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 3: producers other opportunities, he assured Charlie, but Charlie seemed twitchier 343 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 3: than usual. 344 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word word word. 345 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 3: The knife flashed out of Charlie's pocket in an instant, 346 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 3: and Charlie waved it all around the room crazy like 347 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 3: a shithouse rat. He aimed it at the vocal booth 348 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 3: and then wheeled it towards Dennis, right next to him 349 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 3: in the control room, pressed it to his throat. The 350 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 3: blade was warm on his neck, the fear was cold 351 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 3: in his veins, and Dennis froze and felt that now 352 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 3: familiar Charlie, chill right is fine. If I hear one 353 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 3: more fucking note from you, I swear man respect the 354 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 3: prism fuckers. He then put the knife away. Everyone acted 355 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 3: as if this was somehow cool. Dennis included this shit 356 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 3: Charlie's twitchiness. It had doomed his shot at a record 357 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 3: deal with Terry Melcher, who had seen right through his 358 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 3: psychedelic manic guru act. Pulling knives in the studio, neglecting 359 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 3: advice from seasoned rock stars who for some reason believe 360 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 3: in you, were clear indicators of what a pain in 361 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 3: the ass working with this dude would have been for 362 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 3: someone like Melcher. But the clincher was that Charles Manson 363 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 3: just wasn't very good. He could barely sing and play 364 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 3: guitar at the same time. He wasn't practiced in anything 365 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 3: really other than bullshitting. And Terry Miller was a pro 366 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 3: he knew better fuck this guy. But Dennis Wilson wasn't 367 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 3: so easily dissuaded. In the summer of nineteen sixty eight, 368 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 3: he went back and forth between wanting to do right 369 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 3: by Charlie, getting Charlie and the girls out of his life. 370 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 1: Steve McQueen was firmly. 371 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 3: Advising Dennis to walk away knives to the throat aside, 372 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 3: no pussy was worth one hundred grand in a rotting package. 373 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 3: Dennis was slow to listen. He brought Charlie and the 374 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 3: girls into the studio to try to get something down himself, 375 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 3: and it was nothing short of a nightmare, and the 376 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 3: recording session devolved into an orgy, the results of which 377 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 3: were captured on tape and to this day had never 378 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 3: been heard. And aside from occupying a rather large swath 379 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 3: of music history's collective imagination, they are buried somewhere deep in. 380 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: The Beach Boys vault they ceased to Exist, which. 381 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 3: Was the title of the Charles Manson song Ceased to 382 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 3: Exist that Dennis Wilson decided to purchase off of his 383 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 3: wild eyed Guru friend in one life desperate attempt to 384 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 3: propel the grifter prophet out of his life of hippie 385 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 3: squalor and into music industry stardom, Cease to Exist. The 386 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 3: simple folk blues number that Manson penned about well who 387 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 3: the fuck really Knows was purchased by Dennis Wilson for 388 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars in a BSA motorcycle that Charlie 389 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 3: coveted for use at Spawn Ranch Market two hundred grand 390 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 3: out the window into Manson family coffers. Dennis brought the 391 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 3: track and record with the Beach Boys, passing it off 392 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 3: as an original song that he'd written. Once they had 393 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 3: the track in the studio, Dennis, unusually engaged in the process, 394 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 3: get down to arranging and producing the track with his 395 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 3: brothers Brian and Carl and the rest of the group. 396 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 3: They modified the feel from a traditional blues to something 397 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 3: more pop, more of a psychedelic ballad than only The 398 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 3: Beach Boys and their tremendous harmony singing along with Brian's arrangement. 399 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: Prowess could pull off. 400 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 3: They altered Charlie's lyrics ceased to exist, became ceased to resists, 401 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 3: and a bridge was added to avoid the monotony of 402 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 3: Manson's original. 403 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: Finally, the title was changed from the Bleak. 404 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 3: Ceased to Exist to the Hippie Zeitgeist, sounding never Learned 405 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 3: Not to Love, and the results were pretty stellar. 406 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: The track is, in a couple of words, fucking awesome. 407 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 3: It was featured as a B side to the December 408 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight Beach Boys single Bluebirds Over the Mountain. 409 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: It was later. 410 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 3: Featured on the Beach Boys album twenty twenty. The A 411 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 3: side charted and the B side was met with positive reviews, 412 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 3: but Charles Manson was not impressed. In fact, quite the opposite. 413 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 3: He was furious. He was incensed that Dennis Wilson, Hippie 414 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 3: Stoner's surfer twat that he was, would change his lyrics. 415 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 3: Who the fuck did Dennis Wilson think he was? Charlie 416 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 3: gave him specific instructions on how the Beach Boys would 417 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 3: record his song. The song had a message, man, The 418 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 3: song had meaning. It was supposed to change minds melt hearts. 419 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 3: It was part of the master plan. They see that, 420 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 3: didn't they know that? Of course they didn't. Fucking celebrity 421 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 3: cunt sheeps sucking at the tea to the establishment trying 422 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 3: to pretty his song up and weasel their way into 423 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 3: the purse of teenage America's mom. They changed his fucking 424 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 3: lyrics man and his rhythm, and the title was changed 425 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 3: as well. And whose idea was that to add a 426 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 3: fucking bridge must have been Dennis's halfway brother, Brian. And 427 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 3: to top it all off, he wasn't even credited. Dennis 428 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 3: was listed as a songwriter, and that tore Charlie up. 429 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 3: But what really pissed him off, what really got his 430 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 3: gears grinding, was the fact that the track wasn't even 431 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 3: the A side. It was the B side, an afterthought, 432 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 3: a bit part a walk on greatness adjunct a fucking 433 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 3: side show a sidecard drafting along next to Steve McQueen's 434 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 3: sixty one triumph bullshit. Charles Manson played second fiddle to 435 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 3: no Man. Charles Manson was the fucking man and the 436 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 3: goddamn son. 437 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: Of man all at the same time. 438 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 3: When Charlie heard the song on the radio, he high 439 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 3: tailed it over to Dennis's mouth. By now, Dennis had 440 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 3: taken his buddy Stee's advice and moved out of his 441 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 3: Sunset Boulevard at home, abandoning it to Charlie and his girls, 442 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 3: stopped paying rent and was just waiting for their inevitable eviction. 443 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 3: He knew how pistock Charlie was about the song and 444 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 3: wanted no part of Manson in a short temper. The 445 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 3: knife to the throat in the studio was one thing, 446 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 3: but there were rumors going around that were particularly unsettling 447 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 3: to Dennis, the internal chattering and whispering of the Manson 448 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 3: family that he picked up here and there, losing further 449 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 3: and further touch with reality. Charlie's vision of seeing prophecy 450 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 3: and music had led to a bizarre obsession with the 451 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 3: Beatles so called White Album, which was just released the 452 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 3: month before. Now, Charlie had a manic focus on producing 453 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 3: a record of his own. Dennis didn't understand it, but 454 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 3: it reminded him very much of Brian's mental health struggles. 455 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 3: Only Brian Wilson was a much gentler soul. Charlie tracked 456 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 3: Dennis down at his new Palisades apartment. He stormed the 457 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 3: front steps and began beating on the door incessantly. Dennis 458 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 3: was in no mood. He'd been up for days high 459 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 3: on cocaine, and the comdown had left him in a 460 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 3: coke funk. Depressed, dejected, hung over, missing his wife Carol, 461 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 3: missing his kids, his little boy and his toddler daughter, 462 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 3: Bummed about the current state of his band, blown way 463 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,959 Speaker 3: the fuck off the charts by the White Album, pissed 464 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,959 Speaker 3: off as always at Mike Love, and above all, ornery 465 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 3: at the lack of transcendent sex he was missing out on. 466 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,239 Speaker 3: Now that he'd extricated himself from the Manson family, he 467 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 3: opened the door nonplus to find just what he'd expected, 468 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 3: wild eyed Charlie Manson standing there in front of him 469 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 3: doing his I'm so fucking crazy thing. 470 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: What do you want, Charlie? 471 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 3: Charlie was quick to the point he pulled a bullet 472 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 3: out of his pocket and held it up to Dennis's face. 473 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: You see this man, you see this? Dennis said nothing. 474 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 3: He was a bit wild eyed himself at this point, 475 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 3: fed up with Charlie's act, and two damn hungover to 476 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 3: be scared. 477 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, so what you see this man? This bullet man? 478 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 3: This is for you, and every time you look at it, man, 479 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 3: I want you to think of how nice it is 480 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 3: your kids are still safe. It was the mention of 481 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 3: his kids that sent him off. Something in him snapped, 482 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 3: and Dennis Wilson proceeded to kick the shit out of 483 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 3: Charles Manson, first to right to the face. Charlie fell 484 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 3: back on his ass, stunned into stillness. Dennis went full 485 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 3: feral Papa bear, kicking Charlie in the gut, in the ribs, 486 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 3: in the head. Charlie tried getting up while backing away 487 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 3: on the ground, crab walking backward from Dennis, whose kicks 488 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 3: were endless. By now, Dennis's guests, the remnants of the 489 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 3: previous night's coke party. His friends Terry Melcher and some 490 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 3: others were up out of their stupors and behind Dennis 491 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 3: in the doorway, taking in the scene their friend, the 492 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 3: passive beach bomb hippie beating the snot out of the 493 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 3: angry guru dwarf, and they were laughing. Dennis finally stopped. 494 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 3: Charlie got up. Dennis said nothing. Charlie stared at him, 495 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 3: betrayed beyond angry. His eyes widened and pulled back deeper 496 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 3: into his sockets. The corners of his lips pulled themselves 497 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 3: back into a demonic half smile. He raised his eyes 498 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 3: over Dennis's shoulder and saw Melcher and a few others 499 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 3: in the doorways smiling, stifling their laughter, save for a 500 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 3: few escaping giggles and darting eyes to avoid contact with 501 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 3: the angry, violent dwarf who had just got his ass 502 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 3: kicked by a hungover pacifist. For Charlie, the humiliation was 503 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 3: quick and cutting, and way worse than the pain of 504 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 3: the beating itself. Charlie began walking backward. He shouted to Dennis, 505 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 3: you're a thief, and up toward Melcher, but to no 506 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 3: one in particular. What are you looking at? You don't 507 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 3: know me, You can't know me. Don't look at me 508 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 3: like that. Man, don't feel sorry for me. Man, I 509 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 3: don't need your pity. I don't take pity from no pigs. 510 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 3: That's all you are, little piggies in your polyester pants, 511 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 3: condescending down to me. But you don't know me. Man, 512 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,959 Speaker 3: I'm God, I'm the devil. 513 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,719 Speaker 4: But you will know me. You all know me. You 514 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 4: can count on that. I'm going to see you all later. Man, 515 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 4: you could count on that. I'm going to see you later. 516 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 4: Terry Melcher had to get out of the house on 517 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 4: Coello Drive. It had bad juju breakup vibes. He and 518 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 4: actor Kandas Bergen had their toured passionate affair, but now 519 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 4: they'd fallen out. Melcher needed a change of scenery. He 520 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 4: needed someone to take up the lease, and if Terry 521 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 4: and Kandas had been tinsel Town's golden couple in their 522 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 4: time at Coelo Drive, it was fitting that the new 523 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 4: tenants would be heirs to that throne. Roman Polanski and 524 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 4: Sharon Tate. Roman Polanski in nineteen sixty nine was the 525 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 4: hottest filmmaker in the Western world after direct Rosemary's Baby. 526 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 4: His earlier films proved he had unsettling insight into lives 527 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 4: lived with barely contained trauma, but Rosemary's Baby was his 528 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 4: most terrifying portrait yet, A beautiful bride glowing with child, 529 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 4: slowly hauntingly revealed to be the victim of a demonic 530 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 4: conspiracy to unleash hell on Earth. A true nightmare. It 531 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 4: freaked America. 532 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 3: Out wherever all that darkness came from. It more than 533 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 3: paid Roman's bills and off screen, his life seemed picture perfect. 534 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 3: Sharon Tate, his beautiful bride, was gaining a foothold in 535 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 3: the industry of her own as an actor, and she 536 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 3: was pregnant with their first child. When they got the 537 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 3: keys to the new place, Terry and Candy's old place 538 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 3: up on Siellow Drive, it felt like a coronation. Together 539 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 3: they would cross the threshold into their transcendent new life. 540 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 3: They signed the lease on February twelfth, nineteen sixty nine, 541 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 3: and moved in the following Saturday, the fifteenth. But just 542 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 3: six months later, on August seventeenth, nineteen sixty nine, when 543 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 3: Roman ascended the driveway to his ben Atic Canyon home 544 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 3: for the last time, he was in shock. He needed 545 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 3: to gather some items before going into hiding. Disappearing was necessary. 546 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 3: There were no arrests, no leads, no answers. He was 547 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 3: both a suspect and a victim. As such, the spotlight 548 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 3: was white hot. Walking toward the front door, he was 549 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 3: outside of himself, autopilot, his stomach one big knot, his 550 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 3: eyes set back deep in his sockets, weighed down by 551 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 3: heavy bags, his backbone stealed for what he could not believe. 552 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: He was about to witness the crime scene, and there 553 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: were detectives. 554 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 3: Crime lab techts, a photographer he had asked to accompany him. 555 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 3: There was zero faith and authorities. Roman would gather his 556 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 3: own clues and take them to a psychic for evaluation 557 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 3: in hopes of uncovering the killers savages. Roman stopped on 558 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 3: the front step. The sight of it was too much. 559 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 3: Immediately he took a knee there on the doorway, and 560 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 3: what he could only presume was his wife's blood the 561 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 3: letters p I G PIG. The knife the killer had 562 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 3: used to stab his wife, his eight and a half 563 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 3: months pregnant wife was taped around its handle to prevent 564 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 3: any fingerprints from being discovered should the knife ever be found. 565 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 3: It was a small knife, a buck knife with a 566 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 3: three quarters inch diameter blade, A tiny. 567 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: Knife that made for a lot of blood. 568 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 3: Roman noticed the stains, deep brown stains on the carpet 569 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 3: upon entering his home, from where the blood had pooled. 570 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 3: He followed smaller blood stains on the floor into his 571 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 3: living room, and there was the sofa out of place, 572 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 3: with an American flag draped over its backside. On the floor. 573 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 3: On the other side of it, another stain, so brown, 574 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 3: so deep, in the carpet. It could only be from 575 00:33:53,520 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 3: an unimaginable amount of blood. The knot in Roman's stomach tightened, 576 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 3: the steel in his spine stiff and solid. 577 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: He looked up to the rafters. 578 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 3: There it was the white nylon rope the detectives told 579 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 3: him about, hanging down over the wooden ceiling beam slack 580 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 3: at the moment, having done its job to. 581 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: Fuck her up around the neck, do it, shut that 582 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: bitch up the rope around her neck? Do it? Do it? 583 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 1: Go ahead and do it. 584 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 3: The killers took one under the rope and wrapped it 585 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 3: around Sharon Tate's neck, then took the other end of 586 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:35,759 Speaker 3: the rope and wrapped it around the neck of her 587 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 3: best friend and next lover, Jay sebrings neck. Jay was 588 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 3: still deeply in love with Sharon. Roman knew this, but cared. 589 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 3: Little Jay was a pajama boy, his station barely higher 590 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 3: than that of service industry worker. Roman was one of 591 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 3: Hollywood's most in demand directors. Jay Sebring and his fancy 592 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,600 Speaker 3: shears were really no thread at all but. 593 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:55,959 Speaker 1: The rope at the end of his neck. 594 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 3: Every time Jay struggled, every time he winced, moaned, tried 595 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 3: to crawl the rope threatened to choke out the woman 596 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 3: he loved. At the other end of it, Roman Polanski's 597 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 3: wife crying, mumbling, pleading for mercy. Jay stayed still on 598 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 3: the floor. He tried calm, he tried reason, and the 599 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 3: killers were not listening. Sharon pleaded some more, and the 600 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 3: big one, the one the others were calling texts, he 601 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 3: began kicking Sharon in the belly, directly. 602 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 1: Impacting her oborn baby. 603 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:30,240 Speaker 3: Sharon cried and Jay protested his words meant nothing. Roman 604 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 3: took a beat, turned away, closed his eyes, opened them, 605 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,919 Speaker 3: looked out of the window to the back lawn arrange 606 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 3: crime scene pylons marking the exact points where the bodies fell, 607 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 3: two of them, Gibbey Folger and her lover in Roman's 608 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 3: bud from back in Poland, Voytek Forkowski. Roman knew his 609 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 3: old friend wouldn't have given up without a fight. Roman 610 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 3: could imagine the horror, the drama of it all, the 611 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 3: killers taking a beat, surmising their progress to that point 612 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 3: that they'd done what they were about to do, looking 613 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 3: at their victims near dead, literally at the end of 614 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 3: their rope, and then looking at each other as if 615 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,280 Speaker 3: to question their own steel, their own metal, their own purpose. 616 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,360 Speaker 3: Just what in God's holy hell were they even doing? 617 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 3: And why the unholy fuck were they even there? 618 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:15,759 Speaker 1: Sharon J. 619 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 3: Gibbe, Voytech, through their fear and fleeting moments of clarity, 620 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 3: they wondered the same things in the name of Christ, 621 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 3: what was happening? And then, as to answer God himself, 622 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,320 Speaker 3: the big One, Texts looked down at Sharon and spoke 623 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 3: with undeniable purpose, I'm the devil, and I'm here through 624 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 3: the Devil's business. There was a brief calm in the 625 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,120 Speaker 3: living room as they bled out, Sharon on one end 626 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 3: of the rope, Jay on the other, whimpering softly their 627 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 3: inevitable killers. Texts and the small witchy chick, the one 628 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:53,120 Speaker 3: they called Sadie, pacing whispering to each other on the floor, 629 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,719 Speaker 3: tied up with towels, sat a severely beaten Voytech Frekowski 630 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:01,879 Speaker 3: and his girlfriend Abigail Gibbey Folger. And then Voytech freed 631 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 3: himself and rose up. Sadie caught the move and stabbed 632 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,280 Speaker 3: Voytech in the thigh. They struggled, Sadie stabbed Voytech. 633 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:08,800 Speaker 1: Three more times. 634 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 3: He tripped, got to his feet with a quickness, so 635 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 3: went out Sadie, grabbing her by the back of the 636 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 3: hair and flinging her around and around, severing screamed. 637 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 1: Tex shut him up with a bullet to the head. 638 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 3: Somehow, Sadie freed herself from Voytech, who along with Gibbey, 639 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 3: beat it out to the back lawn. The killers were 640 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 3: on them in no time, straddling them each on the 641 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 3: freshly manicured grasp, stabbing them relentlessly in a full on 642 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 3: mannic LSD inspired anti establishment take no prisoners, leave no 643 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 3: recognizable features rage. Voy Tech Frakowski was stabbed fifty one times, 644 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,360 Speaker 3: beating over the head with the butt end of Texas 645 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,240 Speaker 3: twenty two bunt line revolver, and shot twice. Abigail Folger 646 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 3: was stabbed twenty eight times, four to the face, one 647 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 3: in the air, five in the neck, two in the stomach, 648 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 3: two in the back, one in the arm, one in 649 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,280 Speaker 3: the shoulder, one in the other arm, two in the thigh, 650 00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 3: one on the hand, two on the wrists, and six 651 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 3: others peppered elsewhere about her mangled twenty five year old body. 652 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,399 Speaker 1: Roman snapped to and re entered the living room. 653 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 3: It was almost unrecognizable the rearranged furniture that fucking American flag. 654 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 3: The bloodstains jarring sucked him in. Sadie got down on 655 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 3: the ground next to Sharon, tried looking her in the eye, stared. 656 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,120 Speaker 3: Text shouted down at her, do it for Christ's sakes it. 657 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 3: Sadie continued to stare. Sharon whimpered some more, fearing for 658 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 3: her unborn baby, thinking of her own mother whispering to her, 659 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 3: Sadie tried piercing Sharon's closed eyes with her own demonic gaze. 660 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 3: Text could take it no longer. Fuck this, He pounced 661 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 3: and begin stabbing maniacally. Sadie took her cue and joined 662 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:59,719 Speaker 3: in almost immediately. Together they stabbed Sharon sixteen times. Sharon Tate, 663 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 3: eight and a half months pregnant, that was dead, along 664 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 3: with her unborn son. Roman broke out of the haze 665 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,240 Speaker 3: of horror. There were too many people around the crime 666 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 3: scene his house to get fully caught up in the 667 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,400 Speaker 3: trauma of what had happened just days earlier. He collected 668 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 3: some personal items and resolved to catch his wife and 669 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 3: unborn child's murderers, with or without the help of authorities, 670 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,879 Speaker 3: and bailed. A few days later, while on the road 671 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,880 Speaker 3: with the Beach Boys in support of their album twenty twenty, 672 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,600 Speaker 3: the one with the Charlie Manson song that Dennis had 673 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 3: bought and reworked as his own. Dennis got the call 674 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 3: there was a murder at Terry's place, the one Roman 675 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:39,960 Speaker 3: was now renting. 676 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: Sharon was dead, so was Jay. 677 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 3: Could he come home the lapd would like to ask 678 00:39:45,840 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 3: him some questions. Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and 679 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,160 Speaker 3: is produced in partnership with Double Elvis. 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