The film focused on the police investigation and the courtroom drama, highlighting the Manson Family's brutal crimes and the Tate-LaBianca murders that took place over two days in 1969.
The next evening, Manson's followers struck again. Their victims were Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, California grocery store owners. “Helter Skelter,” a song by the Beatles, was scrawled on their refrigerator in blood. Donald “Shorty” Shea was also a victim of the family's murderous spree in late August 1969. Manson was arrested two months later in Death Valley, California.
The television film revisited the horrifying murders and Manson's trial, which began in 1970. The film starred Steve Railsback as Manson and George DiCenzo as Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.
The 1976 television film adaptation won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Feature or Miniseries, with J.P. Miller credited.
CBS Photo Archive/Getty ImagesRELATED: The Blockbuster Film That Finally Gave This 1970s Icon a Chart-Topping HitManson died in 2017 at the age of 83. Atkins died of brain cancer in 2009. Krenwinkle remains the longest-serving female inmate in the state of California. Only van Houton was released on parole.
Helter Skelter remains one of the most-watched television movies of all time reported Rolling Stone.
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