The Begining

The murders commited by Charles Manson's "family" members were all inspired by Manson and his foreseeing of Helter Skelter.  Helter Skelter is an apocolyptic war Manson believed would come about because of the tension between the whites and the blacks.  It is said that manson had been predicting a war of racial tension for quite sometime before he started to coin the term Helter Skelter.  Manson and his "family" members had set up a base camp at Myers Ranch which is next to California's Death Valley.  Manson derived the term Helter Skelter from a song produced by the Beatles off of their White Album in 1968.