Charles "Tex" Watson

Charles Watson was born December 2nd 1945, and is a convicted American murderer for being part of the Manson family murders.  Watson was convicted of the murders of Sharon Tate, Steven Parent, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring all at the Tate residence and also the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca at the LaBianca residency.  Watson became acquainted with Manson because he had picked up Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys who had been hitchhiking and was invited back to Wilsons house where he met Charles Manson. 

Lynette Fromme

Lynette Fromme was a member of the Manson "family"  born on October 2nd 1948.  In 1963 Fromme moved to Redondo beach where she began to drink and take drugs, her grades had dropped significantly in high school but she maintained a high enough GPA to graduate in 1966.  It was the that she moved out of her parents house for a couple of months before her father had convinced her to enroll at El Camino Junior College, where she lasted about two months.  She first met Charles Manson on Venice Beach, she was intrigued by his beliefs and philosophies and the two became acquaintinces. Fromme was never charged with involvement with the murders but was later sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for attempting to asassinate President Gerald Ford.

It begins

It was in June of 1969 that Manson told a fellow family member that "the time was now, for Helter Skelter." He also said "Blackie never did anything without whitey showin’ him how it looks like we’re gonna have to show blackie how to do it." It was not shortly after on August 8th that Manson ordered two of his family members to carry out the first two murders.  It was on the night of August 9-10th that one of the killers wrote "Healter Skelter" in blood on the refrigerator inside the house of which the murders had taken place. 

Preperation

A while before Manson and his "family" had commited to actually exectuing the murders, they began to prepare for Helter Skelter.  They did this by marking out their escape route to make sure they got from Los Angeles to Death Valley safely along with preparing vehicles.  Manson believed that the song Helter Skelter had an unseen coded message that told them what route to take to get to Death Valley.  Manson had planned to start apocolyptic war in the summer of 1969. 

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.

MY FIRST BLOG POST!

Helter Skelter is a book written by Vincent Bugliosi that discusses Charles Manson along with his accomplices and their murders.  Here is a little background information about Vincent Bugliosi: He was born August 18th, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota, he is an attorney and an author best known for prosecuting Charles Manson.  There are two movies out both being called Helter Skelter dealing with Charles Manson and his psychotic "family" one filmed in 1976 and the other filmed in 2004.