A chilling portrait of evil that reveals the dark side of the swinging Sixties. Using Manson's own words David J. Krajicek, a former professor of journalism at Columbia University, tells the story of how an ex-con called Charles Manson came to be convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder following the deaths of seven people, including film star Sharon Tate.This bloodbath brought the decade of Love and Peace to a gory end as 'the Family', a group of psychopathic individuals ruled by their master Manson, set about wreaking their revenge on a society they believed had wronged them.