Charles Manson, born in 1937, became the cult leader of the “Manson Family” that carried out a series of Hollywood murders that twisted the 60’s ideals of freedom, expression, free love and peace. After much influence from The Beatles’ White Album songs, Manson believed in Helter Skeltor, an impending race war between whites and blacks. Hoping to initiate the war, he started to form a spiritual “family” of followers established by free love and drugs. He had convinced them that after the Blacks would kill off all the whites, while the “family” hid in a bottomless pit, they wouldn’t know what to do so they would seek out Manson and his followers and have them govern the world.

In August of 1969 Manson instructed a number of his followers to go to a specified house and destroy everyone in it, including actress Sharon Tate and four others who were murdered and tormented with multiple stabs, gunshots and rope. The next night, members of the family murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. After these horrifying murders, the family left bloody marks on walls such as “Death to pigs” and Helter Skelter.” These murders were supposed to be pinned on random ethnic people, triggering the Helter Skeltor war.