Sarah Edmondson was a struggling actress when she became fascinated with the self-improvement philosophies of NXIVM. A torturous initiation into a secret society within the group changed her mind.
In the aftermath of the brutal slaughter of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski was convinced the killer was someone he knew and began to suspect his celebrity friends of the heinous slayings.
“The one thing I noticed that night is I have never seen him that happy in my life,” a Manson family friend said of the young groom’s wedding reception.
Charles Manson's early years were shaped by his teen mother's arrest for robbery and a strict uncle who once forced him to go to elementary school in a dress.
Charles Manson's one-time girlfriend Stephanie Schram said she was enthralled by the charismatic cult leader, who she met outside a gas station bathroom.
Just weeks after winning a suit against the Synanon cult, attorney Paul Morantz was bitten by a venomous rattle snake that had been stuffed in his mailbox.
