It’s moreMaking a Murdererand lessThe Jinx.
“And you could’t even imagine how much stuff we had to keep out.”
He was looking for holes, and he found plenty.
[Charles Manson being escorted to court for a preliminary hearing on Dec. 3, 1969.]
“It seemed to me an omission by deliberation,” O’Neill says.
“I started wondering, how did Manson learn to control those people?
“And to show someone lying and backpedaling, I have to involve myself.
“He’s been keeping secrets for years.”
(Buccieri died in 2002.)
“It was like a switch had gone off,” says O’Neill.
There were swords everywhere too, because he collected them.
When I got out of there I could barely look over my shoulder.”
“Some big secret.”
[Candice Bergen and Terry Melcher at the Whiskey a Go Go in the summer of 1967.]
But Tarantino might have been worried about a lawsuit.”
[Margot Robbie, as Sharon Tate, filmingOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodin Los Angeles.]
O’Neill himself has his own concerns about the book’s publication.
“Or be used as proof that we can’t trust anyone.
I’m just reporting what I found out and trying to remain as objective as I can be.
But I don’t know how deep it goes.”
