Vincent Bugliosi, the man who was catapulted into fame by his prosecution of Charles Manson, has died at age 80. After the trial, Bugliosi wrote Helter Skelter, a book about Manson and his followers. He cast Mason’s female followers as “zombies,” with the cult leader being “a dictatorial maharajah of a tribe of bootlicking slaves.” He went on to write a dozen other books, including 2,000 pages on the Kennedy assassination.
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