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>> the west memphis three in their own words. >> it does something to you when you see something like that. it cracks you inside. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. the case of the west memphis three began in may 1993 when the naked bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a ditch in west memphis, arkansas. stevie branch, michael moore and christopher byers had been hog-tied with their own shoelaces. three local teenagers were charged with the crime amid allegation...

People of l.a. particularly in beverly hills and bel-air, the center of the movie colony where these murders happened. >> sharon tates funeral and the funerals of three of the four people murdered with her were held in four different churches. the services for miss tate, a remarkably pretty actress who was about to become a mother, was held in los angeles. >> people were dropped from guest lists. parties were canceled. because no one knew if the killers were among them. >> as investigators searc...

>> so they raided the ranch, seized a lot of vehicles that were stolen. a lot of ammunition and weapons. but the search warrant was apparently misdated. so even though they were taken into custody, they were released. at that point they didnt know that they had the killers of the seven tate/labianca victims. >> as police continue their hunt for the killers, manson uses the murders to tighten his grip on the group. he tells them the killings are proof that the apocalyptic race war has begun. >> h...

Krenwinkel. tells them to make the murders as vicious as possible, just like the previous night. and another horror-filled night of murder. 67 stab wounds. they were found with a pillow case above their head. there was a big lamp next to each one of them. the cord from that lamp had been wrapped around their necks very tightly. the word "war," w-a-r, was carved in lenos stomach. after the murders what do the killers do? they take a shower and raid the refrigerator. because of all the incredible ...

On the door. >> as officers comb the tate property for clues, the killers strike again. >> the latest murders were discovered during the night. the bodies of a man and his wife found in their home. leno labianca, supermarket owner and his wife had both been stabbed to death. and then with blood, the killer had scrawled the words "death to pigs". >> this night manson, as opposed to the first night, accompanied his killers. and they drove throughout the city of los angeles looking for their victim...

Opened the door and said, im the devil, and im here to do the devils work. its chilling. >> manson ordered and masterminded the murders, but watson was his chief lieutenant at the murder scene, the main killer. manson sent his killers out in the late evening of august the 8th. he gave watson a knife and a gun. he told the girls to get a knife and a fresh change of clothing and to do whatever tex told them to do. to give you an example of the terrible brutality of these murders, frykowski was sta...

I think he was getting more desperate to keep it all together and to keep control. >> many killers are pathological liars. theyll either tell you what you want to hear, theyll brag by admitting having done things you know they didnt or they play innocent. i think manson is different in that respect. manson has never admitted giving the orders to his followers to commit murder. he told me that he could understand that they might have wanted to please him, but he never commanded them to do anythin...

Ego. my philosophy was accepted by almost all who listened. i had the answers. >> when you grow up being institutionalized so many times, you dont get a chance to acquire intimate relationships with parent figures. manson didnt have a family until he created his own with young people in the counterculture. he gained something that he never had with others, and that was a bond, a relationship. >> his ability to win followers had to do with the fact that he chose young people, women mainly, who we...

In the 60s. we had been through the assassinations of three great leaders. and then we have this. and this was like the worst. it was like finally someone had done something that was so beyond the pale that people could not comprehend it. after that, it was over. >> in 1971, one of the killers from the tate and labianca murders is tried separately from the group. the transformation of charles "tex" watson from hometown hero to mass murderer makes him the poster boy for a generation gone bad. >> ...

u.s. officials say there are indications he was on the scene at time. asiri is suspected of making the underwear bomb that was worn by a nigerian man that was worn on a flight to detroit on christmas day 2009. he is also behind the failed plot to put bombs disguised as printer cartridges on planes last july. samir kahn was considered "" he used to live in charlotte, north carolina at one point. molly graham spoke with people who knew him and asked how she was able to track down kahn ...