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Decided ovn on a plan to spring him and save his own skin. >> family members at spahn ranch are talking about bobby. he's if prison, what's going to happen in how can we break him out? >> they hatched a plan so horrible that the man charlie manson would be famous, all right. not as a star, but as a symbol of evil. >> coming up -- helter skelter, a night of madness and murder. >> sharon tate quite naturally is screaming. she's begging not for her life but for her babies. >> susan atkins says, bitch, i have no sympathy for you. >> when "dateline" continues.

The tate murders and labianca murders. manson was on edge after he found a ranch hand was trying to get the family kicked out of spahn ranch. barra hoyt remembers what happened next especially heard a cream. i bolted up. >> is there anything to describe what that sounded leak? >> pure horror. >> you knew who it was? >> i knew it was shorty. i recognized the voice. >> this was the one that manson was involved in. she was e he was hacked to pieces. >> manson decide it was time to get out of l.a. maybe he was feeling the heat or wanted a more remote place to keep his family under his control. >> ...

Person. >> no one connected them to the henman case. the plan failed. bobby bosolay stayed in jail and if that wasn't frustrated enough for manson, just six days after the la bianca murders, more than 100 deputies descended on the family. >> they decide they're going to have a huge raid on spahn ranch. they're going to arrest everybody in it. >> but, the raid turned out to be good news for charlie manson. because it didn't have anything to do with murder. the warrant was for auto theft. totally unrelated. and even that charge dwn stick? manson uses this as a great example. see how powerful he ...

>> it never went anywhere. manson didn't measure up as a singer-song writer. he and his family settled in the foothills outside of l.a., a place called spahn ranch. >> one of the best things is they were allowed to stay there because they would do chores. >> when they weren't working the family went dumpster diving for food, panhandled for money. sometimes stole cars. there was a lot of drugs and plenty of sex all directed by manson. >> he told people who to sleep with. what to eat. where to do their bodily functions. >> barbara hoyt said charlie preached to his flock constantly. >> he would q...

Slaves and followers. >> there was an underlying program that we knew what to say and how to say it. charles watson wrote it exactly how it happened in his book. he didn't lie. >> all through that strange summer at spahn ranch cramped among the crumbling sets of a former dream, we were children at play, living the fantasies we made, and charlie was our guide. each night the family would eat together, smoke a little hash or grass, often drop acid. then after the meal we'd all sit in a circle to listen to charlie sing his songs and preach to us. he told us in that moment we were in the process o...