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Los angeles was having a nervous breakdown. >> at spahn ranch deputies came looking for charles manson but it had nothing to do with murder. >> the property owners around were complaining about the hippy type people driving their dune buggies on the other ranch's property. >> 102 deputy sheriff's completely surrounded this ranch. >> the raid netted a huge stockpile of firearms and some stolen vehicles. >> i'm sure that they felt we are being arrested for murder. >> greta: more than 20 people were arrested but the family's leader was no where to be found. >> manson was hiding under one of the b...

Returned home. tex watson decided to bolt back to texas. >> tex is the only one that i was ever suspicious of at that time. he was the butcher boy. >> the other members of the family remained with manson at the ranch. >> it was much like living at spahn ranch but it was different, too, it was much darker and more desperate. you could feel the tension. >> rating through the desert in stolen dune buggies, manson dreamed of recreating the dreams of the desert corps. a california high patrolman began to take a closer look at family. >> our interest in the group was as a group of hippies with stole...

Sky from sunset boulevard. >> greg jacobson used to visit charlie and the girls at spahn ranch. the. >> the mood was getting dark. he pointed a gun and at me and said what would you do if i pulled the trigger and i said charlie, i guess i would be dead. that was the end of it. if i was afraid, he would continue on with the kit, it was always a kit with charlie. >> despite no longer living together, dennis wilson was still trying to get manson a record deal. he persuaded a friend, terry melcher to audition manson. he lived with his girlfriend candice bergeron in a house they rented. >> i don'...

>> he talked about going to is desert and i said go out to death valley, that society is perfect for you, there is no society in death valley. >> betting here to barker ranch wasn't easy, it was difficult, very difficult. >> they showed up with this bus, it was a miracle that they got the bus up here. >> greta: the family moved here to barker ranch, built in the 1930s. it is located in an extremely rugged and december late area of death valley. you are looking at a last picture of the ranch before it was gutted by fire in may of 2009. harder's prospecting partner was karl rona pictured here wi...

Was karl rona pictured here with matson. matson -- manson. a few days after murders, linda had fled spahn ranch and returned home. tex watson decided to bolt back to texas. >> tex is the only one that i was ever suspicious of at that time. he was the butcher boy. >> the other members of the family remained with manson at the ranch. >> it was much like living at spahn ranch but it was different, too, it was much darker and more desperate. you could feel the tension. >> rating through the desert in stolen dune buggies, manson dreamed of recreating the dreams of the desert corps. a california hig...