Charles Manson was an unlikely messiah. Freshly paroled he stumbled into San Francisco in 1967 just as thousands of impressionable young people were streaming into town for the Summer of Love. Posing as a musiciancomegurucomeChristfigure Manson built a commune cult of hippies consisting mainly of troubled young women. But what made this group set out on the fourweek killing spree that claimed seven lives Former Journalism Professor David J Krajicek seeks to discover just that. This book in