Helter Skelter (book)

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Helter Skelter - The True Story of The Manson Murders (alternative title: Helter Skelter - The true story of the serial killer Charles Manson , original title: Helter Skelter - The True Story of The Manson Murders ) is a book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, which was first published in 1974 by WW Norton & Company was released.

Plot and origin of the title

Bugliosi represented Charles Manson and members of the Manson Family in the Tate - LaBianca murder trial from June 1970 to January 1971, and in the book describes firsthand the investigation, arrests, trial and conviction of the defendants.

The title of the more than 700-page book refers to the apocalyptic racial war prophesied by Manson , which he called Helter Skelter (after the Beatles song of the same name ).

reception

With more than seven million copies sold, the work is considered the world's most successful book in the true crime genre . At the end of 1974, Der Spiegel published a short version as a four-part series. The book won the Edgar Allan Poe Award ( Best Non-Fiction Book - Best Fact Crime ) in 1975 and served as a template for the films Helter Skelter - Night of the Long Knives from 1976 and Helter Skelter from 2004.

expenditure

  • Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter. The true story of serial killer Charles Manson. From the English by Anke and Eberhard Kreutzer. riva Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7423-0249-6 (German-language edition); previously as a helter skelter. Charles Manson's murder frenzy. A Chronicle of Horror , riva Verlag, Munich 2010.
  • Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter. The True Story of the Manson Murders. WW Norton & Company, New York, NY 2001, ISBN 978-0-393-32223-1 (original in English).

Web links

  • Get up - death to the pigs! Part 1 of December 2, 1974, Part 2 of December 9, 1974, Part 3 of December 16, 1974 and Part 4 of December 23, 1974. In: Der Spiegel, accessed on August 20, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b David Stout: Vincent T. Bugliosi, Manson Prosecutor and True-Crime Author, Dies at 80. In: The New York Times . June 9, 2015, accessed January 4, 2019.