Illuminating Bugliosi's 1969 "Helter Skelter" is now seen as almost science fiction

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2. A woman I worked with several years ago told me a story about this book.

Her cousin said he was reading the part of Helter Skelter where Manson and his gang were driving up Sunset Boulevard and he tells Linda Kasabian to stop next to the white sports car up ahead because he was going to kill the driver.

He suddenly remembered a time when he had stopped at a red light on a lonely part of Sunset Boulevard at night ... in his white sports car. A car filled with kids stopped next to him and a scruffy guy got out and walked towards his car. Just then the light changed and he sped away.

Bugliosi writes that “Another potential victim, unaware to this day how close to death he had come."

That may not be true anymore.