Since reading Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry at the age of eleven, the winding and disturbing story of the Manson crimes has stuck with me. This interest not only led me to read many other true crime books over the years and honed an interest in psychology but also to re-reads of this grandfather of the true crime genre on a regular basis.

If you have read Helter Skelter, you will quickly recognize Charles “Tex” Watson as the personal …