Four women who belonged to the Manson family and experts weigh in on the infamous murders. | dG1fYkRoZVlJUmJ2VEk
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00:00 I was a member of the Manson family.
00:03 What was it about Charlie Manson that made these women join his family?
00:17 I didn't have any family to speak of.
00:20 She wanted desperately to be part of something.
00:23 Everything was about Charlie.
00:25 I never saw fulfillment and happiness in the people I looked up to.
00:31 I'd say meeting Manson saved my life.
00:33 I am thankful.
00:37 From my perspective, I was looking for a place to be a part of something bigger than just
00:43 myself.
00:44 That's a person who is vulnerable.
00:46 It was hard to live with.
00:48 I felt this overwhelming guilt, just guilty by association.
00:54 Tweaky wanted to rebel.
00:55 Charlie, he's the smartest person I ever met.
00:58 He was alive.
01:00 He had what I wanted.
01:03 Charlie Manson and the family really changed American culture.
01:13 He made victims of more than just the people that died.
01:16 At the time of an arrest, why didn't the women say, "Thank goodness you captured me."
01:23 They didn't say that.
01:25 I didn't feel bad that these people were dead.
01:29 I didn't even know they were alive.
01:31 The horror that she must have felt.
01:34 We like to think they're no different than us, and they are.
01:38 Just because a person kills does not make them evil and bad.
01:44 In that moment, a person has a choice to do something that is so against human nature
01:51 to kill someone.
01:54 War is not murder.
01:55 Manson The Women, a two-hour special event, Saturday, August 10th at 7 on Oxygen.