Author’s Note

I have elected to use several crime scene photographs in this book. While these photographs are graphic and disturbing, they are not used for sensationalism. Rather, no matter how many words might be spilled in describing the brutality of the murder which took Sharon’s life, it seems to me that there is no better, mute testimony as to why none of the Manson Family members still incarcerated should ever be released than the vivid depiction of their own acts.