Vincent Bugliosi Quotes
Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
Bugliosi, Vincent, and Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. W.W. Norton & Company, 1974.
Monroe was then Secretary of State and Jefferson an ex-President.
Lyford was convinced that the Satanists had killed and eaten many children. The eaten children had been missing and were not found and since they had been eaten there was no evidence of the deaths. Texas has had more than its share of prosecutors who have very loose legal standards, but this was exteme, even in Texas, Incredibly enough some people were almost convicted of murder in this modern version of a witch hunt with the same logic that the lack of evidence proved Satan was behind it as only he could cover up all that evidence. Fortunately the Texas Attorney General dismissed Lyford and exonerated the suspects.
Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr. was an American attorney and New York Times bestselling author. During his eight years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, which included 21 murder convictions. He was best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate–LaBianca murders of August 9–10, 1969.