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The Spahn Movie Ranch, home to the Manson Family in the late 1960s and occasional location for filming of Westerns. people

The Manson Family’s California Hovels: Scenes From the Bottomless Pit

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‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of an American Spree Killer

Street gang, The Reapers, New York 1972 history

Gang of New York: LIFE With the Reapers, 1972

Gangster Mickey Cohen smells flowers at home in Los Angeles, 1949. history

Mickey Cohen: Gangster in the Sun

Charles Manson in custody, 1969. history

The Manson Family on Trial: Madness Visible

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