Rodney Alcala received the nickname 'The Dating Game Killer' thanks to his appearance as a contestant on the popular TV show of the same name. He lived the rest of his life in prison and passed away in 2017 of a heart attack. Manson was sentenced to death, however, he was never executed. Manson was indicted and convicted along with the family members who'd carried out the murders at his behest. The next night, Manson family members continued their spree, murdering supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary. Over the course of the night and into the next morning, they killed five people, including director Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant at the time and Abigail Folger, heir to the Folger Coffee fortune. On the night of August 8, directed by Manson, several of his 'family members' invaded a home in the northern hills of Los Angeles.

The group's most infamous murders took place on in August 1969. In the late 1960s, a charismatic drifter with delusions of rock and roll grandeur named Charles Manson coerced a number of young women and men, many of whom were vulnerable teenagers, to join a cult called ' The Family.'

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