Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi dies at 80

AP via Fox News ^ | June 09, 2015

[US Navy Vet]

LOS ANGELES – Vincent Bugliosi, a prosecutor who parlayed his handling of the Charles Manson trial into a career as a bestselling author, has died, his son said Monday night. He was 80 years old.

Bugliosi, who had struggled with cancer in recent years, died Saturday night at a hospital in Los Angeles, his son, Vincent Bugliosi Jr., told The Associated Press.

Bugliosi Jr. said his father had "an unflagging dedication to justice" in everything he did.

[EveningStar]

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[Yaelle]

RIP. Don’t know much about him but he started my love of true crime. I bought his Helter Skelter book when I was too young to be reading it, and when the phone rang I’d jump a foot while I was reading it. It being so close to home and all gave me even more creeps.

One time, within a few years of reading it, a friend and I were coming home from the beach, stopped to shop at a little second hand shop in Topanga canyon, and I asked to use the restroom. The proprietor said she didn’t have a restroom, but if I went out to the alley and to the left, there was a little primitive one stall bathroom behind another store. So I did, and when I closed the stall door, the back of it read in huge old, peeling, red paint HELTER SKELTER. Talk about hair standing up.