[basalt]

that was the problem...they kept insisting that the murders were some kind of drug deal gone bad...and they were not. The Tate team wouldn’t even talk to the La Bianca team...right across the same room. The point is...the entire Los Angeles area was scared witless for months...it was not Robbery/Homicides finest hour..

[Fedora]

that was the problem...they kept insisting that the murders were some kind of drug deal gone bad

Which is also what some Manson Family associates have alleged figured into the motive.

Agree it wasn't LAPD's finest hour.