ndy asked if I wanted to take a hot bath. I felt ambivalent. I knew that one of the attorneys in the case had participated in a ménage a trois with Squeaky and Sandy, but I had also been told by a reporter, "It certainly levels the high to worry about getting stabbed while fucking the Manson ladies in

nce Merrick, who had been associated with schlock biker exploitation movies as the prerequisite to directing a sensationalist documentary, Manson. Squeaky's basic vulnerability emerged as she kept pacing around and telling Merrick that she was afraid of him. He didn't know we were tripping, but he mus

okes of your essay and make it into the “beats” of my story. For example, Sandy’s invitation to take a bath formed the spine of the “mermaid” scene. Squeaky’s line, “Manson never took anybody who wasn’t already discarded by the society" formed the spin of the animated fever dream where she talks about her