(And Colonel, I agree with your point exactly.) And if everyone was following Manson’s “instructions” literally to the letter, why were no eyeballs hung on the mirrors?ĭavid, we’re going to have to have lunch sometime…. Why no rope the second night? Remember, they were supposedly going to hang a priest upside-down at the church. (Besides, Manson has admitted elsewhere giving the glasses to the killers as they left the ranch to leave as a false clue.) So it doesn’t make any difference what eyesight the glasses were intended for. But if you don’t believe the overall story about Manson going to the house, why would you pay any attention to a detail (about the glasses) contained within that false story? Maybe (likely) the whole thing about the partner and the glasses is as much fiction as the entire story about going to the house. The same passage in that book also includes the bit about the partner and the glasses. That story initially came from Null Emmons’ book Manson In His Own Words. You seem to be discounting the story about Manson going to the Polanski residence after the murders. The problem, Charlie, is that it’s the wrong kind of glasses.” “The glasses are usually an integral part of the ‘Manson returned’ storyline because Manson said somewhere that his ‘partner’ had some glasses they used to start fires at the ranch and they left them there.
My response is three-fold (1.) there wasn’t time (that has been covered elsewhere) (2.) why would Manson connect Tate with Sebring? He wasn’t there during the murders and (3.) Manson’s explanation of the glasses is scientifically impossible and is key to his explanation. I am aware some will argue ‘Manson came back to the scene’. “Second, to me it is obvious, the killers spent more time ‘staging the scene’ then they admit.