Ali’s Reviews > Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them > Status Update

Linda Kasabian, whose seventeen days of testimony against her fellow Manson Family members sent them all to death row, vanished into a life of obscurity.

As Manson had admitted years earlier to psychiatrist Edwin McNeil, he had no idea how to manage outside of prison. Asking to continue his life inside actually represented an uncustomary amount of self-awareness on Charles Manson’s part.

As seen in case after case throughout the following pages, it was the cult leaders who lit the fire, and the people trapped within their grip who tragically acted as the fuel.