The Manson Women And Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder

The Manson Women and Me

In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. But to anyone who knew them growing up, they were bright, promising girls, seemingly incapable of such an unfathomable crime.

Award-winning journalist Nikki Meredith began visiting Van Houtenand Krenwinkelin prison to discover how they had changed during their incarceration. The more Meredithgot to know them, the more she was lured into a deeper dilemma- What compels normal people to do unspeakable things?

The author’s relationship with her subjects provides achilling lens through which we gain insight into a particular kind of woman capable of a particular kind of brutality.Through their stories, Nikki Meredith takes readers on a dark journey into the very heart of evil.