My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and The Darkness That Ended The Sixties
At fourteen Dianne Lake?with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them?became one of "Charlie?s girls," a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century?s most notorious criminals and life as one of his "girls.".
