Vincent Bugliosi moved into the spotlight as the assistant district attorney whose prosecution of Charles Manson sent the mass murderer to prison for life. The 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and friends, followed by that of supermarket chain owner Leno LaBianca and his wife in their Los Angeles home, were considered especially horrific crimes. Bugliosi's chronicle of the crime and 41-week trial, Helter Skelter, marked the beginning of his reputation as a keen legal mind. While that was the most celebrated case in which he pursued justice, as a Los Angeles prosecutor Bugliosi succeeded in 105 of 106 felony cases throughout his career, with twenty-one of those being murder cases. Born in Hibbing, Minnesota, on August 18, 1934, Bugliosi became a well known author and celebrated defense attorney. Bugliosi attended the University of Miami on a partial tennis scholarship and graduated in 1956. He moved to Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA Law...