Charles Manson, the infamous cult leader behind a grisly massacre in 1969 ... “I was using the symbol of a helter skelter as a ride from the top to the bottom — the rise and fall of the Roman Empire,” ...

At the 1970 trial of Charles Manson and his followers ... At the time she was pregnant and already the mother of an infant daughter, according to Biography. Kasabian soon fell under Manson’s thrall.