The new Chaos: The Manson Murders documentary on Netflix—which began streaming today— is proof that even over 50 years later, audiences will never tire of the gruesome tale of Charles Manson and his cult of killers.
Directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris, who also produced the film with Robert Fernandez and Steven Hathaway, this documentary is an adaptation of the 2019 nonfiction book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, written by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring. Author O’Neill is featured prominently in the documentary, and presents a new theory on the Tate–LaBianca murders, committed by the Manson Family—aka Manson’s cult of young followers, mostly young women, who killed seven people, including actress Sharon Tate—in 1969.
Though he’s upfront about the fact that he’s unable to prove it, O’Neill suggests that, based on evidence he uncovered, Manson may have been part of a larger,
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