The Lawyer Who Covered Up the Crimes of the Century: Vincent Bugliosi

On December 5, 1969, in the grand jury room of the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles, twenty-one-year-old Susan Atkins sat before a group of around twenty people. She wore a short, buttoned pink velvet dress. Her dark hair was perfectly parted and fell to her shoulders. She looked almost doll-like, and her expression was just as vacant.

She looked …