“Return To Sender”…Charlie At Cielo on THAT Night?
Of all the IMs and emails I receive on The Manson Family topic, one in particular stands head and shoulders above the rest… “MsBurb, what’s your opinion? Did Charlie return to Cielo Drive after the killers returned to Spahn?” This, above all others, seems to be the burning question. Beyond the answer, one wonders why, above all other enquiries on this complicated set of events, this particular mystery seems to need some sort of solution? I’ve given it some thought, (without spraining my brain, of course!) and I tend to think that there is some part of us which is STILL trying to either, 1) make some logical sense out of these wholly senseless acts; or 2) put Charlie at the Tate crime scene to believe that he was indeed responsible for these crimes; or 3) make sense of his following actions, that to go back and see what he saw, there at Tate, was the real reason he joined in with his killers the following night, knowing that after all that, there would be no turning back. I do...
