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Like the people who populate this city - the crimes that happen here seem fit for the big screen. In a place full of cameras, paparazzi, and superstars - it makes sense. If you take a survey of the most infamous and well-known crimes and trials of the century - the ones seared into your memory like that nondescript condo entrance - a considerable handful of them are a product of the City of Angels. 

In Part One, we’ll dive back into LA before television, to a murder that changed the city - the murder of the Black Dahlia. Then we’ll jump forward to the far-out 60s to when a very different kind of story took what LA was and turned it upside down - the murders of Charles Manson and the Manson Family. 

~This Cerca Guide was written by Dominique Ferrari and voiced by J.J. Duncan.

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