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“This tough, fearless, and tireless journalist scored what countless other reporters sought: an inside line to cult leader Charles Manson during the trial of the century.”—Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times best-selling author and journalist “Charlie and Me is a fascinating look at Charles Manson and his followers by Mary Neiswender, an award-winning journalist who started interviewing Manson in Los Angeles County Jail prior to the trial that sent him to prison for life. Her talks with Manson started a decades-long dialogue that turned into an unlikely, albeit guarded, friendship between a reporter and her ‘source,’ a convicted murderer.”—Sandi Gibbons, a journalist who covered the Manson trial

“This tough, fearless, and tireless journalist scored what countless other reporters sought: an inside line to cult leader Charles Manson during the trial of the century.”-Lesley M. M. Blume, New York Times best-selling author and journalist “Charlie and Me is a fascinating look at Charles Manson and his followers by Mary Neiswender, an award-winning journalist who started interviewing Manson in Los Angeles County Jail prior to the trial that sent him to prison for life. Her talks with Manson started a decades-long dialogue that turned into an unlikely, albeit guarded, friendship between a reporter and her ‘source,’ a convicted murderer.”-Sandi Gibbons, a journalist who covered the Manson trial

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Mary Neiswender (1926–2025) was a retired newspaper investigative reporter, a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee-one for her reporting on the Manson trial-and the winner of most major journalism awards in California. She was the author of Assassins . . . Serial Killers . . . Corrupt Cops . . . : Chasing the News in a Skirt and High Heels. Kate Neiswender is the principal of the law office of K. M. Neiswender, with nearly forty years of experience. Before earning a law degree, she was a journalist and won multiple awards for journalistic excellence in California.

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