I can give you point-for-point examples on more than a few conspiracies--the actual one of the actual terrorists among them! But once the conspiracy numbers more'n about a dozen or so people and/or lasts for more than five years or so, I don't give it much credence. People talk; it's what they do. I created a conspiracy in one of the books I've written, and the way it's blown, at least in part, is one of the conspirators confessing to his daughter, who was one of the victims, and I find that a totally plausible way for things to happen. (There's other evidence, too, of course, and one of the other conspirators gives more detail on it. But still, that's two guys talking out of maybe a dozen or so.)

For pity's sake, it was a few short months after the Tate-LaBianca murders that one of the murderers, who was totally devoted to Charles Manson and believed he was the living incarnation of Jesus, spilled to some of her friends in prison (she was there on a related charge, though nobody knew that at the time). She ended up testifying before the grand jury, too. (She later recanted the whole thing, naturally. But by then, it was too late; she'd led them to about a ton of physical evidence.)

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"You can't erase icing."

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