Vincent Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials as a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, including twenty-one murder convictions without a single loss. His prosecution of Charles Manson was the basis for his true-crime bestseller, Helter Skelter (Bantam). He is also the author of Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder (Island). Copyright © Vincent Bugliosi, January 3, 2001.