Los Angeles, 1969. The air smelled of freedom. Flower children drifted through Laurel Canyon. Rock music spilled from open windows. Hollywood glittered with possibility. It was supposed to be the Summer of Love’s afterglow — a time when peace signs, long hair, and guitar chords promised a gentler world. Instead, it became the season that ended innocence forever. At the center of that collapse stood … Continue reading The Man Who Never Held the Knife — Yet Turned a Summer Into America’s Darkest Nightmare