April 11, 2012 8:12 pm

Journalist's 40 Years of Contact with Charles Manson

When her then 10-year-old daughter picked up the phone and told her, “Mom, it’s Charlie again,” Mary Neiswender says she thought she may have gotten too close to a story as a reporter at a Long Beach newspaper. Through a jail house contact, Neiswender spoke to Charles Manson before his trial — and has maintained contact for four decades. Manson’s chance to be paroled was rejected this week. NBC4’s Gordon Tokumatsu reports.

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