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It was August 9th, 1969. The heatwave of the past three days had finally broken, but a dazed silence hovered in Benedict Canyon. The residents floated languorously in their pools, or hid in their houses from the relentless sun. There was talk of wildfires, expected to break out across Beverly Hills any day. Later, one of the killers would remark that “you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon”. The events of that evening, which took place at 10050 Cielo Drive, were to become one of the most publicized killings in American history.