Manson tells a story of once shooting a guy in LA, whose house Manson had gone to in response to the guy apparently kidnapping the GF of Manson's pal (Bobby Beausoleil) over a drug debt.
Manson immediately fled back to the desert after shooting him, he says, and the next day it was all over the news that a leader in the Black Panthers was found dead with his body dumped outside of town.
For a while after, Manson was convinced that he'd been the one to kill him and that their hideaway would be attacked by Black Panthers. Wrong guy, though.