- Narrator: In 1969, the Manson Family murders had revealed a dark side to the hippie generation. Rumors of strange occult practices, talk of revolution and murder, had tainted the peace and love movement forever; and in 1970, a new crime would occur that would convince many that society was about to self-destruct.
- Himself - Former Firefighter: My dad told me, um, I want you two to stay up here, because there're five bodies in the pool.
- Himself - Santa Cruz Resident: The intensity with which he would look at you always kind of scared me.
- Narrator: Against all expectations, the so-called People of the Free Universe was not a killer cult but a lone assassin on a mission from God, and he was armed and on the loose.
- Himself - Former Detective Inspector: [arresting John Linley Frazier] Stuck the shotgun in his face and told him "Don't move or I'll shoot." Kinda had this weird smile, looked at me and said, "Why don't you give me what I deserve?" And I'll tell you what: the thought runs through your mind, but that's not our job.
- Himself - Former Firefighter: We never used to lock our doors, uh, but when this happened, we started locking our doors. I actually slept with a shotgun alongside my bed
- Himself - Dorothy's Nephew: Oh, yeah. The doors were locked and the guns were loaded.
- [John Frazier shows up at trial with the left side of his head completely shaven]
- Self - Forensic Psychologist: That was one of the more interesting aspects of the trial, is that he did NOT want to be found insane; so, he was a... a psychotic individual pretending to be sane pretending to be psychotic to convince the jury that he was malingering his psychosis so that they would convict him and send him to prison, not send him to a psychiatric institution.
- Himself - Defence Attorney: He said he was gonna go door-to-door like the Avon lady and said "Ding Dong, you're dead. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh." The little laugh at the end of it was what really did it. It was chilling.
- Herself - Former Santa Cruz Resident: He felt that our family were capitalist pigs that had raped the environment, um, things that were almost ironic in that there were no trees were cut down and we had made this piece of land more beautiful; and, if you knew the Japanese culture and the culture that my parents and family lived by, it was s-so completely opposite of what he'd, I felt, he was attacking, so it was, um, amazingly sad.
- Himself - Forensic Psychologist: Schizophrenia is a major mental illness, uh, characterized mainly by a disorder of thought, a disorder of thinking. It usually begins in late adolescence/early adulthood - nineteen/twenty - when the first psychotic episode, uh, begins; but prior to that, there's a pre-morbid condition where the individual is usually withdrawn and odd and somewhat bizarre in a number of different ways.