Tex Watson had left the desert camp and gone on to separate himself from the Family, but he bought a cassette recording of "Abbey Road" and played it continuously while walking for miles across the desert to rejoin the Family; he was hoping to see what The Beatles might have to tell him. He turned back at the last moment, and an old prospector informed him that the arrests had taken place. Watson returned to Texas where he was arrested for the Tate-LaBianca murders a month later.