![]() Soon, Mann became a controversial figure in the case itself-but he got the inside track on movie and book deals. Mann, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning screenwriter and producer, recognized a theme he had tapped before: the hysteria of a witch hunt. In that 1986 interview, Peggy Buckey was “quite eloquent” in arguing that charges against her brother, Ray, and mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, should be dropped as well, Mann recalled Friday. Prosecutors had just dropped charges of child molestation against Buckey, one of the original seven defendants in the McMartin Pre-School case. Abby Mann watched, listened-and saw the makings of a movie. ![]() Geraldo Rivera was interviewing Peggy Ann Buckey on TV.
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