Everything You Need To Know About Charles Manson   Charles Manson Biography
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Date: 2017-11-20

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Over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969, convicted murderer Charles Manson, who has died aged 83, encouraged his band of followers to kill nine people in the Los Angeles area.

The brutal murders by the Manson 'family' threw a pall of fear and horror not only across the city, but the United States, abruptly ending the era of peace-and-love characterised by Woodstock and the Summer of Love.

 A black and white glamour headshot of Sharon Tate. Her hair is down. Her eye makeup is on fleek.
PHOTO: Sharon Tate was eight months pregnant when she was murdered. (Creative Commons)
His most well-known victim was pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, killed with four others at the home she shared with husband, film director Roman Polanski, who was out of the country at the time.

The following night, egged on by Manson, his followers murdered a supermarket executive and his wife.

Manson was also convicted over the death of a music teacher who was killed in July, and a stuntman who was bludgeoned to death in August.

Manson did not physically commit any of the murders but was found to be the mastermind of the nine deaths, influencing the small group of displaced hippie youth to kill at his behest.

'Kids gravitated towards him'
Variously described as a "vicious Svengali", "a talented manipulator", "the devil", "a creepy messiah" and "the leering face of evil", Manson spent most of his life in prison.

"He had a quality about him that one thousandth of 1 per cent of people have. An aura," former defence attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who wrote about the murders, investigation and trials in his book, Helter Skelter, told Rolling Stone in 2013.

"Wherever he went, kids gravitated toward him."


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Those "kids" — young people drifting along without purpose — were cleverly brainwashed by Manson who zeroed in on their weaknesses.

The youngest member, a teenage runaway and popular schoolgirl, told investigators Manson had brainwashed her and others with sex, LSD, constant Bible readings, rambling lectures about revolution and the continuous playing of the Beatles' White Album.

Manson and his 'family' of followers lived together at an abandoned and secluded movie set named Spahn Ranch where Manson used its isolation "as one of the many tools in his dangerous arsenal", wrote Curbed in 2014.

"Here he indoctrinated his followers through a series of acid trips, mandatory orgies, and hypnotic, repetitive lectures outlining Helter Skelter, the race war he was determined to start," it said.

Helter Skelter, inspired by his interpretation of the 1968 Beatles song, was Manson's plan to ignite a race war leading to his world domination.

He was arrested in October 1969 on unrelated charges and had been in jail since that time, having been denied bail 12 times.

Early signs of manipulative behaviour
Charles Milles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 to 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. His father's name is not known and he later took his stepfather's name of Manson.

According to CNN, it is reported that Manson's mother sold him for a jug of beer to a woman who wanted children; his uncle had to find the woman to get him back.

His early life was marked by manipulative behaviour and mental illness and after being sent to reform school in 1947 for stealing, Manson spent the next 20 years in and out of jail.

Following his release in 1967, he headed to southern California, intent on becoming a musician, along the way reinventing himself as a long-haired, Christ-like guru.

He began to accumulate his band of followers, setting off a chain of events that would lead to his notoriety, described by Rolling Stone as "the face-of-evil superstar symbol, second only to Hitler".

Trial and punishment

His nine-and-a-half month trial, which began in June 1970, was peppered by bizarre and violent outbursts — at one point he lunged at the judge yelling, "in the name of Christian justice, someone should cut your head off".