Posted on 11/20/2017 6:51:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
Born Charles Milles Maddox on Nov. 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Manson – who took his uncle’s last name – was in and out of reform schools and prison beginning at the age of 12.
In 1967, Manson moved to San Francisco, where he began to attract a devoted group of followers, including some who would later carry out a string of savage killings known as the Tate/LaBianca murders.
Over the course of two nights, the killers took the lives of seven people, inflicting 169 stab wounds and seven .22-caliber gunshot wounds.
On June 16, 1970, Charles Manson and three of his followers – Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten – went on trial in Los Angeles for the crimes. The charges came after a major break in the case when Atkins, who was already in jail on another charge, bragged to a fellow inmate about the Tate murders. She said they did it “because we wanted to do a crime that would shock the world.”
The first set of victims included actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant; a celebrity hairstylist named Jay Sebring; coffee fortune heiress Abigail Ann Folger; writer Wojciech Frykowski; and Steven Earl Parent, a friend of the family’s caretaker.
Each was viciously murdered on Aug. 9, 1969, at the home of Tate and her husband, famed movie director Roman Polanski. Polanski was out of the country at the time. The next evening, another set of murders took place. Supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, were killed at their home.
Charles Manson is shown in a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation photo dated Oct. 8, 2014. The word “pig” was written in a victim’s blood on the walls of one home and the front door of another.
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There are many reasons people murder others. Simple stupidity, not caring about the safety and well being of anyone other than themselves, jealousy, and the perception that they are not getting their fair share and have some type of victim status were the likely explanations for most of the murders that I responded to. But yes, I think that you have put your finger on the perception of the Manson clan that probably disturbs many people the most.
You certainly do seem to have a thing for old Charlie.
“although Kennedy abandoned Mary Jo it wasn’t really murder but he was a sleaze in how he left her to drown.”
Mary Jo didn’t drown, she suffocated. She lived long enough in the air bubble of the car to be rescued if any attempt was made on his part to get help. He was a murderer indeed
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