There was a story sometime back that Manson was a kill product of MK-Ultra. In which case his evil might NOT have been genetic as much as created by Nazi experimenter working with/for the CIA after World War II
Not exactly. He and his “family” were part of a federally funded communal living study, money that ultimately came from spook funds.
This is incidentally, however, undoubtedly why he wasn’t arrested while on Federal parole.
He was running drugs, firearms, stolen cars, pimping underage prostitutes, burglary, association with known felons, etc etc, and kept getting released with no charges. That’s how he was able to do that, apparently.
"Chaos" which turned out to be a lot more accurate than Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter."