1. Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
112 Facts About Charles Manson
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In 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate.
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Charles Manson Milles Maddox was born on November 12,1934, to 15-year-old Ada Kathleen Maddox of Ashland, Kentucky, in the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Charles Manson allowed Maddox to believe that he was an army colonel, although "Colonel" was merely his given name.
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Charles Manson was placed in the home of an aunt and uncle in McMechen, West Virginia.
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Charles Manson later characterized the first weeks after she returned from prison as the happiest time in his life.
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Charles Manson was arrested for grand larceny, but not convicted.
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Charles Manson got repeatedly in trouble for truancy and petty theft.
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Charles Manson ran away from Gibault and slept in the woods, under bridges and wherever else he could find shelter.
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Charles Manson fled home to his mother and spent Christmas 1947 at his aunt and uncle's house in West Virginia.
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However, Charles Manson found a cigar box containing just over a hundred dollars, which he used to rent a room on Indianapolis' Skid Row and to buy food.
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Charles Manson was eventually caught, and in 1949 a sympathetic judge sent him to Boys Town, a juvenile facility in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Charles Manson was arrested two weeks later during a nighttime raid on a Peoria store.
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Charles Manson was sent to the Indiana Boys School, a strict reform school outside of Plainfield, Indiana.
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Charles Manson developed a self-defense technique he later called the "insane game", in which he would screech, grimace and wave his arms to convince stronger aggressors that he was insane.
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Charles Manson's aunt visited him and told administrators she would let him stay at her house and help him find work.
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Charles Manson was transferred to the Federal Reformatory in Petersburg, Virginia, where he committed a further "eight serious disciplinary offenses, three involving homosexual acts".
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Charles Manson was then moved to a maximum security reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was expected to remain until his release on his 21st birthday in November 1955.
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In January 1955, Charles Manson married a hospital waitress named Rosalie "Rosie" Jean Willis.
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Charles Manson's probation was revoked, and he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Terminal Island in Los Angeles.
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Less than two weeks before a scheduled parole hearing, Charles Manson tried to escape by stealing a car.
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Charles Manson was given five years' probation and his parole was denied.
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Charles Manson received five years' parole in September 1958, the same year in which Rosalie received a decree of divorce.
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Charles Manson took Leona and another woman to New Mexico for purposes of prostitution, resulting in him being held and questioned for violating the Mann Act.
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Charles Manson spent a year trying unsuccessfully to appeal the revocation of his probation.
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Charles Manson's mother moved to Washington State to be closer to him during his McNeil Island incarceration, working nearby as a waitress.
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In June 1966, Charles Manson was sent for the second time to Terminal Island in preparation for early release.
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Less than a month after his 1967 release, Charles Manson moved to Berkeley from Los Angeles, which could have been a probation violation.
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Charles Manson received permission from Roger Smith to move from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury District.
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Charles Manson first took LSD and would use it frequently during his time there.
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Charles Manson began studying Scientology while incarcerated with the help of fellow inmate Lanier Rayner, and in July 1961 listed Scientology as his religion.
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Charles Manson then met teenaged runaway Lynette Fromme, later nicknamed "Squeaky", and convinced her to live with him and Brunner.
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Charles Manson targeted individuals for manipulation who were emotionally insecure and social outcasts.
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Charles Manson established himself as a guru in Haight-Ashbury which, during the Summer of Love, was emerging as the signature hippie locale.
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Charles Manson soon had the first of his groups of followers, most of them female.
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Charles Manson allegedly taught his followers that they were the reincarnation of the original Christians, and that The Establishment could be characterized as the Romans.
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Sometime around 1967, Manson began using the alias "Charles Willis Manson".
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Charles Manson was assisted by several of the young women from the fledgling Family.
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Charles Manson was arrested on July 31,1967, for attempting to prevent the arrest of one of his followers, Ruth Ann Moorehouse.
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Charles Manson avoided prosecution again in July 1968, when he and the family were arrested while moving to Los Angeles, when his bus crashed into a ditch; Manson and members of his family, including Brunner and Manson's new-born baby, were found sleeping naked by police.
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Charles Manson picked them up and dropped them off at their destination.
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Charles Manson claimed that Wilson invited him to visit his home when Charles Manson came to Los Angeles.
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Charles Manson recorded numerous songs at Brian Wilson's home studio, although the recordings remain unheard by the public.
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Band engineer Stephen Desper said that the Charles Manson sessions were done "for Dennis [Wilson] and Terry Melcher".
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Wilson eventually distanced himself from Charles Manson and moved out of the Sunset Boulevard house, leaving the Family there, and subsequently took residence at a basement apartment in Santa Monica.
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When Charles Manson subsequently sought further contact, he left a bullet with Wilson's housekeeper to be delivered with a threatening message.
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Charles Manson was afraid, and he thought he should have gone to the authorities, but he didn't, and the rest of it happened.
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Charles Manson established a base for the Family at the Spahn Ranch in August 1968, after their eviction from Wilson's residence.
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The Charles Manson Family evolved into a doomsday cult when Charles Manson became fixated on the idea of an imminent apocalyptic race war between America's Black minority and the larger White population.
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In late-1968, Charles Manson adopted the term "Helter Skelter", taken from a song on the Beatles' recently released White Album, to refer to this upcoming war.
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On March 23,1969, Charles Manson entered the grounds of 10050 Cielo Drive, which he had known as Melcher's residence.
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Charles Manson said that he was looking for Melcher, whose name Hatami did not recognize.
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Hatami and Tate maintained their positions while Charles Manson went back to the guest house without a word, returned to the front a minute or two later and left.
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That evening, Charles Manson returned to the property and again went to the guest house.
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Charles Manson entered the enclosed porch and spoke with Altobelli, the owner, who had just come out of the shower.
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Charles Manson asked for Melcher, but Altobelli felt that Charles Manson was instead looking for him.
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Altobelli told Charles Manson he was leaving the country the next day, and Charles Manson said he would like to speak with him upon his return.
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Charles Manson said that he had been directed to the guest house by the persons in the main house; Altobelli asked Charles Manson not to disturb his tenants.
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Charles Manson turned Spahn Ranch into a defensive camp, establishing night patrols by armed guards.
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Atkins, in her 1977 autobiography, wrote that Charles Manson directed Beausoleil, Brunner and her to go to Hinman's and get the supposed inheritance of $21,000.
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Charles Manson said that two days earlier Manson had told her privately that, if she wanted to "do something important", she could kill Hinman and get his money.
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Watson later claimed that Charles Manson had instructed him to go to the house and "totally destroy" everyone in it, and to do it "as gruesome as you can".
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Charles Manson told the women to do as Watson instructed them.
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Charles Manson stepped out and ordered the approaching driver, Parent, to halt.
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Charles Manson whispered to Atkins and awoke Frykowski, who was sleeping on the living room couch.
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Charles Manson fought his way out the front door and onto the porch, but Watson caught up with him, struck him over the head with the gun multiple times, stabbed him repeatedly and shot him twice.
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Charles Manson told Atkins that someone was coming in an attempt to stop the murders.
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Charles Manson was allegedly displeased with the previous night's murders, so he told Kasabian to drive to a house at 3301 Waverly Drive in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.
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Watson claims in his autobiography that Charles Manson went up alone, then returned to take him up to the house with him.
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Charles Manson pointed out a sleeping man through a window, and the two entered through the unlocked back door.
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Watson claims Charles Manson roused the sleeping Leno LaBianca from the couch at gunpoint and had Watson bind his hands with a leather thong.
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Charles Manson left, and Krenwinkel and Van Houten entered the house.
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Charles Manson stabbed her several times with the bayonet, then returned to the living room and resumed attacking Leno, whom he stabbed a total of twelve times.
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Charles Manson then carved the word "WAR" into his abdomen.
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Charles Manson gave Leno LaBianca fourteen puncture wounds with an ivory-handled, two-tined carving fork, which she left jutting out of his stomach.
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Meanwhile, Charles Manson drove the other three Family members who had departed Spahn with him that evening to the Venice home of the Lebanese actor Saladin Nader.
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Charles Manson left them there and drove back to Spahn Ranch, leaving them and the LaBianca killers to hitchhike home.
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Charles Manson didn't bleed when I cut him on the shoulder.
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Cliff Shepard, a former LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division detective, said that Charles Manson "repeatedly" claimed to have killed many others.
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Charles Manson was released on August 11,1969, after undergoing a polygraph examination that indicated he had not been involved in the crimes.
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Charles Manson had been arrested a few days earlier with members of the Manson Family.
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In chambers, the women's lawyers told the judge their clients wanted to testify that they had planned and committed the crimes and that Charles Manson had not been involved.
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Charles Manson was admitted to state prison from Los Angeles County on April 22,1971, for seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of Abigail Ann Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Earl Parent, Sharon Tate Polanski, Jay Sebring, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
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In 1972, the California Supreme Court ruled that the state's death penalty statutes was unconstitutional, Charles Manson was re-sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
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On December 13,1971, Charles Manson was convicted of first-degree murder in Los Angeles County Court for the July 25,1969, death of musician Gary Hinman.
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Charles Manson was convicted of first-degree murder for the August 1969 death of Donald Shea.
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Charles Manson was trying to reach Manson because she heard that he had testicular cancer; she was apprehended within days.
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Charles Manson was released on parole from Federal Medical Center, Carswell on August 14,2009.
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At least as early as the Snyder interview, Charles Manson's forehead bore a swastika in the spot where the X carved during his trial had been.
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Schreck concluded that Charles Manson was not insane but merely acting that way out of frustration.
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Holmstrom explained that Charles Manson had objected to his Hare Krishna chants and verbally threatened him.
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Charles Manson had been housed at San Quentin State Prison, California Medical Facility in Vacaville, Folsom State Prison and Pelican Bay State Prison.
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In June 1997, a prison disciplinary committee found that Charles Manson had been trafficking drugs.
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Charles Manson was moved from Corcoran State Prison to Pelican Bay State Prison a month later.
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The footage of the "unshackled, unapologetic, and unruly" Charles Manson had been considered "so unbelievable" that only seven minutes of it had originally been broadcast on Today, for which it had been recorded.
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CNN conducted a DNA test between Matthew Roberts and Charles Manson's known biological grandson Jason Freeman in 2012, showing that Roberts and Freeman did not share DNA.
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Roberts subsequently attempted to establish that Charles Manson was his father through a direct DNA test which proved definitively that Roberts and Charles Manson were not related.
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In 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that Charles Manson was caught with a cell phone in 2009 and had contacted people in California, New Jersey, Florida and British Columbia.
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Charles Manson recorded an album of acoustic pop songs with additional production by Henry Rollins, titled Completion.
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Charles Manson had been visiting him in prison for at least nine years and maintained several websites that proclaimed his innocence.
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Journalist Daniel Simone reported that the wedding was canceled after Charles Manson discovered that Burton wanted to marry him only so that she and friend Craig Hammond could use his corpse as a tourist attraction after his death.
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Charles Manson had an infection and had been in a prison medical facility for two months and could not receive visitors.
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Charles Manson said that she still hoped that the marriage license would be renewed and the marriage would take place.
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The panel at that hearing noted that Charles Manson had a "history of controlling behavior" and "mental health issues" including schizophrenia and paranoid delusional disorder, and was too great a danger to be released.
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On January 1,2017, Charles Manson was being held at Corcoran Prison, when he was rushed to Mercy Hospital in downtown Bakersfield, because he had gastrointestinal bleeding.
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On November 15,2017, an unauthorized source said that Charles Manson had returned to a hospital in Bakersfield, but the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not confirm this in conformity with state and federal medical privacy laws.
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In June 1970, Rolling Stone made Charles Manson their cover story.
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Bugliosi quoted a BBC employee's assertion that a "neo-Charles Manson cult" existed in Europe, represented by approximately 70 rock bands playing songs by Charles Manson and "songs in support of him".
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Charles Manson was a struggling pop musician, seeking to make it big in Hollywood between 1967 and 1969.
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On March 6,1970, LIE, an album of Charles Manson music, was released.
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One of these, The Family Jams, includes two compact discs of Charles Manson's songs recorded by the Family in 1970, after Charles Manson and the others had been arrested.
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Musical performers such as Kasabian, Spahn Ranch, and Marilyn Charles Manson derived their names from Charles Manson and his lore.