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Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. Some of the members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969.
Jul 12, 2023 · Learn about the life and crimes of Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader who inspired and directed the notorious murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents in the late 1960s. Find out how he rose to power, influenced by drugs, music, and the occult, and died in prison in 2017.
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Apr 26, 2024 · Charles Manson (born November 12, 1934, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died November 19, 2017, Kern county, California) was an American criminal and cult leader whose followers carried out several notorious murders in the late 1960s. Their crimes inspired the best-selling book Helter Skelter (1974). See also Tate murders.
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Born in 1934 to a teenaged mother, Charles Manson’s early childhood and young life was spent bouncing around between relatives and, later, in and out of institutions in the Midwest. In his early 20s, he married twice and fathered a son. Manson was considered so thoroughly institutionalized by authorities that upon his 1967 release from a California...
In the public’s imagination, the “Manson girls,” as they came to be known, loomed almost as large as Manson himself. Mostly young women in their late teens and early 20s, Manson Family members were, in the late 1960s, not especially unusual. White, middle-class women all over the country were heading for cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, i...
The brutal nature of the murders committed by the Manson Family, in addition to the fact that some of the victims were celebrities, touched upon some of the deepest fears of the American psyche—the idea that you might not be safe at home, for one, and the idea that even ‘good girls’ are a few moves away from committing unspeakable crimes. They also...
Learn about the who, what, where, and why of the Manson Family Murders, the brutal crimes that rocked the 1960s and inspired Quentin Tarantino's new film. Find out how Manson rose to power, lured his followers, and masterminded the Tate-LaBianca killings.
Nov 20, 2017 · Mon 20 Nov 2017 09.27 EST. Charles Manson, the pseudo-satanic sociopath behind a string of killings that shocked California out of its late 1960s cultural reverie, died on Sunday after almost a...
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Nov 20, 2017 · Charles Manson, one of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century, who was very likely the most culturally persistent and perhaps also the most inscrutable, died on Sunday in a hospital...
Charles Manson dies aged 83 after four decades in prison. The cult leader sent his followers to commit a series of brutal murders in the late 1960s.
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