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9+ murdered by proxy. Signature. 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.
After the Family members behind the August 1969 murders were apprehended, Manson was put on trial for murder along with them. He didn’t do any of the actual killing, but prosecutor Vincent ...
The Tate murders were a mass murder conducted by members of Charles Manson’s “Manson Family” cult. The murders took place on August 8–9, 1969, in Los Angeles. On the night of August 8, a small group of Manson Family members, including Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Charles (“Tex”) Watson, drove to the house where film director Roman Polanski lived with his ...
Sharon Tate. Perhaps the most famous of Manson’s victims, 26-year-old actress Sharon Tate was found brutally murdered on August 9, 1969, in the home she shared with her husband, director Roman ...
The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her companions Jay ...
The murders inspired numerous books and movies, both documentary and fiction. In addition to Helter Skelter, which was cowritten by the prosecutor of the murder trial, books included the biography Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson (2013) by Jeff Guinn, and Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties (2017) by Dianne ...
A look at key figures, decades after horrific murders. In the summer of 1969, Charles Manson and his murderous “family” went on a rampage in Los Angeles that left nine people dead. July 30 ...
