Charles Manson, a notorious criminal and cult leader, orchestrated a series of brutal murders that shocked the world and left an enduring legacy as one of history’s most infamous figures.
As an adult, Manson was usually unemployed and only partlyliterate 有读写能力的. In the mid-1960s he became the leader of a small cult known as the Manson Family, whom he led to commit the murders of August 1969....
Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders: With Sara Sidner, Alisa Statman, Mary Neiswender, Jeff Guinn. CNN revisits the vicious, horrific killings by Charles Manson's followers, 45 years later.
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The 12-part investigation goes deep into Manson, his family and his famous friends. It also dedicates episodes to Tate, her rising acting career and her relationship with director Roman Polanski, to whom she was married at the time of her murder and who was the father of her unborn child...
Manson’s explanation for the murders was simple—and bizarre. “It’s the Beatles, the music they’re putting out,” Manson, who, sentenced to death row, died at age 83 in 2017, said at trial. “These kids listen to this music and pick up the message. It’s subliminal … It is ...
People my age (mid-40s) and younger grew up aware of Charles Manson, but were born after the Tate/La Bianca murders took place in 1969. Maybe that’s why Charles Manson and his followers seemed almost like characters to me. My knowledge of Manson and his Family came from books and docu...
he has with several would-be parolees from the Manson “family,” Brown said Van Houten had failed to adequately explain to the panel how a model teenager from a privileged Southern California family who had once been a homecoming princess could have turned into a ruthless killer by age 19....
down), Manson was a frustrated musician, one who'd socialized with important people in the business, such asDennis Wilsonof theBeach BoysandNeil Young—who, in fact, liked Manson's music and told a record exec he knew about the aspiring singer-songwriter not too long before the murder...
sets out to further deconstruct the Manson story, digging into the reality of the diminutive conman who was in and out of reform school and then jail at an early age—a guy who, considering his background, "was doomed," as a former neighbor of his family in McMechen, W.Va...