Cult leader Charles Manson was responsible for several notorious murders in the late 1960s. Read about his cult, murders, and children.
Manson, who was sentenced to life in prison, directed his mostly young, female followers - known as the Manson Family - to murder seven people in August 1969 in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war between whites and blacks. In the early hours of 9 August 1969...
Manson's name and image have become synonymous with evil, with many seeing his violent crimes as the death knell for the Swinging Sixties - the era of peace and love. Manson led a cult known as the Manson Family in the late 1960s in which he instructed female followers to kill in a b...
That evening he told three female members of the Family——Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian——to get an additional change of clothes, a knife, and a driver's license20. Manson discussed details of his plan with a fourth Family member, Charles "Tex" Watson before all ...
In the 1960s, Manson, an ex-convict, assembled a group of runaways and outcasts known as the "Manson Family." In the summer of 1969, he directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war. ...
Manson, a small-time career criminal who had reinvented himself as a hippie guru, dispatched a band of disaffected young followers ona deadly weekend rampagethat would terrorize Los Angeles. On that first night, Aug. 8, 1969, Manson sent a handful of his young, mostly female followers to the...
On the afternoon of August 8, 1969, Manson set his plan in motion. Calling together several Family members, Manson announced, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter." That evening he told three female members of the Family——Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian——to get an...