Cult leader Charles Manson dies
CharlesManson,the murderer and cult leader, has diedinahospitalinCalifornia.He was 83.
Manson was convicted, along with four of his followers, of orchestratingthemurdersin1969 ofthepregnantactorSharonTate and six others in two attacks. He was the leader of a cult known as the Manson Family, made up mostly of disaffected young women, some of whom became killers under his tutelage.
The five received the death penalty but were spared when capitalpunishmentwastemporarily abolished following a ruling by the supreme court in 1972.
Manson and his cult became notorious due to the brutality of the murder of Tate and the six other victims.
Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski, who was out of thecountrythenightofhermurder, was eight months pregnant when Manson’s followers broke intoherhomeinLosAngelesand stabbedandshotherandhervisitors, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski, Abigail Folger and Steven Parent. The word “Pig” was written in blood on the front door. The next night, a group of followersmurderedcoupleLeno and Rosemary LaBianca.
Mansonandfemalefollowers, SusanAtkins,PatriciaKrenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, were convictedofmurderandconspiracy to murder and sentenced to deathforkillings at the twogruesome scenes in the summer of 1969.Anotherdefendant,Charles “Tex” Watson, was convicted later. Although the followers committedthemurders,Manson had ordered them, and, at the LaBianca home, tied up the couplebeforeleavinghisfollowersto carry out the killings. GNS
LOSANGELES:
He was convicted for the brutal murders of nine people in 1969, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate who was stabbed 16 times, even though he didn’t kill them himself.
Tate’s husband, director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time
Born in Cincinnati on November 12, 1934, to a teenager, possibly a prostitute
In reform school by the time he was eight.
Served a 10-year sentence for check forgery in the 1960s.
Manson was denied parole many times as he was not model prisoner
Was involved in frequent fights, set his mattress on fire
Was disciplined for possessing weapons and selling drugs to inmates Manson was obsessed with Beatles music, particularly Piggies and Helter Skelter, a song he said had forecast the end of the world Manson became friends with Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and producer Terry Melcher. He later became upset with Melcher, who was the son of actress Doris Day, because he did not make a record with him. The first round of murders by Manson’s followers occurred in the house where Melcher had previously lived. Before the killings, the Beach Boys recorded a song Manson wrote, titled Never Learn Not to Love.
Guns N’ Roses recorded his Look at Your Game Girl
Marilyn Manson, whose stage name was partly inspired by the killer, used lyrics from Manson’s Mechanical Man in his song My Monkey
Trent Reznor, front man for Nine Inch Nails, lived in the house where the Tate murders occurred —Charles Manson