CHARLES MANSON
CHARLES MANSON’S PROFILE
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Classification: Murderer
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Characteristics: Cult leader - Prosecutors said that Manson and his followers were trying to start
a race war that he believed was predicted in the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter“
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Number of victims: 10
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Date of murders: July-August 1969
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Date of arrest: October 12, 1969
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Date of birth: November 12, 1934
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Victims profile: Gary Allen Hinman, 34 / Movie actress Sharon Tate, 26 (eight and a half months
pregnant); Jay Sebring, 35; Wojciech Frykowski, 32; Abigail Folger, 25, and Steven Earl Parent,
18 / Leno LaBianca, 44, and his wife, Rosemary, 38 / Donald Jerome "Shorty" Shea
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Method of murder: Stabbing with knife
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Location: Los Angeles County, California, USA
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Status: Sentenced to death on April 19, 1971. Automatically commuted to life imprisonment
when a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's
death penalty
Charles Manson’s Parents
• Charles was given birth by Kathleen Maddox, his 16 year old mother, in the general
hospital, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Manson was first named "no name Maddox". Within
weeks, he was called Charles Milles Maddox. For a period after his birth, his mother
was married to a worker named William Manson whose last name the boy was given.
His biological father appears to have been Colonel Walker Scott. But, Charles
Manson never really knew his biological father.
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Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an
icon of evil. In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie cult
group known as "the Family" whom he manipulated into brutally
killing others on his orders. Kathleen had run away from home at
the age of 15 and spent the next few decades drinking too
much, with periods of time spent in jail.
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Since his mother couldn't take care of him, Charles spent his
youth at the homes of his relatives and often at special reform
schools and boys homes. By age nine, Charles Manson had
already started stealing and soon added burglary and stealing
cars to his lifestyle.
WHO WAS CHARLES MANSON
Manson’s Elder Life
• In 1954, at age nineteen, he was released on parole after a good behavior.
The next year, he married Rosalie Willis, a waitress, and they had a son
together, Charles Manson Jr. Even while married, Manson had continued
making extra money by stealing cars. In April 1956, he was again sent to
prison. After Manson had been in prison for a year, his wife found someone
new and divorced Manson in June 1957.
Charles as a prisoner
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He also married again, to a prostitute named Candy Stevens (real name
Leona), and fathered a second son, Charles Luther Manson. Manson was again
arrested on June 1, 1960 and sent to the McNeil Island Penitentiary off the
coast of Washington. His wife soon divorced him. Manson spent the next six
years in prison. It was during this time that he wasn’t friends anymore with
the infamous Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, former member of Ma Barker's gang. After
Karpis taught Charles Manson to play the steel guitar, Manson became
obsessed with making music. He practiced all the time, wrote dozens of
original songs, and started singing.
Manson’s musical life
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On March 21, 1967, Manson was once again released from prison. This time he
headed to San Francisco where, with a guitar and drugs, he began to get a
following. In 1968, he and several followers drove to Southern California.
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Manson was still hoping for a music career. Through an acquaintance, Manson
met and hung out with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys did
record one of Manson's songs, which appeared as "Never Learn Not to Love" on
the B-side of their 20/20 album.
THE FAMILY
Manson’s Philosophy
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Manson told four of his followers to go to 10050 Cielo Drive in Los
Angeles and kill the people inside. This house once belonged to
Terry Melcher, the man who had not helped Manson with his
music career. However, Melcher no longer lived there; actress
Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, had
rented the house.
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On August 9, 1969, four of Manson's followers brutally murdered
Tate, her unborn baby, and four others who were visiting her
(Polanski was in Europe for work). The following night, Manson's
followers brutally killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their
home.
CHARLES MANSON’S CRIMES
Experts opinion
 Charles Manson is a notorious inmate and an American icon of evil but, according to experts, the
convict is not a serial killer or a mass murderer, as he is described. Scott A. Bonn, a serial killer expert and
assistant professor of sociology at Drew University, said it is time to set the story right.
 "Manson is a fascinating, infamous individual, but he was not a serial killer or a mass murderer," Bonn told
The Huffington Post.
 "The Manson killings would come closest to a killing entertainment," Bonn explained. "They were multiple
killings that happened in a short period of time, so there was no emotional cooling period. They were
cold, calculated and planned murders."
 "In some ways they were mission killers. They had a mission, a purpose, and this purpose led to a killing
entertainment."
 The argument that Manson never killed anyone himself persists, but he was convicted on seven counts of
first-degree murder for his role in the killings.
Charles Manson Identification
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I think that Charles Manson was a crazy and brutal person, because he believed that the
apocalypse was about to happen and he was racist, he believed that black people would rebel
and slaughter or kill all the white people. What he believed in was nonsense and psychopathic.
Killing and slaughtering all those innocent people, there is no excuse about it, or maybe the
reason it’s his early life, that he had no parents to look out for him and guide him.
QUIZ
Sources and Bibliography
 1. http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/manson-charles-v-people.htm
 2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201403/if-notserial-killer-then-what-is-charles-manson
 3. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/p/charlesmanson.htm
 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
 5. http://www.biography.com/people/charles-manson-9397912