By: Catalina Perez
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He was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, November 12, 1934 to
Kathleen Maddox
He was an illegitimate and
unplanned child
Mother was a promiscuous 16year-old who drank a lot and
never received child support
Never knew his father
He kept to himself and began
to steal
When he was 9 he was caught
stealing and was sent to
reform school
Was illiterate
By the age of 32 had already
spent more than half of his life
in prison
Many psychologists said that
he was lonely, isolated and
didn’t know how to socially
interact
He was in trouble with the law
all his life
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Starting from when he was 9, he
was caught stealing
At the age of 12 lived off burglary
Committed two armed robberies at
the age of 13
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Robbed several grocery stores (escaped a
day later)
4 days later escaped again and
committed two armed robberies with
another boy
Was caught driving to Califronia in a car
he had stolen
Less than a month before his parole
hearing he held a razor to another boy’s
throat
He and his pregnant wife arrived in L.A.
in a stolen car form Ohio
Charged of attempting to cash a forged
U.S. Treasury Check (violated his
probation)
Violated the Mann Act
Stabbed and shot a total of 5 victims at
Sharon Tate’s house. (He was not there
during the killing, but he was the one
who had told the Family to commit the
murders)
The next night stabbed and murdered
Leno and Rosemary LaBianca
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Sent to Indianapolis Juvenile Center
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Caught again, sent to Indiana Boys School
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Sent to Washington D.C.’s National
Training School for Boys
Was transferred to Federal Reformatory in
Petersburg, Virginia
Charged with federal crime for taking
vehicle across state lines
10 year suspended sentence and probation
Was arrested in Lared, TX
24 members of the Manson Family were
arrested, Charles Manson included, also
charged with conspiracy to commit
murder
Manson and the Family were sentenced to
death but it was never imposed because of
the California Supreme Court ruling that
the death penalty was unconstitutional
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Probation- a trial period during which an
offender has time to redeem himself or herself
Parole hearing- early supervised release of a
prison inmate
Mann Act- an act of the U.S. Congress (1910)
making it a federal offense to aid or participate
in the interstate transportation of a woman for
immoral purposes
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Al Springer and Danny DeCarlo were some of the people that
Manson had tried to recruit into the Family and they told the
police that Manson had told them something about pigs, and
writing something in blood
Sarah Atkins, one of the Manson sisters, had told an inmate
about the murders, the story soon reached the LAPD
The police also found .22 caliber bullets and shell casings at
the Spahn Ranch, which matched the revolver found in
Sherman Oaks
Sentence:
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Life in prision
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“I am the devil, and the devil always has a bald
head.”
“You people have no authority over me.”
“I have killed no one and I have ordered no
one to be killed.”
The labeling theory is the interaction between
members in society and deviants. Primary deviance is
when an individual violates a social rule but is not
labeled. Charles Manson violated a lot of social rules
while living in the Spahn Ranch along with the rest of
the Manson family. However, none of these acts of
deviance were known to the public, therefore there was
no label. Secondary deviance is the violation of social
norms in which authorities label the individuals
deviant crimes and they accept the label. When Charles
Manson was 32 and was able to leave prison, he had
asked if he could just stay there because he considered
it his home, since he had spent more than half of his
life in prison.
A lot of criminals cannot accept the labels
that are placed upon them. They deny the
responsibility of committing the crime and
injuring anyone. Charles Manson killed a lot of
people. Especially in the Tate-LaBianca case.
He denied ever killing anyone, he also denied
ordering anyone to be killed. He actually stated
“I have killed no one and I have ordered no
one to be killed.”
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Books-
The Manson File: The
Myth and Reality of An
Outlaw by Nikolas
Schreak
o Helter Skelter: The True
Story of the Manson
Murders by Vincent
Bugliosi
o The Family by Ed
Sanders
o Manson In His Own
Words by Charles
Manson
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Documentaries:
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Manson (1973)
Charles Manson
Superstar (1989)
TV Movies:
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Helter Skleter (2004)
The Manson Family
(2003)
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Songs:
•Bloodbath
in
Paradise by Ozzy
Osbourne
•A Murmer in
Decrepit Wits by
Aborted
•Death Valley 69
by Sonic Youth
Lyrics from
Bloodbath in
Paradise:
You’re comin’ home
There’s blood on the
walls
When Charlie and
the Family made
house calls
If you’re alone
Then watch what
you do
‘cos Charlie and the
Family might get
you