Charles Manson Dead at 83
Charles Manson died Sunday in a California hospital, he was 83 years old. Charles Manson was a cult leader who’s followers murdered multiple people committed numerous other crimes of various degrees.
Manson was convicted of Murder and sentenced to death (reduced to life in prison) in 1970 and remained in prison until he died Sunday. Many publications will write stories today on the charisma of Manson, his IQ, and how complex he was. Many publications will point out the number of books and movies written about him and the fan fare that followed him. I’m here to remind everyone that Charles Manson was a sociopathic murderer.
Manson and his followers were responsible for the murders of 9 people. Manson wanted to provoke a race war that ended with him leading a revolt against black people that were going to rise up to fight white people in America. Manson’s followers murdered Sharon Tate who was the wife of Roman Polanski and was also 8 months pregnant.
Charles Manson was a coward and manipulated people to awful things. He offered nothing positive to society and constantly sought the spot light for doing absolutely nothing other than spreading evil and hate. He used fear, racism, antisemitism, and sexism to work up his followers into a murderous frenzy. The media gave him an avenue to lay foundations of evil that sought to recruit the weakest and most vulnerable.
Manson lived a majority of his adult life in prison, in and out of solitary confinement and with his passing on Sunday, he still has hell to look forward to.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after masterminding the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday night after nearly a half-century in prison. He was 83.
Manson died of natural causes at a California hospital while serving a life sentence, his name synonymous to this day with unspeakable violence and depravity.
“Today, Manson’s victims are the ones who should be remembered and mourned on the occasion of his death,” Hanisee said.
A petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood, the charismatic, guru-like Manson surrounded himself in the 1960s with runaways and other lost souls and then sent his disciples to butcher some of L.A.’s rich and famous in what prosecutors said was a bid to trigger a race war — an idea he got from a twisted reading of the Beatles song “Helter Skelter.”
The slayings horrified the world and, together with the deadly violence that erupted later in 1969 during a Rolling Stones concert at California’s Altamont Speedway, exposed the dangerous, drugged-out underside of the counterculture movement and seemed to mark the death of the era of peace and love.
Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Manson maintained during his tumultuous trial in 1970 that he was innocent and that society itself was guilty.
The Manson Family, as his followers were called, slaughtered five of its victims on Aug. 9, 1969, at Tate’s home: the actress, who was 8½ months pregnant, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish movie director Voityck Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of the estate’s caretaker. Tate’s husband, “Rosemary’s Baby” director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time.
The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town.
The killers scrawled such phrases as “Pigs” and a misspelled “Healter Skelter” in blood at the crime scenes.
Manson was arrested three months later. In the annals of American crime, he became the personification of evil, a short, shaggy-haired, bearded figure with a demonic stare and an “X” — later turned into a swastika — carved into his forehead.
After a trial that lasted nearly a year, Manson and three followers — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten — were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Another defendant, Charles “Tex” Watson, was convicted later. All were spared execution and given life sentences after the California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972.
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