Charles Manson Charles Manson was a criminal and major cult leader. In the late 1960’s, he formed the cult which he later named The Manson Family. Manson's “family” committed nine murders at four different locations. In 1971, Manson was convicted of first degree murder for the deaths of seven of the nine murders, two years before conviction. Manson was later convicted of first degree murder of the concluding two deaths later that year. Before the cult and the murders, Manson was a singer-songwriter associated with the Los Angeles Music Industry and Dennis Wilson, who was the drummer of the Beach Boys. In the beginning of becoming notorious, he became the face of insanity and violence. Manson was born named No-Name Maddox, to sixteen year …show more content…
During his first year at Terminal Island, Manson received visits from her and his mother. In March 1957, when the visits from his wife stopped, his mother told him Rosalie was living with another man. Less than two weeks before a parole hearing, Manson tried to escape by stealing a car.
In September 1959, Manson pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to cash a forged treasury check, which he claimed to have stolen from a mailbox in town. He received a 10 year sentence and probation after a young woman with an arrest record for prostitution made a plea for the court which she stated that her and Manson were deeply in love .Before the year ended, the prostitute did marry Manson.
The woman's name was Leona. As a prostitute, she had used the name Candy Stevens. After Manson took her and another woman from California to New Mexico for the intention of prostitution, he was held and questioned for violation of the White-Slave Traffic Act. Though he was released, he suspected that the investigation had not been closed. When he disappeared because of his probation, a bench warrant was issued. An accusation for the violation of the Mann Act was issued in April 1960. When one of the women was arrested for prostitution, Manson was arrested in June and was returned to Los Angeles. For violation of his probation on the check-cashing charge, he was ordered to serve his 10-year sentence in
In 1952, the family moved to East New York; John attended P.S. 178. While he was in school Gotti had his first brush with the law when he was caught with friends stealing and vandalizing with portable cement mixer that tipped over and crushed the toes of his feet. He had to be hospitalized for awhile as a result, and is reportedly missing a toe or two. > From then on John Gotti joined a youth gang called FULTON-ROCKAWAY BOYS.
Bulger spent his first serious time in prison when he had to spend time in Atlanta Penitentiary. He was sentenced for armed robbery and hijacking. Kevin Weeks, a mobster who was associated with Bulger said that Whitey was involved with Sidney Gottlieb and Project MK-ULTRA. Project MK-ULTRA was a government research experiment that researched the “behavioral engineering of humans.” Bulger and eighteen others had volunteered in order to get shorter sentences. The volunteer work they were doing was taking LSD and other drugs to help find a cure for schizophrenia for eighteen months. After that, in 1959, Bulger was sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. It was at Alcatraz where he became good friends with Clarence Carnes. He was sent to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary three years later and the next year he was sent to Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. He was finally released in 1965 after being in prison for a total of nine years.
John O'Rourke, inmate number four was sentenced to five years for grand larceny. He received his first rawhide beating two short weeks after his arrival.
because he gave him money for the movies and took him on frequent fishing trips.
Neglect during his childhood, most certainly affected Charles Manson and contributed to the monster he became. A biography of Charles states that his mother didn’t want anything to do with him so he lived on the streets committing minor crimes (“Charles Manson Biography”). Charles’s mother robbed him of a normal childhood with a loving family. Reports on Manson stated that he was “suffering from a ‘marked degree of rejection, instability, and psychic trauma’” (“Charles Manson Biography”). Charles later married a 17 year old woman who left him for another man due to his return to prison (“Charles Manson Biography”). Once again, Charles was abandoned by someone he loved. After his time in jail, Manson obsessed over cult-quasi-religious groups and he took on the role of a cult leader because he believed the world to be “doomed” (“Charles Manson Biography”). Charles then formed his cult from a group of unstable people. He persuaded his group to believe that he was of a higher power; therefore, they followed him like a god. The biography of Manson states that, “Manson himself took no part in the actual killings, but directed his murderous disciples to the address and instructed them to kill everyone (“Charles Manson Biography”). Charles’s background and past trauma led him to commit horrid acts. Like Charles, John Wayne Gacy also lived with an alcoholic parent. Gacy’...
Manson had a rocky childhood and family life. Some experts say that he was a bad seed because of the fact that he did not know his father (Bugliosi 28). Kathleen Maddox was considered by some to be a teenage whore. About his mother, Manson says, "For Mom, life was filled with a never-ending list of denials…In her search for acceptance she may have fallen in love too easily and too often, but a whore at that time? No!…In later years, because of some hard knocks and tough times, she may have sold her body some…" Charlie lived with his mother until the age of 5, when she was arrested for armed robbery (FAQ's 1). She was released from prison in 1942. Manson, after living with various relatives, such as a religious aunt and a sadistic uncle who called him a sissy and made him wear girl's clothes on the first day of school ("Charles"), moved back in with his mother for five more years. At that time, she placed him at the Gibault School for Boys in Indiana. After escaping from the School, he committed several burglaries and was placed into the famous Boys Town in Nebraska (FAQ's 1). After being arrested several more times, one of which he was caught in a stolen car at a roadblock (Fillmer 2), he was married to Rosalie Willis in 1955.
On 1 May, at 9.30 in the evening, Hamburg radio warned the German people that "a grave and important announcement" was about to be made. This was immediately followed by several excerpts from a number of Wagner's operas and the slow movement of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. Then at 10.20 pm, came the voice of Grand-Admiral Karl Donitz, Commander-in-chief for the north of Germany. In sombre tones, he announced the death of Hitler and his own succession as Fuhrer of the Reich. Hitler had fallen "this afternoon," he said, fighting "at the head of his troops".
“‘My mom flung open the shower door, ‘Sharon’s dead’ She was crying and wailing and shaking and her knees buckled’” reflected Debra Tate (Aradillas 1). But, the Tate family’s horror and shock had just begun. Debra Tate, later, learned her sister was savagely murdered, under the orders of Charles Manson. These murders were done by Manson’s followers, known as the Family. Led by Charles Manson, the Manson Family executed brutal, unforgettable murders with terrifying devotion.
On January 11th 1982, Clifford Olson pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murder. For this he was sentenced to 11 concurrent life terms in prison.
When it come to this trial I thank that justice was served In October, Inyo County officers raided Barker Ranch, in a remote area south of Death Valley National Monument. Twenty-four members of the Manson Family were arrested, on charges of arson and grand theft. Cult leader Charles Manson and Susan Atkins were among those arrested.
Charles Manson will forever go down in infamy. For those who know who Charles Manson is, know the story and legacy behind him. In the 1960’s Manson began a cult of sorts, calling it “The Family”, taking in young,weak-minded, and impressionable people and brainwashing them to see him almost as a god. His followers took anything he said as whole truth and did whatever he asked them to do. Unfortunately in 1969, his “Family” carried out his orders for the murder of seven people; one being eight month pregnant actress Sharon Tate. This made the already heinous crime even more horrendous, not only did the murder make headlines for its shocking nature but also for the level of brutality that Manson’s followers used in the crime; Tate alone being
I believe that a cult is considered a smaller scale social group that shares it religious believes or philosophical beliefs. In other words is a very unorthodox social group. One of the first cults to come to mind when I think of the word is the Charles Manson cult from the 1960s. Usually, when you think of cults the first thing that comes to mind is some form of inherently bad or evil cult. I believe this is mostly due to the way that the media has talked about cults in the past. Examples being the Manson Family or the Heaven's Gate group that was all over the news in 1997. The word cult seems to only focus on the bad or the absolute oddest groups of people. What about groups like Mormonism and Jehovah's Witnesses or even Scientology? These
Stated by John Ramsey, “As I was walking through the basement, I opened the door to a room, and knew immediately that I’d found her because there was a white blanket- her eyes were closed, I feared the worse but yet- I’d found her” (Bardesley, and Bellamy). On December 26, 1996, one of the most famous, unsolved murders took place in Boulder, Colorado (Christopher). The murder caused many events including accusations, interrogations, false claims, and examining of evidence. The case also caused the Ramsey family to go through a hard time. The murder of JonBenet Ramsey was very shocking and caused a huge investigation that is yet unsolved.
Chuckie was Jimmy Hoffa’s foster son…he and I were going to be part of the bait to lure Jimmy into a car with Sally Bugs…. Jimmy was supposed to feel safe with me in Chuckie’s car so he’d go to the “house with the brown shingles” and walk right in the door with me as his back up…. Chuckie was just an innocent bystander…all he knew was that he was taking us to pick up Jimmy... and then driving us all back to an important meeting with important people….(Brandt, 2005, p. 252)
The marriage ended when Gacy was imprisoned for ten years at a correctional institute in Waterloo, Iowa for various sex and violent crimes against young men. In 1971 Gacy was arrested again for trying to rape a teenage boy.