The Horrific Murders In Charles Manson's The Family

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Is it okay to have your own cult perform horrific murders? Is it okay to tell people to do terrible things and they do it? According to Charles Manson this is completely normal in his state of mind. Although Charles Manson and “The Family” were one of the most ruthless cults in America, this man and his followers and still studied by both law enforcement and regular citizens.
An American cult leader, Charles Manson carried out several infamous murders along side his followers in the late 1960’s and inspired the book Helter Skelter.(“Charles Manson”) Manson was born in 1934 in Ohio, and is the man who is connected to the murders of many Hollywood stars such as, Sharon Tate and a number of others. The mother of Charles Milles Maddox, 16-year-old alcoholic prostitute, Kathleen Maddox, gave birth on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati.(“Charles Manson”) Manson took his last name from a man who his mother was momentarily married but, filled with abuse and abandonment, Manson’s childhood was mostly filled with …show more content…

He also instructed his members to perform the murders. He nicknamed the race war “Helter Skelter” after a song by The Beatles.(Schlesinger 1) Manson suspected the song accommodated coded information for him and that after the war he would rule the world. Manson and the Family were to benefit from the race war so he told his followers they had to help start it. According to Van Houten, defense witness and killer, this was the foremost reason why they murdered the LaBiancas.(Schlesinger 1) After a “nuclear attack” he believed that he was the new Messiah, because he and his followers were left unharmed while hiding “under the desert” in a “secret world”. Charles was compulsively deceived into thinking he was the harbinger of doom regarding the future of planet earth, in much the same way that cult and evangelist people today claim predictive knowledge of the end of the

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