Serial Killer Project
Charles Manson

Charles Manson

• A cult leader, his followers carried out murders in late 1960s.
• He inspired the book "Helter Skelter".
• His cult is thought to have carried out some 35 killings.
• married a 26 year old at the age of 80.

Charles Manson when he was taken into custody in the 1960s.

Sentences

• Most members were never tried either for lack of evidence or because the perpetrators were already sentenced for life.
• On January 25, 1971, he was convicted of first degree murder. He was sentenced to death but was commuted to life in prison.

Older Charles Manson, in 2014, still in prison.

past life

• He was born Charles Miles Maddox in Ohio, On November 12, in 1939.
• His 16 year old mother, Kathleen Manson, was an alcoholic and prostitute. After her marriage failed, she left the kids, and Charles was getting through by petty crime.

A new chapter

• in 1955 Charles married a 17 year old girl, and moved to California.
• She became pregnant, and Manson pursued a life of crime again.
• It wasn't long before he was back behind bars, she left him, and he got another woman pregnant later, while out on probation.

Sources:

• muderpedia
• wikipedia
• biography.com