On November 21st, 1934, Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother, Kathleen Manson - Bower- Cavender nee Maddox, was only sixteen at the time and was unmarried. Kathleen was soon sent to prison for five years when she committed armed robbery. Since then, Manson's life started to go haywire. When his uncle told him not to go to school, he set it on fire. He was sent to a reformatory school. He spent time with his mother and all of her assorted lovers. But when she couldn’t place Manson in foster care, she let the court put him in the Gevolt school for boys. After 10 months in the school, he ran away. He sought out his mother and when he found her, she wouldn’t take him take. This was a turning point for Manson.
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of petty crimes and ended up in a juvenile detention centre. After he spent his time in the detention centre, he was put into another school called Father Flanagan's Famous Boys Town. He ran away four days later. He continued his life of crime by stealing cars, broke into shops and committed armed robbery. Only thirteen at the time, he was placed in another school where he claims he was repeatedly raped and abused. He ran away eighteen times. His life of crime was back up where he held up gas stations, committed more armed robbery and stole cars. But the consequences were growing. He was sent to multiple different jails and he claims that prison was his real home. He eventually ended up in LA county jail after he burglarized a shop and crossed multiple borders. It was in jail, he developed his love for music and learned to play the guitar.
Most importantly, that's where Manson got his view on the world. Manson stated in a documentary called Charles Manson that “If you lie, you get punched… You don’t lie to the lieutenant, lieutenant don’t lie to you. There's a certain amount of truth in prison, and being raised in prison I was raised pretty much in the light of that truth.” In fact, when he was released it is to be said that he asked to stay in prison, as prison was the only home that he’d ever …show more content…
known. But whilst Manson was in prison, things on the outside were changing rapidly. It was the hippie era. People were flocking over to San Francisco to get a taste of the hippie mindset. As like-minded people were travelling there, so where darker, sicker, and more drug-involved people. Older drugs, such as LSD, were being replaced by drugs like speed which leads to compulsion and paranoia. Soon enough, violence was replacing the innocence that once bloomed. This was the scene that Charles Manson was introduced to when he was released in 1967. Lynette Fromme was one of the first girls to join the Manson family. She stated that “It was easy to talk to him, and we talked on a number of levels, his mind intrigued me.” Pat Krenwinkel was another early member of Charles’s growing family. She met Manson at a nearby house where he was visiting along with Mary Brunner and Lynette Fromme. Krenwinkel said she was captivated by his guitar. Krenwinkel stated that “ I felt really loved by him. Almost immediately. Mostly because at that point I was really desperate for someone to care.” The family didn’t only include women, it steadily grew to include men. One of them was the young Charles Tex Watson. Tex would soon become a critical part of the Manson murders. When Manson felt he gained more trust, he started being more and more controlling. And people on the outside were beginning to notice. Krenwinkel said, “Whatever he would believe, I would believe and I would say and I would spout off.” Soon, Manson decided to leave California and made his family pack up where they would spend time in a trailer going up and down the California coast. It was a tactic that he used to keep his followers entertained. For a little while, the Manson family stayed in LA where he hoped to become a rock and roll star. They stayed with the beach boys until they got kicked out. Family member Susan Atkins found the family a new home. The home was one that used to be an old movie set that had long been abandoned from making movies. They bought the place off of the 81-year-old half blind man that owned the place. Leslie Van Houten then joined the family in the summer and moved in with them at the ex-movie set. She stated, “ It was all very fun in the beginning, innocent.” The family thrived in the area where they could be whoever they wanted to be. They play-acted roles and it was said to be almost like a summer camp. The play-acting was a tactic used by Manson to try and get them farther away from who they used to be. Leslie also said “... Every day it was to wear a different role so that we would get, um, more out of ourselves…” Though they couldn’t see it at the time, the pay acting was being used for a more sinister reason. It was killing old egos and replacing them with new ones that were shaped to Manson's view on the world. Slowly, the family started to become one with Manson following and agreeing to everything he said. Sometimes, Manson would put his hands up and a member of the family would put their hands up and he would move his hands in any direction that he could. Occasionally, he would make faces and the other person would have to try and keep up with the hand movements and/ or the faces. This exercise was geared to complete mirroring of Manson. One of the largest ways he kept control of the family was through drugs, mostly LSD. According to Kenwrinkle that she would often feel completely out of control of herself and she would look to Manson only to see that he was completely in control. She also notes that she often didn’t see Manson take the drugs and she doesn’t believe that he did. The idea of all of this was to kill your old self. Krenwinkel states that he would say “I can see your mother on you, the conditioning. You haven’t gotten rid of it. You’re not dead yet.” The family that once started with the notion of oneness and peace, was steadily getting darker and slowly more paranoid. According to Manson, there was no right and wrong and in the family, life and death were really the same thing. The family moved to a remote outpost in death valley that only increased their sense of isolation. They were allowed to listen to the Beatles, The Moody Blues and Manson's original music. On the other hand, Manson knew everything going on in the outside world. The cry for black power was being projected and many riots broke out across many black neighbourhoods. In 1969, the family moved back to LA. But more paranoia arose in the family when Manson thought he killed a Black Panther which he also thought was a drug dealer. Now certain that the wrath of the Black Panthers was going to descend on the family, he spent July and August angry and paranoid. On August 9th, 1969, Manson ordered Tex to go to a house and murder everyone in it.
With Tex were Susan Atkins, Pat KRenwinkel and Linda Kasabian. That fateful night five people were murdered. The next night, tragedy struck again. This time, it was grocery shop owners Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. For this murder, Leslie Van Houten came along who was anxious to prove her loyalty to the family. Leslie states “I knew that people would die. I knew that there would be killing.”Along with her came Krenwinkel, Tex, Atkins, Kasabian and Manson himself. After the murders, the family got arrested on unrelated charges and moved back out to Death Valley. The family was arrested again for arson and auto theft but the police soon realised the dismal
truth. Manson was a genius in sizing people up and knowing what to say and when. This played in his favour when making his family. He promised them a life of love and oneness but all they got death and for some, life sentences. First, Manson got them hooked by showering them with love and pretty words. He let them fully trust him before moving out and completely isolating them from the outside world. Although the rest of the family was isolated Manson knew exactly what was happening in the outside world. He played games with the family that was innocent on the outside but had sinister intentions of killing past selves. But most importantly, Manson utilised drugs. It let him look completely in control and made him look more god-like. These were the tactics used by the well-renowned killer Charles Manson. violence was replacing the innocence that once bloomed.
Growing up in a small town you would never expect for a family to get murdered. Many people have the perception that in a small-town things, never happen. Well I’m sure that’s what Herbert and Bonnie Clutter thought to until the night of their death. Herbert and Bonnie Clutter lived in Holcomb, Kansas with their two kids Nancy and Kenyon on their family farm. The Clutter family was very respected within the community and in Garden City. Herbert was also a very respected employer. The Clutter family lived a very disciplined but still enjoyable and well provided for.
Infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy, born into an abusive environment, was assaulted physically along with his siblings, with a razor strap if they were perceived to have misbehaved by their alcoholic father. In addition, Gacy’s mother was physically abused as well throughout her marriage and during the children’s upbringing. During John Wayne Gacy’s childhood education, he suffered further alienation due to a congenital heart condition that resulted in further feelings of contempt from his father. Furthermore, Gacy eventually came to the realization that he was attracted to men, which caused a great amount of mental turmoil over his sexuality.
In this very short time he killed 7 to 9 people. ¨When he was caught Manson's pathological ego, insanity and belief in Armageddon were influences that led him to leave behind a trail of destruction showed more. Manson believed that he was the new Messiah and that after a "nuclear attack" he and his followers would be saved by hiding in a secret world under the desert.¨ They decided that Manson was able to attend the court hearings and able to withstand
As a child he was sent to many reform schools. He has spent the last four decades behind bars. He will never get out prison. He will eventually die in prison. This is the life of Charles Manson. Charles Manson is a sick and cruel criminal.
Charles Manson and the Manson family committed gruesome crimes that shocked Los Angeles in 1969. The actress Sharon Tate and four others were ritualistically slaughtered in her Hollywoods Hills home. The murderers had left cryptic messages on the walls in the victims blood, and law enforcement were stumped by the multiple stab wounds found on the victims. The next day a married couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, who were successful shop owners, were found in their Las Feliz home murdered in the same way as Sharon Tate and her friends.
As typical human beings we all want to know why someone could randomly take the lives of several innocent people all at one time. It is frightening and scientists figure if they can figure out why, then it can be prevented in the future. The documentary, Mind of a Rampage Killer, tries to solve the mystery and really dive deep into the minds of people who could potentially create such a horrifying situation. Through the use of ethos, logos, and pathos, this documentary concludes that every killer had something in common; they all struggled with mental disorders, depression, or outbursts of violence, all stemming from early childhood or an internal battle throughout growing up, some could have even just been born with a violent rage.
He “wanted to be sure to simulate a real prison experiment.” (Zimbardo, 5th paragraph) This reveals that within the fake prison environment, it created a deindividuation adjacent to the loss of self-awareness of one's self and self-restraint in a definite group, for the guards.
Social deviancy is the violation of social norms. A deviant is someone who rejects folkways and mores. Any action that violates the values or rules of a social group is deviant behavior. In order to actually be characterized as a deviant, the individual must be detected committing a deviant act and be stigmatized by society. A stigma is a mark of social disgrace, setting the deviant apart from the group. Criminality is healthy for society. Deviance affirms our cultural values and norms. Responding to deviance clarifies moral boundaries and brings people together. There will always be people who break society’s rules and that’s important.
Manipulation the art of control,the art to be destructive and play as a villainous character and people obtain this power in many ways.Whether it be from hierarchical power which derives from someone like a Kim Jong UN who enslaves his people from wisdom of the outer world to make himself a God.It can also come from being incredibly deceivable for example from intelligence like Iago from Othello who made Othello kill his wife and himself just by abusing his trait of jealousy.These two seemingly is not the case for Charles manson the architect behind the tate and labianca murders of 10050 cielo drive and 3301 waverly place that got his family to do it.Manson who had an average iq and spent half of his life in jail it's strange people even listened to him, but he had the cult of personality and made his family believe in him.The way he went from a random jail rat to one of the most notorious killers and cult leaders is truly interesting.
Those are the words of a convicted serial killer who never actually murdered a single person in his life, Charles Manson. Conversely he orchestrated members of the group that became known as the Manson Family to carry the murders out. Manson was born “no name Maddox” on November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born to Kathleen Maddox, an unmarried 16-year-old prostitute who frequently drank. His mother married a laborer named William Manson weeks after his birth and was given the name Charles Milles Manson, taking his stepfathers last name.
The Manson Family, including Charles Manson, is thought to have carried out some 35 killings. Most of their cases were never tried though, either for lack of evidence or because they were already sentenced to life for the Tate and LaBianca killings. In 1969, the County Sheriff had taken them into custody, not realizing that they were involved in the brutal murders. But the confession of one member involved in the Tate and LaBianca murders, while in detention on suspicion of murdering Gary Hinman, an unrelated incident, had shown detectives that Manson and his followers were involved in the killings.
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.
In the media, prisons have always been depicted as a horrible place. The film, The Shawshank Redemption, is a prime example that supports the media 's suggestions about prison life. In the film we are familiarized with Andy Dufresne, who is a banker that is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. While trying to both remain discreet and find his prison identity, he assists Ellis Boyd 'Red ' Redding, a peddler, and Brooks Hatlen. In his attempt to fit into the rough prison subculture, Andy strategically starts a business relationship with the captain Captain Bryon Hadley and Samuel Norton. The film gives an insider 's look at various aspects of prison life. These aspects include prison culture; explicitly, guard subculture and inmate subculture.
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.
...ly makes for fresh conversation among inmates, at the same time truly violent acts remind the prisoners of the harsh realities of prison life.