[fyrffytr1]

Dead. Should have happened about 45 years ago.

[BOB VIDAN]

Or more. A monster.

[salem1912]

Out lived Sharon Tate by 57 years.

[BOB VIDAN]

There's a really interesting interview on a local TV station with a woman, who as a teen in 1968 was camping with her family somewhere in Northern Cali and the Manson bus showed up. She tells how scary it was and her father confronted Manson. They snuck out in the middle of the night to be safe. Don't have the link.

[U47]

Originally Posted by fyrffytr1

Dead. Should have happened about 45 years ago.

Yeah, a waste of money keeping him alive.

[shawn e.]

I can't believe all the attention he was given. What a peace of ****.

[NeighborsComplaint]

They will have to put a Port'o'john near his grave site to keep people from pissing on his grave.

[4zpeed]

Originally Posted by NeighborsComplaint

They will have to put a Port'o'john near his grave site to keep people from pissing on his grave.

Wouldn't stop me...


Frank

[fyrffytr1]

Originally Posted by NeighborsComplaint

They will have to put a Port'o'john near his grave site to keep people from pissing on his grave.

You won't see me there. I said when I got out of the Navy that I would never stand in line again!

[Bill Boyle]

Typically the news brings us something scandalous or bad in some way. For a change, learning of Manson's untimely death was great news. However, his "untimely death" is a play on words...because the SOB should have met his maker within months of his conviction.

[cuz68]

Sorry Who was it that he killed?

[U47]

Originally Posted by cuz68

Sorry Who was it that he killed?

Don't know why you can't use your fingers and search but here you go;


First imprisonment
On a psychiatrist's recommendation, Manson was transferred in October 1951 to Natural Bridge Honor Camp, a minimum security institution.[3]:137–146 His aunt visited him and told administrators she would let him stay at her house and would help him find work. He had a parole hearing scheduled for February 1952. However, in January, he was caught raping a student at knifepoint. He was transferred to the Federal Reformatory in Petersburg, Virginia, where he committed a further "eight serious disciplinary offenses, three involving homosexual acts", and then to a maximum security reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was expected to stay until his release on his 21st birthday in November 1955. Good behavior led to an early release in May 1954, to live with his aunt and uncle in Mcmehen.[21]


Booking photo, FCI Terminal Island, May 2, 1956
In January 1955, he married a hospital waitress named Rosalie Jean Willis.[22] Around October, about three months after he and his pregnant wife arrived in Los Angeles in a car he had stolen in Ohio, Manson was again charged with a federal crime, for taking the vehicle across state lines. After a psychiatric evaluation, he was given five years' probation. His subsequent failure to appear at a Los Angeles hearing on an identical charge filed in Florida resulted in his March 1956 arrest in Indianapolis. His probation was revoked; he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.[3]:137–146
While Manson was in prison, Rosalie gave birth to their son Charles Manson Jr. During his first year at Terminal Island, Manson received visits from Rosalie and his mother, who were now living together in Los Angeles. In March 1957, when the visits from his wife ceased, his mother informed him Rosalie was living with another man. Less than two weeks before a scheduled parole hearing, Manson tried to escape by stealing a car. He was subsequently given five years probation, and his parole was denied.[3]:137–146
Second imprisonment
Manson received five years' parole in September 1958, the same year in which Rosalie received a decree of divorce. By November, he was pimping a 16-year-old girl and was receiving additional support from a girl with wealthy parents. In September 1959, he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to cash a forged U.S. Treasury check, which he claimed to have stolen from a mailbox; the latter charge was later dropped. He received a 10-year suspended sentence and probation after a young woman with an arrest record for prostitution made a "tearful plea" before the court that she and Manson were "deeply in love*... and would marry if Charlie were freed".[3]:137–146 Before the year's end, the woman did marry Manson, possibly so testimony against him would not be required of her.[3]:137–146
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 purposes of prostitution, he was held and questioned for violation of the Mann Act. Though he was released, he correctly suspected that the investigation had not ended. When he disappeared in violation of his probation, a bench warrant was issued. An indictment for violation of the Mann Act followed in April 1960.[3]:137–146 When one of the women was arrested for prostitution, Manson was arrested in June in Laredo, Texas 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.[3]:137–146
Manson spent a year unsuccessfully trying to appeal the revocation of his probation. In July 1961, he was transferred from the Los Angeles County Jail to the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island. There, he took guitar lessons from Barker–Karpis gang leader Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, and obtained a contact name of someone at Universal Studios in Hollywood from another inmate, Phil Kaufman.[23] According to Jeff Guinn's 2013 biography of Manson, Charles' mother Kathleen moved from California to Washington State to be closer to him during his McNeil Island incarceration, working nearby as a waitress.[24]
Although the Mann Act charge had been dropped, the attempt to cash the Treasury check was still a federal offense. His September 1961 annual review noted he had a "tremendous drive to call attention to himself", an observation echoed in September 1964.[3]:137–146 In 1963, Leona was granted a divorce, in the pursuit of which she alleged that she and Manson had a son, Charles Luther.[3]:137–146
In June 1966, Manson was sent for the second time to Terminal Island in preparation for early release. By the time of his release day on March 21, 1967, he had spent more than half of his 32 years in prisons and other institutions. This was mainly because he had broken federal laws. Federal sentences were, and remain, much more severe than state sentences for many of the same offenses.[3]:137–146 Telling the authorities that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay,[3]:137–146 a fact mentioned in a 1981 television interview with Tom Snyder.[25]
1968–1969: Manson Family crimes
Main article: Manson Family
In the late 1960s, Manson attracted a quasi-communal cult based in California that was later dubbed the "Manson Family". The group was involved in the murder of Gary Hinman in July 1969, then gained national notoriety after the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others in her home on August 9, 1969,[26] and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the next day. The Tate–LaBianca Murders were executed by Tex Watson and three other members of the Family, acting under the specific instructions of Manson.[27][28] Family members were also responsible for other assaults, thefts, crimes, and the attempted assassination of United States President Gerald Ford in Sacramento

[GT182]

Originally Posted by NeighborsComplaint

They will have to put a Port'o'john near his grave site to keep people from pissing on his grave.

Wouldn't stop me either. I'd leave a pile of dog sh!t too.

They'll probably put him in an unmarked hole at the prison... hopefully. I'm sure his family doesn't want him or anything to do with him.........
if he has any that would admit to being family.

[Lightfoot]

Just heard on the news (radio) that some oddball is claiming to be the sole inheritor of Manson's 'estate'. Wants to claim his remains too. It takes all types.

Someone else set up a GoFundMe account to pay for his funeral, which the company shut down.

[77 TRASHCAN]

Man, I wonder if Manson Jr. Is alive? If so, I hope he changed his name....

[bird72]

The part I have found interesting is the cult aspect, people psyche manipulation, and delusional realities. Common thread in cult leaders is charisma, like it or not. It is a scary trait when the charismatic one is deranged. Very glad Manson is dead. He got fan mail and he sold his autographs.