He didn't know who his father was," Bugliosi said. "He has said publicly that he didn't have any parents. Born Charles Milles Maddox, the Manson surname came from his stepfather. 12, 1934, to a 16-year-old mother who would later try to pawn him off on others, rejecting him when he ran away from a boys' school to be with her. Manson Prosecutor: 'Some People are Just Bad Human Beings' "I did not respond, and I turned them over to the Department of Corrections," he said, declining to comment on the letters' contents.Ī photo of Manson released this spring shows that while he's noticeably aged into an elderly man he still sports his beard - albeit gray and shorter - and the infamous swastika he carved into his head during the trial.īut to the California State prison system, Manson is just another inmate - one of 12,237 people incarcerated for first-degree murder. Lists of visitor requests and actual visitors are kept confidential.Įvery once in awhile, she said, Manson will throw out his list of approved visitors and start all over again.īugliosi, who is a married father of two with several best-selling books to his credit, said he received four letters from Manson in the 1970s and 1980s. Thornton said Manson hasn't had any visitors in the past three months, and although people do still make requests, the numbers have dwindled. " interacts with the other inmates in that unit," Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told. Unlike in the general population, for which fellow inmates prepare the meals, all food in the PHU is made by the staff to prevent poisonings. Kennedy assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, serial killer Juan Corona and gang members who have turned state's evidence. His neighbors in the PHU, designed for prisoners whose safety may be in jeopardy in the general population, include Robert F. He has an 8-by-12-foot cell to himself and spends the token monetary gifts he receives from supporters at the prison commissary. Manson has lived in the protective housing unit, or PHU, at California State Prison, Corcoran, since 1989. Manson's motivation, Bugliosi said, was a "passion for death, blood and murder."īugliosi, now 74, called Manson "extremely bright" and said that while other serial killers were frightening, Manson reached a whole other level of terror by figuring out how to get seemingly respectful young women from middle-class families to kill at his command. "The very name Manson has become a metaphor for evil," he told in an interview from his Los Angeles-area home. Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor in the 1970 trial, said Manson represented a special brand of evil and that's why he remains so intriguing to this day. While some of his followers have already been paroled, with others possibly to follow, it seems certain Manson will die behind bars. The death sentences of Manson and his lethal Family were commuted to life sentences when a California Supreme Court ruling abolished capital punishment in 1972. 10, 1969.Īlso attributed to Manson and his cultish Family was the death of Gary Hinman, killed July 25, 1969. The convictions include the LaBianca killings Aug. 9, 1969, murders of Tate, who was more than eight months pregnant at the time, and houseguests Jay Sebring, a hairstylist, heiress Abigail Folger, writer Wojciech Frykowski and teenager Steven Parent. Manson himself never carried out any of the killings but was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for commanding the Aug.
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