![]() In 1947, Maddox looked for a temporary foster home for Manson, but could not find a suitable one. As well as constantly playing truant, Manson began stealing from stores and his home. She was arrested for grand larceny, but not convicted.Īfter moving to Indianapolis, Maddox started attending Alcoholics Anonymous, where she met an alcoholic named Lewis, who she married in August 1943. They moved to Charleston where Manson continually played truant, and his mother spent her evenings drinking. Manson later characterized the first weeks after she returned from prison as the happiest time in his life. Manson was placed in the home of an aunt and uncle in McMechen, West Virginia. At the trial seven weeks later, Luther was sentenced to ten years, and Kathleen was sentenced to five years. They were incompetent thieves, and were found and arrested within hours. Maddox and Vickers decided to rob him, and Maddox phoned her brother to help. On August 1, 1939, Maddox and Luther's girlfriend, Julia Vickers, spent the evening drinking with a new acquaintance, Frank Martin, who appeared to be wealthy. They were divorced on April 30, 1937, when a court accepted Manson's charge of "gross neglect of duty". Maddox went on drinking sprees for days at a time with her brother, Luther, leaving Charles with a variety of babysitters. In August 1934, before Manson's birth, Maddox married William Eugene Manson (1909–1961), whose occupation was listed on Charles' birth certificate as a "laborer" at a dry cleaner's. When Maddox told him she was pregnant, he told her that he had been called away on army business after several months she realised he had no intention of returning. He allowed Maddox to believe that he was an army colonel, although "Colonel" was merely his given name. Scott worked intermittently in local mills, but had a reputation as a con-man. a transient laborer working on a nearby dam project". In the biography Manson in His Own Words, Colonel Scott is said to have been "a young drugstore cowboy. Manson might have never known his biological father. (1910–1954) against whom Kathleen Maddox filed a paternity suit that resulted in an agreed judgment in 1937. ![]() Within weeks, he was called Charles Milles Maddox.Ĭharles Manson's biological father appears to have been Colonel Walker Henderson Scott Sr. Manson was born in 1934 to unmarried 16-year-old Kathleen Manson-Bower-Cavender Maddox (1918–1973), in the General Hospital, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Manson was first named "no name Maddox". He served out his life sentence at California State Prison in Corcoran and died of natural causes at age 83 in 2017 (November 19, Bakersfield, California, United States). Manson was originally sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after California invalidated the state's death penalty statute in 1972. Various musicians have covered some of his songs. After Manson was charged with the crimes of which he was later convicted, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. From the beginning of his notoriety, a pop culture arose around him in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence and the macabre. He believed the murders would help precipitate that war. Manson believed in what he called "Helter Skelter", a term he took from the Beatles' song of the same name to describe an impending apocalyptic race war. Before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, drummer and founding member of the Beach Boys. Manson was also convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths.Īt the time the Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. In 1971 he was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, all of which were carried out at his instruction by members of the group. Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. Born Charles Milles Maddox, Novem– November 19, 2017, was an American criminal and cult leader who formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California in the late 1960s.
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