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Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [1]
[1] [5] The group murdered at least 9 people, [1] though they may have killed as many as 24. Manson was born in 1934 and had been institutionalized or incarcerated for more than half of his life by the time he was released from prison in 1967. He began attracting acolytes in the San Francisco area.
The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her companions Jay ...
Charles Manson's cult killed five people in 1969 (Reuters) Charles Manson, the cult leader who orchestrated a string of gruesome murders by his “Family” of young acolytes in Los Angeles ...
Members of Manson’s followers killed five people during the Tate murders, which took place on Aug. 9, 1969. Actor Sharon Tate Polanski, the wife of director Roman Polanski, was one of the people ...
A mug shot of Charles Manson is displayed in front at the Museum of Ventura County on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Manson goes on to say he was involved in additional killings. "I just got involved in ...
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Charles Manson and the 1969 murders committed by his followers.
Charles Denton "Tex" Watson (born December 2, 1945) is an American murderer who was a central member of the "Manson Family" led by Charles Manson. [3] On August 9, 1969, Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles.