

He fancied himself a song writer so he approached a song publisher with some of his songs.The song publisher rejected his offerings so Charles Manson became enraged and determined to kill him.It so happened that the new tenant to the house was Roman Polanski film director producer writer and actor. He had simply instructed his followers and family members to carry out the killings.His most infamous killing was a case of mistaken identity. Manson who ordered the TateLaBianca killings but was not present for any of them was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

Why did young women gather around him and become so devoted to him?The girls in the Manson Family were wholesome appearing young women from good families with a proper upbringing nicely dressed and well educated.What power did Charles Manson have to turn such girls into vicious killers who stabbed their victims whom they did not even know numerous times and then paint the walls with their blood?The fact is that Charles Manson himself never killed nor harmed anybody. He did not seem to have any attributes that would attract women. The members of the Manson Family as they came to be called would do what ever he told them to do including the most weird and perverse sexual acts leading up to and including murder.Charles Manson was a short small man only 5 feet 2 inches tall. Most people alive today do not know much about this but those who do remember him know a name that strikes fear into their hearts.That fear arises because Charles Manson seemed to have the almost hypnotic power to bring young women under his control.

The crimes that made him infamous and his name a household word happened in 1969 or 48 years ago.

Ishi Press Helter Skelter The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi Curt Gentry Introduction by Sam SloanĪn era has ended with the death of Charles Manson on November 19 2017.
