Giorgi National Holyshvili

Clinical psychologist

Was Charles Manson Maniac and a serial killer

On Sunday, November 19, in the hospital of Bakersfield, California, at the age of 83, one of the most famous criminals of the 20th century - Charles Manson died. He is primarily known to the activities of his family "Family". It was an association, at first glance, quite harmless hippies, koi in the 70s there was quite a lot. But it turned out that it was not exactly the commune, but rather a certain cult, whose members committed several brutal murders. Manson was an inspirer, ideologist and permanent leader of this cult. But was he, as was customary, maniac and serial killer?

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Charles Manson is a versatile personality, and the closer get acquainted with the history of his activities, the more surprising it seems that he has turned with people, drawn in the "family." One of the most famous crimes committed by his commune undoubtedly is the attack on the house of the director of Roman Polanski and the murder of all who was there, including the pregnant wife of the director Sharon Tate. Literally retelling the history of Charles Manson here does not make sense. About him and its sect there are many books, articles and documentaries. However, however, however, dispel the myth about Charles Manson, who is often called a maniac and a serial killer.

The fact is that the term "maniac" is exclusively literary and journalistic. This is a collective Salonian from a variety of other terms, including the "serial killer" and "psychopath". Therefore, I suggest abandon this term and go to the discussion of the remaining two.

Who are serial killers

Description of the phenomenon of serial killings is very controversial. If you turn to legal sources, we will inevitably encounter a support for the quantitative factor. If a person has committed three and more crimes with about the same modus Operandi., this is undoubtedly serial killings.

But everything is not so simple. Take, for example, an ordinary killer. With different temporary intervals, it makes killings with about the same modus Operandi.. Does this mean that his murders can be called serial, and his most - serial killer? Not.

Serial killers are distinguished by all the crimes commit themselves; them modus Operandi., with an increase in experience in this case, is gradually evolving; The murder undoubtedly there is a component of sexual satisfaction, and sexual contact does not need; They cannot stop themselves; There is a period of rest between the murders, which is constantly reduced. And the killer handwriting can occur - some detail left at the crime scene, which at first glance does not have absolutely no sense, such as a flower on the corpse, but it allows you to say for sure: "Yes, these crimes committed the same person."

In the public submission, there are many myths about serial killers. They allegedly are immigrants from disadvantaged families, they have a high level of intelligence that allows you to deceive the consequence and led all the nose, besides, they are necessarily insane, irrational, not conscious of their actions and the like. It is easier to refer to the classics - Hannibal Lecter, a character from Jonathan's film Demmy "Silence of Lambs", played by a brilliant actor Anthony Hopkins.

It is these ordinary people see all serial killers. But this is nothing more than delusion. These serial killers are mostly not geniuses, can grow in the most common families (not always prosperous, but in the same, from where ordinary people who do not commit such crimes come from), and the overwhelming majority of them do not suffer from psychotic disorders.

Basically serial killers are boring characters, often with paraffils, increased anxiety, uncertainty in themselves and distrust to others. And all this does not interfere with their rationality, the ability to hide evidence and plan their actions (it is important to note that there is nothing planning criminals-schizophrenics also exist and a vivid example is Richard Chase). They do not correlate with those mysterious geniuses of the criminal world, which we see in the movies. Basically, they cannot be made to justice because of the non-professionalism of the police and witnesses who found the corpse and hopping evidence. Based on the above, you can draw the following conclusion: Serial killings - not the easiest phenomenon and each case requires a separate detailed study.

Who are psychopaths

As for the term "psychopath", it also contains many different meanings that need to be clarified.

The doctrine of psychopathies was developed by a domestic psychiatrist PB Gannushkin. He highlighted many different psychopathy and wrote the following: "psychopathic names are called, from the moment of formation, representing a number of features that distinguish them from the so-called normal people and prevent them from painless for themselves and to adapt to the environment. The pathological properties inherent in them are constant, congenital properties of the individual, which, although they can increase or develop in a certain direction during their lives, are usually not subjected to any sharp changes.<…> We are talking about such features and features that are more or less determined by the entire mental look of the individual, overlapping his own author's imprint on his entire spiritual way. "

Summarizing said and again referring to PB Gannushkin, repeat the three important criteria of psychopathy after him: their influence is total (they impose a print on the entire person), static (the pathological properties of the individual do not change during her life) and cause social disadaptation. Undoubtedly, the doctrine of psychopathies has developed a lot since the PB described them. Gannushkin, but here, unfortunately, it makes no sense to make a detailed analysis of the author and its approach. It is enough to know about these three important criteria described by the author - they will use us later.

"Family" Charles Manson

Let's go back to Charles Manson. It can not be called a maniac nor a serial killer. He did not do with his own crimes, modus Operandi. He did not have - although, we note the sake of justice, was his handwriting. All this does not allow to call Charles with a serial killer in a classical understanding of the word.

But it is quite possible to call a psychopath. True, a personal conversation is needed to form an accurate diagnosis that, alas, is impossible. The story of Charles Manson is full of different difficulties, both family (unwanted child, was born from the mother of the thief who was trying to exchange it on Pintu beer) and social (almost two dozen years, even before the "family", Charles held in prison), which Undoubtedly, put a fingerprint on his identity. Here, with a well-known share of confidence, we can talk about social disadaptation.

But despite this, Manson skillfully manipulated by people, adjusted to different people, from schoolgirls to bikers (for which, of course, influenced his personal experience of a collision with an absolutely unstable social environment), understood how to arrange interaction with his community to force her Members to do everything he needs. How did it happen to him?

The fact is that Manson found and invited in the seven of the so-called "lost" adolescents and young people who were easily influenced by charismatic leaders. His cult was a fairly closed system, the commune lived separately, on the ranch, where nobody worried them. Manson introduced various rituals to the practice of members of the commune, who fastened the commune even more.

According to the theory of social systems (which is actively used in systemic family psychotherapy), there are two extremes - open and closed systems. The open system interacts with the world around the world, its participants are carriers of the obstacles not only of this system, but also society as a whole. The society effects as much as possible on this system, and to force her members to make something deviant much more difficult than in the case of representatives of the closed system.

The closed system has a minimal contact with society, the boundaries of "normality" are blurred, and it is possible to create your own rules and norms. To strengthen this effect, as Filip Zimbardo showed its Stanford prison experiment, you can diskete the participants of this system. In the experiment Zimbardo, this was done by awarding the identification numbers to the prisoners and the choice of them in the same clothing. In the Manson family, all its members, except Manson, were briefly sked. This additionally highlighted the commune leader among the rest, and its wards were increasingly lost the possibility of critical refers to what is happening and agreed on increasingly sophisticated crimes.

Undoubtedly, Manson has been specifically acquainted with Zimbardo's prison experiment, faced with the history of ABU-GRAB prison or study the theories of open and closed social systems. He understood their laws, if you could say so, at an intuitive level.

Manson was a smart, well-read man who did not hesitate to express his position on various social problems, politics and the like. He inspired many artists, such as Marilyn Manson (made his name part of his pseudonym), System of A DOWN rock band (their ATWA composition is dedicated to Manson), Kasabian group (her name coincides with the name of one of the girls - family members ) other.

Despite all this, it is not necessary to overestimate Charles Manson. Of course, he was a criminal and unworthy of admiration, which was honored by the fans of serial killers. They saw the leader in Manson, whose ideas will lead them to a new, beautiful world, whereas he was an excellent manipulator, the leader of the cult, but not a new Messiah and the Savior.

It may seem unthinkable so that the person accused of serial murders to turn into a hero of the counterculture. But for someone, Charles Manson became just such a symbol.

Shortly before the very go to the deaf opposition, Radical Communication Bernadin Daurne, the secretary of the terrorist group "Meteorologists", said those who gathered on the kingdom of the organization "Students for Democratic Society":

To finish these rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then dinner in the same room - awesome! "Meteorologists" understand Charles Manson.

Gypsy and other participants of the "family" were invited to evening radio esters, where those sang songs Charlie and cursed the prosecutor's office for "mockery of an innocent man."

Streeting the privileges of our own defender to incredible limits, Manson gave a huge amount of an independent press interview. Several radio stations also took his telephone interviews from the district prison. And in the list of his visitors among the "Witnesses on the investigation materials" now came across and some known names.

I fell in love with Charlie Manson for the first time I saw his angelic face and sparkling eyes on TV, "Jerry Rubin assured (one of the founders of the radicalistic international youth party and the Move of Yippi).

Using a break in the hearing of the case of the Chicago Seven, Rubin went through the country with lectures and visited Manson in prison, after which the probability of using Manson is destructive, subversive tactics on its own process rose sharply. According to Rubin, Charlie chattered without a silence for three hours in a row, saying to him, among other things, the following:

"Ruby, I do not belong to your world. I spent my whole life in prison. I was an orphan, too ugly so that someone wanted to adopt me. Now I am too beautiful to be on freedom. "

"His words and courage inspired us - later wrote Ruby. - Manson's souls are easy to touch, because it lies right on the surface. "

And yet Charles Manson - a revolutionary martyr - possessed as an image, openly support that not everyone would decide. The same Rubin admitted that he was simply infuriated by the "incredible male chauvinism" Manson. The reporter from "Free Press" saw the finished hater and Jews in Manson, and blacks. And when someone from the interviewers compared Charlie with the political prisoners of Hewie Newton (a wrestler for the rights of African Americans, who advocated an armed uprising, the founder of the Extremist Party "Black Panthers". In 1967, Newton was tried to kill the police officer, which caused a wide campaign " Hewie freedom! "; In 1968 it was released due to multiple procedural disorders during the case of the case), he asked with an obvious annoyance:" This is another? "

Thus, Manson's support group was albeit a horsepower, but small. If you believe the reports of newspapers and television, most young people who are the media dumped into one bunch under the sign "Hippie", hurried to dissociate from Charlie. Many said that the ideas embodied by him - say, violence - directly contradict their beliefs. And most scolded him, suffering from "guilty of external similarity." A certain young man complained to the New York Times reporter, which now has become almost impossible to travel by hitchhiking:

"If you are young, we have a beard or just long hair, drivers look at you as a manyak killer from the California compash and hise on gas."

The irony of what is happening is that Manson never perceived himself as hippie, equating pacifism to weakness. If the family members certainly need a label, he said to his followers, then much better call them "slipping". If you remember the secret missions "Thai-Clear" practiced by them, the option is very suitable.

It was alarmed that the "family" continued to grow. The group who lived at the Spoon increased markedly. Whenever Manson appeared in the courtroom, I noticed all the new faces along with the members of the family already known to me.

It can be assumed that many recruits attracted sensation; As if the moths, they stretched on the flame of someone else's glory. But we did not know how far they are ready to go to gain desire or good reception in the group.

When, on the eve of the meeting of the big jury, I first talked with Gregg Jacobson, I first wanted to identify the connection between Manson and Melcher.

Secondly communicating with the "seeker of the gift", I, to my own amazement, discovered that from the moment of exploring Manson in the house of Dennis Wilson, in the early summer of 1968, Jacobson spoke to Charlie over a hundred times for a long time, mainly about his philosophy. As an intelligent young man, then the matter faced with Hippie and sampled their life-style, Gregg never entered the "family", although Menson was repeatedly visited at the span's ranch. Discarding a certain commercial potential in Charlie, Jacobson considered him an "intellectually stimulating" person. This side was so attracted Gregga that he often acquainted Manson with his friends - such as, say, Rudy Altobelli, the owner of the house 10050 for Sielo-Drive, who surrendered housing and Terry Melger, and Sharon Tate.

"Charlie is a real chameleon," Gregg explained. - He often said that he had a thousand people, and he enjoys each; He has a separate mask for everyone.

He could communicate with everyone at their own level: from workers on a ranch and maidens from Sunset Street to me.

Including jury? - I thought and decided that if on the process Manson puts on the mask of peace-loving hippie, with the help of Gregga I would be able to disrupt her. Jacobson believed that under all Maskami Manson hides her very clear and tough beliefs.

What are their sources? - I asked.

Charlie extremely rarely referred to some authorities, painting his philosophy, "Gregg answered. - But he did not be gone to borrow from someone like a thought.

Charlie ever led direct quotes? - I asked.

Yes, he answered, from the songs of The Beatles and from the Bible.

Manson unmistakably quoted whole texts of the Liverpool Four, finding many shades of meaning and hidden revelations.

As for the Bible, most often he mentioned the ninth chapter of revelation. However, in both cases, the quotes were called upon to support his own point of view.

The philosophical mosaic began to develop a little. The person who I sought to endure the sentence was absent any moral restrictions. Such people are extremely dangerous.

Did he say that killing another person is a bad act?

On the contrary, he argued that it was good.

What role in his philosophy manson took death?

- In the system of concepts of Charlie, death was absent at all. Death is only a change. The soul is not able to die ...

He spoke about it all the arm and matter, their relationship. He believed that all this was only in the head that everything was subjective. Death is only a fear born in the head in humans, and that this fear can be removed from there, and then he will no longer be, - Gregg explained.

And yet, when in the desert, Jacobson came somehow on Tarantula, Manson, Flash, read it. He scolded those surrounding the killings of rattle snakes, for breaking out flowers, even for the fact that they relaxing the meals of grass stems.

You can kill a person, but harm the animal or plant - sin. At the same time, he repeated that no evil exists that everything was happening correctly.

Manson's philosophy abounded by such contradictions, which seem to have little disturbed his followers. Manson argued that every person should be independent - but at the same time the whole "family" depended on him alone. He said that he could not advise anyone or order that they all "should act as love dictates", but he also claimed: "I am your love", so his desires automatically become their desires.

I asked Gregg about the attitude of Manson to women. This question was especially interested in me because of the female part of the defendants.

In women, only two goals in life, Charlie spoke: to serve men and give birth to children. But he did not allow the girls from the "family" to raise their own offspring, as they will pass their complexes. Charlie believed: if it is possible to destroy barriers built by parents, schools, churches, society, then it will create a "strong white race". Like Nietzsche (whom Menson, he said, read), Charlie believed in the race "Supervertegov".

According to Charlie, "Gregg continued," a woman can be good just as well as her man. " They only reflect their men, up to their own fathers. A woman is a collective image, it accumulates the men with whom it was ever close.

Then why in the "family" so many women? - I asked. For each man, they accounted for at least five.

- Only with the help of women Charlie could attract men to their side. Men represented power, strength. Women were needed to lure them in the "family."

I asked Gregg about the aspirations of Manson, about his goals.

Charlie wanted to succeed, writing the records, "Gregg replied. - Not so much for money, no matter how much for the opportunity to convey their words, make them a common heritage. He needed people: so that they lived with him, they were engaged in love with him. So he wanted to make a white race truly free.

What did Manson feel in relation to black?

According to Gregga, Charlie "considered as if they were like a raus on a different level, and white occupy a higher step." That's why Manson so Yaros condemned sex between black and white: "Thereby, people violate the course of evolution, mix different nervous systems, less developed with more developed. The only task of blacks is to serve a white man. " But black remained for too long at the bottom, Charlie said. Now they have come their turn to intercept the brazers of the board. This was Helter Skelter, all this black and white revolution.

Famous for the whole world, Charles Manson's serial killer gave an interview with the press that he was going to get married in the near future on the 25th year, and, according to him, the age of 79 years is not a problem for him. We read further.

The fact that 79-year-old Manson quietly lives his side by side with the most stored villains of America, is one of the strangest and scandalous statements in an interview, which was prepared for two years. In the journal Manson, they describe how "a superstress and a symbol with the face of the essential evil, which is inferior only to Hitler." The brightest detail of the interview was a statement that Manson marries his 25-year-old "fan" by the name of the star - so he called her.

This girl moved closer to prison, in which Manson sits when she was 19 years old.

She carved at his forehead sign x - something like a symbol, which unites all followers of Manson, who had a swastika tattoo on his forehead. This couple posing in prison, where the serial killer is most likely finished his DFNI. But most of all the public shocked how much the star is similar to another girl from the gang of Menson's followers - to Susan Atkins.

Susan Atkins in the 60s.

She was Menson's mistress and one of his sequences who, by his order, made brutal murders, including the murder of the wife of Roman Polansky Sharon Tate, which was on the 8th month of pregnancy. The star declares that no one looks like "Atkins on this bitch". Susan Atkins died in prison in 2009.

The star heads several sites on which he calls to free Manson. She says he always knew that he would be his wife.

"I will say right, I'm going to get married with Charlie. When we do not know, but for me it is very serious. Charlie is my husband. He said me to give you it. We did not speak anyone. " But when I was interviewed by Manson himself, he was not so interested. "Ah, it is only garbage. Well, you know, garbage. We just play the public. "

The star was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in a religious family. Parents locked it in the room if she refused to go to church. Then she addicted to drugs. In the high-class girlfriend told her about Manson, and the star decided to write him. At 19, she shot 2000 dollars savings and jumped to California.

Now she visits him every Saturday and Sunday five hours a day. She says her parents not only do not hate him, but they even invited him to swim if he ever comes out of prison. "I want us alone, but there are always so many people in this room for visits."

"But this is the only time when I can see it. It's hard. But everything changes. Who knows what happens next? " Manson and the star communicate with the 63-year-old Craig Carlishel Hammond, who in March of this year tried to bring a mobile phone to prison. It caused concerns that Manson has too much freedom.

If this marriage will take place, for Manson he will not be the first - he already has two former wives and, at least three children.

In 1954, he married Rosalia Willis, but they divorced in 1957, when he was planted for car theft. Coming out of prison in 1958, he married a prostitute Candidi Stevens. But she filed for a divorce when he again fell behind the grille.

In an interview, Manson also hinted that in his sexuality he was more "flexible" than he said before. "For me, sex is how to go to the toilet. The girl is or not, no matter. I do not play this game boy girl. "

Among the victims of the "family" of Manson was the actress Sharon Tate - the spouse of the director Roman Polanski. In 1969, the followers of Manson (the Manson himself was not with them, but they acted on his order) came to them to the house when Shero was also a sir of her friends. It was a real slaughter. Sharon Tate died with 16 knife wounds on the body. She was on the eighth month of pregnancy.

The next night, the "Family" was cruelly dealt with the random family of Ligino entrepreneurs and Rosemary La Bianca in their home in Los Angeles. In the photo: Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski.

This cruelty was so thoughtless and brutal that Manson's sad fame and his families spread across the country and went out of its limits. Manson always argued that the society made him as he became.

In the accusation, the prosecutor said that Manson acted "turmoil." After hearing, he was condemned for life for the murder of Tate and more seven people

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It was the prosecutor Vincent Baglosi that put forward the theory that Manson prompted his followers to start a "racial war", after which Black, who would have won her, begged him to become their leader, because they could not lead themselves.

Manson loved Beatles. That is why one of the most striking followers - Susan Atkins - he nickned Sexy Sadi - in honor of the song Bitles. In the photo: Susan Atkins in court. She participated in all eight killings of the "family."

His future wife nicknamed a star is surprisingly similar to Susan Atkins, although she herself denies it and belongs to Susan dismissively.

Manson the theory of the prosecutor about the racial war did not support. "It does not make sense," he said. In the photo: Manson's sequence (left to right) Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenvinkle and Leslie Khwen Baths in 1970 before the start of hearing the case on charges of participation in eight murders.

After making Verdict Manson, the prosecutor wrote a novel in 600 pages called "Bestlikovshchyna", which has developed a circulation of 7 million copies since 1974. This made the prosecutor with a millionaire.

Now the prosecutor lives in California, fights cancer and periodically gives interviews. "In the world, so many psychos, much more terrible than Manson, so why are we talking about him?" - he exclaims.

The star shaved sleep and cut on his forehead sign x in honor of Manson.

Manson always stated that no one inspired the murder that the followers themselves were to blame. "If you talked about murder, and this murder took place, then you are guilty," says the prosecutor.

In the photo: Manson in Jail in July of this year. The bruise was obtained as a result of what he fell with the Nar.

Manson still remembers Vincent Baglosi - the prosecutor who did everything to be condemned. He is still angry with him.

Manson responds more than obscene: "She (I mean Sharon Tate) Hollywood Star. How many people she killed on the screen? She all sought her body. And if she is such a beauty, then why was it in bed with another man when everything happened? " In the photo: Prison, which contains Manson and 15 more particularly dangerous criminals.

The worst thing is that Manson is allowed to do so many calls as he wants if they do not exceed 15 minutes and recorded. In the photo: Manson at the age of 34 in 1969, after he was arrested.

Eric Hedgeard, who took interviews from Manson, remembers how he called him in prison quite often.

You can call Manson almost at any time of the day and night. It is not prohibited.

Headgeard recalls that, sometimes, their conversations went to a dead end, because he could not understand what Manson says. Once Manson told a journalist that killing people is good and good. "If someone is killed, that's the will of God. We have no chance without killing. "

Craig Carlisle Hammond is another "fan" Manson.

He recently tried to bring a mobile phone to Menson.

Rumors that in prison Korkoran Manson have special honors, have long and stubbornly.

They say his visitors are allowed to eat popcorn, which is simply unthinkable, because we are talking about a cruel criminal, which was condemned for life.

During the interview, Menson magazine flew chocolates, pumpkin pie, popcorn, strawberry cheesecake and peanut butter - all this was organized by his beloved "Women's" star.

Every morning, Manson comes out of his camera, goes breakfast, takes a package with food, returns to his camera, dins, sleep again, goes for a walk, and then plays chess with other prisoners.

Then he dines and returns to his camera at 20:45. At the same time, Manson complains about air conditioners in prison, which "just kill me." The journalist remembers that Manson admitted to him that he wrote a song about his prisoner, which was called "in my cell", but then the Beach Boys group allegedly stole a song, changed the words and changed the name to "in my room." Naturally, it is nonsense. In the photo: a drawing of one of the fans of Manson.

Manson often moves, using canes, but the journalist notes that the serial killer often dances and goes rather promptly.

Initially, Manson and other members of his "family" was sentenced: the death penalty, but they were lucky-carrying Court of California recognized the death penalty unconstitutional, and the sentence was changed to life

Manson had a few opportunities to file a petition about early release, but he was denied all the time. The next petition can be submitted only after 15 years, when it will be 92 years old.

Manson refused the television, but before he loved to watch the series "Smoking from the trunk" and "Sesame Street" (in Spanish).

Manson has long been recognized as a loser musician who is crazy about Beatles. For all day, he likes to play the guitar.

Every year he gets thousands of letters. Sometimes he answers requests to sign his photo. Then he signs it like this: "The hippie leader of the cult made me do it." I won't call the exemplary prisoner - during the time he spent behind bars, he violated the rules 108 times.

Sometimes, he has breakdowns when he yells: "I am a criminal, I'm gangster, I am a rebel, I'm desperate, and I do not shoot the air to warn."

About how the public adopted his murder in 1969, he says: "Yes, everyone has his own opinion, everyone remembered it in his own way. Sooner or later we must take someone else's point of view. But this point is only part of the puzzle. "

Drugs, worshiping devil, sect, cruel killings and nine life imprisonments. At the age of eighty, three years in the US prison hospital - Charles Manson.

His name in the United States was frightened by naughty children, rock stars for more effects took into their compositions fragments of his speeches and ideologies, sometimes even last name. A documentary about his life and family nominated for Oscar. The rule is that about the deceased - either well, or in no way about Charles Manson. We are talking about one of the most shuffling, terrible and cruel maniac killers in modern history.

I am a child of the streets, a small dirty ripper. My mother is a 15-year-old girl from Kentucky, who did not have a husband. She only knows that his name is Scott, that he married someone else, and that Charlie was born from him.

Charles Manson was born on November 12, 1934 in Ohio. His mother, Kathleen Maddox, was then 16 years old, in marriage she did not, and additional information, who exactly was the father of the child, no to this day. At birth, the boy was called "Unnamed" or "Some" Maddox. A week later, he was named Charles, and later, when Kathleen married, he got the name Manson.

For the fact of the child, no one brought up: the mother abused alcohol and was engaged in prostitution. And when Charlie was six years old, it was condemned for armed robbery. The boy was sent to relatives. With the study, Manson immediately arose problems: the regime, and then the law he began to violate at the very young age.

- My uncle said: we do not give up and always fight to the end. He did not transfer schools for the Yankees. When I was nine, I set fire to school, I wanted to change it.

In the 42nd Kathleen was relieved early. The moment when she hugged his son, returned from prison, Charles later called the only happy memories of childhood. Family idyll lasts long: the mother tried to attach Charles in the reception family, and then gave it under the custody of the state. Since then, the child has been in special institutions for boys, from which he constantly ran and tried to hide, hijacious cars and bicycles. Eight of the first 19 years of life Manson spent behind bars.

In the breaks between the prison terms, Manson managed to marry twice, in every marriage he had a child. In places of imprisonment, Charles seriously carried away with music and caught fire the idea to conquer Hollywood. Coming out of prison in 1967, Manson begins to collect like-minded people around him. Mostly those who have a life, like him, threw out. At that time, the culture of Hippi culture was a flourishing: drugs and free relationships helped Charles to convince. For example, the war is nearing between black and white, he called it "HELTER SKELTER" (Kavardak, turmoil) in honor of the song of the Bitles group and said that you need to take black hand and teach them to kill.

- I told them: if you want to do something, leave something ominous after yourself. I will tell you the same thing now: they gathered something to do - do it well and leave at last something ominous. Leave the world a sign that you were here. Have a nice day!

By 1970, Manson's family has more than 30 people. Among them - the musician Dannis Wilson from The Beach Boys band. It was Charles who was hoping for his help in Hollywood. But with the show business, the story did not work out. The main source of income of the communes were robbery and drug trafficking. The group has a conflict with a black dealer, and he becomes the first victim of the Manson family. The next was the musician Harry Hinman. He dies from torture, on the wall of his house the murderers write the "political pig". Brutal and perverted methods become a company handwriting.

The most famous was the massacre in the house of director Roman Polansky. Charles Watson, accompanied by three girls cruelly killed 5 people, including a filmmaker's wife, which was located on the ninth month of pregnancy. The next day, the criminals go to a new business and spread with the family owner of the supermarket chain. On the walls, they will leave the slogans written by blood.

"I see blood every day: every day someone will shoot someone, someone will score to death, someone will dance. My whole life was filled with this. And it does not cause me emotions. Put in front of me the mountain from hundreds of corpses - the reaction will not be any.

The court over members of the Manson family was widely publicized. Manson's shuffy performances appeared on the first strips of newspapers, and it only added his popularity. The fans of the maniac went to the pickets with the call to let go of their idol. They considered him innocent and called a fighter for justice.

According to the results of the judicial process of seven members of the Manson Famons sentenced to the death penalty in the gas chamber. In 1972, the measure was replaced by a life imprisonment. Most of the term Manson held in California's prison, in the city of Corcoran. There he was engaged in music, painting and wrote books. He was even allowed to marry on the 26-year-old fan of Efton Burton, but thanks to the journalistic investigation, which has proven that it was not loved by love, and mercenary motives, the wedding did not take place. Interviews Manson also gave - in its inherent informal form. It was confused in the testimony, contradicted himself, sometimes the reporters themselves lost the thread of the conversation. But never once a cruel killer repented and did not regret the deed.

Right holder illustration Alamy.

Charles Manson, the most famous criminal of America, who became a cult character, died in a prison hospital. However, even after almost half a century after his very high-profile crime, interest in it does not weaken.

Charles Manson died on November 19, he was 83 years old. In 1971, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for massacre and served a sentence in California prison.

Almost 50 years ago, members of the Community "Family", which was founded by Manson, penetrated the house of the actress and wife of the novel Polansky Sheron Teit, "to destroy everyone there." The actress, which was in the last months of pregnancy, and four more people were cut.

The killers disguised the crime so that the evidence would be led to the members of the "Black Panther" - Levatskaya grouping, which in those years led an armed struggle against what she called white racism and an arbitrariness of the police.

Manson hoped that his crime and the murder of two entrepreneurs that followed him would provoke interracial conflict, at the height of which Manson would speak as a ruler of America.

His plan failed. Manson's ideas aroused shudder in society, he was convicted of collusion with the goal of murder and sentenced to the death penalty, which later was replaced by a lifetime life.

In 80 years Manson. The girl specially moved to Corcorn in California to be closer to prison, where it was contained by her chosen one.

Right holder illustration Reuters Image Caption. Manson, according to those who knew him, possessed inexplicable magnetism

She said that he loved him and was ready to be with him, despite the fact that Manson could ask for the revision of the sentence until 2027.

"Why a 26-year-old girl wants to marry him? It says that for the countercultitude it is attractive to this day. Manson - Buntar, a criminal, a radical vegetarian, who is ready for killing to defend his ideas," says Daniel Kane, a teacher of culture and literature at the University of Sussex.

"This is disgusting and insanely. At the same time, it is extremely politicized - to the same extent as the modern terrorists politicized," he continues.

Right holder illustration Getty Images Image Caption. Actress Sheron Teit became the most famous victim of the "family" Manson

Sister Sheron Teit, who spoke from the face of the families of all the victims of Manson, called that marriage ridiculous. In 2015, it became known that Manson canceled the wedding, saying that the future bride simply uses him.

The press worldwide continued to write and talk about Manson. More than 30 books were written about his life and crimes. One of them wrote the prosecutor Vincent Buglyosi, who made the prosecutor on the process against Manson. Since 1974, more than seven million copies of this book have been sold.

Menson's statements often published in the media. In the 1980s, he gave four large interviews.

Right holder illustration California Department of Corrections and Rehabilit Image Caption. Charles Manson was detained in 1969 after the assassination of the actress Sheron Tate

Manson called himself a political prisoner and stated that the government holds him hostage.

"My system gave birth to me. I have what you did from me. I'm just your reflection," he said.

Right holder illustration Getty Images Image Caption. In 2015, one of the galleries in Los Angeles held an exhibition dedicated to the re-court over Charles Manson

Who is Charles Manson

Manson was born in Ohio in 1934. He had a difficult childhood, complete deprivation. Despite the rather high level of intelligence, he was forced to change several corrective schools due to inability to fully write and read.

When Manson turned five years old, his mother and uncle were planted by alcoholism for a raid on the car service. At the age of 13, he was already injected by armed robbers of casino and shops.

Psychologists diagnosed with him a tendency to depressions and mania. Specialists described it as aggressively asocial man. This, according to researchers, was provoked by his family life if it could be called that.

Right holder illustration Getty Images Image Caption. In adolescence, Manson was already an exposed criminal

After he lost the opportunity to keep his pregnant wife and pay the bills, he began to steal. After spending in prison for eight years, Manson was released in 1967, in the height of the "Summer of Love" - \u200b\u200ba natural action of hippies in San Francisco.

Manson had a fixation on the song "Helter Skelter" Group "Beatles".

The song metaphorically describes the difficulties of love using the images from the fair carousel. Manson incorrectly interpreted her meaning. In his opinion, she predicted a large-scale war between races, in which only he and his followers will survive from White, hiding in the valley of death in California.

Manson believed that African Americans would not be able to independently organize their community and say Manson to become their leader.

Song Helter Skelter.

• This song from the "White Album" "Beatles", along with several more, Manson urged to be considered prophetic, predicting a large-scale war of races. Her words were written in blood on refrigerators in the house of his two victims.
• The connection between Manson and the song remained after the trial. She was put out in the title of the book of Prosecutor Vincent Buglyosi, which came out in 1974.
• The U2 group recorded a cover version of this song, which entered the Album "Rattle and Hum". The song is preceded by the phrase that the leader of the Bono group says: "This song Charles Manson stole from The Beatles. We will return it back."

Manson founded the commune that settled on the ranch in the California desert. Commune consisted mainly of women who came from middle-class families. Together with them, he used LSD and arranged orgies.

"He extremely successfully used the hippie subculture in his own interests. In the end, Hippie proposed himself as an apolitical subculture, which is engaged in which it creates its own utopies based on sex, drugs and rock and roll," explains Kane.

"Manson took Hippie LSD, music, the idea of \u200b\u200bfree love and life in the commune, but in his hands it all became an instrument of mass murders. Very strange, but very, very attractive absolute evil," he says.

For long hair and beard, Menson followers compared him with Jesus.

Right holder illustration Getty Images Image Caption. Manson's ideas were well combined with what she believed Hippie 60s: free love, drugs, life in the commune

"There are plenty of rags and revealed bandits around. We have seen much more terrible crimes than Manson. So why are we still talking about him?", "Said Buglyosi in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2012.

"He has something that can be found only at one thousand percent of all people. Aura, vibration, as they called the guys in the 60s. Wherever he came, young people around began to be inexorably to pull him right away," continued Buglyosi.

Psychopaths are fascinated and convinced, says David Wilson, Professor of Criminology from the University of Birmingham.

"It seems that they are fully concentrated on to subordinate you to achieve your location," he says.

In the crimes of Manson, there was a lot of incomprehensible: how was the former ZEK from the poor environment managed to make a guru and lead the youth from the middle class?

The history of Manson consists of drugs, orgies and cults - three misfortunes who worryed parents whose children grew into the era of free love. She coincided with the strengthening of disagreements about civil liberties, racism and the Vietnamese war. Several American cities in 1968 swept mass excitement.

According to Wilson, Manson was able to become a cult character due to the fact that they told the Americans about how carelessly they relate to threats, which, in his opinion, surrounded them. In combination with his charisma, it produced a greater effect than murders.

"He became a cult character because he put an end to the" Swing 60-M ". His strange philosophy was consonant with dark manifestations of narcotic culture. This was no longer a struggle of flowers, the youth subculture became much greasy than it seemed before that," concludes Professor .