Charles Manson Research Paper

Seducing women, and getting them to commit crimes. Planning out murder, but having someone else play it out. Charles Manson is well known for being a serial killer, but in truth, he never actually committed any type of murder. Was it all the drugs or the psychological error that caused such a sinister man to form a cult? At the young age of sixteen Kathleen Maddox welcomed a baby boy on November 12, 1934. The city of Cincinnati, Ohio had unknowingly gained a mad man into its population. Before giving a name to her baby, Kathleen called him, “No Name Maddox.” In the days following the birth of her child, she finally gave him the name of Charles. After a quick marriage, Charles took on the last name of his stepfather, Eugene Manson (Thefamouspeople.com).

When Kathleen paroled from her robbery sentence, her and Charles moved to Charleston. Kathleen went back to drinking, and Charles, who was eight at the time, was truant from school. Shortly after, they moved to Indianapolis, where Kathleen attended Alcoholics Anonymous. While attending A.A. Kathleen met her second husband, Lewis. Between the time of her marriage in 1943 and 1947, Charles continued to be truant, but also began stealing from stores and homes. Kathleen had finally had enough, and could not handle her son anymore. In 1947, she began looking for a temporary foster home for Charles. Soon, Charles was a ward of the state, and sent to Gibault School for Boys in Indiana. Throughout the years from 1947 all the way until 1954, Charles bounced between institutions and was released just months before his twenty first birthday, for good behavior. A year after being released Charles met his first wife, Rosalie Jean Willis. Around a year after their marriage, Rosalie became pregnant. Charles stole a car and took Rosalie from Ohio across the country to Los Angeles. Taking a stolen car across state lines made Charles responsible for a federal crime. Charles was charged with the same federal crime in two different states, and ended up being sentenced to three years in Terminal Island, San Pedro, California. Charles was doing time in prison when his first child, Charles Manson Jr. was born. For the first year, Rosalie and Kathleen would visit Charles, but in March of 1957, Rosalie no longer visited. The following year in September Charles and Rosalie were divorced. At that same time, Charles received five years of probation. By that November, Charles was pimping out sixteen year old girls. To go along with pimping out girls, in 1959 Charles also married his second wife, Leona “Candy” Stevens, who was known for prostitution. Leona is the mother of Charles’s second child, Charles Luther. Charles ended up