Born to a sixteen year old alcoholic prostitute, Manson was born Charles Miles Maddox on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati. His mother, would marry a man, but the marriage would not last. Charles was placed in a boy's school, and would run back to his mother. She did not want to have anything to do with him. He lived on the streets and quickly started stealing.
When he first started getting locked up, he was considered dangerous. After a while, he would discover that being a model prisoner had its benefits.
In 1955, he would marry a seventeen year old and the couple moved to California. Even though she was pregnant, he started committing crimes again, mainly stealing cars. His wife would leave him in 1956, with their child and her new lover.
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While inside, he would rape an inmate while he held a razor on the inmate. He would tap into his creative talents and learned how to play the guitar.
After being released in 1967, he started a campaign that would put him down as one of the most infamous serial killers of all time. He thought he would bring about the end of the world. He was influenced by different works of art, drugs, and religions (such as the Church of Final Judgment, Scientology, Book of Revelations, LSD, and Helter Skelter by the Beatles). All these things made him have strong feelings that the world was going to end, and he was going to be the one that was going to bring it.
Manson started to put together a group who shared his feelings about living unconventionally and use of drugs. They became known as 'The Family”. “The Family” grew to have over a hundred followers, mostly made up of impressionable young girls, who started to believe that Manson was Christ and that his talk of a race war soon happening would come true. It was easy for him to convince them of this. He would lecture them during meal times while they were on an isolated ranch , called the Spahn Ranch, that used to be used for western movies. His voice and opinion was the only things that these girls would hear. He also set up an arrangement with the owner of the ranch that his female followers would sleep with the owner as well as work