“American Nightmare”, “The Devil in Human Flesh”, “Icon of Evil”. These are all names referring to Charles Manson. Who is Charles Manson? Charles Manson is a musician and American criminal who formed a cult in the California desert in the 1960’s. He is most famously known for his belief in Helter Skelter, a future race war between blacks and whites.
Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most known serial killers in American history. He murdered 17 males between the ages of 14 and 23. His first murder occurred in 1978 and his last murder occurred in 1991. Dahmer was only 18 years old when he began killing. Dahmer was said to have a fairly normal childhood up until he had to have a minor surgery to repair a hernia and his parents divorced.
The serial killer I chose is Albert Fish. Hamilton “Albert” Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C. to Randall and Ellen Fish. His father died of a heart attack when Albert was five. After, his mother put him and his three siblings in an orphanage so she could work. While living in the orphanage Fish experienced and watched brutal beatings, which soon helped him discover he enjoyed physical pain and began his obsession with sadomasochism.
From my personal research Manson was neglected the ability to grow up, so he grew up in his own way without guidance and ended up ruining himself as a citizen. This led Manson to discover the overall deception as a “model citizen,” and having the reputation of being feared or respected. Manson’s reputation even carried over to his probation interaction where he was labeled as an erratic schizophrenic lunatic that had no social morals. Leading the first thirty-two years of Charles Manson’s life to be riddled with prison sentences including a stay at McNeil Island Prison in Washington for 10
The serial killer I chose is Jeffrey Dahmer. I decided to pick Dahmer because he intrigued me. Jeffrey Dahmer was a very disturbed person, he tortured animals, was a necrophiliac, a sex offender, and overall a serial killer. Dahmer as a child was very distant and didn’t have many friends. According to Biography.com he had a double hernia that had to be taken out at the age of 6, after the surgery he seemed different and was effected by that and the birth of his younger brother.
Serial killers are vicious monsters. Monsters that deserve to go to jail. Monsters who had bad home lives as children and have had even harder adult lives. There is still no excuse. John Wayne Gacy eventually got the death sentence, even after he and his lawyers filed many lawsuits to stop it.
William George Bonin, also known as the Freeway Killer, became a part of America's long list of serial killers. After he kidnapped, raped, and murdered fourteen teenage boys between 1979 ans 1980. With the help of his four accomplices; Vernon Butts, Gregory M. Miley, William Ray Pugh, and James Micheal Munro, Bonin stalked Los Angeles County for boys that fell between the ages twelve and nineteen. The first victim in a long list of lives lost was Marcus Grabs, a seventeen year old German student traveling the United States. Marcus was stabbed a total of seventy seven times, sodomized and strangled to death.
Serial Killer: Wayne Williams Criminology Final Sean Bateman University of the Cumberland’s In today’s society there has always been a fascination with serial killers.
On November twelfth, 1934, Kathleen Maddox brought Manson into the world in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kathleen was only a sixteen-year-old runaway at the time she met Manson’s father, a married man known as “Colonel Scott”. She eventually met and married William Manson, who gave Charles his surname. However, the marriage was short lived and William divorced Kathleen in 1939 for a variety of reasons that range from infidelity to abandonment. Two years later, she and her brother were arrested for armed robbery and Manson was sent to live with various relatives in West Virginia.
Charles Manson’s biggest murders actually occurred back to back. On August 9th, 1969 in the canyons of Beverly Hills Sharon Tate who was an actress eight months pregnant was in her home along with Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring who all were spending the night. The father of her child and man in which she was living with was out in the city. Charles Manson directed Charles Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to enter the Tate residence (formerly the Melcher residence, who rejected Mason’s music compilation) and to “destroy everyone in it – as gruesome as you can.” (Helter Skelter-The True Story Of the Manson Murders, Curt Gentry).
The rest of the people who were killed were Rosemary Keenan, Christine Freund, Virginia Voskerichian, Valentina Surrani, Alexander Esau, and Stacy Moskowitz. Those injured were Jody Valenti, John Diel, Bobby Violante, Carl Denaro, Donna DeMas, Joanne Lomino, Salvatore Lupo, and Judy Placido. The killer attacked people who were in their cars or were returning home. They were all shot with a .44 caliber revolver.
Zodiac killer Name Institutional affiliation The Zodiac killer is one of the most infamous killers in American history. He murdered at least five people between the 1960s and 1970’s. His victims were often couples who were in secluded places around San Francisco. He received widespread media attention due to his habits of taunting the police and newspapers with coded messages.
He wanted these murders to give the impressions that black people were the perpetrators and frighten the nation. “However, the first suspect of this murder was the caretaker at the residence, but he had passed a lie detector test and was no longer considered a suspect. People started mentioning Charles Manson’s name when there was talk of him in a Los Angeles jail” (Charles Manson). Charles and his four main followers that consisted of Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian, were all eventually accused and put on
Their first murder was on August 9, 1969. It was at the home Roman Polanski house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, which was an area near Beverly Hills. ( "Charles Manson Biography." Biography) Manson needed someone he could trust to carry out this murder so he chose four of his most dedicated followers. Charles Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian were the four he picked.
A quick look into Manson’s childhood however and one might be inclined to question that notion. In this report, I will explain and utilize Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi’s “A General Theory of Crime” and Edwin Sutherland’s “Differential Association” to analyze his involvement in the 1969 killing spree. Although Manson had a very lengthy criminal history, his infamy came from his involvement in series of killings dub the Tate-LaBianca murders by the media. On August 09, 1969, Manson ordered members of his
