Charles Manson and 40 Years of Notorious Fame
From: Joseph Nykoluk
Even after forty years, Charles Manson is still very well known for all the death he caused in August of 1969. It was through Charles Manson that his “Manson Family” killed seven people. Although Manson had a small stature, being only 5 foot 2 inches tall, he commanded the will of others through a race war he called “Helter Skelter”, which was the title of a song done by The Beatles.
It wasn’t so much that the murders occured, but rather how they were killed. The seven people killed were done in such a bizarre and gruesome fashion, that Charles Manson went down in history with the likes of “Jack The Ripper”. But it is this fascination with the bizarre and the strange that Charles Manson is so remembered.
Charles Manson has been described as one of the most evil people on the planet and it’s easy to see why. The killers, under Charles’s orders stabbed the seven people with 169 stab wounds as well as seven bullet wounds. They then used their blood to write “anti-establishment” messages on the walls.
Of the seven people that were murdered, Sharon Tate was probably the most famous. Sharon was married to movie director Roman Polanski. Two other famous people murdered through Charles Manson included Jay Sebring and Abigail Folger. Jay Sebring was a famous hairstylist and Abigail was an heiress to a fortune built in the coffee empire.
The murders took place over two days in August 1969 and on the second night, a grocer and his wife were butchered in their homes in the Los Angeles California neighborhood of Los Feliz. Rosemary Labianca was found with 41 stab wounds and her husband Leno had a fork sticking out of his abdomen with the word “WAR” carved on it.
Even after all this time, you can still find t-shirts and posters of Charles Manson as well as twisted cartoon shows like “South Park” using Manson in one of their special shows. Many books and magazine articles have been written all in the name of Charles Manson. Even musical artists like Guns N’ Roses and Marilyn Manson used the evil of Charles Manson in their songs.
Manson did receive a death sentence for his crimes but it was automatically reduced to life in prison a few years after the murders took place.
According to one source one of Charles Manson’s “family” members, Lynette Fromme will be released on August 16, 2009. Another member by the name of Susan Atkins is set to be on parole on September 2nd, 2009.
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