Charles Manson
Charles Manson was a cult leader born in 1934. He formed what is now famously known as the "Manson Family". He executed the murders of nine people, not by killing them himself but by having his followers execute the murders. The murders included actress Sharon Tate. He was originally sentenced to death it was changed to life without parole because of California's change in death penalty rules. He died in 2017 at the age of 83. Manson also wrote and performed music. He had this idea that a race war was destined to happen.
Past Representation
Charles Manson is different from other killers. Not just because he didn't do the killings, but because while other killers gained fans during their trials, he already had fans. He was the leader of a fairly large cult in California, a cult full of young women who loved Manson and did what he wanted. These women who were on trial for murder, walked into the courtroom with smiles on their faces because they believed they had done what Charles asked. They were quite pleased with themselves. He encouraged his followers to kill the people that they did, and they listened. Other members of the family waited outside the courtroom and drew on their foreheads in support, Manson was talked about negatively through media and in the press, but he already had plenty of positive attention from his groupies who still supported him when found guilty.
Current Representation
Charles Manson still has followers. People who still believe in his message and who find him attractive and believe he was wrongfully imprisoned. People who like his music and who wrote to him while in jail. Some of his original followers from the cult still struggle to believe that what he did and what he was doing was wrong, but some have managed to work through the psychological damage he put them through. Charles Manson has been the subject of many books, movies, and in tv shows. Most recently he was in Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
