It all started one fine day in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 12, 1934 when an illegitimate, unplanned little Charlie Manson, later to be one of America’s most notorious serial killers, was born to his sixteen-year-old, alcoholic mother by the name of Kathleen Maddox. Manson did not have a good childhood to begin with, and anyone can tell after reading about his childhood that it was no wonder he turned out the way he did. Growing up, Charlie lived with his grandmother and grandfather and his mother because she was only sixteen, so she still lived at home. Kathleen’s life was a mess and it was a fact that she did sleep around a lot as many other biographies of Manson’s life has stated, however, in Nuel Emmons’ book Manson in his Own Wor

Several days later, Susan was in a talky mood again and admitted to her inmates that she was the one that killed Sharon Tate. She went on to explain that they only chose that house because it was isolated and that they didn’t care who the owner was or who would be there that night. She explained how they went through with all the murders. Susan said with a laugh, “Sharon was the last to die, she kept saying ‘please don’t kill me. I don’t want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby.” Susan said she looked Sharon straight in the eye and said, “Look bitch, I don’t care about you. I don’t care if you’re going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You’re going to die and I don’t feel anything about it…In a few minutes I killed her.” Susan was clearly a maniac. She also explained how she tasted some of Sharon’s blood and wanted to take out Sharon’s unborn child and wrap it and give it to Manson because he would have been so proud of her. Susan ended her story admitting as well to helping to kill both of the LaBianca’s the next night. She explained, “And there’s more.” Susan gave a list of celebrity targets that were next on their list, this included: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and Tom Jones. She said that it was important to select the victims that would shock the world. Eventually Susan was taken in for the murders because one of her inmates told the police about what Susan had told her.

ds, Manson defends his mother and says, “Other writers have portrayed Mom as a teenage whore…In her search for acceptance she may have fallen in love too easily and too often, but a whore at that time? No!...In later years, because of hard knocks and tough times, she may have sold her body some…” One can tell in his explanation, some of Manson’s teachings about finding oneself and what not. Charlie never really had a father figure, which also created a big gap in his life and his mother had the habit of going off and leaving Charlie for long periods of time. Eventually, Kathleen and her brother were charged with armed robbery and sent to jail, so Manson had to live with his aunt and uncle. Eventually when Kathleen got out, she was still not responsible enough to take care of Charlie, and she never really lived a normal life. She enjoyed her constant drunkenness. Charlie’s life was very messed up, because he never had any had any stability in his life he moved from one “dingy rooming house to another.” There is also a story that goes around Manson’s family that he describes in Manson in his Own Words: “Mom was in the café one afternoon with me on her lap. The waitress, a would-be mother without a child of her own, jokingly told my Mom she’d buy me from her. Mom replied, ‘a pitcher of beer and he’s yours.’ The waitress set up the beer; Mom stuck around long enough to finish it off and left the place without me. Several days later my uncle had to search town for the waitress and take me home.”

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