Charles Milles Manson (Cincinnati, 12 November 1934) is an American criminal.
Manson, the cult leader of the so-called Manson Family, and became as notorious for its condemnation to life imprisonment because of murder and instigation to do so, in what has become known as the case Tate / La Bianca (aka the “Manson murders” ), which in 1969 attracted much attention.
During the night of 8 August 9, 1969 urged members of the so-called Manson family, the house of actress Sharon Tate. Tate, who was eight months pregnant by Roman Polanski, was present together with some friends brutally murdered. The 18-year-old Steve Parent was the first victim. He was no friend of Sharon Tate, but he had visited the house of the caretaker, William Garretson . Just when he wanted to leave his car to the ground, he was shot four times by Tex Watson.
A day later, the businessman Leno La Bianca and his wife in their home killed by Manson’s group. Although there was no link between the victims, the murders were treated in the same lawsuit. The “Manson Family” was also suspected of other murders.
In March 1970 Manson came out with a music album ( Lie ), which he released to his defense to pay.
Charles Manson denied having killed someone and claimed not to have been present in the killings. Both killings he would house where the murders were committed have left before the murders were committed. In 1971, Charles Manson convicted of murder and to death condemned. In 1972, however, his death sentence converted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences had been declared.
Manson is to this day caught. All his requests for clemency were rejected to date. In 1986 he appeared with a tattoo on his forehead swastika on the committee had to decide on his request for clemency. Some estimates Manson receives 60,000 letters a year. Often the letters from people who joined the “Manson family” to join.
Charles Manson saw in May 2007 for the eleventh time since 1978 a parole pass to his nose. The decision was announced by the California Board of Prison. Who “rejected the request for clemency for murderer Charles Manson off after a visit to the state prison in Corcoran, where Manson the rest of his life spent,” says the press release of the board. Manson, according to the council ‘still a danger to society “. In 2012 he was a new request for clemency submission.