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Charles Manson Aidan O’Sullivan
12569_2161P:Intro To Criminal Justice Systems
4/11/16
Sean Forde Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) was a criminal who in 1967 would suffer from extremely severe Beetlemania and form a cult named after himself, commonly called the Manson family, and lead them to murder nine people in a four month period of May to August in 1969 in preparation for “Helter Skelter” an apocalypse scenario brought about by a massive race war between black and white people. The most notorious of these murders were the murders of Sharon Tate and three of her friends (Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger) along with one unrelated passerby (Steven Parent) on the night August 8, 1969. Neither Manson nor his family knew any of these people, choosing to kill them because someone they knew (Terry Melcher) had formerly lived there a few months earlier and they believed he still he owned the house. Manson ordered one of his followers, Tex Watson, to take three others (Patricia Kerwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Linda Kasabian) and
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