Charles Manson
Submitted by s10grl96 on October 4, 2007
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Charles Manson emerged as one of the most feared notorious criminals of all time. In the twenty-nine years since the so-called Tate-La Bianca murders, many people have speculated about what caused Charles Manson to become the monster he became. To be able to fully comprehend what could cause an innocent child to evolve into a ruthless calculating cold- blooded killer, one must completely examine the events of his life.
Charles Manson was born Charles Milles Maddox, the son of an unwed mother, in Cincinnati Ohio on November 12, 1934. His father, he stated in his autobiography, was a young drugstore cowboy, a transient laborer who abandoned Charles' mother when he learned that she was pregnant. Shortly after Charles' birth, Kathleen Maddox lived with a man named William Manson, and they eventually got married. William Manson gave his new stepson his name, although the marriage...