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This week, I fell down a huge rabbit hole with this story.
My brain has turned to mush.
I never wanna talk about Charles Manson ever again.
Ever again.
There are so many layers to this **** story.
There is so much to this story.
I am so. (laughs)
I felt like I was losing my mind at some points,
but I'm here.
So, I don't know how long this is gonna be.
I'm gonna try and keep it short
because editing is a *****.
But I did like simplify it as much as I could.
There's a lot of names that are gonna be thrown your way.
So get ready.
Get ready to catch 'em.
You get it.
I had to simplify it a little bit
as best as I could without losing the overall story.
Charles Manson, here we go.
Charles Maddox was born November 12th, 1934.
So he's a Scorpio.
In Cincinnati, Ohio to his mother, Kathleen Maddox
who was just 15 at the time of his birth.
Charles wouldn't have a relationship
with his biological father.
His mother, Kathleen, she ended up marrying a man
by the name of William Manson.
About four months before she gave birth to Charles.
So Charles took the name Manson.
Then when the couple separated in 1937,
Charles kept the last name.
Tarnished that name.
That's for sure.
As a way to make money, Kathleen worked as a sex worker
and participated in petty crimes.
It was said that Charles' mother
wanted nothing to do with him.
That at one point when he was a baby,
his mom tried to sell him, as a baby, to a waitress
in return for a pitcher of beer.
To some people that's considered a fair trade.
In 1939, Kathleen was sent to prison for five years
for armed robbery.
And during this time, Charles,
was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in West Virginia.
If I call him Charlie and Charles,
just know it's the same person, whatever.
Charlie seemed to bounce around a lot.
He didn't really have a stable home
but he would visit his off the grid uncle
who lived in the Kentucky Mountains from time to time.
This uncle seemed to have like a lasting impression
on Charles, okay.
This uncle, he was an outcast
and would tell Charles not to go to those schools
because they brainwash kids and stuff.
You know, that uncle.
But Charlie said that he really liked him.
He was different.
He was off the grid man.
When Charlie was nine, he tried to set his school on fire.
And that's when they sent him to reform school.
Between 1942 and 1947,
Charles mom, she was out of prison
and he would stay with her,
which he said was like one of the happiest times
from his childhood.
Then she couldn't and she wouldn't take care of him anymore.
And then she was arrested again.
She wasn't able to put him in a foster home.
So the court stepped in
and placed him in a school for boys in Indiana.
The school was very strict and often abused the boys.
And after about 10 months, he ran away to find his mom.
But she really wanted nothing to do with him.
And when Charles found her,
she was like, s**t, you found me, **** it.
So as you can probably gather pretty loveless childhood.
Okay, great.
He spent a lot of his childhood
in different schools for boys.
He went to the famous Boys Town
which we could do like a whole story on this place alone.
Okay.
But not today.
But he went there.
And Charles would run away,
he would commit a robbery.
Then he would be some back,
he would go a different school for boys and repeat,
like it was just this cycle.
Then he got sent to another terrible place.
It was the Indiana Boys School
where Charles said that he would be beat and r***d
by people in charge.
He was heavily abused throughout these schools he attended.
He tried to run away here, but same thing.
He would run away, commit a crime like armed robbery, theft,
he robbed a gas station,
he was caught a couple of times trying to r**e
or m****t boys.
Then he would get arrested
and get sent back to a different school.
It was just like a hot mess.
When Charles reached 20 years old in 1955,
he married a 17 year old waitress named Rose.
Not long after she was pregnant.
The two of them stole a car and drove to Los Angeles.
When he was there,
he was caught and he was sentenced to three years in prison.
While Charlie sat in prison, Rose, she had her baby
she moved in with her family in Los Angeles.
Then she met another man and moved on.
And they separated.
Charles Manson had a baby.
Which is super sad 'cause later on in life,
I think he committed s*****e.
So when Charlie got out of prison, he just found odd jobs.
Like p*****g 16 year olds, stealing cars, forging checks,
stealing where he could.
He ended up getting another 10 year sentence
for violating his probation.
This time though he would only serve seven and a half years.
So this time though, when he was in prison,
he learned how to play guitar.
And that's when he like started to become
really into playing music.
Music is my passion.
Prison was rough, but it was like a home to Charlie.
And he was raised in there.
And it's really where he formed his outlook on life.
I mean, based off of what he said.
He refused to be programmed by the world
or go along with the expectations
of what was considered being a functioning normal adult.
Instead he would just sit in his jail cell,
play his guitar, and write music.
That's not me trying to make him sound
all peaches and cream, nay-nay.
Rumor has it, prison, is like super rough
and you don't play around there, okay?
There are rules to be followed.
So growing up in prison
and being in constant fight or flight mode,
I think just really like main and freaking psycho, I'm sure.
I mean, how do you come out normal in this situation.
In 1967, Charles was released from prison
and he actually asked if he could stay.
He didn't wanna go.
I mean, what the heck was he gonna do?
But this time when he left prison,
it was actually a lot different for him, okay?
He was in San Francisco in the mid 1960s.
Babe, things had changed.
Things had changed.
It was the time of the flower child.
Hippies were thriving
in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco.
Tons of young adults were coming from all over the place,
just coming out to the area to advocate for peace and love,
grow their hair out long, join a commune,
and just like go on a spiritual journey man.
But then LSD was introduced to the scene.
And now people were not only going
on their spiritual journeys,
but they were just straight up tripping balls.
That's when it starts to turn more aggressive.
Because drugs and money
and there was just like lots of journeys happening.
Anywho.
So Charles enters the scene, and he actually liked this
because these people were all about peace and love,
we don't need the system, sleep on the streets,
play music, do drugs.
He had long hair and a guitar.
It was just like Charles' cup of tea.
He fit right in.
He would play music on the streets.
People would gather around.
Anyone who met him
said that he had this charisma about him.
He just knew how to talk to people
and make them feel special, important, and like, heard.
So Charles, he really just started making friends.
One of his first followers was Lynette Fromme.
And she met Charlie early on
and said that he was just easy to talk to,
and his mind just really intrigued her.
Then soon after that, he met Pat Krenwinkel
at a mutual friend's house.
Charlie was there playing guitar,
people came over to hang out.
And Pat and Charlie ended up like really hitting it off
and involving in some sexual relations.
She said that she just felt very loved by him,
the way he gave her attention was fulfilling,
she was young.
She ran away from home.
She was desperate for love and attention.
And Charlie just gave that to her.
And he seemed to do that with a lot of different women.
So Charlie also had a man named Tex Watson
who joined the growing family.
A way to get a man to stay with the group
and join in on the fun.
Charlie would offer women to the men,
in hopes to gain their trust and get them to stay.
Charlie would like round up more women,
sell, trade them for sex.
He was really good at manipulating people.
And he mentioned that it's just something he learned
or like picked up in prison.
The prettiest girls, he called the front street girls.
And these were the ones
that he thought were the most attractive out of the bunch
and would lure others to join their group.
Like, hey, you should come meet my friend, Charlie.
He's super cool.
And like, you would really love it.
And then we can like do stuff, ah.
Over time, Charles was attracting more and more people
into his group or what he called his family.
He gained their trust, gave them drugs,
had sex, played music.
It was just like somewhere all the lost kids wanted to be.
Most of the followers left home.
They had like nothing to their name,
in search of a new life, anti-system, peace and love.
So finding a family of people with similar interests
really kept people there.
I think that's how a cult starts.
In the summer of 1967,
Charles and his family, they left San Francisco.
Got too much.
They left San Francisco in a bus
and they drove up and down the coast.
Just going from place to place,
which kept everybody entertained.
You know, they weren't getting bored,
'cause it was like new location, cool.
Haven't seen this rock before.
Eventually they made it to Los Angeles
where they spent most of their time.
Plus Charlie really wanted to like make a name for himself
playing music.
In March of 1968, two of the family members.
Two of the girls,
they were walking along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
I don't know what was going on, like what they were doing.
Maybe they were trying to find new family members.
But either way, they're just walking.
And they're hitchhiking,
'cause they're tryna find a ride
to where they were all staying at.
And Dennis Wilson ends up picking them up.
He's from The Beach Boys, who were a very popular group,
still pretty popular, right?
You hear The Beach Boys everywhere sometimes.
Especially like when you're shopping,
they always had The Beach Boys playing.
But they were very popular.
So yet like yeah, small world.
But he picks these two women up,
who belonged to the Manson Family.
To make a long story short,
the women tell him about the man that they're staying with,
a spiritual guru of some sorts, you know?
Spiritual guru his name is Charlie.
You should meet him.
And then Charles actually ends up going over
to Dennis Wilson's home.
They really seem to hit it off.
I mean, they became like BFFs.
Okay, so then they end up spending
like more and more time together.
And then soon the whole Manson Family ended up moving in
with Dennis Wilson and like his nice *** place.
They are living with him, doing drugs, playing music,
writing music, recording music together.
It seemed like Charles Manson
was on his way to becoming a Beach Boy.
Dennis Wilson really wanted him to be a part of the group.
But some of the other Beach Boys,
they just didn't like him.
They refused to work with him.
Some members of The Beach Boys were telling Dennis like,
hey you need to get rid of this guy, like, he's not good,
we're just getting all sorts of bad vibes,
you need to drop him.
All he wants to do is party, do drugs,
like he's just not good for you.
The Manson Family ends up getting kicked out
of Dennis' house.
And they ended up cutting ties with one another.
It's more complicated than that.
But for the most part, that is what happened.
The Beach Boys song, the "Bluebirds over the Mountain,"
was originally a song written by Manson,
that The Beach Boys recorded
and didn't credit him on. (chuckles)
But Charles says that was his song, okay?
And they didn't credit him on it.
So Charles is ****** obviously.
While they were living together,
Charlie met a well-known music producer named Terry Melcher.
Charles knew that this producer had altered his music
and honestly just hated him.
He hated Charlie.
Because he just didn't like him, they had issues.
And then he ended up stealing his music, and altering it,
and using it and not crediting him.
So Charlie is obviously very ****** off,
and held a very nasty grudge against this producer.
And there really wasn't anything he could do about it.
Terry is important.
So remember Terry.
August of 1968, Susan Atkins
who was like a time family member at this point,
found the family, a new home.
It was an old Western movie set
which had been turned into a writing stable.
It was owned at the time by an 80 year old half blind man
named George Spahn.
So they find this place, they think it's perfect, great.
The whole gang moved in.
Great location for a cult, honestly.
So soon after a woman by the name of Leslie Van Houten
she joined the family,
and they all stayed in that old torn down movie set,
Spahn Ranch.
It was said to be all like fun and innocent,
they spent time play acting movie roles.
Kind of like summer camp with your friends.
So it was said when they were there,
it was like time didn't exist.
There was no time.
They were all just living in the moment. The now.
They would pretend every day was Halloween,
and they would dress up in costumes, play different roles,
and it was just a way for them to get out of themselves.
Let their ego go and their worldviews.
And by removing their egos, it would allow Charlie in
and change their views on the world.
Charlie would tell family members that society was corrupt
and that they needed to forget everything
they've ever learned.
If I can talk. (laughs)
Charlie would tell them that like he was the noble one,
the one with all the answers, and only he knew the truth.
So the family, they would drop acid all the time
and they would do different exercises together
while tripping balls, you know?
He would make everyone sit around like in a circle,
and he would be in the middle
and he would have everybody focus on him.
He was the focal point.
He would also tell them to get rid of their past,
forget their mothers and fathers.
and that they needed to die in order to be rebuilt.
Some of the members said that it's funny, we can laugh,
but it's not funny, well, it's funny.
Because some of the members said
that like he even reenacted the crucifixion
while they were on LSD.
And because they were tripping, it was like,
oh my God, Jesus is melting.
That's Jesus, bro.
So this group they're cut off from society
in the middle of nowhere, doing drugs every day,
with the same people, brainwashing seemed to happen.
Charles, his philosophy was the notion of oneness,
and the power of love.
But over time, he got more and more paranoid.
His messaging would become darker.
There was no right or wrong in life,
death and life were the same thing.
Not to fear it.
Death was actually a welcoming to a better life.
This is what he's telling them.
It was said, it got to a point
where like Charlie stopped letting anybody
leave the compound without his permission.
They weren't allowed to listen to any music
except for The Beatles, The Moody Blues,
or Charles' his own music.
Like I mentioned in last Monday's upload,
in 1966, there was like a bunch of riots going on,
protesting against the war in Vietnam.
So Charlie was following this
but wouldn't allow his members to know
about what was going on.
But he seemed to be becoming paranoid
that there was going to be a race war happening soon.
Now this is where things get tricky,
and people have different versions for what happened next.
There's the "Helter Skelter" version, which I'll explain.
And then there's like the drug deal gone wrong version,
that I personally think is what really happened.
I don't think the "Helter Skelter" doomsday cult thing
was a thing.
I'll explain.
I know, controversial.
Oh my God.
So July 1969, one of the followers was Tex.
His name was Tex.
Remember? Okay, cool.
So he was also a drug dealer while living on the ranch.
It was said that Tex went to go to a deal
with another dealer named Bernard Crowe in Los Angeles.
Tex was buying a lot of drugs from the guy,
like $1,200 worth.
Tex didn't have all of the money, but he told Bernard,
hey, I'll take the drugs get the rest of your money
and then come back and pay you.
'Cause you know, that always works.
Bernard was like, how do I know you're gonna come back?
And Tex was like, here's my girlfriend.
I'll have her stay with you.
She'll stay here with you as collateral.
He agrees.
And then Tex takes off.
Tex never comes back.
Yeah, I know what a ******.
So his girlfriend is probably
like, yeah, don't worry he's coming back,
he's a man of his word, he would never just leave me here.
And then like 12 hours go by.
And she's like, yeah, maybe he got sidetracked or something,
he loves me, he's coming back.
He's not coming back is he?
No? Okay.
So some time passes.
Bernard still has the girlfriend hostage, mind you.
And then he calls up Tex.
Now Tex, his real name was also Charles.
But everyone called him Tex.
So Bernard calls on the number to reach Tex at the compound
or whatever Bernard asks for Charles,
because he means Tex.
But it was actually Charles Manson
that was on the other end, yeah.
So Bernard is like, I want my money, where's my money.
Bernard then said that if he didn't get his money
he was going to burn down the ranch and r**e all his women.
So Charles Manson then decides to take matters
into his own hand.
He goes down to meet with Bernard walks in.
They fight, Charles shoots him, Charles grabs the girl.
And then he leaves him behind, Bernard actually survives.
But Charlie doesn't know that, he thinks he's dead.
Charlie starts to get really paranoid
because he believed
that Bernard belonged to the group Black Panthers.
And that they were going to come after him
and his family for what he did.
I mean, this guy, Bernard was like a big wig drug dealer.
Once someone got word, it was like,
it was gonna be over for him.
So Charlie starts warning the family members
that the Black Panthers are going to kill them.
And that they need to learn how to fend for themselves.
But he's just getting really paranoid,
and hopes that nobody finds out what he did.
He decides that he needs to get the family members
to commit crimes, and then make them complicit
in the crimes that he had committed.
I feel like criminals always over-complicate things.
That's just a personal opinion though.
But I feel like it's very true.
Due to his growing paranoia,
that the black Panther group was coming after him,
Charles enlisted a motorcycle gang
called The Straight Satans for protection over the compound.
In exchange for protection, Charlie promised him or them,
all the girls they wanted.
Here's where I'm gonna throw some names at you,
but it's fine, just follow it.
So one day the biker guys wanted drugs.
They wanna do some drugs.
And one of the family members his name was Bobby.
He said that there was a guy named Gary Hinman
who would be able to supply them with some goods.
So the biker guys give Bobby some money
and he goes and he gets drugs from Gary.
So the biker guys, they do the drugs.
Afterwards, they're ******.
They're because the guys from The Straight Satans,
said the drugs were bad and they wanted their money back
for being ripped off.
These guys were growing more and more angry
threatening to kill people
if they didn't get their money back.
So Charlie told Bobby and two other family members,
Mary Brunner and Susan Atkins to go with Bobby
and get the money back from Gary Hinman
because he didn't want any problems with the biker guys.
Like you didn't wanna be on their bad side.
Charlie already believed
that the Black Panthers were after him.
He didn't want The Straight Satans after him either.
So the three of them head out
and when they get to Gary's house,
they have like a gun and stuff, they're threatened him.
They're like we want our money back,
the drugs were fake, whatever.
Gary refused to give them the money back saying
that the drugs were good.
And he didn't even have the money,
'cause he already spent it.
And then things seem to escalade.
Escalade.
Things escalated.
And then Bobby, Mary, and Susan stayed at Gary's house
for like two days.
They had him tied up.
They're trying to reason with him to give up the money
or give them something valuable
that he could give to The Straight Satans
in lieu of the money.
At some point there was like a bit of a struggle
that happened.
And one of the girls ends up calling Charlie Manson
to let him know that Gary wasn't cooperating.
And then Charles was like, okay, I'll be right there.
Bobby regained control.
And then soon after Gary agreed to sign over his cars,
which were worth about a thousand dollars.
He could use the cars in lieu of the money.
So they're making this agreement, cool.
Then, this sounds like a cheesy movie, but this is yes.
Then Charlie comes busting through the door.
He has a Confederate knife, busted through the door,
cut Gary across the face, starts threatening him.
Bobby was like, okay, that was really unnecessary, you know?
But what do we do now?
We can't just let him go.
He'll rat us out.
Bobby ends up killing Gary,
because that was really his only option.
So he takes the knife and he just kills Gary.
So before leaving Gary's house,
Bobby wrote on the walls in Gary's blood.
He drew a Black Panther paw print,
along with the words, "Political piggy."
And he did this because it was recommended to him
by Charles Manson
because he wanted to throw off investigators
and make them believe that the murder
was related to the Black Panthers,
tying back to the Bernard Crowe shooting.
Like maybe they would tie those two together.
Not long after though Bobby, was pulled over and arrested
in one of Gary's cars.
And he was being charged with the murdie...
(Bailey laughs)
He was being charged for the murder of Gary Hinman
because he did it, yeah, you know?
So yeah, it makes sense.
Bobby was a family member though, okay?
The group stood up for their family members.
So when he was arrested,
Charlie started getting really paranoid
that things were gonna lead back to him.
He knew that they had to get Bobby out.
So the group decided to kill again.
They would stage it to look like a copycat murder,
leading investigators to believe
whoever did it, also probably committed
the Gary Hinman murder,
which meant Bobby wasn't involved because he was in jail.
So it would make them think that they had the wrong guy
and then Bobby would be set free.
Flawless plan.
Totally makes sense.
Nobody will know.
Again, criminals always over-complicate things,
but this is what they're thinking.
So back at Spahn Ranch, Charlie and Tex,
they were like trying to come up with a plan.
Who do we hate that we can kill
and create like this copycat scene?
Hmm.
Terry Melcher.
Remember?
The music producer. Yeah.
So Charlie had been to Terry's home at one point
when they were living with The Beach Boy.
So he knew where Terry lived.
August 9th, 1969,
in a big old house on Cielo Drive in Los Angeles,
is where actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant.
And her movie director, husband, Roman Polanski,
were renting Terry Melcher's home.
Talk about wrong place, wrong **** time.
Now on this night, Roman was in the UK
and Sharon was at home with her friends
having like a little get together, just hanging out.
Along with Sharon was her ex-boyfriend or fiance,
and friend hairstylist, Jay Sebring.
Iconic hairstylist.
Also coffee heiress Abigail Folger was there.
Yeah, "Folgers In Your Cup" queen.
Yeah, she's there.
Abigail's boyfriend was also there, Wojciech Frykowski.
He was there too.
There was also a man named Steven Parent,
who was visiting the home, taking care of the property.
So the family members, Tex, Pat, Linda and Susan,
get into the car and they drive out to the home.
Charles tells them to do everything that Tex says
but doesn't tell them like what it is they're doing.
Except for Tex, he's the only one that knows.
When they arrive late at night,
Tex went onto the property first,
that's when he came across Steven Parent,
who was like literally in his car.
Like it looked like, he just put the keys in or something,
'cause he was about to leave and go home.
Poor Steven.
He was shot by Tex four times.
So then after that Tex goes back to the car
and told the girls like, come on, come with me,
we're going inside down.
Tex was able to get into the house through an unlocked door
and let the others in.
And then in the living room,
Tex was trying to deal with Jay Sebring,
who he came across first.
And he had him on the floor,
he was trying to tie him up.
Tex, asked Susan to go and check the back rooms
and like bring everyone into the living room.
So Tex and Jay are in the living room
and they're starting to fight
because Jay's trying to run away, escape.
But sadly Tex shot him and killed him.
It was said that Tex was the one who killed most that night.
But like they all participated in their own ways.
It was just a really gruesome scene.
There was blood everywhere.
Everyone was brutally murdered.
It was just horrifying.
Then in Sharon Tate's blood
there was the word pig written on the front door.
They were trying to tie it back to the previous murder.
In total, the victims had been stabbed 102 times.
And they had gunshot wounds.
So it was like a little much.
Like they're dead.
We get it.
Now many believe that this was some kind
of satanic ritual type of killing.
And when the media got ahold of it, it was a massive story.
Hollywood was terrified.
Celebrities were thinking
that like someone was gonna come to them
and killed them next.
It's believed Charlie had the family members involved
in the Tate murders
to prevent them from talking to police
about the Bernard and Garry murder,
'cause now their hands were dirty too.
So they were hoping that back at the crime scene
the police would be making the connection
between the two murders.
Unfortunately, the police never made that connection.
They didn't connect the twos.
So great plan.
Worked great.
So the next night,
another murder was in the works.
This time, it would be at the home
of a grocery company executive named Leno and his wife,
Rosemary LaBianca.
Now this was being like a very different section
of Los Angeles.
This night though, Leslie van Houghton.
She went along, to like prove her loyalty to Charlie
and the family.
She said that before going,
she knew people were gonna die,
but she like wanted to prove herself.
Charlie, Leslie, Pat, Tex, Linda and Susan
all crammed into a car.
And he drove around for a while before they stopped
at the house that they were gonna hit next.
Charles went in first
and tied up the LaBiancas then he left.
So the rest of the gang they came in,
they're struggling with the LaBiancas.
The two girls were going to kill the LaBiancas.
But I think they chickened out
and they asked Tex to come in, kill them.
So he killed the husband and wife.
And then the girls took the knives and stabbed them
and like cut them up and carved in their body,
because Tex said that they needed to do something.
Again, it was a pretty brutal and awful scene.
Anything bad you can imagine, that was it okay?
That was the scene.
It was not nice.
The LaBiancas, had been stabbed a total of 67 times.
Once again, they used their blood
and they wrote death to pigs, rise,
and "Helter Skelter" on the walls and the fridge.
"Helter Skelter," which they spelled wrong first of all,
great, was referencing the Beatles song "Helter Skelter"
from the "White Album."
The only thing that they were allowed to listen to
on Spahn Ranch
Charles believed the music, incited a race war and murder.
Because The Beatles were huge,
they thought that investigators would make this connection
because they are trying to make it look
like a copycat murder.
So they wrote in the blood again,
they'll connect it with the Sharon Tate ones,
Sharon Tate connects to the Gary ones,
Gary one leads back to the drug dealer.
So it was said that the reason they killed again
was because they didn't realize
that the Tate murders were going to become so big,
'cause it wasn't supposed to.
It was just supposed to be Terry Melcher there.
But it was all over the news
and everybody was talking about it.
And that wasn't the plan.
So they needed to hit again.
The reason that Charlie picked the LaBianca's home
because it may seem super random, but it wasn't random.
Not at all.
Nay-nay.
Like mentioned earlier, Charlie, he held a grudge
and he never forgot when you did him wrong.
The LaBianca's they lived next door
to a guy named Harold True.
We don't need to know him, but he was there.
Harold was a friend to Charlie and the family.
They actually stayed at Harold's house for a bit of time.
The family, again, they like moved in to Harold's house,
and were living there for some time.
But I guess they were causing a bit of a ruckus.
And the neighbors called the cops,
which led to Charlie and the family having to move out.
Who were the neighbors?
The LaBiancas of course.
That's why he decided to kill them that night
because he remembered that.
And because they needed another copycat murder.
Also Charlie remembered that the LaBiancas liked to gamble
and had lots of money,
money that he needed to pay back The Straight Satans.
That's his plan.
So over the years, Charlie had said
that like he was never there at the LaBiancas
in interviews and whatnot.
But everyone said he was the one
who drove to the LaBianca house,
and that he went in for a bit, for a period of time.
While inside, after tying the LaBiancas up,
Charlie went and grabbed Rosemary LaBianca's wallet
then waited for the gang back in the car.
Once the murders were complete,
Charlie then took them to a house in Venice beach
which was right next to The Straight Satans clubhouse.
Mind you, it was like 4:00 AM.
And there's many speculation as to why they went there.
Some say it was to commit another murder
but many believe it was actually because Charlie went there
to give The Straight Satans the money owed
and regain their protection over Spahn Ranch.
Which makes sense,
because he just got the money from the LaBiancas.
Back at Spahn Ranch,
there was a ranch hand named Donald Shea
who was a Hollywood stuntman actor,
but also helped out around the ranch.
Now he didn't like the family.
He thought they were trying or they were taking advantage
of the old man who owned it.
And on August 16th, 1969,
26 members of the family were arrested
on suspicion of auto theft.
It didn't last long though
due to like some paperwork errors, they were all released.
But because of this,
Charlie thought that the ranch hand Donald,
tip them off to police.
And when they got back to the ranch, Donald Shea
was never seen again, just vanished.
****, gone.
So now that they're on police's radar,
they wanted somewhere else to live.
And the group ends up moving to Barker Ranch
in Death Valley,
which was like an old mining property
that was pretty cut off from the world.
So they were there for a bit.
Then on October 12th 1969,
officers raided the Barker Ranch
on suspicion of auto theft, again.
24 members were arrested this time.
Now they didn't even know
that these people were involved with the murders going on,
they were just there and you know, auto theft,
you're arrested auto theft, let's go.
Now this time though, while in jail,
one of the family members, Susan Atkins, she blabbed,
she told her cellmates
that she and the family were involved
with the murder of Sharon Tate.
I don't know why I'm whispering, but I am.
She was kind of bragging about it.
Like, oh, you're looking at her.
I'm the one who was involved based off interviews
with the cellmate.
Yes, I would like went down a rabbit hole.
Anyway, the cellmate tells investigators this information
because hello, I want a lesser sentence.
I'm gonna rat on you, which they did.
And this, my friends is where it all just falls apart.
Goodbye.
December, 1969, four months after the crimes.
Oh, a lot of things happened in between here
but it's like nothing that really makes a difference.
It's just B.S.
Charles Manson and five members were being charged
with the Tate and LaBianca murders.
In June 15th 1970, the trial starts.
Charles, Charlie, Mr. Manson.
He asked for permission to serve as his own attorney,
but he was denied.
They should have let him, no they shouldn't have.
He was denied.
Susan Atkins gave a testimony and described in great detail.
What happened the night of the Tate murders.
She had like little to no emotion
and showed not a lot of remorse.
It was very awkward.
They didn't wanna use her as a witness
because they thought it wouldn't help
the "Helter Skelter" story
that prosecutors were going to focus on,
which we will get into.
So they ended up not using her.
They like you're a bad look, get out of here.
Now the main problem was that Charles Manson
was not at the murder scene during the Tate murders
and did not participate in the LaBianca murders.
So they had to get him with circumstantial evidence.
And by the law of conspiracy.
I know, confusing.
They didn't have any proof that he did a **** thing.
So prosecutors, had to get creative
and come up with a storyline
that would convict Charles Manson.
Now Hollywood was going crazy over this trial.
And day after day, Charlie would come into court.
All of this was like being filmed for TV news,
he would just spew some wild ****.
He was playing to the courtroom.
He knew it was a circus and he was feeding into it.
Charlie would have like constant stare offs with the camera,
because he knew that people would be like,
oh my God, what a fricking weirdo.
And then he would also do it to the jury members.
He would just stare at the jury
and then it just made them feel extremely uncomfortable.
He was just aggressive, intimidating, and very strange.
But the media was loving it.
They're like, oh, this is just bizarre.
We're in.
So every day Charles Manson,
and the three girls they would meet and they would discuss
like what they were gonna do in court that day.
For example, one day he wanted them all to stand up
and hold hands in some symbols.
Another day he wanted them to get up and scream.
Or he wanted them to sing his songs,
when they were walking into court.
It is creepy.
It is weird.
And I think he just loved that.
It was just a weird performance that nobody asked for.
So the rest of the Manson Family members
were banned from court proceedings for disrupting the court.
So they moved out to the hallways
and they also kept a vigil outside to show their support.
Charles carved an X into his forehead at one point
to symbolize his removal from society.
And in the three girls did the same as well.
Eventually down the line,
he turned that X into a swastika.
So that's great, he seems like a real hoot of a guy, wow.
So again, TV news went wild.
Everyone went wild.
Girls gone wild.
It was just all wild.
So here's where the "Helter Skelter" story came into play
and is what Charles Manson is really remembered by nowadays.
They go hand in hand.
The prosecutor, his name is Vincent Bugliosi,
whatever the hell.
Now Vincent was said to be a very great prosecutor.
He was a known womanizer and he loved attention.
He brought in another guy with him
during the court proceedings,
who everyone thought was like his assistant or extra help,
but really, the guy was there
to help Vincent write a book on the case.
Which he didn't mention to anyone 'til after the fact.
So he brings in the guy, the guy is taking notes,
gonna help him write a book.
The "Helter Skelter" story that was presented in court,
was that Charles Manson formed a cult
filled with people who didn't want to be a part of society.
Okay? Facts.
Charles wanted to be a rock star.
He was obsessed with the Beatles, The Beach Boys.
Through The Beach Boys is how he came to meet Terry Melcher,
who stole his music
and represented the establishment to Charlie.
Charlie hated the establishment.
He believed that The Beatles were predicting a race war
through hidden messages in their songs,
and he needed to prepare for this race war.
Charles brainwashed his members
in believing that there was a race war about to take place,
order them to kill Gary Hinman,
then ordered them to kill white people
and frame black people, by telling his followers
to kill whoever lived at Terry's house.
Then Charles picked another house at random to attack,
the LaBiancas, and ordered everyone to be killed.
The plot was to frame black people
by having his followers leave messages
and lines from The Beatles' "White Album"
at the crime scene.
This would then lead to a race war.
Once the race war started,
Charles and his family would hide in the desert
until it was over.
Then Charles would come out of hiding
and become leader of the black army and rebuild the world.
This in summary, is the story that convicted Charles
and gained Vincent fame and fortune,
for selling his bestselling book, "Helter Skelter."
But we'll get into that too.
This whole story was created
which I think there are bits and pieces correct in there,
like Charles Manson, do not be mistaken,
he was super freaking racist, disturbed man.
This reason as to why Charles Manson committed these crimes,
made for a shocking story.
But most of all, it set Charles up for first-degree murder
and conspiracy under California law.
Without the "Helter Skelter" storyline,
there was no evidence that Charles
wanted to make these murders happen
or even participated in them.
So the only way to get him convicted
was by enhancing what happened.
Charlie's plan to start a race war
would make him responsible for all crimes committed.
If the prosecution mentioned to the court the auto thefts,
the drugs, the ****, "Barnard killing"
then the "Helter Skelter story or whatever.
It just wouldn't make sense.
So they didn't even introduce any of that.
They didn't even try to explain
the whole Garry killing either.
They really didn't, because how does that fit in
with the doomsday cult mentality?
It didn't.
Which in court could lead to reasonable doubt.
Possibly leaving jurors to think,
hmm, maybe it had to do with a drug deal gone bad
and not a cult.
Maybe Charlie technically didn't do anything.
And the prosecution did not want that.
Their job was to get Charlie arrested.
Plus he is a danger to society.
So they needed to go like,
how do we make sure he gets locked up?
So this whole story just blew up.
Everybody was talking about "Helter Skelter,"
how terrifying it all was.
And then that became the story that really defined
this whole, everything Charles Manson.
And many believe that it really wasn't even true.
The court hearings were a hot mess,
I'm just gonna glaze over it, they were a hot mess.
In the end though, on March 29th,
Charlie was charged with seven counts
of first-degree murder,
and one count of conspiracy to commit murder
for the deaths of Abigail, Wojciech, Steve, Sharon,
Jay, Leno and his wife, Rosemary.
Guilty, goodbye.
Pat, Leslie, and Susan, they were also charged with murder
and the jury had called for the death penalty
for all four defendants.
The three girls were like, I'm not trying to say,
that there wasn't like brainwashing happening
and a cult mentality.
Charlie's followers were like ride or die for him.
These girls were like loyal to him.
They were like, he is everything to us.
And they just did everything that he said.
I just don't want that to get lost,
because I think that's very true.
So they go to prison goodbye.
Now in 1972, The Supreme Court overturned the death penalty.
So sentences were turned into life imprisonment.
Charlie said at the end of the trial,
all they really accomplished,
was sending him right back to where he started.
And he really wasn't wrong there.
Now throughout the years, most of them have done interviews
behind prison walls or whatever.
Where they have showed great remorse for what they've done.
Except for that one girl, she was like really weird.
Who was it Susan?
I think it was Susan.
I think as they got older,
they just kinda came to their senses.
Not so much, Charlie though.
He never, never, owned up to his part
in the choices that they made.
He would say over and over again until his dying day
that he never told them what to do,
that they made their choices on their own,
and he had nothing to do with any of it.
And I think that's why Charles Manson remains so infamous
because he never actually did anything.
He got these other people to commit the crimes for him.
He never got his hands dirty.
But he did shoot the Bernard guy.
So he did technically, sorry.
Also the whole like "Helter Skelter" doomsday cult story
added to it.
People just love cults.
So it just took him to this iconic infamous being, I guess.
In 1974, Vincent Buglogloie, the prosecutor,
well, he was now an author,
because he released his book "Helter Skelter,"
which was based off of the Manson case.
And it became the best selling true crime book in hi-story.
History.
Selling over 7 million copies.
So it brought him great success.
Vincent was just riding the wave.
A lot more things happened
but this video is already super long.
So yeah, but everyone remained.
And some still, to this day, remain in prison.
Leslie van Houten, she was sentenced to life in prison.
She's 68 now and she's been denied parole numerous times.
Susan Atkins died in prison of brain cancer in 2009.
Pat Krenwinkel, is now 73 and still in prison.
She's been denied parole numerous times as well.
Tex Watson.
Tex was like the most f****d up out of all of them, okay?
Like he was really crazy, but he's 75 now.
And he's still in prison.
He's been denied parole numerous times as well.
But he has become a born again Christian
and runs a Christian outreach site from prison.
Linda Kasabian, I didn't really talk about her that much,
but she was involved.
I'm assuming that she came from money
because she got a good attorney, okay?
She was charged with nothing.
She was there the night of the Tate murders as the lookout.
And then she also helped like clean
and dispose of the weapons and whatnot.
But she was charged with nothing,
because she was considered a star witness
for the prosecutor's case against Charles Manson.
She told them everything they wanted.
And then afterwards she disappeared,
changed her name, she was like, bye.
Linda's done a couple of interviews
since this whole thing, like later in life.
And you can find them on YouTube.
And her face is always like blacked out,
'cause she doesn't want anyone to know what she looks like.
She kind of has meth face.
And that's not me trying to be a dick.
I don't really blame her for doing meth.
Like, come on, just tell your truth.
It's been a hundred years.
Bobby, remember Bobby in the very beginning?
He killed Gary Hinman.
He's 71 now, and he's still in prison.
Yeah, he was convicted for murder for killing Gary,
so he's still in prison.
Another family member, Steve Grogan.
We didn't talk about him,
but he was charged for the murder of Donald Shea.
The Spahn Ranch hand that went missing.
Yeah. Well, Steve was charged,
but Steve was granted parole after serving 15 years
for Donald's murder.
He was allowed his freedom after telling authorities
where Donald's body had been disposed.
Lucky him, I guess, you know?
Charles Manson remained behind bars until the age of 83.
And then he died on November 19th, 2017 in prison.
Oh my God, not long after his birthday.
Like a full circle.
But he had a heart attack or something, I don't know.
He needed to go.
Goodbye.
He was just (sighs) exhausting.
I watched so many interviews with this dude.
He just talks in circles
but people find him absolutely fascinating.
He says nothing really.
He just talks.
I couldn't take it anymore.
Charles Manson wasn't a god or Jesus-like figure.
He was just an odd little man
who was abandoned by his parents,
who wanted attention and validation,
and was just filled with hate and did terrible things.
Charles Manson has so many fan girls and guys, or did.
I mean, people love the guy.
And they believe that he was 100% innocent
and didn't need to be in prison.
But what I don't think these morons realize
is that maybe he wanted to be in prison.
Maybe it was his home.
I mean, look what happens when he's out?
Nothing good.
Like they were fighting so hard for him
to be proven innocent.
It's like, babe, babe, no.
We don't need that, no.
There are so many people out there who idolize this guy.
I just will never understand it.
It's so bizarre.
I've said this before and I will say it again.
Get (claps) better (claps) idols.
There are so many great people out there
who have done amazing things.
Why idolize someone who's just f*****g weird
with a swastika on their forehead?
You f*****g morons.
I think it is fair to say,
that Charles Manson had a very difficult life
and now he's dead.
The end.
That is a story about Charles Manson.
I told the other version, drug deal gone bad,
but there's a lot of people,
and a lot of stories and versions about the "Helter Skelter"
where it involves a doomsday cult.
After this week of binge-watching frickin 'everything
that had to do a Charles, I just personally believe
that the doomsday cult wasn't the thing.
I think it was just a drug deal gone bad.
Either way, they needed something to prosecute him on,
and they had to create some kind of story to get him.
Because if they didn't, then he would have been out
and they didn't want that.
If they did do that, is that morally right?
I don't know.
I'm just someone on YouTube in a box.
Anyways, it's still all sad though
because they were like really murdered.
Like really, really murdered.
If you made it all the way to the end, congratulations,
I love you and appreciate you, you're the best.
Wow, you're my best friend.
I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day.
My voice hurts.
I think I lost it.
Let me know your thoughts down below
and who you want me to talk about next week.
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I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
You make good choices.
And I'll be seeing you next week.
Bye.
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