"I’d Murder Everybody I Could": New Docuseries Has Chilling Conversations with Charles Manson

Charles Manson himself is revealing chilling new details about his life and the infamous murders that put him away for life. 

Although Manson died behind bars in 2017, Peacock’s new docuseries Making Manson, premiering Nov. 19, provides an exclusive glimpse into the charismatic cult leader, using more than a 100 hours of intimate recorded conversations with the convicted killer that were captured in the last 20 years of his life. 

“There’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows about,” Manson said from prison in the official trailer for the docuseries, released Wednesday. “I’d murder everybody I could. I’d kill y’all if I had the chance.”

What is Making Manson?

Manson gained infamy after he was linked to some of the country’s most notorious murders, effectively ending the free love movement of the late 1960s.

Although Manson isn’t suspected of wielding the knife himself, it’s believed that he ordered his followers and members of his cult, known as “The Family,” to go out into the night in August 1969 and kill pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others, before heading out again the following night to claim the lives of Rosemary and Leno LaBianca. 

Making Manson. Photo: Peacock

“Susie handed me a knife and said I love you so much. I took her life for you,” Manson recalled of follower Susan Atkins in the never-before-aired conversations.

In the tapes, Manson himself challenges the commonly accepted theory that the killings were prompted by his desire to start a race war, known as Helter Skelter, and provides his own thoughts on what led to the shocking violence.

Aside from the murders, Manson also opens up in Making Manson about his own troubled childhood, early criminal exploits, his true feelings about The Family decades later, and his final thoughts on his life before his death.

“This is Manson behind the curtain. You see that mask come off,” the man behind the jailhouse recordings revealed in the trailer.

In addition to Manson, the docuseries also will feature commentary from nearly 20 others, including former Family members, family members of the victims, and others whose lives once collided with the notorious killer or his case.

“I definitely loved Charlie,” former Family member Catherine “Gypsy” Share told Making Manson of his powerful influence at the time.

The three-part docuseries is executive produced by Max Welch, Kate Maddigan, Tim Withers and Duane Jones for Renowned Films.