Career criminal Charles Manson may have lured his followers in with love and acceptance, but he'd later turn to violence to control those in his midst.
"When we ran to the desert, I knew. I knew we were on the run," said former Manson Family member Catherine Share on the new Peacock series Making Manson.
Charles Manson lured his followers in with the promise of an idyllic life centered on free love and acceptance, before indoctrinating them and convincing some of them to kill.
Some theorize actress Doris Day saved her only child's life by urging Terry Melcher to move out of the home that months later became the scene of horrific murders committed by members of the Manson Family.
Did Charles Manson believe the Beatles were sending subliminal messages through one of their hit albums or were the brutal murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and others really about self-preservation?
In never-before-heard conversations between the infamous cult leader and his friend, Charles Manson denied widely-disseminated theories that he ordered the murders because of music and race wars.
Charles Manson wasn't the only one in his family to serve time behind bars. His mom, Kathleen Maddox, also spent three years in a West Virginia prison when he was a child.
The death of infamous 1960s cult leader Charles Manson prompted a bizarre battle over who would gain possession of the prisoner's dead body, but one T.V. star claims to have some of his ashes on display.
“The one thing I noticed that night is I have never seen him that happy in my life,” a Manson family friend said of the young groom’s wedding reception.
Congressman Leo Ryan's visit to the South American compound, known as Jonestown, with a group of media in tow, ultimately led to shocking violence and death.
Barbara Hoyt was once a devoted follower of Charles Manson, but after fleeing the group in terror she'd later testify against Manson and other group members linked to the brutal murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends.
In a new filing, Richard Allen's lawyers requested a hearing in which the court determines whether a warrant was issued without probable cause, in the hopes that evidence gathered be tossed.
The nephew of a man murdered by the Manson Family said that Van Houten's prison release "profoundly impacts" the victims' families, calling her "a cold-blooded killer in one of the most notorious murder rampages in U.S. history."
