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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
