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Charles Manson Essay, Research Paper

On Saturday, August ninth, nineteen

sixty-nine, all hell broke loose with more than six dozen plunges of a carving

fork and knife, and the peaceful dyll was shattered. Out of the chaos caused by

the senseless, horrific murderers, 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 turned to be. 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 twelfth, nineteen thirty-four. 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 dissolved shortly thereafter. Raised in

a strict, religious home, Kathleen Maddox- Manson rebelled after the breakup of

her marriage. She reveled in her newfound freedom by drinking a lot and loving

freely. Like many young mothers, Kathleen was not yet ready for the

responsibilities that go along with the raising of a child. She had fled a

stifling home life and rushed into marriage, and she had a lot of living to do

before she settled down. Charles was passed from relative to relative to

baby-sitter, and was soon sold to a waitress in a restaurant in exchange for a

pitcher of beer. An uncle tracked him down and took him home several days later.

When Charles was five years old, his mother and a man were convicted of robbing

a service station in Charlestown, West Virginia. They’d used a Coke bottle to

knock the attendant unconscious. Caught and sentenced to five years in

Moundsville Prison, her work assignment was near death row. West Virginia was a

hanging state at that time, and part of Kathleen’s job was to clean the area

that included the scaffold. One day as she was cleaning, she saw a man being

escorted to the scaffold. Normally on hanging days, nobody except the person to

be executed and the prison officials were allowed near the hanging area, but on

that day, by accident or oversight, the prison officials neglected to inform

Kathleen of the day’s plans. Afraid she might be in trouble for being in the

vicinity, she hid in a nearby broom closet. When the trap sprung, the inmate’s

weight and sheer velocity caused the rope to sever his head, and as Kathleen

opened the door to get a glimpse of the hanging, it promptly rolled to

kathleen’s hiding place. She told Charles years later that mans eyes were still

wide open and death literally stared her in the face. Twenty-seven years after

that incident, Charles Milles Manson was placed on Death Row. In his

autobiography, "Manson: In His Own Words", he explained a sobering

moment."I looked at the gas chamber. The rooms two viewing windows looked

like two huge eyes of death. Instantly my mind flashed to my mother, and I had a

vision of her looking into the eyes of death. During that moment, I understood

more about my mom than any other time in my life". Charles’ mother was

released from prison when he was eight years old, and again he was either being

passed from relative to relative, or they moved around a lot. Eventually, when

Charles was twelve years old, his mother found a steady boyfriend. He soon tired

of having Charles around and gave Kathleen an ultimatum: him or Charles. Charles

was placed in the Gibault Home for Boys in Tierre Haute, Indiana. It was a

strict Catholic religious-oriented school, and the punishment for even the

tiniest infraction was either a wooden paddle, or a leather strap. Eventually,

living at Gibault got to be too much for Charles, and he ran away. He slept in

the woods, under bridges, and wherever else he could find a place. He finally

reached Indianapolis where he burglarized a grocery store for something to eat.

He found the cash register change in a cigar box under the counter. It was

slightly over a hundred dollars, and the first thing he did was rent a room in

Skid Row, and eat as much as he could possibly handle. A few days later he was

broke and tired so he’d steal whatever he could to accumulate a little extra

money. One day he stole a bicycle and was eventually arrested, the police

realized he was a runaway and located his mother. Unable to provide a stable

home life, Charles was placed in Father Flanagan’s Boy’s Town. Four days later,

he and another boy ran away. They stole a car and wrecked it, followed by

committing a few robberies resulted in their arrest, and they were placed in a

juvenile home. Charles’ stay there was a repeat of his stay in the previous

homes, and he was placed in a bonafied reform school. It was at the Indiana

School for Boys at Plainfield that Charles Manson was beaten and raped

repeatedly for over three years. He finally escaped successfully when he was

sixteen years old. Headed towards California, he and a friend stole cars and

robbed stores along the way. Again he was

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