CHILD WARNING EFFORTPOST Confirmed Murders Committed by The Manson Family

Piece-of-Shit Charles Manson and His Doomsday Cult

As Far as I can tell, there hasn't been a thorough post made on the murders orchestrated by Charles Manson and committed by his cult followers. The details of his childhood are omitted here, but it was generally an extremely unpleasant one, including extreme neglect by his mother and an early predisposition to crime.

(Manson in his 1968 mugshot)

Charles Milles Maddox (known as Charles Manson) was born on November 12th, 1934.

After moving to San Francisco in 1969, he met 23-year-old Mary Brunner and moved in with her. Before long, he had convinced 18 girls/women to live with him; he was building up a cult following by targeting insecure and lonely people who he found easy to manipulate. He convinced his followers that he was a “guru”, that they were the reincarnations of the “Original Christians”, and that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. The group (later called “The Manson Family” by investigators and media) traveled along the west coast of the US in an old school bus- they eventually settled in the Los Angeles area of California. In April of 1968, Brunner gave birth to her and Manson's son, Valentine Michael, who unsurprisingly grew up in subpar conditions. Manson would heavily drug his followers into submission and obedience with LSD. He also utilized sexual abuse to attain these goals. In his book ‘Love Needs Care', writer David Smith wrote that Manson aimed to turn his followers into “[…] empty vessels that would accept anything he poured”.

(Brunner in her 1968 mugshot)

During April that same year, Manson became involved with The Beach Boys, where he and band member Dennis Wilson became good friends. The latter introduced Manson to various figures in the music industry; The Beach Boys even recorded one of his songs (originally titled “Ceased to Exist”, but renamed “Never Learn Not to Love”). However, Wilson was credited as the only writer. This sparked tension between the two, and Manson and his Family ended up wrecking two of Wilson's car in retaliation. Wilson moved out of his house eventually to separate himself from Manson, and the Family took over the home completely.

(A popular photoshopped/fake picture of Wilson and Manson together)

After being evicted from this house, the Manson Family moved to the derelict Spahn Ranch, living there for free at the cost of the female members doing chores around the property and having sex with the 80-year-old owner. The Family morphed, over time, into a doomsday cult, as Manson- an avid White Supremacist- foretold of a looming race war (which he called “Helter Skelter”) between the minority black population and the majority white population. Manson claimed that the black population would kill off every white person in the country save for the Family, but that they needed Manson to lead/guide them afterward, because they could not survive on their own.

(Members of the Manson Family, as well as Spahn Ranch)

The Manson Family was charged with 9 counts of first degree murder.

The first confirmed murder was of Gary Alan Hinman. Three members of the Family were sent, as per the instruction of Manson, went to Hinman's home to try to convince him to join the cult. They ended up holding him hostage for two days, before Manson himself arrived at the home and mutilated his face with a sword. Then, one of the Family members stabbed Hinman to death, and one of the three used his blood to write “political piggy” on the wall.

(Hinman before his murder)

(Crime scene photos)

The Tate murders occurred following this, and are considered the most famous of the Family's murders. Manson had instructed four of his followers (Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Kasabian) to go into the house located at 10050 Cielo Drive and "totally destroy everyone in it, and to do it as gruesome as [they could]". The first victim was 18–year-old Steven Earl Parent, whom Watson threatened with a .22 caliber revolver, gruesomely stabbed in the hand, and fatally shot four times in the chest, being left to die in the driver's seat of his car. After breaking in to the house, Watson accidentally awoke 32-year-old Wojciech Frykowski, who was asleep in the living room. After being asked who he was, Watson replied: "I'm the devil, and I'm here to do the devil's business."

(Crime scene photo of Parent's body)

After finding the three other occupants of the house, he tied 26-year-old Sharon Tate (who was heavily pregnant at the time) and 35-year-old Jay Sebring together by the neck, slinging it over a ceiling beam. Watson then shot Sebring at his protests against Tate's treatment, eventually also stabbing him seven times. Frykowski's hands had been bound with a towel, but he freed himself; he began struggling with Atkins, who stabbed him multiple times in the legs. Frykowski had managed to escape to the front porch, only to be caught by Watson and bludgeoned with the butt of his gun, stabbed repeatedly, and shot twice.

Krenwinkel had pursued the running 25-year-old Abigail Anne Folger, and- with the help of Watson- stabbed her 28 times, killing her. Frykowski struggled across the lawn, but Watson continued to stab him, killing him. Frykowski suffered fifty-one stab wounds; he had also been struck thirteen times in the head with the butt of Watson's gun.

(The body of Folger)

(The body of Frykowski)

In the house, Tate pleaded to be allowed to live long enough to give birth and offered herself as a hostage in an attempt to save the life of her unborn child. However, both Atkins and Watson stabbed Tate sixteen times, killing her. The coroner's inquest found that Tate was still alive when she was hanged, although the cause of her death was determined as a "massive hemorrhage", while in Sebring was found to have been hanged to death.

(The bodies of Tate and Sebring)

The following night, the third set of murders took place. The previous four perpetrators, along with Manson and his followers Van Houten and Grogan, drove to 3301 Waverly Drive in Los Angeles. The house located there belonged to 44-year-old Leno LaBianca and his wife, 43-year-old Rosemary LaBianca. The couple had their heads covered with pillowcases and secured with lamp cords. Watson stabbed Leno in the neck with a chrome-plated bayonet, while Rosemary fought with the women after being returned to her bedroom. Watson, in response to finding her defending herself, stabbed her with the bayonet, as well. He then returned to stabbing Leno (for a total of twelve stab wounds), and carved “WAR” into his abdomen. Rosemary was then found being stabbed by Kerwinkel, and then sixteen times in the back by Van Houten, before he exposed her rear.

(The bodies of both LaBiancas)

Van Houten claimed at trial that Rosemary was already dead during his portion of the stabbing; later evidence showed that many of her 41 total stab wounds had, in fact, been inflicted post-mortem. Krenwinkel then wrote "Rise" and "Death to pigs" on the walls and "Helter Skelter" on the refrigerator door, all in LaBianca's blood. She gave Leno LaBianca fourteen puncture wounds with a carving fork, which she left jutting out of his stomach. She also planted a steak knife in his throat.

The final confirmed murder attributed to the Manson Family happened more than two weeks after these. 35-year-old Donald Jerome "Shorty" Shea was killed when Manson told Shea and three others to go on a ride to a nearby car parts yard on the Spahn Ranch. According to one of the men- Bruce Davis- Shea sat in the back seat with Grogan, who then hit Shea with a pipe wrench while Watson stabbed him. They brought Shea down a hill behind the ranch and stabbed and brutally tortured him to death. They urged Davis to join in, but he recounted being largely unable to bring himself to do so. The location of his body wasn't found until 1977, 8 entire years after his death.

(Shea before his murder)

(The eventual recovery of Shea's skeletal remains)

Not exactly as detailed as I would have liked it to be, but I figured I could always add more details about the murders later, if people want them. I was going to add more info on Manson's early life, but he doesn't deserve that. I hope him and everyone else who killed on his behalf are wondering why they're rotting in hell and not being praised in heaven. Get fucked, you wastes of oxygen!

Rest in peace to the poor folks who died without reason at the hands of these racist fucking lunatics.

PHOTO SOURCES:

https://www.reelreviews.com/shorttakes-56/morbidly-hollywood-no-ad/labiancacrimescene

https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fm.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0790342%2F&sa=U&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjZw-_mk9WGAxXfjLAFHUFHCiMQFnoECCkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw03MNk3FtFpRZgQ65psHYm7

https://calisphere.org/item/8cdfe3b85980636fd2d5244c5e36846a/

https://www.charlesmanson.com/victims/gary-hinman/

https://lamag.com/lahistory/manson-an-oral-history1