Charles Manson

Birthday: 12 November 1934, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Birth Name: Charles Milles Maddox

Height: 157 cm

Charles Manson is one of the most notorious convicted murderers in American history, though ironically, there is no evidence that he ever killed anyone himself. In 1971, Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi used his "Helter Skelter" theory to successfully convict Manson and several of his female compatriots of seven murders: the Tate-LaBianca killings that shocked America and the world (the victims included heavily-pregnant movie star Sharon Tate). Manson was subsequently convicted of two other murders: Donald "Shorty" Shea, a hand at the Spahn Ranch where Manson and his cronies and female groupies congregated, who Charlie may have believed snitched on him to the police after the Tate-LaBianca murders; and the earlier murder of music teacher and small-time drug dealer Gary Hinman by Bobby Beausoleil.Although Manson never did any of the actual killing, under the rules of accomplice liability, he was deemed as responsible for the killings as the actual perpetrators who caused the deaths of the nine people. Condemned to death upon conviction, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the State of California after a 1972 Supreme Court decision struck down extant death penalties in the various states. It is highly unlikely that Manson will ever be paroled. Show less «

Paranoid schizophrenia in the forties, there was only a few of us because they just invented those t...Show more »

Paranoid schizophrenia in the forties, there was only a few of us because they just invented those tags from some college somewhere and we were just a small group of people. But now there are many paranoid schizophrenias because all these these guys that are graduating from college that are readin' all these books, anything they can't understand is a paranoid schizophrenia. Show less «

[Ted] Bundy's a rumpkin. Bundy's a poop butt. Bundy's his mama's boy. Bundy's out there trying to pr...Show more »

[Ted] Bundy's a rumpkin. Bundy's a poop butt. Bundy's his mama's boy. Bundy's out there trying to prove something to his own manhood that's got nothing to do with me. I don't roll around with poop people like that. I stand with people that can stand with themselves. Show less «

Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people...then I would have felt better. Then I would...Show more »

Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people...then I would have felt better. Then I would have felt I really offered society something. Show less «

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Now everybody's crazy.

We are all our own prisons, we are all our own wardens and we do our own time. Prison's in your mind...Show more »

We are all our own prisons, we are all our own wardens and we do our own time. Prison's in your mind. Can't you see that I'm free. Show less «

I know this: that in your own hearts and in your own souls, you are just as much responsible for the...Show more »

I know this: that in your own hearts and in your own souls, you are just as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. Show less «

Your water's dying. Your life's in that cup. Your trees are dying. Your wildlife's locked up in zoos...Show more »

Your water's dying. Your life's in that cup. Your trees are dying. Your wildlife's locked up in zoos. You're in the zoo Man. How do you feel about it. Show less «

Can't fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom. It's happenin' right here, Jack, right here.

Nobody. I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine... and a straight raz...Show more »

Nobody. I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine... and a straight razor-if you get too close to me. Show less «

I don't want to take my time going' to work. I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and 10 or 15 girl...Show more »

I don't want to take my time going' to work. I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and 10 or 15 girls. What the hell do I want to go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king man. I'm the run the underworld guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. Who am I to run around and act like I'm some teenybopper somewhere for somebody else's money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game's mine. I deal the cards. Show less «

I am special. I am not like the average inmate. I have put five people in the grave. I've been in pr...Show more »

I am special. I am not like the average inmate. I have put five people in the grave. I've been in prison most of my life. I'm a very dangerous man. Show less «

The truth is ugly so we put our prophets in prison.

Look down at me and you'll see a fool. Look up at me and you'll see your god. Look straight at me an...Show more »

Look down at me and you'll see a fool. Look up at me and you'll see your god. Look straight at me and you'll see yourself. Show less «

Believe me, if I started killing people...there'd be none of you left.

Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Man, your mind is going a billion miles an hour man woooo. You know that's w...Show more »

Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Man, your mind is going a billion miles an hour man woooo. You know that's what I call confusion. That's helter skelter you know. Show less «

Section 8, all the discharged men of the Second World War raised me. Ferguson was an Ensign in the N...Show more »

Section 8, all the discharged men of the Second World War raised me. Ferguson was an Ensign in the Navy, he raised me. All the guys that came back from the war raises all the kids that are locked up in prisons. Show less «

Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch bo...Show more »

Do you feel blame? Are you mad? Uh do you feel like wolf kabob Roth vantage? Gefrannis booj pooch boo jujube; bear-ramage. Jigiji geeja geeble Google Begap flagagaggle vaggle vedich-waggle bagga? Show less «

The street is my world. I don't go uptown and pretend to be anything fancy. I can, but I find more r...Show more »

The street is my world. I don't go uptown and pretend to be anything fancy. I can, but I find more real in the world that I'm in than I do with tinsel. And the real world is the one I have to deal with everyday. Show less «

Everyone's God and if we don't wake up to that there's going to be no weather because our polar caps...Show more »

Everyone's God and if we don't wake up to that there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere. The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won't have air to breathe. Show less «

[talking to an interviewer] If I wanted to kill somebody . . . I'd pick up this book and beat you to...Show more »

[talking to an interviewer] If I wanted to kill somebody . . . I'd pick up this book and beat you to death with it! And I wouldn't feel a thing! It'd be like walking to the drug store. Show less «

Prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dea...Show more »

Prison doesn't begin and end at the gate. Prison is in the mind. It's locked in one world that's dead and dying or it's open to a world that's free and alive. Show less «

There's all kinds of Jesuses. There's a black Jesus down in Florida. He's having a good time. There'...Show more »

There's all kinds of Jesuses. There's a black Jesus down in Florida. He's having a good time. There's a Mexican Jesus in Mexico. I mean there's Jewish Jesus. Jesus you know, all kinds of Jesus. Jesus coming back everywhere and nothing can stop it! It's the consciousness that lives in your mind! Show less «

I smoke a little grass, I've taken a lot of peyote. Acid? Yeah, a bit of acid, but I never touched a...Show more »

I smoke a little grass, I've taken a lot of peyote. Acid? Yeah, a bit of acid, but I never touched acid 'til '67. Now the people I was with who you said I turned on to acid, they turned me on to acid. In other words, that was the new trip to me and it wasn't all that big a trip to me. And I didn't really care for it and I don't fuck with speed at all and I've never had a needle in my arm. Except for a blood test. Show less «

I'm special. I'm not like the average inmate. I have spent half my life in prison. I am a very dange...Show more »

I'm special. I'm not like the average inmate. I have spent half my life in prison. I am a very dangerous man. Show less «

[interview with Diane Sawyer, 1994, on the Tate-LaBianca murders] They maybe [sic] influenced, or th...Show more »

[interview with Diane Sawyer, 1994, on the Tate-LaBianca murders] They maybe [sic] influenced, or they might have thought they were my instructions, but I wasn't . . . I wasn't, uh . . . directing traffic. Show less «

My uncle told me don't go to no Yankee school, boy. So I burned the school down.