Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
NOTORIOUS US KILLER Charles Manson, who led a California cult that killed pregnant Hollywood star Sharon Tate, has been hospitalised, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
Kern County Sheriff’s Bill Smallwood confirmed to the newspaper that Manson (83) is at a local hospital but could not comment further.
A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation declined to comment, citing federal and state medical privacy laws that prevent the centre from commenting “on protected health information from any inmate in our custody”.
Manson was hospitalised in January for severe intestinal bleeding. He needed surgery to fix a lesion, but doctors deemed him too weak and sent him back to prison.
One of the most famous criminals in the United States, Manson has been behind bars for more than four decades.
He was sentenced to death in 1971 along with four of his followers for the August 1969 bloody killing spree that left seven people dead – including Tate, who was the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. She was heavily pregnant at the time.
Their sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment.
In prison, Manson was granted permission in 2014 to wed the then 26-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, who had been visiting him. But the 90-day license expired without the ceremony going ahead.
The criminal’s “family” set up a base on a ranch in California’s Death Valley in the 1960s.
Describing himself as a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Manson arranged a series of murders in a bid to provoke a war between whites and blacks. He assumed that the former would win and take him on as their leader.
More than 40 years later, the killing spree by Manson’s “family” continues to haunt the public psyche and stir morbid fascination, fueled by books, songs and tourist routes, internet sites and films.
With reporting by AFP
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
He will be dead before Christmas I reckon. And even though he has become a figure of fascination I’ll say good riddance to him when he does die. Evil fascinates us all from a distance….
@WJH: What if he is pure evil, he should be burned with all his processions and the ashes dumped into the sea secretly?
@Alois Irlmaier: Flushed down the toilet more like.
@WJH: dump him beside Brady.
I don’t think there will too many tears shed for that manic.
@Dave Murray:
You’d be surprised. Charismatic mass murderers tend to attract a weird following. He had his own little posse when the murders took place
@Dave Murray: In the 60′s he was bisexual, so those in the shower wing might miss him the most lol.
@Alois Irlmaier: not exactly bí… He was a male rapist in prison
@Dave Murray: there will be a line of devoted sado women devastated on hearing of his death.
hope he is ok
@Christy Pop: Brilliant!! : )
@Christy Pop:
Look At Your Game Girl
@DarkHorse: uhh i like it
This is when he should be executed, Rot for 40 years in solitary and put one in the back of his head just near the end.
@name cannot be blank: too quick. Let the lesion do its work.
Eh.. he didn’t kill anybody. How can you call him a killer?
@John Madden: ah come on J. He made others do it.. It’s like saying the person holding the gun isn’t responsible, the gun is.
@Rooster Roaster: he instigated the killings but did not murder anybody personally. Not defending him by any account but it’s a bad description of the man.
@John Madden: convicted of murder means calling him a killer is accurate
@John Madden: He did not murder anyone personally in the Tate/La Bianca murders, but he was present the second night at the La Bianca house. He was also suspected, but never convicted, of at least one murder at the Spahn Ranch where the Manson family lived.
@Rooster Roaster: He was leader of a commune called the Manson Family. It was basically a cult. Never killed anyone personally but is responsible for their deaths.
@John Madden: same could be said about hitler, Stalin, pol pot, mao the list goes on.
They all have blood on their hands at the end of the day.
@John Madden: Your right, and neither did Hitler or Stalin, two much maligned individuals who just got a lot of bad press.
@John Madden: he quite possibly did kill at least one person. However he’s worse than a killer.
@John Madden: was hitler a killer ?
@Pizyco: Hitler isn’t a good example, I think he killed people in WWI
Why is this news who care s about that vermin
@No one important: Because he’s more than evil, worth saying a Hail Mary for him just to torment his dark evil soul…
Another missed understood person whose mother didn’t love him.If he had of committed those crimes here he would have been released under the Good Friday agreement and maybe or is that to hard to image, be the leader of a political party in the Dail.
rot in hell as soon as possible
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: No. He’ll just rot in the coffin. Unless he’s cremated.
@Michael Lynch: any opportunity to feel superior as non religious, give it a rest you pompous clown
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: He will meet a power much more powerful than himself it’s called Hell
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: On a freepost envelope to…
@Alan Scott: no hell just worms.
All the poor souls that die young from untold crippling diseases & this piece of dog sh*t still going it’s a mixed up world
Intestinal bleeding, the ring must be well and truly rung in him so……!
An interesting and insightful examination of Charles Manson’s life can be found here:
Another misunderstood person whose mother didn’t love him. If he had committed those crimes here he would have been released under the Good Friday agreement and, or is that to hard to imagine, be the leader of a political party in the Dail.
This non-human stole helter skelter, let him rot.
He was always a sick man regardless.?
He would have got an ASBO and a suspended sentence here…………
Lazy reporting. Manson believed the murders would instigate a race war, in which the Blacks would win. Helter skelter. But he believed them to be too stupid to govern the world, and they would have to turn to Charlie in order to lead them after he emerged from safety after helter skelter. He and his family would then live as gods.
Happy Christmas everyone…
have your say