Charles Manson History

MAY 20TH, 2019.
CHARLES MANSON CASE

Melanie Gisel Sánchez Cisneros – 1739469
The story of this serial killer takes place in the nineties.

If you look at the Radford University/Florida Gulf Coast University Serial
Killer Database, which tracks close to 4,800 serial killers and 13,000
victims over the course of more than a century, it’s clear the 1970s-
1990s were peak serial killer times. In 1969, when the Manson Family
committed the Tate-LaBianca murders, the database estimates that 90
serial killers were active the in US. By 1977, the setting of the recent
Netflix series Mindhunter, which depicts the rise of the Behavioral
Analysis Unit at the FBI, that number rises to 201. When Silence of the
Lambs, perhaps the loftiest entry in the serial killer canon, swept the
Oscars in 1991, it was at 238. But by 2015, when Aquarius, a rather
tedious NBC show staring David Duchovny as a detective tracking
Manson premiered (before being canceled after two seasons) the
confirmed number of active serial killers had fallen to just 45.
This reveling in serial killer mythology isn’t just harmless entertainment.
With its exploration of ritual murder, child abduction, and mass
shootings, it encourages an understanding of violence as a dramatic act
of evil. But the fact is, violent crime has fallen dramatically in the US
during the time that Manson has been locked up.
MANSON.
Manson was an ex-convict who had spent half his life in the right
institutions for a variety of crimes. Before the murders, he was an
underground musician in Los Angeles, mainly thanks to his informal
association with Dennis Wilson, drummer and co-founder of The Beach
Boys. After Manson out of the crimes of which he was later convicted,
recordings of songs written and performed by him have been published.
Several musicians were inspired by Manson to compose songs or have
made versions of some of their songs, among them Guns N 'Roses,
White Zombie, Devendra Banhart, System of a Down, Scars on Broadway
and Marilyn Manson.
“THE FAMILY”.
Rancho Spahn was an old western movie location. There lived 32 adults
and 7 children during the summer of '69. Manson was the leader, a kind
of guru. During the days at the ranch, the members of “The Family”
were dedicated to playing music, dancing, using drugs and having sex in
a group. According to one of the members, Linda Kasabian, who was
acquitted of the crimes, Manson incited others to have relations with
each other under the influence of drugs, although he took a little less to
maintain his position of superiority.
Manson went on to become a despot who controlled the actions of
others. The idyllic village of love began to turn into a nightmare.
His mother sold him for a round of beers, he always felt excluded by
society and he decide to stand out through the crimes he perpetrated.
Thanks to its hypnotic power of conviction, a court of followers
accumulated to those who called “The family”. He was their absolute
leader, the “Jesus Christ” of that sect; They ended the lives of 5 people
in a wild way, among them Sharon Tate, wife of the film director Roman
Polanski. Music became his main tool. The sound of the Beatles fell deep
in the heart of the Messiah, who saw in the 'White Album' and in the
song Helter Skelter the message he was waiting for. Supposedly, this
song hid an encrypted message intended for Manson so The Beatles
inspired, unwittingly, that massacre.
The mood is psychologically disturbing as id made clear by Manson’s

choice to “drug dealer named Gary Hinman provoked the leader's anger,
and with it his first murder”:
Manson begins the brawl by cutting off one ear of the trafficker and then
lets three other members of “The Family” take care of him. They stab
Hinman dozens of times and leave him to bleed to death.
"You do not understand it. Lennon, the prophet, told me: 'Charlie, get
up; Slaughter those pigs who spend the bomb in their Hollywood
mansions! The moment has arrived. You are the Son of Man and the
Exterminating Angel ...! ", Manson testified during the trial.
One of the first to denounce that the Beatles' 'White Album' contained a
satanic message was Father Greenwald. When the chorus of one of the
songs, Revolution 9, was played backwards, the subliminal message was
"fuck me, dead man". Manson knew this practice perfectly and used the
alleged messages to commit his subsequent criminal actions.

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MAY 20TH, 2019.

CHARLES MANSON CASE

The story of this serial killer takes place in the nineties.

The mood is psychologically disturbing as id made clear by Manson’s

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