Charles Manson

Charles Manson has got to be one of the greatest serial killers of all time. He had the corrupt mind to follow through with multiple killings.

Charles was born the year of 1934 in Ohio to a mother who did not want him and since a young age Charles became used to committing illegal acts. It is said that he has impregnated multiple women throughout his life but never stayed long enough to see the children. Manson was also in and out of jail for different reasons throughout his whole life, but he continued on his crime sprees. None of his crimes were as severe as murder until the late 1960's.

After 1967 Charles Manson was able to form a cult, he had found a group of followers who had the same passion for drugs (mainly magic mushrooms and LSD) and the lifestyle he was living (life of crime). Charles was a leader to his followers, it was what he said that would happen. This cult was called the Manson family numbering around 100 or more followers and once this number grew they had began to live on a deserted ranch. This is when the killings began (1969), Charles would have his followers kill the elite people in Hollywood or areas around there. His motivation to the killings are said to be because he was unsuccessful in his attempt to peruse a music career, ruined by some of his later on victims.

members of the Manson family (carved swastika symbols on

their foreheads to show they were part of the cult)

Some would say Charles was smart for in the beginning he had his followers do the killings in order to keep his hands clean, while still getting the satisfaction. A lot of his followers were young and impressionable which to me seems like the reason as to why he could get them to believe in the lifestyle he believed in and do anything he asked. He would plan out the killings, give his followers a list of names, an address and when to kill. All of the killings were performed extremely violently, victims were being stabbed to death, slaughtered etc. Charles even commanded one of his most loyal followers to kill a pregnant women by stabbing her in the stomach repeatedly...

This all came to an end in late 1969 when Manson and his group were arrested for vandilization but by digging further in the detectives realized the truth, especially after one of the followers confessions to murder. The cops knew that this was led by Charles because of his past, his psychosis, his pathological ego and the destruction left behind. He was sentenced to life in jail along with his most loyal followers.

Charles was smart because he convinced so many people to follow him and still to this day it is debatable to whether or not he ever even killed any of his chosen victims. He was a mad man for sure, and his downfall was that he thought he was "king of the underground" he thought out the plans but didn't cover up his tracks. The drugs probably messed up the whole operation in general, because some of those drugs make even a normal person feel on top of the world, so I can only imagine what it would have done to a group of psychotic killers.

What is most scary about all this is that he genuinely believed he was a type of God and that his killings were providing justice, he got over 100 people to follow in his footsteps. This is scary to me because if he could easily get that many people to kill for him, it shows the amount of insane, easily influenced and simply idiotic minds there are in this world.

His rough past explains a lot of his acts throughout his life and his mental illness, but it is hard to fully comprehend the mind behind this. You have to be psychopath to fully understand one.

sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/charles-manson-9397912#arrest-and-trial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xioCGmZVoqw