Charles Manson Family: The Charles Manson Family

The Charles Manson Family
Introduction
Charles Manson is probably one of the most prolific serial killers in the United States and he and his “family” have become an icon of evil. Born in 1934 to a sixteen year old mom, Charles was often spent his youth in the homes of relatives or reform schools. When Charles was nine years old he had already started stealing and not long after he was committing burglaries and stealing cars. In 1954, after some time in jail, Manson was released on parole after a rare string of good behavior. A year later he married Rosalie Willis and together they had a son, Charles Manson Jr. During his marriage, Charles Manson would make extra money by stealing cars. In April 1956, Manson was sent to prison again. After
Leadership/Membership Needless to say, Charles Manson was obviously the leader of this cult. He was an extremely charismatic leader and his followers loved him. The group identified themselves as a family. Hippies were often drawn into the family through promises that they would have a safe place to stay, that they would be loved, fed, and more for free. During this time hippies were often outcast from society so these promises that Charles Manson made to them must have sounded very appealing. Charles Manson isolated the members of his family by making them all live on a ranch together. He would often have sex with various women of the group. Membership in the Manson family also included taking part in writing, singing, or something else for the coded album that was supposed to start the race war. Members of the group were often given different names so that they could leave their old identity behind. Essentially, being a member of the Manson family was about leaving your old self and becoming this new being that catered to the wants and needs of the leader, Charles Manson, and all of the other members of the
Organization/ Strategy Part of the organization of the Manson family to start the race war was to write the coded album that would trigger all of the chaos between African Americans and white people. Their strategy was to go to the underground world and rise up again once the African Americans had killed all of the white people. Once they rose up, Charles Manson believed that he would become the king of the world. Another one of the strategies of the family was to recruit other members into the group to participate in “peace, love, and harmony”; little did the new Manson family members know how dangerous that would be. The group would promise food, and shelter, and a loving place to be. Manson often gave his members drugs and they were highly isolated within the Spahn Ranch community. One last strategy of the Manson family was that all of the members would listen to and carry out the orders of Charles Manson himself. Charles Manson was often not responsible for doing anything other than overseeing Spahn Ranch, having sex with his female members, and laying around and getting high. Manson Family Members.

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