The Manson Family began as a commune built around the charisma of Charles Manson, but it quickly transformed into one of the ...

Born Charles Milles Maddox on November 12, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Manson’s early years were marred with instability. His mother, Ada Kathleen Maddox, was just 15 when he was born. His biological ...

In Errol Morris’ new Netflix documentary “CHAOS: The Manson Murders,” the Oscar-winning director explores how Charles Manson was able to convince four “Manson girls” along with Tex Watson to savagely ...

Callum Murray is a writer based in the North of England. His love of movies and television formed as a young child, and it continues to flourish. Charles Manson instructed his followers to kill seven ...

“When you know, you just simply know,” muses Charles Manson in one of Chaos: The Manson Murders’ many archival clips. Yet the thing about the infamous fiend’s story is that not everything is known—or, ...

Charles Manson never fired a gun or swung a knife — but he orchestrated one of the most infamous killing sprees in American history. Through manipulation, isolation, and psychological warfare, he ...

In 2019, journalist Tom O'Neill published Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a book that calls into question nearly everything we know about the Manson Family and ...

Director Billie Mintz came into his newest documentary project, Making Manson, with a colossal task ahead of him: finding a new way to frame the story of infamous American cult leader Charles Manson.

This posthumous memoir from Pulitzer finalist Neiswender (Assassins, Serial Killers & Corrupt Cops), who died earlier this year, adds little to the conversation about Charles Manson. Neiswender ...

Charles Manson had a well-known "Manson Family" cult of followers, but his biological family has long flown under the radar. Before orchestrating the brutal murders of then-pregnant Sharon Tate, Jay ...

Patricia Krenwinkel, 77, who was part of what was known as the Manson family, was convicted of seven counts of murder in 1971. A California panel said she posed little risk of reoffending. By Adeel ...