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Charles Manson

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Снежана Цигановић Исидора Топић, IV-7

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Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................1
2. The Murders.............................................................................1
a. The Hinman Murder..........................................1
b. The Tate Murders..........................................1-3
c. The LaBianca Murders.....................................3
3. The Murderers.........................................................................3
a. Charles Manson..............................................3-5
b. Susan Atkins......................................................5
c. Patricia Krenwinkle........................................5-6
d. Charles Watson..................................................6
4. Social Circumstances............................................................6-7
5. Sensationalism and Cultural Impact.....................................7-8
6. Interviews and Quotes........................................................8-10
7. Conclusion..............................................................................10
8. References..............................................................................11

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Introduction

Charles Manson has become somewhat of a household name yet few people know exactly
what his crimes were. A common misconception is that Manson himself commited the
murders and that just shows how little people know of the events that occured in the late
1960’s and early 70’s.
In short Charles Manson was the leader of a cult known as the "Manson Family" who
were responsible for the murders of eight people and an unborn child.
Many decades have passed since these tragic events have occurred and yet people are still
so fascinated by them. Most recently Quentin Tarantino included Sharon Tate, a victim of
the Manson family, as a character in his 2019 movie "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood ".
Charles Manson was also a big character in the second season of Netflix’s "Mindhunter"
and NBC’s "Aquarius".
Vincent Bugliosi’s book on the topic "Helter Skelter" is seen as the quintessential true
crime novel. The reason as to why this book is seen as such is because Vincent Bugliosi
was the main prosecutor of the Manson trial. Being very close to the case his book was
very matter of fact and lacked the unnecessary dramatics most true-crime books are known
to have.

The Murders

THE HINMAN MURDER

On the 25th of July Gary Allen Hinman, a music teacher and friend of the Manson family,
was taken hostage and tortured for 2 days on Manson’s orders. Manson believed Hinman
was a very wealthy man and tried to convince him to join his family and give all of his
assets and when he had failed he sent Susan Atkins, Bobby Beausoleil and Mary Brunner
to hold him hostage until he gave up his belongings. At some point during these 2 days,
Manson arrived with a sword and slashed Hinman’s ear off and allegedly instructed Bobby
to stab Gary Hinman to death. They then proceded to write "Political Piggy" and a Black
Panther symbol as Manson believe this would help kick start a racial war he called "Helter
Skelter".
On August 6th Bobby Beausoleil was arrested for the murder of Gary Hinman. He was
caught driving Hinman’s car and the murder weapon was found in the tire well of the car.
Two days after Beausoleil’s arrest, Manson told the members of his family at Spahn ranch
"Now is the time for Helter Skelter"

THE TATE MURDERS

The night of August 9th was when the infamous Tate murders took place. Manson had
instructed Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel to "totally
destroy" everyone in the house and to make it as gruesome as possible.

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10050 Cielo Drive was a house owed by Rudi Altobeli and he had rented the main
residence to Roman Polanski, the movie director, and his wife Sharon Tate, an aspiring
actress. The Polanski’s had gone to Europe, however Sharon Tate had returned less than a
month before her untimely death. While they were away, two of their friends, Abigail
Floger and Voytek Frykowski had moved in to stay with Sharon until her husband
returned.
The gruesome scene had been discovered by Winifred Chapman at around 8 in the
morning. She ran to the nearest house and pounded on the door and when the neighbours
didn’t answer she screamed "Murder, death, bodies, blood!". Fifteen-year old Jim Asin, a
boy scout, had seen Mrs. Chapman and ran over to try and calm her and dialed the police
emergency number at exactly 08.33. Trained by the scouts he noted the exact time yet only
at 09.14 were two police units given a radio call about a possible homicide at 10050 Cielo
Drive.
DeRosa, a police officer, discovered the body of Steven Earl Parent in the driver’s seat of
a car found in the Polanski’s driveway. Steven Earl Parent was simply in the wrong place
at the wrong time, he had been on his way to visit the property’s caretaker William
Garretson. Tex Watson had shot the eighteen-year old teen four times with a .22 caliber
revolver.
The body of Voytek Frykowski was the next to be discovered. He was sprawled out on the
lawn near the front door of the residence clutching grass in his left hand. It was apparent
that Voytek fought hard for his life as he was shot twice, hit over the head over the head
thirteen times with a blunt object and stabbed an excessive fifty-one times. He was thirty-
two years old at the time of his death. He, like Sharon Tate, was also an aspiring actor, he
also had a son.
The next body to be discovered was that of Abigail Floger. She too was found on the lawn,
only about twenty feet away from Voytek’s body, barefoot and in a nightgown that had
seemed red from the amount of stab wounds she had. Abigail Floger was a coffee heiress,
a social worker and the girlfriend of Voytek Frykowski. She was only twenty-five years
old when she was brutally murdered; she had been stabbed twenty-eight times.
As DeRosa made his way past the bodies of Voytek and Abigail, he saw the word "pig"
written in blood on the front door. Inside he found the body of Sharon Tate curled up in a
fetal position by the couch. A white rope had been looped around her neck twice and she
had been stabbed sixteen times. Sharon was only twenty-six years old, eight months and
was due to give birth in only a few weeks. Later, Susan Atkins would state that Sharon’s
last words were “Please — please don’t kill me — I don’t want to die. I just want to have
my baby.” To which Susan responded “Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now,
you’re going to die, and I don’t feel a thing behind it.” Later it was confirmed that “pig”
was written in Sharon’s blood. Sharon Tate was an actress and model and was seen as one
of the most promising newcomers in Hollywood. She was most well-known for her
performance in the cult classic film “Valley of the Dolls” and for her last performance in
Polanski’s “The Fearless Vampire Killers”.
Across the floor was the body of Jay Sebring, the last body to be found in the Tate-
Polanski residence. He too had white rope looped twice around his neck; he had also been
shot once by Watson and stabbed seven times by Susan, Linda and Patricia. Jay was a
professional celebrity hair-stylist as well as the ex-boyfriend turned friend of Sharon Tate.

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He had also served in the Navy for four years and fought in the Korean War. Sebring was
only thirty-five years old when he died.

THE LABIANCA MURDERS

Manson, being displeased with how the Tate murders took place, decided to take the four
murderers from the night before plus Leslie Van Houten and Steve Grogan to “show them
how it’s done”.
Atkins and Kasabian state that Manson went up the driveway of 3301 Waverly Drive
alone and returned soon after telling them that he had tied up the residents of the house.
Although Watson states that Manson went up alone and returned to take Watson with him
and that Watson was the one to tie up Rosemary and Leno LaBianca while Manson held
them at gunpoint. The rest of Charlie’s crew arrived in the living room were the LaBiancas
had been bound while Manson himself left and reportedly got four milkshakes to-go at
Denny’s. During Manson’s milkshake run, Watson had stabbed Leno LaBianca twelve
times with a bayonet and carved the word “WAR” into the man’s abdomen. Watson
rejoined the girls who were struggling with Rosemary and instructed that each of them
stab Rosemary as per Manson’s request that all of them participate in the murder.
Rosemary ended up with forty-one stab wounds, many of which were post-mortem.
Kerwinkel used Rosemary’s blood to write “RISE”, “Death to Pigs” and “Healter Skelter”,
misspelling Helter. She also gave Leno fourteen post-mortem puncture wounds with a
carving fork and left it sticking out of his stomach as did she leave a steak knife in the
man’s throat. Manson drove three members to the ranch and left the rest to hitchhike back.

The Murderers

Charles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017)

Charles was born in 1934 to sixteen year old Kathleen Manson-Bower-Cavender née
Maddox and was named “no name Maddox” and received the name Charles Maddox. He
never knew his father and when he was three years old his mother got sentenced to five
years in prison and he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle. In 1942, his mother got
paroled and even though Charles remembers this as one of the happiest moments in his
life, his mother soon began spending all of their money on alcohol.
Manson began his criminal career pretty early in life, he has stated that at age nine he set
his school on fire and committed several acts of petty theft he got away with most of his
petty crimes. His luck evading the law would not last for long as he soon started getting in
trouble with the court. The court tried to find Manson a foster home but they could not
find any so in 1947 he was sent to the Gibault School for Boys, a strict catholic school for
young male delinquents. The punishments each boy received were extremely harsh for
even the smallest trouble caused. They were beaten with wooden paddles and leather
straps similar to whips. Manson ran away from this school and survived in the woods,
under bridges and made his way back to his mother at his aunt and uncle’s house however
his mother quickly sent him back to Gibault and after ten months he ran away again, this

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time to Indianapolis. In 1948 he robbed a grocery store as he needed the money to rent a
room in Skid Row and for food. Manson managed to get a stable job nevertheless he
quickly fell back into a cycle of petty theft and eventually got caught. He was only
fourteen when he had to start fending for himself on the streets. This time when he was
caught, the judge took pity on him and sent him to Boy’s Town, a juvenile facility in
Nebraska. There he quickly befriended a boy who had somehow acquired a gun and the
two robbed a grocery store and a casino and went to the boy’s uncle who was a
professional thief. The boy’s uncle decided to take them on as students and teach them
about thievery. After two weeks he was arrested again and this time he got sent to the
Indiana Boy’s School, a strict reform school for young juveniles. Here, at age fifteen, he
was raped several times by other students, sometimes even with the encouragement of
staff members. It was here that he developed a self-defense technique which was basically
acting crazy in order to scare people off or disgust people enough for them not to approach
him. He attempted to run away an immense eighteen times. He eventually managed to
escape with two other boys in 1951; however, they were quickly apprehended in a stolen
car on the way to California. This was a federal crime and he was sent to the National
Training School for Boys in Washington, D.C. Even though Manson was illiterate his IQ
was 109 which was above the national average.
In the same year he was sent to a federal prison per a psychiatrist’s recommendation and
he would be in and out of prison until he was finally discharged in March, 1967.
Soon after being released from prison he began attracting mostly young women and he
quickly formed a sort of hippie commune. This hippie commune would expand
exponentially and later be known as Manson’s Family. At this time Charlie was trying to
pursue a career in music and this pursuit would lead Manson into a brief and strange
friendship with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. Dennis Wilson agreed to let Manson
and his family stay at his home and helped forward Charles’ musical career. The rest of
the Beach Boys thought this to be strange and when they met Manson and his followers
they were “creeped out” by the man. However, one day during a recording session,
Manson found out that Wilson’s recording team and his producers were altering his songs
by making them sound more “poppy” and making them fit the Beach Boys’ concept better.
Charles didn’t like this one bit and upon finding out what they were doing with his music
he pulled out a knife on one of the producers. This would mark the end of his musical
career and his friendship with Dennis Wilson.
In 1970, the State of California tried Manson for the Tate and LaBianca and was sentenced
to death in 1971. However, the death penalty was deemed unconstitutional in 1972 and
Manson was resentenced to life in prison.
During the 1980’s he gave four interviews to big media companies like CBS and NBC.
While in prison, Manson started wearing a swastika on his forehead and he was almost
burned to death by a fellow inmate. Prison didn’t stop him from committing crime as he
had to be transferred to another prison since he trafficking drugs.
In 2014 it was announced that Charles Manson, aged eighty, had gotten engaged to
twenty-six year old Afton Elaine Burton. Their engagement fell apart in 2015 after
Manson found out that Afton supposedly only wanted to marry him to be able to use his
body as a tourist attraction after he died.
His last year in prison in and out of the hospital as his health was rapidly deteriorating. He
was suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding and was deemed too weak for surgery. He

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died soon after from respiratory failure and colon cancer and quickly after his death
several people tried to claim Manson’s body and estate for themselves but the court
decided in favour of his grandson Jason Freeman. His grandson had to be the one to claim
his body since Manson’s son, Charles Manson Jr., committed suicide in 1993 due to being
unable to live with the fact that he was the son of the man responsible for committing
heinous crimes.

Susan „Sadie Mae“ Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948 – September 24, 2009)
Susan was born in 1948 in California. She was the middle child and she was raised in a
middle class home. They were what seemed to be a perfectly mundane family however,
behind closed doors, her parents were both alcoholics and their relationship was
deteriorating as was their family. Her mother died of cancer in 1963 and this led to a major
break in their family, they moved several times and Sadie would quickly decide to live
independently away from her remaining family members. Prior to her mother’s death,
Sadie was seen as a quiet and sweet girl, she was active in her school’s glee club and the
local church choir.

Sadie ended up living with some of her friends who were happened to be hippies and drug
users. She met Manson during her time living with her friends and after their house got
raided for drugs Sadie was homeless. Manson saw this as a perfect opportunity to
indoctrinate her into his cult. He offered her a place to live (Spahn Ranch) and for this she
was grateful and she would remain loyal to Manson until her later years in prison.

Sadie pled guilty to most of the charges against her and she was sentenced to death row
in1971. The death penalty, as we already know, was invalidated in 1971 and she too got
resentenced to life in prison. She died in prison in 2009 due to natural causes and her
husband released a statement that her last word was “Amen”.

Patricia “Big Patty” Dianne Krenwinkel (December 3, 1947- )

Born in the waning months of 1947 to a homemaker and an insurance salesman,
Krenwinkel grew into a girl paralyzed by insecurity. At school, she was bullied for being
overweight and an embarrassing endocrine condition that caused her to grow excess hair
on her arms.

Alongside these adolescent insecurities, Krenwinkel’s home life began to fall apart.
Although her family would later claim a perfectly “normal” childhood for her, it was
anything but. At a parole hearing in 2011, Krenwinkel described her parents’ divorce and
how she was forced to go to three different high schools, and how her older stepsister
introduced her to alcohol and drugs. Following the divorce, Krenwinkel’s mother moved
to Alabama and Krenwinkel, just 17 and still in high school, chose to stay in California
with her father and stepsister.

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Krenwinkel eventually followed her mother to Alabama to go to university at Spring Hill,
a Jesuit school. She even considered becoming a nun. In the end, Krenwinkel only lasted
one semester before moving back to Los Angeles where she moved in with her stepsister -
a heroin addict.

In August of 1969, Patricia Krenwinkel completely shed her former identity. She went
from a shy schoolgirl and aspiring nun to a murderess.

Today, Patricia Krenwinkel remains in prison. She is the longest-incarcerated woman in

the California penal system. She was initially sentenced to death but the Supreme Court
outlawed the death penalty for a time in 1972. As such, she serves nine life sentences
instead.

Charles Denton "Tex" Watson Jr. (December 2, 1945)

Charles, born in Farmersville in Texas, was the youngest of three children. He was an
honor student, the editor of the school newspaper and an athlete. He also did well in
college and even was a part of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

It was at his fraternity that he got introduced to psychedelics and that would be the path
that led him to Charles Manson. He quickly became a member of the family and got
rechristened to “Tex Watson”. He even became Manson’s right hand man and help
Manson with the details of his future plans.

However, the fact that he was Manson’s right hand man would come back to bite him.
Manson would say that Helter Skelter was Tex’s idea and that he was just a scape goat for
Watson’s plans.

Tex is also still in prison today, he has applied for parole seventeen times and was denied
each time. Whenever he has a parole hearing coming up several groups rally together to
sign a petition to ensure that he stays where he is.

Social Circumstances

To properly understand why this tragedy occurred, it is crucial to look at the surrounding
circumstances.

The incident happened at the end of the “groovy” sixties. One of the major events during
this decade was the anti-war protests against the Vietnam War. The protests were growing
in size and strength and they did not stop expanding. Many students joined the movement
as they saw this as one of various ways to oppose the government. The sixties also
introduced widespread drug use into the culture. Drugs such as Cannabis, Amphetamines,

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LSD and Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin) became highly accessible to common people,
even the C.I.A. secretly experimented with LSD and Psilocybin.

LSD was proven to give its consumers spiritual visions and enlightenment more often than
not. This led to large amount of people leaving their life behind in order to pursue a more
natural and spiritually in tune life which led to the creation of many “Hippie” communes
and communities. While most of these were harmless apart from the excessive drug use,
Manson took advantage of the naiveté of many. He mostly lured and manipulated young
girls who were susceptible and easily swayed by his charms. He incorporated generous
amount of LSD into the daily lives of the members of his family and this gave him a
power over them. Manson knew about the spiritual effects of the drugs and made sure to
be present during each member’s drug-trips so as to earn this god-like influence. He
cemented his power over all of the members and most of them would take his word as
gospel. Another more subtle way he would assert his power is that he would sit on a hill or
rock so that everyone would feel as though he is above them, a higher power so to speak.

After the Manson Family massacres, the hippie movement died down and the few
communities that remained were faced with ridicule and contempt from the general public.
However the naiveté of the general public went down but it didn’t stop other similar
tragedies from happening.

Also the drug culture drifted from LSD and Psilocybin to Cocaine and Quaaludes. These
were more synthetic drugs and they made way for methamphetamines, Ecstasy and even
Bath Salts. These all had a more serious effect on the health state of its consumers. For
instance, when taken in larger doses, methamphetamines can cause breakdown of skeletal
muscle, seizures and bleeding in the brain.

We can safely say that Manson benefited and expertly exploited the state of the world and
country at that time. We can also better understand how these young and bright women
ended up murdering several people and staying incarcerated for the rest of their lives.

Sensationalism and Cultural Impact

Due to the horrific nature of the crimes and the fact that one of the victims was a
somewhat well-known actress, the whole ordeal was highly publicized. Many newspapers
reported of a satanic cult and numerous other rumors emerged. At one point even the then
president of the United States, Richard Nixon, commented on the situation. It also
effectively diverted the attention from the Vietnam War.

Every moment was immediately reported on, from the murder to the trial to their lives in
prison. Many commented on how unethical this type of journalism is and how is spawns
sensationalism. Sensationalism is the presentation of news in such a way that provokes

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public interest at the expense of accuracy and truth. We see sensationalist news every day
in the form of celebrity rumors and whatnot, but the problem of applying this journalistic
tactic to current crime events is that these reports can easily harm ongoing investigations
and cause the grieving families of victims to be attacked with cameras and shown on TV
as if they are a spectacle to behold. The families of the criminal also usually receive many
death threats and are in danger of being exposed to vigilante justice. The topic of the ethics
of reporting on grizzly crimes is still majorly debated to this day. Many question the point
of displaying past tragic events on TV and call it crude, say it is desensitizing and
devaluing the tragedy.

Charles Manson has unfortunately embedded himself into culture and even became a
household name. This was ultimately what he strived for and he achieved it, this was the
fame he longed for and even behind bars he reveled in it. This is another reason for the
boycotting the broadcasting of true crime in such a manner. It has also spawned many
admirers of Charles Manson; he received many love letters while he was in prison. Sadly
this is not uncommon. This phenomenon is a result of hybristophilia which is a paraphilia
in which sexual arousal is derived from people who have committed atrocious crimes.

As much as we hate to admit it, most of us can’t look away from such stories. The science
behind it is that there is a possible evolutionary benefit from experiencing these situations
in a safe place. Our body also produces adrenaline when we watch stressful situations like
these and certain people get somewhat addicted to this feeling, similar is said for horror
movies. From a psychological point of view, it is said that true crime allows us to explore
the darker side of our nature in a safe environment. Another theory is that evil simply
fascinates us, that we long to understand how someone could do these things because at
the end of the day Charles Manson isn’t a monster or a boogie man, he is a damaged and
disturbed man. Many psychologists also theorize that this is due to that phenomenon of
“not being able to look away from a train wreck”. While many others blame this on the 24
hour news cycle and not being able to avoid news reports of tragedies and whether we
want it or not these tragedies worm their way into our subconscious.

Nevertheless it is truly unfortunate and tragic that people are still too aware of whom
Charles Manson is and that Sharon Tate has become a forgotten victim.

Interviews and Quotes

It is almost necessary mention the fact that the legendary John E. Douglas interviewed
Charles Manson as a part of his study into criminal psychology.

John E. Douglas is a retired special agent and unit chief of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. He helped found the criminal profiling unit which to this day helps
investigations with its psychological profiles of criminals.

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John constructed the basis for criminal profiling by interviewing serial killers, mass
murderers, child murderers and similar offenders. He states that what he’s going after is
the why and not so much the what and who. He realized the similarities between certain
types of offenders and the correlations helped him build his theory of profiling which was
at first ridiculed.

He famously interviewed Charles Manson and commented on his behavior. He would go

to say that even though Charlie didn’t graduate from high school that he was still an highly
intelligent individual. It was almost as if Charlie had a talent for manipulation, as if it was
completely natural to him. He claimed that Manson ha striking and hypnotic eyes and the
manner in which he spoke was very melodic and that this seemingly helped lure people in.
Charlie gave no forethought to the way he spoke; stared or even to the fact that he needed
to be seated higher than whomever he would talk to.

Just as with most serial offenders, Charles blamed the crime on everyone but himself. He
first attempted to shift the blame to Sadie then to Tex and in later years he would blame
the government and his poor upbringing. While his upbringing did nurture bad habits it is
still no excuse for what he did. John also noticed how Manson needed to dominate the
room he was in and that battling for dominance would cause him to lash out during
interviews. So John deduced that it is better to let the offender dominate the room and
attempt to make the killer as comfortable as he could so as to get the most truthful and
cooperative conversations even if it meant that John had to swallow his outrage and
disgust.

So supposedly in a way something good came out of this vile man. The FBI now knows
how to deal with cult leaders and murderers that resemble Manson’s own psychological
profile.

Manson went on to do a few more interviews during his time in prison. Here
are some notable things he has said during various interviews:
“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”

“Look down at me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god, look straight at me
and you see yourself.”

“These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I
didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.”

“We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I
can't judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach
me with it. Prison's in your mind. Can't you see I'm free?”

“Anything you see in me is in you. If you want to see a vicious killer, that's who you'll see,
do you understand that? If you see me as your brother, that's what I'll be. It all depends on
how much love you have. I am you, and when you can admit that, you will be free. I am
just a mirror.”

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It is up to each individual on how they interpret the things Manson has said, however he is
also notoriously know for randomly spouting nonsense as a fear tactic so many of his more
insightful and thought-provoking statements are overshadowed by these dramatics.

Conclusion
Charlie Manson has successfully changed the course of history and has embedded himself
into the public conscious. He still fuels the morbid obsessions of many to this day. For
example famous musician Trent Reznor rented 10050 Cielo Drive (Location of the Tate
murders) and set up a recording studio there. He however moved out a year later stating
“there was too much history in that house for me to handle.”

For some reason it appears that we just can’t forget Charles Manson. There are a countless
amount of documentaries on the subject and the aforementioned movies and TV series that
portray him. It’s almost as if we can’t let it go because we are still so baffled as to how
someone could have committed these horrors and can’t find closure.

Many find it hard to believe that these events happened over half a century ago. It is
unfortunate that tragedies like these seem to keep on happening no matter how much
precaution we take. The usual response to cults is “I can’t imagine how anyone would get
suck up in to this” or “I’m not stupid enough to join a cult”. What these people don’t
realize is how manipulative and sneaky these organizations can be. These cults often prey
on vulnerable people and then meticulously break down their defenses. Even people who
know about how cults operate are susceptible to their manipulative techniques. Members
who consider leaving usually get exposed to a technique called “love bombing” in which
they shower the member with love and care and make them feel as though the cult is the
only place in which they are truly safe. In some cults members who are reconsidering their
decisions are subjected to a cruel practice called reprogramming.

It is important to never assume you know everything about cults. Anyone can be a
possible victim and I believe everyone should educate themselves on how to spot a cult,
common recruitment techniques used by cults and what to do if they believe a loved one is
caught up in a cult. I think this is essential information and urge people to be weary as
people with malicious intent could be right around the corner at any moment. It is also
important to not get caught up in the paranoia of being suspicious of everyone you meet
while caution should always be necessary.

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References
1. Bugliosi, Vincent and Gentry, Curt: Helter Skelter. W.W.
Norton, 1974, pgs: 27, 149, 318, 580.
2. Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark: Mindhunter: Inside the
FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit. Random House, 2017, pgs: 88,
92, 100.
3. Douglas, John and Olshaker, Mark: The Killer Across the
Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators.
HarperCollins, 2019, pgs: 64, 65.
4. Charles Manson Biography
(https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/charles-manson)
(Downloaded March 9th 2020)
5. Charles Manson and the Manson Family - Crime Museum,
LLC (https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-
murders/charles-manson-and-the-manson-family/)
(Downloaded April 17th 2020)
6. Why Did the Manson Family Kill Sharon Tate? Here’s the
Story Charles Manson Told the Last Man Who Interviewed
Him - Olivia B. Waxman (https://time.com/5633973/last-
manson-interview/) (Downloaded April 29th 2020)

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