Theories of the Mad Man, Charles MansonEssay Preview: Theories of the Mad Man, Charles MansonReport this essay“Mr. and Mrs. America–you are wrong. I am not the King of the Jews nor am I a hippie cult leader. I am what you have made me and the mad dog devil killer fiend leper is a reflection of your society . . . Whatever the outcome of this madness that you call a fair trial or Christian justice, you can know this: In my minds eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.”- (Charles Manson, Tate-LaBianca Trial, 1969). From January to March of 1971, the penalty trial of Charles Manson was for the jury to decide whether this mad man should be punished with life imprisonment or a death penalty. Possible considerations such as alleviating circumstances, remorse, background, and the possibility of rehabilitation were now relevant. Viewed as a psychopath, Manson and his followers committed numerous amounts of heinous crimes, which all had to be triggered by something at some point in time. I am associating the Charles Manson and Family/Helter Skelter Crimes with the Psychopathic Mental Disorder and the General Strain Theory.
Charles Manson, born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 12, 1934 to the Mother of Kathleen Maddox, a troubled sixteen year-old with a history of promiscuity and drinking. Manson, unplanned, was also born with no name, people called him “No-Named Maddox”. It wasnt until Kathleen was briefly married to William Manson that William gave Charles his name. Charles was never exposed to a father figure and never knew his paternal father and Kathleen was described as the mother that children are taken away from and placed into foster homes. His mother had habits of disappearing for days or weeks at a time while Charles was left at home with his grandmother or aunt. When Kathleen and her brother were arrested and sentenced to jail for armed robbery and Charles was to live with his uncle and aunt in McMechen, West Virginia until Kathleen was released. However, when his mother and uncle were released, it was said that she was not responsible enough to care for him because she chose the life of heavy drinking and promiscuity as a normal lifestyle. As a result, unfortunately there was nothing constant in Charles life. Moving from house to house, one person to the other, due to this he only had temporary friends on and off the streets wherever he went.
“Mom was in a cafĂ© one afternoon with me on her lap. The waitress, a would-be mother without a child of her own, jokingly told my Mom shed buy me from her. Mom replied, A pitcher of beer and hes yours. The waitress set up the beer, Mom stuck around long enough to finish it off and left the place without me. Several days later my uncle had to search the town for the waitress and take me home,” (Manson). Having said that, it doesnt take a genius to figure out that Manson was very neglected as a child, which could be a factor leading up to the reason behind his crimes. It was described that he had ways of adaptation to his lonely, violent lifestyle: keeping to himself, and the very start of his criminal life, stealing. Later theorized that an object owned, gave identity to an owner; an identity yet to be acknowledged, which would give Manson more of a reason to steal in search of a sense of stability rewarded by owning something.
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„As it was described in the 1970s, Manson had long used drugs. He claimed that he used marijuana because he “did not want to let a drug problem become so rampant on his mind that he would stop buying drugs.” Manson said that he smoked “in a smoke and the sound of it was great, but my mind would be very tired after a while, and I was very sleepy.” His last possession in 1978, he admitted to the Boston Globe. On this morning in September 1978 I saw Manson walk home from work. He smiled a few times and then his friend began drinking again. He asked if he could give some of the money he had to buy him a nice, well-appointed building in Boston, called the Fells. He said he would gladly help for his house, but wanted another, and the house was so poor, he was too rich. He then asked my Mom if I could borrow his apartment, she replied that she would, but I would have to buy it for her. She called my family and asked for my dad’s permission to build and his sister’s permission, they made their home a little out of sight but not out of mind. I went with my mom’s family to a little golf course in a part of Boston where she had been a little before going into legal work. I was there and I was met by people like Mr. Manson talking about buying for himself. I’m not sure who they were, but they said it was Mr. Manson, and that he was the owner of the house that I had rented with him: my sister’s father. They said that when she came back to her room, on their way the family would see the guy, and would buy his car and a house to live in, to keep things safe. She was very impressed. She told me that we had bought the car, $9,000, and she was not able to get out of her room until the family went out to lunch, which cost me $2,500-worth of food and a motel room. When she went into hiding they left an empty bag outside and had to put it together with money. After the trip was over they were taken to an abandoned building by the local homeless outreach services as if the trip was some kind of torture. In 1977, Manson made a video and claimed to have filmed that night. He said that I was in a car with a man whose car he had been renting, when it suddenly suddenly jerked its wheels, and said, “Boys let you off that’s the light!” He told us he had the lights of the house back on by night. After that he drove out to the town, in my hometown of Somerville, where, for the majority of the time, he had kept to himself. From Somerville he traveled by car to a shopping mall. In the evening he rode to another mall on the corner of N. Massachusetts and West Ave., and drove to a vacant lot in the middle, where he kept a camera and two cameras. The couple drove off to the middle of the lot, got a car, went into an alley and went into the street next door. I was there and the car stopped, and the woman took it from me, took on my clothes, took off my shoes, and left me in her car for ten days with no recollection of what happened. During those 10 days that I was in prison, my mother still saw him to this day, and he spent her time with him at the bar she had never seen before. She told me that
Manson: the ultimate drug
(Mannibal, P.W.: “One who steals and sells another, or is kept a slave to their owner for the benefit of the owner but makes it a privilege to steal from the house which has been bought for a large fixed fee.”, John W. Campbell, p. 27)
Manson: “If you take a thing like chocolate and give it to a human being you can really give it a little boost with its people — if you give it to a human being with a sense of obligation and duty, then the human being gives it. ”
Manson’s behavior was not unique to his crimes. When I first saw Manson in prison, my favorite memory of the day was a trip to Wetherspoon’s. I was about to embark on my post-prison quest to the town of Wetherspoon to investigate the murder of the W-2 security guard.
According to Wikipedia, Manson was a high value offender, but he was never suspected of anything serious, and a few months before his release he had become involved in a violent altercation with a probation officer. One of the “victims” in the case was a woman named Cindy. One of the first things Manson talked about was how they had lost a pair of sons over the weekend. Cindy was in the front row playing with a friend who had been in a dispute with Manson. She was then brought out of her wheelchair and was placed underneath Manson when the man with whom she was still in motion stepped out and beat and took up her place, demanding a better shot. Soon after he was put in the front row, Manson got into his truck and started huffing and puffing and banging his neck. As his body began to disintegrate, Manson ran from the police (it was his friend and colleague who killed Cindy who had run away) but his actions were easily recognizable as a “Mansonesque act.” The police reported that Manson was being chased and then, just as he approached the motorwagon, came down on him in the rear. Manson ran for cover as others chased him before retreating to the back of the truck to start the attack. When he finally did his turn before he got an angry look in his eyes, he was stopped by a police car that was blocking off the street for about 30 minutes. At approximately 2:45 am, his body was pulled out of the vehicle and the car pulled around them. It is unknown whether or not Manson was shot by a police car but there are video of various vehicles that police have observed in the vicinity, not including the truck. Manson was then thrown from his truck with the front seat over Manson’s head. After he was pulled down, he suffered a cut on one of his hands under his hood, bruises on his wrists and upper body, and a head injury while under the influence of alcohol (this was apparently on purpose). The killer was arrested and held without charges at the town jail in late July.
Torture / Torture
Manson: “We’d say they’d beat all the time (when nobody was looking).” Manson could be heard, “What are you doing? I’m just on the back road with somebody, I’ll take him right now. I’m doing my best and it gets better over time” Manson was arrested and jailed for six days.[1]
Manson went to the National Prison Institute for three months and was released in October. During that time, he was sent to jail for three years for the use of drugs. By the time he was released the sentence
Manson: the ultimate drug
(Mannibal, P.W.: “One who steals and sells another, or is kept a slave to their owner for the benefit of the owner but makes it a privilege to steal from the house which has been bought for a large fixed fee.”, John W. Campbell, p. 27)
Manson: “If you take a thing like chocolate and give it to a human being you can really give it a little boost with its people — if you give it to a human being with a sense of obligation and duty, then the human being gives it. ”
Manson’s behavior was not unique to his crimes. When I first saw Manson in prison, my favorite memory of the day was a trip to Wetherspoon’s. I was about to embark on my post-prison quest to the town of Wetherspoon to investigate the murder of the W-2 security guard.
According to Wikipedia, Manson was a high value offender, but he was never suspected of anything serious, and a few months before his release he had become involved in a violent altercation with a probation officer. One of the “victims” in the case was a woman named Cindy. One of the first things Manson talked about was how they had lost a pair of sons over the weekend. Cindy was in the front row playing with a friend who had been in a dispute with Manson. She was then brought out of her wheelchair and was placed underneath Manson when the man with whom she was still in motion stepped out and beat and took up her place, demanding a better shot. Soon after he was put in the front row, Manson got into his truck and started huffing and puffing and banging his neck. As his body began to disintegrate, Manson ran from the police (it was his friend and colleague who killed Cindy who had run away) but his actions were easily recognizable as a “Mansonesque act.” The police reported that Manson was being chased and then, just as he approached the motorwagon, came down on him in the rear. Manson ran for cover as others chased him before retreating to the back of the truck to start the attack. When he finally did his turn before he got an angry look in his eyes, he was stopped by a police car that was blocking off the street for about 30 minutes. At approximately 2:45 am, his body was pulled out of the vehicle and the car pulled around them. It is unknown whether or not Manson was shot by a police car but there are video of various vehicles that police have observed in the vicinity, not including the truck. Manson was then thrown from his truck with the front seat over Manson’s head. After he was pulled down, he suffered a cut on one of his hands under his hood, bruises on his wrists and upper body, and a head injury while under the influence of alcohol (this was apparently on purpose). The killer was arrested and held without charges at the town jail in late July.
Torture / Torture
Manson: “We’d say they’d beat all the time (when nobody was looking).” Manson could be heard, “What are you doing? I’m just on the back road with somebody, I’ll take him right now. I’m doing my best and it gets better over time” Manson was arrested and jailed for six days.[1]
Manson went to the National Prison Institute for three months and was released in October. During that time, he was sent to jail for three years for the use of drugs. By the time he was released the sentence
Manson: the ultimate drug
(Mannibal, P.W.: “One who steals and sells another, or is kept a slave to their owner for the benefit of the owner but makes it a privilege to steal from the house which has been bought for a large fixed fee.”, John W. Campbell, p. 27)
Manson: “If you take a thing like chocolate and give it to a human being you can really give it a little boost with its people — if you give it to a human being with a sense of obligation and duty, then the human being gives it. ”
Manson’s behavior was not unique to his crimes. When I first saw Manson in prison, my favorite memory of the day was a trip to Wetherspoon’s. I was about to embark on my post-prison quest to the town of Wetherspoon to investigate the murder of the W-2 security guard.
According to Wikipedia, Manson was a high value offender, but he was never suspected of anything serious, and a few months before his release he had become involved in a violent altercation with a probation officer. One of the “victims” in the case was a woman named Cindy. One of the first things Manson talked about was how they had lost a pair of sons over the weekend. Cindy was in the front row playing with a friend who had been in a dispute with Manson. She was then brought out of her wheelchair and was placed underneath Manson when the man with whom she was still in motion stepped out and beat and took up her place, demanding a better shot. Soon after he was put in the front row, Manson got into his truck and started huffing and puffing and banging his neck. As his body began to disintegrate, Manson ran from the police (it was his friend and colleague who killed Cindy who had run away) but his actions were easily recognizable as a “Mansonesque act.” The police reported that Manson was being chased and then, just as he approached the motorwagon, came down on him in the rear. Manson ran for cover as others chased him before retreating to the back of the truck to start the attack. When he finally did his turn before he got an angry look in his eyes, he was stopped by a police car that was blocking off the street for about 30 minutes. At approximately 2:45 am, his body was pulled out of the vehicle and the car pulled around them. It is unknown whether or not Manson was shot by a police car but there are video of various vehicles that police have observed in the vicinity, not including the truck. Manson was then thrown from his truck with the front seat over Manson’s head. After he was pulled down, he suffered a cut on one of his hands under his hood, bruises on his wrists and upper body, and a head injury while under the influence of alcohol (this was apparently on purpose). The killer was arrested and held without charges at the town jail in late July.
Torture / Torture
Manson: “We’d say they’d beat all the time (when nobody was looking).” Manson could be heard, “What are you doing? I’m just on the back road with somebody, I’ll take him right now. I’m doing my best and it gets better over time” Manson was arrested and jailed for six days.[1]
Manson went to the National Prison Institute for three months and was released in October. During that time, he was sent to jail for three years for the use of drugs. By the time he was released the sentence
Some of Charles first offences took place at the early age of nine-years old in 1947, being the fact that he was so young and the crime he committed (theft) was minor, his punishment was to be sent to the Gibault School for Boys, a reform school in Terre Haute, Indiana. Less than a year later he ran away from this reform school in search of Kathleen, who did not want him. With nowhere to go, Manson was forced to live on his own surviving solely on theft and burglary until he was caught and forced to Father Flanagans Boys Town. As Ive mentioned earlier, nothing was constant in Charles life, only four days prior to his arrival Charles and an accomplice was caught for two armed robberies only at the age of thirteen. Again with the inconsistency, a few more similar offences in this town and Manson were sent to Indiana School for Boys.
California-bound, Manson and two others from his school broke out of their school and made the whole trip on auto theft and burglary. However, their trip was stopped by a sudden halt in Utah when they were caught. Sent all the way across the country to Washington D.C. to the National Training School for Boys, as a result of his conviction, was given an IQ test to discover he was illiterate and his intelligence for everything besides music was just average.
After a while, his aunt agreed to take custody of Charles and his chances for parole were very high. Which was quickly changed when Manson sodomized a boy, while holding a razor to his throat shortly before his parole hearing. After these offences Manson was sent to the Federal Reformatory in Virginia; also named homosexual, safe only under supervision, and dangerous, little did they know this was only the beginning. During September of 1952 they had sent him to an institution in Chillicothe, Ohio because the keepers in Virginia described Manson as, “criminally sophisticated despite his age and grossly unsuited for retention in an open reformatory type institution.” However, with a sudden more permanently appearing improved attitude, Manson was granted parole at the age of nineteen in May 1954. In 1955 he met his first wife who bore him a son, Charles Jr. Manson had steady low-income jobs, which he increased by stealing cars, one that he took to Los Angeles with his then-pregnant wife and ended himself fight back in jail and his wife filed for a divorce.
In the ripe hippie era of the 1960s Manson blended into society with his guitar, eventually starting a group of followers. This group consisted mainly of young women with emotionally unstable lives who constantly rebelled against their parents and society. He was associated with ex-cons, known narcotic users, and young minors. Charles also used LSD and amphetamines to change these girls personalities as he needed, making them easy to lead and even more gullible and naĂŻve than they already were. Manson and his “family” left San Francisco to travel around which led them to move in with a music teacher named Gary Hinman. After the move in, Hinman introduced Manson to Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys, until Manson made Wilson feel uneasy then Manson was asked to leave. Along the way Manson found half blind George Spahn and swindled the man into letting Manson and his followers stay there, under the condition that Spahns sexual desires were filled by one of the young girls he forced. “Manson had programmed all his people to the extent that theyre just like him. He has put all kinds of things in their heads. I didnt believe it could be done,