While being married Costa fathered 3 children. The relationship began getting complicated due to drug use, causing irresponsible and bizarre behaviors. During June of 1966, at the age of 21, Costa brought home Bonnie Williams and Diane Federoff, two hippie girls, promising to take them to Pennsylvania. Costa told the police that he took the girls to Hayward, California after they went missing. Many believed these two ladies were Costa’s first victims, although he was never convicted of killing them. He was suspected of killing 8 girls, Bonnie Williams, Diane Federoff, Barbara Spaulding, Sydney Monzon, Susan Perry, Christine Gallant, Patricia Walsh, and Mary Anne Wysocki. While he was in California he started dating Sydney Monzon, they then moved from California to Provincetown Massachusetts. On May 17th, 1968 Costa stole surgical instruments and various drugs from a doctor’s office. In June of 1969 Monzon was reported missing and never seen again. On September 25th, 1968 his new girlfriend of one week, Susan Perry, disappeared out of the blue. Costa told Perry’s friends that she left for Mexico. Costa was arrested for driving with a suspended license, and for not supporting his children and wife, he was released after 2 months and began hanging around and doing drugs Christine Gallant, she drowned from overdosing, it is suspected that he drowned her but no one knows for sure. On January 29th, 1969 Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki were on a trip to Provincetown and disappeared. During a search party on March 2nd ,1969 a woman’s body was found mutilated in the Old Truro Cemetery, this body was Susan Perry’s his girlfriend of one week before she “left for Mexico”. It was said that Perry’s body was found cut up into eight different pieces Two days after the first body was found, Walsh, Wysocki, and Monzon’s bodies were found buried together one and a…
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This book offers a huge amount of detail regarding how the Manson Family murders were committed, how the investigation proceeded and how the trial against Manson was won. To bring this history to life, Bugliosi organized his book into chapters ranging from one month to five month increments which serve to place the reader back in the summer of ’69 right after the Tate murders were committed, and take him or her all the way to the conclusion of the trial and its aftermath. While this level of detail and careful organization is very good at…
Charles Manson (born November 12, 1934) was an American criminal who was convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. He was born to Kathleen Maddox, a 16-year-old girl who was both an alcoholic and a prostitute. Kathleen later married William Manson (not his father but took his last name through marriage), but the marriage ended quickly and Charles was placed in a boys school. Kathleen was absent for much of Manson's early life. She was imprisoned with her brother in 1939 for hustling men in bars and setting them up for her brother to beat and rob, according to a 1970 Enquirer article.…
Charles Manson, for the last 43 years, has captivated a nation. In August of 1969, he managed to bring together a group of people which were from a portion of society that no one would seem to associate with the horrendous murders of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowski, Steven Parent, Rosemary LaBianca, and Leno LaBianca. This group which Manson formed was known simply as “The Family.” Some called him a madman, some called him a genius, other called him a nightmare but, no matter what they called him, Charles Manson has never been ignored. The question that beckons an answer is, why? How could this little man become a larger than life icon and how could so many of those never expected to commit these crimes allow themselves to become the pawns in this maniacal man's skewed chess game? That is what we will attempt to explore. We will do this by first attempting to understand the man, Charles Manson. Secondly, we will look at one of the stages of group/team development and investigate the era in which this nightmare of society was beginning to unleash his hellish form of vengeance. Lastly, we will uncover what type of backgrounds these followers of the so called Manson family came from. After discussing these three things we will sum it all up and try to give clear reasoning behind what has come to be known as “Helter Skelter.”…
Although most Americans agree on what is considered to be a crime, not everyone agrees with punishments. What are common views on crimes? What are common views on punishments? Should the punishment match the crime? Should the punishment be more severe than the crime? What happens to the victim of crimes? American’s ask all these questions on a daily basis all across the United States. The majority of society in the United States says that crimes are “a grave offense especially against mortality”(“Crime”). Many say that criminals’ punishments should be equal to or more severe than the crime that was committed. Patty Hearst not only was a victim of a kidnapping in 1974, but was also brought before the court…
Creating a group of followers is not an easy thing to do. Persuading your followers to murder for you is even harder. The way Manson convinced his followers to kill was like he was one of those magicians who know how to control people thoughts by using a spell and a hand clock. On top of controlling people, his murders were well organized that it took months for the authorities to figure out who committed the crimes, even after they left a signature in every murder scene. The signature that his followers left in both scenes was the word “pig” written on a wall with a victim’s blood. Charles Manson became well known for his manipulation of making people murder for him. But, many people never understood what made these groups of followers to do it. Why did a group of young adults listen to one man? What made them consider murder was normal? These questions can provide an endless amount of answers and response. Most of them in which psychology is involved. In Donald Nielsen’s, Charles Manson's Family of Love: A Case Study of Anomism, Puerilism and Transmoral Consciousness in Civilizational Perspective, argue[d] that the Family represents a radical shift in the modern balance of [three] structures, amounting to a "regression" in the structures of consciousness. (316)” This article explained a few ways on what could have caused the Family to listen to…
Linda’s death when O’Brien was only nine years old coincides with his first loss of innocence in regards to death. Seeing Linda’s body, he says that it “didn’t seem real” (241). This is when he began his coping…
Charles Manson was not any ordinary man. He did not have a happy child hood, even in his teen years, and most of his life has been spent incarcerated. The schools of crime causation and some of their theories will analyze Charles Manson from his childhood to his life of crime to see what made Manson turn to one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. These theories of crime causation are biological, physical, and social theories.…
I feel as if someone kidnap’s a child and kills the innocent child. Then yes indeed whomever the killer is should have to deal with the consequences of feeling the pain they felt. I so much believe in an eye for an eye, which has been around since centuries it is also in the bible. Back then they believed in an eye for an eye very strong welled. “The innocent was being executed but not anymore. With the implementation of DNA, many of the innocent have been freed from the death penalty. Also, the Supreme Court…
Charles Manson became known worldwide after helping commit numerous gruesome murders near Hollywood, California. Although, Manson’s legal troubles did not start from that point, he had been in and out of institutions and prisons since the age of twelve, for many different reasons. “For, let out of prison in 1967, the year of ‘the summer of love,’ he became the most hated and vilified figure in America, a symbol of everything that had gone wrong in the ‘60s” (Smith). Even though his release from prison was short lived, he managed to do a lot of damage during his time of freedom. Manson received a life sentence in May of 1970 for the nine murders he helped execute (Baughman). Charles Manson is a well recognized name across the United States.…
They also murdered four friends of Tate and the son of her gardner (Chua-Eoan, 2007). The following day of August 10th, grocery store official Leno LaBianca and his significant other were killed in a similar manner. The resemblance of the murders included writing “PIG” on the front door of Tate’s home in her own blood; and carving “WAR” on LaBianca’s stomach with a fork (Chua-Eoan, 2007). Manson did not take part in the murder of Sharon Tate, but he did take part in the LaBianca murder. It would take investigators about five months to find Charles Manson and his alleged Family. Furthermore, when they did, an alarming blend of mind-control and lack of morals (Chua-Eoan, 2007).…
There are many theories about what shapes an individual’s personality and when following these approaches, sense can be made of a certain person’s behavior. Charles Manson is a well-known serial killer whose personality is reflective of two specific personality theorists’ views. Sigmund Freud, whose psychosexual stages of development could explain some of the traits held by Manson. Karen Horney was another theorist whose views on childhood love and nurturing, or lack of it, could explain Charles Manson’s personality. Gathered information on both Freud and Horney’s views will be compared to Charles Manson, his personality and his behaviors to conclude if these theories apply. Historical information from Charles Manson’s biography from childhood to adulthood will be included.…
It is not fair for an individual to inflict pain and harm on another, threaten their safety, invade their space, and in some cases take a life, and remain free or receive punishment that does not fit the crime committed. However, criminals should and do have to pay for their actions, just or unjust. In line with the criminal justice system, a person commits a crime, and an…
Even though she was admitted several times, she was released and regained her freedom. She refused psychiatric treatment because she wanted her freedom. Often times, those who are mentally ill resist these institutions and other forms of treatment because they feel like it's degrading and terrifying. Hospitals and her family had no say in how she chose to live her life. She refused to accept help because she did not believe she was ill and due to her freedom of choice. When talking about rights, patients who are mentally ill also have the rights to neglect their children or family, and could potentially physically or verbally abuse everyone they come in contact with. For example, after Linda’s first arrest, she threw a “cup of urine at a corrections…