Serial Killers: Charles Manson's Murders

followers began hearing Charles talk about murdering people. Many of his followers were surprised of what Charles was planning, however he was also a good manipulator and was able to persuade them to agree with his plans. He was inspired by the Beatles song “Helter Skelter,” in which he believed they were predicting a race war. Charles’ plans were to murder people that would grab the publics attention rather than a simple individual.
The first recorded murder was on August 9, 1969. Charles and four of his most “obedient” followers arrived to 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angles, which was Roman Polanski’s residence at the time. Polanski was away in Europe however his partner Sharon Tate became one of the victims that night. According to biography.com,
A serial killer is a person who kills more than two to three times with a cooling time in between his murders. The ironic thing about this statement is that Charles never killed anyone, he instead persuaded people to do it for him. Manson’s murders were also organized. Organized murder is defined in our textbook
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