Write An Essay On Charles Manson's Life Story

Charles Manson (Charles Milles Maddox), was born November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother is Kathleen Maddox and his father is Walker Scott. He does not have his real father’s last name because he picked up the surname “Manson” from his stepfather, William Manson. Charles Manson possibly never knew his biological father. Manson’s mother was a heavy drinker. According to Manson, she once sold him for a pitcher of beer to a childless waitress, his uncle retrieved him days later. Manson went to his aunt and uncle in McMechen, West Virginia after his mother and her brother were sentenced to five years in prison for robbing a Charleston, West Virginia service station in 1939 by brandishing a ketchup bottle. Upon his mother’s 1942 parole, she retrieved Manson and lived with him in a series of run-down hotel rooms. Manson’s mother tried to have him placed in a foster home but failed because there were none available. Manson was placed in Gibault School for Boys by the court in Terre Haute, Indiana. He fled from there ten months later to his mother, who rejected him. Manson obtained money that enabled him to rent a room by burglarizing a liquor store. He committed other burglaries, including one from which he stole a bicycle, but was eventually caught in the act ad sent to an Indianapolis juvenile center. After one day he escaped but
Living mostly by panhandling, he soon got to know Mary Brunner, a 23-year-old graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was working as a library assistant at the University of California in Berkeley, and Manson moved in with her. He overcame her resistance to his bringing other women in to live with them, according to a second hand account. Soon after that, they were sharing Brunner’s residence with 18 other