Who is Charles Manson? You may have heard his name on your favorite night time crime drama series or pop up on the news recently due to rumors of him getting a marriage license to a 26 year old female prison visitor. But who exactly is he and why is he regarded such an infamous serial killer?
You may be wondering why I chose to speak about a serial killer today. Well, I am very interested in criminology and choose to spend my free time researching and studying the infamous serial killers, cult leaders, etc. Charles Manson was both of those.
Thesis Statement: Charles Manson lived a life of crime, spending 43 plus years of his life in jail and is still serving a life time sentence.
To understand what drove Manson to live a life of crime and …show more content…
Charles Milles Manson, age 32, stepped out from behind prison walls into the groovy, peace-and-love world of San Francisco. It was the Summer of Love. He'd never seen such a thing before, free love, free food, lots of hugging, pot and acid, girls, so many girls, many of them lost girls just looking for someone to tell them they'd been found. Charlie was their man. He played the guitar, he had the mystique of the ex-con, he had a good you-can-be-free metaphysical rap. The girls flocked to his side, starting with librarian Mary Brunner, followed by pixie-cute Lynette Fromme, soon dubbed Squeaky, oversexed Susan Atkins and trust-funder Sandra Good. This was the beginning of what the prosecutor would later call "the Family." This was also the beginning of the end for …show more content…
To a lot of people it was as if the Devil himself has leaked through a crack in the Earth says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University Professor who studies mass communication and popular culture. In the end Manson couldn’t live up to the hype. He and his three co-accused were convicted in early 1971 and sentenced to death. A year later all their sentences were automatically reduced to life in prison because California’s top court has issued a decision abolishing the death penalty. Far from going out in a blaze of glory, Charles Manson was doomed to rot behind
You may be wondering why I chose to speak about a serial killer today. Well, I am very interested in criminology and choose to spend my free time researching and studying the infamous serial killers, cult leaders, etc. Charles Manson was both of those.
Thesis Statement: Charles Manson lived a life of crime, spending 43 plus years of his life in jail and is still serving a life time sentence.
To understand what drove Manson to live a life of crime and …show more content…
Charles Milles Manson, age 32, stepped out from behind prison walls into the groovy, peace-and-love world of San Francisco. It was the Summer of Love. He'd never seen such a thing before, free love, free food, lots of hugging, pot and acid, girls, so many girls, many of them lost girls just looking for someone to tell them they'd been found. Charlie was their man. He played the guitar, he had the mystique of the ex-con, he had a good you-can-be-free metaphysical rap. The girls flocked to his side, starting with librarian Mary Brunner, followed by pixie-cute Lynette Fromme, soon dubbed Squeaky, oversexed Susan Atkins and trust-funder Sandra Good. This was the beginning of what the prosecutor would later call "the Family." This was also the beginning of the end for …show more content…
To a lot of people it was as if the Devil himself has leaked through a crack in the Earth says Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University Professor who studies mass communication and popular culture. In the end Manson couldn’t live up to the hype. He and his three co-accused were convicted in early 1971 and sentenced to death. A year later all their sentences were automatically reduced to life in prison because California’s top court has issued a decision abolishing the death penalty. Far from going out in a blaze of glory, Charles Manson was doomed to rot behind