In a new recording, guru and musician Charles Manson, behind a series of murders in the late 1960s in California, admitted to being involved in other killings before founding his murderous cult, the ” Family Manson.”
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He admits his involvement in other murders
“There is a whole part of the Manson family history that is not yet known”he said in an audio recording featured in the trailer for the documentary series Making Manson, which is scheduled for release on November 19 on the platform streaming vidéo Peacock. “There is a whole part of my life that no one knows”.
According to The Guardian the recording comes from a phone call Charles Manson made from the prison where he was incarcerated before his death in 2017, after spending more than 40 years in prison.
“I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco, I stole cars. I've been involved in things that were bigger than me, man. I participated in a few murders. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico and left dead people on the beach”quotes the British daily.
20 years of unpublished conversations
According to Peacock, this new documentary series covers 20 years of unpublished conversations with Charles Manson, which discusses his crimes and his education. The guru also mentions the “Manson Family”, the cult he founded in the late 1960s and which remained active until the early 1970s. While Charles Manson never killed himself, he is managed to persuade his ” family “his followers, to kill for him.
The documentary series includes scenes in which “Former 'family' members eavesdrop on exclusive conversations and are taken back to the days when they 'would do anything for Charlie'”presents the Peacock platform.
He horrified America
The guru believed himself to be the reincarnation of Christ and had plotted a series of murders to provoke the advent of a struggle between whites and blacks, from which he thought that the former would emerge victorious. The Manson “family” will kill at least nine people. But it was the mass murders of August 9 and 10, 1969, which left seven people dead, that horrified America. Among the victims, Sharon Tate, the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski, then aged 26 and eight and a half months pregnant.
Manson and his followers were arrested in 1969. During his lengthy trial, he was portrayed as a loner madman with impressive powers of persuasion. Flanked by a swastika-shaped scar on his forehead, Charles Manson – who never showed any remorse – was sentenced to the death penalty in 1971 alongside four of his disciples. The sentences will be commuted to life in prison. He made twelve requests for parole, all of which were rejected. He died in prison in 2017.
