Manson Denied Parole... Of Course

[TellerMorrow34]

This case has always fascinated me, and yes that book does give a lot of details. The actual crime scene photographs are online if anyone cares to go looking for them. They are very brutal.

I have always had a fascination with sociopaths. I've studied Jack the Ripper, Lizzy Borden, Dahmer, Bundy, Gein, the Nightstalker, Zodiac, and all kinds of these monsters. Manson is by far the most compelling to me.

Did any of you ever see the Manson Family Reunion on Geraldo? There are people from that group who still proclaim his innocence. Unreal.

One guy said Charlie was fun. So I guess fun people can't kill. The same guy, TJ I think was his name, admitted he was there when Manson shot a guy right in the chest. But he doesn't think he could kill anyone. How does that work?

Another person said Manson didn't kill anyone so he shouldn't be in jail. I gather these people do not know what conspiracy is. Perhaps they think Mafia dons and other underworld figures who order killings are innocent if minions carry them out since they have free will to walk away like these kids did.

It's nuts.

My wife has read up on a bunch of them as well. I've always been interested in the whole process of them catching seriel killers and what goes into that but I've never been able to get myself to read books on the actual murders and such because all that stuff does is really piss me off and put in a foul mood.

I'm not a very compassionate or forgiving person when it comes to these types of folks and I've always hated that we lock them up for years on end, or 'study them', instead of taking a gun to their head and taking them out of this world the way they saw fit to do with their victims.

 

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There's a biography of Squeeky Fromme out there that sheds some real interesting light on the Family. She came out of a screwed up family life, and ended up a Manson true believer. Pretty much comes across as the den mother of the crew, and the person who kept things together.

The book has a rather sad hypothesis that the high profile murders were designed to deflect attention from some Manson 'bad drug deal' related killings earlier.

I have read that early pressings of a Beach Boys album that credited a song to Manson, though that was later changed. Brian Wilson is said to have recorded him at his home studio, but no such recordings have every surfaced.

Just bad craziness.