Charles Manson

In January 1955, he married Rosalie Jean Wills, a hospital waitress with whom he had a son, Charles Manson, Jr. Later, Rosalie started living with another man.

Rosalie received a decree of divorce in 1958. In 1959, he married Leona, a prostitute with whom he has a son, Charles Luther. He divorced Leona in 1963.

He was denied parole on April 11, 2012. According to prison officials, as a patient of several health and mental problems like schizophrenia and paranoid delusional disorder, his release from jail will prove dangerous. Currently he is imprisoned at Corcoran State Prison in California.

Charles Manson was born to Kathleen Maddox, a 16 year old unmarried woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. At first he was named ‘no name Maddox’. Sometime after his birth, his mother married William Manson, a labour, and the new born child was named Charles Milles Maddox.

His mother filed a bastardy suit against his biological father, Colonel Walker Scott. In 1939, when police detained his mother on charge of robbery, he was placed in his aunt’s home in McMechen, West Virginia.

During Kathleen’s 1942 parole, she retrieved Charles and used to live with him in run-down hotel rooms. Later the court placed him in Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute, Indiana from where he escaped to his mother after ten months. But his mother declined to take his responsibility.

He started his criminal activities by committing a burglary at a grocery store. After that, he was involved in several case of burglary of other stores. When police arrested him, he was sent to an Indianapolis juvenile centre.

Later, he was sent to Washington, D.C’s National Training School for Boys where he spent four years. In October 1951, on recommendation of a psychiatrist, he was transferred to Natural Bridge Honor Camp from where he was again transferred to the Federal Reformatory, Virginia for his antisocial activity.

Due to his undisciplined behaviour, he was transferred to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio in September 1952. There he became a model resident with good behaviour and improved educational level that resulted his May 1954 parole.

In the next year, when he reached Los Angeles in a car that he stole in Ohio, he faced charge of federal crime and was given five years’ probation. In March 1956, police arrested him in Indianapolis for his failure to appear at a Los Angeles hearing of another charge of federal crime filed in Florida.

In September 1958, he received five years’ parole. In September 1959, he faced a charge for his attempt to cash a forged U.S. Treasury check. But he received 10-year suspended sentence when Leona, a woman who claimed to be in love with him, plead for his release before the court.

In November 2009, Matthew Roberts, a Los Angeles DJ and songwriter, showed evidences that established the fact that this notorious criminal is the biological father of Matthew.