Proving that he has not lost his
ability to unnerve or to disgust, Charles Manson rages throughout a new
interview which reveals his history of bisexuality, plans to marry a
25-year-old follower, heads a group of America's most notorious
murderers and rapists behind bars and of course, that he is innocent.
The
interview in Rolling Stone details how repulsive serial killer rubs
shoulders daily with men such as Phillip Garrido, who raped and held
11-year Jaycee Dugard prisoner for 18-years - Manson's infamous
charismatic personality unable to resist bringing other inmates into his
fold. Held inside his
'protective housing' unit at California's Corcoran State Prison along
with 15 other high profile inmates, Manson tells how he finds the time
to dispense musical advice to serial killer Juan Corona, who was
responsible for killing 25 people in 1971 and 'gets along just fine'
with Mikhail Markhasev, who killed Bill Cosby's son Ennis in 1997.
Crazed: Charles Manson, imprisoned for life for
association with a series of murders in the 1960s, has befriended a 25
year old woman named Star and there is speculation they will marry soon
The revelation that Manson, 79,
spends his days happily mingling with the dregs of American society is
just one of many in a bizarre and unsettling interview the serial killer
has given to Rolling Stone.
The
most eye catching is that the mass murderer is to marry his 25-year-old
follower named Star - a name given to her by the iconic 1960s cult
leader.She moved near to Corcoran
State Prison when she was 19, just to be closer to him and has recently
carved an X into her forehead to match his swastika as seen in these
intimate photographs of Manson and her taken from inside the jail where
the killer will most likely die.
'Yeah,
well, people can think I'm crazy,' she told Rolling Stone magazine in
the lengthy article about her beau. 'But they don't know. This is what's
right for me. This is what I was born for.'
Charles Manson, a charismatic ex-convict,
assembled a group of runaways and outcasts. In the summer of 1969, he
directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in
what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war
Charles Manson, imprisoned for life for
association with a series of murders in the 1960s, has befriended a 25
year old woman named Star (right)
Star, who runs multiple websites calling for Manson's release, said she knows she will be his wife.
'I'll
tell you straight up, Charlie and I are going to get married,' she
said. 'When that will be, we don't know. But I take it very seriously.
Charlie is my husband. Charlie told me to tell you this. We haven't told
anybody about that.'But Manson sounded a little more apprehensive when the interviewer asked him about his impending nuptials to Star.'Oh
that,' he said. 'That's a bunch of garbage. You know that, man. That's
trash. We're just playing that for public consumption.'Star,
an artist, was born in St Louis, Missouri to a religious family who
locked her in her room throughout her high school years after she
refused to go to church and started taking drugs.While
in high school, a friend told her about Manson's environmental writing
and she decided to contact him, Rolling Stone reported.When she was 19, she took $2,000 she saved working in a retirement home kitchen and jumped on a train headed to California.
Star, (left) a name given to her by the
79-year-old cult leader, moved next to California's Corcoran State
Prison when she was just 19 to be closer to him and has recently carved
an X into her forehead to match his swastika
Manson, (pictured with Star) now 79, is serving a
life sentence at Corcoran State Prison in California for the seven
Manson Family killings and the murder of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman,
who was stabbed to death in July 1969
Manson and his 'fiancé' Star (right), an artist,
who was born in St Louis, Missouri to a religious family who locked her
in her room throughout her high school years after she refused to go to
church and started taking drugs
Sick: Phillip Garrido is seen in court as he
pleads not guilty to kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard (right) and
holding her captive for 18 years in Placerville, California
She now visits him every Saturday and
Sunday for up to five hours a day and claims that her parents like him,
and have even offered them to move in with the family if he ever gets
out of prison.
Photographs
on Facebook and websites calling for his release show the couple posing
beside each other and touching during the lengthy visiting hours -
which she said was not enough.
'I
just want to be alone,' she said. I don't want to be always in that
visiting room with people staring at me. But that's the only time I get
to see him, in that room, with people staring. It's hard. But things
change, you know. And who knows what could happen?'He
is also pictured in the images with Craig Carlisle Hammond, 63, whom
Manson called 'Gray Wolf'. In March, Hammond was accused of trying to
smuggle a cell phone to Manson during visiting hours, raising questions
over the apparent freedom Manson is enjoying with his visiting friends.If his marriage to Star does go ahead, it will not be the first for Manson, who has two ex-wives and at least three children.He
married Rosalie Willis in 1954 but they divorced in 1957 - a year into
his prison term for stealing cars. After leaving prison in 1958, he
married a prostitute called Candy Stevens. But again, she divorced him
when he was sent back to jail.
Victim: Among those killed by Manson and his
followers was actress Sharon Tate, pictured right with her husband
director Roman Polanski and left. She was eight months pregnant when she
was killed in 1969
Convicted murderer Charles Manson shows up to
his penalty trial with his long hair cut off in 1971 (left) and (right)
Charles Manson reads a statement at his parole hearing in San Quentin
in 1986
In the interview with Rolling Stone, he also hinted that he is more fluid about his sexuality than previously thought.'Sex
to me is like going to the toilet,' he said. 'Whether it's a girl or
not, it doesn't matter. I don't play that girl-guy s***. I'm not hung up
in that game.'He also
recounted an incident from when he was 17 in which he said he asked a
man to have sex, and when the man refused, he brandished a knife and
promised to take the blame if they were caught. The man agreed.'
I picked a razor blade up off the shower floor and said, 'If we get
caught, I'll tell them I made you do it.' So, he let me do it. But I
don't know. Maybe he thought I was going to cut him,' recounts Manson of
the gruesome incident.Manson
is described in the interview exactly as he would be imagined: blazing
eyes, unkempt hair, rotten teeth and grizzly beard - with a Swastika
tattooed on his forehead.This
image is seared on the public conscious, four decades after Manson and
his ‘Family’ slaughtered Sharon Tate, the actress wife of Roman
Polanski, eight and a half months pregnant, and three of her friends at
her home above Beverly Hills.Stephen
Parent was a fifth unfortunate victim that night. He had driven to the
property to see if caretaker William Garreston wanted to buy his AM/FM
Clock radio and had stayed on for a beer at the guest house.He was shot multiple times when he wound down the window at the electric gate as he left.The following night the Family butchered small business owners Leno and Rosemary La Bianca, in their home in Los Angeles.
Marks of a killer: Charles Manson with his 'fiancé' Star in a picture the serial killer has signed and marked with a SwastikaThe violence was so mindless and so
brutal and the motivation, when it emerged, so incomprehensible that the
myth of Manson and his hippie cult-like Family has stalked common
consciousness ever since.Today
serving a life sentence in California, Manson has always maintained
that society gradually turned him into the person he became.Manson uses his interview with
Rolling Stone's Erik Hedegaard to repeat his denial of the infamous
'Helter Skelter' theory, put together by prosecuting attorney Vincent
Bugliosi that led to his conviction for the murders of Tate and seven
others - even though Manson was not there.
Famously,
in the summer of 1969 he became obsessed with the lyrics of songs from
The Beatles' White Album, in particular the track Helter Skelter.In
Manson's tormented mind, the words 'Helter Skelter' became a battle
cry, a signal that the time had come to instigate a race war to wipe out
everyone outside The Family.
Uncanny Similarities: As Star became close to
Manson - many of the serial killer's supporters and disturbed acolytes
pointed out that Star bore an uncanny similarity to original 'Family'
member Susan Atkins (left). Known within the Manson family as Sexy Sadie
- after The Beatles song - Atkins participated in eight murders carried
out under the orders of the sick messianic figure. Atkins was present
on the evening of August 9th, 1969, at Roman Polanski's Beverly Hills
home, where Sharon Tate was murder along with Steven Parent, Jay
Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger. Atkins was responsible
for writing 'PIG' on the door of the property as they left in Sharon
Tate's blood.
Manson family members and murder suspects (left
to right) Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle, and Leslie van Houto in
1970 as they arrive at court to be tried for their part in eight murders
in 1969
In the course of the interview, Manson's denial of Bugliosi's 'Helter Skelter' theory rings out the loudest.
Bugliosi
told the court during Manson's trial in 1970 that the murder's that
Manson inspired were an attempt to start a race war, 'after which the
blacks, who had won the war, would beg him to come be their leader,
because they could not lead themselves.'However,
a raging Manson exclaims, 'that doesn't even make insane sense' as he
fixes up his battle with Bugliosi, or 'Bug' as he calls him as a fight
between two long-time adversaries.Indeed,
because Manson was not present for any of the murders the Family
committed, he has always tried to claim that he never knew or inspired
the killings and twists the blame onto his followers.
Hedegaard
writes, 'He reserves a goodly amount of venom for [the prosecuting
attorney] Bugliosi. 'He knows I'm too stupid to get involved in
something of the magnitude of Helter Skelter.'So how could he convince himself of that for all these years? He made the money, he won the case.
Marriage: Star (left) has announced in a Rolling
Stone magazine that she is to marry Charles Manson (right) the most
infamous and stories serial killer in American history
Forty-four years after the Tate-LaBianca
murders, Rolling Stone's Erik Hedegaard has waded into California's
Corcoran State Prison to spend some time with Charles Manson and his
'fiancee' Star
Corcoran, California: Star (left) has become
friends with Charles Manson (right) who is serving a life sentence in
prison. She has known the befriended murderer for six years and there
has been speculation that Star will wed Manson
Fall: Manson (pictured left after he fell out of
his bunk in July) has given an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in
which he ha insisted on innocence and revealed details about his life
behind bars in Corcoran State Prison
The Corcoran State Prison compound is seen in
central California, where convicted mass murderer Charles Manson has
been serving a life prison term since the 1970s
'He's a winner! He got over! He's a
genius! He took 45 years of a man's life for his greedy little grubby
self. And he's going to go to his deathbed with that forever on his
conscience? Is there no honor in him at all?'
But
as has often proved the case with the repellent Manson, he then speaks
such ill of the victims that his lack of remorse is shocking.Dismissing
the murder of Sharon Tate, Manson says, 'It's a Hollywood movie star.
How many people did she murder onscreen? Was she so pretty?'She
compromised her body for everything she did. And if she was such a
beautiful thing, what was she doing in the bed of another man when that
thing jumped off? What kind of shit is that?'One
of the more bizarre revelations from the interview is that Manson is
allowed to make as many phone calls as he wants, as long as they are a
maximum of 15 minutes long and all collect.
New Family: Charles Manson and his follower Star
(right) pose for a serious looking picture inside Corcoran State Prison
where Manson is has served over 40-years for his part in nine murders
carried out in his name by his followers
Charles Manson, perhaps the most infamous
convicted killer of all time, is 79 years old and still locked up in
California's Corcoran State Prison and is reportedly going to marry Star
(left and right with the murderer)
Friends: Gray Wolf (left) are friends of Charles
Manson (right) who is serving a life sentence in prison since 1972.
They have befriended the convict and visit him every weekend in prison
in California
Denial: When Star was confronted with a question
about her resemblance to Atkins, she intensely exclaimed, 'That b---h
was f-----g crazy. She was a crazy f-----g whore.'
Hedegaard describes some of the more randoms beginnings to phone conversations with America's most notorious serial killer.'Here's
how he has begun some of his recent conversations: 'Hello, hello. Are
you ready? OK. There's seven steps from the death chamber of holding to
the death chamber of release.'
'I forget — was you mad at me or was I mad at you?'
'Would you come and swing upon a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar?'
'Why don't you go ahead and say what's best for you, and then I'll go along with it and meet you later over on the beach.''I've got something important I'd like to explain ... ’
Creepy: Grey Wolf, Star and Charles Manson pose
for a picture as they mark 44-years since the Sharon Tate murders in
Beverly Hills - a crime which Manson still protests his innocence over
Shady: And Star told Rolling Stone she can prove
Manson is more devoted to her than any other girl: 'I'll tell you
straight up, Charlie and I are going to get married,'
Weak and old: Manson became one of the 20th
century's most infamous criminals in the summer of 1969, when he
directed his mostly young, female followers to murder eight people
In one chilling episode, Manson explains to Hedegaard how killing someone to get more air is righteous.
'Whoever gets killed, that's the will of God. Without killing, we got no chance.'
'He paused, then went on, 'You might want to keep that out of your paper and say to yourself, How can that work for me?''At the time, I didn't think much of it. It took a while for what he was suggesting to sink in.'
He
was originally given a death sentence but spared execution after the
California Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional.In
1977, his sentence was commuted to life in prison with the possibility
of parole. Manson will next be eligible for parole in 15 years, when he
will be 92-years-old.
When
he was denied release in 2007 the parole board ruled that he 'continues
to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to
anyone he would come in contact with'.
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