According to Manson groupie Ben Gurecki, his condition is life-threatening and his body is shutting down.
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According to the Kern County Sheriff’s office, Charles Manson has been taken to a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif. and is almost dead. According to Manson groupie Ben Gurecki, his condition is life-threatening, though hospital workers and authorities have declined to comment on Manson’s condition, citing patient confidentiality laws.
Charles Manson first shocked the world back in 1969, when members of his California cult murdered actress Sharon Tate, on his orders.
The Manson Family, as they came to be known, were a group of runaways, degenerates and enthusiastic followers who fell under Manson’s charismatic spell. Manson would regularly invite members of his “family” to live with him and teach them about philosophy and the teachings of the Process Church, whose members believed in the impending reunion of Satan and Jesus Christ.
Getty Images The ranch where the Manson Family lived in the years prior to their arrest.
Throughout his teachings, Manson implied that he himself was a reincarnation of Christ and that it was his duty to warn the public, through his Family, about the impending apocalypse. Manson believed that the world was spiraling into chaos and that there would soon be a social uprising. He believed that the song “Helter Skelter” by the Beatles was written to serve as a warning.
Many experts have theorized that the brutal murders were inspired by what they called the “Helter Skelter scenario,” Manson’s desire to prevent the apocalypse. However, since Manson himself simply ordered the killings, but did not take part in them, other theories have also surfaced.
On Aug. 9, 1969, Charles Manson directed four members of the Manson Family, Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel, to go to the former home of his acquaintance Terry Melcher, and kill everyone inside. He instructed the three women to do whatever Watson told them.
Wikimedia CommonsActress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant when Charles Manson ordered her murder
The four Family members broke into the home and proceeded to do as Manson ordered, killing five people. Actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, three friends who were visiting her at the time, and the home’s caretaker were all stabbed multiple times, the total number of stab wounds reaching almost 100.
Making matters more tragic, Tate was eight months pregnant when she was killed, and reportedly spent her last moments begging for the life of her unborn child.
The Family members returned home and panicked about the horror they had just caused. Manson, however, was undeterred by the Family’s panic, and the next day ordered two more murders.
This time, however, he attended them himself, in order to show the Family members how to do it right. The day after the Tate murders, Manson and his Family members broke into the home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and murdered them the same way they had murdered the previous day’s victims.
Almost overnight the murders sparked international panic and outrage, especially over Tate’s pregnancy and the short time span between them.
After a relatively short investigation, Manson and his Family were arrested just four months later. Manson and several Family members were sentenced to death, though their sentences were commuted to life in prison when California outlawed the death penalty.
Charles Manson applied for parole multiple times while in prison, though all have been denied. If 83-year-old Manson makes it out of his recent hospitalization alive, his next parole hearing will be in 2027.
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