The Manson Family murders explained

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But in fact, Manson was a career criminal by the time he moved to California, and the Tate-LaBianca murders were part of a long period of escalating criminality from him and his followers. Their other major crimes included multiple murders, torture, hostage-taking, and the attempted assassination of
a US president. Another longstanding public perception about the Manson Family murders is that they were a kind of psychic attack on America itself — an explosive release of tension, an inevitable result of the freewheeling, drug-happy counterculture of the ’60s. In countless depictions of
the murders over the 50 years since they took place, they have largely been framed as a drug-fueled, randomized frenzy. But as we learned from a deep dive into the Mansons gleaned from books, trial transcripts, and archival media reports, the murders weren’t random at all,
Manson’s followers had killed both before and after their most famous murders. The cultural narrative around the Tate-LaBianca murders is that they happened out of nowhere — that Manson’s followers simply erupted into unthinkable violence on command, after being thoroughly brainwashed.
the Manson Family murders. (...) Manson exploited the drug-happy, freewheeling goodwill of the era, by bonding with his would-be followers and then luring them into imbalanced and manipulative relationships. He quickly targeted his first follower, 23-year-old Mary Brunner, for her house and her
nor were they a reactionary backlash to normative American culture; rather, they were an outgrowth of Manson’s warped sense that he was entitled to all the power and fortune he desired. Manson, like many psychotically predatory men whose violence has hypnotized American culture, was really just an
everyday misogynist. He wasn’t a product of ’60s counterculture — he was a master manipulator of it, one who used the “free love” ethos of the time to prey on a cadre of troubled, abused young women, who continued to carry out his thirst for violence even after he was in jail. The “Manson girls”
and his other followers have continued to fascinate us. But the Manson murders were ultimately about Charles Manson himself. And Charles Manson craved wealth, fame, and power. That longing manifested in an obsessive love-hate relationship with Hollywood — an addiction that ultimately led to
especially damaging to young women, who often became vulnerable targets of sexual assault. The story of Manson’s youngest known follower, Dianne Lake, is a quintessential example. Lake’s family had moved from Minnesota to California just to participate in the countercultural lifestyle. While living
income. Brunner, who’d moved to California to work as a librarian, turned easily to petty crime and supported Manson while he recruited followers. Hippie communities of the ’60s often wound up reifying the same restrictive and imbalanced gender norms that they purported to escape. They were
Manson relied on this cover. He traveled throughout California, approaching young women in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park as well as Los Angeles’s Venice Beach, presenting himself as a religious figure and urging them to follow him by surrendering their identities to him completely.
in a free love commune called Wavy Gravy’s Hog Farm, Lake’s parents allowed her to take drugs and have sex. She met Manson at age 14. With the full approval of her parents, Lake immediately began a sexual relationship with Manson and joined the Family. She did not participate in the Manson murders,
His follower count grew, and in the fall of 1967, Manson packed up the Family and moved them to Los Angeles — toward his dreams of Hollywood stardom. In Hollywood, Manson began to work his music industry connections. He was soon making inroads with music producers and actors.
but she was living with the cult when the murders took place, and her knowledge of them made her a major witness during Manson’s prosecution. Today, she argues that ’60s counterculture was a cover for women like her and the other Manson girls to “be abused or taken advantage of.”
 
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