Charles Manson was a convicted serial killer around the 1960's. Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 12, 1934. His mother was unable to take care of him as a child due to an alcohol addiction problem and too much time spent in jail. Manson spent most of his youth in and out of reform schools and homes of some relatives. By the time he was nine years of age he had already started committing crimes like stealing cars and committing burglary. His first known crime that he committed was in 1948, which was the burglary of a grocery store. He got caught and was sent to a juvenile detention center which he escapes from and commits two armed robberies. When Mason got arrested again he was then sent to the Indiana school for boys in Plainfield for three years.
             Mason escapes from the school for boys in 1951 and heads west. On his escape he burglarizes fifteen to twenty gas stations along the way and is later caught in Utah. After being apprehended again he is then sent to a national training school for boys in Washington D.C.
             In 1954, at age nineteen he was released on parole for having good behavior. He then married Rosalie Willis, and had a son together named Charles Manson Jr. In 1958, Manson was released from prison. When he was released he began stealing checks from mail, conning people, and pimping. Manson also got a divorce and found a new wife and got remarried in 1957 after he was released out of jail but the marriage did not last long and led to a divorce very soon. Manson had his second child with her. Manson was then once again was arrested on June 1, 1960 and sent to the McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington.
             In the six years he spent in prison he became obsessed by the music of the Beatles. He learns how to play the steel guitar and spends most of his time in prison dedicated to music and song writing. Manson planned to pursue a music career as soon as he was released. Manson was then released again out of ja...