Many tragic events are happening in our world. But nothing is more frightening than when it involves the death of another person at the hands of another person. In our world today, many sad and devastating events are happening. There are a lot of crazy people in our world. Some, whose names are still very well known throughout the country because of the tragic events they caused us. Even some that happened many years ago. There is one man who stands out for the tragedy he brought to our world and whom no one will ever forget. His name is Charles Manson. Charles Manson is known as the number one serial killer in the world. Charles Manson, he started a cult when he was in his 20s, went to prison several times and committed murders that people will never forget today. Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 12, 1934. He was the son of Kathleen Maddox. : a sixteen year old prostitute. Her mother wasn't ready to be a mother. She drank a lot and often didn't care about Charles. At one point in her life, she was sentenced to five years in prison for robbing a gas station in West Virginia. For this reason, Charles had spent most of his time traveling to various relatives and often to special reform schools and boys' homes. At one point, he was sent to live with his uncle and aunt, who also did not treat him well. At nine years old, Charles Manson had already started stealing and fighting at school. As you can see, his childhood was a mess that only got worse with age. This soon became a habit which led to even worse situations. In 1954, at the age of 19, Charles married a woman named Rosalie Willis. About two years later, they had a son named Charles Manson Jr. Manson supported and provided for his family by ste...... middle of paper ...... He said this would happen at the The summer of 1969 when the blacks would rise up and massacre the whites. When that didn't happen, he told his "family" that they needed to show black people how to do it. Manson ordered four of his followers to go to the home of a man named Terry Melcher. One of the men who didn't help him with his music career when he was trying to get one. What Manson didn't know was that Terry had moved out and no longer lived there. Instead, an actress, Sharon Tate, and her husband lived there. Manson went to the house to ask for Melcher, but was turned away because Melcher had moved out. On August 9, 1969, Manson and his "family" returned home and killed Tate, his unborn child, and four guests who were visiting Tate at the time. Her husband was on vacation at the time. This murder was one of the most famous murders in the world among all the Manson murders..