Crime & Justice

The Making of a Monster: Charles Manson’s Childhood

MIND OF A KILLER
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Jeff Guinn's biography goes deep into Charles Manson’s troubled childhood and shows how he became the crazed monster that captivated America.

Wendy Smith

More than 40 years after the gruesome murders that made Charles Manson an infamous household name, perhaps enough time has passed finally to assess him as something other than a satanic incarnation of the darkest impulses unleashed by the turbulence of the 1960s.

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Wendy Smith

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