Charles Manson was an American criminal who, by the time he was 32 years old, had spent roughly half his life in reformatories and prisons. In 1967 he established a cult known as the Family. Two years later he ordered his followers to commit a series of brutal murders. On August 8–9, Family members killed actress Sharon Tate and four others. The following night Rosemary and Leno LaBianca were murdered. In addition, two other people were known to have been killed by the Family: Gary Hinman and Donald (“Shorty”) Shea. In 1971 Manson and his followers were convicted of all nine murders. Manson was serving a life sentence when he died in 2017 at the age of 83.
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