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Topics: Crime, True crime
Joe Yates
The very utterance of Charles Manson should send shivers down your spine.
He was the cult leader of the infamous 'Manson Family' who killed nine people in 1969.
In August of that year, Manson ordered his followers to go to a house in Los Angeles and kill everyone inside it 'as gruesome[ly] as you can' - an eight-month pregnant Sharon Tate was murdered alongside four others.
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Now, in a newly released audio clip for a three-part docuseries, titled Making Manson, he appears to confess to killing people prior to being incarcerated for his involvement in the murders in the summer of '69.
In Peacock's teaser clip, Manson can be heard saying: "There’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows about.
"I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco, stole some cars. I just got involved in stuff over my head, man. Got involved in a couple of killings. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left some dead people on the beach."
The audio recordings came from talking to Manson over the phone while he was in prison.
The new docuseries is due to be released on Tuesday (November 19).
The synopsis reads: "An explosive series offering unfiltered insights into America's most notorious killer, Charles Manson. Through 20 years' worth of never-before-aired conversations, those closest to the case have their views challenged."
23 years after being locked up for his part in the 1969 murders, he was asked to describe himself in one sentence.
Leaning forward in his chair, Manson sinisterly laughed, raised his eyebrows, and pulled some rather scary faces before he responded: "Nobody."
After taking a slight pause, the cult leader added: "I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and jug o' wine. And a straight razor, if you get too close to me."
Despite heaps of evidence against him, Manson maintained his innocence when it came to his involvement with the brutal murders.
During a tumultuous trial in 1970, he insisted that society itself was guilty instead of himself.
"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them; I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up," Manson said in a courtroom soliloquy at the time.
Although Manson did not kill any of the victims himself, he was found guilty of ordering their murders and sentenced to death.
However, the state of California abolished the death penalty in 1972 and his sentence was commuted to life in prison.
Manson died of natural causes in 2017 at the age of 83.