Charles Manson Criminology Paper
Charles Manson
“Helter Skelter”
Criminology
Professor
Charles Manson “Helter Skelter” Charles Manson long and crazy life started at birth, and has not ceased since. He is still today one of the biggest icons in the murder mix, as being a serial killer. He is a man with many different powers and ways to draw people in. His long, hard, and crazy life all started with his mother, Kathleen “Kathy” Maddox. She was the youngest of three children born to Nancy and Charles Maddox, she ran away from her strict Fundamentalist Christian home when she was 15 years old to escape the cold, strict, and oppressive family (Sable, 2006). She was an alcoholic runaway at only 16 years old. She gave birth on November 12, 1934, at 4:40pm, in Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, the official name on the legal birth certificate was “No-name Maddox” (Sable, 2006). Afterwards, on the souvenir birth certificate the name Charles Milles was added. The young boy Charlie never met his father Colonel Scott, a 24-year-old transient laborer from Ashland, Kentucky; he was working on a dam near Cincinnati but made a quick exit after discovering his teenage sex partner had become pregnant (Sable, 2006). The Manson name was inherited by William Manson, 24, who Kathy was married to for a short time after Charlie’s birth. Manson rarely and could barely remember him, but this is the man he considered to be his father. It was not until 1936 that the courts awarded Kathleen $5.00 a month child support, it was 1954 when Colonel Scott died without acknowledging his son’s existence or contributing to his support (Sable, 2006). At six years old, when his mother was thrown in jail, for holding up a gas station, Charlie was sent to live with his religious grandparents. He was then relocated to his Uncle Bill and Aunt Joanne in West Virginia. After his mother was set free from prison, he hooked back up with his mother and the next thing that happened was tragic for a child
“Helter Skelter”
Criminology
Professor
Charles Manson “Helter Skelter” Charles Manson long and crazy life started at birth, and has not ceased since. He is still today one of the biggest icons in the murder mix, as being a serial killer. He is a man with many different powers and ways to draw people in. His long, hard, and crazy life all started with his mother, Kathleen “Kathy” Maddox. She was the youngest of three children born to Nancy and Charles Maddox, she ran away from her strict Fundamentalist Christian home when she was 15 years old to escape the cold, strict, and oppressive family (Sable, 2006). She was an alcoholic runaway at only 16 years old. She gave birth on November 12, 1934, at 4:40pm, in Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, the official name on the legal birth certificate was “No-name Maddox” (Sable, 2006). Afterwards, on the souvenir birth certificate the name Charles Milles was added. The young boy Charlie never met his father Colonel Scott, a 24-year-old transient laborer from Ashland, Kentucky; he was working on a dam near Cincinnati but made a quick exit after discovering his teenage sex partner had become pregnant (Sable, 2006). The Manson name was inherited by William Manson, 24, who Kathy was married to for a short time after Charlie’s birth. Manson rarely and could barely remember him, but this is the man he considered to be his father. It was not until 1936 that the courts awarded Kathleen $5.00 a month child support, it was 1954 when Colonel Scott died without acknowledging his son’s existence or contributing to his support (Sable, 2006). At six years old, when his mother was thrown in jail, for holding up a gas station, Charlie was sent to live with his religious grandparents. He was then relocated to his Uncle Bill and Aunt Joanne in West Virginia. After his mother was set free from prison, he hooked back up with his mother and the next thing that happened was tragic for a child
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