One of the prevailing theories around Charles Manson is that the infamous cult leader had intended to incite a race war by orchestrating his so-called family’s killing spree in the 1960s.

The Manson family’s infamous crimes are reexamined in the March 2025 Netflix documentary 'CHAOS: The Manson Murders' Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE ...

Charles Manson spent the majority of his 83 years behind bars Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in ...

On December 13, 1971, Manson "received a first-degree murder conviction from Los Angeles County for the July 25, 1969, death of Gary Hinman and another first-degree murder conviction for the ...

Charles Manson is a towering figure in the true-crime world because of the notorious murders he is accused of orchestrating, as well as the cult-like psychological hold he had over his followers.

The cause of death for notorious cult leader Charles Manson was acute cardiac arrest, with colon cancer as a factor. That's according to a death certificate obtained by TMZ, which listed ...

Charles Manson died while serving nine life sentences in 2017 — nearly 50 years after masterminding the 1969 killings of Sharon Tate and eight others in Los Angeles. The infamous criminal ...

In Errol Morris’ new Netflix documentary “CHAOS: The Manson Murders,” the Oscar-winning director explores how Charles Manson was able to convince four “Manson girls” along with Tex ...

If you’re a fan of sophisticated, epistemologically intricate nonfiction filmmaking, it might not occur to you to click the thumbnail for something called Chaos: The Manson Murders when it pops ...

Convicted killer Charles Manson's namesake son, Charles Manson Jr., didn't outlive his father and was tormented by his dad's crimes. In Touch takes a look into how Charles Manson Jr. died ...

For decades, many have wondered how Charles Manson could convince a group of young adults to kill multiple people in his name — and why he did it. Several theories have been put forth ...

The result is fascinating, as Morris homes in on the crux of O’Neill’s book — that the official narrative of what have now become known as The Manson Murders was a sensationalist plot ...