The well-known killer Charles Manson died at the age of 83 for natural causes.
Manson, who has been behind bars for more than 45 years, died Sunday at a hospital in California.
He was transferred from the Corcoran state prison with a serious illness, following albeu.com.
The news of his death was confirmed by Debra Tate, the sister of the victim.
"This may be the end of an era or just the beginning," she said, adding: "I said a prayer to his soul."
The notorious cult leader and mass murderer Charles Manson was commissioned to assassinate Sharon Tate in 1969,
The "swastika" tattoo killer at the front is one of the most famous criminals in the US.
In the 1960s, as a charismatic ex-convict, he gathered a group of fugitives known as the "Manson Family". He directed his young supporters, mostly women to kill pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others, in what prosecutors said was a plan to launch a racial war,
He was sentenced to death in 1971 with four of his followers due to the murder of seven people, including Sharon Tate, who at that time was Roman Polanski's spouse and eight months and a half pregnant August 1969.
Their sentences were changed to life imprisonment.
Manson by the end of 2014 has asked permission to marry 26-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, which did not happen.
In 2012, it filed one of the countless requests to be temporarily released, which was refused
