Charles Manson, the sinister hippie cult leader who declared himself "the Devil" and dispatched his followers to commit a series of Hollywood murders in 1969 that shocked the country, died Sunday night in a California hospital.
Charles Manson truly was a deranged individual. Many people considered him to be an evil genius. I couldn't disagree more with them. If you listened to the man talk during his interviews, he was incredibly incoherent and none of what he said made any sense whatsoever. He would utter complete nonsense nonstop.
He came from a deprived and extremely neglected childhood in which I believe continuously tried to get rid of him.
I believe that his bitterness about his past led to a lot of his criminal behavior. Manson spent the better part of his life behind bars.