Charles Manson – a life in pictures

Charles Milles Manson, the leader of a band of hippie followers known as the Manson Family who committed a string of murders in California in the late 1960s, has died aged 83

Main image: Charles Manson is escorted by guards to court in Los Angeles to be informed of his death sentence in 1971. Photograph: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images

Mon 20 Nov 2017 02.08 EST Last modified on Mon 20 Nov 2017 08.16 EST

  • Charles Manson as a child at Boy’s Town, an Indianapolis juvenile center where he spent time for burglary before he subsequently ran away

  • The Spahn movie ranch near Chatsworth, a Los Angeles suburb, where Manson and his followers were living when they committed a series of murders in 1969, and where Manson and others murdered a ranch hand, Donald ‘Shorty’ Shea

  • Members of the Manson Family, including Lynette Fromme and Sandra Good

  • Manson is seen here in a 1969 arrest photo

  • Police stand outside the home of film director Roman Polanski in Los Angeles where his wife, Sharon Tate, and four other people were killed in August 1969

  • Sharon Tate, the most high-profile of the five people murdered at Cielo Drive, Los Angeles in 1969

  • On the cover of Life magazine, 19 December 1969

  • Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten attending court in 1971 during the Tate-La Bianca murder trial, during which Manson was convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder

  • Manson is seen here in court in 1970, during proceedings in the murder case of musician Gary Hinman, for which he was sentenced to life in prison

  • Members of the ‘family’ maintained a sidewalk vigil during Manson’s trial in 1971, their shaved heads and crosses on their foreheads.

  • Helter Skelter, released in 1971 and starring Steve Railsback, is one of the many films and documentaries about the Manson Family

  • Manson has given a series of high-profile interviews while incarcerated, the first of which was in 1981 when interviewed by Tom Snyder for The Tomorrow Show

  • A copy of the book Helter Skelter, written by Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Manson. It became one of the bestselling true crime stories ever published

  • Manson reads a statement at his parole hearing in San Quentin in 1986, when he was turned down for for the sixth time

  • Manson plays up to the camera during a 1988 interview with reporter Geraldo Rivera at San Quentin prison in 1988

  • A musical based on his life, Charles Manson - Summer of Hate, directed by Stefan Pucher opened in Hamburg, Germany in 2014

  • Manson is seen here in a 2011 photo when he was aged 77, having spent over four decades in prison

  • Manson with Afton Elaine Burton. He applied for a marriage license in 2014, but the relationship fell apart after it was claimed she wanted possession of his corpse to put on display

  • Manson in August 2017, at which point he had spent 46 years in prison for a series of murders in Los Angeles
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