Originally Posted by
tgull
Funny thing was Manson never killed anyone. Yes he ordered killings, but he was never around for the killings himself.
I really never put Manson in the serial killer group. You take a guy like John Wayne Gacy. He was a flat out psychopath. Same with Ted Bundy and that chick hitchhiker who would kill dudes in Florida for no reason. But Manson never sliced anyone up.
You want a straight up lethal killer read the story on Charles Ng, he was probably the biggest sociopath this country has ever seen, he just got caught early.
I heard a podcast on that Ng guy a few years ago. Probably that time suck pod as he does serial killers all the time.
Yeah Manson wasn’t a traditional serial killer. More an antisocial pimp who grew up in prison and learned all the tricks. I’ve always been amazed at a tiny little guy like him managing to have a harem and keep bikers and shit in line.
I have this book I bought maybe a year ago called Chaos. I saw the author on Rogan. It’s an entire book of basically theories about him. Its ranges from moderate to CIA mind control shit. Dude was hired by a magazine to write about the Manson killings and became obsessed with all the different versions and spent like 20 years broke and finally just self published it.
I liked him in the interview because he didn’t claim to know. Just figured he better publish all this shit before he died and said it was mostly just speculation and crazy interviews with people. It piqued my interest because I never believed the whole Helter Skelter motive. It’s also crazy how many celebrities crossed paths with Manson in those few years.
One if his goons had just been arrested for a gory murder and it seemed obvious he was trying to get him out by a copycat murder occurring while he was in. Plus I never bought it was some coincidence that he’d been at that house where Dennis Wilson lived and had just moved out and he was pissed at him.
I just found Manson himself amusing. He had the funky cult leader speak mixed with pimp talk.
Ted K was brilliant, just a different type of crazy, but he probably died a virgin. Manson had a hell of a run and got others to do his killing, which is not easy.
Dudes like Bundy are something I can’t even grasp. Obviously some deep hatred of women. Good looking articulate guy, yet he couldn’t help himself. That prison escape then fleeing to Florida to kill some more is horror movie shit.