Serial killer Charles Manson confessed to murders before becoming leader of the infamous Manson Family cult, new audio from his prison phone calls has been revealed.
“There are parts of my life that no one knows about,” Manson, who died in 2017, said in a phone call from prison. with a short teaser clip From Peacock's upcoming documentary series “Making Manson.”
“I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco and stole some cars,” he continued in a chillingly calm voice.
“I just got into some crazy shit, dude. I got involved in a few murders. I left my .357 Magnum behind in Mexico City and left some dead people on the beach. ” he said.
Manson was convicted of directing his troubled, mostly female Manson family to kill at least seven people in California in the summer of 1969. He spent more than 45 years in prison.
Among the dead was actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski, who was stabbed 16 times.
The cult leader did not commit the murder himself, but persuaded his followers to do so.
A new three-part documentary features 20 years of never-before-aired footage of Manson's childhood, life of crime, and time as a commune and cult leader from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Digging deep into the conversation. According to Peacock.
Before his infamous murders, Manson spent his teenage and early adult years in and out of institutions and prisons for various crimes, including rape and theft.
At his 2012 parole hearing, it was revealed that Manson had a ruthless attitude. told one of the prison psychologists.: “I'm special. I'm not your average prisoner. I've spent my life in prison. I've put five people in their graves. I'm a very dangerous man.”
“I'm a criminal,” Manson proudly declared in a collect call from prison to the Post in the mid-2000s.
His parole was denied.
The teaser trailer features a snippet of an interview with Manson's former cellmate Phil Kaufman, in which he talks about what it was like to live with a murderer.
“Charlie was very good at being evil and not showing it,” he revealed. “Back then, anything that undermined his game plan was crushed, and he did it with velvet gloves.”
In the decades since his murders, Manson has become a symbol of troubled youth and a staple of pop culture.
He died of natural causes in prison in November 2017 at the age of 83.
The docuseries premiered on the streaming platform on November 19th.
