Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who masterminded one of Hollywood's most gruesome murders, confessed to more murders before becoming leader of the Manson Family cult, a new documentary about Peacock reveals. The video is featured in a chilling audio clip.
The confession was featured in a teaser for the new series, “Making Manson,'' in which Manson can be heard speaking from his prison phone about his time south of the U.S. border.
“There are parts of my life that no one knows about,'' Manson says. says in the clip. “I lived in Mexico for a while and I went to Acapulco and stole some cars.
“I just got into a bit of a headache, dude,” he continued. “I got involved in some murders. I left a .357 Magnum behind in Mexico City and some dead people on the beach.”
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Charles Manson was convicted of one count of murder and several counts of attempted murder. He was the leader of the Manson Family, a cult that carried out several murders. (AP/Ron Galera)
The documentary series will premiere on streaming service Peacock on November 19th.
Manson was convicted in 1971 of nine murders, including the 1969 murder of then-pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
Prosecutors said he was trying to incite a race war, but the idea appeared to have come from a misreading of the Beatles song “Helter Skelter.”
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The Manson murders were brutal and horrifying. Tate, who was 26 years old at the time of her death, was stabbed and hung from the rafters in her living room. The intruders used the victim's blood to write the word “pig” and also misspelled “helter skelter.”
Although Manson did not carry out the murders himself, he was a master at convincing others to kill on his behalf.
Manson was convicted of nine murders. (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)
Members of the Manson Family (referred to as his followers) massacred five of the victims on August 9, 1969. Tatecoffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish film director Wojtyk Frykowski, and estate manager friend Stephen Parent. The murder occurred at Tate's home while her husband, director Roman Polanski, was overseas at the time.
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The next night, a wealthy grocery store owner and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town.
A petty criminal who had been in and out of prison since childhood, Manson was surrounded by fugitives and other lost souls during the heyday of California's hippie movement in the '60s. Even though he was in his mid-30s, Manson began gathering followers, mostly women, who likened him to Jesus Christ. Most were teenagers, and many were at odds with their families.
A cameraman films Charles Manson being taken to Los Angeles City Jail on suspicion of masterminding the Tate-LaBianca murders in August 1969. Manson died in 2017 while serving a life sentence. (Getty Images)
The “family” eventually established a commune-like organization based at the Spahn Ranch outside Los Angeles, where Manson drugged his followers, supervised orgies, and subjected them to bizarre lectures. .
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Manson was arrested three months after the murder. After a trial that lasted nearly a year, Manson and three of his followers, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten, were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Another defendant, Charles “Tex” Watson, was later convicted. All were spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison after the California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972.
Manson died of natural causes at a California hospital on November 19, 2017, while serving a life sentence. He passed away at the age of 83.
Fox News Digital's Stephanie Nolasco and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
