18 - Charles Manson: Sex, Murder, and Helter Skelter

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In 1969 Charles Manson convinced Tex Watson and several young women to brutally murder seven innocent people in Los Angeles, including rising star/model Sharon Tate. Why did he do it and how did he become the crazy guy we see now with a swastika on his forehead talking nonsense in prison? How could this obvious maniac convince anyone into giving him a ride down the street let alone into murdering on his behalf? Find out all this and more in my favorite Timesuck so far!

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0:00.0	It was the summer of 1969.
0:02.4	President Nixon has begun to withdraw troops at a Vietnam.
0:06.1	Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 landing.
0:10.7	And the week before Woodstock brought 400,000 free-loving hippies to a farm in upstate New York
0:15.5	and changed the course of rock and roll and music festivals forever.
0:18.7	Charles Manson convinces four members of his new family to brutally kill five people
0:23.9	in the Dupanga Canyon home of director Roman Polanski, including his eight and a half
0:28.1	month pregnant wife, rising star Sharon Tate.
0:30.6	The next night, the Manson family will strike again, killing another couple and nearby
0:34.3	Los Felis.
0:35.8	By December 8, 1969, Charles Manson will be charged with first-degree murder in seven
0:39.4	killings even though no one died at his hand.
0:41.7	How did a career criminal fresh out of prison without even a high school education commenced
0:46.2	numerous young middle-class women with no prior criminal records to not only abandon their
0:50.2	lives and follow him up and down the California coast, but to also brutally stab strangers
0:55.2	to death at his command.
0:57.0	What does a person like that come from?
0:58.5	What type of childhood creates such a unique and terrible force of nature?
1:03.8	What kind of dude gets people to murder?
1:07.9	People to start a race war and his insane and hilarious helter-scalter vision?
1:15.0	Find out all this and more and what has been my personal favorite time suck so far.
1:27.0	Wow, I got a big one for everybody today.
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