Ep. - 1671 - MY GRANDFATHER CHARLES MANSON
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sophia Maddox and Alexandra Orton, co-directors of Hulu's My Grandfather Charles Manson, a documentary following Sophia's discovery through a DNA test that her unknown grandfather was Charles Manson, and her journey through Manson family members, unreleased records, and audio recordings to uncover the truth, all while it strains her relationship with her father, who bears a striking resemblance to Manson.
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| 0:00.0 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. |
| 0:08.5 | Imagine sending away for a simple DNA test. |
| 0:11.5 | Maybe you're curious about your ancestry or like millions of Americans just trying to answer a question that your family has never been able to answer. |
| 0:20.4 | Now imagine that the results connect you |
| 0:22.3 | not to a distant cousin in another country, but to a man whose name has become shorthand for evil |
| 0:28.0 | itself. Imagine that the match comes back and the name attached to it is Charles Manson. |
| 0:34.7 | This is not a hypothetical in the Maddox family. It happened as Sophia's father, and it changed |
| 0:40.4 | her life just as much as his. Now before we get to her story, it is worth remembering exactly who |
| 0:46.6 | Charles Manson was because the horror of what he did tends to calcify into shorthand over time. |
| 0:53.5 | Manson was the leader of a cult known as the Manson family, based in California in the late |
| 0:57.9 | 1960s. |
| 0:59.5 | He did not personally commit the murders that made him infamous. |
| 1:03.1 | Instead, in August of 1969, he directed members of his cult to kill seven people over two |
| 1:09.1 | nights, including the actress Sharon Tate, who was |
| 1:12.1 | eight months pregnant at the time. Mance's state of motive was a race war that he called |
| 1:17.7 | Helter Skelter, a term borrowed from a Beatle song, which he believed he could accelerate by making |
| 1:23.5 | the murders appear to be committed by black militants. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death. |
| 1:31.1 | A sentence later commuted to life in prison after California temporarily abolished |
| 1:36.1 | capital punishment, and he died in prison in November of 2017, having spent nearly five decades |
| 1:42.1 | behind bars. |
| 1:43.8 | For more than 50 years, his name has remained |
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