No Name Maddox Born to a 16-year-old mother, this was the legal

birth name of a boy who would later become the infamous Charles Manson.

In the late 1960s Manson had accumulated a following of acolytes, mostly troubled young

women, who called themselves the family.

In 1968, two female members of the family hitchhiking through Malibu flagged down a car

that happened to be driven by Beach Boys member Dennis Wilson.

The chance meeting led to the Manson family coming to visit and then moving into Wilson's

home, turning the Pacific Palisades mansion into a den of illicit drug use and deviant

sex.

Wilson thought Manson, an aspiring singer-songwriter, had musical talent, and the Beach Boys

would help record Manson's album and themselves cover one of his songs.

But Wilson found cohabitation with a cult unsustainable, and after being overrun, threatened,

and financially drained to the order of $100,000 by the violent gang of drifters, Wilson

resorted to abandoning his own home, leaving it to the family, who would go on to perpetrate

the grizzly Tate LaBianca murders just months later.

But years before his association with a maniacal foe guru who aimed to incite an apocalyptic

race war, Dennis Wilson and his brothers and fellow Beach Boy members Brian and Carl

Wilson had attended Hawthorne High School in the unremarkable suburb of Hawthorne, California,

where their local hangout of choice was a fast food restaurant located on Hawthorne Boulevard.

Dennis Wilson was in fact inspired to write the Beach Boys hit Fun Fun Fun by a girl in

a tea bird he saw outside of the eatery.

And in 1946 by a California businessman who required the West Coast rights to Dairy

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