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A photograph of Charles Manson, taken Wednesday March 18, 2009, at the California State Prison in Corcoran. The photo of the 74-year-old Manson was taken as part of a routine update of files on inmates at the Corcoran prison, where he is serving a life sentence for conspiring to murder seven people.
In a strange bit of cosmic timing, just hours before a court in Austria sentenced Josef Fritzl, 73, to a life sentence for his horrific crimes, a new photograph of Charles Manson, 74, serving a life sentence in prison was released in California.
As many people, including readers of The Lede, tried to understand how Mr. Fritzl could have committed such terrible crimes against his family, Mr. Manson’s image appeared, as if to remind us that no country has a corner on the market for evil.
A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation explained that the photograph of the 74-year-old cult leader was taken at the California State Prison in Corcoran, where he is serving a life sentence, and is part of periodic updates of inmate images by prison officials.
As The Los Angeles Times reports:
The 40th anniversary of the Manson killings is in August. Manson and other members of his so-called family were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area during two August nights in 1969. Prosecutors said that Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles’ song “Helter Skelter.”
As Douglas Martin explained in The New York Times’s obituary of the judge who presided over the trial of Charles Manson and his followers, the swastika on Mr. Manson’s face was his own doing:
The trial spun from dramatic to ridiculous to frightening, with Mr. Manson carving an “X” on his forehead and altering it over time until it became a swastika. Other defendants, all young women, copied him. At times, they chanted rhythmically, occasionally in Latin.
As many people, including readers of The Lede, tried to understand how Mr. Fritzl could have committed such terrible crimes against his family, Mr. Manson’s image appeared, as if to remind us that no country has a corner on the market for evil.
A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation explained that the photograph of the 74-year-old cult leader was taken at the California State Prison in Corcoran, where he is serving a life sentence, and is part of periodic updates of inmate images by prison officials.
As The Los Angeles Times reports:
The 40th anniversary of the Manson killings is in August. Manson and other members of his so-called family were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area during two August nights in 1969. Prosecutors said that Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles’ song “Helter Skelter.”
As Douglas Martin explained in The New York Times’s obituary of the judge who presided over the trial of Charles Manson and his followers, the swastika on Mr. Manson’s face was his own doing:
The trial spun from dramatic to ridiculous to frightening, with Mr. Manson carving an “X” on his forehead and altering it over time until it became a swastika. Other defendants, all young women, copied him. At times, they chanted rhythmically, occasionally in Latin.
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