Summary of Jeff Guinn's Manson

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Nancy Ingraham, the mother of Kathleen Maddox, was a fundamentalist Christian who took the Bible literally. She loved God, but she also feared His wrath. She had no doubt that everyone was held accountable by Him.
#2 In 1931, Charlie died of pneumonia. His loss shook Nancy, but she was able to take comfort in her faith. God’s will was not to be questioned, even if it was mysterious.
#3 Following the death of her second child, Nancy became even more devout. She continued to live a righteous life, and she became more determined that her surviving offspring would, too. She underlined the most critical passages in Isaiah Chapter 1, Verses 18 and 19: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
#4 Nancy was able to raise her two youngest children, Luther and Kathleen, according to her conservative Christian values. But Kathleen, who was always wanting to have fun, would rather go out dancing than go to church.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Serial Killers
• Murder
• Serial killer
• True Crime
• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822511293
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jeff Guinn's Manson
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Nancy Ingraham, the mother of Kathleen Maddox, was a fundamentalist Christian who took the Bible literally. She loved God, but she also feared His wrath. She had no doubt that everyone was held accountable by Him.

#2

In 1931, Charlie died of pneumonia. His loss shook Nancy, but she was able to take comfort in her faith. God’s will was not to be questioned, even if it was mysterious.

#3

Following the death of her second child, Nancy became even more devout. She continued to live a righteous life, and she became more determined that her surviving offspring would, too. She underlined the most critical passages in Isaiah Chapter 1, Verses 18 and 19: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

#4

Nancy was able to raise her two youngest children, Luther and Kathleen, according to her conservative Christian values. But Kathleen, who was always wanting to have fun, would rather go out dancing than go to church.

#5

Kathleen, who was already sneaking out of the house to go dancing, decided to go to Ironton, Ohio, and explore the nightlife there. She met a boy named Luther at Ritzy Ray’s nightclub, and they began dating.

#6

In the 1920s, farmer Walter Scott moved his family from Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to a spot near Ashland where he tried his luck tilling along the Big Sandy, a tributary of the Ohio River. His two sons, Darwin and Colonel, gained local reputations as con men.

#7

William Manson was a small man who enlisted in the Army in 1942. He married Kathleen Maddox in 1934, and they had a son named Charlie Milles Manson. Nancy came to see the new mother and her grandson in 1934.

#8

Kathleen, after turning sixteen, was as devoted to having a good time as she was to being a good wife and mother. She began going out at night without her husband, and sometimes even showed up unexpectedly in Ashland or Charleston to drop off Charlie with his grandmother or Aunt Glenna.

#9

Kathleen’s decision to go out and find another husband was an impetuous one that would affect lives for the next three-quarters of a century.

#10

Kathleen met a man named Frank Martin, who seemed friendly and charming. They went to a few bars, and Martin paid for everything. Luther asked if Martin had much money, and Kathleen assured him that he did.

#11

The police arrested Luther, Kathleen, and Julia, and they all gave statements about what had happened. Luther claimed that the two women had no idea he was going to rob Martin, so he exonerated them all. But Julia and Kathleen both confessed their roles, and Julia was charged with minor counts of aiding and abetting.

#12

The Maddox siblings were arrested for the ketchup bottle robbery, and their grandmother was terrified about what would happen to them in prison. She was also concerned about her four-and-a-half-year-old grandson, Charlie.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

After the trial, Charlie was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in West Virginia. His mother was sent to prison, and he would not see her for five years. He would visit her sometimes, but he would not live with her.

#2

The Thomases moved to McMechen, a quintessential blue-collar town. Bill worked for the BO, owned a few guns, and was clearly the master of his household. He also drank too much, but realized it and got the problem under control.

#3

Charlie Manson was a disagreeable child. He was small for his age, and few who knew him then or in his teenage years found much to admire about him. He was obsessed with being the center of attention, and he never did anything good.

#4

The West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville was designed to be intimidating. It was strictly segregated, and inmates were fed what their outside bosses wanted to give them, or not at all.

#5

Charlie’s parents were sent to Moundsville prison, and he went with them. He was five years old at the time, and his mother tried to communicate with him through letters. When she was set free, she was not allowed to hug or kiss her son.

#6

Charlie was sent to Mrs. Varner’s class, and she immediately began pointing out his flaws. His mother’s imprisonment was probably mentioned, along with dire predictions about Charlie’s own hopeless future.

#7

Charlie was a poor student, and his time in the McMechen elementary school was notable only for the attention he consistently attracted from bullies because of his small stature and big mouth.

#8

Charlie’s mother and uncle were in prison, and it seemed like time was passing slowly for them. Charlie, on the other hand, developed three interests: knives, guns, and music.

#9

Charlie had only bad memories of his time with the Thomases. He told an interviewer that it was better for children to be separated from their parents.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

After three years in prison, Kathleen was released and began looking for a job and a husband. She found a man who agreed to marry her, but she didn’t bring Charlie along. She left him with a series of baby-sitters.

#2

Kathleen began attending meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1943. She met Lewis, a twenty-seven-year-old who said he was trying hard to get straightened out. Lewis had a lot to overcome, having spent several years in the same Moundsville prison with her brother and father.

#3

Kathleen had a difficult time dealing with Charlie. She knew that her own aberrant behavior had been a terrible influence on her son, and she was willing to do anything to change that. She decided to place Charlie in a foster home or school for a while, hoping that would help him improve.

#4

Charlie’s mother, Kathleen, sent him to a Catholic school in Indiana called Gibault in 1947. Charlie was unhappy there, and he soon fled to his mother in Indianapolis.

#5

In late 1947, Charlie left Gibault again, this time to spend Christmas with the Thomases. His grandmother Nancy had moved to McMechen, and Charlie’s Uncle Luther was there, too, dying of tuberculosis.

#6

In 1947, Jo Ann was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She was hospitalized, but her case was mild enough for her to be allowed to come home for Christmas. Charlie stayed with the Thomases and Luther was with Nancy. On Christmas Eve, everyone prepared for church except Jo Ann. She was afraid Charlie would rush upstairs and hurt her if she tried to interfere.

#7

Charlie ran away from Gibault about ten months later. He then broke into a few small stores at night and rifled cash registers for enough change and small bills to rent a room. He soon pushed his burglary luck too far and was caught attempting another store break-in.

#8

Charlie was sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, similar to Gibault, where he was subjected to a harsh discipline regimen. The ultimate goal was not to reform him, but to simply keep him alive.

#9

Charlie Manson was sent to the Boys School in 1949, where he was raped and abused by other students. He developed a lifelong defense mechanism called the insane game, which he used to convince potential aggressors that he was crazy.

#10

In October 1949, Charlie attempted to escape from Plainfield. He was caught after less than twelve hours of freedom. In February 1951, Charlie and two other sixteen-year-old boys escaped from the Boys School and stole a car. They were caught outside Beaver, Utah, in a roadblock set for a different robbery suspect.

#11

Charlie had been in reform school for four years by 1952, and he’d learned how to manipulate the system. He’d been caught sodomizing another boy at the Honor Camp, but his parole hearing was still scheduled for February 1952. All he had to do was follow Honor Camp rules and stay out of trouble until then, and his release was practically assured.

#12

Charlie Manson was released from the reformatory on January 1, 1954, at age nineteen. He had spent seven years in six different reform schools. His adult pattern of lawbreaking and violence was virtually guaranteed by the experiences of his childhood.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

When Charlie returned to McMechen in 1954, he looked for work. It was harder for him than for other young men in town, as he didn’t have a father to put in a good word at the company he worked for. He was hired at Wheeling Downs, a local racetrack.

#2

Charlie’s first goal was to make friends in McMechen. He was allowed to live with his grandmother only if he went to Sunday morning services with her at the Nazarene church across from her house. The church was one of the smallest in town.

#3

Charlie was required to go to church with his grandmother on Sundays, and he was also required to participate in the church’s Sunday School class for teenagers. He was not allowed to slouch or propped his feet up, and he was not allowed to carve his initials on the pews.

#4

The town’s other teenagers, who did not belong to the Nazarene church, also shuddered at the thought of being in Charlie’s company. They made it clear that they did not want anything to do with him.

#5

Charlie was not interested in women, but in men. He had learned to give and take sexual relief with other boys in reform school, but he was mostly attracted to women. He met Rosalie Willis, a cute, popular girl, and began going steady with her. They w