The notorious cult leader Charles Manson has admitted to additional murders in a previously unheard phone call.
In the newly released audio Manson claimed that he had ‘left some dead people in Mexico.’
Speaking from prison the cult leader, who was imprisoned for a string of murders in the 60s and 70s, revealed: ‘There’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows.
‘I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco, stole some cars. I just got involved in stuff over my head, man. Got involved in a couple of killings. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left some dead people on the beach.’
The distressing phone call has been released as part of a teaser for Peacock’s three-part series ‘Making Manson’ which revisits the criminal’s life in his own words with the help of 20 years worth of phone calls he made to a friend.
The notorious cult leader Charles Manson has admitted to additional murders in a previously unheard phone call. In the newly released audio Manson claimed that he had ‘left some dead people in Mexico’
Speaking from prison, he revealed: ‘I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco, stole some cars. I just got involved in stuff over my head, man. Got involved in a couple of killings. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left some dead people on the beach’
Manson infamously led the ‘Mansion family’ cult in the late 1960s and early 70s that murdered at least nine people, including actress Sharon Tate.
As the leader of his ‘family’ Manson did not commit the murders himself but instead persuaded his followers to do his bidding.
Manson and his followers were arrested in 1969 and during his trial he appeared in court with a swastika carved into his head.
He went on to serve more than 40 years in jail before his death in 2017 at 83.
The series focuses on Manson’s life before he established the ‘family,’ whose members were mostly young women.
Phil Kaufman, a former cellmate, detailed his experience living with Manson.
‘Charlie was very good at be being evil and not not showing it,’ he said. ‘Anything that detracted him from his game plan at that time, he would squash it, but he did it with velvet gloves,’ he said.
‘See there’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows about. I lived in Mexico for awhile. I went to Acapulco, stole some cars,’ Manson can be heard saying on a phone call, in a short clip posted by Peacock.
‘I just got involved in stuff over my head, man. Got involved in a couple of killings. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left some dead people on the beach.’
Manson infamously led the ‘Mansion family’ cult in the late 1960s and early 70s that murdered at least nine people, including actress Sharon Tate (pictured)
Peacock’s ‘Making Manson’ revisits the criminal’s life in his own words with the help of 20 years worth of phone calls he made to a friend.
Phil Kaufman, a former cellmate, detailed his experience living with Manson, saying he was ‘very good at being evil’
The series focuses on Manson’s life before he established the ‘family,’ whose members were mostly young women.
Phil Kaufman, a former cellmate, detailed his experience living with Manson.
‘Charlie was very good at be being evil and not not showing it,’ he said. ‘Anything that detracted him from his game plan at that time, he would squash it, but he did it with velvet gloves,’ he said.
Former Manson associates and members of the ‘family’ said they didn’t think much of his criminal record – which included arrests for rape and theft – prior to the sensational murders of Tate and others.
‘I was told he had gotten out of jail or prison or whatever – I never knew the details, and that didn’t mean much in the 60s,’ music producer Gregg Jakobson said. ‘But if we knew that he had murdered somebody, that would be different. But he just had gotten out of jail, that’s all we knew.’
Dianne Lake, a former ‘family’ member, added: ‘I knew that he had been in prison for taking a girl over the state line. It seemed minimal at the time.’
The notorious ‘mad eyed’ killer from Cincinnati languished in prison after his 1971 conviction for conspiracy to commit murder.
‘I was told he had gotten out of jail or prison or whatever – I never knew the details, and that didn’t mean much in the 60s,’ music producer and Manson associate Gregg Jakobson said. ‘But if we knew that he had murdered somebody, that would be different’
Dianne Lake, a former ‘family’ member, added: ‘I knew that he had been in prison for taking a girl over the state line. It seemed minimal at the time’
‘Maybe I should have killed 500 people, I would have felt I really offered society something,’ he said after he was sent away.
After spending a decade behind bars for check forgery in the 1960s, Manson was said to have pleaded with authorities not to release him because he considered prison home.
While behind bars, he became obsessed with music – believing his musical talents would earn him fame and a following.
He was eventually released in San Francisco and began gaining followers, mostly women, who believed he was Jesus Christ.
The ‘family’ eventually established a commune-like base where Manson manipulated the group with drugs and supervised orgies.
By the summer 1969, Manson had failed to sell his songs and the rejection set him off a murderous path.
After serving a 10-year sentence for check forgery in the 1960s, Manson was said to have pleaded with authorities not to release him because he considered prison home
The public first heard of Manson when actress Sharon Tate, 26, was viciously murdered at her home.
She was eight months pregnant with husband Roman Polanski’s child when she was stabbed to death, with an X cut into her stomach and one of her breasts cut off.
In addition to Tate’s murder, Manson instructed his ‘family’ to murder six other victims.
Manson was eventually revealed as the mastermind.
He was given the death sentence but it was changed to nine consecutive life sentences after California abolished the death penalty.
