Charles Manson, who had spent decades in the public arena as the most hated person in the country until O.J. Simpson, finally died this past November which provided the families of his victims a sense of closure. Noah Landsberg echoed the general sentiment around Manson as him being “a bad man”. Yet oddly enough, back in the sixties, Manson wasn’t always associated with being a cult leader as he was even being considered to team up with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys for an album. However, Manson turned many of the other members of the band off and sent Manson on his way, angering him. It was at that point that Manson pushed through a threshold of his sanity to which he never recoiled from.

Using his charisma to his advantage, many people took a rather positive notice to his views on an impending apocalyptic race war, to which he deemed “Helter Skelter”, seemingly after the song of the same name by The Beatles. He and his newly formed cult, decided that committing a series of brutal murders would finally help precipitate that war, giving themselves what they thought to be a moral superiority in which they could use to commit the murders, but not have it necessarily be truly “murder” in their mind. With that in their back pocket, he and his cult followers, “The Manson Family”, set out on a rampage that killed nine innocent people between July and August 1969 in Los Angeles, California.

Once The Manson Family were caught, tried, convicted and originally sentenced to death (which was later commuted for life sentences in 1972 after California overturned their law allowing the death penalty), an air of new pop culture and notoriety of violence, insanity and the macabre arose from beneath the ground and permeated like a stench around every household in America. Manson, served out his sentence and eventually the final years of his life at the California State Prison in Corcoran until his death on Sunday, November 19th, 2017.

Manson’s notoriety has not sunk back into the sea like a ship yet as numerous film projects are being developed involving Manson. The most well-known and talked about production, which is under the working title of Number Nine, is the one being directed, produced and written by Quentin Tarantino, and rumored to star Margot Robbie as one of the most famous victims of The Manson Family, and is also rumored to star Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson.