29. At 16, he received a disturbing psychological report
Manson escaped from Plainfield twice, and on the second occasion was apprehended in a stolen car at a Utah road block. Crossing state lines made this a serious federal offense, and he was sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington, DC. There, aged 16, he was given a psychological examination, revealing that, although his IQ was 109, he was illiterate, and ‘aggressively anti-social’. The report, heartbreakingly, concluded that ‘behind all this lies an extremely sensitive boy who has not yet given up in terms of securing some kind of love and affection from the world’.
