28. Manson missed parole in 1952 after raping another boy at knifepoint
The accuracy of the report quoted above is debated: some think that it’s an instance of Manson’s great gift for manipulation. Either way, the report saw him transferred to the Natural Bridge Honor Camp in 1951, a minimum-security institution. He was scheduled for a parole hearing in February 1952, but a month before it was due to take place guards found Manson raping another inmate at knife-point. A horrific act, no doubt, but it’s hard not to see the 18-year-old Manson as a product of the brutalizing environment he’d been subjected to for most of his formative, teenage years.
