38. Manson’s mother and uncle once committed a hold-up… with a ketchup bottle
Kathleen’s marriage ended after just 3 years due to her drunkenness and irresponsible habit of partying every night. Even poorer, and still not out of her teens, she turned to a life of crime with her brother, Luther. Their chief scam involved Kathleen flirtatiously luring men out to the street, where Luther would beat up and rob them. When Charles was just 5, Kathleen and Luther held up a man she’d just met at a gas station, using a salt-filled ketchup bottle in lieu of a revolver. She got 5 years, and Charles was sent to live with relatives.
