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40 Facts About Charles Manson, the Notrious Cult-leader

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2. He died in 2017, having never expressed any remorse for his crimes

Charles Manson, Corocan State Prison, a few months before his death in November 2017. HDNux

In total, Manson was convicted of 9 murders, some of which only came to light during his imprisonment. For decades, he denied all charges against him, but in 2011 he had the following to say to a prison psychologist: ‘I am special. I am not like the average inmate. I have put five people in the grave.’ But although he seems to have admitted to some of the murders for which he was convicted (assuming these weren’t others that hadn’t been discovered), Manson never once showed remorse for what he’d done. He died alone after a heart attack in 2017.

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