32. Also at 13, Manson escaped Gibault and went on a robbery spree so he could rent a room of his own
Life at Gibault didn’t get any better for Manson. The Catholic priests who ran it gave him daily beatings for wetting the bed and the older kids gave him a hard time. Figuring that he was away from home because his mother couldn’t cope with him, Manson decided to make a go of it himself and escaped once more in 1948. He survived off meals begged from ‘bums, winos and hobos’, and once he made it to Indianapolis robbed cash registers to rent a room ‘on skid row’. No one seemed to care or notice that he was just 13.
