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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

Why did Charles Manson order killings? NU psychologist, other experts offer a new take

Charles Manson (left) on March 18, 2009, at Corcoran State Prison in California when he was 74 and in a Dec. 17, 1970, photo prior to a Los Angeles court hearing. (AP)

Charles Manson, one of the most notorious American criminals of the 20th century, arrived in chains at Pelican Bay State Prison in California in 1997.

Manson was serving a life sentence for ordering his hippie cult followers to kill pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others at her Los Angeles home in 1969 and, the next day, to kill a couple at another home.

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