Born in Ohio in 1934, Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal slayings of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. However, the famous Tate-La Bianca killings have immortalized him as a living embodiment of evil. Images of his staring "mad eyes" are still used today to illustrate countless serial-murder news stories. The Manson Family—including Charles Manson and his young, loyal dropout disciples of murder—is thought to have carried out some 35 killings. Most were never tried, either for lack of evidence or because the perpetrators were already sentenced to life for the Tate/La Bianca killings. In 2012, Manson was denied parole for the 12th time.
Charles Manson I believe was not crazy but very clever individual. Manson had a group of people he referred to as his “family” he was a very manipulative man to the people around him. His followers numbering round the one-hundreds, also including a small portion of impressionable young girls. He had them all to believe without question that he was Jesus and his prophecies of a race war. Manson was not only influenced by drugs such as LSD but by art works and music of the time such as The Beatles song “Helter Skelter” from their white album.
The first murders took place on August 9, 1969, at Roman Polanski’s Beverley Hills home at 10050 Cielo Drive. Manson chose his four most best comrades- Charles “Tex” Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian- to carry out these heinous crimes. The victims inside the house, actress Sharon Tate; writer Wojciech Frykowski and his partner, the coffee bean heiress Abigail Folger; and celerity hairstylist Jay Sebring, had returned to the Polanski residence after dining out. Polanksi himself was away in London shooting a film. According to one of the Family member's statements, the Polanksi household had been targeted because it represented Manson's rejection by the showbiz world and society. Jay Sebring was shot and brutally kicked as he tried to defend Ms. Tate. During the terrifying fracas, both Frykowski and Folger managed to escape from the house but were chased and stabbed to death. At the trial, Kasabian described how she saw Frykowski staggering out of the house covered in blood and was horrified at the sight. She told him she was "sorry," but despite her pleas to his attacker to stop, the victim was bludgeoned repeatedly. Folger escaped from the house with terrible injuries but was caught on the front lawn and stabbed 28 times. The most inhumane killing is arguably that of Sharon Tate, who despite pleading for the life of her unborn child was mercilessly stabbed in the stomach by Susan Atkins. Kasabian told of Atkins' chilling words to Tate before she stabbed her: "Look, bitch, I have no mercy for you. You're going to die, and you'd better get used to it." Atkins then used Tate's blood to write the word "pig" on the front door. Instead of this brutal massacre sating the pathological Manson, he instead criticized the murderers for being sloppy.
Manson believed that he was the new Messiah and that after a "nuclear attack" he and his followers would be saved by hiding in a secret world under the desert. His prophetic visions included a belief that the race war would result in a black victory, and Manson along with his Family members would have to mentor the black community, as they would lack experience to run the planet. Manson is serving his time in Corcoran State Prison in California. Even behind bars, he has still managed to attract followers. A woman named Afton Burton, who calls herself Star, claimed that she and Manson are in a relationship. In an 2013 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, she said that "I'll tell you straight up, Charlie and I are going to get married. When that will be, we don't know. But I take it very seriously. Charlie is my husband. Charlie told me to tell you this."
Born on April 11, 1935, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski committed his first murder when he was 14. He grew up to become a Mafia hitman, known as "The Iceman" for often freezing his victims to obscure their time of death. Kuklinski was contracted by Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York's Five Families of the American Mafia. After being arrested in 1986, he became enamored with the spotlight, giving interviews to writers and psychiatrists, spilling about the myriad ways he'd killed his victims and bragging about how many lives he'd taken—up to 200. He died in prison in 2006.
Kuklinski's enthusiastic criminal career included robbery, hijackings and pornography, but murder was his forte. He earned Mafia respect at age 18 by efficiently and unquestioningly killing a random man selected for him on the sidewalk. He soon became the Genovese crime family's indispensible hitman, known for thoroughly disposing of his victims—removing their teeth and fingers, or dumping them off bridges, in rivers or down mine shafts. He also worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families, including the Gambinos. His resume for killing included guns, ice picks, hand grenades, crossbows and chainsaws, but his favorite method of murder, he'd later proudly confess, was a nasal-spray bottle filled with cyanide. Kuklinski would later say that he learned many of these tactics from fellow hitman Robert Pronge, also known as "Mister Softee" because he drove an ice cream truck as his cover. Kuklinski earned the moniker "The Iceman" for freezing many of his victims to obfuscate their time of death. Richard Kuklinski was caught in December 1986, at age 51, and incarcerated for life in 1988. In prison, he granted interviews with writers, psychiatrists and criminologists, waxing hyperbolic about how many men he killed up to 200 people.
Dr. Jeffery MacDonald was convicted of the murder of his wife, Colette, and their two children. The trial took place in the united states district court, Raleigh, North Carolina in August 1979. Dr. MacDonald was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. This conviction was the culmination of a nine-year effort by the Department of Justice and the Criminal Investigation Division ( C.I.D) , department of the army. The government claimed Dr. MacDonald staged a Manson type slaughter of his pregnant wife and two children in his home at Fort Bragg, North Carolina .
I’ve came to the conclusion out of all three of these murders the “ice man” is the most cold hearted and has no emotions for what he does. So that makes him the worst in my book. He can kill for no personal reason or it can be personal and him be perfectly okay with that. He was smart and good at what he did and got the job done. Iceman has killed over two-hundred people and even more during his younger days. I’d say he is on top of that totem pole for serial killers. Charles Manson murders were different compared to icemen. Charles was very manipulative people and had them believe he was Jesus. His followers would kill for him so not necessarily would he be doing the actual killing all the time. He was smart but not smart enough. Jeffrey MacDonald I think was trying to be like Charles Manson and didn’t succeed not all that great of a story to me. Over all Iceman is the worst serial killer and most interesting one at that.
http://www.biography.com/people/richard-the-iceman-kuklinski-21360091#mafia-hitman http://www.biography.com/people/charles-manson-9397912#life-in-prison Bugliosi, Vincent, and Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York: Norton, 1974. Print.
