Some of Charles Manson’s final words will be revealed in a new documentary on the psychopath killer.
Cable network REELZ has released a teaser of their program which was due next year but has been brought forward to December 3.
It features phone conversations with Manson from prison in which he declares: ‘I’m the most famous human being not only that is alive but the most famous human being that has ever lived. And I’m not even dead yet.’
Cult leader Charles Manson (pictured left in August 2017 and right in October 2014) has died aged 83
He ominously adds: ‘What do you think is gonna happen when I die?’
In another conversation Manson denies responsibility for the murder of his seven victims.
He says of his cult members who carried out the acts: ‘I never ordered nobody to do anything. They were always free to leave.’
Manson says that in his years behind bars he has been able to reflect on himself and his actions – but he shows no remorse.
He explains: ‘I’ve been deep in thought in solitary confinement for almost 40 years thinking what the hell does all this mean, who does that fit, where does that work?
‘And the stuff that I’ve come up with man it’s just unbelievable.’
The teaser, first obtained by TMZ, concludes with Manson saying: ‘You are for you. I am for me. I’m for Charlie.’
It comes after the sister of Manson’s most famous victim said she blames the ‘Family’ members who murdered her more than him and fears they’ll get out of jail.
Actress Sharon Tate was brutally killed aged 26 by three of Manson’s followers while eight months pregnant with film director Roman Polonski’s baby.
Her sister Debra Tate yesterday said Manson’s death cannot give her closure while the killers are still alive.
The news was confirmed by Debra Tate (left), the sister of one of his victims – pregnant actress Sharon Tate
Charles Manson is being escorted to his arraignment in 1969 and remained behind bars until his death
She told TMZ: ‘Charlie was the least of my worries. He did set all of this in motion but it’s the hands of all the other members that are all still very much alive and rallying to get out of prison who decided how ugly and how heinous these acts were going to be. So in my mind he was the lesser of my concerns.’
Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel stabbed Tate sixteen times at Roman Polanski’s LA home on August 9, 1969 while another follower Linda Kasabian kept watch.
Atkins died in jail of cancer while Watson and Krenwinkel remain behind bars. Kasabian was given immunity after she agreed to testify.
Debra last year urged a panel of parole commissioners to reject freedom for Watson whom she called ‘the most active, the most prolific killer in the Manson family’.
In June, commissioners denied parole for Krenwinkel, after a six-month inquiry into allegations that she had been abused.
Manson, the psychopathic cult leader who had been behind bars for 48 years, died of natural causes at 8.13pm on Sunday at a hospital in Kern County, California aged 83.
Debra Tate said she prayed for Manon’s soul after learning he had died.
‘This could be the end of an era or just the beginning,’ she said. ‘I said a prayer for his soul.’
Victims: (top row left to right) Voytech Frykowski, Sharon Tate, Stephen Parent, (middle row left to right) Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Gary Hinman, (bottom row left to right) Leno LaBianca, Rosemary LaBianca, Donald Shea.
Manson had been taken to hospital from Corcoran State Prison with an undisclosed illness last week.
A statement released by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys of California on Monday morning quoted Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the trial who died two years ago.
It said: ‘Manson was an evil, sophisticated con-man with twisted and warped moral values.
‘Manson’s victims are the ones who should be remembered and mourned on the occasion of his death.’
Prison officials say it’s ‘undetermined’ what will happen to Manson’s corpse as he has no next of kin.
State law says that if no relative or legal representative surfaces within 10 days, it’s up to the department to determine what happens with the body.
It’s unclear if Manson requested services of any sort.
Manson was rushed to a Bakersfield hospital last week for emergency medical treatment (picturing in his younger days, arriving for court in 1971)
Manson was rushed to a Bakersfield hospital last week for emergency medical treatment.
Witnesses said he looked ‘ashen’, was covered in blankets and was not expected to last much longer after his health had been steadily declining for months.
In January, he was rushed to Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield for severe intestinal bleeding and a sigmoid lesion.
Doctors wanted to operate immediately but Manson had refused.
By the time he changed his mind and was ready for the operation, doctors determined he was too weak for surgery, and he was sent back to jail.
A source at the time said: ‘He’s not good. His health is failing.’
The 83-year-old had been behind bars for more than four decades, since 1969, after he ordered members of his cult – which he dubbed ‘the family’ – to go on a murderous two-day rampage.
Three of his followers, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie Van Houten, killed seven people: pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Steven Parent and Jay Sebring.
He had ordered his family members to slaughter Tate, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, and three of her friends at her home above Beverly Hills.
Stephen Parent was a fifth unfortunate victim that night. He had driven to the property to see if caretaker William Garreston wanted to buy his AM/FM Clock radio, and had stayed on for a beer at the guest house. He was shot multiple times when he wound down the window at the electric gate as he left.
Manson and three of his followers, Susan Atkins (left), Patricia Krenwinkle (center) and Leslie Van Houten (right) killed seven people: pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Steven Parent and Jay Sebring
1971: Charles Manson, with a swastika on his forehead, walks to court in Los Angeles
Charles Manson sits in the courtroom during his murder trial in 1970 in Los Angeles, California
1970: Charles Manson arrives for court with a shaven head, an open shirt, and a swastika carved in his forehead
‘Family’ members: Patricia Krenwinkle (left) makes a face as Leslie Van Houten and Susan Atkins (right) smile in August 5, 1970 on the way to court
Susan Atkins (left, with Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie van Houton) took part in several of the slayings, including those at the Tate residence, where she tasted Sharon Tate’s blood and used it to write ‘Pig’ on a house wall
The following night the Family butchered small business owners Leno and Rosemary La Bianca, in their home in Los Angeles.
The murders were carried out in upscale, mostly white neighborhoods of Los Angeles in order to blame the crimes on African Americans, in the hope of sparking what he termed a ‘Helter Skelter’ race war.
Manson was also later convicted of the slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald ‘Shorty’ Shea.
During the trial he was convicted of leading a cult in which disaffected young people living in a commune followed his orders and were ultimately turned into killers.
Sharon Tate’s sister Debra told People she never wished ill of any of the convicted killers. She said: ‘Each one of these people and myself now have are spirits or our wills are slightly entangled.’
Manson, Atkins, Krenwinkle and Van Houten were convicted of murder and initially sentenced to death for the killings.
Manson, who was not actually present but ordered the killings, applied for parole in 2012 but was denied release and was not eligible to apply again until 2027.
The cult leader continued his life of crime behind bars after being locked up, with more than 100 infractions during his time in prison, for charges including assault, making voodoo dolls and hiding a hot air balloon order catalog in his cell.
The murders were carried out in upscale, mostly white neighborhoods of Los Angeles in order to blame the crimes on African Americans, in the hope of sparking what he termed a ‘Helter Skelter’ race war. Manson is pictured in 1969 during a preliminary hearing
Coroner’s office personnel wheel the body of film actress Sharon Tate from her home in Bel Air, California, August 9, 1969
Speaking to People, retired Los Angeles County prosecutor Stephen Kay, who helped convict Manson of the 1969 murders, said: ‘He threw hot coffee on a guard and spit on a guard’s face. He had a saw blade in the sole of a shoe.
‘He was making little dolls, but they were like voodoo dolls of people and he would stick needles in them, hoping to injure the live person the doll was fashioned after.
‘He said his main activity was making those dolls.’
Manson was also targeted by other prisoners – on one occasion a Hare Krishna poured lighter fluid on him and set him on fire.
And prior to being moved to Corcoran in 1989, prison guards at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville found a hacksaw blade, marijuana and LSD in Manson’s cells according to a report in the LA Times.
The California Department of Corrections said he had spent the past 27 years incarcerated in the Protective Housing Unit at Corcoran, which houses inmates whose safety would be endangered by general population housing.
Before that Manson had also been housed at San Quentin State Prison, California Medical Facility, Folsom State Prison and Pelican Bay State Prison.
LA County coroner’s office take notes and look at the bodies found on the lawn of the Sharon Tate-Roman Polanski home
During the trial he was convicted of leading a cult in which disaffected young people living in a commune followed his orders and were ultimately turned into killers. He is pictured being taken to jail in 1969 by a group of police officers
Manson even managed to maintain a love life inside, and was recently engaged to 29-year-old Afton ‘Star’ Burton until she called off the wedding.
Afton, who changed her named to Star a decade ago, crossed the country at the age of 18, leaving her home on the Mississippi river and moving to Corcoran to be closer to the jail.
She struck up a relationship with Manson when she started writing to him after a friend chose him as the subject of a school project.
A marriage license was issued but expired in February 2015 amid lurid reports that Afton had only wanted to marry Manson so that she could take possession of his corpse on his death and use it for profit – charging people a fee to view it.