New Photo of Charles Manson Released By Prison Officials

California jail officials released a new photo Wednesday of mass murderer Charles Manson. See more photos of Charles Manson and read more on his crimes below.

Manson, 74, does look older but still bears the fading swastika carving he etched into his forehead during his trial in the old Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles.

The photo of Charles Manson, the cult leader, was taken at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence.

Charles Manson has been in state prison for almost 40 years now. Manson moved to San Francisco in the sixties and began collecting younger female devotees. Then he moved to Los Angeles and began adding to his “family”. Manson even hung out with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.

In August 1969, Manson sent his followers to murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate Benedict Canyon.  SharonTate, the wife of director Roman Polanski, was 8 1/2 months’ pregnant when she was killed at her hilltop home in Benedict Canyon on Aug. 9, 1969. Besides Tate, four others were stabbed and shot to death: Jay Sebring, 35; Voytek Frykowski, 32; Abigail Folger, 25, a coffee heiress; and Steven Parent, 18, a friend of Tate’s caretaker. The word “Pig” was written on the front door in blood.

The next night he led them to invade the home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Feliz.

Prosecutors said that Manson and his followers were trying to incite a race war that he believed was prophesied in the Beatles’ song “Helter Skelter.”

Manson has made 11 failed bids for parole since 1978, the last in 2007, when he was ordered to continue serving life sentences. Manson’s next parole hearing is scheduled for 2012.

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