Cult serial killer Charles Manson ‘seriously ill’ and rushed from prison to hospital with mystery ailment
The 82-year-old, who ordered his followers to murder seven people in 1969, was taken by ambulance from California's Corcoran State Prison
NOTORIOUS killer Charles Manson has been rushed to hospital and is ‘seriously ill’, reports suggest.
Manson, 82, left California’s Corcoran State Prison earlier today to get treatment for an undisclosed ailment, TMZ reports
He is understood to be at Bakersfield hospital, an hour away from the prison from where he is suffering a life sentence.
On August 8, 1969, the feared cult leader ordered four of his blood-thirsty disciples – Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles ‘Tex’ Watson – to the Beverly Hills address of movie actress Sharon Tate with the instruction to kill everyone in the house.
As well as Tate, who was married to director Roman Polanski and pregnant with his child, they murdered four other people at the property that fateful night.
Less than 24 hours later, the deadly gang – plus Leslie Van Houten and Steve ‘Clem’ Grogan – savagely tortured and murdered wealthy LA couple Rosemary and Leno LaBianca.
Manson and his accomplices were all sent down for the murders, apart from Kasabian who testified against them and played no direct part in the killings.
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