No Rest For The Wicked

Despite all of the years Manson spent in different schools, he continues to remain illiterate to this day. His days of crime and petty thievery were just beginning and he was eventually placed in the National Training School for Boys for stealing a car with the 2 friends who had escaped with him earlier. Despite his time in juvenile detention centers, he was not reformed. His caseworkers called him “aggressively antisocial,” while the Federal Reformatory deemed him “dangerous.”

 Manson’s First Wife

After being granted parole, he met the lady who would then become his first wife. She was a hospital waitress named Rosalie Jean Willis, and they were married in January of 1955. She soon became pregnant and, during that time, Manson found himself in jail once again due to another stolen car incident. While he was in Terminal Island, his wife gave birth to his first child, Charles Manson, Jr.