Manson+aint

A serial killer is someone who murders two (some experts say three) or more people in two or more separate events over a period of time for largely psychological gratification. According to definition I think that it is hard to say that Manson was a true by the book serial killer, because he didn’t physically commit any crimes but one. By the definition Manson cannot be a serial killer for the reason that he has to have committed at least two crimes, which he didn’t. But the conspiracy to murder in many other cases could be argued as strongly as committing the actual murders because of the degree that he planned and controlled them. His “family” acted to his every order and he knew it and took it too far. He was smart enough to use others to commit his deeds for him so that he could use the excuse, but he may as well have been there himself. In a way he was like a serial killer with henchmen to do his dirty work. He was able to control his family to the extent where he didn’t even have to participate in his own killings. Manson had several characteristics of a serial killer including a rough troublesome childhood, in which he burned down his school. He was insane to a degree and he had the reasoning of a serial killer. The people that he killed were all of the same categories like many other serial killers. Manson had the mind of a serial killer but lacked physically killing them.