Neglected. Abused. Humiliated. And abandoned. This book is the first comprehensive look at the childhood of Charles Manson. It is filled with hard-to-come-by details about how his biological parents met; and the circumstances under which his mother, a spirited teenage girl, became pregnant by an alcoholic scoundrel. It is about his mother's hasty marriage to his adoptive step-father and their subsequent divorce soon thereafter due to her neglect. It is about his dysfunctional relatives - his pious maternal grandmother, an equally pious aunt, her sadistic husband and their impartial daughter - who had raised Charlie while his mother had been out running around with her older brother, robbing men, ending up in a state penitentiary. It is about the hardships he had to face alone as a child while his mother was in prison, having been abused and humiliated by these relatives. Then, once his mother got out and got married she then took to rejecting him, trying to put him in foster homes. Thus, at the age of 13, Charlie had to go off and live on his own, surviving by becoming a petty thief and vagrant scrounger; and due to living like this he had been apprehended several times, being sentenced to live in various state-run homes where he had to endure a life of physical, mental and emotional abuse. And because of his tough and neglected childhood - as well as other reasons, such as being slighted by a highly regarded music producer - he 'exploded' onto the national conscientiousness as a twisted and evil mass murderer back in the summer of 1969. Read and learn of Charles Manson's childhood and understand why his adolescence should be a cautionary tale on how we should not raise a child. I spent nearly 3 years researching Charlie's adolescence, going to various locations in and around Appalachia and the Midwest, following what leads and minute clues I could uncover about his childhood, piecing together where, how and by whom he may have been raised. And now, as a result of that hard work, I bring forth the back-story of one of America's most vilified mass-murderers, hoping that you will find his adolescence of interest, if not down-right thought provoking; for he did have to endure many hardships as a child which resulted in him taking-out his culminated frustrations on several innocent people in the peaceful hills of Southern California.