

During one of his last stays, he raped a fellow detainee while holding a razor blade to his throat. After being rejected, he started living on his own, making money through burglaries and spent time in several juvenile detention centers and childcare facilities in multiple states. Instead, he was placed in the Gibault School for Boys in Indiana by the court, but ran away the next year and tried to return to his mother. In 1947, Maddox tried to have him put in a foster home, but none could take him. The same thing happened again when he was 12.

At the age of nine, he was caught stealing and was sent to a reform school. Growing up, Charles was a quiet loner who often moved to and from different temporary residences with his mother. Three years later, she was paroled and took him back. In 1939, Maddox and her brother went to prison for robbery and her son moved in with an aunt and uncle in West Virginia. She would be gone for days or weeks at a time, during which he was left with his aunt or grandmother. She was briefly married to one William Manson, who was listed as Charles' birth father on the birth certificate and gave him his name. In 1936, she filed for child support from a Colonel Scott from Kentucky and was awarded it, but never received any. According to family members, she once even sold Charles to a waitress for a pitcher of beer, though he was retrieved by an uncle shortly afterward. His mother was Kentucky-born runaway Kathleen Maddox, who was 16 years old at the time of his birth and didn't name him immediately (during his first weeks, he went by "no name Maddox"), is said to have been promiscuous and a drinker. Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1934. 2 The Manson Family, Killings, and Capture.
