http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-la-disc-jockey-claims-hes-mansons-son,0,5119143.story
Okay. Interesting. This guy was adopted and found out Charles Manson was his biological father. What would your reaction be?
Me, I am much different than my parents and wouldn’t take it to be a horrible thing, hopefully, he considers the man who raised him as his real father.
Being a murderer is not passed on genetically.
I’m guessing this guy has a ton of new friends now…
It’s always nice to find out you have an extended family.
It would make me all stabby.
I hear Hell is lovely this time of year.
Is the guy a dead ringer (heh) for Manson? Otherwise, this seems like a rather odd reaction.
I think I’d insist on a DNA test. I’m not sure I’d trust the word of a convicted mass murderer whose modus operandi included fucking with people’s minds.
Also, why would the biological mother be able to so clearly identify her rapist? I think there’s all kinds of ways this story could be BS.
Um… well, Manson does have a distinctive tattoo between his eyebrows. If he had it at the time of the rape, well, there ya go.
Also, it was reported by Fox ‘news’; do you need any other reason to wait for confirmation?
There is a link within the link in the OP that shows Charlie’s son. I think his mom lied to him. Without the hair extensions he looks like Nathan Lane.
He didn’t. He added the tattoo during his trial.
twicks, who (many, many years ago) wrote her senior paper on the Manson Family as an apocalyptic cult
Now that would be newsworthy.
Actually, the resemblance to Nathan Lane is rather startling . . .
In this report, there are pictures of both of them, and there is a pretty clear resemblance.
Could be Nathan Lane is Charlie’s son as well. ::shrug::
Rockford. Not Rockfort. And I can see the resemblance.
I agree, they look very much alike.
I’m sure I’d find it disturbing, but more so if I found out in my teens or 20s.
Certain types of mental illness and personality disorders may be, but they usually manifest well before someone entered his 40s.
From the sound of the article, though, the man in question seems very much a better man than his biological father in many, many ways.
I see a lot of problems with this. I see no facial similarities other than a grim expression. Yes, they both have long, dark hair. But feature by feature: the eyes are shaped differently and the placement is off, the upper lids are different, the nose is different, the mouth is different, the cheekbones are different, the width of the face is different, the slope of the cheeks, the jaw width, the size of the chin - I see no more similarity than of any two random dark-haired grim-looking men. I look more like Manson than he does. And there’s even less resemblance in any photos of Manson at a younger age, which would be more relevant, before the face begins losing fat and collagen. I would want more than the word of my bio-mother to go on. A biological mother is supposed to want what’s best for her child. Why would one tell her son that his father is a notorious, schizophrenic, insane murderer? If I were her, and it was true, I would go to my grave with that. I think that with the likelihood that she has a screw loose, I’d want a paternity test before I believed it, if I were he. The fact that he feels more hippie-like than his 1950’s parents is not exactly conclusive evidence. And Manson has always been a self-aggrandizing, pathological liar. Manson is 5’2" tall. How tall is Roberts? Roberts chooses to believe that Manson is his father, talks to the press about it, yet doesn’t pursue a paternity test. Why not?
Here are a few possibilities I see:
