OT: Charles Manson’s Son
Hoodoo
Posted 11/24/2009 6:30 am by Ron Hogan
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It�s got to be strange to be adopted. There�s the mystery of who your
real parents are versus the reality of who raised you and who you
consider to be your parent. I have a good friend who was adopted as a
baby, and while she�s interested in knowing just who her parents are,
she�s hesitant to seek them out. After reading about Matthew Roberts, a
Los Angeles DJ who was adopted as a baby, I can see why. After all,
Roberts found out he�s the son of Charles Manson.
Roberts, 41, started investigating his parentage 12 years ago. He had
comparatively little trouble tracking down his biological mother Terry,
but she wasn�t forthcoming about the identity of his father, or what his
last name at birth was. Turns out, in 1967, she took off for San
Francisco with Charles Manson, and Uncle Charlie fathered her son during
a drug-fueled rape orgy. On March 22, 1968, the baby that would become
Matthew was born.
There�s an eerie resemblance between the two of them, physically. Like
Manson, Roberts is also a poet and musician, in addition to being a DJ.
Fortunately for Roberts, he doesn�t share his father�s most famous
proclivity. Says Roberts, �My hero is Gandhi. I�m an extremely
non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian. I don�t even kill bugs.
I�ve had long hair all my life. I could make it go away, but I can�t
let the world and their fears change me.�
--
"Think with your dipstick, Jimmy."
Hoodoo
By PETE SAMSON
US Editor
Published: 23 Nov 2009
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2740414/I-traced-my-dad-and-discovered-he-is-Charles-Manson.html
Adopted ... Matthew Roberts
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Killer ... Charles Manson in 1968 mugshot -
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LIKE many adopted children, Matthew Roberts set about finding his
biological parents with a mix of nerves and excitement.
In particular, he hoped that discovering his father's identity would
help him to work out what made him the man he had become.
But nothing could have prepared him for being told his dad was... serial
killer CHARLES MANSON.
Warped ... Charles Manson now
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Over a five-week period in the summer of 1969, Manson and his Family of
commune followers committed a series of nine gruesome murders. Victims
included pregnant actress Sharon Tate, wife of film director Roman Polanski.
Matthew, 41 - who bears a haunting resemblance to his father - sank into
depression after discovering his identity.
He has since been in contact with his dad in a series of letters to his
California prison and Manson has replied - each time chillingly signing
off with a swastika.
Now Matthew, who was given up for adoption as a baby, has told of his
horror at finding out he was the son of a monster.
Poison pen ... letter from Manson to Matthew
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He says: "I didn't want to believe it. I was frightened and angry. It's
like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father.
"I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster."
Matthew grew up in Rockford, Illinois, and didn't know he was adopted
until his sister told him when he was ten.
He loved his adoptive parents but always knew he was different. He says:
"My parents were great people, but very conservative.
"They were products of the Fifties and I didn't relate to them. My
biological parents were products of the Sixties and I take on a lot more
of those characteristics."
He also reveals his adoptive father tried to discourage him from getting
in contact with Manson, telling him: "Nothing good will come from this."
Letters
Matthew, who now lives in Los Angeles, began investigating his family
history 12 years ago when he contacted a social services agency who
located his mother, Terry, in Wisconsin.
He wrote to her straight away and their early exchanges will be familiar
to adopted children everywhere.
Map ... Los Angeles
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She confirmed she was his mum and told him she had named him Lawrence
Alexander - and that she would tell him his last name in time.
The jigsaw of his life was beginning to take shape but it was still
missing a crucial piece - his father.
Terry remained tight-lipped about his identity but after Matthew pressed
her for details in a string of letters, she eventually revealed the
awful truth.
She said she met commune leader Manson in 1967 - two years before the
infamous "Manson Family" murders in Los Angeles for which he is still in
jail at the age of 75.
But back in 1967, Terry had been one of many who were transfixed by
Manson's charms.
Her father had tried to chase him away when he met Terry, calling him a
"white-trash biker bandit" but she found him charismatic and hypnotizing.
So she hopped on a bus with his Family and ended up in San Francisco.
There she claims she was raped by Manson in a drug-fuelled orgy, after
which she returned home and Matthew was born on March 22, 1968.
Cult HQ ... ranch near Death Valley where Manson Family gathered
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Terry always believed Manson was the father of the baby she gave up for
adoption. And after seeing a picture of Matthew, her worst nightmare was
confirmed.
For he is the spitting image of Manson, with the same nose, mouth, eyes
and large forehead. They even have the same thick, arched eyebrows and
long, thick, dark hair.
Like his father, Matthew is a songwriter and poet. He is even worried
that he may have inherited his father's schizophrenia.
Matthew, now working as a DJ, recalls hearing mum Terry's bombshell:
"She even said, 'You look just like him'.
"I'm not nuts but I've got a little bit of it. It's scary and upsetting.
If I get worked up, my eyes get really big and that's really freaked
some people out before.
Bad sign ... another note from the killer
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"I've tried to tone that down quite a bit. I don't like having that
effect on people.
"I don't even like the fact that I'm big. It makes me even scarier. My
hero is Gandhi. I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a
vegetarian.
"I don't even kill bugs. I've had long hair all my life. I could make it
go away, but I can't let the world and their fears change me." After
discovering the truth, it took Matthew five years to pluck up the
courage to write to his father at Corcoran State Prison in California.
Manson replied to Matthew's letter straight away and has since sent him
a string of ten handwritten notes and postcards signed with the wartime
Nazi symbol.
Hobo
Matthew says: "He sends me weird stuff and always signs it with his
swastika. At first I was stunned and depressed. I wasn't able to speak
for a day. I remember not being able to eat."
According to Matthew, the letters mainly rambled and said "crazy things"
but Manson did confirm he could be his father.
In one twisted letter he wrote: "The truth is the truth. The truth hurts."
In another note Manson talked about meeting Matthew's mother. He wrote:
"I remember her. We came back to LA on the super-cheap train."
And Manson - who grew up without a father figure - even compared his
childhood to Matthew's.
He said: "You got the same father I got. A hobo just left on the
midnight train and died, lost at sea." Then in a postcard two years ago,
addressed to Matthew's birth name Lawrence Alexander, Manson sent his
son his prison phone number.
But Matthew has never made the call to his dad.
He says: "There's always a subconscious block.
"What I'm worried about is that you think you're going to meet your
birth mother or father and they're going to love you and welcome you
with open arms. But he's not that kind of person."
Despite Manson's evil actions, Matthew confesses he now battles confused
emotions towards his biological father.
He says: "If I did talk to Charlie on the phone, I would say, 'I truly
understand what it's like to be you, more than anyone could ever imagine
on so many levels'.
"He's my biological father - I can't help but have some kind of
emotional connection. That's the hardest thing of all - feeling love for
a monster who raped my mother.
"I don't want to love him, but I don't want to hate him either."
FERRANTE
>I traced my dad... and discovered he is Charles Manson
I traced for mine too and found out that my dad was Liberace.
My mom and him were in the same hotel and he came over and played the
"minute waltz".
No wonder I have such wavy hair and high-pitched voice...
Marrk
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