A Manson Family Christmas

just a Yuletide story about your favorite commune / cult / crime syndicate for the holidays

Did the Manson Family celebrate Christmas? Sure they did. And while we know of no specific festive parties, stockings hung around Death Valley with care, or Charles Manson dressed up like Santa, we do know what members of the Family did for the Christmases they were together.

1967

After being released in March 1967 from a Southern California federal prison (where he served nearly seven years on check forging charges), Charles Manson went…