![]() ![]() “He gets this news in prison and he’s very upset,” Wiehl said. Manson’s mom Kathleen had to break the news to Manson that his wife and son had moved out of her home and that his wife was now pregnant with another man’s baby. ![]() While Manson was behind bars, Wiehl said Willis lived with his mother Kathleen and often wrote Manson letters and visited him in prison with the couple’s new baby, Charles Manson Jr.īut the letters and visits eventually tapered off and Willis began to see another man, a truck driver named Jack White. Manson was sent to Terminal Island prison. We didn’t get caught, just I got caught,” he once told an interviewer according to the docuseries. “See my old lady, she said let’s steal a car and go to California and I said, ‘man, I ain’t gonna steal no car and go to California and go back to jail.’ She says we won’t get caught. Guinn called Manson an “incompetent criminal” and said his mistake had been not ditching the stolen car after the couple had arrived in California, but Manson himself would later blame Willis for his legal troubles. ![]() Manson’s dreams of a better life abruptly ended, however, after he got arrested for driving the stolen car around Los Angeles. “He leaves McMechen with a pregnant child bride in a car he stole to go to California where he’s sure he will somehow become a huge success,” Guinn said. Manson took a second job to try to support the family, but soon began stealing cars to subsidize his income, Guinn said.Īs their financial problems continued, the couple decided to head out to California, where Manson’s mother Kathleen Maddox had already settled. “For married couples, the way you passed the time of day in the evening is to sit out on the front stoop and as your neighbors walked by you’d chat and you’d pass the time of day and suddenly there’s Charlie Manson trying to do this,” Guinn said.īut Manson’s attempts at a normal domestic life would soon take a turn after Willis got pregnant and the couple found themselves short on money. “They fall in love and he later writes that she’s the only woman he ever truly loved and the only person he really cared about,” Wiehl said.Īfter tying the knot when Manson was 20-years-old and Willis was just 15-years-old, the newlyweds initially settled in McMechen and tried to start a life for themselves. Lis Wiehl, co-author of the book “Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest For Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter” told Manson and Willis met at an Irish bar. A very nice person.”Ĭatlett said Manson-who he described as a “relatively quiet” guy-“seemed to come in and sweep Rosalie off her feet and that’s the last I heard of Rosalie at the store.” “I kept to myself but I thought she was very attractive and I wouldn’t mind having her for a girlfriend,” Catlett later recalled in the docuseries of Manson’s first bride. Willis had worked at a grocery store in the small town and had been “rather quiet and kind of reserved,” according to McMechen resident John Catlett.
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