Sunday 19 November 2017

Charles Manson, Convicted Mass Murderer, Dead At Age 83 Is A Death Hoax

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Charles Manson found dead at the age of 83 in his prison cell is a death hoax. There is no truth to reports that the infamous criminal who was recently hospitalized died. Manson, the ringleader behind a 1969 Los Angeles killing spree, has been at the center of several death hoaxes.


Where did this death hoax originate? Two websites named florida-times.com and texas-express.com published identical stories archived here and here reporting that Manson died. You can read it below.


Infamous serial killer Charles Manson has died after a brief hospitalization, authorities say. He died Thursday in a hospital in Bakersfield, California.


A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed news of Manson’s passing, assuring the press her outfit will very soon put out an official statement on his passing.


The head of the Manson Family was found guilty in 1971 of orchestrating the murders of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. He was reported to have sought to start a ‘race war’, which he dubbed ‘Helter Skelter’ after The Beatles’ song of the same name.


Manson was sentenced to death, a sentence which was later amended to life imprisonment in Corcoran State Prison after California discontinued the death penalty.


However, there is no truth to the above story, according to Hoax Alert. In their research, Hoax Alert noted that the two sites reporting the death hoax are part of a network of fake news websites designed to look like “local” news sites with generic news stories on their front pages.


For one thing, there has been on legitimate news coverage reporting that Manson had died. Rather, the LA Times reported on Friday that Manson was still alive even though he had been hospitalized:


Mass murderer Charles Manson remained alive Friday, authorities said, but details of the illness that brought him to a Bakersfield hospital remain unclear.


Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said only that Manson was still living and that the department could not provide any further details.


Kern County Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Smallwood told The Times earlier this week that Manson was at a local hospital.


In January, Manson, 83, was rushed to Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield for what authorities at the time would describe only as a serious medical problem. He was returned to prison a few days later.


Here are some examples of people sharing the death hoax on social media.










As of this writing, the CDCR Inmate Locator is still listing Manson as incarcerated in California State Prison, Corcoran while stating that the information is “current as of 11/19/2017”.


What did you think of the death hoax regarding Manson? Did you believe that Manson had died or see people sharing the death hoax on social media? Let us know in the comments section.


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