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Charles Manson Today: The Final Confessions of America's Most Notorious Psychopath. In California's San Joaquin Valley, about halfway between Bakersfield and Fresno, on the outskirts of the fly- infested, windblown, stink- soaked, dry- mouth town of Corcoran, sits the squat, sprawling expanse of Corcoran State Prison, where Charlie Manson is serving out the rest of a life sentence for his part in the peace- and- love- era- ending Tate- La. Bianca slayings of 1. He has just entered the visiting room.

The Manson Family Tree: meet the key players in Charles' orbit. He doesn't look how he used to look, of course, all resplendent in buckskin fringe, sometimes sporting an ascot or the Technicolor patchwork vest sewn by his girls, with his suave goatee and his mad Rasputin eyes and his fantastical ability to lunge out of his seat at the judge presiding over his trial, pencil at the ready to jam into the old guy's throat, before being subdued and thereby helping to cement a guilty verdict. Those days are gone. He's 7. 9 years old.

He's an old man with a nice head of gray hair but bad hearing, bad lungs, and chipped- and- fractured, prison- dispensed bad dentures. He walks with a cane and lifts it now, in greeting to his visitors, one of whom is a slender, dark- haired woman he calls Star."Star!" he says. She's not a woman. She's a star in the Milky Way!"He shuffles toward her, opening his arms, grinning, and she kind of drifts in his direction. From a raised platform in the room's center, two guards armed with pepper spray and truncheons keep an eye on the couple. Star is 2. 5 years old, comes from a town on the Mississippi River, was raised a Baptist, keeps a tidy home, is a prim dresser, has a fun sense of humor. Charlie is probably the most infamous convicted killer of all time.

He's been called the devil for the way he influenced friends to murder on his behalf. He's spent the past 4. He will never get out. For her part, Star has been living in Corcoran for the past seven years, since she was 1. It wasn't Charlie's murderous reputation that drew her here but his pro- Earth environmental stance, known as ATWA, standing for air, trees, water and animals. She has stuck around to become his most ardent defender, to run various give- Charlie- a- chance websites (mansondirect. Facebook page, a Tumblr page) and to visit him every Saturday and Sunday, up to five hours a day, assuming he's not in solitary or otherwise being hassled by the Man.

Yeah, well, people can think I'm crazy," she likes to say. But they don't know. This is what's right for me.

This is what I was born for."See Charles Manson's de- evolution in photos. Visiting- room rules allow them a kiss at the beginning and end of each visit. They do this now, a standard peck and hug, then sit across from each other at a table. The first thing you notice about Manson is the X (later changed to a swastika) he carved into his forehead during his trial, to protest his treatment at the hands of the law, an act that was soon copied by his co- defendants – and, all these years later, by the girl sitting across from him, Star, who recently cut an X into her forehead, too.

The second thing is how nicely turned out he is. Despite his age, there's none of that gross old- man stuff about him, no ear hair, no nose hair, no gunk collecting in the corners of his mouth, and his prison- approved blue shirt has not a wrinkle or a food stain on it.

He looks pretty great. The third is how softly he speaks, so different from how he was in TV interviews during the Eighties and Nineties, when, for instance, he angled in on Diane Sawyer in her black turtleneck and pretty earrings, roaring, "I'm a gangster, woman. I take money!"He stands up and looks around. I thought we'd have some popcorn," he says, making his way to a cabinet where inmates sometimes stash food. He bends down, looks inside, moves things and heaves up a great sigh of disappointment."Well," he says. The popcorn's all gone.""I think we ate it all last time," Star says. Charlie sighs and takes a seat, seeming lost and befuddled.

But then, before I know it, he's reached out and bounced one of his fingers off the tip of my nose, fast as a frog's tongue, dart and recoil. He leans forward. I can feel his breath in my ear."I've touched everybody on the nose, man," he says, quietly. There ain't nobody I can't touch on the nose." He tilts to one side and says, "I know what you're thinking. Just relax." A while later, he says, "If I can touch you, I can kill you."He puts his hand on my arm and starts rubbing it.

An hour after that, we're talking about sex at the ranch in the old days, what it was like, all those girls hanging around, a few guys, too, the group- sex scene. It was all this," he says, putting his hand on my arm again, sliding it up into the crook of my elbow and down.

That's what it was like. We all went with that. There's no saying no.

If I slide up, you've got to go with the flow. You were with anyone anyone wants." I nod, because for a moment, with his hand on my skin, sliding up, I can see how it was. It feels OK. It feels unexpectedly good to go with the flow, even if it is Charlie Manson's flow and even if, since he's touching me, he can kill me, which is probably how it was way back when, too.

Meanwhile, Star is arranging a little spread: candy bars, pumpkin pie, potato chips, corn chips, strawberry shortcake, peanut butter cups. Charlie goes for a candy bar, washing it down with a soda. This is how he spends his time today. This is how he is waiting for his time to end. What most people know and believe about Manson is almost wholly derived from prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi's 6.

Helter Skelter, more than 7 million copies sold since 1. It was a scary, Establishment- brain- frying read when it was first published, and it still is. Track the events of Manson's helter- skelter life in a chilling timeline. The Office Season 3 Episode 20 Gorillavid Star.

Bugliosi laid it out like this: On March 2. Charles Milles Manson, age 3. San Francisco. It was the Summer of Love. He'd never seen such a thing before, free love, free food, lots of hugging, pot and acid, girls, so many girls, many of them lost girls just looking for someone to tell them they'd been found. Charlie was their man. He played the guitar, he had the mystique of the ex- con, he had a good you- can- be- free metaphysical rap.

The girls flocked to his side, starting with librarian Mary Brunner, followed by pixie- cute Lynette Fromme, soon dubbed Squeaky, oversexed Susan Atkins and trust- funder Sandra Good. This was the beginning of what the prosecutor would later call "the Family." This was also the beginning of the end for Manson. They eventually dropped down to L. A. More than anything, according to Bugliosi, Manson wanted to be a rock star. He made friends with the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson, who thought he had potential, and big- shot record producer Terry Melcher. He was going places. Everybody was banging everybody else.

So much fun, so loving. It really was, except when, as some of the girls later testified, Charlie would knock one of them around. They lived at Spahn Ranch, a sometime Hollywood backdrop for Westerns where Charlie let it be known he might be Jesus, and everyone treated him as such, which has led to the belief that he had some kind of super- duper hypnotic Svengali- on- blotter hold over the people there. And for a while it was all good.

Kids who'd never really had a home before now had one. You've never seen so many smiling faces.

But something changed in 1. The Beatles had recently released the White Album, and Manson developed a sudden and complex attachment to the song "Helter Skelter." He divined in it a coming apocalyptic war between blacks and whites, during which he and his gang would live in the desert, underground, in a magical land of milk and honey, and after which the blacks, who had won the war, would beg him to come be their leader, because they could not lead themselves. Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. Susie Macdonald/Redferns.