Manson rose to notoriety for orchestrating the brutal murder of actor Sharon Tate, 26, in 1969. After being arrested the following year, he appeared at the trial with a swastika carved into his head and was given the death sentence, which was changed to nine consecutive life sentences after California abolished the death penalty.

A new docuseries about the cult leader features audio in which he admits to participating in multiple killings in Mexico before the notorious Manson family murders of 1969.

A new recording has emerged of notorious cult leader Charles Manson appearing to admit to additional killings. Manson's followers, known as the Manson Family, killed nine people in 1969. The cult leader directed the killings in the hope they would start a race war. He died in prison in 2017.

Cult leader Charles Manson confessed to being involved in killings years before he led the "Manson Family" murders in Los Angeles.