Charles Manson, the infamous cult leader behind a grisly massacre in 1969 ... “I was using the symbol of a helter skelter as a ride from the top to the bottom — the rise and fall of the Roman Empire,” ...

Now a contentious legal battle to claim the estimated $1million fortune of mass murderer Charles Manson has reached boiling point - with three contenders battling for a slice of the blood-tainted pie.

At the 1970 trial of Charles Manson and his followers ... At the time she was pregnant and already the mother of an infant daughter, according to Biography. Kasabian soon fell under Manson’s thrall.