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Incorporating more than 100 hours of unreleased recorded interviews with Charles Manson, Making Manson — the three-part docuseries chronicling the serial killer’s early adolescence to his final days in prison — will premiere via Peacock on Nov. 19. In the new trailer for the docuseries released Wednesday, Manson offers chilling insight on his relentless killing sprees.
“There’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows about,” Manson said in recorded audio featured in the trailer. “I’d murder everybody I could. I’d kill you all if I had the chance.”
Making Manson reveals new revelations about the Sixties cult leader and serial killer with the help of 20-years worth of intimate conversations recorded until Manson’s death in 2017. The series delves into Manson’s formative upbringing, recounts the crimes that led up to the August 1969 killings, and reflects on Manson’s final moments behind bars. The Billie Mintz-directed docuseries also features conversations with victims’ family members along with Manson’s cult followers nicknamed the “Family.”
On Aug. 8, 1969, Manson and his Family arrived at actress Sharon Tate’s home in the Hollywood Hills and proceeded to stab, beat, and shoot the actress and her friends, along with a teenager, Steven Parent, who was living on the estate’s guesthouse. The killing spree continued the following night, as Manson tied up wealthy couple Leno LaBianca and Rosemary LaBianca, and asked his followers to kill them. Other killings, orchestrated by Manson, would begin to add up.
Manson’s deadly reign has been the subject of more than 25 films, both in scripted and documentary form. Manson, an Oscar-nominated documentary released in 1973, gave viewers an early look into Manson’s Spahn Ranch where his followers lived. More recently, scripted films like Netflix’s Manson Family Vacation and Charlie Says have been added to the movie canon.
