In 2017, Manson died of natural causes while serving a lifetime sentence at California State Prison-Corcoran, where he had been housed since 1989. He was originally sentenced to death before California abolished the death penalty. He was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

The new Peacock series "Making Manson" drops on November 19 and includes never-before-heard phone calls with Charles Manson on his murders.

Serial killer Charles Manson confessed to murders before he became the leader of the notorious Manson Family cult, chilling new audio from a prison phone call reveals. “There’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows about,

Charles Manson, the cult leader behind a string of murders in California in the late 1960s, claimed to have killed others in the years prior, according to never-before-released audio. A new Peacock docuseries takes from more than 100 hours of prison phone calls with the cult leader recorded over 20 years.