He was adopted as a child and, like many adopted people, wanted to know more about his biological parents. And so, 12 years ago, he began doing research into them.
After first managing to contact his mum, Terry, he thought things were going well. although she wasn't confident about giving him details of herself and her life at first, she eventually opened up and told him the whole story.
What follows isn't pretty...
In 1967 she fell into a bad crowd (to put it lightly), and was transfixed by a young man.
She went on a bus to San Francisco with this man and his friends, known to themselves as 'the family'. Where, in a drug fuelled orgy she was raped by this man.
She returned home and on March 22nd 1968, Matthew was born. she had nothing more to do with that man or the family and put Matthew up for adoption.
However, this was not the end of events, a year later that man would earn himself notoriety through a five week spate of brutal murders, including that of Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of film director Roman Polanski.
For those of you still who still don't know who this man was, his name was Charles Manson.
Obviously this was pretty shocking news. Matthew became depressed after discovering this.
However, he recently gathered the nerve to get in contact with Manson, this lead to a series of letters between them. Manson always signs off with a swastika.
You gotta feel sorry the poor guy and how conflicted he must be:
He's my biological father - I can't help but have some kind of emotional connection. That's the hardest thing of all - feeling love for a monster who raped my mother. "I don't want to love him, but I don't want to hate him either."
The full article available here.
Shep
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