We defend love in all its aspects, we believe in forbidden love, impossible love and even toxic love, because all of them provide us with great love stories. But we find it hard to believe that there is a love story with a murderer.
Perhaps it can be argued that even the biggest psychopath has his little heart and that there will always be a person who sees beyond and manages to find his human side. Perhaps one can think of the goodness of some people who are capable of putting evil aside and extracting humanity, but… this is not exactly what happens in this love story between Charles Manson and Star.
The murderer Charles Manson and his love
- One of the greatest murderers in history, whose crimes still remain in the collective memory of the United States, perhaps because of that mystical and cinematographic character with which they were surrounded, is in the news once again for his love story with a 25-year-old girl, called Star, for being a star of the Milky Way, according to Manson’s words. We cannot deny a certain touch of romanticism to this media serial killer.
- It seems that the influence exerted by the philosophy of Charles Manson in his day, more than 40 years ago, is still active. If not, it is not explained how a modern adolescent begins a correspondence relationship with the prisoner, sentenced to life imprisonment. From the letters they went on to a closer relationship when the young Star went to live in an apartment closer to the Californian jail where Manson is located.
- And so, Charles Manson has received the young woman’s weekend visits since she was 19 years old. It’s been 6 years of a full-fledged relationship, according to Star in her interviews, which will soon end in a wedding. What makes a 25-year-old girl want to marry a 79-year-old criminal? As we continue to believe in love stories, no matter how strange they may seem to us, we are only going to doubt a little bit about the emotional balance of the young woman.
- They say that Manson’s supposed future wife had a difficult adolescence, locked up for long periods of time at home because of her fondness for hallucinogens. Perhaps this explains her interest in the figure of a serial killer with the air of a spiritual guru. However, Star’s love for Charles Manson seems to be one-sided, so it would be a story of unrequited love. And it is that well, Mr. Manson receives visits from Star every weekend, he has assured that he has no intention of marrying her.