Woman Discovers Charles Manson Was Her Grandfather in New Documentary

‘I come from a murderer’: the woman who found out Charles Manson was her grandfather

Difficult new Hulu documentary follows a 26-year-old woman’s startling discovery that she’s related to the notorious, murderous cult leader Sophia Maddox spent her life hearing from her father about how he had never met his father. He would tuck her into bed as a child, she said, and tell her about how much he wanted to know him. Four years ago, following a match on a genealogy website, they finally learned the shocking truth: her father’s father – her grandfather – was Charles Manson, the no...

By Vivian Ho