In a world that is childishly enraptured by Christmas even before November has played out it may be hard to imagine, much less accept, the existence of evil.

Latest: The sister of Charles Manson's victim Sharon Tate said a prayer for his "soul" after she was told of the notorious cult leader's death at the age of 83 yesterday.

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New Netflix series Mindhunter may deal with serial killers, but the realistic show is careful to portray them as sick rather than suave, writes Ed Power

Leslie Van Houten has been in prison for more than 40 years for two brutal murders she helped commit 48 years ago.

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Charles Manson is back in a California prison after a hospital stay for an unspecified medical problem.

Cult leader and murderer Charles Manson has been taken to a California hospital, according to reports.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

THIS much-anticipated debut novel of Emma Cline, already a well-regarded short story writer and fiction reader for the New Yorker, will probably get summarised a lot as ‘that Charles Manson novel’. 

After 43 years in prison and 30 parole hearings, US parole officials have again decided it is safe to free Charles Manson follower Bruce Davis.

Hundreds of parents have held protests outside the Oakland County courthouse after learning three children have been in a juvenile detention facility for two weeks after refusing to speak to their father.

Vincent Bugliosi — the prosecutor in the Charles Manson trial who went on to write best-selling true-crime book Helter Skelter — has died at the age of 80.

by Thomas Pynchon

A 26-year-old woman with the nickname Star who says she is going to marry 80-year-old mass murderer Charles Manson will have to wait a while longer.

The revelation that serial killer Charles Manson is to wed has raised questions about prison marriages, conjugal visits, and the weird world of love behind bars, writes Connor Adams Sheets

Mass murderer Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her home and has spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.

Mass-murderer Charles Manson has obtained a licence to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison.

As Kasabian get ready to headline Glastonbury, the band tell Ed Power they are far too busy pushing boundaries to be bothered by the Spinal Tap jibes.

Pork pie row leads to brawl and arrests at wedding celebrations

IF the diverse art exhibitions running throughout the Cork Midsummer Festival have one thing in common, it is their strong international dimension.

It’s like a mad extension of that “mistakes” and “bad choices” scenario.

A former Charles Manson follower imprisoned for 40 years is hoping that his 27th parole hearing will provide his key to freedom.

Prison letters written by London gangster Reggie Kray and US death cult leader Charles Manson are to go under the hammer.

A California prison panel today denied parole to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th bid for freedom.

California prison officials have released a photo of mass murderer Charles Manson, showing him at 77 as a greying, bearded, shaggy-haired old man with a sad expression.

Spoken-word performer Lydia Lunch is as forthright as ever in condemning the injustice that caused her to forsake America, says Ed Power

The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan more than 30 years ago said he would like to be known as something other than a would-be assassin.

Lindsay Lohan is set to play the daughter of a mobster in a new movie.

A follower of cult leader Charles Manson is facing a parole hearing after serving 40 years in a California jail for her part in the Sharon Tate killings.

THE Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man yesterday after rejecting a US request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Katy Perry was only allowed to listen to Christian music when she was growing up.

A WOMAN known for singing through a PA system at a branch of Tesco has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize.

A woman known for singing through a PA system at a branch of Tesco has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize.

Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, the US attorney general told Congress today.

Katy Perry says it’s a struggle trying to keep up with her fiancee Russell Brand in the bedroom, but she tries her best.

Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson’s murderous cult who participated in two killings, was recommended for parole.

A nude photo of film-maker Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate just months before her murder will be sold at auction next month.

As it is, though, Hollywood apart, most Americans seem to think that Polanski must have what is coming to him and that those who call for bygones to be bygones fail to understand that the law is bigger than any of thosewho break it.

Film director Roman Polanski was arrested on a 1978 US arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss police confirmed today.

SUSAN ATKINS, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer.

Charles Manson cult follower Susan Atkins has died in prison, the first of the remorseless killer’s gang to join their helpless victims.