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Charles Manson solidified his place in the public consciousness as a volatile, crazy-eyed cult leader who led his followers to commit some of the nation’s most heinous murders—but there was another, more domestic side to Manson.

Manson — the subject of Peacock’s new docuseries Making Manson — was also once a husband, marrying on two different occasions, and had tried to lead—at least temporarily—a traditional, quiet life with his young bride in McMechen, West Virginia.

Who was Charles Manson's first wife?

Manson married Rosalie Jean Willis in 1955 and while he’d later crudely tell an interviewer he decided to get married just “to get in that p----” those who knew him at the time said he appeared to be a happy groom, according to the docuseries Helter Skelter. 

“Charlie’s grandmother throws a lovely party for them, a reception after the wedding in her house,” Jeff Guinn, author of the book “Manson: The Life and Times of Charlie Manson,” sai