The Child Remains Opens Friday, April 27 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road The Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester operated from the 1920s through the 1940s, offering babies for sale and housing the unwed women who bore them. If the babies weren’t white and healthy—”unsaleable”—they were starved or buried alive in the surrounding […]
Michael Melski
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How Little Charlie became Charles Manson
In the early 1960s, Charles Manson was just a young, petty criminal known as Little Charlie. By the summer of ’69, Manson had become an infamous cult leader responsible for inciting the brutal slayings of nine people. In between, he was incarcerated in the same Washington State prison as Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, a Canadian bank […]