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Cult leader Charles Manson confessed to more murders in a recently revealed phone conversation

Cult leader Charles Manson confessed to more murders in a recently revealed phone conversation

Hippie cult leader Charles Manson, the mastermind behind this phenomenon one from Hollywood most gruesome murders, confessed to even more murders before becoming the leader of the Manson Family cult, as seen in chilling audio that will be included in a new docuseries on Peacock.

The confessions were featured in a teaser clip of the new series “Making Manson,” in which Manson could be heard talking about his time south of the U.S. border over a prison phone.

“There’s a whole part of my life that no one knows about,” Manson is heard saying say in the video. ‘I lived in Mexico for a while. I went to Acapulco and stole some cars.

“I got involved in some stuff just over my head, man,” he continued. ‘I got involved in a few murders. I left my .357 Magnum in Mexico City, and I left a few dead people on the beach.”

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Charles Manson

Charles Manson was convicted of one murder and several attempted murders. He was the leader of the Manson Family, a cult that committed several murders. (AP/Ron Galella)

The docuseries will premiere on streaming service Peacock on November 19.

In 1971, Manson was convicted of nine murders, including the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time.

Prosecutors said he was trying to foment a race war, an idea he allegedly got from a misreading of the Beatles song “Helter Skelter.”

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The Manson murders were brutally gruesome. Tate, who was 26 at the time of her death, was stabbed and hanged from a rafter in her living room. The intruders used the victim’s blood to write “Pigs,” while also misspelling “Healter Skelter.”

Although Manson did not carry out the murders himself, he was the perpetrator master manipulator who persuaded others to kill for him.

Charles Manson looks up in a denim shirt

Manson was convicted of nine murders. (Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

Members of the Manson Family, as his followers were called, slaughtered five of their victims on August 9, 1969: Tatecoffee heiress Abigail Folgerfamous hairdresser Jay SebringPolish film director Voityck Frykowski And Steven Parenta friend of the property managers. The murders took place in Tate’s home while her husband was a principal Roman Polanskywas out of the country at the time.

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The next night, a rich grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBiancawere stabbed to death in their home across town.

A petty criminal who had been in and out of prison since his youth, Manson surrounded himself with runaways and other lost souls in the 1960s during the heyday of California’s hippie movement. Although he was in his mid-30s, Manson began amassing followers—mostly women—who compared him to Jesus Christ. Most were teenagers and many had fallen out with their families.

Charles Manson returns to Los Angeles prison

Cameramen film the scene as Charles Manson is taken to the Los Angeles city jail on suspicion of masterminding the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969. Manson died in 2017 while serving a life sentence. (Getty Images)

The “family” eventually established a commune-like base at Spahn Ranch outside Los Angeles, where Manson manipulated his followers with drugs, supervised orgies, and subjected them to bizarre lectures.

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Manson was arrested three months after the murders. After a trial that lasted almost a year, Manson and three followers decided – Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel And Leslie Van Houten – were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Another defendant, Charles “Tex” Watsonwas later convicted. All were spared execution and given life sentences after the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in 1972.

Manson died of natural causes in a California hospital while serving a life sentence, on November 19, 2017. He was 83.

Stephanie Nolasco of Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.