Murderers and Wedding Bells: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Charles Manson today.

According to BBC, the convicted murderer Charles Manson has been granted a marriage license to marry a woman who is approximately 54 years younger than him. Charles Manson is 80 years of age and his bride-to-be, named Afton Elaine Burton, is only 26 years of age, yet she states that she is in love with the convicted murderous cult leader. Nine years ago, Miss Burton had moved to Corcoran, California to be closer to the prison Mr. Manson is staying at. Manson has been imprisoned since 1969 because of the murders of Sharon Tate and four other people at Tate's estate on August 9 of the same year. Every time he has requested parole, the request has been denied. The next time he may request parole is in the year 2027. Burton claims that her husband-to-be is innocent and should be released, but most people in America knows this is not true, as Charles Manson was the leader of a cult that many of the followers had committed murders in his name and at his direction. Not odd however, is that the parents of Burton do not express the usual emotions parents would for a daughter about to get married, as this marriage is quite special. Melissa Gay Burton, the mother of the 26 year-old woman about to get married, states that the marriage is "her business." I do not believe that a prisoner should be given the privilege of marriage while they are incarcerated. Only in California.



Charles Manson when he was younger.