2009-11-24, 07:22 PM
"'It's like finding out Hitler is your dad': DJ Matthew Roberts tracks down long-lost father... but discovers he's Charles Manson"
Victims of the five-week killing spree included pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski.
Speaking of the moment he realised Manson must be his father, Mr Roberts said: 'I didn't want to believe it.
'I was frightened and angry. It's like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father.
'I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster.'
He added: 'My hero is Gandhi. I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian.
'I don't even kill bugs,' he told The Sun.
Matthew, who grew up in Rockford, Illinois found out he was adopted when he was a ten-year-old schoolboy.
But it wasn't until he reached the age of 29 that he began to trace his family tree with the help of a search agency who found his biological mother Terry.
The pair began writing to each other and at first she refused to pass on details of his father.
Slowly, through a series of letters, the truth emerged.
His mother told him she had been captivated by Manson, who she met in 1967.
Ignoring the warnings of her father to steer clear, she joined him and other Manson Family cult members in San Francisco.
She claims she was raped by him during one of many drug-fuelled orgies and returned home pregnant. Matthew was born in 1968.
When Terry saw a photograph of her son she said her suspicions that evil Manson was the father were confirmed.
Their facial features are near identical and they shared the same thick, dark hair.
'I'm not nuts but I've got a little bit of it, said Matthew.
'It's scary and upsetting. If I get worked up, my eyes get really big and that's really freaked some people out before.
'I've tried to tone that down quite a bit. I don't like having that effect on people.
'I don't even like the fact that I'm big. It makes me even scarier.'
It was several years later before he decided to make contact with his father - who is now aged 75 and will never be freed from Corcoran State Prison in California.
Manson replied to Matthew's letter straightaway and has since sent him a string of ten rambling handwritten notes and postcards signed with the swastika - a symbol the killer has tattooed on his forehead.
He also confirmed he was his father, recalling times spent with Matthew's mother.
'He sends me weird stuff and always signs it with his swastika. At first I was stunned and depressed. I wasn't able to speak for a day. I remember not being able to eat.'
But Matthew added: 'He's my biological father - I can't help but have some kind of emotional connection. That's the hardest thing of all - feeling love for a monster who raped my mother.
'I don't want to love him, but I don't want to hate him either.'
Source [/spoiler]
Probably the most interesting thing I've read since that little shit with the weather balloon. How much would it suck if you were related to a mass murderer? This poor guy was all SO RONERY I WANNA FIND MY DADDY, EVERYONE NEEDS A DADDY, and he finds Charles Manson! How would you guys feel, or what would you do, if you were put into a situation like this? On top of realizing that his dad is an axe murderer, he also discovered that he was an accident. ;~;
DADDY?
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Victims of the five-week killing spree included pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski.
Speaking of the moment he realised Manson must be his father, Mr Roberts said: 'I didn't want to believe it.
'I was frightened and angry. It's like finding out that Adolf Hitler is your father.
'I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster.'
He added: 'My hero is Gandhi. I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian.
'I don't even kill bugs,' he told The Sun.
Matthew, who grew up in Rockford, Illinois found out he was adopted when he was a ten-year-old schoolboy.
But it wasn't until he reached the age of 29 that he began to trace his family tree with the help of a search agency who found his biological mother Terry.
The pair began writing to each other and at first she refused to pass on details of his father.
Slowly, through a series of letters, the truth emerged.
His mother told him she had been captivated by Manson, who she met in 1967.
Ignoring the warnings of her father to steer clear, she joined him and other Manson Family cult members in San Francisco.
She claims she was raped by him during one of many drug-fuelled orgies and returned home pregnant. Matthew was born in 1968.
When Terry saw a photograph of her son she said her suspicions that evil Manson was the father were confirmed.
Their facial features are near identical and they shared the same thick, dark hair.
'I'm not nuts but I've got a little bit of it, said Matthew.
'It's scary and upsetting. If I get worked up, my eyes get really big and that's really freaked some people out before.
'I've tried to tone that down quite a bit. I don't like having that effect on people.
'I don't even like the fact that I'm big. It makes me even scarier.'
It was several years later before he decided to make contact with his father - who is now aged 75 and will never be freed from Corcoran State Prison in California.
Manson replied to Matthew's letter straightaway and has since sent him a string of ten rambling handwritten notes and postcards signed with the swastika - a symbol the killer has tattooed on his forehead.
He also confirmed he was his father, recalling times spent with Matthew's mother.
'He sends me weird stuff and always signs it with his swastika. At first I was stunned and depressed. I wasn't able to speak for a day. I remember not being able to eat.'
But Matthew added: 'He's my biological father - I can't help but have some kind of emotional connection. That's the hardest thing of all - feeling love for a monster who raped my mother.
'I don't want to love him, but I don't want to hate him either.'
Source [/spoiler]
Probably the most interesting thing I've read since that little shit with the weather balloon. How much would it suck if you were related to a mass murderer? This poor guy was all SO RONERY I WANNA FIND MY DADDY, EVERYONE NEEDS A DADDY, and he finds Charles Manson! How would you guys feel, or what would you do, if you were put into a situation like this? On top of realizing that his dad is an axe murderer, he also discovered that he was an accident. ;~;
he contacted because he wanted to find out about his real parents and get in contact with them in the first place. killer or whore or not, they're still his parents, who gave him his life 