Adopted son discovers Charles Manson to be his biological father
Matthew Roberts was given up for adoption as a baby. Growing up in Rockford, Illinois he didn’t know of his origins until his sister shocked him in the fifth grade by telling him he was adopted.
Like many adopted children, Roberts, now 41, embarked on a mission to find his biological parents. He wanted to know most especially who his father was.
Roberts, who now lives in Los Angeles, started his search 12 years ago when he contacted the Lutheran Social Services agency that located his mother Terry in Wisconsin.
He immediately wrote to her and she replied to confirm that she was his mother.
“She said she named me Lawrence Alexander and told me she’d tell me my last name some other time in person,” Roberts remembers.
Curious and confused, he pressed his mother for more information until she finally revealed the awful truth in a series of letters. She admitted having been raped by his father in a drug-fueled orgy in 1967.
Roberts, who is the spitting image of his father, the convicted serial killer Charles Manson, allegedly fell into depression after discovering his identity.
“He’s my biological father — I can’t help but have some kind of emotional connection,” Roberts said. “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.”
[via thesun.co.uk]
Charles Manson is not nor was he ever a serial killer, He orchestrated several murders but he never got blood on his hands… stop sensationalizing the sicko
Oh puh-lease.
Love a murdering rapist you’ve never had any contact with in your life?
Besides, what proof besides his “mother’s” word does he have that he’s related to Manson. By her own admission she was taking drugs; he could just as well be the offspring of the milkman.
What badly written soap opera did this tripe come from?
We are never the products of what our parents have done. Matthew is his own person. None of us know ‘exactly’ what our long family tree contains.
Find peace Matthew.
I don’t see any validity in feeling connected whatsoever, to an absentee parent; to a biological contributor to your accidental birth, and by rape no less? Charles Manson probably has limited recollection of the incident (if at all), and doesn’t feel anything whatsoever toward a son he probably didn’t know he fathered in the first place, especially through the result of a violent crime. This poor guy should certainly not feel compelled to try to love or even “not hate” him, or feel ANYTHING but disdain and sympathy toward his biological mother that he was born under these circumstances. If anything, his mother failed him by providing this information even at his age. What good has this done? Now he’s obsessed with having some type of feeling or connection with Charles Manson. Why? There is no innate connection between parents and children beyond what we, as free-thinking human beings, feel by choice. There is no such thing as “maternal instinct”, it’s a choice. Mothers and fathers love their children because they want to, not because it’s ingrained in them to do so. If that were the case, people would not harm their children, leave them or murder them. Parenting has NOTHING at all to do with human reproduction, by accident or otherwise. This man’s last name should not reflect that of his mother’s rapist, and to have suggested to him that his last name is Manson, and that she would tell him about it later? Delivering a child of a rapist is one thing, but naming the child after the rapist? That’s pretty suspect. If it’s true, it would seem his mother unraveled years of protection (from this unsavory truth) that she gave him up for adoption to protect in the first place. This whole story is bizarre. It’s hard not to question it’s validity.
Is it just me or is anybody else interested in numbers?
“She admitted having been raped by his father in a drug-fueled orgy in 1967″ and “Matthew Roberts, now 41″
Let’s say it was a New Year’s Eve drug fueled orgy on December 31, 1967. That would mean the reasonable latest Matthew could have been born was say October 25, 1968, 3 weeks overdue, 300 days as opposed to normal 280 days.
If Matthew is indeed 41 years old in November, 2009, as is stated above, he is not the result of a rape in 1967. QED,
@ Frank
Um… If he was born October 25, 1968, wouldn’t that mean he turned 41 on October 25, 2009. So, basically, he could have been conceived almost anytime in 1967 and he would be 41 now.
I knew my biological father, but he completely cut off communication with me when I was 13. Since then I’ve gone through a range of emotions, another 13 years later, I still feel a hollow part in my soul where my father experience should have been. I don’t feel a connection to my father, so much as a need for closure.
I feel sorry for this man having such tragic beginnings, but I do believe you are more than your genetic makeup. Just because his father was a terrible person who did some unspeakable things, doesn’t mean this man has to identify with any of that. Have faith in God that some things just happen for a reason.
Sorry, but I gotta call BS. While he may be Charlie’s kid it’s unlikely. If you read the story in The Sun she was dating Terry Melcher at the time and that is how she met Manson, so there is at least one other suspected father. Then there is her own admission the “rape” occurred at a drug fueled orgy, which likely brings in other potential fathers. And, of course, there is the fact that Manson women were passed around all the time, including with men who weren’t part of The Family.
The guy describes himself as quite large and physically intimidating. Manson is a tiny man. People see the resemblance because they want to. And take away the long shaggy hair and facial hair (which are something he has control over) and you wouldn’t see near the resemblance. Basically he looks like any number of guys from the counter-culture of the late 60′s.
When I first caught sight of his pic in the article, I thought he resembled Tom Savini… who \m/_ROCKS_\m/ btw.
Sometimes it’s just better not to ask….
If you think this is bad, just ask the nephews of Adolph Hitler how they feel. One reportedly said his ancestry was a, “giant pain in the ass.”
You have to feel for this man, the strings that tie us to our parents are strong. I have a foster son who, even though he never sees or hears from his parents, still feels that familial pull and I encourage him to feel it. From his father he received an extreme intellect, from his mother he received extreme kindness and visual beauty. But no matter what, he is his own person and makes decisions based on his own life and experiences.
Matthew may have inherited many things from either parent ~ and his concern about the mental issues are true and correct ~ but he’s a 40 year old artist, a pacifist and independent of those ties that bind. Who he is ~ what he becomes ~ is of his making. He seems as though he will be fine. He does not have to repay the sins of his father.
I hope that he finds his peace in the reality that his father was simply a sperm donor ~ that he had a father who did take care of him in the form of an adopted parent. That he was wanted and chosen and loved as adopted and fostered children are. I wish him peace.
That was very beautifully said mayabella, and very true.