BREAKING NEWS β Corcoran, California – Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, has died after nearly a half-century in prison. He was 83. Kern County hospital people at his bedside stated that during the last five minutes of his life, he was screaming for a nurse to stop turning up the thermostat, as he yelled, βThe heat is getting too intense! Turn it down! Please Turn it down!β The witnesses said they thought he was just hallucinating, until they saw some mysterious smoke rising from his sheets.