his birth certificate was filed a few days after -- a few weeks after his birth, william manson listedthe father, but the whole family and charles himself knew throughout that the real father was colonel scott. no doubt whatsoever. so the later rumors that manson hated and feared blacks because he had a black father, for instance, never, folks. never, ever. manson and kathleen's marriage lasts a couple years, he divorces her. she's still a young girl, she's trying to run around and have a hitting fun. her son is never just left with strangers or offered for a pitcher of beer. instead, she does what many young women that age do and sticks him with her mother or her sister glenna and her husband and daughter, but he's cared for always. kathleen and her brother luther, spectacularly botch an attempted robbery. they try to use a ketchup bottle, poke it in somebody's back, say it's a gun. the newspapers have a great time catching them the idiot ketchup bottle bandits, the greatest dunnedderheads who ever attempted a crime, and kathleen gets five years in prison in moundsville, west virginia