san francisco, in search of utopia, an ex-con named charles manson. born out of wedlock in owe tow a teenaged runaway who would later be jailed for armed robbery he never knew his father and spent most of his life in prison. >> i've been with prostitutes this is my world. >> when he was released from terminal island in march of 1967, federal penitentiary off long beach, he was 32 years of age. 17 out of those 32 years had been spent in jails, reformatories and prisons if you look at the crimes he committed, nonviolent. stealing from the mails, forming government check, taking a woman across the state border for prostitution