>> i don't have any particular reality. >> he spoke to cnn from prison in 1987. >> i spent the best part of my life in boy schools, prisons and reform schools because i had nobody. >> manson blamed his mother for his troubled youth. kathleen maddox gave birth to manson in cincinnati, ohio, at the age of 16. and went to prison when charlie was just 5 years old. >> she got out of my life early. and let me scuffle for myself. and then i became my own mother. >> while manson blamed his mother, author jeff winn blames manson. >> charles manson was born evil. little charlie was taken in by loving relatives. the problem was that charlie himself was a rotten little kid from the word "go." >> a rotten kid whose crimes escalated as he got older from