Murderous cult leader Charles Manson dies aged 83

Cult leader and convicted mass murderer Charles Manson has died at age 83.

Manson was rushed to a hospital in Bakersfield, California on Nov.

14 due to unknown medical illness - the second time in 2017. He died at 8.

13pm US Pacific Time, local media quoted California's Corcoran State Prison as saying.

In the 1960s, Manson, a charismatic ex-convict, assembled a group of runaways and outcasts known as the "Manson Family.

" In the summer of 1969, he directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was part of a plan to incite a race war..