California Judge Grants Motion to Have Charles Manson’s Alleged Grandson Take a DNA Test
Channels claims that due to his 30 year friendship with Manson, he is in possession of a document that allegedly names him as the sole heir to Manson’s estate. Freeman claims that he is the son of Charles Manson, Jr., who later changed his name to Charles Jay White, thus giving him a biological claim to his alleged grandfather’s estate.
Freeman said he would not voluntarily take a DNA test, but that he would submit to one if a judge so ordered. In the motion to compel the test, the judge noted that White does not appear on Freeman’s birth certificate. Rather, it was a 1986 default family court judgement from Ohio that decreed that White was Freeman’s “natural father.” There is no evidence that White was in fact served with notice to case, nor that child support payments were enforced.
See Maxine Shen, California Judge Grants Motion to Force Charles Manson’s ‘Grandson’ to Take a DNA Test to Prove That he is Biologically Related to Him After Being Challenged by the Cult Leader’s Pen Pal Who Wants to Inherit his Estate, Daily Mail, September 1, 2019.
Special thanks to Joel C. Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.