Charles Manson Returned to Prison after Hospital Stay

LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles' most notorious killer is back in prison today after spending a better part of the week suffering a serious illness at a Bakersfield hospital.

Charles Manson, serving nine life sentences for orchestrating a series of grisly murders that shocked the nation, has been suffering from intestinal bleeding but his condition was too weak for surgeons to operate, according toTMZ.

Late Friday night, Manson was transported back to California's Corcoran State Prison, where he's spent the past five decades, according to the Los Angeles Times. It's unclear what condition he was in when he was returned to prison. Citing privacy laws, prison officials declined to comment on his state.

"Inmate Manson is at California State Prison-Corcoran,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Spokeswoman Terry Thornton told the Times. "He is at the prison. I don't know how much plainer it can be."

His hospitalization created a media circus with news vans and looky-loos milling about Bakersfield’s Mercy Hospital for a glimpse of the notorious killer. According to the Bakersfield Californian, was admitted under the name“Joe Doe.” Despite his lengthy incarceration, Manson continues to have devotees including a 26-year-old woman who was granted a license to marry Manson in 2014. He is not up for parole again until 2027.

Manson was the mastermind of the unprovoked murders of the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her house guests in 1969, followed the next day by the murders of grocery store chain owners Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. In all, a group of Manson's devotees known as the Manson Family were convicted for the murders of eight people. At two crime scenes the killers scrawled messages written in the blood of their victims.

Manson didn't commit any of the killings himself, but he ordered the murders. Following a sensational trial, Manson was convicted of first degree-murder and sentenced to death. He and the other convicted family members were spared execution when the state overturned capital punishment in 1972.

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Photo: California Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections