The Guardian reports that Kathleen Maddox gave birth to one of America’s most notorious true crime figures in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 12, 1934. The illegitimate son of Maddox didn’t even have a name for the first several weeks of his life. Though she would eventually name her son Charles, he was initially known as “No Name Maddox.”
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Not long after Manson was born, his mother filed a paternity suit against a man named Colonel Walker Henderson Scott Sr. In 1937, Maddox was awarded a court victory against Scott. Scott was ordered to pay her a small amount of child support every month. As far as it’s known, he never laid eyes on the son he shared with her. Scott’s history is a complicated and confusing one, as there are many variations of who he was and how he and Maddox came to know each other. He was a mill worker who purported to be in the military, but his military history may have been exaggerated or fabricated altogether (per Liberty Voice). His obituary, as provided by the Manson Family Blog, notes that Scott was a long-time employee with the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and was later a custodian at a Catlettsburg, Kentucky Elks Club. Scott died a young man, living to be only 44 years old.
