For Danny Trejo, spending time behind bars with a criminal mastermind was quite the trip — but not in the way you might think.
In his new memoir Trejo, the Machete star opens up about his time behind bars and the colorful characters he met. The most shocking?
Future cult leader Charles Manson, who was locked up in Los Angeles County Jail in 1961 at the same time. The 77-year-old explained his brush with Manson took place years before the infamous figure was released and attracted a group of followers in California who would become known as The Manson Family.
Trejo said the “greasy, dirty, scrawny” Manson was too small to protect himself at the time but won over Trejo and his friends by claiming he had hypnotic powers that could make them
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