BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A grandson of cult leader Charles Manson has won the bizarre California court battle for the killer's corpse.
A Kern County Superior Court commissioner ruled Monday that Jason Freeman of Florida can collect the remains of Manson from the morgue in Bakersfield.
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Manson's body has been on ice since he died in November in a Bakersfield hospital. He had been serving a life prison sentence for orchestrating the 1969 killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight others.
The fight for Manson's remains was waged between Freeman, a man who claims he was fathered by Manson before his followers carried out the heinous slayings, and a pen pal who collects so-called Manson memorabilia.
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The dispute over the body foreshadows a similar fight over his estate in a Los Angeles courtroom.
AP
(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP, File)