{"id":85935,"date":"2026-08-29T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85935"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:25:50","slug":"mansons-secret-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/mansons-secret-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Manson&#8217;s Secret Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1200\/675\/sophia-charles-manson-family-legacy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Sophia in a promotional image for a documentary about discovering her family connection to Charles Manson.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">In 2022, Sophia Maddox received a phone call that upended everything she thought she knew about her family and sent her searching for answers about one of America&#8217;s most notorious criminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">At the time, the 22-year-old aspiring filmmaker and actress was living in Los Angeles, juggling odd jobs to make rent, while her father, Daniel Arguelles, was searching for answers about his own past. &#8220;&#8216;Is it Ted Bundy?'&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Bigger. Think of the biggest movie you know and the biggest director you know.&#8217; And I thought of the movie\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/movies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_us_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">&#8216;Once Upon a Time&#8230; in Hollywood.&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0I was trying to remember the name mentioned in the film. And then I realized who it was: Charles Manson.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: In 2022, Sophia Maddox received a phone call that upended everything she thought she knew about her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85937,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85935\/revisions\/85937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}