A California court commissioner says she will rule soon on who can collect the remains of Charles Manson.
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Deputy Kern County counsel Bryan Walters says Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Alisa Knight said she would rule in a few days on petitions to release Manson's remains from the Bakersfield morgue.
Several would-be heirs and a former pen pal are vying for the corpse that's been on ice since Manson died on November 19 in a hospital at age 83.
A man who claims he was fathered by Manson and another who says he's a grandson are locked in a dispute with a friend who collects so-called Manson memorabilia.
Manson was serving a life sentence for orchestrating the 1969 killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight others. The notorious cult leader, who directed his followers to commit the brutal murders, became a symbol of the dark side of 1960s counterculture.
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