Cult leader and killer Charles Manson admitted to committing murders before he infamously became the head of the so-called Manson Family and led his troop of followers to commit a string of brutal killings in California in 1969.

Manson rose to notoriety for orchestrating the brutal murder of actor Sharon Tate, 26, in 1969. After being arrested the following year, he appeared at the trial with a swastika carved into his head and was given the death sentence, which was changed to nine consecutive life sentences after California abolished the death penalty.

A new docuseries about the cult leader features audio in which he admits to participating in multiple killings in Mexico before the notorious Manson family murders of 1969.

A new docuseries is set to be released next week with 20 years of unheard audio recordings from the cult leader Charles Manson's time in prison

In newly released audio featured in a documentary, Manson appears to speak about previously unknown killings.

Charles Manson, the cult leader behind a string of murders in California in the late 1960s, claimed to have killed others in the years prior, according to never-before-released audio. A new Peacock docuseries takes from more than 100 hours of prison phone calls with the cult leader recorded over 20 years.

Cult leader Charles Manson confessed to being involved in killings years before he led the "Manson Family" murders in Los Angeles.