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Mass murderer Charles Manson is to marry a 26-year-old woman who has spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.
Afton Elaine Burton, the bride-to-be, said she loves the 80-year-old former cult leader convicted of the notorious murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
No date has been set, but a wedding coordinator has been assigned by the prison to handle the nuptials, and the couple have until early February to get married before they would have to reapply.
The Kings County marriage licence was issued on November 7 for Manson and Burton, who maintains several websites advocating his innocence.
Burton, who goes by the name "Star", said she and Manson will be married next month.
"Y'all can know that it's true," she said. "It's going to happen."
"I love him," she added. "I'm with him. There's all kinds of things."

However, as a life prisoner with no parole date, Manson is not entitled to family visits, a euphemism for conjugal visits.
So why would Burton marry him under those conditions?
She said she was interested in working on his case, and marrying him would allow her to get information not available to non-relatives. "There's certain things next of kin can do," she said without elaborating.
Burton gave an interview a year ago to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said she and Manson planned to marry. But Manson, who became notorious in 1969 as the leader of a roving "family" of young murderers, was less certain about tying the knot.
"That's a bunch of garbage," Manson said in the December 2013 interview. "That's trash. We're playing that for public consumption."
Asked on Monday about those comments, Burton said: "None of that's true."
California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton confirmed that the license had been transmitted to the prison.
Thornton said in most cases, the department approves of such weddings as "a tool of family reunification and social development". But Manson is a unique case. Burton said the wedding might have happened earlier if Manson did not have "some situations" at the prison.
Thornton explained that in February, Manson had three violations for possession of a weapon, threatening staff and refusal to provide a urine sample.
Burton said the prison holds marriages on the first Saturday of each month and she expects to be married in an inmate visiting room at the prison.
Thornton confirmed that Manson can have a wedding at the prison and invite an officiant from outside the prison to perform the ceremony.
Manson and three female followers were convicted of the gruesome August 1969 killings of Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski, and four others at her estate, and of grocers Leno and Rosembary LaBianca. He is not eligible for parole until 2027.


Charles Manson gets wedding licence to marry woman working on his case

Charles Manson with bride-to-be "Star", 54 years his junior. Photo: SCMP

Manson enters court for final arguments in his trial in 1971. Photo: Corbis

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Charles Manson gets wedding licence to marry woman working on his case

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Mass murderer is going back on statement he wouldn't marry woman trying to exonerate him