Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment on conspiracy-murder charges in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case in 1969. Photo / AP
A grandson of cult leader Charles Manson has won the bizarre California court battle for the killer's corpse.
Jason Freeman of Florida can collect the remains of Manson from the morgue in Bakersfield, a Kern County Superior Court commissioner ruled on Monday.
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 killings, and a pen pal who collects so-called Manson memorabilia.
