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FILE - This Aug. 14, 2017, file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Charles Manson. A Kern County Superior Court commissioner ruled Monday, March 12, 2018,... (Associated Press) 
  
 FILE - This Aug. 14, 2017, file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Charles Manson. A Kern County Superior Court commissioner ruled Monday, March 12, 2018, that Jason Freeman of Florida can collect the remains of Charles Manson from the morgue in Bakersfield,... (Associated Press) 
  
 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A grandson of cult leader Charles Manson won the bizarre California court battle Monday over the killer's body. 
  
 Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Alisa Knight ruled that Jason Freeman can retrieve Manson's remains, which have been on ice in the Bakersfield morgue since he died in November. 
  
 Freeman didn't immediately comment but previously said he would cremate and spread the ashes of Manson and put to rest "this so-called monster, this historical figure that shouldn't have been blown up as big as it was for all these years." 
  
 Manson died in a hospital in Bakersfield while serving a life sentence for orchestrating the 1969 killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight others. He was 83. 
  
 The fight over his corpse devolved into a circus of sorts with friends filing competing wills purportedly signed by the infamous inmate while kin began to come out of the woodwork to also stake a claim to the killer's body and an estate that could include lucrative rights to songs Manson wrote or to license his image and other material. 
  
 While the decision clears the way for Manson to be cremated or buried, the battle for the body foreshadows what lies ahead as the same competing camps wrestle for control of the estate. 
  
 The case in Kern County was brought by the coroner's office, which said it wanted to quickly resolve the matter because bodies were piling up at the morgue from the methamphetamine and opioid epidemics. 
  
 The three-way fight for the body was between Freeman, Michael Brunner, a man who said he was fathered by Manson, and Michael Channels, a pen pal who collected and sold Manson memorabilia and filed what he said was the cult leader's will. 
  
 The three all tried to cast doubt on the authenticity of the competing claims and Freeman largely won out because of deficiencies with the other petitions. 
  
 Knight said the will submitted by Channels was problematic, in part, because he was one of the two witnesses while also sole beneficiary. It was also ambiguous about what would be done with Manson's body other than for Channels to use his judgment as executor. 
  
 "All I wanted to do was take the dude's ashes and dump them in the desert where he wanted," said Channels, who said he was more upset that Freeman prevailed over Brunner, who he believes is Manson's legitimate son. "I'm irate. That Jason Freeman, he just pulled the wool over the whole system's eyes." 
  
 Brunner's mother was an early member of the so-called Manson family and he was fathered by the cult leader, according to his birth certificate, though it misspelled Manson's middle name. Knight said Brunner had shown evidence he was fathered by Manson, but he lost his right to be deemed an heir because he was adopted by his maternal grandparents. 
  
 Freeman, a former professional mixed martial arts fighter from Florida, is the son of the late Charles Manson Jr., who was the child of Manson and his first wife. Charles Manson Jr. changed his name to Charles Jay White and later killed himself. 
  
 Although some raised questions about whether Freeman was really Manson's grandson, Knight determined he was "the surviving competent adult next of kin." 
  
 Another purported son, Matthew Lentz, who claims he was fathered by Manson during a Wisconsin orgy, supported Brunner's petition. He is named as the sole beneficiary in a 2017 will that Manson apparently signed and sent to Ben Gurecki, another friend and memorabilia collector, who is named as executor. 
  
 Knight noted that the will did not appear to be properly executed and that Lentz forfeited his claims as an heir because he was also adopted. 
  
 Most of the people vying for the body have said they would cremate it, though Freeman's attorney balked at that suggestion when Deputy Kern County Counsel Bryan Walters suggested at hearing last week that the coroner could cremate the body and allow the parties to continue their court fight over the ashes. 
  
 Some adversaries have suggested others want to profit off the death by selling morbid photos of the corpse to tabloid publications. 
  
 To prevent photos of the body from being leaked, the coroner's office stored Manson's remains under a pseudonym and only two employees were told its true identity, Walters said. 
  
 Freeman has denied having a deal to sell photos of the body. A video online shows Freeman's son playing with a Manson puppet, complete with swastika on the forehead, and Freeman joking about stuffing the doll with Manson's ashes and taking him fishing. 
  
 Attorney Dale Kiken, who represents Freeman, dismissed the video as play and said his client is respectful and wants to have a final internment that doesn't keep ashes or pieces of Manson. 
  
 Kiken expects there to be a public ceremony, possibly documented by a film crew that has been following Freeman, in which Manson's ashes are scattered on a body of water. 
  
 "From a logical standpoint, there's a great benefit to a public scattering of his ashes, not just for finality for his relatives but to everyone affected by Mr. Manson," Kiken said. ||||| CLOSE The lengthy, bizarre court battle over Charles Manson’s body has come to an end. Veuer's Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more. Buzz60 
  
 In this Jan. 26, 2018, file photo, Jason Freeman, Charles Manson's purported grandson, speaks to reporters outside court in Los Angeles. A Kern County Superior Court commissioner ruled Monday, March 12, 2018, that Freeman can collect the remains of Charles Manson from the morgue in Bakersfield, Calif. (Photo: Brian Melley, AP) 
  
 Charles Manson's grandson is entitled to take the infamous cult leader's body from the morgue, effectively ending a circus-like battle over who has the right to a corpse that's been stored on ice since November, a California official ruled Monday. 
  
 At least five people had petitioned to take possession of Manson's body since his death at age 83 on Nov. 19. Kern County court commissioner Alisa Knight said Monday that Jason Freeman, a former professional mixed martial arts fighter from Florida, can pick up the remains. 
  
 Although some raised question about whether Freeman was really Manson’s grandson, Knight determined he was “the surviving competent adult next of kin.” 
  
 Freeman recalled Manson, one of America's most notorious mass killers whose 1960s cult led his followers down a path of murder, anarchy and "helter skelter," as a "kind and giving person." He says he got to know Manson in a series of phone calls he made to the prison over the past decade. 
  
 Manson, serving multiple life sentences at a prison in Corcoran, Calif., had struggled with gastrointestinal problems in his later years and finally succumbed to his ongoing issues. 
  
 That gave rise to numerous claims by would-be relatives and acquaintances who wanted the body. In addition to Freeman, people from Illinois, California and Florida, claimed to have a right to the remains, according to a court filing. At least one of the filings was from a person who professed no relationship to Manson, other than that he had become pen pals with the killer. 
  
 This Aug. 14, 2017 file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Charles Manson. (Photo: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP) 
  
 Freeman, a 41-year-old married father of three, told the New York Daily News last year that he just wants to give his grandfather a proper burial. 
  
 “I will definitely speak with the inner circle of people who love my grandfather and who may know more of where he would want to be. I’m working on doing my part,” Freeman told the newspaper. 
  
 Freeman first stepped forward in a 2012 CNN interview, saying he barely knew his own father, who was the only son of Manson and his first wife, Rosalie. Freeman said he started speaking with Manson by phone eight years ago and reached a place of “forgiveness.” 
  
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 "He told me he loved me. I told him I loved him. It took five years for that to come out of his mouth," Freeman said, according to the Daily News. 
  
 Manson, noted since the 1960s for a crudely carved swastika on his forehead, has been in the annals of American criminal lore since he dispatched a legion of cult followers to carry out brutal attacks in and around Los Angeles. 
  
 Among the victims was director Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate. In all, Manson and his followers killed nine people at four locations in July and August 1969. 
  
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A court official has made a decision on the body of Charles Manson—almost four months after the 83-year-old cult leader completed his life sentence and was put on ice at a California morgue. Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Alisa Knight ruled Monday that grandson Jason Freeman can take Manson's body from the Bakersfield morgue, USA Today reports. The move follows months of legal battles over the body and the Manson estate involving Freeman, other purported Manson relatives, and a pen pal. Freeman, a 41-year-old former mixed martial arts fighter and a father of three, is the son of Charles Manson Jr., Manson's son from his first marriage. Manson Jr. changed his name and eventually killed himself. The coroner's office said it wanted to get rid of Manson's body quickly because it needed space for the victims of the opioid and meth epidemics, the AP reports. Freeman has said he wants to cremate his grandfather and scatter the ashes of "this so-called monster, this historical figure that shouldn't have been blown up as big as it was for all these years." He has said he reached a place of "forgiveness" with his notorious relative after reaching out by phone eight years ago. He has denied having plans to sell photos of the body. His attorney says there will probably be a public ceremony in which Manson's ashes are scattered over a body of water. (GoFundMe pulled the plug on a fundraiser to help Freeman with his expenses.)