Manson Funeral Fundraiser Shut Down

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Charles Manson has a next of kin willing to claim his body, but grandson Jason Freeman might not be able to get to California from Ohio in time. GoFundMe pulled the plug on a fundraising site set up to help him with travel and burial expenses Thursday after $979 had been raised, TMZ reports. 

John Michael Jones, the friend who set up the page, says he has set up a new fundraiser on PayPal and it "breaks his heart" to see the 41-year-old Freeman face the "same prejudices, hate, discrimination, and deliberate lies that his grandfather endured for 48 years." Freeman's father, the cult leader's son from his first marriage, changed his name from Charles Manson Jr. to Jay White. He killed himself in 1993.

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