File under “be careful what you wish for”: 41-year-old DJ Matthew Roberts set out on a quest to find his biological father, only to discover that it was, in fact, 60s darksider Charles Manson. FUUUUFFFUUUU…. Roberts now struggles with what he has discovered, corresponding with Chuckie via mail and avoiding ever talking to him on the phone. The Sun reports:

LIKE many adopted children, Matthew Roberts set about finding his biological parents with a mix of nerves and excitement. In particular, he hoped that discovering his father’s identity would help him to work out what made him the man he had become. But nothing could have prepared him for being told his dad was… serial killer CHARLES MANSON.

Over a five-week period in the summer of 1969, Manson and his Family of commune followers committed a series of nine gruesome murders. Victims included pregnant actress Sharon Tate, wife of film director Roman Polanski. Matthew, 41 - who bears a haunting resemblance to his father - sank into depression after discovering his identity. He has since been in contact with his dad in a series of letters to his California prison and Manson has replied - each time chillingly signing off with a swastika.

(The Sun: I traced my Dad… and discovered he is Charles Manson)

(Previously on Dangerous Minds: California Screaming)

The guy looks like Nathan Lane!

Looks more like Hank Azaria as Claude in ‘Along Came Polly’.

What’s up with The Sun labeling Chuck as “...serial killer CHARLES MANSON!”...? Manson didn’t kill anyone, but was instead convicted on conspiracy/association charges.

UGH! That’ something I’ve wondered about for quite some time, especially after reading Ed Sander’s The Family. There were a lot of kids and knocked up Manson girls.
What a drag for that guy. He’s would’ve been so much better off picking some random person to be his imaginary dad. But I still can’t help but wonder if some of Chuckie boy’s craziness was bad wiring or bad rearing. This guy might provide a clue.

My heart goes out to Matt.  Now he has to live with the knowledge that his father is Manson.  It was probably tough enough to live with being adopted but now this.

Let’s hope that the media and everyone else will leave him alone and he can live his life in peace.

ahhh its not so bad! uncle Chuck is actually your dad. sorry. he wasn’t all bad though. put on one of his records, get a harem going, take plenty of psychedelics and live the good side of his family history, so to speak.

also, being manson’s offspring is kinda the equivalent to being that of Osama bin Laden. there’s just so much of his seed thats been spread around, its bound to be diluted.

haha, oh man. BURN!!!

Sounds like a potential hit reality tv series.

They should join Marylin Manson to make a kooky Disney movie, about a musical family that travels around the country.

gimme DNA/paternity test evidence, or it’s still an open question…

This is every adoptees greatest fear; not knowing what you’ll find if you are even fortunate to find anyone at all.

Has there been any word on who his mother is? Has he found her as well?

I agree with what liam says, he looks like Nathan Lane’s pot smokin’ brother.  Who was his mother?

Considering Matthew’s age, I’m wondering if Mary Brunner could be his mom.  If memory serves me well, she was one of the first “women” of his harem and I recall her being pregnant at the time.  Poor Mary…so brilliant and she threw it all away.