Wild-eyed cult leader Charles Manson has been hospitalized in California, authorities said Wednesday. The 83-year-old was brought to a Bakersfield hospital, the Kern County sheriff’s office said. “It’s not going to get any better for him,” a source familiar with his condition told the website.

Ben Gurecki, a Manson groupie who regularly posts prison calls with the inmate on his YouTube channel, said Manson was brought to Mercy Heart Hospital with heart failure. “I don’t believe he will leave the hospital,” Gurecki said. “(It’s) heart failure. (His) body is shutting down.” TMZ cites a source as saying: “It’s just a matter of time.”

Charles Manson -- the man who masterminded one of the most heinous murder sprees in American history -- is dead  ... this according to the sister of his famous victim.
Debra Tate tells TMZ she received a call from the prison telling her Manson died 8:13 PM Sunday.

83 is a white supremacist numeric symbol that stands for "Heil Christ" or "Hail Christ" (the eighth letter of the alphabet is H and the third letter is C, thus 83 is "HC"). It is typically used by adherents of the racist and anti-Semitic religious sect known as Christian Identity. The symbol derives from the older white supremacist numeric symbol 88 ("Heil Hitler"). As they do with 88, white supremacists sometimes pair 83 with the number 14 (a reference to the so-called "Fourteen Words" slogan), creating numeric phrases such as "14/83."
Some adherents of the white supremacist Creativity Movement have also used this numeric symbol, claiming that it stands for "Hail Creativity," but this usage is not that common.