Charles Manson's grandson isn't giving up his plan to claim and bury the mass murderer, even after GoFundMe pulled the plug on his fundraising website Thursday. 
 
 "If we can't raise money with GoFundMe, we'll find another way. It will definitely be a group effort. It's not just one person, it's a lot of people holding hands," Jason Freeman told the Daily News. 
 
 Freeman, 41, said he was on a Thanksgiving walk in some Ohio woods when he learned the crowd-sourcing page set up by his friend John Jones had been deactivated. 
 
 The fundraiser reached $979 before GoFundMe shut it down and was meant to cover the legal, travel and burial fees associated with claiming Manson's remains in California. 
 
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 "I have no clue," Freeman said when asked if GoFundMe gave a reason for the blackout. "This is a circus. I'm letting a couple of my friends assist and help out. I'm trying to stay out of it." 
 
 The married father of three confirmed he discussed with Jones the high costs associated with flying to California to assert his next-of-kin status and claim Manson's remains from the Kern County Coroner. 
 
 "It's going to be a lot. There's a lot of people who want to contribute, and then there's a lot of people who want to protest," Freeman told The News. 
 
 Jones said on the GoFundMe page that Freeman lost his job this month and needs help because he also has a family to support. 
 
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 Freeman said he still hopes to make it to California before the 10-day window for claiming Manson's remains closes. 
 
 Charlie Manson's grandson Jason Freeman (r.) is pictured with John Jones (l.) near Corcoran State Prison. (Courtesy of Jason Freeman) 
 
 "It's a family obligation. It's just what you do in life. I don't know what's going to come," he told The News. 
 
 Freeman first stepped forward in a 2012 CNN interview, saying he barely knew his own father, who was the only son of Manson and first wife Rosalie. 
 
 Born Charles Manson Jr., Freeman's estranged dad changed his name to Jay White after Rosalie divorced the future cult leader. 
 
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 White eventually killed himself in June 1993 while in his late 30s. 
 
 Freeman said he blamed his grandfather for White's death until he started speaking with Manson by phone eight years ago and reached a place of "forgiveness." 
 
 Freeman started lobbying for the right to visit Manson at Corcoran State Prison but never succeeded. Asked why a meeting never took place, he declined to get specific but suggested Manson himself never gave the green light. 
 
 "I get emotional (talking about this)," Freeman told The News on Monday. "Some stuff is frustrating. He wanted to protect me, keep me out of all the pressure and hatred the world has." 
 
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 Freeman lamented waiting so long to reach out to Manson. 
 
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 "It's weighing on my shoulders. I should have been faster, should have done more, should have done something different. It's like I was trying too hard at the end of the marathon and now the marathon is over. That's what it feels like," he said. "I don't want to say I feel defeated, but I feel beat up right now." 
 
 Freeman said he believes his grandfather was "guilty of murder some time in his life," but he said his deep spirituality filled him with compassion. 
 
 "Most people in the world wouldn't understand. They wouldn't get what I'm saying. We all look at anybody and everybody who kills as a killer. But all I have is my love," he said. 
 
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 The clock is ticking for Freeman to make his claim on Manson's remains. 
 
 Manson's body was in the possession of the Kern County Coroner Monday because he died of natural causes in a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., not Corcoran State Prison, a prison spokeswoman confirmed to The News. 
 
 According to state regulations, Mason's remains will be released to a licensed funeral director unless the coroner makes special arrangements. 
 
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 "A chaplain of the decedent's professed faith may perform a ceremony in accordance with that faith," the California Code of Regulations governing inmate death states. 
 
 Jason Freeman grandson of Charles Manson. (Facebook) 
 
 If Manson legally designated someone for death notification, prison staff will attempt to reach that person with a visit, telephone call or telegram, in accordance with state regulations. 
 
 If after 10 days the legally-approved person fails to contact the designated funeral director, Manson will be considered unclaimed, the regulations state. 
 
 In that case, the funeral home would make arrangements to inter Manson using state resources. 
 
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 If not already there, Mason would likely be sent to Union Cemetery in Bakersfield for cremation. His ashes would then fit into a container about half the size of a shoebox. 
 
 According to the Kern County Coroner's website, unclaimed remains are interred at Union Cemetery. 
 
 A Bakersfield Californian report from 2010 said Kern County's unclaimed remains were stacked unceremoniously inside a group vault at Union Cemetery. 
 
 That unmarked vault was in the top row of a 90-year-old mausoleum on the property. 
 
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 To find such unclaimed remains, visitors must consult the cemetery's records to determine location, the newspaper said. 
 
 Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment in 1999. (Anonymous/AP) 
 
 Manson's followers killed actress Sharon Tate Polanski and six others during a terrifying two-night murder spree in August 1969. 
 
 Tate, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, begged for her life as she was stabbed repeatedly inside her Los Angeles house along with coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hair stylist Jay Sebring and two others. 
 
 The next night, Manson's gang chose another house at random and brutally murdered wealthy grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. 
 
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 Manson was eventually convicted of nine murders in all and spent nearly a half century in prison before dying Sunday night at the age of 83. 
 
 He was originally sentenced to death, but that was commuted to life with the possibility of parole when the death penalty was briefly outlawed in 1972. 
 
 Prosecutors said Manson and his followers were trying to incite an Armageddon-like race war named after the Beatles' song "Helter Skelter." 
 
 Manson was denied parole 12 times between November 1978 and April 2012. 
 
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 The last parole hearing he attended was in 1997. 
 
 Front page of New York Daily News on November 20, 2017. (New York Daily News ) 
 
 He was not eligible to have another parole hearing until 2027. 
 
 Ben Gurecki, a Manson groupie who posted prison calls with the inmate on his YouTube channel, said Manson recently told him he was suffering from "heart failure." 
 
 "I'm tired," Manson said during calls in the last month, Gurecki claimed in an interview with The News. "I'm just tired." 
 
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 Sharon Tate's sister Debra Tate has been a vocal advocate for keeping Manson's disciples in prison despite regular parole hearings. 
 
 She told The News late Sunday that she actually said a prayer for Manson after getting a call from prison officials about his death. 
 
 "I shed a tear for him. When I got the phone call at 8:30 that he had died, I said a prayer, shed a tear, stuck a flower under my cross in my bedroom and emailed Roman (Polanski)," Debra Tate said. 
 
 "I've processed through all of my hate for him. Hate isn't healthy. It won't bring my sister back. One could say I've forgiven him, but there's a difference between forgiving and forgetting," she said. 
 
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 "He was sociopathic and very dangerous, like his followers. He was the root of the problems, but he was the least of my worries. He wasn't trying to get out of prison," she said, referring to his convicted followers. 
 
 "I sit across from these monsters many times a year, and I know very clearly they're still capable of heinous acts," she said. "For that reason, I've dedicated myself to seeing they stay right where they are until they draw their last breath, so they can't hurt anyone else." 
 
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 EXCLUSIVE 
 
 Charles Manson's dead body can rot in prison ... at least as far as GoFundMe is concerned. 
 
 The fundraising site shutdown an effort to pay for the murderer's funeral expenses. As TMZ reported, John Michael Jones used GoFundMe to pay for Manson's burial expenses and he raised $972 before the page was 86'd from the site. 
 
 John says he was raising the money for Manson's grandson, Jason Freeman, who would then give Manson a proper burial. 
 
 John Michael Jones is furious, saying "It breaks my heart to see Jason [Mason's grandson] now suffering from the same prejudices, hate, discrimination and deliberate lies that his grandfather endured for 48 years." 
 
 As for why GoFundMe torpedoed the fundraising effort, a rep from the site told TMZ, "We removed this content earlier today and refunded donors." The rep did not explain why the page was objectionable, but it's not hard to figure out. Manson was a monster. 
 
 John Michael Jones says he's not quitting ... he's crossed over to PayPal. 
 
 TMZ broke the story... if no one claims Manson's body within 10 days of his death, he will be cremated.
– 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. Freeman, a married father of three, lost his job last month, Jones wrote on the fundraising page. Freeman tells the New York Daily News that they will find another way to raise the money to give Manson a proper burial. "It's a family obligation," he says. "It's just what you do in life." He says he barely knew his own father and never met his grandfather, but he reached out to Manson by phone eight years ago and reached a place of "forgiveness." Manson, who was serving nine life sentences for murder, died in a Bakersfield, Calif., hospital Sunday at age 83. Under state regulations, if the inmate's body isn't claimed from the Kern County coroner by Nov. 29, it will be declared unclaimed and will probably be cremated.