Once, she was arrested and charged while hitchhiking because the car that gave her a ride was stolen. She struggled to look after both herself and her brother and later worked as a topless dancer. Both were in foster care for a time and Atkins dropped out of school after her standards fell. He became an alcoholic and first neglected, then abandoned Atkins and her younger brother. Her mother died of cancer while Atkins was fifteen, her father selling the family's house and all their possessions to pay hospital bills. She was very violent."Įx-chief prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi said that she "had the most unfortunate background," of all the killers except Manson himself. Prosecutor Stephen Kay described her as "the scariest of the Manson girls. She was denied compassionate release last year and parole earlier this month, with the parole board citing the vicious and remorseless nature of the crimes. In recent years, Atkins had developed cancer which spread, almost totally paralysing her. All convicted killers in the Manson clan were sentenced to death but this was replaced with life imprisonment after the death penalty was abolished in California. Subsequently, her testimony ensured that she, Charles Manson and several others would be convicted of a string of murders in a 10-month trial, including those of heavily pregnant actress Sharon Tate and of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.Ītkins received another murder conviction for the separate killing of Gary Alan Hinman, bringing her total to eight murders. Two fellow inmates reported her to the authorities. It was Atkins who exposed those responsible for the murders after she bragged of her involvement while imprisoned for an unrelated offence. Murder (Tate-LaBianca murders, sentenced to death, commuted)Įscaped Death Sentence People v.Susan Atkins, a former member of the Manson clan and the longest-serving female prisoner of California, US, has died in prison. High School: Leigh High School, San Jose, CA (transferred) Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, CA. After a final attempt at parole on her deathbed was met with unanimous denial, on 24 September 2009 she died at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, California. In 2008 Atkins was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, leading to the amputation of her leg and partial paralysis. Several times she aimed for parole, attempting to show that she had turned her life around, and expressed deep remorse. She had become a born-again Christian, marrying twice while in prison. All death penalties in California were commuted to life imprisonment the following year.Ītkins published her autobiography, Child of Satan, Child of God, in 1977. She reneged, and Atkins and four others were sentenced to death in 1971. Police arrested the other participants, and Atkins agreed to testify in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. Her misplaced jailhouse confidence led to the dismantling of the entire Manson Family. While incarcerated, Atkins told two inmates of the Tate/LaBianca murders. With information supplied by another family member, Atkins was subsequently charged with involvement in the murder of Gary Hinman, who had been killed in July by Manson associate Bobby Beausoleil. At an even more remote ranch, Atkins and several other Manson followers were arrested on suspicion of auto theft. An unrelated raid led to Spahn Ranch's abandonment.
It was Atkins who tasted Tate's blood and smeared the word "PIG" on a wall with it. Watson murdered the pregnant Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and three others. On 8 August 1969, Manson sent Tex Watson and other family members including Atkins to the home of film director Roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate. He renamed her "Sadie Mae Glutz", and the "Manson Family" relocated to the Spahn Ranch near Chatsworth, California. In the 1967 Haight-Ashbury, Atkins had the misfortune to meet the charismatic Charles Manson. She took odd jobs, making ends meet waitressing and as a topless dancer. He abandoned the family, and Susan dropped out of high school as a junior.
Susan Atkins' mother died from cancer in 1962, and her father was an alcoholic unable to find permanent work.
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