Charles Manson Follower Susan Atkins Has Died at 61
Charles Manson followers Leslie Van Houton, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel
Susan Atkins, who committed one of modern history’s most notorious crimes when she joined Charles Manson and his gang for a 1969 killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles and put her in prison for the rest of her life, has died. She was 61.
Atkins died at the Central California Women’s facility in Chowchilla on Thursday night, said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Atkins, who had been receiving medical care at the prison’s nursing facility over the past year, died of natural causes, Thornton said. Sources told The Times she had been battling brain cancer. She was pronounced dead at 11:46 p.m.
Now, finally some JUSTICE for the Tate and LaBianca families. Remember the crime scene of Sharon Tate’s murder and that of her unborn child?
Remember Susan Atkins famously told a sobbing and begging Sharon Tate prior to her murder and mutilation, “Look bitch, I have no mercy for you.â€
Atkins confessed to killing actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski who was hanged and stabbed 16 times; Tate’s nearly full-term fetus died with her. The next night, Atkins accompanied Manson and his followers when they broke into the Los Feliz home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and killed them.
“She was the scariest of the Manson girls,” said Stephen Kay, who helped prosecute the case and argued against Atkins’ release at her parole hearings. “She was very violent.”
Former chief prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, who sought and won death sentences for Atkins, Manson and other followers, said Atkins would be remembered “obviously as a member of a group that committed among the most horrendous crimes in American history. She apparently made every effort to rehabilitate herself.”
He added: “It has to be said that she did pay substantially, though not completely, for her incredibly brutal crimes. And to her credit, she did renounce — and, I believe, sincerely — Charles Manson.”
It was Atkins who broke open the case when she bragged of her participation in the slayings to cellmates at Sybil Brand Institute in East Los Angeles, where she was being held on other charges; two of her cellmates told authorities of her confession. After prosecutors promised not to seek the death penalty against her, Atkins appeared before a grand jury, providing information that led to her own indictment, as well as that of Manson and others. Later, in a lurid 10-month trial, she provided crucial testimony that fed the public’s fascination with Hollywood celebrities, drugs, sex and violence.
It also left an unshakable image of Atkins as a remorseless killer, who taunted the court at her sentencing with chilling words: “You’d best lock your doors,” she said, “and watch your own kids.”
In 1971, two separate juries found Manson, Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Charles “Tex” Watson guilty on seven counts of first-degree murder. Another Manson follower, Leslie Van Houten, was convicted of two murders. All received the death sentence, later reduced to life terms after the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in 1972. (The Legislature later reenacted the death penalty statute.) Manson, Krenwinkel, Watson and Van Houten remain in prison.Atkins also pleaded guilty to the murder of musician Gary Alan Hinman, who was killed in a dispute over money shortly before the Tate-LaBianca murders. She received another life sentence for the Hinman killing.
Susan Atkins has been living on borrowed time for the past 40 years. May she atone to our creator for the heinous crimes against humanity.
Susan Atkins in 1969
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138 Comments
Pirate_of_galz
wow!!
angela
creepy!!
Tiffany
So sad… especially the way poor Sharon died. She was even pregnant with a baby that was almost ready to be born, truly trajec and horrifying. May all of the victims rest in peace with God and the Angels.. <3
Mr.xxx
So? She was just another useless human being, even more she was about to bring another human being into this world that pathetic creature deserved to die!
Ninqueen420
her husband was not killed with her it was her close friend and ex lover jay sebring.
Shay_oyster
YOU GUYS need a fucking life if you are lookin at this page rite now……hahahaha FUCKIN LONERS
CECY
I’m Catholic and must say that you other “Christians” have no right to say she’ll rot in hell. Only God decides who is saved and who isn’t…remember the thief on the cross next to Jesus? It is NO one’s place on this Earth to say who is or who isn’t saved…That is the beauty of it all..WE don’t decide. God does…Takes the pressure off, huh?? All we are asked to do is love one another. It is both that simple and that complicated all at the same time. But THAT is being a true Christian…But you are not truly living and being a Christian when spewing Bible thumping jargon and preaching fire and brimstone!
fireman06
Every inch of trees wasted on these little cowards is silly. They killed like cowards and will die in jail like cowards – Cahrles manson – haha – all 2’7″ of him
fireman06
Every inch of trees wasted on these little cowards is silly. They killed like cowards and will die in jail like cowards – Cahrles manson – haha – all 2’7″ of him
Lisa Halliwell
She got off easy and was unfortunately treated more humanely than she ever showed others…she got to bow out early by dying at 61.
Luna Morrison
I still find it nearly impossible that the court and justice system let her make a deal with them! They should have just agreed with a lie and then take it back, isn’t that what the system does anyways? Screw people over? Well at least she got partial of what she deserves, and I’m being very lenient here. She deserves much more pain and suffering than what she got in this lifetime. Being a lady of God I’m supposed to be merciful and forgiving, but this tramp deserves nothing from me. May God shine a light on me to be forgiving, but as of now this ho is lesser than a microscopic spec of lint…
Luna Morrison
I still find it nearly impossible that the court and justice system let her make a deal with them! They should have just agreed with a lie and then take it back, isn’t that what the system does anyways? Screw people over? Well at least she got partial of what she deserves, and I’m being very lenient here. She deserves much more pain and suffering than what she got in this lifetime. Being a lady of God I’m supposed to be merciful and forgiving, but this tramp deserves nothing from me. May God shine a light on me to be forgiving, but as of now this ho is lesser than a microscopic spec of lint…
Luna Morrison
I still find it nearly impossible that the court and justice system let her make a deal with them! They should have just agreed with a lie and then take it back, isn’t that what the system does anyways? Screw people over? Well at least she got partial of what she deserves, and I’m being very lenient here. She deserves much more pain and suffering than what she got in this lifetime. Being a lady of God I’m supposed to be merciful and forgiving, but this tramp deserves nothing from me. May God shine a light on me to be forgiving, but as of now this ho is lesser than a microscopic spec of lint…
Gizmonandme
I’m glad the BITCH is dead they should have killed her years ago.
Mr.xxx
Don’t use insults when refering to another person especially if that person was extremely righteous and is already dead, pay respect to her memory!
hannagray91
ur a joke im GLAD SHES DEAD TO i have no respect for that bitch
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