Infamous Murderers -Susan Atkins Whitehouse

SUSAN ATKINS:

Susan Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz aka Sexy Sadie, Donna Kay Powell,

Sharon King aka Susan Whitehouse.

Atkins was convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence was later

converted to life in prison and she has been incarcerated in Frontera,

California at the California Institute for Women.

Two of her fellow inmates are Patricia Krenwinkle and Leslie Van Houten.

Krenwinkle was also present at the murders and Van Houten and Krenwinkle

were at the LaBianca murders the next night. Both inmates and fellow

Manson family members had in the beginning shunned Atkins for "snitching"

on Manson and the others for their roles in the murders, resulting in their

arrests.

Convicted for her active participation in the murder in 1969 of Gary

Hinman (helping to smother Hinman with a pillow after he'd been stabbed

twice.) Convicted for her active role in the multiple murders in 1969 at

Cielo Drive, Los Angeles subsequently known as the "Manson murders."

Susan Atkins stabbed Wojciech Frykowski 4 times in the legs and helped

stab and kill Sharon Tate Polanski and her unborn child Paul Richard. Atkins

was present at the scene during the murders of Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger

and Steven Parent.

Atkins bragged of tasting Tate's blood and using it to write the word "PIG"

on the door to the home. She also bragged about Sharon Tate's pleading for

her life and of taunting her, telling Tate that she had no mercy for her. Sharon

Tate was stabbed and bludgeoned to death. Atkins claimed she thought about

cutting out the child from her stomach. Yet later Atkins has claimed that

she never did any of that. Atkins and Krenwinkle tied up their victims.

Later, Atkins and Krenwinkel complained that their hands hurt from using the

knives on their victims so many times. Atkins said that her head hurt because

Frykowski had pulled her hair while she was stabbing him. Manson asked:

"Do you feel any remorse?" Atkins answered: "No."

2003 Atkins sued then Governor Gray Davis of California and claimed

political prisoner status.

June 2005 Atkins was denied parole and became ineligible for parole until

2009.

2008 Atkins filed for compassionate release based on her medical

condition. Atkins is reportedly suffering from terminal brain cancer with 6 or

less months to live, has had one leg amputated, another paralyzed and can

barely speak, sit up in bed, feed herself or care for herself. She is currently

assigned to a hospital outside of the prison.

Atkins, 60, is said not to be a good candidate for compassionate release

because she had “failed to demonstrate genuine remorse and lacks insight

and understanding of the gravity of her crimes.

The request for compassionate release was denied.

Next parole hearing is June 2009 if she lives that long.

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