Posted on 09/02/2009 10:38:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Susan Atkins, a follower of mass killer Charles Manson convicted nearly four decades ago in some of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, lost her 18th bid for release on Wednesday.
Atkins -- terminally ill with brain cancer and, according to her attorney, paralyzed over much of her body -- was denied her freedom by the California Parole Board after a hearing at the prison where she is being held.
Now 61, Atkins was convicted in 1971 of taking part in seven "Manson Family" murders, including that of heavily pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski.
Her death sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1972, when the California Supreme Court abolished capital punishment. Atkins will next be eligible for parole in 2012.
Manson became one of the 20th Century's most infamous criminals during the summer of 1969, when the Beatles-obsessed ex-convict directed his mostly young, female followers to murder seven people.
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steroids
Yeah, lol, but I think this particular pony-tailed guy might be her lawyer husband who pleaded for her "mercy release" today.
she was sentenced to death....SCOTUS stopped that and they granted life to those in that window before SCOTUS reinstated
for u kids out there
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Steroids account for her bloated face and neck? I think you’re right. She is paralyzed and one leg has been amputated.
I posted some “back then” and “now” photos of Atkins and Van Houten at this link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2330869/posts?page=43#43
Guilty guilty guilty.
I don’t think the Manson Family was terribly political and all that helter skelter race war charlie just made up to cover what really was just a psycho revenge killing directed at Melcher.
they were simply fried shiteless on Owsley and these dumbassed little girls were as easily ginned up as the ones in Salem 300 years earlier
yep...by the end of that year between Manson and Altamont, whatever coolness the Bethel gathering could muster was seriously chilled as it became known the Tate and laBianca murders were the work of what looked like on the surface ..hippies
Atkins testified before a Los Angeles Grand Jury, hoping to avoid the death penalty. She revealed how she held down Sharon Tate as she pleaded for her and the baby's life. She recounted how she told Tate, "Look, bitch, I don't care a thing about you. You're going to die and there's nothing you can do about it." To cause more suffering, they held off killing Tate until all others were dead, and then stabbed her repeatedly while she called out for her mother.
And Charlie is alive.
Obama's green job czar says the police are the enemy and the justice system is racist.
The Lockerbie bomber is released to profit British Petroleum while the Left chants no blood for oil.
Holder doesn't want to use harsh interrogation on the likes of KSM.
Question: Just how much daylight is there between Atkins and her crew, and Obama and his Odinga macheteros.
My grandmother got me interested in the Tate-LaBianca murders. I’ve read all her books, including Helter Skelter and Will You Die For Me, by Tex Watson. She still follows all the parole board hearings and has in the past written letters in support of Doris Tate when she was alive and then later on Sharon’s sister Patti, who died of breast cancer. I think Debra Tate is the only survivor now. I know she’s the only surving sister of Sharon.
The murders were awfully brutal and bloody. That poor little guy visiting the gardener at Sharon’s house, Steven Parent, is almost lost in the story, but his death was tragic, sad and senseless as well.
He’s the devil in disguise! LOL
She should have converted to Islam. She’d be getting a ticker tape parade in a Muslim country about now.
"What did she say about this other man?""She said that the other man ran past her, and as he ran past her she stabbed him four or five times. He got to the door and he started screaming for help. He got out onto the front lawn and he was screaming, 'Help, help, somebody please help!' And with this she put her hand on her hip and she said to me, 'And would you believe that he was screaming "Help, help," and nobody came?' "
"This is what Susan Atkins told you?"
"That's right."
"What else did Sadie say she did?" "She said she was holding Sharon Tate's arms behind her, and that Sharon Tate looked at her and she said she was crying and said to her, 'Please, please don't kill me, I don't want to die. 1just want to have my baby.' She said, 'And I looked Sharon straight in the eye and I said to her, "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it," and in a few minutes she was dead.' "
"Did Susan Atkins say whether she in fact killed Sharon Tate?"
"Yes, she did."
"What did she say?"
"She said, 'I killed her.' "
"Did Miss Atkins say anything about blood at that point?"
"Yes, she did."
"What did she say?"
"She said that she had blood in her hand and she looked at her hand and she took her hand and she put it up to her mouth and she said, 'To taste death and yet give life, wow, what a trick.' "
"Did Miss Atkins ask you if you had ever had that type of experience with blood?"
"Yes, she did. She asked me in was interested in blood, and I said that I had seen it, and she said that it was really beautiful; that it was warm and sticky."
"Did she say anything about the eyes of the people there at the Tate residence?"
"Yes, she did. She told me that she wanted to take their eyes out and squash them against the wall, and cut their fingers off, but that she didn't have time."
"Did Miss Atkins tell you anything about who was the last to die at the Tate residence?"
"Yes, she did."
"What did she say?"
"She told me Sharon was the last to die."
"Did she say anything about a knife of hers?"
"Yes, she did. She told me that she lost her knife up there; that she looked for it for a few minutes but could not find it, and then she said she thought the dog had taken it outside and buried it."
"As Miss Atkins was discussing these murders with you, did she say anything about how it felt to stab a human being with a knife?"
"Yes, she did."
"What did she say?"
"She said that when the knife went in, it felt soft and that it was quite a thrill."
Does Atkins receive Kennedy style cancer treatment or VA style cancer treatment? The people footing the bill want to know.
That must be the testimony from Susan’s cellmate, Ronnie the prostitute. At this moment, I can’t recall her entire name.
That’s right. Virginia Graham, her cellmate. I think her nickname was Ronnie. I’ll have to check tomorrow. Midnight means good night for me.
Damn me if that doesn’t look like a scene from South Park.
Bump! Bump! Bump!
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