Susan Atkins Dies at 61; Imprisoned Charles Manson Follower [Obituary]

LATimes ^ | September 26, 2009

[Steelfish]

“[S]he grew up in San Jose, the middle child of three. When she was 15, her mother died of cancer. Her father sold the family home and all their furnishings to pay the hospital bills. Atkins began failing school and her father became an alcoholic who frequently left Susan and her younger brother, Steven, to fend for themselves.”

Early intervention may have helped.

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Will Elton sing “Good Bye Sadie Mae”?

[Lurker]

Gee I hope it wasn’t excruciatingly painful or anything.

[humblegunner]

Well that does not speak well for the Atkins diet.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Susan Atkins, who committed one of modern history’s most notorious crimes when she joined Charles Manson and his gang for a string of killings in 1969. ................................ I’ll be harsh, her death was 40 years too late.

[Squantos]

I do !

[Eagles6]

Buh bye!

[Vaquero]

When she was 15, her mother died of cancer. Her father sold the family home and all their furnishings to pay the hospital bills. Atkins began failing school and her father became an alcoholic who frequently left Susan and her younger brother, Steven, to fend for themselves.”

Early intervention may have helped.

most woman with this scenario just wouldn't stab an 8 months pregnant woman in the fetus with a bayonet just for $h!ts and Giggles.

No mercy Susy...go directly to Hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

[Bean Counter]

May Sadie Mae Glutz burn in hell.

[USNBandit]

Hello, Scotland! Are you watching?! This is what you do with murderers that get cancer. You keep them in prison!

[Leofl]

For some reason I just can’t bring myself to feel sorry for her death.

I came way too late!!!

[Vaquero]

[Krankor]

What she did was horrible and there’s simply no excuse, but let’s face it, losing her mother, her house and all her belongings certainly had a traumatic effect on her as a human being.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

"She was the scariest of the Manson girls," said Stephen Kay, a former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who helped prosecute the case and argued against Atkins' release at her parole hearings. "She was very violent."

She must have been a monster to do that to Sharon Tate and her baby.

[IronJack]

Imprisoned Charles Manson Follower

Let's call her what she really was: Convicted Mass Murderer and Psychopath

[Cheetahcat]

These People should have been executed long ago.

[BossLady]

Yep. I am not sure how one ‘recovers’ from being a mass murderer. I will leave it all in God’s hands.....

[BunnySlippers]

She murdered in the Sharon Tate case, the LaBiancas and Gary Hinman.

[karatemom]

Here is what I have been thinking: It has been said that Susan Atkins accepted Christ as her Savior. I do not claim to know the condition of her heart, but if there was true repentence, she is with the Lord. I also don’t know if Sharon Tate was saved or the condition of her heart before the Lord. What if she wasn’t saved? Any thoughts?