![]() However, in the eyes of the law and in memory of her victims, I fail to see how one thing correlates to the other," DiMaria and her son Anthony said in a statement Friday. Margaret DiMaria, the sister of Jay Sebring, a hairdresser who was killed at the Benedict Canyon home, agreed. There's no deprogramming, no pills, no drugs that make that go away." "People don't just become cured from being sociopaths. "They are serial killers and they were convicted to die and they need to stay incarcerated," she said. She has been in state prison for 37 years, longer than any other female inmate.ĭebra Tate, the actress' sister and only surviving relative, strongly opposes the release of Atkins or any members of the Manson family. The night after the Tate murders, members of the so-called Manson family - but not Atkins - broke into a home in the hills of Silver Lake, killing Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.īehind bars, Atkins has been a model prisoner who for the last 21 years has been married to an Orange County attorney who represented her at her last parole hearing. During her trial, which took more than nine months, Atkins showed no remorse and maintained utter devotion to Manson, whom she called "Jesus Christ," "the devil" and "the soul." During sentencing, she taunted the court by saying, "You'd best lock your doors and watch your own kids."Ītkins was convicted of killing Tate and also of stabbing musician Gary Hinman to death two weeks before the Tate murder. After stabbing and killing Tate, prosecutors said Atkins tasted the actress' blood and used it to write "PIG" on the front door. "I told her I didn't have mercy for her."Īlmost 40 years later, it's Atkins who is asking for mercy.ĭiagnosed with terminal brain cancer and confined to state prison on a life sentence, the 59-year-old is asking to be released from state prison on "compassionate" grounds.īy most accounts, Atkins, a former topless dancer who used to sing in her church choir, was one of Manson's fiercest disciples. "She asked me to let her baby live," Atkins told parole officials in 1993. The attacker was Susan Atkins, and her response was cold and unequivocal. On an infamous summer night in 1969, young followers of Charles Manson entered a Benedict Canyon mansion and murdered five people gathered on the compound.Īctress Sharon Tate, 8 1/2 months pregnant with the son of director Roman Polanski, begged one of the knife-wielding killers to spare her life. The Manson 'family' member has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, but her victims' relatives say that doesn't mean she deserves to get out of jail.īy Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer The three women co-defendants of Charles Manson were convicted with him for the Tate-La Bianca murders of August 1969. With her are co-defendants Patricia Krenwinkel, center, and Leslie Van Houten, right. He co-wrote 'Manson in His Own Words'.Susan Atkins, at left, returns to court in this Maphoto. ![]() ![]() From the estate of Manson's biographer NUEL (MELTON) EMMONS (1927-2002), who had once been jailed with and later befriended Manson. I am not the woman I was twelve years ago, and know that in that man's mind, he does not and never will see me as I really am TODAY, a transformed born-again Christian woman.There is nothing back there that hasn't been forgiven and Forgotten by God.it is with joy that I live today.' Fine condition. She further thanks her correspondent, Charles Manson's biographer, 'for not printing the remarks that were made to you about my wedding by my co-defendant.I had no knowledge of you upcoming book, and I do not, honestly look forward to reading it or the references that have been made or alluded to me. She fears that the others would 'turn around' the marriage, making the event 'ugly and negative'. Atkins cites an agreement she had made with the warden that following the announcement of her marriage to Donald Lee Laisure (his 35th marriage), she would only grant one interview. 16, 1981 declining to assist in a biography of Charles Manson. ATKINS CONDEMNS MANSON, DECLARES HERSELF 'FORGIVEN' Fine content T.L.S. Manson family member and murderer who wrote 'Pig' in Sharon Tate's blood during the infamous 1969 murder spree.
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