Ex-Manson follower dying, seeks release from prison

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I've always been pretty interested in this case, visited 10050 Cielo Dr when i was in LA a few years back before the house was torn down, if you are a music fan, nine inch nails recorded the downward spiral in the house.

anyway its amazing to think ALL the key people involved in the manson murders are still alive, well one hasn't got much time left apparently..





LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a "compassionate release" from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday.
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But Atkins, the state's longest- serving female inmate, has been hospitalized since March 18 and is listed in serious condition, state corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Because of privacy laws, Thornton would not disclose the nature of Atkins' illness.
Atkins' husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, was quoted as saying she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today. She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the case.
The compassionate release request has been approved by the prison, which conducted an evaluation, and is under corrections department review, Thornton said.
If the department approves, the Board of Parole Hearings and the sentencing court in Los Angeles also must sign off on the request. There is no timeline for a decision to be made, Thornton said.
Atkins, known within the Manson family as "Sadie Mae Glutz," has been in prison since 1971 and has been denied parole 11 times.
According to historical accounts of the murders, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant, and scawled the word "pig" in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with director Roman Polanski.
"I don't want to seem like a heartless creature, but in all my years, I never considered this could happen," Debra Tate, the actress' sister, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
"She showed no compassion. She told my sister as she slit her throat that she didn't (care) for her or her unborn baby," Tate added.
Sharon Tate and three houseguests were slain in August 1969 by killers who burst into her Benedict Canyon home. A teenager who was visiting the home's caretaker in his cottage on the property also was killed.
The following night, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were slain in their home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. The two-day crime spree sent shock waves throughout Los Angeles.
All of the killers remain behind bars. Atkins also was convicted in the earlier murder of music teacher Gary Hinman.
Atkins, like Manson, received a death sentence, and the punishment was changed to life in prison when the California Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty unconsitutional in 1972.
Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Atkins, told the Los Angeles Times that she "has paid substantially, though not completely, for her horrendous crimes. Paying completely would mean imposing the death penalty." But, he told the paper, given her terminal illness, "I don't have an objection to her being released."
According to her Web site, Atkins is a born-again Christian who during her incarceration has worked to aid at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children.
Last month, authorities dug for buried bodies at the Inyo County, California, ranch where Manson and his followers once lived, after police became aware that testing had indicated humans might be buried there. Nothing was found, police said.
 

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patrickmcstiffish is allowed to post...let her out
 

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She's been in prison for almost 40 years..What's the point of being released? She probably doesn't have anybody that would have anything to do with her on the outside or have any money..She's only got one leg and she's dying..She would probably go from prison to a nursing home..Which would probably be just as bad or worse. After killing two people in cold blood she should have been executed a long time ago..If they release Atkins, all of the other Manson family members will also argue about being released. They all should rot in jail.
 

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Helter Skelter you youngins should read this book it's a classic.

Think I might read it again soon.
 

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She's been in prison for almost 40 years..What's the point of being released? She probably doesn't have anybody that would have anything to do with her on the outside or have any money..She's only got one leg and she's dying..She would probably go from prison to a nursing home..Which would probably be just as bad or worse. After killing two people in cold blood she should have been executed a long time ago..If they release Atkins, all of the other Manson family members will also argue about being released. They all should rot in jail.

The article said her husband is her lawyer.
 

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hehehehee i would still do her in her mugshot
 

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just finished listening to the entire White album, what an album it is, one of the all time greats
 

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compassionate release???what a fvcking joke!!!! But im sure some liberal judge will feel sorry for her and release the ****.
 

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Manson told prosecuter Vincent Buglioso to look at his watch during the trial, Buglioso looked at his wrist and his watch stopped stone cold dead.

:scared:
 

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Manson told prosecuter Vincent Buglioso to look at his watch during the trial, Buglioso looked at his wrist and his watch stopped stone cold dead.

:scared:

Sure it did, and on a related note, three aliens were spotted in Area 51 last evening jumping into their spaceship that shot them up at lightning speed.

I'm sure Jesus was spotted somewhere in the world more than once also in some part of the world.
 

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Manson told prosecuter Vincent Buglioso to look at his watch during the trial, Buglioso looked at his wrist and his watch stopped stone cold dead.

:scared:

Maybe Chuck just has good eyesight and spotted the broken watch, maybe he wasnt trying to be "witchy" but just trying to be helpful(a rare charactaristic in today's serial killers and cult leaders)
 

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Sure it did, and on a related note, three aliens were spotted in Area 51 last evening jumping into their spaceship that shot them up at lightning speed.

I'm sure Jesus was spotted somewhere in the world more than once also in some part of the world.

Manson, an ex-convict who had studied various occult doctrines and methods while in prison, seemed to possess what many of his followers (and later, even his prosecutor) described as “magical” and “hypnotic” powers. Possessed of a very strong force of will and a commanding personal presence, Manson had in fact convinced many of his followers that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and many of them believed that he could actually read their minds. Manson often referred to himself as both Christ and the Devil, in part because of his identification with the Gnostic god Abraxas, a deity said to transcend both light and darkness and who could personify both “Christ” and “Devil” simultaneously. (Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi would later call Manson a “Mephistophelean guru” during his trial summation and even claimed that Manson’s hypnotic stare once caused his normally reliable wristwatch to stop functioning).
 

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