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Susan Atkins Death: Susan Atkins Dies at 61

by Jordan Yerman | September 25, 2009 at 06:54 am

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Manson Family member Susan Atkins has died at age 61 from brain cancer. Susan Atkins died last night at the California Central Women's Facility. The terminally-ill Susan Atkins was denied parole on September 2. Susan Atkins is the first of the Manson Family members convicted for the Sharon Tate murders to die. Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten are still alive, serving life sentences. Charles Manson himself is also still alive. Susan Atkins, whose "family name" was Sadie Mae Glutz, has a son named Zezozoze Zadfrack, whose whereabouts are unknown, and nobody knows exactly who the father is (or was).

Susan Atkins, Charles "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten were convicted of murdering Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate, who was 8 1/2 months pregnant, along with Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger in 1969; the next night, they killed two more people.

California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said that Atkins died late Thursday night. She had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008, had a leg amputated and was given only a few months to live.

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She said she felt "no guilt for what I've done. It was right then and I still believe it was right." Asked how it could be right to kill, she replied in a dreamy voice, "How can it not be right when it's done with love?"