Susan Atkins
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Date: 2022-02-06

Susan_Atkins:
Susan Denise Atkins was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family." Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. According to Atkins, her parents, Jeanne and Edward John Atkins, were alcoholics. In 1967, Atkins met Manson when he played guitar at the house where she was living with several friends. The growing "Manson Family" settled at the Spahn Ranch in the San Fernando Valley in southern California, where, on October 7, 1968, Atkins bore a son by Bruce White, whom Manson called Zezozose Zadfrack Glutz. During Atkins' 2000 parole hearing, Sharon Tate's sister, Debra, read a statement written by their father, Paul, which said in part, "Thirty-one years ago I sat in a courtroom with a jury and watched with others. I saw a young woman who giggled, snickered and shouted out insults; even while testifying about my daughter's last breath, she laughed. My family was ripped apart. If Susan Atkins is released to rejoin her family, where is the justice?"In April 2002, Atkins told a Los Angeles Times reporter of her work to discourage teenagers from idolizing Manson and her hope of someday leaving prison to live in Laguna Beach, California. The cost for Atkins' medical care since she was hospitalized on March 18, 2008, "Reportedly surpassed $1.15 million with additional cost of over $300,000 to guard her hospital room." Bugliosi stated he was challenging the notion that "Just because Susan Atkins showed no mercy to her victims, we therefore are duty-bound to follow her inhumanity and show no mercy to her." Former prosecutor Stephen R. Kay, who prosecuted Manson supporters, opposed Atkins' release, stating: Atkins married twice while in prison. Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley stated that he was strongly opposed to the release, saying in a letter to the board it would be "An affront to people of this state, the California criminal justice system and the next of kin of many murder victims." Cooley wrote that Atkins' "Horrific crimes alone warrant a denial of her request" and that she "Failed to demonstrate genuine remorse and lacks insight and understanding of the gravity of her crimes." Suzan Hubbard, director of adult prisons in California, also recommended against granting Atkins' request. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas also opposed Atkins' release, stating that "It would be a grave miscarriage of justice to burden the citizens of Orange County by paroling her to Orange County, where she can enjoy the comforts of her husband, home and mercy she did not show Sharon Tate [or] her unborn baby." The Board of Parole Hearings considered Atkins' request for compassionate release during its monthly meeting on July 15, 2008.

keywords: murder, Manson, California, parole, testimony, kin, Atkins, State, Tate, time, Allen Tate, prison term, Family

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