Governor Newsom will probably deny the recommendation. Charles "Tex" Watson was arguably the most vicious member of the Manson Family. Manson may have orchestrated the killings, but Watson was, more often than not, the hand that carried them out. He participated in the Cielo Drive murders, personally shooting Steven Parent and Jay Sebring, and assisted in the other slayings. He was also active in the LaBianca murders. Watson grew up in Texas, hence his nickname. In the s, he worked for Braniff Airlines as a baggage handler.
This gave him access to free airline tickets, which he used to visit an old college friend in Los Angeles. He eventually decided to move to the L. According to his parole hearing , Watson was renting a house in Malibu with a friend. He one day picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be Beach Boys' drummer Dennis Wilson.
Wilson invited Watson to his home, where he met Charles Manson and ultimately joined Manson's followers. Watson was sentenced to death in , which was commuted to life in prison the following year. Since his incarceration, he has converted to Christianity and became an ordained minister in In , he married Kristin Joan Svege, with whom he fathered four children via conjugal visits. The state of California got rid of those visits for prisoners serving life sentences in the late s.
At the time, Sharon Tate's mother, Doris Tate, was one of the biggest advocates for eliminating such visits for violent felons. She was enraged that Watson murdered her daughter and grandchild, yet was allowed to father children of his own.
Svege amicably divorced Watson in Watson apparently reads his Wikipedia page and seems to have submitted requests to have it edited. In those requests, he named Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's book Helter Skelter as his preferred source for Manson-related research. He was most recently eligible for parole in October He was denied for the seventeenth time in 47 years. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said in a statement.
Sharon Tate's sister Debra Tate also spoke out, calling him a sociopath who is "incapable of having insight or empathy for anything. Watson is currently He was denied parole at a hearing on Oct. Patricia Krenwinkel grew up in Los Angeles as the quiet daughter of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom.
While living with her sister in Manhattan Beach in , she met Manson and became enamored with him. She joined his commune and traveled with him for several months. In , at age 21, she was a devoted follower who agreed to participate in Manson's plans for Helter Skelter. Krenwinkel was present for the murders on Cielo Drive. In particular, she testified that she was the one to murder Abigail Folger. She first stabbed her in the living room of the house, then chased her outside and stabbed her several more times.
It was just there, and it was right. In , she was sentenced to death in but in , her sentence was also commuted to life in prison. She is currently held at the California Institution for Women in Chino, where she apparently goes by "Krenny.
She, too, has renounced Manson. Krenwinkel has been denied parole more than a dozen times. Her most recent attempt, in , was delayed by her lawyers' assertion that she was suffering from "intimate partner battery" at the time of her crimes, a legal defense that has been used to free individuals who suffered abuse at the hands of romantic partners or family members.
In , parole board commissioners once again denied Krenwinkel parole. Her mother died of cancer when Atkins was 15, and her father fell into alcoholism following his wife's death. By , Atkins had been abandoned by her father and was living in Los Banos, working as a waitress and attending high school while attempting to care for her little brother. She dropped out during her junior year of high school and relocated to San Francisco.
There, she encountered Manson while he was playing guitar and soon accepted his invitation to join his commune. Within the Manson family, she went by the name Sadie Mae Glutz.
Manson prosecutor and Helter Skelter author Vincent Bugliosi once said that excluding Manson himself, it was Atkins who had the "most unfortunate background. On July 25, , Atkins went with several followers, including Bobby Beausoleil and Mary Brunner, to the home of musician Gary Hinman, who Manson believed had money he could give them. They attacked Hinman and Manson sliced Hinman's ear with a sword. When the others left, Atkins and Brunner remained with Hinman and treated his wounds.
Two days later, Beausoleil returned and murdered Hinman while Atkins and Brunner were present. They wrote "political piggy" on Hinman's living room wall in his blood. Atkins was also present on the night of the Cielo Drive murders and used Tate's blood to write "PIG" on the front door of the home. She was present the night of the LaBianca murders as well, but stayed in the car.
While in jail on unrelated charges in October , she boasted to two other inmates about how she had murdered actress Sharon Tate. These inmates informed authorities of her story, which helped the detectives working the case. Atkins later agreed to testify against the others, admitting in court that she held Tate down as Watson stabbed her. She said that she told Tate that she had no mercy for her, as Tate begged for her and her baby's lives.
Atkins was sentenced to death in , which was, like the others' sentences, commuted to life in She renounced Manson and became a born-again Christian.
She also married twice while incarcerated. In , she married Donald Lee Laisure, who had been married at least two dozen times before. The marriage lasted less than a year. She remarried attorney James W. Whitehouse in , who represented her at her and parole hearings. They remained married to her until she died. In , Atkins was diagnosed with brain cancer. As she was dying, she requested compassionate release but she was denied by the California Board of Parole.
Atkins died in September at age 61, after spending 38 years at the California Institution for Women in Chino. At the time of her death, she was the longest-serving female inmate in the state of California. After she died, that dubious honor went to Krenwinkel. Atkins was survived by one son, who had been born prior to the murders. She named the boy Zezozose Zadfrack Glutz.
Her parental rights were terminated after she was imprisoned. Her family members declined to care for him so he was adopted and renamed. Atkins never saw him again. His whereabouts are currently unknown. It is believed that a Manson commune member named Bruce White was the boy's father. Bobby Beausoleil grew up in Santa Barbara. She released on parole in August, , after serving nearly 34 years.
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AP Photo. Last year, Fromme published her memoir Reflection, which she started writing in In it, she details how she was recruited by Manson at the age of 18 while living homeless in Venice Beach. She had been performer all of her life.
She carved an X into her forehead during Manson's trial to copy his act of protest. But for reasons not disclosed in her memoir, she was kicked out of her home by her father.
It has been suggested in other biographies that she'd been sexually abused by him - but she has always denied that claim. Fromme was exactly the type of girl Manson could recruit and brainwash - young, impressionable and vulnerable.
It took just one five-minute conversation to convince Fromme to follow Manson and join his 'family'. The memoir largely fawns over Manson and makes no mention of the more sinister aspects of the cult. In August , Manson orchestrated killing spree that saw members of Manson's hippie cult invade homes in Los Angeles' upmarket Benedict Canyon and Los Feliz neighborhoods, brutally killing all inside.
Among the nine victims was actress Sharon Tate, just 26 years old and eight months pregnant. At trial it emerged she had begged for the life of her unborn baby only to be stabbed and hung from a rafter.
Other victims who died in Tate's Benedict Canyon home on the night of August 9, , included hairdresser Jay Sebring, screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and coffee heiress Abigail Folger. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Charles Manson's right-hand woman, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, is now living in a quiet New York town with her ex-con boyfriend where neighbors describe her as 'very friendly' Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, now 71, was second in command of murderous cult She moved to town of Marcy five years ago with boyfriend Robert Valdner, 68 Three neighbors said she's 'very friendly' and 'doesn't get involved in drama' Fromme was released in aftr served 34 years for aiming gun at president By Connor Boyd For Dailymail.
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