Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Log In. To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. She continued to correspond with Manson while she was in prison, officials said.
Bruce Davis, 75, was convicted in for taking part in the killings of Gary Hinman, an aspiring musician, and Donald "Shorty" Shea, a stuntman and a ranch hand at the Chatsworth ranch where Manson and his followers lived. Both murders occurred before the Tate-LaBianca killings, in which Davis did not participate.
In January , Gov. Jerry Brown rejected his parole , the third time a governor has done so, saying that Davis remains a danger to public safety. Davis has been denied parole 30 times. A California parole panel again recommended his release on Feb. Davis is serving a life sentence after he was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and robbery.
He became a born-again Christian behind bars, earned a doctoral degree in philosophy of religion, and ministers to other inmates. She turned against the others and received immunity for testifying during the trial.
He later had his sentence commuted to life in prison, where he joined the Aryan Brotherhood gang and suffered a broken jaw and other injuries in various fights. He was then moved to California Medical Facility in Vacaville in Beausoleil, now 70, has been denied parole at least 18 times. He was most recently denied parole again on Oct. Susan Atkins dies at 61; imprisoned Charles Manson follower. There was much more to Vincent Bugliosi than the Charles Manson case. For the third time, Brown rejects parole of Manson follower Bruce Davis, Times book review.
Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack.
She helped her husband start a far-right militia group. California college students live in vans and hotels as campus housing plans spark backlash. UCLA Sports. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Leslie Van Houten grew up in a middle-class family in Altadena. Following the divorce of her parents when she was 14, Van Houten began using drugs. According to her testimony in her parole hearing , her mother forced her to have an abortion at 17, which deeply affected her relationship with her family.
Still, she was a popular prom queen in high school, and she briefly attended classes to become a secretary. However, Van Houten favored the hippie lifestyle over school and dropped out. On Aug. She has maintained that of the 47 stab wounds found on Rosemary's body, she only inflicted ones that occurred after Rosemary's death.
She was convicted of murder in and was sentenced to death but in her sentence was commuted to life in prison. Van Houten currently resides in the California Institution for Women in Corona, where she is considered a model prisoner.
She has earned a bachelor's and a master's degree while incarcerated and leads self-help groups for her fellow inmates. She has long since renounced Manson. Van Houten has been up for parole more than 20 times. She was most recently recommended for parole on Nov. Four previous recommendations were rejected by California governors. In April , the state parole board recommended Van Houten for parole.
Sharon Tate's sister, Debra Tate, as well as L. Then Gov. Jerry Brown blocked her release , saying , "Both [Van Houten's] role in these extraordinarily brutal crimes and her inability to explain her willing participation in such horrific violence cannot be overlooked and lead me to believe she remains an unreasonable risk to society if released.
By then, Van Houten had been recommended for release again, in January , only to stay behind bars when Gov. Gavin Newsom overruled a new parole recommendation in June A court declined to reverse Newsom's decision. On July 23, , the Associated Press reported a panel had once again recommended Van Houten for parole, the fourth time in four years. In November , Newsom denied the recommendation for parole. On November 9, , a California parole panel recommended for the fifth time that Van Houten be freed from prison.
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. He was involved with several bands and appeared in various films, including Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising and Mondo Hollywood. Beausoleil was convicted of Hinman's murder and sentenced to death in , a sentence that was commuted, just like the rest, in
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