Susan Atkins, 61, dies of brain cancer after being denied parole. Sept. 25, 2009— -- Susan Atkins, the convicted murderer and onetime Charles Manson disciple, died late Thursday after being ...
Susan Denise Atkins was born May 7, 1948, in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel. Her mother was stricken with cancer and died when she was 15. Her father, reportedly an alcoholic, sent her and her ...
The Charles Manson follower who admitted stabbing Sharon Tate 16 times in the 1969 "Helter Skelter" murder spree that horrified the nation died of brain cancer in a California prison. Susan Atkins, 61 ...
LOS ANGELES Atkins, who suffers from brain cancer, slept through most of the four-hour hearing during which her husband-lawyer pleaded for her release and families of victims of the /*Sharon ...