Susan Atkins has brain cancer and will ask the court for mercy in September. Aug. 7, 2009— -- These days, it is difficult to recognize the face of Susan Atkins, a notorious murderer from the ...

Susan Atkins, who committed one of modern history's most notorious crimes when she joined Charles Manson and his gang for a 1969 killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles and put her in prison for ...

Susan Atkins stabbed Tate, who was pregnant at the time, on the night of August 9, 1969. The followers then murdered four other people present in the same rented home at 10050 Cielo Drive.

W hen she died of brain cancer on Sept. 24 at 61, Susan Atkins was in a women’s prison in California, serving a life sentence for eight of the most horrific murders in the annals of American crime.

He was 83. — Susan Atkins, convicted of the Tate, LaBianca and Hinman murders, was a teenage runaway working as a topless dancer in a San Francisco bar when she met Manson in 1967.

Susan Atkins de Fremery Susan Atkins de Fremery, a descendant of California pioneers and a noted Bay Area family, has passed away at the age of 86. The daughter of David and Mary Atkins of San Fran… ...