Susan Atkins:

Bad Girl

Found Love and Bliss

She Never Deserved--EVER

By Lynn A. Granata

Whenever I happen to come across a story such as this one that I am about to tell you, I get a sinking feeling like no other.

Susan Atkins, as many of us in the 50 year old + age category, give or take a few years on/off, knows that she was the witch who massacred Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, and other innocent people in a Hollywood Hills mansion owned by a famous and talented film director at the time, Roman Polanski. Polanski was also married to the beautiful 1960's actress Sharon Tate. 

It's not fair to mention Susan Atkin's association in this grisly crime without also including the infamous Charles Manson as well.

Mansion was the ringleader in this bevy of heinousness.  He ordered several of his followers, the aimless hippy runaway girls especially Susan Atkins as his right hand assistant in carrying out his dirty work. Manson was a born loser. He was the son of a low-life prostitute and had many run-ins with the law as a youth and had spent most of his youth in juvenile detention centers. He was a tinker by trade, meaning that he'd try his hand at anything where he could get something for nothing, where he could take advantage of others-then which led to him getting his cowardly ass-kicked time and time again. He would weasel his way into, for instance, a famous rock star's house (Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys) and pretend that he was looking for a recording contract, then commit armed robbery.

Enter James Whitehouse

Susan Atkins was incarcerated at the Woman's facility of San Quentin State Prison in San Francisco, CA. She had plea-bargained back in 1971 during the Manson trials and received life in prison w/o the possibility of parole in exchange for the death penalty. The murders took place in August of 1969. 

By the 1990's, Susan Atkins was up for release from prison on account of good behavior. James Whitehouse, a Harvard Law School graduate and now criminal defense attorney, became Atkin's lawyer and but then something else very strange and creepy as well, her lover, then husband!

She killed people and yet found love? Doesn't make any sense does it? I had figured her to die in a solitary confinement cell, without never knowing what love truly is. Where's the justice?