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Charles Manson Follower Denied Parole For 11th Time
SFGate.Com CHINO, Calif (AP) -- Parole was denied again Wednesday for Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel who will not be considered for release for another three years, state prison officials said. Citing the callousness, viciousness and precalculation of the seven murders Krenwinkel was responsible for in 1969, the Board of Prison Terms panel gave her a 36-month denial, at which point she will be eligible for a rehearing. This is the eleventh time she has been denied parole. The panel found Krenwinkel still posed an unacceptable risk to public safety. She is serving a life term. A psychologist who evaluated Krenwinkel in March said she did not feel any remorse or take responsibility for the murders, said Tip Kindle, a spokesman for the Women's Prison in Frontera where Krenwinkel has been imprisoned. When a prison board commissioner asked Krenwinkel at her parole hearing who she would put at the top of a list of people she felt she has wronged in her life, she responded "myself." "(The commissioner) felt this to be another indicator that she hadn't accepted her crime," Kindle said. Krenwinkel was convicted along with Manson, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten in the notorious Tate-La Bianca murders. Actress Sharon Tate and four friends were killed at her Benedict Canyon estate on Aug. 9, 1969, and the following night, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were stabbed to death at their Los Feliz home. Both crime scenes were marked by bloody scrawlings. Krenwinkel and her co-defendants were sentenced to death, but the sentences were commuted to life when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty in 1972. It has since been reinstated. |
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