He even arranged the partners.”Īccording to Lake, Manson planned the “love-ins” to minimize infighting between the predominantly female members of his cult.
We took turns taking each other’s clothes off, in a circle… He orchestrated all of it. The group would also regularly use drugs and participate in orgies, which Lake says were “very methodically done. But that was secondary… We were there to serve Charlie, and we formed a sisterhood.”Īt Manson’s commune on Spahn Ranch-an old movie-set ranch near Los Angeles that had fallen into disrepair-Lake recalls that 10 to 15 Manson family members settled into the routines of commune living: rummaging through dumpsters for food caring for horses, and occasionally renting them out for rides and late afternoons with Manson, singing songs. “We might have had a desire to have Charlie to ourselves-I know I did. “He had a growing group of women,” says Lake. But they were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole after the death penalty in California was briefly ruled unconstitutional in 1972.With her parents wrapped up in their own countercultural experience-one which led them to encourage their daughter to drop out of school-Lake was introduced to Manson, and quickly became the 33-year-old’s lover and acolyte, a two-year journey she describes in detail in her memoir Member of the Family. She and other participants were initially sentenced to death. The next night, she said Manson and his right-hand man, Charles "Tex" Watson, told her to "do something witchy," so she stabbed La Bianca in the stomach with a fork, then took a rag and wrote "Helter Skelter," ″Rise" and "Death to Pigs" on the walls with his blood. She said she fled twice only to be brought back and that she was rarely left alone and usually was under the influence of drugs.Īt her last parole hearing, Krenwinkel told how she repeatedly stabbed Abigail Folger, 26, heiress to a coffee fortune, at Tate's home on Aug. She testified in 2016 that she soon left everything behind to follow him because she thought they might have a romantic relationship.īut she said Manson abused her physically and emotionally and trafficked her to other men for sex.
Krenwinkel was a 19-year-old secretary living with her older sister when she met Manson, then age 33, at a party. Krenwinkel remains incarcerated at the California Institution for Women east of Los Angeles.Ĭommissioners five years ago rejected her parole despite arguments then that she was affected by battered women's syndrome when she helped in the bloody slayings. "The governor would be blocking her parole not because he's afraid of her, but because he doesn't like her. "I'm hopeful that the governor recognizes that he shouldn't be playing political games with people's lives," Wattley said. In this August 1970 file photo, Charles Manson followers, from left, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten, walk to court to appear for their roles in the 1969 cult killings of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, in Los Angeles, California. "She's completely transformed from the person she was when she committed this crime, which is all that it's supposed to take to be granted parole," he said. What was different this time was that the parole panel was willing to follow the law, he said, recognizing that she has had no disciplinary violations and is no longer a danger to society. However, Krenwinkel's attorney, Keith Wattley, said relatives of her victims offered the same objections at the hearing as prosecutors have in the past. He has previously rejected parole recommendations for other followers of Manson, who died in prison in 2017. Gavin Newsom for a decision within five months. The parole recommendation will be reviewed by the state parole board's legal division before likely going to Gov. Former Manson family member and convicted murderer Patricia Krenwinkel listens to the ruling denying her parole, at a hearing at the California Institution for Women in Corona, Calif., Thursday, Jan. She helped kill grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary the next night in what prosecutors say was an attempt by Manson to start a race war. Krenwinkel, 74, was previously denied parole 14 times for the slayings of pregnant actor Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969. A California parole panel recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel for the first time Thursday, more than five decades after she and other followers of cult leader Charles Manson terrorized the state and she wrote "Helter Skelter" on a wall using the blood of one of their victims.
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