California’s governor has blocked the parole of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel, more than five decades after she scrawled “Helter Skelter” on a wall using the blood of one of their victims.
FILE - 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. 20, 2011. California Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked Krenwinkel's parole, Friday Oct. 14, 2022, saying that she is still too much of a public safety risk. A two-member parole panel for the first time time, in May 2022, had recommended Krenwinkel's release.
She was convicted in the slayings of pregnant actor Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969. 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. Wattley did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment on Newsom's decision.
She and other participants were initially sentenced to death. But they were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole after the death penalty in California was briefly ruled unconstitutional in 1972. Manson “had answers that I wanted to hear ... that I might be loved, that I might have the kind of affection that I was looking forward to in my life,” she said.
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