Gov. Newsom blocked the parole of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel on Friday, five decades after she scrawled 'Helter Skelter' on a wall using the blood of one of their victims.
SACRAMENTO -- California governor Gavin Newsom blocked the parole of Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel on Friday, more than five decades after she scrawled"Helter Skelter" on a wall using the blood of one of their victims."Ms. Krenwinkel fully accepted Mr. Manson's racist, apocalyptical ideologies," Newsom said."Ms. Krenwinkel was not only a victim of Mr. Manson's abuse.
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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