1 case tagged “Tate murders”
Convicted: Susan Denise Atkins
Susan Denise Atkins was a member of the 'Manson Family', the cult led by Charles Manson that committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Known within the Manson family as Sadie, Sadie Glutz, Sadie Mae Glutz or Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, most notably the Tate murders. She was originally sentenced to death, but her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences issued prior to 1972. She was incarcerated until her death in 2009, at the time being California's longest-serving female inmate.
