Susan Denise Atkins was born May 7, 1948, in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel. Her mother was stricken with cancer and died when she was 15. Her father, reportedly an alcoholic, sent her and her ...

Susan Atkins, 61, dies of brain cancer after being denied parole. Sept. 25, 2009— -- Susan Atkins, the convicted murderer and onetime Charles Manson disciple, died late Thursday after being ...

Atkins was the first of the convicted killers to die. Manson and three others involved in the murders — Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten and Charles “Tex” Watson — remain imprisoned under life ...

The Charles Manson follower who admitted stabbing Sharon Tate 16 times in the 1969 "Helter Skelter" murder spree that horrified the nation died of brain cancer in a California prison. Susan Atkins, 61 ...