Why Manson Cult Follower Patricia Krenwinkel Was Denied Parole Again After 50 Years in Prison
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Aformer member of the Manson Family will remain behind bars after California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied her parole.
Newsom announced his decision Oct. 13, rejecting the parole board’s recommendation to release Patricia Krenwinkel, 77, citing her “unreasonable danger to society.”
In the decision, according to CBS News, Newsom wrote, “I have concluded that the evidence in Ms. Krenwinkel’s case demonstrates that she lacks the requisite insight she needs to be safely released.”
Although he acknowledged that she had “engaged in productive introspection,” including advancing her education, vocational training and participating in service dog work, Newsom said that she still wasn’t ready for release.
Pointing to a finding from a psychologist who evaluated Krenwinkel, he said, she had “some deficits in self-awareness” and had a “tendency to externalize blame for her prior transgressions,” according to the decision also obtained by Fox News.
Who is Patricia Krenwinkel?
Krenwinkel was one of cult leader Charles Manson’s most devoted followers and participated in a bloody two-day killing spree in 1969 that left seven dead including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, her friends and unsuspecting couple Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
Convicted in 1971 of seven counts of first-degree murder, Krenwinkel was originally sentenced to death, however, her sentence was later commuted to life in prison after the state briefly ruled the death penalty to be unconstitutional.
A parole board has twice recommended her release, most recently in May, but Newsom has intervened both times to deny her parole.
In his 2002 decision, Newsom praised her for demonstrating “positive institutional conduct” and “effusive remorse for her leadership role in the Family,” but he concluded that she should not be released.
“While Ms. Krenwinkel has matured in prison and engaged in commendable rehabilitative efforts,” he wrote at the time, “her efforts have not sufficiently reduced her risk for future dangerousness.”
Krenwinkel was present the night Manson’s followers, including Charles “Tex” Watson and Susan Atkins, broke into the home of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and brutally killed her and others at her Cielo Drive property in Los Angeles’ Benedict Canyon.
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