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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/25/california.manson.atkins/
While she was on death row she gave birth to a son from one of the other followers (possibly Manson). The boy was taken from her as no one in her family wanted to care for it. The boy's name was Paul. The same name that Sharon Tate had for her unborn son that is inscribed on the tombstone.
(CNN) -- Susan Denise Atkins, a former member of the Manson family who killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a two-day killing spree in 1969, has died, according to a California corrections spokesman. She was 61.
Susan Atkins, here with husband James Whitehouse, died Thursday night after a battle with brain cancer.
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Atkins died at 11:46 p.m. PT Thursday (2:46 a.m. Friday ET) at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, said Terry Thornton with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Atkins, California's longest-serving female inmate, was suffering from terminal brain cancer. Since she entered prison in 1971, she became a born-again Christian who worked to help at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children, among others, according to a Web site maintained by her attorney and husband, James Whitehouse.
But Atkins was best known for her actions in 1969 when as a 21-year-old and other Manson family members participated in seven murders over two days, a rampage that terrorized Los Angeles.
By her own admission, Atkins held the eight-months-pregnant Tate down as she pleaded for mercy, stabbing the 26-year-old actress 16 times. In a 1993 parole board hearing, Atkins said Tate "asked me to let her baby live. ... I told her I didn't have any mercy on her."
After stabbing Tate to death, Atkins -- known in the family as Sadie Mae Glutz -- scrawled the word "pig" in blood on the door of the home Tate shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski, according to historical accounts of the murders.
While she was on death row she gave birth to a son from one of the other followers (possibly Manson). The boy was taken from her as no one in her family wanted to care for it. The boy's name was Paul. The same name that Sharon Tate had for her unborn son that is inscribed on the tombstone.