California Governor Gavin Newsom blocks parole for Charles Manson family follower Patricia Krenwinkel!

Sacramento, California – California governor blocks parole for Charles Manson followers Patricia Krenwinkel On Friday, more than five decades after she scribbled “Helter Skelter” on a wall using the blood of one of their victims.

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Governor Gavin Newsom said Krenwinkel, now 74, remains too risky to release to public safety.

“Ms. Krenwinkel fully accepted Mr. Manson’s racist and prophetic ideologies,” Newsom said. “Mrs. Krenwinkel was not only a victim of Mr. Manson’s abuse. She was also an important contributor to the violence and tragedy that has become a legacy of the Manson family.”

The two-member parole panel first recommended in May that Krenwinkel be released, having previously been denied parole 14 times. Newsom has previously rejected the parole recommendations of other Manson followers, who died in prison in 2017.

Krenwinkel became the state’s longest-serving inmate when Manson’s follower Susan Atkins died of cancer in prison in 2009. Her attorney, Keith Whatley, said he understands that Krenwinkel is the longest-serving woman in the United States.

She and followers of another cult leader terrorized the state in the late 1960s, committing crimes that Newsom said were “among the most frightening in California history.”

Convicted of murdering pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969. She helped murder grocer Lino LaBianca and his wife Rosemary the next night in what prosecutors said was an attempt by Manson to start a race war.

Newsom agreed that she had been well-behaved in prison, had completed several rehab and education programs and had “shown great remorse”. But it concluded that “its efforts did not adequately reduce the risk of future exposure.”

Newsom said she still lacked sufficient insight into what drove her to commit crimes or her “motivations for antisocial thinking and behaviour” during bad relationships.

“Besides her brutal murders, she played a leadership role in the cult, an enforcer of Mr. Manson’s tyranny. She forced the other women in the cult to obey Mr. Manson, and prevented them from escaping when they tried to leave,” he said.

Whatley did not immediately respond to phone messages and emails seeking comment on Newsom’s decision.

But Anthony DeMaria, nephew of Jay Sebring, one of Krenwinkel’s victims, urged Newsom to prevent her release “because of the rare, grave and terrible nature of her crimes.” He said her actions instigated “Helter Skelter’s entire legacy which has caused lasting historical scars” and inspired at least two killing rituals years later.

New laws since Krenwinkel was last denied parole in 2017 have required the parole committee to consider that she committed the murders at a young age and is now elderly.

Also, for the first time, Los Angeles County prosecutors did not attend the parole hearing to object, under Attorney General George Gascon’s policy that prosecutors should not participate in deciding whether prisoners were ready for release.

At first she and the other participants were sentenced to death. But they resented life with the possibility of parole after the death penalty was briefly ruled unconstitutional in California in 1972.

Krenwinkel was 19 and living with her older sister when she met Manson, then 33, at a party during a time when she said she was feeling lost and lonely.

“He looked a little bit bigger than life,” she testified in May, and began to feel “somehow his style in the world was right, it was right.”

She said that she left with him for what she thought would be a relationship with the “new man in my life” who unlike others told her he loved her and that she was beautiful.

She said Manson “has answers I wanted to hear…that I might be loved, and might have the kind of affection I’ve been looking forward to in my life.”

Instead, she said, Manson abused her and others physically and emotionally while demanding that they trust him without question, testimony that led the parole board to conclude that Krenwinkel was a victim of intimate partner battery at the time.

It took about two years of travel and drug use for him to appear as the “Christ-like person who led the cult” who started talking about igniting a race war and asking his followers “Would you kill for me? And I said yes.”

Krenwinkel spoke during her 2016 conditional hearing of how she repeatedly stabbed Abigail Folger, 26, a coffee heiress, at Tate’s home on August 9, 1969.

The next night, she said, Manson and his right-hand man, Charles “Tex” Watson, told her to “do something magical,” so she stabbed La Bianca in the stomach with a fork, then took out a rag and wrote “Helter Skelter,” “Get up,” and “Death to pigs” on the His blood on the walls.

Luis Smaldino, the couple’s nephew, told parole officials that the bone-handed fork “was part of a set that we used at the holidays … to carve turkeys.”

Sharon Tate’s sister, Debra Tate, the last surviving member of her immediate family, was among the victims who rejected Krenwinkel’s explanation that she had been passed on to Manson by alcohol abuse and an unsupportive family while growing up.

“We’ve all come from troubled homes and haven’t decided to go out and seven strangers have been brutally murdered,” Tate told parole officials.

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