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Patricia Krenwinkel, who joined Charles Manson’s clan in a string of grisly killings more than 40 years ago, was denied parole Thursday.
Krenwinkel (63) was convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder for her role in the Tate-LaBianca murders that terrorized Los Angeles in 1969.
Among the victims was actress Sharon Tate, who was married to director Roman Polanski. Tate was stabbed 16 times and hanged. She was seven months pregnant.
The parole hearing was held at the women’s state prison in Corona (where Krenwinkel is serving a life sentence). It was Krenwinkel’s 13th appearance before the Board of Parole Hearings.
She will be up for her next parole review in seven years (according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation).

Patricia Krenwinkel.

The two-member parole panel made clear yesterday it was the horror of the Manson killings, among the most notorious of the 20th century, that led them to reject the bid for parole in spite of Patricia Krenwinkel’s efforts to change her life.
Krenwinkel was convicted (along with Manson and two other female followers) of murdering seven people in 1969, including actress Sharon Tate, the wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski who was 8,5 months pregnant.
The decision was handed down after a four-hour hearing and more than an hour of deliberations at which Krenwinkel wept, apologised for her murderous deeds and said she was ashamed of her actions.
Members of victims’ families cried and recalled their suffering after the murders and called for her to be kept behind bars.
Krenwinkel (63) who has been in jail longer than any other woman in California, told the parole board she threw away everything good in herself and became a ‘monster’ after she met Manson.

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In denying her parole application, the board said Krenwinkel still did not understand the horror of the murders, which are considered by many to be among the most atrocious crimes of the 20th Century.
“These crimes remain relevant” – said parole commissioner Susan Melanson. “The public is in fear.”
Krenwinkel, now 63, has been in prison longer that any other woman in California – 40 years at the California Institution for Women. She has been a model prisoner, earning a college degree, teaching illiterate prisoners to read and working in a program to train service dogs for the disabled.
In speaking to the parole board during the emotional four-hour hearing attended by family members of the victims, Krenwinkel wept profusely, one observer said.
“I’m just haunted each and every day by the unending suffering of the victims, the enormity and degree of suffering I’ve caused” – she told the board. “I’m so ashamed of my actions. The victims had so much life left to live.”
None of the Manson Family members who participated in the Tate-LaBianca murders have ever been paroled. The group’s leader, Charles Manson, now 75, has stopped showing up for his parole hearings, knowing that he will never be released.
On the night of August 8, 1969, Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian were sent by Charles Manson to the former home of Terry Melcher with instructions to kill everyone at the house. They killed Steven Earl Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Sharon Tate and Sharon Tate’s unborn child.
The next day, Manson, Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Steve Grogan, Leslie Van Houten, and Linda Kasabian went to the home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Manson and Watson tied up the couple and Manson left. He told Van Houten and Krenwinkel to kill the LaBiancas. With Watson’s help, they separated the couple and murdered them.