One night in August 1969, Manson dispatched Atkins and others to a wealthy residential section of Los Angeles, telling them, as they recalled, to \u201cdo something witchy.\u201d<\/p>\n
They went to the home of Tate and her husband. He was not home, but Tate, who was 8{ months pregnant, and four others were killed. \u201cPigs\u201d was scrawled on a door in blood.<\/p>\n
The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife were found stabbed to death in their home across town. \u201cHelter Skelter\u201d was written in blood on the refrigerator.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was stoned, man, stoned on acid,\u201d Atkins testified during the trial\u2019s penalty phase.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how many times I stabbed (Tate) and I don\u2019t know why I stabbed her,\u201d she said. \u201cShe kept begging and pleading and begging and pleading and I got sick of listening to it, so I stabbed her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nShe said she felt \u201cno guilt for what I\u2019ve done. It was right then and I still believe it was right.\u201d Asked how it could be right to kill, she replied in a dreamy voice, \u201cHow can it not be right when it\u2019s done with love?\u201d\n
The matronly, gray-haired Atkins who appeared before a parole board in 2000 cut a far different figure than that of the cocky young defendant some 30 years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have to just make amends to the victims and families,\u201d she said softly. \u201cI have to make amends to society. I sinned against God and everything this country stands for.\u201d She said she had found redemption in Christianity.<\/p>\n
The last words she spoke in public at the September hearing were to say in unison with her husband: \u201cMy God is an amazing God.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed. Does this bother you in any way? Do you see that Jesus bore in His body, along with everything else the world has done, the sins of the Manson cult? Do you see this woman as your dear sister in Christ?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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