Susan Atkins, who admitted stabbing actress Sharon Tate 40 years ago, will be up for parole this week.
Atkins, a member of Charles Manson's "family," has failed in 12 previous attempts at parole.
... Atkins, 61, has terminal brain cancer. As of earlier this year, she was paralyzed over 85 percent of her body and could not sit up in bed or be moved into a wheelchair, according to a Web site maintained by her husband and attorney, James Whitehouse. However, despite her declining health and an impressive prison record, Whitehouse wrote, "there is still a very real chance the Parole Board will nonetheless insist her release would be a danger to society."
Atkins is California's longest-serving female inmate.
Tate was killed in August 1969 with four others, and the next night Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were slain by Manson's cohorts. The two nights of murder terrorized southern California in late 1969.
Photos: Susan Atkins, shown while she was being indicted for murder (above) and more recently. Bottom, Charles Manson in a recent prison photo.
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