Susan Atkins - One year anniversary of her death

humanizing Sadie...hmmm....well, I can say this about her, if she was legit in her attempts to turn her life around, she did more good inside the joint than she ever did outside....by a huge margin

no, it was nice...i tried to be nice too....put the mid 80's chick mullet hair was awful

the pic of her with the worlds gym photo...the chick mullet

Nice to know that, even while in prison, she kept up wtih the hair trend of the day back then.

sad isnt it. they go to jail, get all the comforts they want (many handed to them) and we pay for most of it.

From shaved head to a mullet....she ran the gamut didn't she?

Very nice comment. My impression was always that she was more sincere in her remorse than the others (notwithstanding all the self-serving statements in "The Myth of Helter Skelter" story on her website, which I attribute to her husband).

the age old arguement of nature vs nurture. With regards to murderers, i tend to think you can have both. i think some are nurtured to kill, while a smaller percentage are born to it.

with Sadie, i tend to give her the benefit of the doubt and call it nurture, as i do for the other girls and even bobby. i think tex was nature, and i am on the fence with clem

After reading "The Myth " I think the motive Sadie comes up with is more plausible than H.S. The whole snowball effect that started with C. shooting

Crowe makes more sense to me.....not withstanding all the self-serving crap she added

It does seem to make more sense, although I suspect the motive may have varied among the different Family members.

What I find particularly incredulous are the statements that her post-murder behavior was motivated by concern over the welfare of her child. She seemed to enjoy all of her antics way too much, and I doubt she was that good an actress.

I think I do understand what Cats is saying, though. Susan was always the most interesting Family member to me and the one I would have most liked to get to know, to try to figure out what made her tick.

susan had the ability to change much like manson. She could come across little girl, the devil, the nutbar, the villian, the victim all in the span of a short period of time.

No other member of the killing crew, except old creepy himself, ever got as much attention as she did, during parole boards and other publicly noted events

CLINICAL.

A CASE OF INSANITY APPARENTLY DUE TO
PELVIC ABSCESS, AND CURED BY SURGI-
CAL TREATMENT.

In this case, recorded by C.M. Hay, M.D. ("Med.
Record." Nov.18, 1890), an elaborately systematized single
delusion, which, prior to operation was firmly fixed, after
it, slowly faded and finally disappeared. The delusional
belief arose gradually during the invasion of her pelvic
trouble, and was attended by other evidences of insanity.
The abscess itself could only be attributed to an indefinite
traumatism received a short time prior to her illness. Coin-
cidentally with its development, mental symptoms appeared
which at first were mental confusion, with stupor and apathy,
and a condition of semidementia, with a few maniacal out-
breaks. In two weeks these symptoms passed away, leav-
ing her dull and depressed, and with a few simple delusions.
One of these delusions developed and became thoroughly
systemized and fixed, while the others faded away, so that
at the time of operation she was practically sane, with the
exception of this single delusion (viz., that her physician
was Jesus Christ). From the character of this delusion and
the positive manner in which she reasoned to prove its real-
ity, chronic mental degeneration was feared, but after two
months, general improvement came on and terminated in
complete mental and physical recovery. A.F.

not even going near this one

I actually feel some sort of respect for Susan now that she has passed. I had none for her when she was alive.
The only difference is because she is the only one that has truly paid for the murders as she spent the rest of her life in prison.