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Article: Member of Manson Cult Admitted Killing Sharon Tate
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- September 26, 2009
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Susan Atkins, 61, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose
remorseless witness-stand confession to killing pregnant actress
Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, died Sept. 24 at the medical
unit at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. She
had brain cancer.
Tate, the 26-year-old actress who appeared in the movie "Valley
of the Dolls" and was the wife of director Roman Polanski, was one
of seven murdered in two Los Angeles homes during the Manson cult's
bloody rampage in August 1969.
Ms. Atkins was the first of the convicted killers to die. Manson
and three others involved in the murders -- Patricia Krenwinkel,
Leslie Van Houten and Charles "Tex" Watson -- remain ...