Susan Atkins

Susan Denise Atkins aka Sadie Mae Glutz (born May 7, 1948) is an American murderer and former member of the Charles Manson "Family". She swore before a Grand Jury to have stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death, and to have been present at, or an accomplice to, several other murders.

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May 7 - 1948 - American - Murder - Charles Manson - Grand Jury - Actress - Sharon Tate

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Born in San Gabriel, California, Atkins had a difficult childhood and grew up in an abusive household. Both of her parents were alcoholics, and her mother died of cancer when Atkins was 15 years old. Afterwards, her father sent her and her younger brother to go live with relatives and her older brother left home to join the Navy. Atkins dropped out of high school at 18, and went to San Francisco, where she supported herself as a topless dancer and by selling narcotics. She also briefly worked for Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey as a stage actress in a production which featured her as a vampire. While living in a house with some friends, Atkins met Charles Manson seated in the living room and playing his guitar. Captivated by his music, she began to travel with him and some of his female followers in a school bus they painted all black. She was given the nickname "Sadie Mae Glutz" by Manson and a man who was creating a fake ID for her at the time. Atkins later claimed to have believed Manson to be Jesus. The growing Family settled at the Spahn Movie Ranch in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, where in 1968, she bore a son whom Manson named Zezozece Zadfrack Glutz. He was not the father.

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San Gabriel - California - Alcoholics - Cancer - San Francisco - Narcotics - Jesus - Spahn Movie Ranch - 1968

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