Word: krenwinkel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stake now is the question of life sentences v. the death penalty. The defense tried to sow some doubts in the minds of an essentially middle-class jury that could only find the Manson tribe and its life-style as incomprehensible as''its crimes. Women like Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten and Susan Atkins, the defense meant to show, could have been the jurors' own daughters...
...Joseph Krenwinkel, 59, a stocky life insurance agent from Inglewood, described his daughter as a gentle child who loved animals, was once a Camp Fire Girl, sang in church choirs and attended summer Bible school. Then one day in 1967, said Krenwinkel, Pat abandoned her car in a parking lot, left two paychecks uncollected at the insurance office where she worked and, at age 19, disappeared with a man named Charlie Manson. A week later, from Seattle, she sent her father a letter: "For the very first time in my life, I have found inner contentment and inner peace...
...last? "Oh, it seemed like forever, infinite. I don't know." At another point: "I saw Tex [Charles Watson, still fighting extradition from Texas] on top of him, hitting him on the head and stabbing him, and the man was struggling, and then I saw Katie [Defendant Patricia Krenwinkel] in the background with the girl, chasing after her with an upraised knife . . ." Watson, she said, told his victims: "I'm the devil here to do the devil's work...
...courtroom, a young woman spectator in the back row cried softly. There was, audibly, the release of withheld breathing after the most vivid passages. The jurors leaned back, remembering suddenly to use their notebooks. Manson's co-defendants-Miss Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Houten-sat still and attentive, their foreheads now scratched with the outcast's X that he had cut into himself earlier in the trial...
...been quiet in court. He sat listening carefully to the 40-minute outline of the prosecution's case, sometimes smiling his secret smile. Near him, chattering animatedly at times, were his codefendants, three essentially ordinary-appearing young women accused of extraordinary personal violence: Susan Atkins, 22, and Patricia Krenwinkel, 22; and Leslie Van Houten, 20, who is on trial only for the LaBianca murders...