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Susan Atkins

スーザン・アトキンス　/　すーざん・あときんす

American criminal

May 7, 1948 – September 24, 2009　・　San Gabriel, California, United States

California
criminal
serial killer

My Take

Susan Atkins is a subject I approach with unease rather than fascination. An ordinary girl from San Gabriel, California, she was drawn into Charles Manson's Family and took part in the horrifying 1969 murders, and nothing softens the cruelty of what she did. What I keep returning to is the mechanism of it: how a vulnerable young person, given the right manipulator at the wrong moment, can be reshaped into something monstrous. I feel no urge to romanticize her, and my sympathy stays with the victims. She died in prison in 2009, and I think her life is worth recording only as a sober warning about the reach of cults.

Overview

Susan Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948 – September 24, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family". Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Susan Atkins
Name (Japanese): スーザン・アトキンス
Reading: すーざん・あときんす
Born: May 7, 1948 – September 24, 2009
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Rat
Origin: San Gabriel, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: criminal / serial killer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Leigh High School
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Official sitehttps://www.susanatkins.org/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Atkins

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