Susan Atkins

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Susan Atkins
Atkins in 1971
Born	Susan Denise Atkins (1948-05-07)May 7, 1948 San Gabriel, California, U.S.
Died	September 24, 2009(2009-09-24) (aged 61) Chowchilla, California, U.S.
Other names	Sadie Mae Glutz
Spouses	Donald Lee Laisure ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1982)​ James Whitehouse ​ (m. 1987)​
Children	1
Conviction(s)	First degree murder Conspiracy to commit murder
Criminal penalty	Death; commuted to life imprisonment

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. Known within the Manson family as Sadie Mae Glutz or Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the Tate murders in 1969. She was sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment when the California Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences issued prior to 1972. Atkins was incarcerated until her death in 2009. At the time of her death, she was California's longest-serving female inmate,^[1] long since surpassed by fellow Manson family members Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel.