Susan Atkins died in 2009, a year after being diagnosed with brain cancer. As the disease progressed her left leg was amputated, and she was eventually left almost completely paralyzed. Several months after being denied compassionate release, she died at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California. Atkins was 61 years old. Her survivors included her second husband, James W. Whitehouse, a lawyer.
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