Susan Atkins, a member of Charles Manson’s Family cult, was involved in eight murders. In July 1969 she participated in the torture and murder of musician Gary Hinman. Then on the night of August 8–9, Atkins and other members of the Family killed actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and four other people in Tate’s Los Angeles home: Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger. The following night Atkins waited in the car while three Family members murdered Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Atkins was later convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders, and she pleaded guilty to killing Hinman. All of the murders had been committed on the orders of Manson.
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