Patricia Krenwinkel
Patricia Diane Krenwinkel aka "Katie" (born December 3, 1947 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American murderer . She was a member of the Manson Family led by Charles Manson and was involved in the Tate murders and the murder of the entrepreneurial couple Leno and Rosemary LaBianca .
Life
Patricia Krenwinkel is the daughter of an insurance agent; she has an older half-sister, Charlene, from her mother's first marriage. As a teenager, she was overweight and bored in a Los Angeles suburb . She fought her obesity with amphetamines , which she obtained from her drug-addicted half-sister. When she was 17 years old, her parents divorced.
"Pat" graduated from Westchester High School in Los Angeles. She then moved to Alabama to study at a Catholic college. After a year she had to leave school and moved back to California.
After a few unsuccessful odd jobs, she shared an apartment with her now heroin - addicted half - sister, where she met the musician Charles Manson , whose ideologies immediately attracted the intimidated and insecure woman. In the fall of 1967, Krenwinkel traveled through California in a disused black-painted school bus with Manson and other women he had meanwhile gathered around him. Charles Manson nicknamed her "Katie".
On the night of August 8-9, 1969, Krenwinkel, Susan “Sadie” Atkins and Charles “Tex” Watson cruelly killed five people on the estate of Sharon Tate and Roman Polański . All of the guests, including the heavily pregnant Tate, were shot, stabbed or tortured to death. The following night, supermarket chain owner Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary were similarly murdered in their apartment on Waverly Drive . In addition to Krenwinkel, Watson and Leslie Van Houten were involved in the murders. Krenwinkel stabbed Rosemary LaBianca countless times. Leno LaBianca rammed a fork into her abdomen and carved the word WAR ("war") into the dying man's stomach.
After the nights of the murder, Krenwinkel fled to her aunt in Alabama at the behest of Manson . In December 1969, she was arrested for the murders of Tate and the LaBianca couple. In particular, the testimony of the "Family" member Linda Kasabian , who was involved in the murders as a driver, weighed heavily on Krenwinkel. In 1971 she was sentenced to death ; the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment due to the temporary abolition of the death penalty in California .
In the following years Patricia Krenwinkel distanced herself from Manson and later showed remorse. In an interview she once said: "I wake up every day knowing that I have destroyed the most valuable thing: life."
Krenwinkel is still imprisoned in the women's penal institution in Corona . She has been the longest serving prison inmate in the United States since the death of Susan Atkins on September 24, 2009. Her thirteenth application for early parole was denied on January 20, 2011. The next hearing took place on December 30, 2016. In June 2017, this request was also rejected. A new hearing is possible in 2022.
In art
The story of the Manson family has been the subject of a number of films. Krenwinkel was portrayed by various actresses:
- Helter Skelter - Night of the Long Knives (1976) (TV) portrayed by Christina Hart
- The Book of Manson (1989) portrayed by Jennifer Schwartz
- The Manson Family (2003) portrayed by Leslie Orr
- Helter Skelter (2004) portrayed by Allison Smith
- Will you kill for me? Charles Manson and His Followers (2008) portrayed by Gina Limbrick
- Manson (2009) portrayed by Cat McCormick
- Aquarius (2016) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) portrayed by Madisen Beaty
- Charlie Says (2018) portrayed by Sosie Bacon
literature
- Ed Sanders: The Family: The Story of Charles Manson . German translation by Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-19644-1 .
- Carol Greene: The Charles Manson Case. Murderer from the retort . EIR 2001, ISBN 3-925725-13-X .
- Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders . WW Norton & Company, 2001, ISBN 0-393-32223-8 . (English)
- German edition: Helter Skelter. The murder frenzy of Charles Manson , Riva Verlag, Munich 2010 ISBN 978-3-86883-057-6
Web links
- Patricia Krenwinkel on cielodrive.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ from January 22, 2011: Manson supporter remains in prison
- ↑ CBS News: Parole decision delayed. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel's bid for freedom denied, despite claims he abused her on latimes.com (English)
- ↑ Helter Skelter on imdb.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krenwinkel, Patricia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krenwinkel, Patricia Diane (full name); Krenwinkel, Katie (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American murderess and member of the Charles Manson Family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California , United States |