A probation Board of the State of California recommended probation for Patricia Krenwinkel, follower of the cult leader Charles Manson, on Friday for the second time.
The decision will now have to be approved by the Board of Probation Hearings and the governor of California Gavin Newsom, who denied Krenwinkel’s first probation recommendation. The governor’s review process can take up to 150 days after a hearing on probation.
The 77 -year -old woman is fulfilling life imprisonment in the California Women’s Institution for her role in the murders of the pregnant actor Sharon Tate and another four in August 1969, as well as the shopkeeper Leno Labianca and his wife, Rosemary, the next night in what the prosecutors have called Manson’s attempt to start a racial war. It was convicted of seven first degree murder positions in April 1971.
Krenwinkel was recommended for probation for the first time in May 2022, but Newsom denied clemency five months later, according to the records of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Previously, probation was denied 14 times before.
The probation hearing of the probation on Friday was the 16th of Krenwinkel, David Maldonado, deputy director of Strategic Communications and External Affairs for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, he confirmed.
Krenwinkel was 19 years old and worked as a secretary when he met a 33 -year -old manson at a party, leaving his life behind to follow him because he thought they could have a romantic relationship, he said in the 2016 testimony. Instead, Manson abused her and tried to flee, but was brought back every time he was often under the influence of drugs.
Krenwinkel admitted to an heiress of a coffee fortune, Abigail Folger, several times on the night of August 9, 1969, as well as participating in the murders of the labiancas the next night. During the murders of Labianca, she infamously wrote “Helter Skelter” and other phrases in the wall in the blood of her victims.
She, along with other participants, including Manson, were convicted and convicted of death. However, their prayers were switched to life imprisonment with the possibility of probation in 1972, after the death penalty declared himself briefly unconstitutional in California.
Krenwinkel is now the oldest inmate in the state. The Office of the Governor of California did not immediately respond to the requests for comments from NBC News.
