Patricia DIANE Krenwinkel alias "Katie" (* 3 December 1947) is an US-American and member of the notorious Manson Family, which would do among other things for the murders to the Filmschaupielerin Sharon and at the owner of supermarket Leno LaBianca, whose Mrs. Rosemary is responsible as well as - presumed - at some further murders in the High Society of Beverly Hills end of the 1960er.

Life

Patricia Krenwinkel is the daughter of an insurance agent; it has an older sister Charlene from the first marriage of their nut/mother. As a dte rodent it was over weighty and bored themselves in a suburb settlement of Los Angeles. Their over weightyness fought it with Amphetaminen, which procured itself her with her drug-dependent sister. Dissatisfied with their existence she began to roam itself at the age of 15 years in HIPPI municipalities. When it was 17 years old, its parents let themselves be separated.

"Pat" graduated to the Westchester High School in Los Angeles and pulled afterwards after Alabama over at a catholic college to study. Already after one year it flew from the school and pulled back to California.

After some unsuccessful opportunity jobs it divided an apartment with its meanwhile heroin-dependent sister Charlene and met there the young musician Charles Manson, whose strange ideologies the and uncertain woman attracted immediately like a moth the light. Still in the same night both Sex had with one another. In the autumn 1967 Krenwinkel with Manson and further Mrs., which he had geschart meanwhile around itself, in a retired black-painted school bus pulled by California. Charles Manson gave it the name "Katie".

The" Katie Krenwinkel newborn of Manson "should rank soon among the sparkling wine members "of the Family". At the night of 8. to 9 August slaughtered Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel, Susan "Sadie" Atkins and Charles "Tex" Watson in bestialische way a party company on the messuage of Sharon would dismiss and novel Polanski. All guests including the high pregnant women would do in the blood intoxication were shot, stabbed or to death tormented. At the following night the owner of supermarket chain LaBianca and its wife in its dwelling at the Waverly drive were in a similar way murdered. Krenwinkel stabbed Rosemary LaBianca innumerable marks and verunstaltete their corpse. Leno LaBianca stung it a fork into the abdomen and cut the word WAS (dt. war) into the belly of the dying man.

After the murder nights Katie/Patricia fled on go-eats from Manson to its aunt after Alabama. In December 1969 she was arrested because of the do LaBianca of murders. Above all the testimony "of the Family" - member Linda Kasabian, which was involved in the murders as Fahrerin, loaded Krenwinkel schwer.1971 was condemned it to death; the punishment was converted however due to a law change into a lifelong detention.

In the following years dissociated itself Patricia Krenwinkel from Charles Manson and showed up later than the from the attendants of the Manson Family. In an interview she said once "I wakes up each day in the knowledge the most valuable to have at all destroyed: The life".

Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel is arrested until today in the woman penal institution in Corona (California). Their last request for grace was rejected 2004. The next hearing is intended for 2007.

Related links

• The Manson Family (English)
• www.charliemanson.com (English)

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