Susan Says 1st Confession 'Forced'

SUSAN, From A-l

office,
Caballero then
tape-recorded her confession and later sold it for
publication, Miss Atkins
testified.
Caballero, a former deputy district attorney, then
brought in Dep. Dist. Atty.
Vincent Bugliosi, a prosecutor in the case, so she
could talk to him about the
murders.

the love of my brother."

WHEN SHE got back to
the ranch, she testified,
she cried . . . "I never
killed nothing before . . . I
ran over a squirrel when I
was 17 years old and I
cried."
She, Miss Van Houten
and Patricia Krenwinkel,
who apparently had been
told of the murder, decided
to keep it quiet and gave
Hinman's cars away
one to Beausoleil in which
he was arrested.
"Linda (Kasabian) overheard our conversation
that Bobby had been arrested for the death of
Gary. I said I'd do anything to get my brother
out of jail.
"I know some people in
Beverly Hills," she quoted
Mrs. Kasabian as saying,
"that burned me on a drug
buy . . . you can make it
look like somebody else
did it, if you copycat the
murders we can make
some more of the same. If
you make lots of them
(murders)
everywhere,
they'll cut Bobby loose."

hers. Then everything just

happened.
"I remember bits and
pieces of things that happened.
"I remember walking in
the house and walking out
and walking back in again
and looking at a woman on
the floor crying and picking up a towel and writing
words on a door and closing my eyes and throwing
the towel back, then going
through a gate that was
opened and getting into a
car and driving off."
Although the girl at first
said she couldn't remember details, under questioning the details came out.
"There were people running everywhere. I remember seeing a woman
lying on the floor and a
man lying on the floor. I
don't recall stabbing. I
know I said so once," she
testified apparently refeiring to her testimony before the County Grand
Jury, "But that wss just a
story.
"I know my foot hurt
and my head hurt and
there was blood on my
foot. I remember being
given a drink of water,
and washing myself and
being chased away and being back at the ranch."

one by now because the

was trying to take the rope
from around her neck. But
I dropped my knife and
Linda gave me hers."
At this point, she said,
everyone had rushed from
the house, leaving her with
the dead Sebring and the
actress.
"She kept pleading she
said to please let her sit
down. I said I wasn't going
to let her do anything. I
was holding her head be-

tween my handslike
head lock. Her hands were
free, but the was scared
. . . as scared as I was.
"She asked me to let her
sit down, and kept saying
'All I want to do is have
my baby.' I said 'shut up'
and threw her down on the
couch. I said 'shut up. I
don't want to hear it-'
"Tex walked in and
looked at her. He said 'kill
her' and I killed her.
"She fell and I stabbed

Frykowski's hands had

been tied with a towel.
"Tex
had a gun, Tex
was crazy. I've never seen
Tex like that before. Everything was moving, like an
electric current,
"The small man (Jay
Sebring) started walking
towards Tex and I heard a
shot. The blonde woman
(Miss Tate) screamed and
then it all'happened so
fast.
"I think Tex tied the rope
around the people next. He
tied it around the man on
the floor the one that
had been shot and the
two women and then threw
it over the beam.
"Tex said to turn off the
lights and told the women
to get on the floor. They
were crying and kept saying 'Don't hurt us, please,
we won't call police.'
"The man on the couch
started to get up and I tried
to stop him. He was pulling on my hair. It was like
I was fighting for my life.
I kept waving the knife
and kicking. I know I was
stabbing something. I kept
yelling 'Help me, help me
Tex', then all of a sudden
Katie called 'help.' She
was fighting with the oilier
two women. The darkhaired woman was pulling
Katie's hair and Linda
came to help. Tex was stab- Tareyton's activated charcoal dnlivers a better taste.
BY THE time she got lo bing the man on the floor. A taste no plain white filter can match.
"I GOT to Ihe pregnant
the living room, she said.

victims, the giri remembered more:

"As I can recall, Sharon
Tate was lying on the bed
and Jay Sebring was sitting on the bed his arm
straddling her waist or
thighs. They were talking
and he had his back to me
and his back was covering
her face, so she couldn't
see me either. I remember
seeing a bassinette in the
room,"
Miss Atkins apparently
before she got to the master bedroom had passed
the bedroom which Frykowski shared with coffee
heiress Abigail Folger.
"She was in bed. I believe she was reading. She
looked at me and smiled. I
waved. I got her before I
got the man and woman, I
believe."
The girl testified she
walked into the actress'
bedroom and said, "Come
with me."
"What are you doing
here?" she was asked.
"I said 'be quiet and
come with me! I brought
my knife out and pointed it
towards them. 1 think I
grabbed her arm and
walked her to Ihe living
room. I could feel their
fear.
They didn't put up a
fight."

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her again. She put her arm

up and then her arm fell, I
don't know' how- many
times I stabbed her. I
don't know why I stabbed
her.
"I killed her," she repeated dramatically, "and
then I ran outside. Katie
was just getting up from
in front of the dark-haired
woman on the grass.

"I OIDN't WANT to testify, but Mr. Bugliosi said

it I cooperated with him
and the district attorney
and testified at the trial
against everyone I would
be granted immunity."
Before going into the
gory details surrounding
the pregnant
actress's
death, she slowly told of
the murder of Hinman
which started, she said,
when he refused to give
Beausoleil a car for which
he had been paid.
"Leslie," she said nodding at Leslie Van Houten,
one of her co-defendants,
"was there, too. She only
went because Bobby asked
MISS ATKINS, whose
her to go along for the
voice at times turned to a
ride."
She told the five-woman, Southern drawl and at othseven-man jury that Beau- ers had a hillbilly twang,
soleil and Hinman started claimed she took LSD the
arguing about the car night of the Tate murders
while she was smoking and Mrs. Kasabian gave
"Tex" Watson
SHOWN the gory color
marijuana in the kitchen. Charles
Hinman finally ordered some STP. With Watson photographs of the Tate
her to call Manson and get driving and Mrs. Kasabian
him from the ranch. Man- giving directions, she, and
son arrived with Bruce Miss Krenwinkel went to
Davis, she said, but not the secluded home of the
until Hinman and Beauso- actress.
leil had gotten into a fight.
"We parked just outside
the gate," she related. "I
MANSON talked with saw Tex climb up a teleHinman, she testified, and phone pole and some wires
in a few minutes came fall. We drove back down
into the kitchen folding up to the bottom of the hill
a piece of paper.
and parked the car then
"He said at least he had walked up the hill.
the pink, slip, but just then
"Linda crawled over a
Gary came in with a gun. fence, then some headHe was pointing it at Char- lights came towards us
lie and he said, "You're and Tex went crazy. He
not leaving here with that went out and said 'stop'
pink slip."
and I heard four shots. 1
"Charlie reached up and don't know what motivated
hit Gary with something. him to do it he just
Then Charlie said 'I'm went crazy.
splitting' and started- to
"Next thing I knew I
leave. Gary started after
was walking towards the
him with the gun. I didn't house. She (Linda) said
know what he was going lo 'wait here, I'll go araund
do. I ran after him . . . I the back.' I've seen her do
had my knife . . . and I this before. She came back
killed him. I had no and said to go in through a
choice. He was yelling and window. Tex went through
finally lie dropped the gun. the window. We waited
I think I hit him over the outside.
head with it.
"Then Katie, Tex, Linda
"He was going to hurt and I went in. There was a
my love," the girl said 7iian lying on the couch
GRAND
weeping,
"and
nobody (Voityck Frykowski).
hurts my love.
"THE HOUSE was very
"I can't let him (Beausoleil) sit on death row and quiet. The man stretched
die for something I did ... and said 'What time is it?'
I don't want no one carry- I moved behind the couch.
Tex moved in front of him.
ing any of my weight.
"Here I am," she said My knife was in my hand.
dramatically, "do what Somehow Linda got ahold
you do to me. I did it for of my knife and I had

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