1. Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel was born on December 3,1947 and is an American convicted murderer and former member of the Manson Family.
21 Facts About Patricia Krenwinkel
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Patricia Krenwinkel was born on December 3,1947, in Los Angeles, California, to an insurance-salesman father and a homemaker mother.
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Patricia Krenwinkel attended University High School and then Westchester High School, both in the Los Angeles area.
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Patricia Krenwinkel was often bullied at school by other students, suffered from low self-esteem, and was frequently teased for being overweight and for an excessive growth of body hair caused by an endocrine condition.
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Patricia Krenwinkel decided to attend the Jesuit college Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.
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Patricia Krenwinkel met Charles Manson in Manhattan Beach in 1967, along with Lynette Fromme and Mary Brunner.
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Patricia Krenwinkel was a participant in the murders on August 9,1969, at 10050 Cielo Drive, home of actress Sharon Tate and four others.
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Patricia Krenwinkel recounted during her December 29,2016, parole hearing the events of the night of August 10,1969.
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Patricia Krenwinkel arrived on California's death row on April 28,1971.
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Patricia Krenwinkel received a death sentence for seven counts of first-degree murder for the August 9,1969, deaths of Abigail Ann Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Steven Earl Parent, Sharon Tate Polanski and Jay Sebring and the August 10,1969, deaths of Leno and Rosemary La Bianca.
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The death sentence imposed on Krenwinkel was automatically commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court's People v Anderson decision invalidated all death sentences imposed in California prior to 1972.
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At the beginning of her life in prison, Patricia Krenwinkel remained loyal to Manson and the Family, but over time began to break away from them.
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Patricia Krenwinkel is active with prison programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous and, along with these involvements, she has taught illiterate prisoners how to read.
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Reportedly, Patricia Krenwinkel writes both poetry and music, plays the guitar, plays on a prison volleyball team and gives dance lessons.
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Patricia Krenwinkel was denied parole following that hearing because, according to the panel, Krenwinkel still posed an "unacceptable risk to public safety".
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In Patricia Krenwinkel's parole hearing on December 29,2016, the decision was postponed to investigate the defense claim that Patricia Krenwinkel was suffering from battered woman syndrome at the hands of Manson during the time of the murders.
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The parole hearing resumed on June 22,2017, when the 69-year-old Patricia Krenwinkel was denied parole.
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Patricia Krenwinkel remains incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Chino, California.
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Patricia Krenwinkel was portrayed by actress Christina Hart in the made-for-TV film Helter Skelter, and in the film's 2004 remake by actress Allison Smith.
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Patricia Krenwinkel was portrayed by Leslie Orr in the film The Manson Family, by Kaniehtiio Horn in Leslie, My Name Is Evil, by Vanessa Zima in Manson Girls and Serena Lorien in House of Manson.
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Patricia Krenwinkel was portrayed by Sosie Bacon in Mary Harron's Charlie Says and played by Beaty in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.