• Susan Atkins Sues Her Lawyers, DA

Susan Atkins Sues Her Lawyers, DA

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 — Convicted killer Susan Atkins, 22, filed a $2 million damage suit today against her two former defense attorneys and Dep. Dist. Atty. Vincent Bugliosi, who successfully prosecuted her and other Manson family members for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

She claimed that early in December 1969, attorneys Paul Caruso and Richard Cabellero, without her knowledge, had taped a murder confession she made in their office but later repudiated.

She charged they not only permitted Bugliosi to hear the tape but arranged for him to interview her in their office where, she said, Bugliosi “rehearsed” what he instructed her to tell a grand jury which later indicted her.

She asked $1 million from Caruso and Cabellero and $1 million from Cabellero and Bugliosi.

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One Response to Susan Atkins Sues Her Lawyers, DA

  1. Ariel Bonzai says:

    This is interesting . Do we know the outcome? Certainly she had a case. But with Evil Younger in charge and the world seeing her as a vampire who murdered innocence it probably never saw a tribunal. 72 wouldn’t see her strong or focused enough to push it forward. Even as the scary Bible thumper in hideous clothes wuth that Far Side hairdo and crazy costume jewelry she didn’t have a prayer. But I give credit because she dudnt do the Bugliosi bop and disavowed his Helter Skelter nonsense. I think she was still out if her mind but it took guts ti tell the truth especially when you’re a compulsive liar. I think she was telling the truth about Charlie getting spun on speed and finding Jesus—she was a rat and had nobody else. Her father publicly stated he was leaving the system to deal with her because he wasn’t supporting her crap. I don’t know if I feel bad for her or how much stabbing she actually did. I just know she was a trip and I cried the morning I read her obituary. Now I understand she and Sharon Tate had a lot more in common than I’d ever guess. Exploited, desperate for love, will to do anything to be part of something she saw as more important that what she was, Sharon was running with men who considered them expendable. Sharon was more compliant and saner than Sadie. Sadie flew in faces and fucked men up, Charlie, bug she didn’t care. It was all hazy for her I guess. Sharon probably too drugs to survive her ordeals in home movies and emotional rape so she wasn’t quite far gone like Sadie. It didn’t help much because it was only in jer last minutes she understood how betrayed she was by Roman, Evans, Jay and God I guess. In the the end I think Sadie ascended because she knew there was no one to Blane but herself.
    More about this lawsuit if you find it. I’ll share what I come across.
    Have you seen the letters Manson write to Kaneruck from his assorted cages? I guess Irving dude abd the right guy win a bud on his storage unit. It reminds me of Flowers for Algeron. That guy was named Charlie too. I mean the letters are illiterate —which may be a ploy since they evolved quickly after he landed in prison. There is a cycle that betrays paranoia but the letters suggest Kanerick was committed to Charlie’s cause. I wish his letters were in the collection. He’s a very interesting fella. The letters are worthy of scrutiny abd relatively recent. I’m reading the book now. I just forgot which device it’s on and where I stored it. Easier to Google. Will post on kaneruck thread. Thanks you guys rock and roll, abd rolling is the hard part.

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