…years before, and that she was bedridden and unable to harm anyone, James Whitehouse made his case. Surprisingly, he had one very high-profile supporter: former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. He wrote a letter to the board which read, in part, “just because Susan Atkins showed no mercy to her victims, we therefore are duty-bound to follow her inhumanity and show no mercy to her.”
H. Allegra Lansing