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Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent.

Tate’s husband, film director Roman Polanski, was in Europe at the time.

The following evening, they stabbed to death grocers Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

“Death to pigs” was among the messages scrawled in blood at the crime scenes.

Manson, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkle, Susan Atkins and Charles Tex Watson were each convicted of multiple counts of murder and sentenced to death.

Those sentences were later reduced to life terms in prison after a 1972 California Supreme Court ruling found the death penalty unconstitutional.

The death penalty was reinstated in 1978, but under the law Manson and his followers would continue serving life terms.

Atkins died in prison in 2009 at the age of 61 after suffering from cancer. Krenwinkle and Watson remain incarcerated.

Van Houten was granted parole in September and is awaiting a response from Gov. Jerry Brown. The governor blocked her release when she was previously granted parole in 2016.

Manson had been housed in the Protective Housing Unit at California State Prison-Corcoran since 1989, where inmates who would be at risk among the general population are kept.

During his decades in custody, he was also housed at San Quentin State Prison, California Medical Facility, Folsom State Prison and Pelican Bay State Prison. – Tribune News Service

While our elders struggle for everything ... Manson lived a long life with free lodging, free food, free education, free healthcare all funded by the ‘pigs’ he despised ... Why did we keep such evil alive is beyond me?