Patricia Krenwinkel, one of Charles Manson's devotees who is currently serving a life sentence in the California Institution for Women, has finally given her first ever on-cam prison interview explaining what drove her to brutally murder innocent people, Radar Online reported.
The now 67-year-old claimed she participated in the cult killings because she was a "coward" and "wanted to feel loved."
Krenwinkel, along with Manson and two other female followers, were convicted of seven 1969 murders, considered as one of the most blatant crimes of the 20th Century.
She particularly played an important role in the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders orchestrated by Manson and is said to have stabbed Abigail Folger numerous times that cops thought the coffee heiress' originally white nightgown was actually red when they discovered her body.
She also butchered Rosemary LaBianca, and even wrote "DEATH TO PIGS" on the family's house wall and "HeaLter SkeLTer" on the LaBianca's refrigerator, according to Gawker.
Decades later, Krenwinkel, who is one of Manson's two surviving female devotees, says her Los Angeles childhood "in a house where silence was golden by my parents" was the reason why she easily persuaded by Manson's deadly spell.
"My older sister was deemed incorrigible by the time she was four or five, because she was a half sister and she ended up getting into drugs and she had a child by fifteen," the gray-haired said in documentary interview produced by Olivia Klaus and published on the New York Times.
"As I started to go to school I never felt like I had fitted in, I never had that sense of belonging," she continued. "I stared losing contact with friends and I dropped out of college and I went to live with my sister. I was starting to drink and using has hand marijuana and whatever my sister had around."
" I was killing for a way out," she added. "I never ever developed a sense of who I was and where I was going and what I wanted to do."
At the age of 20, Krenwinkel met Manson in Manhattan Beach, Calif. In 1967 along with fellow followers Mary Brunner and Lynette Fromme.
"I wanted to please, I wanted to love, I wanted for the first time to feel safe. I wanted to feel like someone was going to care for me because I hadn't felt that from anywhere else in my life," she reflected. "And in giving up and moving on with Manson was just basically throwing away the rest of my life."
Two years later after meeting Manson, they slaughtered the eight and a half months pregnant wife of Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, and her three friends in her Beverly Hills home.
Patricia Krenwinkel has been in jail for around 45 years already. She was denied parole numerous times and is considered as longest-detained female prisoner in the California system, Daily Mail has learned.
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