susan atkins

susan atkins died today. she was definitely the most wantable of the manson girls:



well, that is, if you don't count sharon tate.

but a life of evil will take its toll:



appropriately she died of brain cancer. but a funny technicality. she made what to all accounts was a sincere conversion to christianity a number of years ago. so there's a good chance she's in heaven right now (if you go in for that sort of thing.)

looking at some of her old photos, i wonder if the world would have been any better served if she had just finished high school, gone to some state college, and ended up a housewife in some orange county suburb.