The panel at the California Parole Board hearing once again recommended parole for former Charles Manson followers and convicted killer Patricia Krenwinkel. The second time on Friday was found to be applicable to parole in three years.

But this is not a deal: the board's legal department takes up to 120 days to complete the decision, when the Governor has 30 days to review and potentially reverse the judgment. California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office declined to comment.

Newsom overturned the board's 2022 parole proposal and wrote that Krenwinkel still poses an "unreasonable risk to public safety hazards."

"Ms. Krenwinkel has matured in prison and has carried out a commendable recovery work, but her efforts have not adequately reduced her risk for future dangers," Newsom wrote in his report.

Krenwinkel was only 21 years old when he murdered seven people in August 1969 (including actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant). The cult leader sent members of his so-called family to kill in an attempt to incite apocalyptic racial war, after which he would control society.

At trial, Krenwinkel admitted her role in the Tate-Labianca murder, which targeted two Los Angeles families, on two nights. She admitted stabbing 25-year-old coffee heiress Abigail Folger with a knife at Tate's House on Cielo Drive, and then helped kill the grocery store executive Leno Labianca and his wife Rosemary the next night.

Krenwinkel said she stabbed Leno Labianca with a fork and shaved the "dead pig" on the wall with the couple's blood.

Cron Winkle was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to death in 1971 along with Manson and several other cult members. The following year, California briefly banned the death penalty, and their sentence was sentenced to death with the possibility of parole.

Since then, Krenwinkel has been deprived of 14 paroles. Now 77 years old, she is the longest-serving woman in California prisons.

"No matter how serious and interfere with the facts of the crime, if a person is granted a parole sentence, our law requires them to be released once they are no longer dangerous," Keith Wattley, a parole lawyer at Krenwinkel, said in a statement shared with NPR.

He added: “After 56½ years in prison without breaking the rules, her identity has changed a lot, and over the past 40 years, nine psychological assessors have recently agreed that PAT is no longer a risk, and it is time to make the possibility of parole a reality.”

Manson died in 2017 while serving nine death sentences. One of his followers, Susan Atkins, died of brain cancer in jail in 2009. Another, Leslie Van Houten, was detained for more than fifty years and went on a bicycle in July 2023.

The National Parole Board has recommended parole for the Parole Board five times since 2016, but Newsom and his predecessor have reversed those decisions, most recently in 2022. Later that year, the state appeals court granted Van Houten's Habitat Order petitions, and Newsom rejected the challenge of the case - providing a challenge to her ultimate freedom.

Krenwinkel says she's responsible

Krenwinkel said her complex family dynamics and sluggish self-esteem made her vulnerable to Manson’s manipulation.

She told Me that she told The Road to Destruction that this is part of what I am involved in, that it is countless lives, and it all stems from a simple thing, just wanting to be loved. ” New York Times 2014.

As a teenager, Krenwinkel lost contact with his friends, dropped out of school, moved in with his sister at Manhattan Beach, California, where she met and fell in love with Manson. She joined his "family" and toured the American West for 18 months before settling in 1969 at the infamous Spahn Ranch.

She said at a parole hearing in 2022 that Manson initially felt affectionate to her but was becoming increasingly controlled and abused. Over time, the group became more isolated and violence was normalized—for example, she and other members were trained to use weapons.

“I totally allow myself to start without any form of morality or true morality,” she told parole officer.

Krenwinkel said she sat in her death row in isolation by her 20s and decided to take responsibility for her past actions and decisions.

During her decades in prison, she earned her bachelor’s degree and participated in a number of self-help and community service programs, including supporting incarcerated people with severe mental illness and training dogs to become service animals for people with disabilities. Newsom said she had never been disciplined in jail and was cited twice only for minor violations, the most recently in 2005.

Krenwinkel told the 2022 hearing that she has worked with mental health professionals for the past 50 years, “trying to find that bottom definitely left me feeling nothing, getting nothing, not seeing myself with nothing,” she said, and as a result, she now likes her company and meets her needs and needs.

"It's important for me... not to be internal anymore, I let people know who I am," she said. "I don't care whether you accept me or not. It's your life. I'm happy with everything I do when I try to put these pieces back in place."

Many people object to her potential release

Over the years, Krenwinkel took responsibility for his crimes during parole hearings and blamed Manson and the toxic driving force of their relationship - to coerce her to join them.

For Newsom, this is not enough evidence, and Newsom wrote in 2022 that she did not fully reflect on her "internal procedures" that led her to join and support Manson's "terror movement."

"Ms. Krenwinkle is not only a victim of Mr. Manson's abuse. She is also a significant contributor to the violence and tragedy of the Manson family's legacy," he wrote. "In addition to the cruel murders she committed, she played a leadership role in the cult, as well as the executor of Mr. Manson's tyranny."

Newsom said the crime of Krenwinkel's crime was "one of the most feared crises in California's history", and he said it would bring significant pressure and public safety challenges if she was given parole. Krenwinkel said she would change her name if released, but would still like to participate in the community.

"I want to be involved in what's going on in the world, but I do know I'm going to work very hard - I'm going to listen very carefully and try to make myself aware of the people around me," she said at a 2022 hearing. "And... if something turns into something negative, I have to always be aware of that, I do know."

this New York Times Krenwinkel reportedly did not speak at a four-hour parole hearing Friday, even as the victim's family read the opposition's statements. Salon's sister Debra Tate created an online petition asking Newsom to overturn her parole. As of Monday, it had more than 116,000 signatures.

Tate wrote: “For years, this woman has laughed at the murders in court and has no regrets at all.