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Susan Atkins

1948 - 2009

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Susan Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948 – September 24, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family". Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Known within the Manson family as Sadie, Sadie Glutz, Sadie Mae Glutz or Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the Tate murders in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susan Atkins has received more than 10,082,399 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Susan Atkins is the 87th most popular extremist (up from 89th in 2019), the 1,820th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,975th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Susan Atkins ranks 87 out of 283. Before her are James Earl Ray, Vincenzo Peruggia, Armin Meiwes, Robert-François Damiens, Sada Abe, and Anders Behring Breivik. After her are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Fritz Honka, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Henry Lee Lucas, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Whitey Bulger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Susan Atkins ranks 112. Before her are Akira Yoshino, Mark Phillips, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Hans Rosling, and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. After her are Jonathan Hyde, Thierry Mugler, Robert Jordan, Johnny Ramone, Jimmy Cliff, and Hema Malini. Among people deceased in 2009, Susan Atkins ranks 60. Before her are Israel Gelfand, Mario Benedetti, Takashi Takabayashi, Sverre Fehn, Toni Sailer, and Ingemar Johansson. After her are Vyacheslav Tikhonov, J. G. Ballard, Clive Granger, Alicia de Larrocha, Shih Kien, and Edward T. Hall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susan Atkins ranks 1,820 out of 20,380. Before her are Cole Porter (1891), Floyd Patterson (1935), Bob Fosse (1927), Robert C. Merton (1944), Marcheline Bertrand (1950), and Joan Rivers (1933). After her are Eric Carr (1950), Wallace Shawn (1943), Ub Iwerks (1901), Cecil B. DeMille (1881), Tex Avery (1908), and Dean Cain (1966).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Susan Atkins ranks 25. Before her are Dennis Rader (1945), Gary Ridgway (1949), Jordan Belfort (1962), Frank Sheeran (1920), Ma Barker (1873), and James Earl Ray (1928). After her are Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Whitey Bulger (1929), Robert Hansen (1939), Barry Seal (1939), Richard Ramirez (1960), and Baruch Goldstein (1956).

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