Patricia Krenwinkel saw her parole recommendation again quashed this month by California’s governor — meaning she remains in prison, more than 50 years after the Manson Family murders.

Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the second parole recommendation for the 77-year-old Krenwinkel, saying she “currently poses an unreasonable danger to society.” He had done the same in 2022.

Krenwinkel is one of three people who were convicted of the seven murders in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles on two consecutive nights in August 1969. The others were Charles Manson and Charles “Tex” Watson.

Susan Atkins was convicted of the five murders on Aug. 8, and Leslie Van Houten of the two on Aug. 9.

All five defendants were initially sentenced to death. Those sentences were commuted to life by the California Suprem

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