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FL Rev, 7-16-63) “Father Recalls Odd Behavior (Mount Clipping in Space Below) of Girl Suspect in Tate Crime BY DAVID LARSEN Times Staff Writer Joseph Krenwinkel remembers Sept. 12, 1967, very well. That was the day Patricia Kren- winkel, until then a stable and conservative girl, abandoned her car in a Manhattan Beach parking lot, quit her job without picking up a paycheck and abruptly left town with an individual named Charles Manson. Both are now in custody, involved with others in the Sharon Tate and La Bianca murder cases. "T am convinced he was some kind of hypnotist," the girl's father said of Manson. "It was all so spon- taneous." Krenwinkel took time from his duties as an insurance agent in Inglewood to reflect on the events of tlie Tat Three years, which culminat- ed with the arrest of his 21-year-old daughter Monday in Mobile, Ala. Miss Krenwinkel, an attractive brunette, was graduated from Uni- versity High School, where she was an average student. Shortly after- ward, she left with her mother to live in Alabama. The Krenwinkels are divorced. The girl attended a semester at a Jesuit college, then returned to California in 1967. She moved into a Manhattan Beach apartment with her half-sister. During the summer in the beach community she met Manson. One day she left her job as a file clerk, got into a Volkswagen bus with Manson and some others, and_ va- nished. ~“ ° (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) I-3 Los Anreles Times Los Angeles, Calif, Date: a 2/2/69 Edition: Tuestay Fil Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office:].03 Angeles [_] Being Investigated g0A-~otlsl-F?2 SEARCHED.__JNDEXED__. SERIALIZED." < FILED <2 LZ 2 1969 FBI — LOS ANGELE9 h !