SADIE'S CELEBRITY DEATH LIST
From Helter Skelter, Pages 488 & 489:
According to
Virginia, a few days after Susan Atkins told her about the Hinman, Tate and
LaBianca murders – probably on November 8 or 9, 1969 – Susan had walked over to
Virginia’s bed at Sybil Brand and begun leafing through a movie magazine. It reminded her, Susan said, about some other
murders she had been planning.
She had
decided to kill Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Susan matter-of-factly
stated.
She was going to heat a knife red-hot and put it against the side of Elizabeth Taylor’s face. This was more or less to leave her mark. Then she’d carve the words “helter skelter” on her forehead. After which, she was going to gouge her eyes out – Charlie had shown her how.
Then, Susan continued, she would castrate Burton, placing his penis, as well as Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes, in a bottle. “And dig this, would you!” Susan laughed. “And then I’d mail it to Eddie Fisher!”

She was going to heat a knife red-hot and put it against the side of Elizabeth Taylor’s face. This was more or less to leave her mark. Then she’d carve the words “helter skelter” on her forehead. After which, she was going to gouge her eyes out – Charlie had shown her how.
Then, Susan continued, she would castrate Burton, placing his penis, as well as Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes, in a bottle. “And dig this, would you!” Susan laughed. “And then I’d mail it to Eddie Fisher!”
As for Tom
Jones, another of her intended victims, she planned to force him to have sex
with her at knife point, and then, just as he was climaxing, she would slit his
throat.
Steve
McQueen was also on the list, but before Susan could explain what she had in
mind for McQueen, Virginia interrupted, saying “Sadie, you can’t just walk up
to these people and kill them!”
That would
be no problem, Susan said. It was easy
to find out where they lived. Then she’d
simply creepy-crawl them, “just like I did to Tate”.
She had
something choice for Frank Sinatra, Susan continued.
She knew that Frank liked girls. She’d just walk up to his door and knock. Her friends, she said, would be waiting outside. Once inside, they’d hang Sinatra upside down, then, while his own music was playing, skin him alive. After which they’d make purses out of the skin and sell them to hippie shops, “so everyone would have a little piece of Frank.”
She knew that Frank liked girls. She’d just walk up to his door and knock. Her friends, she said, would be waiting outside. Once inside, they’d hang Sinatra upside down, then, while his own music was playing, skin him alive. After which they’d make purses out of the skin and sell them to hippie shops, “so everyone would have a little piece of Frank.”