No parole for Manson family member

CORONA, Calif., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Patricia Krenwinkel, a member of the Manson Family convicted in one of California's most notorious murder cases, lost another bid for parole Thursday.

Krenwinkel, 63, must serve seven more years before another parole hearing, the Los Angeles Times reported. The hearing was in the women's prison in Corona, where Krenwinkel is an inmate.

Krenwinkel was sentenced to death for the murders of Sharon Tate, director Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, and six other people. That automatically became life in prison when the state's death penalty law was vacated.

Krenwinkel has had a good record for most her prison time, earning a bachelor's degree and teaching other inmates how to read.

"I wake up every day knowing that I'm a destroyer of the most precious thing, which is life; and I do that because that's what I deserve, is to wake up every morning and know that," she told Diane Sawyer in a 1994 interview.