. >> the woman's name was susan atkins. gued. >> i casually asked her one day what she was there for. and this is when she said murder. >> susan told virginia she'd been accused of killing a guy out in the suburbs months earlier. but then she went on, bragging that the cops didn't know a fraction of what she'd really done. >> she goes, well, you know those murders up benedict canyon. >> of course, everyone back to you about that. >> she said, you know who did it, don't you? i looked at her and said, no, i don't. her words to me were, "well, you're looking at her." >> and just that casually, susan atkins confessed to the crime the whole nation was talking about, enthusiastically described the killings in all their blood-curdling detail. >> sharon tate begged her, please don't kill me. please don't kill me. and she said, she looked at her eye to eye and said, "bitch, i don't care if you're going to have a baby or not, i'm going to kill you." >> and then atkins told her she was part of a group, and they'd kill lots more people,