Third: Atkins said that they killed the LaBianca couple because of something to do with “blackmail,” although she couldn’t elaborate. She said she’d participated in those murders, too—she was the one who left the kitchen fork protruding from Leno LaBianca’s belly. (In the official narrative, Atkins was in the car that brought the killers to the LaBiancas’, but she never went inside the house.)