Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Charles Manson and the Manson Family Marilyn Bardsley Quiet and secluded is just what the young movie star wanted. The canyons above Beverly Hills were far enough away from the noisy glitz of Hollywood to afford some privacy and space. Sharon Tate loved this place on Cielo Drive. To her it meant romance romance with the man of her dreams and the father of her child, director Roman Polanski. It was cooler up there too, which was especially refreshing on that hot muggy Saturday night, the 9th of August 1969. The beautiful young woman kept herself company with her attractive and sophisticated friends: Abigail Folger, the coffee heiress and her boyfriend Voytek Frykowski, and an internationally known hair stylist Jay Sebring. Sharon was eight months pregnant and very lonely for her husband who was away in Europe working on a film. Impromptu gatherings like this one on a weekend night were not at all unusual. The house was deliberately secluded but not completely insecure. Approximately 100 feet from the house was a locked gate and on the property was a guesthouse inhabited by an able-bodied young caretaker. That night the Kotts, Sharon's nearest neighbors who lived about 100 yards away, thought they heard a few gunshots coming from the direction of Sharon's property sometime between 12:30 and 1 A.M. But since they heard nothing else, they went to bed. Around the same time, a man supervising a camp-out less than a mile away heard a chilling scream: "Oh, God, no, please don't! Oh, God, no, don't, don't..." He drove around the area, but found nothing unusual. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted August 9, 2014 Author Share Posted August 9, 2014 Patricia Krenwinkel - the woman who helped murder seven people for Charles Manson - says she did it because she 'just wanted to be loved' Patricia Krenwinkel helped kill seven people 45 years ago. Now, finally, she has tried to explain why Tim Walker Friday 08 August 2014 Precisely 45 years ago this weekend, Patricia Krenwinkel took part in perhaps the most notorious killing spree in California history. On 8 August 1969, on the instructions of Charles Manson, Krenwinkel joined three other members of Mansons cult, the Family, as they murdered the actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant, and four more people at the home Tate shared with her husband, the film director Roman Polanski, near Beverly Hills. Krenwinkel, who was just 21, chased down and stabbed Abigail Folger, a coffee heiress, so brutally that police later thought Folgers white nightgown had been bought blood red. The next night, Krenwinkel killed again, when she helped to butcher small business owners Leno and Rosemary La Bianca a few miles away in Los Feliz, a suburb of Los Angeles. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Aug 9, 1969: Manson cult kills five people On this day in 1969, members of Charles Manson's cult kill five people in movie director Roman Polanski's Beverly Hills, California, home, including Polanski's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate. Less than two days later, the group killed again, murdering supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in their home. The savage crimes shocked the nation and, strangely, turned Charles Manson into a criminal icon. Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1934 to an unwed 16-year-old mother. He spent much of his childhood in juvenile reformatories and his early adulthood in prison. After his release in 1967, Manson moved to California and used his unlikely magnetism to attract a group of hippies and set up a commune, where drugs and orgies were common, on the outskirts of Los Angeles. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/manson-cult-kills-five-people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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