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Charles
Mason: The face of Evil - Leader
of the Manson Murders
On an August night in 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four friends (Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger,
Wojciech Frykowski) were savagely murdered in Hollywood. Less than 24 hours later,
millionaire and his wife Leno LaBianco
& Rosemary LaBianca were slaughtered only a few miles away. After a massive search the police closed in on a bizarre quarry the commune disciples of Californian cult leader Charles Manson.
America was shocked to realise that apparently normal 'all-American' kids were ready to commit appalling crimes at his whim.
At 8.30 a.m. on 9 August 1969, a middle aged black woman Screaming "Murder!" pounded on the front door of 10090 Cielo Drive in the hill above LA's exclusive Bel Air district. The woman was Winifred Chapman, housekeeper of film director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate. What the police saw when they arrived was a scene of appalling carnage. In a car parked in the driveway was the bloody body of a young man slumped over the wheel. He had been shot four times. On the lawn was the body of a man in his 30s, and a young dark haired woman in a nightgown. The man had been shot twice,
struck over the head 13 times and stabbed 51 times.
The woman had 28 stab wounds. Both were soaked in their own blood. In the living room they found two more bodies. A young blond woman, lying in a
fetal position in front of the fire. She was heavily pregnant. She was also soaked in blood. A white nylon rope had been looped around her neck, over a rafter and around the neck of a man who lay four feet away. He had a bloody towel over his face. He had been stabbed seven times and shot once.
The pregnant woman was Sharon Tate, she had been stabbed 16 times. Five of which would have fatal on their own. The word "PIG"
written in her blood on the front door.
Thirty-eight years later, July 18, 2007 the "Ghost Hunters" goes Hollywood
episode investigated a house near where the Manson Murders occurred, as the original house has been torn down and the ghosts have evidently taken up residence down the
block. View
historical Manson Murders News Footage >>
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Sharon Tate January 24, 1943 - August 9, 1969
Sharon Tate, a victim of the 1969 "Manson Family" murders was born in Dallas, Texas and was the first of three daughters born to Colonel Paul and Doris Tate. Even as a child Sharon was very beautiful. At six months of age Sharon won her first beauty contest; she was crowned Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas, Texas. Her very first jobs included modeling. The actress, she was described as very kind, and beautiful both inside and out.
Abigail Folger was heiress to the famous Folger's coffee empire.
Abigail was interested in art - spending time painting when she was had the time to do so. Besides painting, Abigail was very talented in playing the piano. She attended the Catalina School for Girls in Carmel, California, moving on to
Radcliff College where she graduated with honors, finally ending up at Harvard University where she did graduate work and received a degree in Art History. In 1967 she took a job at the University of California art museum in Berkeley, California. In Los Angeles, she found "something real to live for" by working in the Watts ghetto as a social worker and a taste of show business glamour through acquaintances in the television and motion picture world.
Wojciech Frykowski played a thief in Polanski's short film, "Mammals." He married twice and fathered a son, Bartek. Later, he moved to Paris, France. In early 1968, author Jerzy Kosinski introduced Frykowski to Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger Coffee fortune. In August, Frykowski and Folger left New York and moved to their new home at 2774 Woodstock Road, Hollywood, California. In March 1969, Frykowski and Folger temporarily moved to 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills. They were
house-sitting for Roman and Sharon while the pair were in Europe. Sharon had returned early due to her advanced pregnancy; Voytec and Abigail continued staying on Cielo Drive, even after Sharon returned so someone would be on hand should she go into early labor. Roman had been expected home --two days after the brutal murders.
Jay Sebring's
style of cutting hair started the male hair care revolution.
He opened the first male hair salon in LA and quickly became a celebrity. His clients
included Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen. After Kirk Douglas' request, Sebring did the hair styling for the movie Spartacus.
Sebring was buried at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Southfield, Michigan on Wednesday August 13,
1969
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