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Drugs Found Near Tate Murder Site
SLAYING VICTIM’S CAR– Officer guards black Porsche owned by Jay Sebring and in which narcotics were reported found. Car is still parked at the Benedict Canyon estate where Sebring and four other persons were slain LOS ANGELES, Aug 13 -Narcotics […]
Caretaker Freed: Youth Cleared in Murders of 5
Aug. 12 – A slim youth who was the sole survivor of a rampage of homicide at a Benedict Canyon estate was released by police Monday. Officers said there was no evidence to implicate 19-year-old William E. Garretson in the […]
Panic Sweeps Movie Colony
Los Angeles, Aug. 12 — Panic infected the movie colony today in the wake of two gruesomely similar multiple murders as police dropped charges against the only suspect they had in one of them. Teenage houseboy William Garretson, who slept […]
‘Was Asleep at Time of Killings:’ Houseboy
Los Angeles, Aug. 12 — A 19-year-old houseboy protested his innocence and asked for a lie detector test Sunday in the grotesque slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four other persons at a secluded estate rented by her husband, film […]
Drugs Tied to Slayings
LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 – Investigators in the slaying of Sharon Tate and four other persons have found narcotics at the scene of the killings, reliable sources said today. The Los Angeles police meantime refused to discuss their investigation except […]
Similarities In Brutal Slayings
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 – Authorities widened their search today for someone “involved in a personal way” with starlet Sharon Tate and four other persons brutally murdered in the aftermath of a party at a rambling Bel Air estate. Even […]
Abigail Folger’s Murder Shocks S.F. Society Circles
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 – San Francisco society circles still were in shock today over the death of Abigail Folger, the pretty heiress slain in a mysterious weekend massacre at Bel Air. Miss Folger, 26, was the daughter of Peter […]
Two more killings spur coast manhunt
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 – Police pushed a manhunt today for a suspect in the bizarre killings of actress Sharon Tate and four others five miles from where a couple was found slain later in a similar style. “There is […]
Mother ‘is sure’ son didn’t kill
LANCASTER, Ohio, Aug. 11 – William Garretson, 19-year-old Lancaster youth held for questioning in the brutal slayings of Hollywood star Sharon Tate and four other persons, was described by his mother as a nonviolent person. Garretson was arrested Saturday after […]
Two more slain in Los Angeles
FRANK STRUTHERS, 14, (right), is shown being led from a neighbor’s home to an awaiting auto by his father after the boy discovered the bodies of his mother, Rosemary, and his stepfather, Leno LaBianca, in their Los Angeles home. LOS […]
Caretaker, 19, Is Freed in 5 Los Angeles Slayings
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 – The police this afternoon released William E. Garretson after holding him for almost three days in their investigation of the slaying of Sharon Tate, the actress, and four other persons The 19-year-old youth walked out […]
Estate A Continent Away
LOS ANGELES, Aug 11 – Wilfred Elmer Parent sat in his living room in El Monte Sunday trying to figure out why his eldest son – a seemingly quiet, 18-year-old – had turned up dead at the scene of a […]
2 Ritual Slayings Follow Killing of 5
SAD JOURNEY – Roman Polanski, husband of slain actress Sharon Tate, is escorted to plane in London. He avoided newsmen on his arrival here. LOS ANGELES, Aug 11 – A Silverlake couple were found slain Sunday night under bizarre circumstances […]
Sharon’s Fame Like Storybook
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 – Sharon Tate found slain with four other persons Saturday, was a honey-blonde actress who rose to stardom in storybook fashion. The wife of producer Roman Polanski, she liked to refer to herself among friends as […]
Polanski Breaks Down, Cries When Told Of Murders
LONDON, Aug. 10 — Film director Roman Polanski “broke down and cried” when he heard about the macabre murders of his wife and four friends in Hollywood, close friends reported yesterday. Polanski, 35, has been here two months on movie […]
Actress Sharon Tate, Four Others Slain in ‘Ritualistic’ Killings
LEFT: Sharon Tate. TOP MIDDLE: Los Angeles animal control officers remove some of the dogs found at Sharon Tate’s BelAir home. TOP RIGHT(L-R): Jay Sebring & Abigail Folger. BOTTOM RIGHT: SCENE OF SLAYING — Police officer stands in front of […]
Several Suspects and Car Hunted in 5 Coast Killings
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 – The police were hunting tonight for several suspects in the murder of the actress Sharon Tate and four companions in an isolated hilltop home early yesterday. The police said the suspects’ names had been given […]
Polanski Was Informed At a Party in London
LOS ANGELES, Aug 10 – The film director Roman Polanski was informed at a cocktail party of the killing of his actress wife, Sharon Tate. Moments before, a friend said, the guest were discussing the death of a mutual friend. […]
Bright Starlet
LOS ANGELES, Aug 10 – At the age of 26, Sharon Tate was considered one of Hollywood’s most promising young starlets, even though her television and film appearances were not primarily in leading roles. A tall, slender woman with blond […]
‘RITUALISTIC SLAYINGS’: Sharon Tate, Four Others Murdered
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 — Film star Sharon Tate, another woman and three men were found slain Saturday, their bodies scattered around a Benedict Canyon estate in what police said resembled a ritualistic mass murder. The victims were shot, stabbed […]
