Category Archives: Archived News
Last Rites Held For Sharon Tate
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – International movie stars and jet setters have said their last good byes to beautiful blonde actress Sharon Tate and internationally known hairdresser Jay Sebring, killed with three others in a mass murder. “Goodbye, Sharon, and […]
Police Seek New Suspect In Murder Case
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – A six-man team of police detectives Tuesday probed two macabre murder cases which bore startling similarities — senseless, savage stabbings with almost ritualistic overtones. Police maintained there was no direct physical evidence to connect the […]
Jet Set Attends Funerals of Bel Air Slaying Victims
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – Members of the jet set attended funerals yesterday for actress Sharon Tate and internationally known hairdresser Jay Sebring, slain with three others at the film star’s home in swanky Bel Air. Peter Sellers, Yul Brynner […]
Six-Detective Team Probe Week End Murder Cases
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 – A crack six-man team of detectives yesterday continued probing two week end slayings of a total of seven persons, including film actress Sharon Tate. Investigators of the Central Homicide Bureau coordinated information gathered from neighbors […]
Drugs Probed In Murders at Sharon Tate’s Home
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 – Homicide detectives today concentrated on the “narcotic aspects” of the grisly stabbing and shooting deaths of actress Sharon Tate and four guests at her estate. Police would neither confirm nor deny a report drugs were […]
2 More Slain in ‘Ritual of Death’
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 – Two more persons – a supermarket owner and his wife – were found Sunday, slaughter in “ritualistic” fashion similar to actress Sharon Tate and four others last weekend. Meanwhile, the only person found alive at […]
‘Hundreds of names’ involved in probe of mass slayings
Los Angeles, Aug. 13 – Homicide detectives questioned friends and acquaintances of actress Sharon Tate yesterday — some of them “pretty weird” — in an all-out effort to solve the brutal massacre of Benedict Canyon. “Now it is a matter […]
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 […]
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 […]
