Two Suspects Questioned In Star’s Death

NEW YORK, Sept. 6 — Two Californians arrested here on arms and drug charges also are being investigated as possible suspects in the killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others in Bel Air, Calif., last month. Police said the […]

Tate murders (five) continue to baffle police one month later

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8 — It was so messy a murder. Five bodies. Footprints in pools of blood. A nylon rope. A neighbor who heard screams and shots. The word “Pig” scrawled in blood on a door. Ties to narcotics. […]

Youth Hits Tate Case Link

DAYTON, Ohio, Sept. 8 – William Garretson, the Lancaster, Ohio, youth who was jailed briefly after the bizarre mass murder near Hollywood last month, said he was so far removed from the activity at the Roman Polanski mansion that he […]

Hunting Fund

LONDON, Sept. 4 – British actor Peter Sellers announced Wednesday he and some friends are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to conviction of the killer of actress Sharon Tate. Miss Tate, wife of movie director Roman Polanski, was […]

Friends of Slain Sharon Tate Offer Reward of $25,000

Sept. 4 – Friends of murdered actress Sharon Tate offered a $25,000 reward Wednesday for information about the crime in which she died. Posting of the reward was announced in London by actor Peter Sellers. He said he and several […]

Police have no suspects, motive or weapon in Tate case killings

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 — Police have no suspects, no motive and no murder weapon in the killings of actress Sharon Tate and four other persons at her estate. And inspector Robert A. Houghton, chief of detectives, conceded during a […]

‘No Comment’ Brings Tate Murder News Up to Date

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 – Sprinkling their briefing liberally with “no comment”, Los Angeles Police Tuesday attempted to update news media on the investigation into the Aug. 8-9 murder of actress Sharon Tate, three of her jet-set friends and an […]

Five Slayings Still Unsolved, Chief Reports

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 — It’s been 26 days since actress Sharon Tate and four others were found slain but there’s still no sign of a suspect, murder weapons or motive, Police Chief Edward M. Davis said Tuesday. Davis and […]

Did Sharon Tate Have a Premonition?

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 – It was just a creepy story, when Sharon Tate told it to me early in 1966. But now, three years and five murders later, it has acquired something more than creepiness. She was a starlet then. […]

Sharon a ‘comer’ 30 long months

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31 — Publicity men relish nothing so much as a rags-to-riches theme and seldom overlook a chance to tie a client into the story of “instant stardom” or Cinderella-like adventures — such as being discovered (as in Lana […]

Men Linked In Tate Case Questioned

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 – Los Angeles Police had said yesterday that all four of the men wanted for questioning in connection with the Tate murders have been interviewed. The men, including two Canadians, once were described in a Royal […]

Polanskis Were at Center of a Rootless Way of Life

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 – A beautiful actress. A hair stylist who was a Hollywood socialite. A Polish émigré. A wealthy young Radcliffe graduate. Four lives whose twisted paths crossed on the night of Aug. 8. They – along with […]

A Tragic Trip to the House on the Hill

After a harrowing tour of his house, Director Roman Polanski sits on the bloodied porch, beside door where the killer scrawled “PIG” in blood. Now it was quiet, and the Sunday afternoon washed by the August sun. The police had […]

Tate, Others Killed By Paranoid – Capote

NEW YORK, Aug 28 – Author Truman Capote, whose book “In Cold Blood” detailed a savage multiple-murder in rural Kansas, suggests that “a very young, enraged paranoid” was responsible for the recent slayings of Sharon Tate and four others in […]

Tate Neighbor Heard Shots, Screams in Murder House About 2 in Morning

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27 – The slaughter of actress Sharon Tate and four others at her secluded Benedict Canyon home took place at “2 or 2:30 – no earlier,” a neighbor who heard the shots and the screams of one […]

Polanski Caretaker Files Huge Claim Against City

VAN NUYS, Aug. 26 – The only apparent survivor of a mass murder in which blonde actress Sharon Tate was one of the victims filed a $1,250,000 false arrest claim against the city yesterday. William Garretson Jr., 19-year-old caretaker at […]

CRIME: The Tate Set

The bizarre murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others at Polish film director Roman Polanski’s secluded villa in the Hollywood hills confronted the Police with a fascinating whodunit. But nearly as enchanting as the mystery was the glimpse the […]

The Blue Curtain Comes Down in Tate Massacre Case; Facts Remain Secret

Aug. 24 – There’s the Iron Curtain. Then there’s the Bamboo Curtain. And now there’s the Blue Curtain. The Blue Curtain is brand new — it is something that has come up between the newspapers and the Los Angeles Police […]

Fortune Left By Heiress

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 – Abigail Folger, the 26-year-old coffee heiress found slain in the unsolved Los Angeles mass murder two weeks ago at actress Sharon Tate’s house, left an estate of over $500,000. Her father, Peter Folger of Woodside, […]

Tate Case Victim ‘on a Trip’

HEIRESS AND FROKOWSKY: Abigail Folger and Voityck Frokowsky are pictured in New York last year in this snapshot taken by a friend. Frokowsky’s mother has told newsmen he loved Miss Folger but wouldn’t marry her “because she was rich” LOS […]