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Meanwhile, Manson and his clan were in a different state of mind. Tex Watson had just robbed a drug dealer, Bernard Crowe, who then contacted Manson, demanding his money back and threatening to kill everyone at Spahn Ranch. Manson went to the drug dealer’s apartment to smooth things over, but it ended with Manson shooting him. Around 10 pm, Abigail Folger’s mother called to confirm that Abigail would be flying to San Francisco the following day; her mother had planned a birthday party for her on August 11th. In August of 1969, Sharon Tate, in the last stages of her pregnancy, was preparing to give birth to a newborn baby. She was picking out names, buying baby clothes, putting the final touches on the nursery, and maintaining a healthy diet for the sake of the baby.
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His Helter Skelter tour — which spans over 40 miles with stops at El Coyote, Laurel Canyon, various spots along the Sunset Strip and, of course, the Cielo Drive house — is one of his most popular. “[Quentin] saw my documentary and reached out, and we met and talked a lot about the case. I took him and a few others on a tour of the locations, and he and I were in touch afterward — trading nerdy facts about the crime scene and the furnishings,” says Michaels. The original home of Sharon Tate at Cielo Drive was demolished years ago, and a new house was built from scratch, with a new address of Cielo Drive. So, the house is technically still there, but it’s not the same one – in fact, it looks nothing like the original house.
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Franklin listed the property for sale in 2022 for a cool $85 million, but in 2023 dropped the price to $50 million. When Reznor left the home, he took the front door with him, which had once been splattered with Sharon Tate’s blood. The estimated price ranged from two to four thousand dollars, but the door ultimately sold for $127,000. Hurkos made headlines for his involvement in the infamous Tate murders, as Roman Polanski had asked for his help in identifying the perpetrators.
THE TATE MURDERS
The killers then entered the gate at approximately 0030 hours and were observed by the first victim, Steven Parent, as he was leaving the guest house which was occupied by a houseboy, William Garretson. The killers, having been hired to kill Sharon Polanski, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger, shot Parent three times as he attempted to drive his vehicle from the Cielo property. The killers continued to the main house, the Polanski residence, where they proceeded to kill the four intended victims. The patrol officers continued toward the main house using various methods and routes in gaining entry to the main house. The officers found the remaining four victims in the positions as described in the resume portion of this report.
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She discussed her use of drugs and her disappointment with Frykowski. Doctor Flicker stated that he thought she was almost ready to leave Frykowski. She was building up enough nerve in her own mind to go it alone. In the past year, Abigail had been an active participant in Negro social work. She sponsored and attended rallies in the Watts area and is reported to have been an active participant in civil rights activities in the San Francisco bay area. This contention is borne out by several civil rights placards found at the Cielo address.
I was standing underneath one of those towering gas station signs you see by the highway all the time, at the eastern edge of Gallup, New Mexico, when the girl picked me up. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hem-less mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a small, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back. #4, A “Buck”, clasp type knife found under the seat cushion of an overstuffed chair, which was located in the living room seven feet south of the north wall of the living room and four feet east of the west wall of the living room.
Why did "the family" choose the Cielo Drive property? Manson partied there before Polanski and Tate moved in and knew the property. The fact that Sharon Tate was gorgeous and popular secured Manson a place in history. The director left his wife, eight months and a half months pregnant, with his good friend Wojciech Frykowski, his girlfriend, the heiress Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Tate's friend, and Steven Parent. As her career never truly kicked off, she went back to France. Morgan only lived on the Cielo Drive property in 1944 and 1945 and sold it to Dr. Hartley Dewey and his wife, Louise.
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They let us out where the pavement stopped on the road that led off the highway to the commune. The girl did return with a tow-truck after about an hour and a half. One and Two rode on the back of the truck and the girl and I rode in the cab with the driver. The driver was going to try to fix the car at his station, and if he couldn’t, he’d take us to a Volvo dealer in Albuquerque. The girl said something to me, but for the benefit of the driver, about how she wished her “father” had gotten the car checked out before she left L. A. By this time, I was quite sure that the car as well as the credit card was stolen.
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Back to the night of the murders…… When the group arrived at the property, Tex Watson, who had been at the property at least once before, climbed the telephone pole and cut the phone line. This sent Charles Manson down the road of psychotic revenge. However, by the time of the murders, Melcher and his partner, actress Candice Bergen, had moved out of the property. Decades after the house had been knocked down and rebuilt, the odd phenomenon has continued to be reported, even beyond the home’s gates.
He said he walked from Benedict Canyon up to the Cielo address. Garretson said that when he returned he did not see anyone moving around in the Polanski house. Thursday morning, August 7, 1969, Mrs. Winifred Chapman, housekeeper, can recall no unusual occurrences in the household. It is also established that Abigail Folger made hpr regular visit to Doctor Flicker, her psychiatrist. From conversation with Harrigan, it is believed that Jay Sebring had been at the Polanski house sometime during the day. William Doyle and Tom Harrigan came to Los Angeles in January of 1969, from Toronto, Canada.
Weintraub believed in the land’s ability to rise above its horrifying past. “Ninety-eight percent of the people don’t give a damn,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 1997. Valued at a whopping $12 million in 1996 (or $8.9 million unfinished), Villa Bella sat on the market for the next three-plus years.
As you enter the hallway, a blood drop is noted in the center of the hallway at the threshold. Continuing in a southerly direction in the hallway, another blood drop is noted and has been identified as blood type B. Continuing in a southerly direction through the master bedroom to the rear exit of that room, another blood drop is found just inside the door. Blood smears were found on the louvered shutters inside the door as if someone had been trying to open the door.
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On a hot summer night in August 1969, pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family. Police stand near the AMC Rambler containing the body of Steven Parent, who worked at a stereo shop. The 18-year-old had driven to Cielo Drive on Aug. 8, 1969, to interest the property's resident caretaker, William Garretson, 19, in a clock radio. Authorities conclude Parent was departing the property as the killers were arriving. The current listing for Cielo Drive, which is represented by Joshua and Matthew Altman of Douglas Elliman, makes no mention of the property’s history, instead playing up the “unparalleled luxury” offered by the home and its location. The 21,000-square-foot home features nine bedrooms, 18 bathrooms and its own movie theater, spa, gym and hair salon, according to the listing.
I was in a new world, and I had no use for cosmologies you wear on your shirtsleeve. Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, the main perpetrator in the ‘Manson’ murders, has become a born-again Christian and is also still serving his sentence. In 1992, Weintraub leased the original Cielo Drive house to musician Trent Reznor, who disgraced the home by establishing a recording studio named ‘Pig’ in the living room, in the exact spot where Sharon Tate was killed. According to one of his friends, Altobelli regretted selling the home and longed for the house until the day he died. Dutch clairvoyant Peter Hurkos (born Pieter van der Hurk) was a house painter until an accident in the 1940s changed his life forever.
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