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The Tate–LaBianca murders were a series of murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family during August 9–10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, United States, under the direction of Tex Watson and Charles Manson. The perpetrators killed six people (including the unborn child of an 8½ month pregnant Sharon Tate) on the night of August 8–9: Tate and her companions Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, along with Steven Parent. The following evening, the Family murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, at their home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. On the night of August 8–9, four members of the Family – Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian – drove from Spahn Ranch to 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, the home Tate shared with her husband, film director Roman Polanski. The group murdered Tate and her unborn child. Also killed were her houseguests: Sebring, a celebrity hairdresser; Folger, heiress to the Folgers coffee fortune; her boyfriend Frykowski, an aspiring screenwriter; and Parent, an 18-year-old visiting the guest house caretaker. Polanski was not home as he was working on a film in Europe. Manson was a cult leader and would-be musician…Citește mai mult

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Tate murders On the night of August 8, 1969, Tex Watson took Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian and Patricia Krenwinkel to 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California. Watson claims Charles Manson had instructed him go to the house and "totally destroy" everyone inside, and to do it "as gruesome as you can." Manson told the women to do as Watson instructed them. The occupants of the house at Cielo Drive that evening were movie actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski, who was 81⁄2 months pregnant; her friend and former lover Jay Sebring, a noted celebrity hairstylist; Polanski's friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski; and Frykowski's girlfriend Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folgers coffee fortune and daughter of Peter Folger. Also present on the property were William Garretson, the caretaker, and his friend Steven Parent. Polanski was in Europe working on a film. Watson and the three women arrived at Cielo Drive just past midnight on August 9. Watson climbed a telephone pole near the main gate and cut the phone line to the house. The group backed their car to the bottom of the hill that led to the estate and walked back up…Citește mai mult

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LaBianca murders The four murderers plus Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten and Clem Grogan went for a drive the following night. Manson was allegedly displeased with the panic and flight of the victims in the previous night's murders. He told Kasabian to drive to a house at 3301 Waverly Drive in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, located next door to a home where Manson and Family members had attended a party the previous year. According to Atkins and Kasabian, Manson disappeared up the driveway and returned to say that he had tied up the house's occupants. Then Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten went in. Watson claims in his autobiography that Manson went up alone, then returned to take him up to the house with him. Manson pointed out a sleeping man through a window, and the two entered through the unlocked back door. Watson claims Manson roused the sleeping Leno LaBianca from the couch at gunpoint and had Watson bind his hands with a leather thong. Rosemary was brought into the living room from the bedroom, and Watson covered the couple's heads with pillowcases which he bound in place with lamp cords. Manson left, and Krenwinkel and Van…Citește mai mult

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Investigation, trial, and sentencing In initial confessions to cellmates at Sybil Brand Institute, Atkins said she killed Tate. In later statements to her attorney, to prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, and before a grand jury, Atkins indicated Tate had been stabbed by Tex Watson. In his 1978 autobiography, Watson said he had stabbed Tate and that Atkins had never touched her. Since he was aware that the prosecutor, Bugliosi, and the jury, that had tried the other Tate–LaBianca defendants, were convinced Atkins had stabbed Tate, he falsely testified that he did not stab her. The five perpetrators – Atkins, Krenwinkel, Manson, Van Houten, and Watson – were each tried and convicted for their roles in the Tate–LaBianca murders. Originally, each defendant received a death sentence. However, in 1972, the Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Anderson that the state's then-current death penalty laws were unconstitutional. As a result, the Anderson decision spared the lives of 107 death row inmates in California, including Charles Manson and his four "family members". Subsequently, the death sentences for each of the five perpetrators convicted in the Tate–LaBianca murders were commuted to life in prison, which – by law – included the possibility of parole.…Citește mai mult

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Sociocultural impact The Tate–LaBianca murders "profoundly shook America's perception of itself" and "effectively sounded the death knell of '60s counterculture". In her 1979 essay collection The White Album, Joan Didion, who knew Tate and lived close to the site of the murders, wrote: "Many people I know believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled." Additionally, the ritualistic nature of the murders laid a foundation for the rise of the Satanic panic. Some critics have claimed that it led to the proliferation of "darkly psychosexual, conspiracy-laced cultural exploration of America's seedy underbelly" by the movie industry, including films such as Dirty Harry (1971). Film critic Erik Morse writes that the rapid recognition of Tate's murder and, soon after, the idolization of her murder, brought about a dark period of film in Hollywood, filled with "ultraviolence, gore, satanism and freakouts". Morse cites Ian Cooper's 2018 book The Manson Family on Film and Television, where Cooper coins the term "Mansonsploitation", which he defines as the…Citește mai mult

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In popular culture Helter Skelter: The True Story of The Manson Murders In 1974, after leaving the DA's office, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, jointly with Curt Gentry, wrote a book about the Manson trial called Helter Skelter: The True Story of The Manson Murders. The book won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best true-crime book of the year. The book was twice adapted as a television film, first in 1976, then later in 2004. As of 2015, Helter Skelter was the bestselling true crime book in publishing history, with more than seven million copies sold.

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Film and television Several films recounted the Tate–LaBianca murders and the subsequent criminal trials: Manson, a 1973 documentary about Manson and his followers Helter Skelter, a 1976 television film based on the 1974 book by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry The Manson Family, a 1997 film by Jim Van Bebber Helter Skelter, a 2004 television film remake of the 1976 TV film of the same name

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Aquarius (2015 TV series) Wolves at the Door, a 2016 film

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Mindhunter, a 2017 Netflix series Dateline NBC (1992– / TV series), "The Summer of Manson", Season 25, Episode 42 American Horror Story (2011– / TV series) Season 7, Episode 10 Charlie Says, a 2018 drama film starring Matt Smith as Manson The Haunting of Sharon Tate, a 2019 supernatural horror film starring Hilary Duff as Tate Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a 2019 comedy-drama film featuring a fictionalized account of the evening of the murders. In the film, Tate survives the murder attempt thanks to intervention from protagonists Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth. Helter Skelter: An American Myth, a comprehensive 2020 six-part documentary film about Manson, the Family, the murders and the trial on EPIX network CHAOS: The Manson Murders, a 2025 documentary film based on Tom O'Neill's book, distributed on Netflix

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Books In addition to Bugliosi's Helter Skelter: The True Story of The Manson Murders (1974), these are the other books about the murders: The Girls, a 2016 novel by Emma Cline loosely inspired by the Manson family CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a 2019 non-fiction book by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring The Family: The Life and Crimes of Charles Manson and His Followers by Ed Sanders (1971, new edition 2023) Assassins... Serial Killers... Corrupt Cops...: Chasing the News in a Skirt and High Heels, a 2012 non-fiction book by Mary Neiswender featuring first hand accounts of the author's interviews with Manson

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Music The Manson Family: An Opera, a 1990 opera by John Moran Cielo Drive, a song by Car Bomb, an American mathcore band.