The papers didn’t know it yet, but the two dead victims were Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Said another: “It looked like a battlefield up there.”īefore anyone in the city could catch their breath, the next day’s headlines broke: 2 RITUAL SLAYINGS FOLLOW KILLING OF 5. “It seemed ritualistic,” said one investigating officer. It ran over a beam in the open-beam ceiling and was tied around the neck of Sebring, whose body lay nearby. A bloodied nylon cord was around her neck. In the living room, dressed in underwear-bikini panties and a brassiere-was Miss Tate. Twenty yards away, under a fir tree on the well-trimmed lawn, was the body of Miss Folger, clad in a nightgown. On the lawn in front of the ranch-style home was the body of Frokowski. …In a white two-door sedan in the driveway was the body of the young man, slumped back in the driver’s seat, shot to death. On August 10, 1969, a horrible headline screamed from the front page of the Los Angeles Times: RITUALISTIC SLAYINGS: SHARON TATE, FOUR OTHERS MURDERED.
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