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Witnesses described the sanguinary scene as a “battlefield” and a “human slaughterhouse.” Blood was everywhere-throughout the house, on the front porch, on the lawn. On the front door the word PIG was written in blood that, after analysis, proved to be Sharon Tate’s. Someone had climbed the telephone pole, with a pair of wire clippers, and cut all four telephone wires to the house. The police found another victim as well, a young man named Steven Parent, who had been visiting the grounds caretaker in his nearby cottage, slumped over the wheel of a car near the gate to the property. Frykowski had also been struck on the head with a blunt instrument. All four of them had been stabbed multiple times. Two of these victims-Sebring and Frykowski-had been shot. When the police arrived that morning, they found, in the living room of the mansion, the bodies of Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring, an internationally known hair designer who was Tate’s former lover and now a friend to both her and Polanski, and on the front lawn the bodies of Abigail Folger, a Folger-coffee heiress, and her lover, Wojciech Frykowski, a playboy and friend of Polanski from his filmmaking days in Poland. The mansion was the residence at that time of director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate. As it turned out, this was not the right night for this group of people to do that.Īll afternoon the news had been filled with reports of a grisly and bizarre quintuple murder that had taken place after midnight in a mansion at 10050 Cielo Drive off Benedict Canyon in Bel-Air, an exclusive residential area of Los Angeles about eighty-five miles southeast of Santa Barbara. As dusk fell over the eucalyptus and lemon trees surrounding the house, we dropped acid. We were all in our early to mid-twenties. There were five of us present: four of us-myself, Richard, Jan, and Ruth (my girlfriend that summer)-were Junior Fellows at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, and there was Jan’s wife, Barbara. Given the renewed interest in Manson’s cult, we’re republishing this interview-first published by Tin House in 2017-between New Republic E ditor in Chief Win McCormack and a Manson follower who left the “family” just in time.Ī house on Romero Canyon Road, in the Montecito section of Santa Barbara, California, the evening of Saturday, August 9, 1969. in Hollywood, although the filmmaker characteristically has rewritten what actually occurred. These events also play a prominent role in Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time. Editor’s Note: August 9 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the so-called Tate murders, when followers of Charles Manson massacred five people, including actress Sharon Tate, in a home north of Beverly Hills.