
On August 16, just a week after the massacre, Manson and 26 family members were arrested in conjunction with a string of car thefts. Initially, police rejected any connection between the LaBianca and Tate killings, which they believed was simply a drug deal gone south. The culprits remained unknown for months. After they murdered the couple, Krenwinke scrawled "Rise," "Death to pigs" and "Helter Skelter" on the walls in their blood. Evening Standard/Getty Imagesīut the assault on Cielo Drive wasn't the end of the Family's bloody campaign: The following night, the group joined up with Manson and fellow followers Leslie Van Houten and Clem Groogan to break into the Los Feliz home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. She was subsequently murdered by members of Charles Manson's pseudo-religious sect The Family. Polish film director Roman Polanski and American actress Sharon Tate (1943 - 1969) at their wedding. Atkins wrote "pig" on the front door in her blood. It wasn't just the murders, it was how brutal they were: Tate, who reportedly begged to be allowed to live long enough to give birth, was stabbed 16 times. (Polanski was in Europe at the time, working on a film.)

The carnage was discovered later that day by Tate's housekeeper. In all five people were killed at the Tate-Polanski house: The actress herself, celebrity stylist Jay Sebring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski Folger coffee heiress Abigail Folger and 18-year-old Steven Parent, who was visiting the property's caretaker at the time. totally destroy everyone in, as gruesome as you can." According to Watson, he told his followers to go "to that house where Melcher used to live. Manson, 33, was convinced Melcher had cost him a record contract. Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, were living on Cielo Drive in a home previously owned by music producer Terry Melcher. Manson, who previously had a heavy beard, was clean shaven for his appearance in which he intends to act as his own attorney.

Charles Manson, hippie cult leader and accused mastermind in the killing of Sharon Tate and several other persons last year, arrives in court to enter a plea to seven counts of murder and one count of conspiracy.
