Again, both Leno and Rosemary’s fatal wounds were committed by Watson. Charlie then left the scene, while the killers committed their savage acts. He tied up the victims (44-year old Leno LaBianca, a grocery store owner and his 38-year old wife Rosemary, a dress store proprietor). This time, Charlie went with the killers to make sure they did as he ordered. The night after the Cielo Drive killings, two more homeowners were targeted by the Family. He was Charlie’s chief assassin, and while the women contributed, it was Watson who committed the fatal injuries of each of the victims. Watson did not believe in Helter Skelter and had his own motivations for committing the crimes.
One man also participated in these two nights of murder: Charles ‘Tex’ Watson. The women believed they were killing the victims to start Helter Skelter, a race war that Manson had prophesized. The killings were committed by members of a ‘hippie cult’, a group of anti-establishment runaways and drop-outs who followed the teachings of a criminal ex-convict, sociopath Charles Manson. In today’s criminal justice system, the killers would have been charged with his death as well as the others.
While the baby (later named Paul Tate Polanski, who was was laid to rest with his mother in her grave) was not officially counted as a murder victim, no doubt he could have lived if medical assistance had been immediately provided. Her baby died in utero, moments after Sharon’s heart stopped beating. Tate was eight months pregnant with her first child at the time she was killed. They included 18-year old Steven Parent (a guest of the property caretaker), 35-year old Jay Sebring (a notable men’s hairstylist), 25-year old Abigail Folger (heiress to the Folgers coffee fortune, a social worker), 32-year old Wojciech Frykowski (a Polish emigree, and Folger’s boyfriend) and Sharon Tate, 26-year old star of stage and screen, who rented the home in question with her husband, film director Roman Polanski.
During a two-night shocking and savage crime spree, members of the Manson Family murdered seven people. Five were killed at Cielo Drive, an upscale home in Benedict Canyon.
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