On this day, in 1969, one of the most horrific and tragic murders happened

[Blue_Roses]

and after reading over the article today, after all these years, it is still etched in my mind just like it was when I first read about it as a little kid. The Sharon Tate and Labianca murders. My older sister had the book, Helter Skelter, and I remember being horrified by this book as a kid. Even at such a young age, I couldn't understand how someone could be so evil to do what they did.

Today, even though I am much older, I still ask myself the same question. Such a heartbreaking story.


Just a warning, some of the pics and details may be too much.

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1937349_1937350_1937412,00.html

[lunasun]

1. Chilling also is Manson did not kill anyone at the Tate murders . He was able to convince others to

do it for him just because of a previous encounter at the home

He also had wierd ideas that there was a race war coming and his group would be saved and then rule . He thought that was what the Beatles White Album was all about
Ghastly murders of whites by blacks would be met with retaliation, and a split between racist and non-racist whites would yield whites' self-annihilation. Blacks' triumph, as it were, but would merely precede their being ruled by the Manson Family after the war

One thing to have this crazy in his own head, but he got a group of people to believe all his insanity and act on it

[niyad]

2. thank you for that very sad reminder.

[H2O Man]

3. It was the climax

of a series of increasingly violent crimes, which continued afterwards.

Mr. Bugliosi's book is of great value, though there are others that are required reading for a fuller understanding of what happened, and why.

[CakeGrrl]

4. Years later, they still get some details wrong.

I too happened along a copy of Helter Skelter via my older siblings when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was fascinated by the ghosted out images of the bodies.

What really got me was the preface: "The story you are about to read will scare the hell out of you."

But in the Time article, they say that one of the people killed was the gardener's son. That was Steve Parent, who wasn't the gardners son, and he didn't know any of Sharon Tate's group. He was there visiting the house caretaker in his guest cottage and happened to be heading out just as the killers arrived.

I believe the original house stayed up for a while and was rented by a member of Nine Inch Nails before it was taken down later on. I don't know how anyone could have stayed there with that death aura around it. Maybe it was the lasting impact it made on me having been aware of it so early.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. I remember all of that

I remember how scared everyone in Hollywood was.

I was really awful. It as on the news for a long time.