Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
A look at people killed by Manson Family
Sharon Tate
Age: 26 Actress and model, eight months pregnant. Stabbed 16 times. Susan Atkins wrote “PIG” on the front door using Tate’s blood. Atkins first said she stabbed Tate then denied it.
Jay Sebring
Age: 35 Hollywood stylist to the stars. Shot and kicked by Charles “Tex” Watson, stabbed seven times. Shot when he tried to stop Watson from harming Sharon Tate, his former fiancee.
Abigail Folger
Age: 25 Heiress to the coffee company, a civil rights advocate. Was stabbed 28 times by Chalres Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel. Folger and her lover, Wojciech Frykowski, had been house sitting at the home on Cielo Drive that Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski had rented.
Wojciech Frykowski
Age: 32 Writer and friend of Sharon Tate’s husband, director Roman Polanski, who was out of the country. Frykowski and Abigal Folger had been falling out and he was sleeping on the couch when Watson entered. Tried to escape and was shot twice and stabbed 51 times.
Steven Parent
Age: 18 Shot and killed when he was leaving the Los Angeles home where Sharon Tate, Abigal Folger and Wojciech Frykowski were living. He had been visiting a friend living in the guesthouse.
Leno LaBianca
Age: 44 A grocer, was found with a knife in his throat, 12 stab wounds and multiple fork wounds. “War” had been carved on his stomach.
Rosemary LaBianca
Age: 39 Was held down by Leslie Van Houten as she watched her husband stabbed to death. She was stabbed a 41 times, at least 14 times by Van Houten.