Manson had asked the judge to order the sheriff's department to stop the alleged harassment. Older continued a hearing into a charge by Manson that he was being harassed in the county jail. Leno LaBianca were killed.īefore the jury was brought into the courtroom today, Su perior Court Judge Charles H. On Monday, he is scheduled to describe the wounds of the others slain on the first night of what the prosecution charges was two nights of murder by Manson and his followers. Noguchi, the coroner, was still on the stand. Frykowski Abigail Folger, a coffee heiress, and Voyteck Frykowski, a Polish producer and writer, were also slain at the Tate residence.Īs court was recessed for the weekend, Dr. The 30 grams of hashish and the 10 capsules of MDA, the police officer went on, were found in the front bedroom, which he described as having been “occupied by Miss Folger and Mr. The cocaine was in the same auto mobile, he said. The rest, he said, was discovered in car owned by Mr. The sergeant said that 76 grams of marijuana had been found in a plastic bag in living room cabinet. Sergeant McGann, of the Los Angeles Police Department, said that his search of the premises after the killings had turned up 82.3 grams (about three ounces) of marijuana, 30 grams (slightly more than an ounce) of hashish, a gram of cocaine and 10 cap sules of MDA. Reports had circulated earlier that drugs had been found there, but the kinds and amounts had not been made public. McGann testified that marijuana, hashish, cocaine and a hallucinogen known as MDA were found at Miss Tate's home during the investigation that followed the killings. In addition, he noted that there were two slashes from a sharp instrument on her left forearm that he described as “super ficial.”ĭuring the coroner's testi mony, Manson and his codefend ants, Susan Denise Atkins, 21 years old, Patricia Krenwinkle, 21, and Leslie Van Houten, 19, sat impassively at the defense table.Įarlier, Detective Sgt. Standing before a diagram of a figure, he pointed out the lo cation, depth and direction of five stab wounds in Miss Tate's chest, eight in her back, two in her right upper arm and one at the base of her right thigh. Similar steps were taken when cult members committed the LaBianca murders the following evening, per Vox.“My opinion was - and my opinion Is still the same-that the cause of death was mul tiple stab wounds front and back penetrating the heart and lungs and causing massive hemorrhaging.” It's believed this was done to implicate the Black Panthers in the murders and incite Manson's prophesied race war. As the murderers fled the scene, Atkins wrote the word "PIG" in the victims' blood on the home's front door. Sharon Tate was stabbed to death - believed to have been at the hands of either Watkins or Atkins - which also killed her unborn child. Sebring was the first killed, but Frykowski and Folger managed to briefly escape, only to be chased down and killed by two cult members Frykowski was stabbed some 50 times, and shot twice. They forced all of the home's occupants into the living room, where they tied Sebring and Tate together. The Manson followers consisted of Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian. One of those followers, Charles "Tex" Watson, later said the directive was to commit the murders as "as gruesome as you can," per Britannica. Manson had ordered five of his followers to go to the house and murder everyone there.
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