It’s like living near a freeway -pretty soon you don’t hear the cars driving by.” “There’s a lot of screaming and yelling in this neighborhood on weekends,” he said. At first he thought he was dreaming, but then decided it was just another party. Young Parent was in his car, shot five times in the chest.Ī next door neighbor said he awoke to hear a woman screaming that night and what seemed to be shots. Miss Folger, in a nightgown, was found dead of stab wounds not far away.
The 37-year-old Frokowsky was found on the lawn. They had been killed with a sharp weapon and there were “X ‘ marks cut in both bodies. The nylon rope had been tied around her neck, cast over a beam and down around the neck of Sebring, a former fiance of Sharon, who wore only boxer shorts. Sharon’s body was found nude, not in pants and a bra as first reported, in the living room.
Polanski’s tearful and indignant rejection of any idea of a wild party did not square, however, with the scene police found when they were summoned by a terrified maid. Then he sarcastically told newsmen he was leaving to them the “orgy place” - a house with many books on natural childbirth (Sharon was eight months pregnant), gifts for his birthday and baby clothes. He said she was a “vulnerable” person who could not refuse friendships and liked “constant parties” but he said she did not use drugs, drink or even smoke. Polanski defended his wife as a lovely girl who had been vilified.
SHARON TATE AUTOPSY OHOTOS MOVIE
Miss Tate was the wife of Roman Polanski, French-Polish director on the movie “Rosemary’s Baby,” who flew here from London after the Aug. One victim apparently was slain because he happened on the murder scene.Ī detail comprising an inspector, a captain, two lieutenants and 17 sergeants is investigating the murder of Miss Tate, coffee fortune heiress Abigail Folger men’s hair stylist Jay Sebring Polish emigree Voityck Frokowsky and 18-year-old Steven Parent. Police are not sure whether there was one or several killers although they lean strongly to the latter theory. Apparently the killers did not leave a fingerprint although the carnage ranged from the living room to the lawn to a car in the driveway. The weapons, a knife or sword and a gun or guns, have not been found. If they know the motive, they are not saying. There seemed clues enough to solve a dozen ordinary murders.īut a month later, and after quizzing more than 300 persons, police today apparently still do not have a prime suspect in the grisly slaying of Actress Sharon Tate and four others in a rented Benedict Canyon home. An informant who named names.A caretaker who found the phone dead in the hour before dawn. Hollywood names that brought international publicity. The word “Pig” scrawled in blood on a door. This photo of Miss Tate was taken in 1965. MURDER MYSTERY - After an investigation of one month and interrogation of 300 persons, Los Angeles police today are no nearer solving the murder of Sharon Tate and four other persons, than they were the day following the macabre murder.