by Ed Sanders
My question is this: did ______ __ ________ urge you, and offer you money, to kill Sharon Tate? Yes or no, please.
And if yes he did, could you tell me where this meeting with him to discuss killing her took place? At Esalen? At a house in Topanga Canyon? In LA? Where?
Thank you for answering. You could call me.
Sincerely,
Ed Sanders
So far, no answer, no phone call.
As for the true motive that caused Manson to send his marauders into the house on Cielo Drive, we may never know. And the allegation that Sharon Tate was the target? Indeed, it may all be smoke and mirrors, and ultimately impossible to prove beyond doubt’s shadow. Meanwhile, Time’s Wingèd Chariot is clacking onward and erasing much of the access to the past.
But, even though the world moves on, decade after decade, that does not prevent loose ends flapping in the multi-decade breeze, and no loose ends can prevent our sense of outrage and anger for the horrible injustice perpetrated upon Sharon Tate and her friends.
Index
abortion, Polanski’s desire for Tate to have, 63, 116, 121, 123, 132
Academy Awards, 138
The Adventures of a Young Man (film), 11–12
The Adventures of Gerard (film), 127
advertising, 14–15, 57–58
Aherne, Brian, 68, 85, 267
Aimez-Vous les Femmes? (film), 25–26
All Eyes on Sharon Tate (documentary), 40, 87
Allied Artists Picture Corporation, 151–152
Altobelli, Rudy, 122, 130–132, 136, 138, 182, 214–215, 217, 233
Ambassador Hotel, 96–98, 100–106
American Prince (Curtis), 54
The Americanization of Emily (film), 19–20
Anderson, Michael, 37
Andrews, Julie, 19–20, 27
Anger, Kenneth, 157–158
Apple Records, 89
Archerd, Army, 76–77, 116
army intelligence, 7–8
assassination of Robert Kennedy, 94, 98–100, 102–105, 265–267
Atkins, Susan, 158, 197(fig.), 258(fig.)
arrest of, 251
Beatles’ “Sexy Sadie,” 87
Beausoleil’s arrest, 174
Cielo Drive killings, 178–179, 189–195
confession, 255–260
Hinman murder, 159–160
Hinman-Tate connection, 213
homicide investigation, 253
impetus for the murders, 181
LaBianca homicide reports, 241–242
lost Buck knife, 240
Manson trial, 270
writing in blood, 243
Auschwitz, 3–4
autopsy of Cielo Drive victims, 212–213
Avedon, Richard, 60
Bachmann, Gideon, 91
Bailey, Ella, 156
Baldwin, Linda, 251
Barabbas (film), 11
Bardiwill, George, 26
Barker Ranch, 264
Barnes, Joanna, 55–56
Barrett, Rona, 233
Bass, Alfie, 44, 47
Beatles, 25, 65–66, 69, 87, 89, 166
Beatty, Warren, 31, 35, 68, 85–86, 125, 131, 133, 223, 230–232, 234, 236–237
Beausoleil, Robert
arrest for Hinman murder, 173–176, 241
attempt to leave the Family, 156–157, 173
blaming Hinman murder on Black Panthers, 243
connection between Hinman and Cielo Drive killings, 213
copy-cat killings, 270
English Satanists, 263–264
Hinman murder, 158–161
Hinman’s relationship with, 158
light show party, 75
Mondo Hollywood, 228
motive for Tate-LaBianca murders, 181
rivalry with Manson, 157
beauty contests, 3, 6–7
Be-Ins, 69, 71
Beir, Fred, 110, 146–147
Bergen, Candice, 89, 121, 237
Bergman, Ingrid, 14
The Beverly Hillbillies (television program), 17–18, 21, 25, 32
Beymer, Richard, 11–15
Big Sur, 74, 77–78, 163
Black Panthers, 243–244
Blue (film), 75–76, 168
Boone, Pat, 10
Bowers, John, 50, 59–60
Brach, Gérard, 41, 43–44, 46, 84, 126–127
Bradley, Tom, 148
Brandt, Steve, 83, 215
Braun, Michael, 167
Braunsberg, Andy, 126–127, 209–210, 215–216
Break up the Dance (film), 6
Broccoli, Albert, 132
Brooke-Taylor, Tim, 135–136
Browar, Herb, 17–18
Brown, Daniel, 98–102, 104–105
Browning, Norma Lee, 57
Brunner, Mary, 158–159, 161, 175–176, 181
Brynner, Yul, 110, 233–234
Bugliosi, Vincent, 130–131
Burrud, Bill, 76–77
Burton, Richard, 35, 91, 93, 257
The Byrds, 55
Caballero, Richard, 260
Cadre Films, 26, 41, 66, 77–78, 117, 127
Calley, John, 18, 41–42
Canby, Vincent, 108
Cannes Film Festival, 90–91
cannibalism, 25, 85, 118–119
car theft, 243–244
Cardinale, Claudia, 54–56
Carroll, Harrison, 23–24
Carruthers, Ben, 124–125
Cassavetes, John, 68, 70
Castle, William, 66, 68, 78, 224–225
Catch–22 (film), 94
censorship, 116, 119
Cerf, Bennett, 224
Chapman, Winifred, 166–167, 170, 187, 199–201
Chappell, Walter, 28, 121, 123, 132
Chateau Marmont, 85–86, 85(fig.), 116, 226, 267
Chayefsky, Paddy, 19–20, 29
Christie, Julie, 83, 142
Ciao Federico! Fellini Directs Satyricon (documentary), 91–92
Cielo Drive house
Ann Ford’s birthday party, 163
events leading up to the murders, 164–165, 182–184
Folger and Frykowski’s stay at, 148–149
housewarming party, 124–125
killings at, 188–194
Manson Family’s drive to, 179
Manson’s search for Melcher, 130–131
Tate and Polanski acquiring, 122–123
Tate’s return to America, 145
The Cincinnati Kid (film), 28–29
Coburn, James, 236
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 89
Cold War, 4–5, 13, 126–127
Columbia Pictures, 107–108
Communism, 9–10, 78–80, 238
Compton Group, 35
Concini, Ennio de, 116–117
Conrad, Charles, 21
cooking, Tate’s, 107
copy-cat murders, 174
Cord, Alex, 76, 113, 145, 168, 171, 206–207, 227
Corey, Jeff, 21
credit card fraud, 175
Crowley, Aleister, 39, 157
Crowther, Bosley, 22, 80
Cul-de-Sac (film), 35, 41, 113
Curtis, Tony, 54–56, 58
Daley, John, 267–268
A Dandy in Aspic (film), 88
Davis, Bruce, 159–160, 263
Davis, Edward, 260
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 95, 106, 111–112
Dawson, Harrison Pickens “Pic,” 124–125, 236, 238–239
Day, Doris, 121, 126
A Day at the Beach (film), 138–139
The Day of the Dolphin (film), 126–127, 138–139, 141, 167, 209
De Rosa, J. J., 200–201
De Sica, Vittorio, 135–136
Death Valley, 128–129, 189, 247–253, 256–257, 264
DeCarlo, Danny, 181
Dee, Sandra, 20–21
Deemer, Earl, 220, 236
Democratic Primary, 92–98
Deneuve, Catherine, 40, 87
The Detective (film), 72
Do You Like Women? (film), 25–26
domestic abuse, 23–24
dominating men, Tate’s penchant for, 23, 82–83
Donner Party, 116–117, 127
Donner Pass (film), 118–119, 138
Don’t Make Waves (film), 54–60, 69, 146
Dorgan, Joe, 217
Dornan, Don, 223–234
Douglas, Kirk, 31, 145, 226
Downes, Terry, 44
Downhill Racer (film project), 66
Doyle, William, 124–125, 220, 236–239
Draper, Dave, 54–56, 60
Dreiser, Vera, 259
drug deals
August 8 delivery to Tate’s house, 171
Frykowski’s wholesaling of MDA, 149, 165–166
Hinman’s mescaline manufacturing, 156, 158–159
Manson’s fundraising through, 128
marijuana imports, 149
motivating Hinman’s murder, 158
motivating Tate-LaBianca murders, 180–182, 216, 219, 221–224, 230, 237–238, 241
narcotics investigation, 268–270
Sebring’s business, 164
drug use
crime scene, 206
English satanic cult, 86, 264–265, 269–270
Garretson’s polygraph test, 213–214
Helter Skelter, 177–178
Manson Family, 128–129
murder scene, 188–189
Polanski and Tate, 42
Polanskis’ housewarming party, 125
Rosemary’s Baby preview, 88
Satanic cults, 111–112
Sebring’s heavy coke use, 236
Sebring’s house parties, 52, 110–111
Summer of Love, 69
Valley of the Dolls, 62–64, 80
Duke, Doris, 123, 150
Duke, Patty, 63–65, 76, 92, 106–107
Dunaway, Faye, 40, 87
Dutton, Fred, 96, 101
Easy Rider (film), 164
Elliott, Cass, 124, 164, 223, 236–237
English Satanists
INS investigation, 86
Manson’s connection to, 263–264
role in Tate murder, 182, 263–266, 268
See also Satanism
environmental damage, 5–6
Esalen Institute, 161, 163
Esquire magazine, 78–80
Evans, Linda Ann, 60
Evans, Peter, 141–142
Evans, Robert, 66–67, 72–73, 109, 115, 139, 215
exile, Polanski’s, 121
extras in films, 11, 19–20
Eye magazine, 115
Eye of the Devil (film), 37–40, 59
The Factory (disco), 111
Falcon’s Lair, 123, 150
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), 12
Farrow, Mia, 67, 70–71, 78, 86–88, 92, 109–110, 112, 126
fate, Tate’s belief in, 150
The Fearless Vampire Killers (film), 41–51, 53, 55, 57–61, 76, 83, 113, 228
Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, 219, 221, 269
Federal Reserve Bank bag, 251
Federici, William, 221–223, 269–270
fellatio-miracle, Manson’s, 129
Fellini, Federico, 26, 91–92
Filmways, 17–19, 21–23, 29, 32, 34, 37, 40–43, 54–58, 61, 66
Final Solution, Hitler’s, 1
Fine, Mark, 164
First Homicide Investigation Progress Report, 239–240
Fitzgerald, Paul, 219, 223–234
flag at the murder scene, 187–188, 228
Fokianos, John, 210
Folger, Abigail, 130, 163, 187
crime scene, 200, 203
drug use, 147
events leading up to the murders, 165, 168, 170, 172, 175
lifestyle and interests, 148
moving into Cielo Drive house, 131
murder of, 189, 191–194
psychic reading, 162
Sebring’s debt, 238
“trespassory conduct” accusation, 233
Folger, Peter, 233
Fonda, Jane, 67, 125, 165
Ford, Ann, 121, 149, 163, 171–172
Forquet, Philippe, 20–24, 72
Fraker, William, 78
France, student protest movement in, 89–92
Franke, Linda, 10
Frankenheimer, Evans, 93, 97
Frankenheimer, John, 93, 96–98
Fromme, Lynne “Squeaky,” 153, 177
Frykowski, Wojtek, 187
Ann Ford’s birthday party, 163
crime scene, 200, 202–203
dolphin research, 127
Doyle’s video-buggering, 237
drug deals, 216, 223–224, 230
drug use, 147
events leading up to the murders, 164–168, 170, 172
First Homicide Investigation Progress Report, 240
Folger’s desire to leave, 165
investigation of the murders, 215
LaBianca murders, 180–181
lifestyle and interests, 148–149
Manson’s visit to Cielo Drive, 130
motives for the murders, 219–220, 224
moving into Cielo Drive house, 131
murder of, 188–194
psychic reading, 162
“trespassory conduct” accusation, 233
funerals of the Cielo Drive victims, 226–228
Furie, Sidney, 37
Gardiner, Jack, 264
Garland, Judy, 62
Garner, James, 19–20
Garretson, William, 131–132, 149, 182–183, 185, 201–202, 206, 213, 218
Gassman, Vittorio, 135–136
Gefsky, Hal, 14, 17–20, 24, 35
George, Carl, 266
Gleason, Bill, 243–244
Glutz, Sadie. See Atkins, Susan
Godard, Jean-Luc, 90–91
Golden Globe Award, 92
golden penis, 88
Gone with the Wind party, 147, 149
Good, Sandy, 175–176, 250
Goodwin, Richard, 95–96
Graciette, Maria, 162
Graham, Sheilah, 88
Graham, Virginia, 255–260
Grant, Cary, 68
Grant, Lee, 65
Greenburgh, Tony, 113, 209
Greenwald, Alvin, 227
Grenoble Protocol, 90
Grier, Roosevelt, 102
Griffin, Merv, 53–54
Grogan, Clem, 250, 253
Guenther, Charles, 174, 212, 253, 260
Guthrie, Woody, 73
Gutierrez, Manuel, 218
Gutowski, Gene
Aherne’s beach house, 68
background, 26
Compton Group film, 35
dissolution of Cadre Films, 127
golden penis, 88
loan to Polanski, 40
Paganini project, 117
protecting Polanski, 215
Rosemary’s Baby premiere, 112
Tate’s return to America, 143
The Fearless Vampire Killers, 43
Gutowski, Judy, 68, 77–78
Hamill, Pete, 106
Hanford, Washington, 4–7
Hardenbergh, Henry J., 70
Hardy, Thomas, 142
Harrigan, Thomas, 124–125
Hatami, Shahrokh
aftermath of the murders, 225
Ann Ford’s birthday party, 163
Cielo Drive house, 122–123
events leading up to the murder, 171–172
Eye of the Devil filming, 39
footage of Jay Sebring’s party, 110–111
Gone with the Wind party, 149
Manson’s first visit to Cielo Drive, 130
occult interests and activities, 269
Polanski filming sexual scenes, 119–120
Rosemary’s Baby documentary, 72
Tate’s pregnancy, 120–121, 132
Haudiquet, Philippe, 43
Hayward, Susan, 62
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Helter Skelter, 125, 128, 154, 176, 179–180, 217
Hemingway, Ernest, 11–12
Hemmings, David, 38, 59
Henry, Mike, 32
Heresma, Heere, 115, 138–139
Hesera, Simon, 85, 115, 120, 138–139, 209
Hiller, Arthur, 37
Hinman, Gary
automobile used in Tate murders, 173
Beausoleil’s connection to, 75, 158
Cielo Drive killings and, 195, 212–213
connecting the murder to Black Panthers, 243
events leading to the death of, 155–156, 158–161
homicide investigation, 173–174
LaBianca homicide reports, 241–242
hit list, Manson’s, 251, 257
Hollywood Studio Club, 18–19
home movies, Polanski’s, 119, 126, 219–220, 223–224
homicide investigations
autopsies and initial investigation, 212
Colonel Tate’s arrival, 207–208
connecting the Tate, LaBianca, and Hinman killings, 212–216, 218–219, 260–261
discovery of the bodies, 199–206
drugs and cult involvement, 227–228, 237, 241
First Homicide Investigation Progress Report, 239–240
Paul Tate’s investigation, 235–239
Polanski’s investigation, 231–233
Polanski’s polygraph test, 220
Polanski’s press conference, 229–231
psychic void-scan of the crime scene, 228–229
research methods, 188
Sadie’s prison confession, 256–260
Second Homicide Investigation Progress Report, 240–241
Sirhan’s sentence, 139
video tapes and photographs, 219–220, 233–235
Watson’s capture, 260
homicides
drugs and cult involvement, 221–224
events leading up to Cielo Drive killings, 163–168, 170–171, 176–179, 182–184
funerals, 226–228
LaBianca murders, 211–212, 216–218, 241–242
Manson Family’s arrival at Cielo Drive, 184–188
motive for, 179–182
Polanskis’ housewarming party, 124–125
Polanski’s notification of Tate’s death, 209–210
post-event violence, 224–225
sequence of events, 188–196
Hopper, Dennis, 164, 223
Hopper, Hedda, 12, 14–15
Hotchner, A.E., 11–12, 126, 223–224
Houghton, Robert, 241
House Un-American Activities Committee, 21
Howard, Ronni, 257–259
Hoyt, Barbara, 177–178
Hudson, Sarah, 93–94, 97
Huerta, Doris, 100–101
human sacrifice, 37–38
Humphrey, Hubert, 102
Hurkos, Peter, 228–229
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 86, 265–266
impotence, Polanski’s, 141
In the French Style (film), 20
