The Manson Family Murders
On August 8, 1969, actress Sharon Tate, who was 8 ½ months pregnant, and four others including a famous hairdresser, a coffee heiress, a filmmaker, and a 18-year-old were brutally murdered at the beverly hills home of Tate. All of the victims were shot or stabbed multiple times by the direction of Manson. That evening he told three female members of the Family--Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian--to get an additional change of clothes, a knife, and a driver's license. Manson discussed details of his plan with a fourth Family member, Charles "Tex" Watson. Forty-five minutes or so later, shortly after midnight on August 9, the group pulled up in front of the Bel Air residence of actress Sharon