Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders

Charles Manson’s biggest murders actually occurred back to back. On August 9th, 1969 in the canyons of Beverly Hills Sharon Tate who was an actress eight months pregnant was in her home along with Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring who all were spending the night. The father of her child and man in which she was living with was out in the city. Charles Manson directed Charles Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to enter the Tate residence (formerly the Melcher residence, who rejected Mason’s music compilation) and to “destroy everyone in it – as gruesome as you can.” (Helter Skelter-The True Story Of the Manson Murders, Curt Gentry). The group brutally murdered the inhabitants of the home that night,

Manson actually did not participate in the killings in the night prior, but was keen to join in on the next murder “Because he felt there was not enough panic among the victims from the Tate Murder” (Helter Skelter). The group simply drove around in search of murder victims. They arrived in the neighborhood in which a home that they had visited a party for a year before which housed a Grocery store owner and his wife Leno and Rosemary Bianca. There is no solid evidence on the exact occurrences that night due to the fact from different accounts from the people involved. Manson along side Watson tied the couple up using a lampcord and pillowcase and convinced them they would be safe and that it was only a robbery. After Charles left the home he sent in Van Houten and Krenwinkel who were given the orders to kill the couple. The two were brutally murdered, Rosemary was stabbed 41 times, while Leno was stabbed 26 times and had the word “War” carved onto his stomach. The murderers wrote “Death to Pigs”, “Rise”, and “Healter Sicelter” (mispelled by the convicts) were written on the walls in Leno’s