

Police took the only survivor at the address, the caretaker William Garretson, for questioning. The coroner's report for Tate noted that she had been stabbed sixteen times, and that "five of the wounds were in and of themselves fatal". All of the victims, except Parent, had been stabbed numerous times. On the front lawn lay the bodies of Frykowski and Folger. Inside the house, the bodies of Tate and Sebring were found in the living room a long rope tied around each of their necks connected them. Police arrived at the scene to find the body of a young man, later identified as Steven Parent, shot dead in his car, which was in the driveway. In the evening, she went to her favorite restaurant, El Coyote, with Sebring, Frykowski and Folger, returning at about 10:30 p.m.ĭuring the night, they were murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family" and their bodies discovered the following morning by Tate's housekeeper, Winifred Chapman. Her younger sister, Debra, also called to ask if she and their sister, Patti, could spend the night with her, but Tate declined. In the afternoon, Polanski telephoned her. She entertained two friends, actresses Joanna Pettet and Barbara Lewis, for lunch at her home, confiding in them her disappointment at Polanski's delay in returning from London. On August 8, 1969, Tate was two weeks from giving birth.
