Video: 'Too Young to Die - Sharon Tate' (Aug. 9, 1969, at 2:11/36:59)

(Saturday, August 9, 1969, approximately 12:30 a.m.-2:00 a.m. PDT) — Movie actress and fashion model Sharon Tate, who was 26 years, eight-and-a half months pregnant and the wife of film director Roman Polanski, and four other people were brutally murdered this morning at Tate’s Los Angeles home.

The other victims were identified as Tate’s friend and former lover Jay Sebring, a noted hairstylist; Polanski’s friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski; and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune, and daughter of Peter Folger.

Polanski was in Europe working on a film project at the time of the murders.

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Cult leader Charles Manson and three of members of his “Family” (Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, who wrote “pig” in blood on the front door as they left, and Patricia Krenwinkel) were later convicted of the crime.

A fourth Manson Family follower, Linda Kasabian, who served as a lookout, had not entered the residence and was not thought to have physically participated in any of the murders. She would later become the key witness in the prosecution of Manson and his followers.

The very next night, the Manson Family would strike again, murdering supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, a dress shop co-owner, at their home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles.