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Jan 11, 2018 · According to court documents, on August 8-9, 1969, four members of the hippie cult known as the “Manson Family” broke into the former home of film director, Roman Polanski, and his wife, Sharon Tate. Tate was 9 months pregnant at the time, and was hosting a get together with friends at the Los Angeles home, located at 10050 Cielo Drive.
Dec 20, 2019 · GRAPHIC: We have obscured these never-before-seen photos sourced from police archives that show the victims of the Cielo Drive murders, also known as the Manson Family Murders, some of the most...
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Aug 8, 2019 · Holding hands and singing, three girl defendants in Sharon Tate murder case walk down a Los Angeles Hall of Justice corridor, March 19, 1970 for a pre-trial hearing. The girls, from left, are Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten.
- The Construction and Early Years of 10050 Cielo Drive
- Terry Melcher's Connection to Charles Manson
- Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski Move Into 10050 Cielo Drive
- The Horrors of The Tate Murders
- The Sharon Tate House After The Manson Family Murders
- 10500 Cielo Drive Today
Designed by renowned architect Robert Byrd and built by J.F. Wadkins in 1941, the idyllic cottage was set high above California's Beverly Hills Benedict Canyon. French actress Michèle Morgan commissioned the 3,200 square foot home and 2,000 guest house, which sat on a 3.3-acre plot. Meant to evoke a European country cottage, the front yard featured...
Melcher had a close working relationship with the Beach Boys — and a friendship with their drummer, Dennis Wilson. In a move less controversial in the 1960s, Wilson saw no harm in picking up hitchhikers and happened across Patricia Krenwinkel and Ella Jo Bailey. He could not have realized at the time that the women would change the trajectory of hi...
In February 1969, after Melcher and Bergen moved to live with Melcher's mother in Malibu, Rudolph Altobelli rented 10050 Cielo Drive to director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress and Hollywood's new it-girl, Sharon Tate. She was already pregnant with the couple's first child. According to Altobellli's court testimony, Manson visited the home on ...
In the wee hours of August 9, 1969, Polanski was in London for his next film project. Inside the house were Tate, friend and ex-boyfriend Jay Sebring, Polanski's friend Wojciech Frykowski, and his girlfriend Abigail Folger — heiress to the Folgers Coffee fortune. Steven Parent was just leaving the guesthouse after visiting the home's caretaker when...
Roman Polanski flew to California immediately after the murders. He appeared in Life magazine photos at the home, evidence of the killings still painfully evident. He even asked the photographer to take some Polaroids and give them to a psychic to figure out who the killers were. This angered many, but mostly the home's owner, Rudolph Altobelli. He...
Now, there is a new villa on the property. But the numbers 10050 carried too much weight. The address was changed to 10066 Cielo Drive — and sold to Jeff Franklin, the creator of Full House, who turned it into a 20,000-square-foot behemoth complete with a 15-car underground garage, six bars, five aquariums, two swimming pools, and a museum dedicate...
Sep 23, 2024 · Revisiting the grisly crime scene photos of the Menendez brothers' case of the murders that shocked a nation.
Apr 22, 2022 · Sharon Tate was stabbed to death — believed to have been at the hands of either Watkins or Atkins — which also killed her unborn child. As the murderers fled the scene, Atkins wrote the word "PIG" in the victims' blood on the home's front door.
In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of LAPD crime photos dating from the 1920s to 1970s. The cellulose nitrate-based film and negatives were decomposed and deemed as fire hazard.
