Sharon Tate

Whenever a person hears the word cult, they will either be frightened or not think much about it. The word cult, is nowadays often used to describe a group of people that believes or does something out of the ordinary. Its original definition however, is a “ritual observance involved in worship of the supernatural or its symbolic representations” (Cult). While most cults have died out, many are still active today or have influenced modern cults. People may know these cults by name but they may…

attributed with over 35 murders, it was the murders committed on the nights of August 9 and 10 of 1969 that captured the attention of the world. On August 9, four members of the Manson Family brutally tortured and murdered the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and three of her guests at the direction of Charles Manson, who was not present. Manson believed that the previous tenant, who had rejected Manson’s music compilations, still lived there and told his followers to “destroy everyone in it – as…

Sister's Murder 45 Years After Manson." People, vol. 82, no. 10, 8 Sept. 2014, pp. 90-95. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 1 Feb. 2017. Debra Tate recalls horrific memories, and emotions 45 years after her sister Sharon’s death just as it was yesterday. Debra finally opens up about the tragedy that changed her family's life forever. The family finds out that Sharon was not killed in a fire, but rather that it was far more brutal. Debra lives with these memories everyday of her life and never…

Early life Roman Polanski was born on August 18, 1933, in Paris France. At The age of three, Polanski moved with his family to his father's home city of Krakow, Poland. In 1941 his parents were imprisoned in multiple concentration camps, though Auschwitz was his mother's last, In order to escape from being sent to the camps young roman lived with several polish families over the years until in 1944 he was reunited with his father. As a teenager, Polanski developed acting skills in films and…

Charles Milles Maddox – referred to by most as Charles Manson – was the leader of the Manson Family cult in the revolutionary period of the 1960’s. The Manson Family was responsible for nine murders, starting with the infamous killings of the actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends, occurring within five weeks in the year 1969. Charles Manson is still alive today serving a life sentence in Corcoran State Prison. Manson’s dark childhood was an appropriate indicator of the grisly events that…

mystery, romance, suspense, and hardboiled detective/film noir genre elements Film marked French-born Polish director Roman Polanski's return to Hollywood five years after the gruesome 1969 Manson murders that took the life of his actress wife Sharon Tate. Polanski opted to use a bleak ending…

Who is Charles Manson? You may have heard his name on your favorite night time crime drama series or pop up on the news recently due to rumors of him getting a marriage license to a 26 year old female prison visitor. But who exactly is he and why is he regarded such an infamous serial killer? You may be wondering why I chose to speak about a serial killer today. Well, I am very interested in criminology and choose to spend my free time researching and studying the infamous serial killers, cult…

Beausoleil, a member of the Manson Family. “Charles Manson Biography” (2016) states that the next murders were Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Sharon Tate, a pregnant Hollywood star. Folger was stabbed 28 times, Frykowski was stabbed 51 times and shot twice, Sebring was shot once and stabbed seven times, and Tate was stabbed 16 times. Manson was very displeased with his followers’ work in these…

A notorious criminal, Charles Miles Manson, was the center of a sadistic cult that afflicted many throughout the 1960s. Manson and his sect came to typify the aphotic marginal of an aeon that many usually affiliate with amity and unrecompensed love. During this spree, he commanded others to commit a series of crimes including thievery, assault, and even murder while under the influence of The Beatles and recreational drugs. Charles Manson was born to a sixteen year old girl who abandoned him due…

The Manson murders as well as the Sleepy Lagoon murder were both war time murders that involved outsiders who were seen as a threat to the American way of life as both hippies and Mexican American’s rejected societal norms through their unique attire, rebellious attitudes, and vehement resistance or support to war. As they walked to their own beat, hippies in the 60’s did everything other than the norm, by creating their own perspectives and lifestyles and rejecting the American values that had…