Wojciech Frykowski

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    PIG Movie Research Paper

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    August 9th 1969, a housekeeper arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive, the home of film director Roman Polanski, who lived in the former residence of in a fashionable Los Angeles neighborhood near Beverly Hills. Five people lay dead in and around the blood-spattered house. The victims included Polanski's young wife, actress Sharon Tate, who was eight-and-one-half-months pregnant; Jay Sebring, a noted hairstylist; Abigail Folger, daughter of the chairman of the board of A. J. Folger Coffee Company; Folger's Polish boyfriend, Voytek Frykowski; and Steven Parent, a young man who had stopped by to sell some clock radios. The victims had been beaten and stabbed dozens of times, and the word PIG was written in blood on the front door. There seemed to be…

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    “On August 9, 1969 Sharon Tate, her unborn child, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring were murdered” (Crime library). Tate’s neighbors claimed to have heard gunshots and a man’s screams but never notified the authorities. A private security had also heard the gunshots and he proceeded to call the authorities. “Early the next morning the at 8:00 am the housekeeper found the brutally murdered bodies” (Crime library). According to the book Helter Skelter, manson had ordered Charles…

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    became a singer-songwriter which was his way out of crime for a while. During this period, he got a girlfriend and they had a child together. Then all of a sudden he went back to crime and was in and out of jail once more. He then became fascinated with clans and groups that went around killing people so he decided that he would start his own. He called his clan “the Family.” Charles and “the Family” proceeded to move to San Fernando Valley in California. The year after they moved there would…

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    Polanski’s house hold has been targeted because it represented Manson reaction by the showbiz world and society. The victims inside the house, actress Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowski and his partner, Abigail Folger; and Jay Sebring. Polanski was away in london during the killings. 169 stab wounds between the five who died. Roman Polanski was not the cult leaders intended target. Manson chose them because he had once unsuccessful tried to get a record deal from a producer who used to live…

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    Charles Manson Race War

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    race war. On August 9th, 1969, was his first shocking murder, and it was of Sharon Tate, a famous actress. She was killed at the address of 10050 Cielo drive, in Beverly Hills. Roman Polanski, Sharon’s husband and father of her unborn baby, lived there. Polanski wasn’t the intended victim of the cult. A music producer had once lived there and Manson had tried to get a recording deal from him but was turned down. Susan Atkins, Charles Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian were chose to…

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    26). An article sponsored by A+E Network (2010) states that Manson believed the Beatles song “Blackbird” was a prediction of a race war and another Beatles song “Helter Skelter” was the name of the actual war. He believed that his family could escape the race war by living underground at Death Valley. Instead of waiting for the race war to begin, he decided to start it by committing the first brutal murders. An article called “Charles Manson and the Manson Family” (2015) provides that the first…

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    He told the women to do as Watson would instruct them. These murders, the Tate murders, consisted of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger. The next night, the night of the LaBianca murders, Manson accompanied Leslie Van Houten, Steve "Clem" Grogan, and the four from the previous night to “show them how to do it”. They murdered Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. At all of these murders, Manson was the main person delegating and ordering the others to murder said…

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    songs like Helter Skelter warned of a coming race war between black and whites. Manson wanted to jump start the race war by sending his followers out to kill wealthy white people in the Hollywood area. Manson wanted the murders to look like blacks killed the white victims. During the summer of 1969 there was a bloody five week period where the Manson Family slaughtered nine innocent people. It all started on August 8, 1969 when Manson ordered a small group of his followers to brutally kill five…

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    was not at the residence at the time, for he was filming a movie outside of town. The plan of the crime picked Kasabian to be the “star witness” in trial and was the getaway driver during the event. Even though Romamn Polanski was not at the house of the killing, 5 other famous faces fell at the hands of “The Family”, such as Sharon Tate, and actress whom was pregnant at the time, Wojciech Frykowski and his partner who were writers, Abigail Folger, the coffee bean heiress, and Jay Sebring, a…

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