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| thea’ released, remembers that Parent arrived near midnight and stayed with | bi for about a half hour. Parent was shot several times in the head as he sat at the wheel of his car, the wheels pointed dramatically f ‘ in the direction of the elec- | " tronically-centrolled gate to |, } the estate. He apparently had never even met the other four vic- tims whose lives were also snuffed out, Inside. the house with the actress were three members set that’ surrounded Miss Tate and her movie director, husband, Roman Polanski. Polanski, in London finish- ing arrangements for a mov- ie, had talked ‘to his eight- Monit pregnant wifé@ariter ! | { in the evening via trans-| atlantic telephone. The 26-year-old Miss Tate flew back from England a few months earlier, eagerly {anticipating the birth of her i first. child. | Unaware. of her imminent of the ‘“‘beautiful’? people jet} ’ engaged to Miss Tate before | her marriage to Polanski. 1 Alabama-horn Sebring had _ become internationally-fa- ‘ mous as the leader in mak- ing men’s hair styling a fash‘ jonable trend, He had parlayed this trénd), into considerable wealth and} was expanding a chain of his salons. Asleep on a couch in the living room was Voytick Fry-! kowski, 32, who had grown ‘ up as a childhood friend of: Polanski’s back in Poland. _Friends said that at. the » time of the murders Fry-, ‘kowski had been on a pro- longed mescaline “trip” and he was known as a frequent user of other exotic drugs.. The fact that both Fry- ’ kowski and Sebring were gators to_suspect initally that ; f the slayings had~ some | coaTectionwith nareatictras, A small amount of mari-); juana, and tablets containing.|' a drug called DMA were found in Sebring’s'~ black Porsche parked on the es- | iy genre, | Shrine 35, who had been! plaxed_an known drug users led investi- - ? el above-average , skill. ee Upon Miss Tate’s return from England, Frykowski, had moved into fhe house | along’ with fis mistress, 26+ year-old Abigail Folger: | Miss Folger, a member of the socially-prominent San Francisco family that. oper-| ates the Folger Coffee enter- prises, was devoted to social work and spent her days, working on projects in Watts. , The slayers gathered all four in the living room. and in a matter of minutes. all. were dead or dying. A rope was put around the necks of Sebring and Miss Tate and then tossed over a rafter. He was,.shot and. stabbed as the first vietim in the house, investigators he- lieved. oMiss—Sate’s attacker stabbed her numerous times, incliding a vicions slash } across her léft breast CS: Once. aroused from his drug-induced stupor, Fry- . kowski put up a terrific bat- dying, just outside the front _Miss Folger was stapbecin , — the abdomen inside the house , and then. knifed Several! times in the back as she ran past the fallen Frykowski. | She was found 6n the lawn, , 50 feet beyond whére his ' body Jay. ' It, was (his Garfiage that | maid Winifred Chapman, found about 8:30 a.m. when shé came to work, She ran in { horror to have a neighbor phone police. } A similarly grisly Sight | was discovered at the La Bianca’s. 3301 Waverly Drive residence by Frank Struthers | Jr., the 15-year-old son of! Mrs. La Bianca by a pre; vious marriage. ' La Bianca, 44, had. ‘been successful over a period of! years in building his gracery, store chain. His wife, 38, op-1 erated a successiul Wilshire; Boulevard boutique. Poliée believe neither of! them had ever met Miss Tate! , or any of the other victims' whose lives were taken the} previous. night. ; Both La Biancas were | stabbed several times, To’ add to. the macabre nature of, | the crime, the killers. left a] \ -caréinafork phinged_inth La | | Bianca’s stomach, | tle before he finally dropped | . tate. Frykowski had been in this; Prykowski was stabbed a | county only three years and’, soar of 51 times and shot in was frustrated in his ambi-| Kons to make a name -r| thé back and chest with me himself in the movie industry} Western-style revolver also } asa producer and director. used on Sebring and Parent. | door, ‘date with death, she had ' spent the hours before the fa- ''tal attack by perusing a'baby {name book. ‘ Miss Tate was just on the 1 verge of attaining star sta- , tus. Her main claims to fame. ‘iad been a good part in the | movie “Valley of the Dolls,” and a nude layout in Playboy magazine, Evidence indicates that he Polanski described his | was beaten, too, with the | friend as a man with “lots of avnbition but little talent. weapon. ‘The butt of the gun In addition to working with broke off and was found Polanski on several films as | lyitig on the lawn near Fry: “assistant,” Frykowski de) yokes ho dy. The barrel rived a good portion of his ; northe | dacome from still _photogra- W4S found several months phy, work ‘in whien Gets: . later_oif Mulholland Drive by | —$—$— Ts, Ht, a young day. toe | a She was. in bed, wearing a shottie nightgown with bikini pants and bra, when the kill- ars arrived. Talking with her in the ‘bedroom ‘was Jay ——— === oe