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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) . Cielo Drive ends in a cul de sac. A! wire gate blocks the road. Beyond it lies the home Sharon Tate shared) with her husband, Roman Polanski. | At the side of the road, on a waist- | high pipe, is a silver button. On the night of Aug. 8-9, someone pressed that silver button. The gate swung open electrically. The home at 10050 Cielo Drive, secluded and vulnerable, was open—ready to. become a killing ground. By dawn, five persons lay dead— stabbed and shot in a mass murder of frightening barbarity. In the latest development, it was learned Saturday that Los Angeles police have requested the Royul Canadian Mounted Police in Van- couver to watch for four suspected! narcotics violators. It is believed! that these four persons are wanted for questioning in the murders. "We have been asked to locate four persons who may be traveling in Canada," an RCMP spokesman told) The Times, "But we will not give out, info#mation that might jeopar-| dize the Los Angeles investigation."| Police believe that whoever com- mitted the crime knew the sireet, the silver button, the home, the peo ple in it. There was something at the rustic, red-and-yellow home which attracted a killer. Motive a Mystery Was it something in the home—or’ was it the people who died there? What motive, police are seeking to ‘earn, would a killer (or killers) have in murdering these five! \natomy_ urder in Hollywood BY DIAL.T Times Sta Writer el ® of a Mass = 1—Sharon Tate. She was 26, a few weeks from the birth of her first child. She was strikingly beautiful, yet insecure, unsure, often lonely. She and her husband. film director Polanski, were called members of the jet set, the "beautiful people"; neighbors called them "rich hippies" and said of the scene of the crime: "Live freaky, die freaky." 2—Jay Sebring. Handsome, slight, 35, he was a men's hairdresser’ who proved his masculinity by becoming one of Hollywood's best karate experts. Once engaged to Miss Tate, he had become a friend of Polanski's, too. In his car were marijuana and pills. 3—Voityck Frokowsky. A Polish emigre, he was 37, tall, handsome, a powerful man, Once an assistant on Polanski's films, he had , apparently squandered his inherited wealth, and had become a hanger-on in the Tate-Polanski circle. Like others in it, he smoked marijuana; some said he also used cocaine, 4—Ahigail Folger. Heiress to the Folger coffee family, she was 26 and pretty, less attractive than the starlets spinning in and out of the Tate-Polanski orbit. "Gibby" Folger, an honor graduate from Radcliffe College, came to Los Angeles to do social work. But, according to an infor- mant being guarded by the police, she became the mistress of Frokow- sky, financed his drug habit, and became increasingly fascinated with the study of black magic. 5—Steven Parent. Two weeks before the murders, 18-year-old; Steven Parent of El Monte, gave a ride William E. Gar- retson, caretaker of the Tate-Polan- ski home, and Garretson had asked him to come by, Parent later did— and died in the seat of his car before He-tourd leave, ———e (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-B LA Times sos Anseles Date: 8/17/69 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: TA Submitting Office: CL) Being Investigated 62-681) -+¢ oriiAis...4