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Charles Manson — Part 4

551 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 13, 1969 · Broad topic: Cults & Extremism · Topic: Charles Manson · 551 pages OCR'd
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Police-have said the murders were. ___—Garretson, 19, hired as ganataler, committed by someone who planner Ge the absentee owner, 0' ~ the crime, cutting the telephone hiked himself. He invited j lines beside the gate-opening button to the home, too, to his quarters in a before enterii g the property. —_. guest house behind the swimming One theory is that the killer was pool. Several had police records. after one of the victims because of a Could someone he brought there pa ae aver naneotios, A Seer have returned with robbery in . suggested this and says he thinks he ° tye LES Ff knows the killer or killers—and Number ef Paaiio & sees . provided names—has been under ‘The number of possibilities in police guard for a week. _. case spiraled as police learned more- And, at least two informants—one “1d more about the people involved). now under police protection—have Uarretson entertained an ex-servicg. told police the target of the killer an, recently discharged for a nef: must have been Frokowsky and vous condition, who had a fixatic , possibly Miss Folger. The reason; for knives; rough-looking strange narcotics. _ had been seen at the home; n But there were reports that others Cotics were re por tedly delivered. may have lured a homicidal visitor there by underworld types... to the home at the end of Cielo Police said they were sifti Drive. Among the reports: “through the mountain of material —Sebring, it was said, was also Sathered by 19 detectives, trying to mixed up in narcotics; there were assess which leads to follow, which the drugs in his car, there was a re- 10 discard. A psychologist and a. port that he and Frokowsky had re- psychiatrist were studying pictures cently beaten up a dope pusher. One of the scene of the crime to try ara source said he had large gambling Make a diagnosis of the psychology: debts. Authorities investigated the of the murderer. Oe dis. reports: friends denied them. Detec- _ Officers aren't. ready” yet to dis- tives weren't saying what they close many details of the crime, iearned. ’ itself. But, from many sources, this: —Members of the Tate-Polanski e the ie available account of what crowd had picked up tough stran- Dappened: “ee gors and brought them to the home ~ Miss Tate returned in mid-July to for the fun and games homosexuals sometimes call "rough trade"—the kind of thing which has ended often in brutal murders when the games get out of hand. 4S 4
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