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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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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below) nn Foy Tate Slaying Victim Was on Drug ‘Trip’ By WILLIAM FARR pick up for questioning in the Herald-Bxaminer Staft Writer Tate case. Polish emigre Voityck Fro-| But instead of being in the kowsky, one of the five victims! Vancouver, B.C. area as police in the Aug. 9 slaying of actress|believed, Harrigan was in Los Sharon Tate’s estate, was on al|Angeles and turned himself into prolonged mescaline “trip”? at}police. the time he was stabbed and| He was questioned extensively ‘shot to death. about this association with Fro- This was disclosed by Thomas|kowsky and other facets of the Michael Harrigan, who himself|bizarre mystery and then re- was briefly a central figure ear-|leased. lier this week in the police} pau) Caruso, the Beverly Hills probe of the grisly slayings. attorney who accompained him He said, ““Frokowsky was far|to the police station, said “Har- jgone on a trip ...I think helrigan can account for every |was on the fifth day of an eight-|minute of his time on the Fri- day trip. day night and Saturday morning a ry made _ ee that the murders took place.” ition based on seeing F rokowsky Harrigan reportedly attended Aug. 7 at the secluded Benedict a dinner party at a Manhattan Canyon house, two days before|peach restaurant early in the the quintuple killings took place. evening and then spent several “Frokowsky was wobbly and hours “having a few beers” uncoordinated ... 1 wanted to with friends. invite him to a party at my . place on the weekend... but| He said he then spent the re- he was too far gone. He never|™aining hours until after day- would have understood the|/ight with a girl friend. directions,” said Harrigan. In another aspect of the case, He said another Aug. 9 victim,|the body of Frokowsky was fi- internationally know-n men’s|Nally claimed. He had lain in the \hairstylist Jay Sebring, 35 also|County morgue since the slay- jseemed “ ... high on some-|ings 13 days ago. ithing.” His mother, Teofila Frokows- Harrigan said he saw Miss|ky, arrived from Poland to |Tate at the home that Thursday|claim the body, which will be night but was relatively certain| returned to his native country. she was not using drugs. Arrangements are being made Frokowsky, a 37-year-old|by Forest Lawn Cemetery. No screenwriter-photographer, re-|time was announced for Fro- portedly told several friends}kowsky’s private services. about his ‘“‘experiment’ with] Killed along with Miss Tate, mescaline, a hallucinogenic|Sebring and Frokowsky were much like LSD in its effect. San Francisco Bay Area coffee The 27-year-old Harrigan, anjheiress Abigail Folger, 26; and unemployed personnel consult-|E] Monte youth Steven Earl La, was the “red-haired hippie} Parent, 18, who came to the es- ‘type’ whom Royal Canadian|tate that night to visit the young Mounted Police here asked tocaretaker there. [= (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A-2 Herald Examiner, —Los Angeles, Calif. Date: 8- 22 - 69 Edition: Night Final Author:Donald Goodenow Editor: Tite: Sharon Tate, eta Victims Character: or Classification: Los Angele Submitting Office: Cc] Being Investigated
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