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&P-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) s’ Polanski Believes Wife Wak (Mount Clipping in Space Below) ——«z- “fer Asleep When Slayings Began ~ Condition of Bed and Fact Blood Was Found in Bedroom __ Cited as Reasons i in Interview Given by Miss Tate’s Mate ~ Film ‘director Roman Polanski thinks ° that his wife, actress Sharon Tate, was asleep when the killing started at their Benedict Canyon home, it was reported Sunday. Polanski was quoted as saying in this week's Life magazine that when he inspected the home Aug. 17 the condition of her bed—slept in on one side, pillows piled alongside—sug- \gested she had retired Aug. 8 when something awakened her. _ "“She-must've been awakened by a sound and got up," Polanski was uoted as saying. He based his opinion on the fact that there were blood stains in the doorway leading from the bedroom to the living room —"they hit her here," he said—and others leading back through the bedroom toward a door leading outside. "She tried to get out of the door, they dragged her into the living room, and killed her there," Polan- ski said. _Miss Tate and Jay Sebring were killed in the living room of the home. Voityck Frokowsky and Abi- gail Folger were found dead on a lawn outside, and a young friend of the estate's caretaker was found ere in his car in the driveway. olice believe. the slayings took piace ery Aug. 9. The Life magazine article quoted Polanski as saying of Frokowski: "I should've thrown him out when he ran over Sharon's dog." Frokowsky, a known drug-user whom some feel attracted the killer to the Tate home, ran over Miss Tate's York- shire terrier in the driveway of the home a few weeks before the murders. Polanski made a 15-minute state- ment to newsmen before he left Los Angeles—reportedly for Florida and the Bahamas—but he did not speak of his theories of the murders. He said a Life magazine writer, Thomas Thompson, accompanied him to his home because he was a_ personal friend. Thompson wrote the Life piece, which was accompanied by photographs of Polanski and the scene of the crime. Polanski was in Europe at the time of the murders. Frokowsky and Miss Folger had been staying at the home while Polanski and Miss Tate were away. They remained there after Miss Tate returned home to await the birth of a child. Miss Folger, a 26-year-old Rad- cliffe graduate, left an estate of $530,000, it was disclosed in a petition for probate filed in San Francisco. She was the heiress to the Folger coffee fortune, She left no will. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) I-3 Los Anreles Times Los Angeles, Calif, Date: 8/25/69 Edition: Home Author: Editor: Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting OfficebOS Anreles | Being Investigated AUG 2 5 1969 FBI— LOS ANGELES