On the night of August 8 to 9, 1969, a terrible crime took place in California at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles: five people were brutally murdered by members of the sect led by the psychopathic guru Charles Manson, the “Family”. Among the victims is Sharon Tate, at the time wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski and eight months pregnant. When the horrific drama unfolds, one would have thought that the fact that the young woman of 26 years old is expecting a baby could help her. It is not so…
Dangerous, Charles Manson was able to cause four of his disciples to commit terrible acts in the villa where Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski lived. If the latter is absent because of the location scouting in Europe that he is doing for his next film, his wife for a year has remained on the American continent to continue her pregnancy serenely.
The drama takes place on a summer night in 1969. The members of the sect break into the house rented by the Tate-Polanski couple to perpetrate their crimes. Sharon Tate is there with three other friends, hairdresser Jay Sebring, heiress Abigail Folger and her companion Wojciech Frykowski, friend of the director and incidentally bodyguard. The criminals first kill a student who has come to visit the guardian of the property, Steve Parent, then tie up those present in the house.
All are killed, Sharon Tate does not escape the sad fate. She begged to be able to live long enough to give birth to her child, offering herself as a hostage in an attempt to save him. At this point, Atkins, Watson, or both kill Tate, stabbing her sixteen times. Tex Watson later wrote that at the time of his murder, Tate exclaimed: “Mummy mummy… “During her trial, Susan Atkins explained that Sharon Tate did ask her to leave her and her child alive, to which she replied:”Woman, I have no pity for you.“
Charles Manson, who died in 2017, was sentenced to death in 1971 alongside four of his disciples. The sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment. Roman Polanski will forever be traumatized by this tragedy which caused him to lose the one he considered the love of his life. She rests with her baby, who has been named Paul Richard Polanski, at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver, California.