Editing Manson Family (section)

===Murders of Tate, Sebring, Folger, Frykowski, and Parent===
{{Main|Tate–LaBianca murders}}

On the night of August 8, 1969, Manson directed [[Tex Watson]] to take [[Susan Atkins]], [[Linda Kasabian]], and [[Patricia Krenwinkel]] to Melcher's former home at [[10050 Cielo Drive]] in Los Angeles. According to Watson, Manson told them to kill everyone there. The home had recently been rented to actress [[Sharon Tate]] and her husband, director [[Roman Polanski]]. (Polanski was away in Europe working on ''[[The Day of the Dolphin]]''). Manson told the three women to do as Watson told them.

The Family members killed the five people they found: Sharon Tate (eight and a half months pregnant), who was living there at the time, [[Jay Sebring]], Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, who were visiting her, and Steven Parent, who had been visiting the caretaker of the home. Atkins wrote "pig" with Tate's blood on the front door as they left. The murders created a nationwide sensation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=19790809&id=zrg0AAAAIBAJ&pg=1327,1436322&hl=en|title=Sharon Tate murder 10 years ago|date=August 9, 1979|work=UPI|publisher=The Hour|access-date=January 25, 2016|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720042418/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1916&dat=19790809&id=zrg0AAAAIBAJ&pg=1327%2C1436322&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>