Editing Manson Family (section)

==== Drugs ====
Other people suggested the motive was related to the drug dealing by [[Jay Sebring]] and Voytek Frykowski, and their connection with [[Tex Watson|Charles Watson]] and Manson, and a bad drug deal.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schreck |first=Nikolas |author-link=Nikolas Schreck |title=The Manson File |title-link=The Manson File |publisher=[[Amok Press]] |year=1988 |isbn=0-941693-04-X |location=New York City |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Markham">{{cite news |last=Siegel |first=Tatiana |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/manson-family-murder-victims-friend-posits-alternative-motive-1227729 |title=Manson Victim's Friend Posits Alternative Motive: 'I Never Bought into the Race War Theory' |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=July 18, 2021 |date=July 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731034053/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/manson-family-murder-victims-friend-posits-alternative-motive-1227729 |archive-date=July 31, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="O'Neill">{{cite book|last=O'Neill|first=Tom|title=Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zG92DwAAQBAJ|year=2019|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=978-0-316-47757-4|access-date=July 18, 2021|archive-date=June 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606182949/https://books.google.com/books?id=zG92DwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> For instance, Sebring's protégé [[Jim Markham]] believes the murders were in response to a bad drug deal the day before, in which Manson went to Tate's house to sell [[marijuana]] and [[cocaine]] to Sebring and Frykowski. Instead, the two men attacked and beat Manson.<ref name="Markham"/> In an interview with police, Frykowski's friend Witold Kaczanowski said that Frykowski had been involved with many criminals and the drug trade.<ref name="O'Neill"/>{{rp|56–57}} In his later interview with Truman Capote, Bobby Beausoleil said, "They burned people on dope deals. [[Sharon Tate]] and that gang."<ref name="Capote"/>{{rp|460}}

[[Ed Sanders]] and [[Paul Krassner]] uncovered information that Joel Rostau, the boyfriend of Sebring's receptionist, had delivered [[mescaline]] and cocaine to Sebring and Frykowski at Tate's house a few hours before the murders. During the Manson trial, Rostau and other associates <!-- who? how many? -->of Sebring were murdered.<ref>{{cite book|last=Krassner|first=Paul|title=Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture|publisher=[[Soft Skull Press]]|location=[[New York City]]|url=https://archive.org/details/confessionsofrav0000kras|isbn=1593765037|date=1994|access-date=July 19, 2021|page=198}}</ref>