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Tate murders, the shocking and grisly murders, on the night of August 8–9, 1969, of actress Sharon Tate and four other people by followers of cult leader Charles Manson. Two more people were murdered on August 10. Learn more about the crimes, the discovery of the perpetrators, and the trial.
Susan Atkins is the Manson Family member who killed actress Sharon Tate in August 1969 — at least that’s what she claimed in court. In a confession that shocked the world, she described the moment she killed the rising Hollywood starlet: “I was alone with that woman. [Sharon Tate].
The perpetrators killed five people on the night of August 8–9: pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her companions Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, along with Steven Parent.
A month later, Atkins told a fellow inmate at the Sybil Brand Institute for Women, where she was incarcerated, that she killed Sharon Tate. Source: CNN Advertisement
Atkins confessed to killing actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski who was hanged and stabbed 16 times; Tate's nearly full-term fetus died with her. The next night,...
The LaBianca murders occurred one day after Manson followers killed actress Sharon Tate and four others in the California home Tate shared with her husband, filmmaker Roman Polanski. Sharon Tate was 26 and pregnant at the time of her murder. Van Houten did not participate in the Tate killings.
Atkins, who testified (and later denied) that she had stabbed and killed Tate, had terminal brain cancer and died in prison in 2009.
