1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Hollywood Land 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: is a production of Double Elvis You. 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 2: Make Me Your Good Fucking Me A A Longwood Don't Have. 5 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: Sharon Tate's life career and her tragic murder at the 6 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: hands of the Manson family are so complex that we 7 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: needed two episodes to properly tell this story. If you're 8 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hip 9 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: pause and go back to the previous episode of bad 10 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: Lands or part one of the Sharon Tates story, where 11 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: we get into Sharon's ascending star her desire to be 12 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: taken seriously as an actress, her relationship with Hollywood's hippie 13 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: denmo Mama Cass Elliott, and not one but two of 14 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: Cass's international drug dealing boyfriends, and her surprising connection to 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: Charles Manson. In this episode, we further explore Sharon's entanglement 16 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: with Charles Manson, her husband, filmmaker Roman Polanski, as well 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: as Sharon's involvement in some of the long rumored hedonistic 18 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: events at her home on Cielo Drive, events that put 19 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: Sharon Tate at the center of a counter narrative that 20 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 1: explosively disrupts the supposed motive for the Manson family murders, 21 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: and we debunked the myth that Sharon was blissfully ignorant 22 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: of the darkness that had been bubbling beneath Hollywood Shiny 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: Veneer for years. We of course, hit upon Sharon Tate's 24 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: movie career, which was gaining steam at the time of 25 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: her death and offering her increasingly better roles in great films. 26 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: Unlike that clip I played for you at the top 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: of the show. That wasn't a clip from a great film. 28 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: That was a fair use sample from the Library of 29 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: Congres of Elizabeth Wheeler performing A Girl Like Me in 30 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: nineteen twelve. I played you that clip because I can't 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: afford the rights to Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. And why 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: would I play you that specific slice of one toke 33 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: over the lines Sweet Jesus Cheese? Could I afford it? 34 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one movie in America on 35 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: August eighth, nineteen sixty nine, And that was the day 36 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: that Sharon Tate was brutally murdered along with four others 37 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: at her home on Colo Drive, bringing Hollywood to its 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: knees and kicking off a narrative that would go unchallenged 39 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: for decades, as the secrets surrounding what really happened stayed 40 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: buried until only recently. On this episode, Mama Cass Charles 41 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: Manson the Helter Skelter Motive in Flames, and Sharon Tate. 42 00:02:52,840 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this is Hollywood Land. Voy Tech Freikowski, 43 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: the big Polish dude Roman Polanski, had asked to keep 44 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: his wife company while Roman was in London. Pulled j 45 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: Seabrings black Porsche nine to eleven up the long driveway 46 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: of one zero zero five zero Clo Drive. He dropped 47 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: the German engineer at sports Card down a gear. It 48 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: hummed low, almost to grop. The sound was an attention getter, 49 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: for sure, and voy Tech loved the attention. He couldn't 50 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: help but show off, especially for that particular type of 51 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: strange game he hunted from behind the wheel of Jayson 52 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: immaculate sports car. Boy Tech remembered what Roman taught him, 53 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: where to look and how to approach. He found hustlers 54 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: on the corner of Vine, young, clean, almost pretty. That's 55 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: how he liked them. Not unlike Jay, not unlike Roman. 56 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: Boy Tech stepped out of the Porsche with the new 57 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: strange in tow tonight. It wasn't going to be like 58 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: the going away party Sharon and Roman had the thrown 59 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: for Roman months ago. There would, of course be plenty 60 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: of famous faces as there always were at Cellow Drive, 61 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: but there would be an equal number of anonymous faces, 62 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: like the kid voy Tech had his arm around. Then 63 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: the kids seemed to level out of Voytech's mood, and 64 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: voy Tech was still pissed that he caught a bad 65 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: stash off Pick Dawson, one of Cass Elliot's drug dealing 66 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: boy toys, a stash voy Tech couldn't sell. Boy Tech 67 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 1: would handle a pick eventually, and in the meantime, if 68 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: his shitty little friend, Cass's other boyfriend Billy Doyle had 69 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: the balls to show up, then Tech would take care 70 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: of him too. But for now, Boy Tech had other 71 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: things on his mind, like this Vine Street vagrant who 72 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: looked like he just stepped off a bus from Kansas. 73 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: The whole Voy Tech in Gibea's housemaid's situation made Sharon 74 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: Tate anxious. She had called her husband Roman Polanski repeatedly 75 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 1: in London and asked him to get rid of the 76 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: house guests. Roman wouldn't hear of it. Sharon wasn't about 77 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: to ask them to leave. She was too insecure and 78 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: too shy. She put her hand on her belly and 79 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: felt her baby move inside of her. More and more 80 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: was all she could think about. They said the third 81 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: trimester was the hardest. Well, some did anyway. Others told 82 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: her it was the best part, the home stretch, the 83 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: final months, where it all sinks in you're going to 84 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: be a mother. What if something happened, something terrible? She 85 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: couldn't stop thinking about Roman's last movie. It haunted her. 86 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 1: Mia Farrow postpartum in that powder blue nightgown, the knife 87 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: impossibly long in her tiny hand. She pulls back the 88 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: curtain on her baby's jet black basinet and her eyes 89 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: go wide with shock. Her hand covers her gaping mouth. 90 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, What if she, Sharon Tate, gave birth to 91 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: some hell spawn? She knew it wasn't impossible. She knew 92 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: about witchcraft, incantations of rituals, consecrated circles, the left hand pass. 93 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: What if Voytech and Gibbey weren't just regular friends of 94 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: Romans like Sharon thought? What if they were like the 95 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: old couple in the film The Castavettes liaisons to Satan himself. 96 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: What if their presence at Yellow Drive wasn't to keep 97 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: Sharon company, but rather to do the bidding of their master, 98 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: the dark Lord, the diminutive director, hiding out in London, 99 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: his hands clean of the whole thing, and then he 100 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: Roman Polanski would return just in time for Sharon, his wife, 101 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: to give birth to that thing. And Sharon wouldn't be 102 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: able to take her eyes off of it, not because 103 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: she loved it, but because it frightened her. It's it's 104 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: indescribable face, an abomination of sin, a chicken come home 105 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: to roost. All of her worst fears manifested in this grotesque, 106 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: eight pound body, and she would have to constantly look 107 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: at it because it was still her baby, but also 108 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: because seeing is believing in all the while, all of them, 109 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: Roman and Voytech and Gibbe and my God, maybe Pick 110 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: Dawson and Billy Doyle too, they would all say, Sharon, 111 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: go back to bed, you know, you're not supposed to 112 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: be up and around, but there would be no stopping her, 113 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: and she'd screamed, what have you done to it? What 114 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: have you done to its eyes, and she plead to God, 115 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: Why God, Why me? Why now? But there would be 116 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: no response because God was dead. Satan lives. Sharon realized 117 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: she was sweating, her heart was pounding. She kept her 118 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: hands on her belly and tried to cast the awful 119 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: thoughts from her head. She wondered if Rosemary's baby disturbed 120 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: Roman as much as it disturbed her. Probably not. Roman 121 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: got off on that kind of thing. Her husband, and 122 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: she did love him, but Roman Polanski was a bit 123 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: of a sick fuck. She tried to settle her mind. 124 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: Where was Cass. Cass would send her she always did, though. 125 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: If Cass was going to be there, that men Pick 126 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: Dawson and Billy Doyle would show up eventually. Didn't matter 127 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: that Roman had tossed them from their going away party 128 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: back in March. Besides, Roman wasn't even in town. And 129 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: while the little tyrants away, Pick and Billy will play, 130 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: and Pick and Billy were always ready to play. Ditto 131 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: for voy Tech and voy Tech knew Tonight wasn't no 132 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: going away soiree. Tonight was different. The dancing, the drugs, 133 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: the fucking, it was all different. Tonight was ritual. Tonight 134 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: was Bucchanali in Consecration. Tonight was fresh meat from the 135 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: corner of vine. Tonight was whips, chains, wax, and whatever 136 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: was freaky. Tonight was inspired by the Satanic dream sequence 137 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: from Rosemary's Baby, and that movie didn't frighten the others 138 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: the way haunted Sharon. It cut them off, just like 139 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: it got Roman off, and they used it for fun 140 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: for kink Roman. Of course, he would get to watch 141 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: it later, even though he was on another continent and 142 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: they were going to film the whole thing. Show it 143 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: to Roman when he returned from London. Roman loved his tapes. 144 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: Roman loved young girls, and there would be plenty. Someone 145 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: was busting in a dirty desert hippie harm a guy 146 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: named Charlie. As long as there was an angle. Charlie 147 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: liked to share, so did Roman. Roman shared his home, 148 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: his drugs, his money word was Roman even shared Sharon. 149 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: The tan skin on the blonde glistened in the candle light. 150 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: She moved in motion with the ray men zaric organ. 151 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: It blasted from the home stereo system at ear shattering volume. 152 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: She was the only one not in a black hood 153 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: or a mask. She wore red panties and that was it. 154 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: Bodies were everywhere, all twisted up together on the furniture, 155 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: the carpeted floor, up against the walls. The blonde worked 156 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: on the broad shouldered bald dude with the zorro mask 157 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: behind him. A handsome young man waited his turn patiently, 158 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,839 Speaker 1: his beautiful brown claw needlessly hidden under the hood of 159 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: his open robe. The pro noticed, the pro thought, at 160 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: a waste. How hard we work for things only to 161 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: squander them in the heat of the moment. It proved 162 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: what mattered in life? What was colonel? 163 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 3: That was it? 164 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: The rest was just window dressing when you got right 165 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: down to it. This whole hippie Hollywood dream was about 166 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: one thing, and one thing only getting off All roads 167 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: led to here hedonism. The chanting grew louder in rhythm 168 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: with raised venice pump. It forced a sort of mass 169 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 1: come on. The room itself seemed to elevate Everywhere anyone looked. 170 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: There was nothing but beautiful hedonism, all of it orchestrated 171 00:10:55,160 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: for mass satisfaction. Young old male, female, bald, blondes, fat, Yes, 172 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: even the big girl was in on the action. Though 173 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: if one looked closer beyond the half assed pomp and fainted. 174 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: Satanic circumstance, one could tell that the big girl's heart 175 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: wasn't in it, her heart was with another, and he 176 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: was lost, gone in the wind. Billy Doyle didn't show 177 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: his face until later that evening the post party. When 178 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: he did show, he came alone. Pick stayed away. Billy 179 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: hoped that voy Tech would welcome him and forget about 180 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: the bad stash Pickets sold him, because Billy had a 181 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: brand new bag of the good stuff. Billy would let 182 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: bygones be bygones, but Loy Tech wasn't having any of it. 183 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: When Billy got to the post party, boy Tech got 184 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: to him first. From where the others stood. Boy Tech 185 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: seemed to be playing nice, smiling talking, giving Billy a 186 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: friendly pat on the back. He handed Billy a drink, 187 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: and Billy knocked it back in one gulp. Almost immediately, 188 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: Billy began to stagger. He reached his arms out to 189 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: steady himself. One foot clumsily fell in front of the other, 190 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: and suddenly Billy made a bee line for the bathroom. 191 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: He could find his way there with his eyes closed, 192 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: and moments later he stumbled back into the living room, 193 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: a lit joint between his lips He coughed and exhaled 194 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: a thick cloud of smoke, and Voytek walked right up 195 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: to Billy, who was now reeling from the effects of 196 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: whatever illicit substances were leased in that drink, and placed 197 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,719 Speaker 1: his big polish mits on Billy's shoulders. The look in 198 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: Billy's eyes set it all, just like Mia Pharaoh's eyes 199 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: on Rosemary's baby. The realization had sunk in. This was 200 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: no dream, This was really happening. Billy wasn't just fucked, 201 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 1: he was about to be revenge fucked. Voytek had him 202 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: down on the floor now, and Billy bit down a 203 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: mouthful of carpet as Voytech tightened the rope that bound 204 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: Billy's arms behind his back, and Billy screamed in pain, 205 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: but not from the rope burning his wrists. He screamed 206 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: because Voytek was thrusting, thrusting and thrusting against his backside 207 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: over and over. Then Billy shrieked like a baby animal 208 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: caught in avice. The partygoers were shrieking now, laughing too, cheering, chanting, 209 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: egging Voytech on. They formed a sacred circle. They sounded 210 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: on an incantation, and Billy's eyes were close tight the 211 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: pain was unbearable, and from the right angle, with the 212 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: light hitting just right, it looked as if Voytek's eyes 213 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: had gone completely black. Cass Elliott fought through tears of 214 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: laughter when she told Charontate all about it. How later 215 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: that night, Billy Doyle came to his pants around his ankles, 216 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: his head woozy, and his asshole throbbing with her heart 217 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: he'd never felt before. How once he'd realized what had happened, 218 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: that he had been forcibly sodomized in front of celebrity 219 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: and seenz their partygoers, he went into a rage. He 220 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: had one thing on his mind, killing Voytech Fraikowski. The 221 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: funniest part to Cass was how before Billy could exact 222 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: his revenge, he was swept away from the party, driven 223 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: out to Cass's house in Laurel Canyon, and tied to 224 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: a tree so that he wasn't able to hurt anyone. 225 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: Cass hadn't been there to witness it, and she wished 226 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: someone had taken a polaroid for her. Sharon didn't find 227 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: the whole thing as funny as Cass. In fact, she 228 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: thought it was downright disturbing. How anyone could find the 229 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: rape of another human being funny was perplexing to her. 230 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: It was August of nineteen sixty nine. Voytech, Kraikowski and 231 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: Gibbie Folger were still at Sharon's house. It had been 232 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: nearly six months. The parties they threw were becoming increasingly 233 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: strange and violent. Even when there wasn't a party, the 234 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: place felt like Grand Central Station. Sharon wasn't a square, 235 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: but still all things in moderation. Moderation wasn't in Voytech's vocabulary. 236 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: Just ask Billy Doyle. Sharon continued to call Roman in 237 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: London and beg him to return home or ask the 238 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: HouseGuests to leave, but they weren't going anywhere. So Sharon 239 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: changed her strategy and asked Roman if she could fly 240 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: out to London and be with him there, and he 241 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: told her that that wasn't a great idea for a 242 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: woman eight months into her pregnancy. Sharon knew that that 243 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: wasn't the real reason Roman didn't want her there alone 244 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: in London, Roman could continue to be a less than 245 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: stellar husband while not under the prying eyes of his 246 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: wife and their friends. In other words, he was fucking 247 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: anything that walked. Sharon knew that he was having an 248 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: affair with Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. 249 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: Michelle's husband, John Phillips knew too, Roman wasn't exactly discreet. 250 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: John Phillips further knew that Michelle was also sleeping with 251 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: Roman's friend Warren Baby. One night, Papa John got good 252 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: and drunk and called up Warren to tell him if 253 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: he didn't lay off his wife, he would fuck him 254 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: up when he got back to La And that was 255 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: like goddamn promise. According to many of Sharon's closest friends, 256 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: as the summer of nineteen sixty nine wore on, Sharon 257 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: didn't get angry and jealous like Papa John. She just 258 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: got miserable. Those same friends also claimed that Roman was 259 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: mentally and physically abusive towards Sharon. There were those alleged 260 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: orgies that he made her take part in, in the 261 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: videotapes he allegedly made her watch, but there were other 262 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: allegations too, that he hosted sex parties without Sharon's knowledge 263 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: or consent, that he humiliated her in front of her friends, 264 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: that he told her what to wear. One friend claimed 265 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: he even smashed her face into a mirror. Things got 266 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: so bad that Sharon actually contemplated leaving Roman. She asked LK. Summer, 267 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: the German actress who co starred with Sharon and the 268 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: Wrecking Crew, for advice, and ALKI was blunt. I'd take 269 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 1: the next heavy object, whether it's an iron or a 270 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: frying pan or a spade, out in the yard, and 271 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: I'd just brain them. On the afternoon of August eighth, 272 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, Sharon welcomed her friend, English actress Joanna 273 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 1: Pettit to Coelo Drive for lunch. Sharon complained about Voytech, 274 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: and Gibbee complained about Roman's absence. There were too many 275 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: drugs in the house, too much chaos, and the environment 276 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: was not conducive to a person preparing for a renewed 277 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: life of domesticity. She needed her husband home, she needed 278 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: strangers gone. She needed to focus on becoming a mother, 279 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: but she'd never get there. Just hours later, Sharon Tate 280 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: would be dead. Roman Pulanzi's flight got into lax on 281 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 1: the evening of August tenth, nineteen sixty nine, the day 282 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: after authorities found mutilated bodies at his house on Colo Drive, 283 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 1: including his wife, who was carrying his unborn child, not 284 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: that Roman knew what day it was or whether he 285 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: was in London or la He had been placed under 286 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: heavy sedation. His eyelids felt like anvils, his brain slowed 287 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: to a crawl. He began to think that the awful 288 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: things he'd been told about were all a cruel fantasy. 289 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: Now at lax, although his mind was mush, Roma could 290 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: still picture Sharon, her smile, her radiance, her perfection, how 291 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: happy she had been the day they tored one zero 292 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: zero five zero Seattle Drive. She didn't know why the 293 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: previous tenants, actress Candice Bergen and record producer Terry Melcher 294 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: would have wanted to move out. Sharon called it the 295 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: love House. Sharon lit up every room of that house. 296 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: And now that light was forever burned out. And for 297 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 1: what and why? The rumors were already worming their way 298 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: through Hollywood's elite circles, rumors that allegedly got to the 299 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: truth of it all and were enough to make anyone 300 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: even remotely care nected to Sharantates sick with fear. But 301 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:08,880 Speaker 1: again why? Roman wanted to know why he had his suspicions, 302 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: But he wanted to hear the rumors for himself. At lax. 303 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: He was put in a car headed for Paramount Pictures Lot, 304 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: where a private suite had been arranged more like a 305 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: private bunker. He rolled down the car window and felt 306 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: the fog of the Sedacean slowly left. After five months away, 307 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: he had forgotten what California smelled like, wild and fragrant, 308 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: And before they reached Paramount Roman told the driver to 309 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: pull over at a Denny's restaurant. The fluorescence in the 310 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: parking lot hum like cicadas waiting for him? Was why? 311 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: Told Gaksinowski, a Polish emigret and friend of Romans who 312 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time over the summer with Voytek 313 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: at Cielo Drive. Whytold gave Roman an insiders debriefing. Coelo 314 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: Drive had gone feral in Roman's absence. Voytech welcomed all 315 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: kinds of freaks and creeps through the front door. Was 316 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 1: he dealing? Roman wanted to know, Of course he was. 317 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: He was sold a bad batch by Pick Dawson, the 318 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: guy Romany kicked out back in the spring. In retaliation, 319 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: voy Tech raped Billy Doyle, pick Dawson's friend, in front 320 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: of a packed house. Billy vowed revenge, and Billy Doyle 321 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: wasn't the only one in the revenge game. Pick Dawson 322 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: had plenty of grudges to settle, grudges with guys like Roman, 323 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 1: rich Hollywood fuckos who tossed piskind from their rich Hollywood 324 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: fucko homes. Roman's head spun, and it wasn't from the sedation. 325 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: He knew where the police looked first. When a woman 326 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: was murdered her husband, he put Voytech in that house. 327 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: He failed to remove Voytech from that house, even though 328 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: Sharon repeatedly begged him to do so. Later, at the 329 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: Paramount lot, Lapd hooked Roman up to a polygraph. They 330 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: asked about voy Tech, Kraikowski and Pick Dawson. They asked 331 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: about cass Elliott and Billy Doyle. They asked about why 332 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,719 Speaker 1: I told Kaksanowski asked Roman if he knew him. Roman 333 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: said he didn't, even though the two had just met 334 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: in a Denny's parking lot. Why. Roman wasn't exactly sure 335 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: why he was panicking. He wanted to distance himself from 336 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: the whole ugly scene, a scene that he had unwittingly 337 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: or not helped to create, and Foster didn't matter that 338 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: he did so from halfway across the world, and there 339 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: was plenty of evidence at that house that the police 340 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: could use against him, like the movies, the videos, the 341 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: goddamn videos made for Roman and made by Roman. The movies, 342 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: the videos, they were already a dirty little rumor, and 343 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: those rumors never quit. Those rumors were hard, the stories 344 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: about what Roman forced Sharon to do on video, with 345 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: what some called quite a few recognizable Hollywood faces. So long, 346 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: with a supposed constant flow of underage girls who'd fallen 347 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: into the cracks of the City of Angels, Roman had 348 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: to get back to Ciello Drive, no matter how difficult 349 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: that would be. He had to make his way through 350 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: a house he barely lived in for a few weeks, 351 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: pasted pig written in his wife's blood on the front door, 352 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: blood that had gone from crimson to black, and the 353 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: blood would be everywhere, on the carpet, the table, to couch, 354 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: the whole place rank with that odor. A love house 355 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: gone sour was evil and death. And Roman would make 356 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: his way up the ladder into the loft, where he 357 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: would find what he was looking for and remove it 358 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: the videotape, and then he had to work his own 359 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 1: angle get the police off his back, and he knew 360 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: it exactly. Who'd have pin the blame on someone close, 361 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: someone he thought of as a friend, someone who wanted 362 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: revenge against Roman for all of his unforgivable sins. We'll 363 00:22:52,119 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: be right back after this. We're were were sex tapes, orgies, sadism, pedophilia, 364 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: the rape of a duplicitous drug dealing boyfriend of Mama Cass. 365 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: What consequence could any or all of this have? Roman 366 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: Polanski heard it straight from the mouth of White tol 367 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: Kaksinowski in a Denny's parking lot. Colo Drive had gone feral. 368 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 1: Hohoi Tech Fraikowski ran the place with a cadro drug 369 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: dealing hippies. It was no longer a couple of random 370 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: street kids from Hollywood anymore. They busted in underage girls 371 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: from out in the desert, a harem someone called it, 372 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: and a weird little dude with pinball eyes as their 373 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: unsociable nucleus. Under Roman's brief reign, Coelo Drive was admittedly twisted, 374 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,959 Speaker 1: but now with Voi Tech running the show, it was 375 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: dark still. Roman had a wonder who would have benefited 376 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: from the gruesome murders at Colo Drive. Someone seeking revenge 377 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,360 Speaker 1: for being humiliated in public, or was it more personal 378 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: than that, perhaps revenge for a betrayal of the highest order, 379 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: for being made a cuckold in the eyes of celebrities 380 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: and Seinsters, for being made to look like a goddamn fool. 381 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: Roman knew that Papa John Phillips of the Mamas and 382 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: the Papas had it out for him, even if he 383 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: acted all nonchalant friendly after the murders, just like John 384 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: had it out for Jean Clark and Warren Batty and 385 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: whoever else was fucking his wife when he wasn't looking. 386 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: John was crazy, crazy enough to fuck around on his 387 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,199 Speaker 1: own time, and not just with any woman, but with 388 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: Mia Farrow, not only the star of Rosemary's Baby, but 389 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: the wife of Frank Sinatra, a guy probably more well 390 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: connected to qualified and capable men than any other in 391 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. When Old Blue Eyes found out that John 392 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: was screwing his wife, he sent some thugs to rough 393 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: him up, and that strong arm tactic was no doubt 394 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: on John's mind when he called up Warren Batty and 395 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 1: threatened all alter his facial design or worse, and just 396 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: because John hadn't personally called Roman to make a similar 397 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: threat didn't mean the threat wasn't being made. And if 398 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: John was capable of making such a threat, what else 399 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: was he capable of? Roman played it cool. He didn't 400 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: tell anyone that in the weeks following the murder of 401 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: his wife, he was scaling the walls of John phillips 402 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: mock Tudor mansion in bel Air, rummaging through John's rolls 403 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: Royce for bloodstains and fiber samples, sending samples of John's 404 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 1: handwriting from his address book to a graphologist to see 405 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: how it all stacked up in those big, bold pig letters. 406 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: And he certainly didn't tell John what he planned to 407 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: do with the large cleaver he was holding. At a 408 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: beach house dinner party, the two men both attended cutting 409 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,719 Speaker 1: vegetables for that night's meal, and that was just a ruse. 410 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,120 Speaker 1: John was sitting on a couch in his swim trunk, stoned, immaculate, 411 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: minding his own business, when he felt a hand grab 412 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: hold of a chunk of his long, dirty hippie hair, 413 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: and he ain't get back from behind, pointed towards the ceiling, 414 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: he nearly pissed himself, and the cold, sharp blade of 415 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: the cleaver got cozy with his throat, and then he 416 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 1: heard that unmistakable voice, in his accent to English, cry 417 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: out in a menacing whisper, Did you kill Sharon? Did you? 418 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: John Phillips may have been an asshole, and he may 419 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: have been crazy, and he may have gone on to 420 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: do absolutely repulsive things to his daughter in the years 421 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: to come, but he wasn't a killer. He wasn't anywhere 422 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: near one zero zero five zero Clo Drive on the 423 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: evening of August eighth, nineteen sixty nine, just like Billy 424 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: Doyle and Pick Dawson, both of whom were out of 425 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: the country when the murders took place. But Hollywood knew better. 426 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,239 Speaker 1: The word was Billy and Pick were too smart to 427 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 1: do the deed themselves. And that's where the weird little 428 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: dude from the desert with the harem of underage crazy 429 00:26:54,920 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: girls came back into the picture. Charles Manson August ninth, 430 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, seven am, the phone next to Shiraka 431 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: Tommy's bed pierced the silence morning had broken. Shiraq was 432 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: still half asleep. He fumbled his hand around on the nightstand, 433 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: his eyes barely open. He found the phone sitting next 434 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: to one of his cameras and raised the receiver to 435 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: his ear. The voice on the other end was distraught 436 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: and spoke quickly. Shiraq had to really concentrate to understand 437 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: what he was being told. The voice was going so fast, 438 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: and the person on the other end of the line 439 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: told Shirok that five people were dead at one zero 440 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: zero five zero C Yellow Drive, and the Sharon Tate 441 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: was one of them. No one understood the profound beauty 442 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: of Sharon Tate better than Sharaka Tommy. He wasn't just 443 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: a friend, he was Sharon's personal photographer. His camera captured 444 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: every side of Sharon Tate, the blissed out model, the 445 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: sheikh actress, the wife and soon to be mother who 446 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: was well on her way to a new kind of bliss, 447 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 1: a domestic kind. It was beautiful to watch these stages 448 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,919 Speaker 1: of a person's life through a lens, especially a person 449 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: like Sharon, who took each new leg of the journey 450 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: in stride and seemed genuinely excited for what was awaiting her. 451 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: And if only she had known what was lurking around 452 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: that final corner. No one could have known, or could they. 453 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: Sharak switched on the radio and waited for a news 454 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: report to give him more details. Fifteen minutes went by, 455 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 1: then thirty, and then an hour. Sharak had to be 456 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: real dampatient before any radio station or news out that 457 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: made mention of the murders that day. Only later did 458 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: Sharak discover that he had received the phone call informing 459 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: him of the murders ninety minutes before Roman and Sharon's 460 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: maids showed up at the house to discover the bodies 461 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: and hysterically hoofed it to the neighbors who called nine 462 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: one one. Sharaq was literally one of the first people 463 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: to know. But why and just who was on the 464 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: other end of the phone call at seven am that 465 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: morning who told Sharaka Tommy the awful news about Sharon 466 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: Tate before literally anyone else knew a damn thing In 467 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: the early morning caller was Reeve Whitson. Sharock called him 468 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: a quote unquote mystery man. He was friendly with Sharock, 469 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 1: with Roman and Sharon and the rest of the crazy 470 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: scene at Sela Drive, but no one really knew what 471 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: he did, or where he came from, or how he 472 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: originally found his way into the Polansky Tate in her 473 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: circle He was a guy who was at the party, 474 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: but was never part of the party. He kept to himself, 475 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: He hung back, he played the sidelines. He was there watching, 476 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: taking it all in a zelig. But Reeve Whitson was 477 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: written out of the Manson murders narrative that has come 478 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: to be accepted as gospel over the last fifty years. 479 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: La County Deputy District Attorney Vincent Buliosi, the man who 480 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,959 Speaker 1: successfully prosecuted Charles Manson and his family, never once mentioned 481 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: Whitson in his best selling book Helter Skelter, long considered 482 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: the conclusive text on the case, and Reeve Witsen was 483 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: far from the only discrepancy in that supposedly truth telling tone. 484 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: At the trial, Sharrak testify that five months prior to 485 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: the murders, in March nineteen sixty nine, he was visiting 486 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: Sharon at her house when Charles Manson showed up out 487 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: of the blue looking for Terry Melcher, the record producer 488 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: and previous tenant at one zero zero five zero Settle Drive. 489 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: Shirak informed Manson that Melcher no longer lived there, while 490 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: Sharon J. C. Bring Voytek Fraikowski and Abigail Folger watched 491 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: on from the next This was crucial testimony that proved 492 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: that Charles Manson both knew of the existence of the 493 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: house and of the people who were living there. But 494 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: decades later, Shara Katami told author Tom O'Neill, whose intensely 495 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: researched book Chaos looked to right the wrongs of Buliosi 496 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: and Helter Skelter, that he was never one hundred percent 497 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: sure that the man who showed up that day in 498 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: March was actually Charles Manson, could have been someone else, 499 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 1: but he was forced by Reeve Witsen to testify without 500 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: a doubt that he saw Manson at the house that day. 501 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: It was important for Buliosi's narrative. It put Manson on 502 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,600 Speaker 1: the scene. When Sharok balked, Witson threatened deportation back to 503 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: Iran if he didn't play ball, deportation. Who the hell 504 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: was this Reeve Witsen guy. According to Tom O'Neill's book, 505 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: Reeve Witsen proved that he was playing ball by walking 506 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: Charok over to his car and showing him his gun. 507 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,880 Speaker 1: O'Neill's investigation into the back of Reeve Whitsen raised even 508 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: more questions. Was he a plant, and if so, for 509 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 1: whom FBI, Secret Service CIA. Did the federal government have 510 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: something to do with the murders of Sharon Tate? Did 511 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: the federal government have something to do with Charles Manson? 512 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: It sounds totally fucking crazy when you look at all 513 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: the information. Consider the following a drug burn, the rape 514 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: of a drug dealer in retaliation, a revenge plot, an 515 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: aggrieved cult leader with acid induced scrambled eggs for brains, 516 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: and undercover agent coaxing desired testimonies out of witnesses. And 517 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: at the center of it all, a gorgeous actress taken 518 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: far too soon. And for what the whole thing is 519 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: so nuts it ought to be in pictures. 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