#abigail folger

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Remember:

Sharon Marie Tate (January 24th 1943 - August 9th 1969) Paul Richard Polanski (Sharon's unborn son) Jay Sebring (born Thomas John Kummer October 10, 1933 - August 9th 1969) Abigail "Gibbie" Anne Folger (August 11th 1943 - August 9th 1969) Wojciech Frykowski (December 22nd 1936 - August 9th 1969) Steven Parent (February 12th 1951 - August 9th 1969)

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Charles Manson

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Former home of Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski in Laurel Canyon

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Some of the last pictures of Sharon Tate with her dog Saperstine, Jay Sebring and Wojciech Frykowski August 1968

[beatleshistoryblog]

LECTURE 19: COMING APART (PART 2): This is original CBS News footage from 1969 about the Tate–LaBianca murders (a.k.a., the Manson Family murders) that took place on August 8 – 10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. This brief news segment focuses on the brutal slayings at the home of Sharon Tate and her husband director Roman Polanski (Polanski was away at the time) on August 9, 1969. In addition to Tate, members of the Manson Family cult murdered her friends Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger. They also murdered 18-year-old Steven Parent, who had been visiting the property's caretaker. The following night, August 10, Manson Family members murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary, who co-owned a dress shop, in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. The ghastly nature of the crimes, along with ritualistic elements of the crime (such as the painting of the word “PIG” in blood on the front door of the Tate – Polanski house and “DEATH TO PIGS” on the wall at the LaBianca residence) sent shock waves through Los Angeles, across the United States, and around the world. The murders gave people the mistaken impression that hippies, the overwhelming majority of whom were peaceful people, were cold-blooded killers. Moreover, Manson and his crazed followers later revealed that they were inspired by songs on the White Album – namely, “Helter Skelter” and “Piggies” – to commit the crimes. This brought the White Album into close scrutiny, with a handful of unhinged reactionaries claiming the Beatles some responsibility for the crimes.

[hankmills]

#10050 Cielo Drive, #Sharon Tate #Abigail Folger, #August 9 1969

[60sfactorygirl]

On this day 54 years ago the sixties ended.

Today we remember and celebrate the lives of Sharon Tate and her unborn son, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski & Steven Parent.

[outta-my-tree]

August 9, 1969: Manson “Family” members Susan Atkins, Tex Watson, and Patricia Krenwinkel entered the home of Hollywood actress Sharon Tate and murdered her and four others. Linda Kasabian (née Drouin) was also present, but allegedly did not take part. Steven Earl Parent, who was present at the address only by unfortunate coincidence, lost his life that night, in addition to Sharon Tate and her houseguests, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski. In an earlier incident involving Charles Manson and his followers, musician Gary Hinman was murdered after being held captive for several days, forced to turn over his property to his captors under torture and threat of death. Manson associate Robert “Bobby” Beausoleil killed Gary Hinman on the orders of Manson.

Above: Lurid headlines abound in the days following the crimes at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, north of Beverly Hills, the home of actress Sharon Tate and her husband, Polish movie director Roman Polanski.

Above: Wilfred Parent, and his wife Juanita (néeJones) were unaware that their son Steven had gone to Cielo Drive that night to visit his friend, live-in caretaker William Garretson, hoping to sell him a used radio. He was shot by the intruders as he was preparing to leave the property.

Above: Linda (née Drouin) Kasabian was given immunity for her testimony against the Manson Family defendants. She has maintained that she did not take physical part in the murders, but acted as a “lookout” only.

Originally from New England, Linda Drouin (later Kasabian) is listed with her parents, Rosaire and Joyce (née Taylor) Drouin in the 1950 U. S. Federal Census, in Maine, Linda’s paternal grandparents having emigrated there from Quebec in the 1920s.

Above: Colorado-born Gary Hinman was a musician living at this residence in Topanga Canyon, California in 1969, where Manson associate Bobby Beausoleil had lived with Hinman previously. During this time, Beausoleil had become acquainted with Charles Manson and his followers.

Above: In late July of 1969, Beausoleil went with Manson associates Susan Atkins and Mary Brunner to Hinman's house in Topanga Canyon. After demanding money that Hinman did not have, Manson told them via phone to hold Hinman captive there at his house. When Manson arrived, armed with a bayonet, he struck Hinman, severely cutting his face and ear. Gary Hinman was held captive for three more days before being murdered by Bobby Beausoleil, on the instruction Charles Manson.

Above: After a well-documented investigation and trial, the principal participants in the Manson “Family” murders were found guilty and sentenced to death. Bobby Beausoleil was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27, 1969, fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman. Beausoleil, Manson, and the other participants who were sentenced to death were later granted commutation to a lesser sentence of life imprisonment, after the Supreme Court of California issued a ruling that invalidated all death sentences issued in California prior to 1972. Bobby Beausoleil is currently imprisoned in California. Manson died in prison in California in 2017. Linda Drouin Kasabian, who gave a handful of interviews about her participation in the 1969 murders, kept a low profile over the years and died in Tacoma, Washington on January 21, 2023, at the age of 73.

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thinking abt Sharon everyday but especially today💛. (1943-1969) R.I.P Sharon Tate,her unborn baby Paul,Jay Sebring,Voytek Frykowski,Abigail Folger and Steven Parent🕊️🧡

[itsmemateinnit]

Whitechapel series 3 press pack

Whitechapel – Real life cases highlighted by Buchan in the series

Story 1

Ratcliffe Highway Murders The Ratcliffe Highway murders were two vicious attacks that resulted in multiple fatalities, and occurred over twelve days in the year 1811, in homes half a mile apart near Wapping in London.

The first attack took place on 7th December 1811 at a home behind a linen draper’s shop on Ratcliffe Highway (now called The Highway). The victims were Timothy Marr (a 24 year old linen draper and hosier), his wife Celia, their 3-month-old son Timothy and James Gowen, their shop boy. Margaret Jewell, a servant of the Marrs, had been sent to purchase oysters, and subsequently escaped. The murder caused the government to offer a reward of 500 guineas for the apprehension of the perpetrator.

Twelve days later on the 19th December, the second attack happened at The Kings Arms in New Gravel Lane (now Garnet street). The victims were John Williamson, 56 year old publican who had been at the Kings Arms for 15 years, his 60 year old wife Elizabeth and Bridget Anna Harrington in her late 50's, a servant. Williamson's 14-year-old granddaughter, Catherine (Kitty) Stillwell, slept through the incident and was thus not discovered. John Turner, a lodger and journeyman, discovered the murders and escaped out of an upper window, using a knotted sheet to climb down to the street below.

A principal suspect in the murders, John Williams (also known as Murphy), was a lodger at the nearby Pear Tree public house in Old Wapping. He was a 27-year-old Scottish or Irish seaman. He had nursed a grievance against Marr from when they were shipmates, but the subsequent murders at the Kings Arms remain unexplained. Williams was arrested, but committed suicide by hanging himself in prison; he was buried with a stake through his heart at the junction of Commercial Road and Cannon Street Road.

Charles Manson, 1969, Sharon Tate On the night of August 8, Manson directed Charles Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in [it], as gruesome as you can." He told the women to do as Watson would instruct them. The current occupants of the house, all of whom were strangers to the Manson followers, were movie actress Sharon Tate, wife of famed director Roman Polanski and eight and a half months pregnant; her friend and former lover, hairstylist Jay Sebring; Polanski's friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune. Tate's husband, Polanski, was in London working on a film project; Tate had been visiting with him and had returned to the United States only three weeks earlier.

Richard Farley Richard Farley is an American convicted mass murderer. A former employee of Electromagnetic Systems Labs (ESL) in Sunnyvale, California, he stalked co-worker Laura Black for four years beginning in 1984. Black obtained a temporary restraining order against him on February 2, 1988, with a court date set for February 17, 1988 to make the order permanent. On February 16, 1988, Farley shot and killed seven people at ESL and wounded four others, including Black. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder, and is currently sitting on death row at San Quentin.

Story 2

The Thames Torso mystersties of 1887-1889 The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder from London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were found at three different sites in central London, including the future site of Scotland Yard. Newspapers suggested a tie to Jack the Ripper's killings of prostitutes that were occurring simultaneously, but the Metropolitan Police said there was no connection.

Mary Ann Cotton Born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham, she died 24 March 1873. She was an English woman convicted of murdering her husband and children and is believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning.

Mary Wilson Killed four lovers with phosphorus and claimed they took it in‘sexual stimulation pills’s

Mary Wilson (c. 1893 - 1963) also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out as it was commuted to a prison sentence.

An exhumation of the bodies of her last two husbands revealed high levels of phosphorus. Her defense claimed the substance was contained in their medication. Wilson was convicted of murdering two of her four husbands with beetle poison in 1956 and 1957. The remains of her earlier two husbands were exhumed at a later date and pointed to the same cause of death.

Dr Crippen Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopathic physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. A theory, which was first propounded by Edward Marshall Hall, was that Crippen was using hyoscine on his wife as a depressant or an aphrodisiac but accidentally gave her an overdose and then panicked when she died.

The Lonely heart Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who met after Beck placed a lonely-hearts ad, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as twenty women.

The Black Eyed Borgia and her Playboy lover Mary Frances Creighton and Everett Appelgate, both convicted and executed for the murder of Ada Creighton (Appelgate’s wife) from arsenic poisoning.

H.H.Holmes (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 250. He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was less than 2 miles away from his "World's Fair" hotel.

Marquis de Sade An episode in Marseille, in 1772, involved the non-lethal poisoning of prostitutes with the supposed aphrodisiac Spanish fly and sodomy with his manservant Latour. That year the two men were sentenced to death in absentia for sodomy and said poisoning.

Thomas Huskey, 1999 Knoxville, Tennessee Accused killer of 4 women in Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Zoo Man", Huskey worked at the Knoxville Zoo and allegedly took his victims here. He talked of ‘Kyle’, a separate, darker personality that was responsible for a series of murders.

Arthur Ford, 1954 Arthur Ford became infatuated with a woman called Betty Grant who worked in his office on Euston Road. He bought a coconut nice for both Betty and a friend that he had laced with cantharidin; both died after eating it.

Story 3

Bogeyman A bogeyman is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to frighten children into compliant behaviour. The monster has no specific appearance, and conceptions about it can vary drastically from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he has no set appearance in the mind of an adult or child, but is simply a non-specific embodiment of terror. Parents may tell their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them. Bogeymen may target a specific mischief — for instance, a bogeyman that punishes children who suck their thumbs — or general misbehavior, depending on what purpose needs serving. In some cases, the bogeyman is a nickname for the devil.

Zodiac Killer Masked serial killer in California in 1960s/1970s who said that ‘hunting humans was the most exciting of all sports’

The Phantom US, 1940s. Killed on full moons, wore a white mask and attacked eight by the light of the moon. Of whom the sheriff said “no one sees him, no one hears him in time.”

Robert Williams The case of the man who killed a girl in Hyde Park in 1928. The man claimed that the film ‘London After Midnight’ sent him insane, and that he saw Lon Chaney in the park, forcing him to murder the girl with a razor.

Scared to death In 1840, Sir Robert Warboys had heard of a tale of a parlour maid who had seen the spectral presence and had been driven insane. He wanted to disprove the haunting, and armed with a shotgun, went to spend the night in the attic room. The house was woken at midnight when a shot rang out. They found Warboys dead from fright.

Then in 1878, Lord Lyttleton stayed the night. He loaded his gun with silver sixpennies said to ward off evil. For him it worked and he survived to tell the tale.

Couple on a spree together – Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather. Nebraska, 1957. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. They killed 11 in all. Including her parents and two year old sister. She was only 14 at the time. Nobody knows how many she killed. She said she was held hostage by Starkweather. He said she was a willing participant. He was executed in 1959. She was paroled in 1976. And to this day she has never spoken of the murders, so no one knows how involved she really was.

Tsuyama Massacre The Tsuyama massacre was a spree killing that occurred on 21 May 1938 in the rural village of Kaio close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. Mutsuo Toi, a 21-year-old man, killed 30 people, including his grandmother, with a shotgun, Japanese sword, and axe, and seriously injured three others before killing himself with the shotgun.

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Happy heavenly birthday to Abigail Anne Folger ("Gibbie" to close friends and family). From many accounts, she was more than just an heiress. Abigail devoted her life to helping the less fortunate (she was a social worker) and enjoyed such hobbies as reading, horseriding and playing the piano. Forever in many hearts.

Abigail "Gibbie" Anne Folger (August 11th 1943 - August 9th 1969)

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[celluloidandthecity]

54 years ago today, on a hot August night, a gang of drugged up misfits working on the orders of Charles Manson entered the home of Sharon Tate Polanski and murdered everyone in the house. Sharon was eight months pregnant.

She was a gentle soul. She loved animals and her family adored her. She was looking forward to the birth of her baby who she had already named Paul after her father. Her husband Roman Polanski was in London working on his latest movie.

The Manson murders sent Hollywood into lockdown. Guns were bought. Gates were locked. Trust was low. The swinging sixties were effectively brought to a close.

Please take a moment today to remember Sharon and her friends - Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frykowski

Please also remember Steven Parent, and the other Manson victims Rosemary and Leno LaBianca and Gary Hinman

[clairevioletthorpesbooks]

Remembering the Forgotten Victims of the 1969 Manson Murders: Jay Sebring, Steven Parent, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski

The murders that took place on the night of August 8-9, 1969, at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles are among the most infamous in American history. While Sharon Tate is the most well-known of the five victims, the lives of the others—Jay Sebring, Steven Parent, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski—are often overlooked. These four individuals, each with their own dreams, accomplishments, and…

[thepastisalreadywritten]

TODAY IN HISTORY: August 9

9 August 1173

Construction began on the Tower of Pisa, intended as the bell tower for the cathedral in Pisa, Italy.

The tower's foundation was laid on soft, unstable ground, causing it to lean as early as the second floor.

Construction halted for nearly a century before resuming in the 13th century.

Despite attempts to correct the tilt, the lean continued, and the tower was completed in 1372, nearly 200 years later.

The tower's tilt became its most famous feature, and it stands today as an iconic symbol of architectural resilience.

9 August 48 BC

Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus during Caesar's Civil War.

Pompey, with a larger army estimated at 40,000 men, positioned his forces on high ground, planning to use his superior cavalry to outflank Caesar.

However, Caesar, with an army of 22,000, anticipated this and used reserve forces to counter Pompey's cavalry, which led to a collapse of Pompey's lines and the crushing of his left flank, where Pompey was positioned.

After his defeat, Pompey fled to Egypt, where he was assassinated.

This ended the main phase of Caesar's Civil War and solidified his control over Rome.

9 August 1815

Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on the remote island of St. Helena aboard the British ship HMS Northumberland.

After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and subsequent abdication, the British government decided to send him to St. Helena to prevent further political turmoil in Europe.

The journey took about two months. Upon arrival, Napoleon began his life in exile, spending his remaining years under constant surveillance on the island.

9 August 1945

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, during World War II.

The bomb, codenamed "Fat Man," was initially intended for Kokura but was redirected to Nagasaki due to cloud cover.

The explosion occurred at 11:02 AM and was devastating, killing between 40,000 and 75,000 people instantly.

The bomb destroyed about 40% of the city, and thousands more died in the following months from injuries and radiation sickness.

This was the second atomic bomb used in the war and the threat of further use of these weapons brought it to a quick end.

9 August 1969

Actress Sharon Tate and four others were murdered by followers of Charles Manson at her Los Angeles home.

She was eight months pregnant at the time.

The victims included Tate's friends Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Steven Parent.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.9 (after 1945)

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. 1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria. 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo. 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly. 1969 – Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent. 1970 – LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground. 1971 – The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes. 1973 – Mars 7 is launched from the USSR. 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president. 1991 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial. 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership. 1995 – Aviateca Flight 901 crashes into the San Vicente volcano in El Salvador, killing all 65 people on board. 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation. 2007 – Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board. 2012 – Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate an NFL game. 2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30. 2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city. 2021 – The Tampere light rail officially starts operating.