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I FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FREEDOM OF INFORMATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION COVER SHEET SUBJECT: CHARLES MANSON I ' ~-»/! '1 / 0 2n Rev. 7-21-av!I , son l?.4 ~ oac 92/ hr "- - Y O _____~t_ asper __._____. Callahan _.____ /T~ ggonradFelt _ " n P" Sullivan "'@§§%§._...i_ ' I Tavel ..____.__._. - Trotter _______ 'I _ ' l HolmesTele. Room_..____._.____._ . /' _ Gandy » Y ~11 .2?-r'>,7 I; , -92.>-/1 , I 0' , - _ *0 ~~ - -.-1 w92 _92 <-4 6 92.-. MURDERS! ' LOS ANCELES-A SIX-MANTEAM OFPOLICE DETECTIVESTODAY PROBED Q TWO MACABREMURDER CASESWHICH BORE STARTLINC SIMILARITIES-' E SENSELESS, SAVAGESTABBINGS WITH ALMOST RITUALISTIC OVERTONES., Q POLICE MAINTAINEDTHERE WAS NO DIRECT PHYSICALEVIDENCE TO _ I F ONNECT THESTABBING DEATHSOF A MIDDLEACED COUPLE SUNDAYAND * E MASSMURDER SATURDAYOF ACTRESS SHARON TATE AND HER FOURGUESTS . if T A SECLUDED ESTATE. - } BUT AN OFFICER SAID IT IS UNUSUALTO HAVETHE SAME TEAM ON TWO ASESTHE SOLE SUSPECTUNLESSTHERE'STHEINDICATION INTATE MURDERS CASESANWILLIAM THELINKED. AREGARR5%SON, 19 A/// A CARETAKERTHE AT BENEDICT CANYON LEASEDHOME THE BY AESS, WAS ; RELEASED YESTERDAY. 1 AFTER HISONLY SUSPECTWALKED OUTOE POLICEHEADQUARTERS INSPECTOR HAROLD YARNELLSAID THERE IS NOTSUEFUCIENT EVIDENCETO HOLD GARRETSON.THERE IS NO REASON TOSUSPECT HIM. DETECTIVES TODAYLEANED TOWARDTHE THEORYTHE STABINGS SUNDAY OF MARKET OWNERLEON LABIANCA ANDHIS WIFEROSEMARY EIR HOMMIGHT 92 8/12--ctsoeaH-I COPYA A NEW BY_ ASSAILANT THE or EARLIER. U MUR 11301;? ~ E4 " 101,0/~"n REC-69* ' l AUG 14196 ,»4 .Yb /DI/la,. ta LE '3* /0 - »J%4¢Q¢; IT?! Q _ I ;;Jt:"' h_ ._ -TN p 4'64-f-4:../ -.£/Q,1 -. 4 X L ¢a LA éj/ ;_i* ,~' ~ ag WASHINGTON CAPITALNEWS SERVICE 92 .. _ .5 " 19 IN-_92'. T-l7-68!_ 7" TolsonBeL°oCh ..__-____._- Mohr Bishop___._._.____. Casper -_-.---- Ccllcih on .._____.__ Conrad Felt _____ Gale __________ Flosen .__.._.____. Sullivan _____._ Tovel .________. Trotter ii. 1 ,._.._-><- Tele. Room .______ Ho'hnes ____i_. Gondy _______ * ~ I I 2 Newl;__1;;_lers_ to Linlg_e__dSlayinE;ff5 Prom NewsDispatches LOS ANGELES,Aug. 11- I ,lell03--Bil-Miss Tate.and her Ho icide detectives fanned man Polanski, was re eased out a . this sprawling city because of insufficient evi- todly eh 'ng similaritiesbe- dence against him, police tween e m rders of actress said. He underwent a lie de- Shar I ate and tour others tector test and extensive and the Biziire deaths of a question r he was ar- married couflea dozen miles rested rday. ~ ' - ' away.- -. 4_Q_g___'H 1 92 e and h to death At the same time, the only .w1 Mi T ' _e hairstyl- person found alive at the es- {lst Jay Sc " 85; cotiee tate where Miss Tate and the heiress - olger, 26; others were slain was released writer Vo- c rykowski,37; tron: custody. and Stev rent, 18, who po- lice said was a triend of Gar- I The five bodies found at the retson and had visited him at blonde actress home in Bene- l the estate the night of the The WashingtonPost ,_~ 1 .~_ did Canyon SatRfd!yWVereII I slayings. _ Times Herald _____l;.__2...._._ mutilated by multiple knife" , Sebring was found with a. The Washington Daily News ___.__.. wounds, as were the bodies of imarket owner Leno La black hoodover hishead. He The Evening Star Washington!T.._ Bianca, 44, and his wife, Rose- and Miss Tate werejoined by The SundayStar Washington!____g_ mary, 38. Their bodies were a knotted white cord around Daily News New York! __...______. discovered Sunday night in their necks. their Silverlake home, which Sunday News New York! __._.____.._ Police said both La Biancas was once owned by Walt Dis- had been knifed repeatedly New York Post ney. and had makeshift hoods over The New York Times _.___.___- | The word "pig" was ttheir heads. .scrawled in blood on the door The Sun Baltimore! ______.__._- §of Miss Tates home, and the l In addition,a series of x The Daily World words death to pigs" was marks had been carved on La daubed on the refrigerator Bianca along with the word The New Leader idoor in the La Bianca home. "war." A fork protruded from The Wall Street Joumal ..___...__-_ his body.The LaBiancas werei ' WilliamE. Garretson,19, The National Observer __,._.__--- it t th h e not known to have anyconnec-_ 1 ii!!-¢_H1'___'______¢__Pm tion with the show business People's World ICL -i_-_ : Examiner Washington! } /» I Date I" . 4:1 ..~___:< 'i'I~"!TT Al" 1'515:9l ENCLOQLvl;..' _ 11;:-,,.=_,-3,/ Q s , ' u % 9», Q, ¢' I ' is __ ~~ . '2 -I; . é 4. i F . !f~~ ..-:-=~ _--. _ ~ . _ | is ' § T- . oge 0! L; Biancas, who were slain in somewhat similar fashion to actress Sharon Tate and four others. §-3-41¢ ~ ti-i. >92 W 3 P _ .~*" . 92Pl92'' I'll!-IL!» 92]9292'92n. , Del_.oach ..______.__ » - _- I Mohr ___.______. _ Bishop____________ Casper ___%____ Callahan __i__ Conrad _______ Felt _____________ Gale _._.___._. Rosen ______.___ Sullivan _______ ' Tavel _.;_____.._. " . Trotter ____ pun A7 Tele. Room ..___ an-1| Holmes ________ Gandy ,________ 1-1 92 . '.-' The Washington Post Times Herald .__ T V L. The Washington Daily News .._.___. The Evening Star Washington!____ The SundayStar Washington! DailyNews New York!L Sunday News New York! Nev./York Post ll The New York Times _______..__..._. The Sun Baltimore! The Daily World I "i The New Leader ,______....._._-- i" ~- TheTh Wall . Street Journal L22?Q XI'-HogPeople's e NationalObserver _____________._--- ___.__.._.._- World OI %x3miDer-gshinglonl . / -»7 1 1. 3 '4-cl "" s ' 92. AUG 13 1:0! EN0Los Date __/ ings 0 Fiée Houselm'i Tate us;-zlher l.ierm A . Q kg; K I 3% 1 J!-._. Es I ngeles policewere investigating the striking similarities between mass murder of actress Sharon Tate [ -1 and four others Saturday, and the murderof a wealthy couple Sun-' day.Leno La Bianca, 44,and wife, '1 Rosemary, 38,were found stabbed to death in their home-about 12miles from Sharon'srambling estate. .r-@-1 ' I_"1 ___,___*'___' _ ¬X_;kLaw _ _>________>i?1" 4 Q O-I9 Rev. 7- l7-68! I3IilIlI5lliiI3llT'-it-'lil?i.l!7l"!t'TlIl'!I!ir1iill6l'.i:lWlI=Ioil"'w.".mcruanlu:mumm-.,i--n-~~»~.»-e--mm. .........s. ,...'-lai: ' Terror 1' Tale HQ Tolson ____i_ Z Del..o:ich Mohr H's Movieiand Hotel Bishop By ANTHONY BURTON 5 Casper _________ Staff Correspondent of Tiis NEWS i . Los Angeles, Aug. 11-Fantasy ruled not so long Ccllohon __i____ on the land where the gigantic $500 million complex of buildings called Century City now stands. Here, Conrad fake cowboys strutted along false-fronted western Felt streets and phony explorers struggled through bogus African jungles. - é Then it was the back lot of 20th Century-For studios and Gale thousands of men and women spent their days spinning fairy tales for the worldfs screens. Now the miniature city of the future is here, dominated by the ultra-modern hotel, the Cen- Q4 tury Plaza. ii- Rosen /c Today, Secret Service men and high police officials met in the hotel to consider a situation so extraordinary that derisive E eyebrows might have been raised if it had been offered at a story conference in the old days. v ~=' Sullivan 92 A Fete for Asfros e It was not enough that in two days s state dinner would -be held in the banquet room of the hotel for the three moon Tovel ._____i_ 1 astronauts. It was not enough that President Nixon would be Trotter _______ 'arriving from the summer White House down the coast at Tele. Room i San Clemente. It was not enough that antiwar protest groups i were planning a showdown wi police outside the liote . Holmes _________ On top of all these security problems, local law enforce- " Gondy ____._. ment officials were struggling with bizarre mass killings, an effort that was using their resources to the utmost. As the hunt went into its third day, police also had to deal with repeated demands from residents in isolated areas for additional police patrols. _ Looks Through Binoculars Nobody was using the word panic, but it was not far away early this morning as neighbors gathered in the sulty dark- ness outside 3301 Waverly Dr. in the Los Feliz section of the city. From the roadway,.they could just make out smears oi blood on the walls of the living room. One youngster had a pair of binoculars to bring the scene into closer focus. The bodies of Leno and Rosemarie La Bianca were still inside and detectives were starting work on the inevitable question: was there a link between this and the killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others Friday night? Was a mad killer at large, able_to strike again and again? As High Cop Sees If One woman pulled her robe closer around her, hugging herself as if chilled, although the night was warm.