Young Charlie | The Ketchup Bottle Bandits | 1

Death of a Starlet

Wondery

True Crime, Josh Lucas, Tracy Pattin, Exhbit C, Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Peter Bogdanovich, Hollywood & Crime, Dorothy Stratten, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of August 9, 1969, the bodies of actress Sharon Tate and four other people were discovered at the sprawling Benedict Canyon home of Miss Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski. The victims had all been brutally murdered. The next day, the bodies of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were discovered at their home in Los Feliz. They had been murdered in a similar, gruesome fashion.

In 1939, young Charlie Manson’s mother Kathleen is arrested in Charleston, West Virginia and jailed for robbery. After her release, she is unable to control her son and has him sent to the Gibault School for Boys in Indiana. Charlie runs away after only ten months. Then, after being arrested for burglary, he is given a second chance when a kindly judge sends him to the famous Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska. After just four days, he escapes from there as well.

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0:22.0	At a little after 8 a.m. on the morning of August 9th, 1969, housekeeper Winifred Chapman approached the grounds of 10,050 Seattle Drive.
0:32.0	As she got to the gate, she noticed a loose wire dangling above the control box.
0:37.0	Already late, thanks to LA's poor bus system, she was now concerned that the electricity might be out.
0:43.0	But when she pressed the button, the gate swung open as it did every morning.
0:47.0	Relieved, she entered the property.
0:49.0	Only a few yards up from the gate, she noticed a white rambler at an oblique angle in the driveway.
0:56.0	Several other vehicles were parked closer to the garage.
1:00.0	Since overnight visitors were a common occurrence at the sprawling estate, she thought nothing of it.
1:05.0	Entering the house through the service porch, Mrs Chapman picked up the kitchen phone and noticed it was dead.
1:12.0	Wondering if it could be due to the downed wire, she replaced the receiver.
1:16.0	She headed for the living room, but was blocked by two large blue steamer trunks that hadn't been there when she'd left work the day before.
1:24.9	They looked as if they'd been knocked over one leaning against the other.
1:29.7	Then she noticed the blood, smeared across the trunks, on the floor nearby, on two towels
1:36.7	lying in the living room entryway.
1:39.8	For a moment she stood there, uncomprehending. Only now did she realize she hadn't heard a sound since entering the house.
1:47.0	Forcing herself to move, she stepped toward the living room.
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