2007-10-04 04:49:12 · 10 answers · asked by Melanie G 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
There are several theories:
1) Terry Melcher had previously lived in the home that Sharon was renting. Manson had a beef with Melcher and some think Manson was sending a message to Melcher with these murders.
2) A Manson family member, Robert Beausoleil, had previously been arrested and jailed for the murder of Gary Hinman. So the family decided to commit copycat murders in hopes the police will believe that Beausoleil was innocent. Manson knew that Tex Watson (one of the killers) was familiar with the layout of the Tate home so that's why he picked that house.
3) Manson believed that there was going to be a black/white race war. He believed that he and his "Family" would be the ultimate beneficiaries of this war. He wanted to make it look like black people murdered these white people thereby igniting the race war.
4) There are rumors these may have been contract killings. It has been hypothesized that Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski (two friends of Sharon and Roman who were staying with Sharon that night) were dealing drugs and someone wanted them eliminated.
I don't believe Sharon was the intended victim. Several Manson family members have said they had advanced word that Sharon wasn't supposed to be home that night. She was supposed to stay with a friend that night but was tired and not feeling well so she cancelled. Also her car was gone. It was in the repair shop.
2007-10-04 17:42:32 · answer #1 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Manson Family" were mind mucked up by hard core LSD and influenced by Charles Manson to do his bidding. Manson sent them out to kill people inside the house--once owned by a music producer who turned down and dashed Manson's chances of musical stardom. The "hit" was ordered out of sourly embittered hatred; a revenge killing.
Manson evidently didn't know the house was sold and of it's new owners--Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Tate and the other Manson murder victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Manson didn't tell his "Family" WHO to kill....just to kill those inside the house....and so they did.
The LaBianca murder, not far from the Tate murder site, was likely done in an effort to "cover up" the botched first set of killings and lead police to believe the slayings were racially motivated.
And when Charlie got caught, he put on his infamous crazy show---and never shut off the switch. Profilers today speculate Manson IS mentally ill AND dangerously persuasive; likely he'll never see freedom alive.
2007-10-07 16:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you spend a lot of time mulling this question over in your mind? Just curious, because in no way can you interpret Sharon Tate's murder by Manson's minions as some kind of accident nor do I see any difference whether he specifically targeted anyone or as in actuality he just ordered everyone there to be killed. If you believe his intention was only to have one specific person murdered, wouldn't he have made plans to have that person killed at a time when he was not surrounded by other people? Oppps, must have lost my mind there for a second trying use logic to justify make a senseless bloodbath.
2016-05-20 22:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a very sad story. Something that many don't know is that Polansky many years later filmed Tess, an adaptation of Tess d' Umbervilles of Thomas Hardy as an honour to her. It was the last book she had read while she was in London and had left a notice on the book that she had found it interesting. He never saw her again.
She was 8 months pregnant when she was murdered.
It is very sad that people remember her only from the way she was murdered.
2007-10-08 02:43:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She just happened to be living in that house when they arrived. Originally they were looking for somebody else that they thought lived there. But, since they had already decided to kill they went ahead.
2007-10-04 07:59:10 · answer #5 · answered by Nefertiti 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
High on drugs and taken in by his bullshit, they should all still be in jail, American law, in some ways seems as crazy as British law !
2007-10-05 09:58:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It wouldn't have matterd who was there, they would have killed them anyway because he told them to.
2007-10-04 11:10:20 · answer #7 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because he told them to.
2007-10-04 05:02:36 · answer #8 · answered by AKA FrogButt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read for yourself. .
2007-10-04 04:53:13 · answer #9 · answered by Cris 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
like him ,they were all a bit mad ..............
2007-10-06 04:20:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋