Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders by Greg King

Author:Greg King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Sharon Alone

After her liner docked in New York, Sharon returned to Los Angeles, where Jay Sebring picked her up. She was back at Cielo Drive in time to watch the moon landing live on television, on July 20. Her parents and sisters were down from San Francisco for the weekend to work on their house at Palos Verdes, and they joined their daughter, Jay, Abigail and Voyteck as they watched the scenes from the moon that afternoon. With her, Doris had brought a large wooden rocking chair, in which she herself had rocked and nursed her three daughters. Sharon placed it in a corner of the living room until the nursery was finished. It was the last time Paul and Doris Tate would see their daughter alive.

Sharon selected the maid’s room at the northern corner of the house as the nursery for her baby. Winifred Chapman, the middle-aged lady whom Sharon had brought from Patty Duke’s house on Summit Ridge Drive, did not live-in, and the room had been left empty. “I was at the house a few weeks before the murders,” recalls Michelle Phillips. “Sharon seemed happy, relieved to be home, but tired. We talked about the baby, and her plans. She didn’t know if it was a boy or a girl, and so had some trouble picking out a scheme to decorate the nursery. She showed me the fabric she had decided to use, yellow with a pattern of little birds on it. That was the last time I saw her.”1

Sharon wanted Roman home, not only because she worried about what he might be doing and who he might be seeing in London without her, but also because she disliked the atmosphere she found on her return at 10050 Cielo Drive. Although she personally liked Abigail Folger, she made no secret to Roman that she could barely tolerate the arrogant Frykowski. In addition, Voyteck frequently invited numerous friends to the house for small parties after her return, and they were almost always drunk, or using drugs, or both. Sharon had quit using drugs as soon as she found out she was pregnant. Voyteck and Abigail seemed to be in constant arguments, too, and Sharon became so upset that she worried her own stress might harm her baby. According to Doris Tate, “Whatever was going on at that house prior to her going home bothered her a great deal. She wasn’t so naive that night that she called [me] and said she wanted these people out of the house. Roman couldn’t get home quick enough for her to be settled and have that baby.”2

Sharon expected Roman to arrive at any time. But, after placing a few telephone calls to him, she realized that he had no intention of following her back to Los Angeles. He claimed that he had to be in London to finish working on the script for Day of the Dolphin. To a friend, however, he allegedly admitted, “I can’t stand seeing Sharon blown up the way she is.

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