Police Handout Abigail Folger died in Sharon Tate’s yard. She managed to escape the house until she was tracked down by Manson Family members and stabbed to death.
It is alleged the Manson Family targetted the Tate home at rando, but he was in that home months before visiting Terry Melcher who was a music producer. His mother, Doris Day, knew about a possible record contract, and got her son to – BACK OUT! This is – the real motive for murder!
Bryan Mclean was invited to that house for dinner but – BACKED DOWN! I suspected he was going to be a bodyguard, as well as McQueen and Bruce Lee. I am now looking to see if Bryan and Terry were friends. How could they not be. A manager at the Spahn Ranch saw Sharon Tate there. Marilyn Reed went there with her hairdresser boyfriend to buy LSD, but, she might have been scoring MDA. I am sure Bryan knew the Beach Boys.
“According to Love, bandmate Dennis Wilson’s “inexplicable” friendship with Manson introduced the latter to many of the Beach Boys’ comrades — including Melcher. Soon, Manson began to accompany Melcher and Wilson on many of their club outings.”
Manson met many people in the Music Industry, and they knew much about him. Was he manufacturing MDA at the ranch. How many celebrities went there. Marilyn told me Charles asked her to stay and drop with the girls? She suggested she was invited to any orgy. Were there orgies at Wilson’s home? Bryan invited me to an orgy at Vito’s garage. We were seventeen. Did the Manson Family – show up?
For the last four hours I have been reading about others who were in Manson’s orbit. I suspect he was trying to control the LA Music Industry via group sex. He had dirt on many people. When they all backed out of The Family Bond, Manson threatened to DESTROY the Hippies and their music scene. I suspect he was a studied racist who hated the black roots in Rock and Roll. I suspect he was telling musicians and promoters he has a…..Prue White Sound! I know someone that has theories like this. He claims he knows how my niece – really died! In my last post I read my niece Shannon’s last message to me on a different and frightening way. I put my cane against my door for several days. I am now working on a police report.
“But Folger and Frykowski had a tempestuous relationship. After moving into 10050 Cielo Drive on April 1, 1969, to house-sit for Polanski and his wife, the Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, they argued constantly.”
Above is a police photo of Folger who was HUNTED! Did The Family know she was there – weeks before? Did Abigail invest in movies and aspiring rock bands? What if a meeting was held – and the bodyguards didn’t show up? Why did Abigail het no attention? Her parents knew she had bonded with a world-class creep who was after her money and making offers to other creeps, acting like a big shot – WITH FOLGER FAMILY MONEY. This is the worst nightmare a rich man can have, Did he consider hiring a hitman to get Wojciech “Voytek” Frykowski. out of his families life? Any detective could see this was a motive for murder..
John Presco
Reporter: Royal Rosamond Press
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“But Folger and Frykowski had a tempestuous relationship. After moving into 10050 Cielo Drive on April 1, 1969, to house-sit for Polanski and his wife, the Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, they argued constantly.
Perhaps their turmoil stemmed from Frykowski’s abuse of Folger’s money. According to Manson Family prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, the official police report stated that “he had no means of support and lived off Folger’s fortune.” It also might have come from their drug abuse: Frykowski regularly used cocaine, mescaline, marijuana, and LSD, and Folger was reportedly high that last time she talked to her mother on the phone.
Did Doris Day Save Her Son from Being Killed by Charles Manson?
The late record producer Terry Melcher’s connection to Charles Manson is explored in the book Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
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Doris Day may have singlehandedly saved her son from death at the hands of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, according to a bombshell book.
The Hollywood icon — who died on Monday at the age of 97 — made her only child, the late record producer Terry Melcher, vacate his rental home in Benedict Canyon, California, not long before Manson’s “family” committed the Tate murders there in 1969, Beach Boys frontman Mike Love wrote in his 2016 memoir.
Love detailed friend Melcher’s connection to Manson in Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy.
According to Love, bandmate Dennis Wilson’s “inexplicable” friendship with Manson introduced the latter to many of the Beach Boys’ comrades — including Melcher. Soon, Manson began to accompany Melcher and Wilson on many of their club outings.
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“Manson was also in the car one day when Dennis dropped Terry off at his rented home at 10050 Cielo Drive, at the top of a steep hill in the Benedict Canyon area,” Love wrote, noting that Melcher was living in the property with his then-girlfriend, actress Candice Bergen.
In 1969, Melcher began visiting wannabe rock star Manson at his ramshackle dwelling, the Spahn Ranch — likely, Love wrote, as a favor to Wilson.
Unimpressed by Manson’s singing abilities after his second trip, though, Melcher made it clear he wouldn’t aid in the now-81-year-old’s quest for stardom.
“Manson wouldn’t stand for it,” Love revealed in his memoir. “Consumed by rage and seeking revenge against a corrupt society, he convinced his followers that the apocalypse was coming in a bloody race war, at the end of which he and his disciples would take over.”
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Manson picked the occupants of 10050 Cielo Drive as his first victims. But Melcher had relocated from the home in January 1969 to live in a home owned by mom Day, famous for classic films like Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk.
Wrote Love, “The move was no accident. Terry, Doris’ only child, was extremely close to his mom. He had told her about Manson – and about some of his scary antics, his brandishing of knives, his zombie followers — and that Manson had been to the house on Cielo and she insisted he move out.”
Seven months later, on Aug. 9, 1969, several Manson “family” members murdered 8-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four other victims at 10050 Cielo Drive. The following night, they killed Rosemary and Leno LaBianca at their home a few miles away.
Of Day’s insistence that Melcher move, Love said, “A mother’s intuition, perhaps, and it may have saved his life.”
Coffee Heiress Abigail Folger Was Slaughtered By The Manson Family, Then Overshadowed By Sharon Tate
By Gina Dimuro | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published November 28, 2018
Updated November 20, 2024
Abigail Folger was one of the five victims of the Manson Family’s “Tate murders.”
YouTubeAbigail Folger was heiress to a massive fortune.
Twenty-five-year-old Abigail Anne Folger might never have been at 10050 Cielo Drive at all if not for her boyfriend, Wojciech “Voytek” Frykowski.
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He was an acquaintance of star-studded film director Roman Polanski’s from back in Poland. But although it was Frykowski who brought Abigail Folger into the Hollywood circle, Folger was already a famous persona in her own right: she was the daughter of Peter Folger, chairman of the Folger Coffee Company, and she was the heir to his fortune.
The violent murder of a prominent heiress at the hands of the crazed Charles Manson cult would surely have been enough to fill the front pages for weeks on its own. However, such was the fame of the other victims that Folger’s own story was almost totally eclipsed.
Abigail Folger Before The Murders
Abigail Folger was born on Aug. 11, 1943, and would die just two days before her 26th birthday. Born into an über wealthy and Catholic family, Folger’s early life was one of tradition and high-society training. She was a debutante and a model student who graduated from Harvard University with an art history degree.
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She worked for the University of California Art Museum in Berkeley, then left for New York where she worked at a book store and then as a social worker in the ghettos. It was in New York in 1968 when she met Voytek Frykowski, who was new to America. He claimed to be an aspiring writer. The two communicated mostly in French as his English wasn’t very good.
YouTubeAbigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski’s relationship turned sour after they moved into Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski’s house.
That August, they drove from New York to Los Angeles and rented a house in the Hollywood hills. In some of LA’s roughest neighborhoods — Watts, Pacoima — Folger volunteered as a social worker.
But Folger and Frykowski had a tempestuous relationship. After moving into 10050 Cielo Drive on April 1, 1969, to house-sit for Polanski and his wife, the Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, they argued constantly.
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Perhaps their turmoil stemmed from Frykowski’s abuse of Folger’s money. According to Manson Family prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, the official police report stated that “he had no means of support and lived off Folger’s fortune.” It also might have come from their drug abuse: Frykowski regularly used cocaine, mescaline, marijuana, and LSD, and Folger was reportedly high that last time she talked to her mother on the phone.
Folger’s therapist thought that as of her final appointment that summer, she was ready to leave Frykowski. But she would never get the chance.
Abigail Folger Is Murdered
On August 8, 1969, Sharon Tate had been home for three weeks after visiting Polanski, who was preparing to direct a film in London. Tate was eight and a half months pregnant, and her husband asked Frykowski and Folger to stay at the house with her until he returned home.
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FlickrAbigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski began staying at 10050 Cielo Drive in April 1969. Four months later, they were brutally murdered.
At around 10 p.m., Folger phoned her mother in Connecticut to let her know she had booked a flight to San Francisco the next morning. Shortly after, Folger put on her nightgown and started to read in one of the guest rooms. Frykowski fell asleep on the couch.
Frykowski was then startled awake by a strange man pointing a gun into his face. He asked who the man was to which the stranger replied: “I am the Devil and I’m here to do the Devil’s business.”
The next morning, the Polanski’s housekeeper, Winifred Chapman, ran screaming from 10050 Cielo Drive. “Murder! Death! Bodies! Blood!” she cried as she pounded on the neighbors’ doors.
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Police HandoutAbigail Folger died in Sharon Tate’s yard. She managed to escape the house until she was tracked down by Manson Family members and stabbed to death.
When the police arrived, they found that the Hollywood home had been turned into a human slaughterhouse. Eighteen-year-old Steven Parent, who was visiting the property’s caretaker, was slumped over in the front seat of his car at the entrance of the property, shot four times.
Police were further horrified to find the word “pig” written in the victims’ blood on the front door.
Inside lay the bodies of Sharon Tate and her friend and ex-boyfriend Jay Sebring. Tate had been stabbed 16 times. A rope was tied around her neck, slung over a rafter, and the other end of the same rope was attached to Jay Sebring’s neck. Tate was in her pajamas.
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Sebring had been stabbed and beaten over the head. Out on the lawn was Abigail Folger. She had tried to flee when she was cut down. The nightgown she was wearing was so soaked in blood that it was nearly impossible to tell the now-crimson garment had originally been white. The five-foot-five young woman had been stabbed 28 times.
Police handoutPolice put a sheet over one of the bodies found at 10050 Cielo Drive — either Folger’s or her boyfriend’s, Voytek Frykowski.
Frykowski, further out on the lawn, had numerous head wounds. He was stabbed 51 times and shot twice.
An investigator on the scene recalled: “I’d worked homicide for five years and seen a lot of violence. This was the worst.”
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The Manson Family
It would be months before the Los Angeles Police were finally able to catch the murderers, who killed another couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, the very night after murdering Abigail Folger.
Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesCharles Manson leaves court after deferring a plea on murder charges. December 11, 1969.
The LAPD remained baffled and the community terrified as the killers remained on the loose. The case finally broke when in October of 1969 police raided the Manson Family’s ranch in Death Valley and arrested several of its members for auto theft and possession of stolen property.
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Among those arrested was a Susan Atkins, who, while imprisoned, bragged to one of her cellmates about murdering Sharon Tate. Atkins told her cellmate how “[Folger] looked at me and smiled and I looked at her and smiled” right before Watson stabbed her in the stomach. The cellmate recalled how “there was not a shred of sympathy on [Atkins’s] part for the victims,” and went to prison authorities, who in turn alerted the police.
It turned out that although Manson claimed the Tate murders were intended to instigate an apocalyptic race war, the supposed reality was that they may have been little more than the bloody end of a petty grudge.
A failed musician, Manson was bitter about not receiving a record deal from producer Terry Melcher, who had previously lived at 10050 Cielo Drive. Manson family members Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel were dispatched with the order to “totally destroy everyone in that house, as gruesome as you can.”
Bettmann/GettyManson family members and murder suspects Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle, and Leslie Van Houten.
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For many, Charles Manson represented the embodiment of the counterculture’s worst excesses. The disturbingly charismatic man recruited young men and women — usually from relatively privileged families — who were drawn to the hippie ideals of the 1960s, then “manipulated and completely overpowered them, forcing them to partake in group sex, drugs, and ultimately, slaughter.”
The Manson name is now, as Bugliosi once stated, “a metaphor for evil.”
Abigail’s Legacy
The People vs. Charles Manson began in June 1970 and concluded in January of 1971 when the jury determined Manson and family members Atkins, Krenwinkel, Watson, and Leslie Van Houten — who helped commit the LaBianca killings — guilty of murder.
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YouTubeAbigail Folger wasn’t your ordinary heiress. For much of her adult life, she worked as a social worker.
Although all five defendants were originally sentenced to death, the sentences were commuted to life in prison after California’s 1972 in People v. Anderson. Manson spent the rest of his days behind bars and died in November 2017 at the age of 83.
As for Abigail Folger, her body was returned to San Francisco and her funeral was held on the morning of August 13, 1969, at a church that had been built by her grandparents. Following a Catholic mass, Abigail was entombed inside the Main Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
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