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him. ‘I am the devil, and I’m here to do the devil’s business,’ he chillingly announced. The other occupants of the house were rounded up from various bedrooms – Tate, Jay Sebring, America’s top men’s hair stylist and twenty-five-year-old Abigail Folger, heiress to a coffee fortune.
    Watson tied Tate’s and Sebring’s necks together, throwing the other end of the rope over a beam so that if they tried to escape they would choke. Folger went to get her purse and they took the seventy dollars she had in it. Watson then stabbed Folger frenziedly. Frykowski had freed his hands from the towel they had used to tie him up and made an attempt to escape. Watson hit him on the head a number of times with his gun and then shot him twice.
    At this point, the shocked Kasabian burst in, telling them that someone was coming, in an effort to stop the slaughter. They told her it was too late and Kasabian, in a state of shock, ran back to the car and started it up, considering fleeing to seek help. But she realised her daughter, Tanya, was still back at the ranch and she worried about what would happen to her.
    Folger, still alive, had run outside to the house’s pool area, but Krenwinkel, who had followed her, caught up with her and stabbed her, Watson joining in. Frykowski, trying to crawl across the lawn was also stabbed by Watson. Meanwhile, in the house, Sharon Tate was pleading for her life and that of her unborn baby. Atkins told her she did not care about her or her baby and she and Watson stabbed the beautiful actress sixteen times. Then, before leaving the house, they left a sign, just as Manson had ordered them to. Atkins grabbed a towel and wrote the word ‘pig’ on the front door in Sharon Tate’s blood.
    The following night, Manson, Steve ‘Clem’ Grogan and Leslie Van Houten joined them when they drove to a large house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area. It belonged to Leno LaBianca, a supermarket executive, and his wife, Rosemary. Manson and Watson broke in and tied up the LaBiancas. They emerged from the house and Manson ordered Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten to go inside. Manson, Kasabian, Susan Atkins and Grogan drove off.
    Watson began to stab Leno LaBianca with a chrome-plated bayonet, but in the bedroom, Rosemary was putting up a fight. Watson stabbed her, however, and she fell. Returning to the living room, he carved ‘war’ on Leno’s stomach. In the bedroom, Krenwinkel was stabbing Rosemary repeatedly with a kitchen knife and Watson ordered the watching Van Houten to join in. Rosemary LaBianca received a total of forty-one stab wounds.
    Krenwinkel then wrote ‘Rise’ and ‘Death to pigs’ on the walls and misspelled ‘Helter Skelter’ as ‘Healther Skelter’ on the refrigerator door, using the couple’s blood. She stabbed Leno’s corpse a further fourteen times, leaving a carving fork sticking out of his stomach. She finished by sticking a steak knife in his neck.
    Their grisly business was not over for that night, however. Manson decided he wanted to kill a Lebanese actor acquaintance of Kasabian’s, Saladine Nader. Kasabian was sent to his apartment to knock on the door, while Atkins and Grogan waited to jump him. However, she deliberately chose the wrong door on which to knock and when that door was opened, she apologised and walked away, undoubtedly saving that person’s life.
    When asked later in court why she had gone with them, fully aware this time of what was going to take place, Kasabian would say that when Manson had asked her, she was afraid to say no.
    A few days later, Kasabian fled the Spahn Ranch with Tanya, returning to her mother’s house in New Hampshire.
    Meanwhile, the police rounded up the Manson Family for car theft, not realising that they had the Tate-LaBianca killers in custody. It was only when Susan Atkins carelessly boasted to fellow cellmates about the murders that the truth emerged.
    Atkins was offered a reduced sentence – life instead of the death