He made the controversial films Rosemary’s Baby (1968), in which a girl is raped by the devil.” “Sharon, 26, who sometimes called herself “sexy little me,” died with another woman and three men at her $83,000 Hollywood home,” he continues, “Sharon who was eight months pregnant, was the wife of 36-year-old Roman Polanski, the Polish-born film director, who is away filming in Europe.”Ĭontinued: “Both he and Sharon have film associations with the occult. “Beautiful film star Sharon Tate was found murdered here today – the victim of a horrifying ritual massacre.” – Malcolm Keogh, The Sunday Mirror, August 10th, 1969. A British tabloid Sunday newspaper founded in 1881, The People is now known as The Sunday People. The quotes featured are from storied British papers The People and The Sunday Mirror, dated Sunday, August 10 1969.
When reading the article today, the events feel even more brutal and ghastly. Details, like the grotesque descriptions of how the bodies were mutilated, are vividly depicted, perhaps to expose the heinous nature of the crime. How the headlines portray the Tate Murders is gruesome.
Revisiting newspapers that captured the event in harrowing detail, we’ve compiled quotes from stories at the time to give an accurate account of how the murders were initially reported. August 8 – 9, 2019 marked 50 years since the Tate Murders.
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