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Its abigail folger. >> heiress to the folger coffee fortune. >> she thought she was a friend of sharon and waves to her. susan atkins gives the finger wave back and continues down the hall. >> in the bedroom, she found per sharon tate and tates former boyfriend, she herded them in the room. >> at a certain point watson turned his back and he charged and he shot him and watson started stabbing and kicking. >> sharon tate quite naturally is screaming. krokowski and folger break out a side door. th...

Rosemary labianca. >> charlie says hell go in, check it out. charlie comes back out, gets text watson. they go if, first they catch lena labianca. they ask if anybody else is here? my wife is in the bedroom. >> then he gets the others who had begged to go with him this time. >> charlie tells them, go in there. do what you need to do. he drives off in the car. >> the labiancas died as brutally as those the night before. found blindfolded and gagged. the crime scene created to horrify. >> with blo...

>> after a grueling nine-month trial, charles manson and his codefendants were sentenced to death. >> we put on a monumental amount of evidence against each defendant. >> finally, for the prosecutor and others involved with the case, there was closure. or so he thought. >> im driving the car, turn on the radio. the u.s. supreme court has set aside the death penalty for everyone on death row around the country. it was about 600 people. >> 600 prisoners, including all of those convicted of the tat...

Watson is also fighting to make sure that these tapes are not released and that federal judge says the l.a.p.d. simply has not given him a good enough reason to release them. but a man who covered this case very closely back in the day says that he thinks there is a lot more to the story. listen. >> im not at all surprised that there might be more murders. we all suspected, i think at the time that where is the rest of this? because we didnt believe that this just happened one time. >> yeah, cha...

1969. seven victims in all, including the actress sharon tate who was 8 and a half months pregnant. charles manson and several of his followers are still locked up in prison in california but around the time of the original crimes, one of those followers may have admitted to more killings, in audio recordings with his attorney. now the l.a.p.d. wants access to those recordings. but the judge ruled the cops cannot have them because they are currently tied up in a bankruptcy case. trace gallagher ...

Families of the victims. now, watson says he is willing to give police access to the tapes saying, quote here, in the eyes of justice, i am fully willing for the l.a.p.d. to listen to the tapes to satisfy their investigation. but not to take possession since they are not their property. l.a.p.d. has yet to clarify why they wont take tex watson up on his offer to at least listen to those tapes. shep. >> shepard: trace gal -- gallagher in los angeles. big tex was a 52-foot tall cowboy that had gra...