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People of l.a. particularly in beverly hills and bel-air, the center of the movie colony where these murders happened. >> sharon tate's funeral and the funerals of three of the four people murdered with her were held in four different churches. the services for miss tate, a remarkably pretty actress who was about to become a mother, was held in los angeles. >> people were dropped from guest lists. parties were canceled. because no one knew if the killers were among them. >> as investigators search for the tate and labianca killers, los angeles police raid spahn ranch. manson and the family are...

>> written just months before the murders, dr. smith's assessment of the family found a group structured around manson and sex. >> it just was not obvious that his philosophy was dangerous. charlie controlled the other guys, but the major vehicle for controlling them was the women. charlie decided who they had sex with, what they did, where they moved, where they got food, what was their philosophy. in other words, these were not philosophies that they themselves developed. they were like empty slates. >> he would say everything is play acting, everything is a movie. so be in whatever movie yo...

That you would be doing naturally, making love, which is natural, taking a bath, you know, that that is lovely. >> gosh, she was so cute. >> greta: while tate and polanski were living the high life in hollywood, beach boy dennis wilson decided to flee his home to get away from the manson family. >> he said greg i'm going on the road and says can you get me out of here, you know, move me. i found another house down at the beach and literally moved out. that was the only way to get rid of the family. >> after the family left wilson's residence they moved to spahn ranch. >> the movie ranch was ow...

Attached to. >> he knew that melcher was no longer living there. >> joining them on a mission of murder was a recent addition to the family, 19-year-old linda casabian. >> she left home and was traveling around the country and wound up at the manson ranch. >> susan atkins and tex and myself. getting ready to leave and charlie came out and said something like oh, you girls leave a sign, you know what i mean, something witchy. >> greta: in her only television interview in 40 years, linda told fox television's steve done lev duy

That got her into drugs and he brought her to spahn ranch. >> they slaughtered the couple. a fork was left proruding from his abdomen. rosemary was stabbed 41 times. death to pigs, rise and a misspelled helter skelter had been cribbled on the walls and refridge raters in the victim's blood. >> two nights of savegery, seven dead bodies and no suspects. >> my initial feeling is that it was a copy cat murder. there is just no way of connecting it with the people running -- they didn't run in the same circles, they didn't know each other. >> dr. thomas and his staff conducted autopsies on the vict...