the other end had been tied around jay sebring's neck.own. you couldn't tell that it was white, there was so much blood. wojciech frykowski's face had been swollen from the beating. it was hard to tell his facial features at all. wiehl: when the police look in the driveway, they see a car. in the car, there is a body of a young man who has been both shot and stabbed. roberts: it was inexplicable because there was no apparent motive. ♪ sidner: as lapd investigators attempt to make sense of all this death, they suddenly hear a sign of life. [ dog barks ] they hear a dog barking. [ barking continues ] so that alerts them to the guesthouse. ibly19-year-old [william garretson, ] the fill-in caretaker, had been just 25 yards away in the guesthouse when these five people were murdered the night before. at first they thought, well, here is this person alive. he had to know what was going on. wiehl: their first order of business is to take william garretson into custody, and he becomes suspect number one. ♪ ♪ sidner: after killing sharon tate and

what began to happen is, a scuffle started taking place between tex and jay sebring. >> jay sebring was broke loose. >> when there was an attempt to tie everyone up, eventually, abigail folger started to get herself undone and she took off. >> abigail folger, wojciech frykowski make a break for it out in the lawn. >> i left and followed her. i ran after her with an upraised knife and we went out through a back door and i ran her down and i began to stab her. i remember her saying, "i'm already dead." when i looked around, i knew this is wrong. but you're a part of this horrendous dance. and it was like, no matter what or anywhere i turned, it wasn't going to stop. >> abigail folger ended up being stabbed 28 times. watson jumped on frykowski on the lawn. repeatedly stabbed him and hit him over the head with the gun butt. frykowski ended up getting stabbed 51 times. >> susan atkins stabbed sharon tate to death and told her she was going to do it. she talked to the media about killing sharon tate. >> i felt nothing. i felt absolutely nothing for her as she begged for her life and the life

and there was marijuana in jay sebring's car.ted with the lapd because the lapd is making it quite clear that somehow the celebrity lifestyle led to this horrible scene of murder. and roman polanski and his celebrity friends are saying, "no, that's not it." sidner: not only are the tate investigators on a wild goose chase, but so are the labianca detectives. they're looking into leno and his horses and his gambling. and they find that he may have some gambling that has gone bad. the idea that the police have is some kind of mafia connection. again, they're looking in the wrong track. [ whooshes ] a week after the tate murders, charles manson and his followers wake to the sound of unwanted visitors. the sheriff's department had a big raid on spahn ranch. they arrested manson. they arrested other members of the family... ...for stealing cars. and the police couldn't understand when charlie asked what the charges were and they said, "car theft," that manson started laughing. but he had a reason to laugh. he was relieved. no one had

i want to bring in anthony de maria, his uncle, jay sebring, was one of the victims of the manson family. anthony, thank you for joining me this evening. you know, there's been a law that's been talked about and said over the years, five decades worth and more. the nation, of course, has been fastening by all that happened. it is unbelievable to think that this is a member of your own family who was one of the victims. before we even begin, you know, tell me what you are feeling on a day like today, knowing that one more person is now freed. >> well, the first thing is obviously i, i, my, my thoughts are with the victims, all the victims and all of our families. because as leslie collectively tortured, conspired, and killed her victims, so too our families collectively bound by the loss and suffering of her crimes. and it's clearly that leslie van houten's release is the, it profoundly impacts our families, but i fear that a very dangerous, pernicious precedent is established today that will impact millions of victims of violent crimes, and throughout the state of california today, and i