In a spooky letter to Sharon Tate’s sister, Charles Manson said he couldn’t give information of other atrocities, but instead gave her a sketch that purported to point to where buried bodies could be.
The disclosure was revealed in an interview with the Sun by Debra Tate, 69, a longtime victim’s advocate who has defended the Tate family at each court proceeding involving the Manson family since 1998.
Debra wrote to Manson after hearing reports that he and his followers were connected to previous unsolved killings and disappearances.
She was shocked when Manson replied from Corcoran State Prison in Central California.
She reportedly told the Sun that Charles Manson’s letter continued to tremble precisely as he did.
He was writing about how he was an outlaw and that he adheres to outlaw laws, which means that even if some of his brothers and sisters had wronged him, he would never report on any of them.
But, according to Debra, “he drew me a tiny painting that was an identical reproduction of the Panamint Mountains, the mountain range around Barker Ranch where Manson was evading the law after the murders and was later apprehended.”
Another thing that seemed to be the sun rising over the hills was really a little representation of Charlie since he had a small “X” on his forehead, according to the author.
According to The Sun, the artist thought the “little X-marks” in the drawing’s foreground may represent the ultimate resting places for additional cult victims.
“I suppose it was his method of teaching me something and addressing my questions while being loyal to his own theory of living the outlaw life,” she said.
Eight individuals were murdered at two different locations over the course of two nights in August 1969 by followers of cult leader Charles Manson in what are now known as the Tate-LaBianca killings.
Roman Polanski’s 26-year-old wife Sharon Tate was eight and a half months pregnant when her corpse was discovered at their Beverly Hills home amid scenes of destruction.
Five innocent persons were found dead inside the home, and Paul, Sharon’s unborn child, became the heartbreaking sixth casualty.
On the entrance door, Tate’s blood had written the word PIG. On the inside walls, DEATH TO PIGS was daubed.
Debra was ten years old when the killings took place.
Debra said to DailyMail.com in 2019 that Sharon was her light and moon. So many lives were shattered by her death as well as the deaths of others who died in the same massacre as her.
It resembles a pond ripple. It stretches out and keeps expanding.
Following Tate’s murder, Manson brought several of his supporters to Leno and Rosemary LaBianca’s house. He gave them the go-ahead to murder the residents of the house.
Executive of a supermarket, Leno LaBianca. Manson was aware of his residence in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles when he went to a party at the home just next door in 1968.
While serving a life sentence for the murders of Tate and others who lived in her house, as well as the LaBianca murders, Manson passed away in November 2017 from colon cancer.
Debra said, “People are thinking that this should be some sort of relief, but weirdly enough, it really isn’t,” when he passed away to ABC News.
“While Charlie may no longer be with us, those who are still living are the ones who carried out everything, and it was up to their imaginations as to what heinous things were going to be done,” she said.
They seem to me to be far more dangerous people in a strange manner.
Debra oversaw a well-publicized search of the area around Barker Ranch in 2008, where Manson had spent his last days of freedom before being apprehended in October 1969.
Debra said to CBS News at the time that she had pledged to battle to keep the Manson family in jail and to look for further victims after the deaths of her mother, Doris, in 1992, and her other sister, Patti, in 2000.
If there are corpses here, we need to discover them and return them home, she said to the network while at the excavation site.
After a few months, the search team gave up after failing to uncover any remains or proof.
Debra has voiced her opposition to Patricia Krenwinkel’s likely release from prison in May 2022.
Debra spoke up against Krenwinkel’s probable release after a board granted the 74-year-old parole in May.
She reported to the Los Angeles Times that Charles Manson claimed she was the one who resembled him the most.
Charlie judged Patricia Krenwinkel in this way.
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has until October 23 to decide whether or not to grant Krenwinkel parole.