Charles Manson sent Sharon Tate’s sister a coded drawing before he died: report
nypost.comactress and model, was brutally stabbed and strangled to death along with four others by members of the Manson family in her Beverly Hills home, 53 years ago this week.Debra Tate told The Sun that she met with Manson at the LA County Jail shortly after he was arrested and accused of being behind what became known as the “Helter Skelter” murders.Debra met with a shackled Manson in jail but neither said a thing. “I had two guards next to me, and we just sat there looking at each other for about 10 minutes,” she said. “No words were spoken; all we did was stare into each other’s eyes.
I could just see and feel the aura of evil around him.”Debra had no further contact with Manson until decades later, when she wrote him asking if he had masterminded any other murders.
Manson had often claimed that there were more victims. Tate told the Sun she got a letter back from Manson that “rattled on” about how he was an “outlaw” and wouldn’t rat on others. “But he drew me a little picture that was an exact replica of the Panamint Mountains, the mountain range surrounding Barker Ranch where Manson was hiding out after the murders and eventually captured,” Debra said.“There was also what at first glance looked like a sun coming up over the hills, but when you looked closer, it was actually a little image of Charlie, because he had a little ‘X’ on his forehead.”Mason famously tattooed a swastika on his forehead.The drawing included additional small X-marks that Debra told The Sun she believes could be burial sites for other Manson family victims.Excavations done at the Barker ranch at Debra’s urging have yielded no human remains.Tate’s murder took place around 11: 45 p.m.
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