It was a little boy. Richard Paul, I think. I can’t even fathom the terror Sharon Tate must have felt. As a society, we have the obligation to put a value on innocent human life. The State of CA placed a value on Atkins life when they overturned the death penalty. But I think she should serve her sentence to pay society-and the families- for the life she took from her victims.
It is still painful to many people, all over, what happened in my city that night. I was a little girl and did not know about it until years later when I read Bugliosi’s “Helter Skelter.” Oh my gosh, we used to drive by the old house on Cielo Drive late at night and freak ourselves out. It looked, then, when I was in my teens, exactly as it did the night of the murders. (They changed the house and the whole street around; nothing looks the same there any more today.)
No way should these killers be shown any more mercy than what they got when their sentence of death was overturned. None of the victims’ death sentences have been.
Awwwwww. I watched the documentary about Roman Polanski the other day online and even if I don’t have sympathy for him about the 13-year-old girl case, I must admit my heart went straight out to him when they showed him returning from Europe when his beloved wife and longed-for child had just been murdered. The expression on his face was one I hope never to see again on anybody.