A Crime To Remember

Today, August 9, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of what is still viewed as one of the most horrific crimes in history, the Sharon Tate murder. That morning in the peaceful Benedict Canyon suburb of Los Angeles, ex-convict Charles Manson and his followers arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive, and when they departed they would leave behind carnage beyond belief. A housekeeper, arriving for her morning shift would discover the bodies of actress Sharon Tate, pregnant with her unborn son, and four other people brutally murdered throughout the sprawling compound. Manson and three other family members remain incarcerated to this day and every year of parole eligibility has brought them denials, as should be the case. Only the death penalty being ruled unconstitutional has kept them alive all these years.