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What the police found when summoned to the Benedict Canyon house of Miss Tate, 26, wife of Film Director Roman Polanski, 36, was far bloodier and grimmer than they had let on. TIME learned last week. There was evidence of a wild struggle with the killer or killers as Sharon and another victim, Hair Stylist Jay Sebring, 35, were slashed repeatedly while they fought for their lives. A large number of pistol bullets were embedded in the walls and ceiling. Blood was spattered over most of the living room walls, and pools of blood and bloody footprints led into...
Sunning in a Bikini. Theories of sex, drug and witchcraft cults spread quickly in Hollywood, fed by the fact that Sharon and Polanski circulated in one of the film world's more offbeat crowds. Says London Celebrity Tailor Douglas Hayward, "They were both enormously popular in a trendy, fashionable, hippie world." They also habitually picked up odd and unsavory people indiscriminately, and invited them home for parties. "Roman and Sharon had as much idea about security as idiots," says Publicist Don Prince. "They lived like gypsies. You were likely to find anyone sleeping there...
...taking drugs, she told him, "Steve, I would do nothing to jeopardize the baby." Sharon was described by some friends as a serious actress with a wide range of interests-dance, music, fencing, skiing-and by others as a vacuous bathing beauty who was capitalizing on Polanski's fame...
...Polanski, who was in London at the time of the murders, is noted for his macabre movies. He is no stranger to death : his mother died in a Nazi concentration camp. Polanski was spectacularly grief-stricken; five days after his wife's death, he still could not walk without assistance...
...free-spending Polish refugee who loved fast cars and women, and was once described as a sort of Hemingway hero. A man who could inspire deep friendship and violent enmity, he had left two former wives behind in Poland. Frokowski was not believed to be a confidant of Polanski's, as he claimed, but rather a hanger-on with sinister connections to which even the tolerant Polanski objected. Both he and Gibby were said to be familiar with at least marijuana, possibly stronger drugs. "You could walk in their house, take a deep breath and get high," said...