Aug 9, 1969: Actress Sharon Tate found murdered By Manson In1969, the 26-year-old actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of movie director Roman Polanski,is found murdered along with four other people at her LA home. The gruesome crime, in which the killers scrawled messages on the walls with the victims’ blood, sent Hollywood into a state of panic. The cult leader Charles Manson& his followers,were later convicted for the murders.
