– e-book
Read from May 24th to June 14th
2017
My rating:
Monsters
among and within us
I feel like I
have always known about the tragic fate of Sharon Tate, even though I was too
young (only three) at the time of the events to really remember them, and I
only learnt about her tragic fate some ten years later when, while browsing a
“Cinema” magazine, a saw a photo of her with the legend that it was taken a month
or so before her death. There wasn’t other information and when I asked my
mother she couldn’t (or wouldn’t) give me many details, neither, other than she
was the famous Roman Polanski’s wife and that she was killed in her house while
pregnant. I was too young to know where to look for, and there was no computer
then to facilitate such research, so the circumstances of her death remained
always somehow blurry in my mind, but her story moved me so much (mainly
because of her pregnancy) that I have never forgotten her name.
However, it was
only after reading Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter-Skelter,
that I realized that, tragic as it was, Sharon Tate’s death was not only a
criminal case to be investigated and solved by the police, but also an event
with social and historical implications. In an interview taken by Tom
Watson for Newsweek in 2009 (40 years after the event), Vincent Bugliosi shared
his conviction that the Manson murders changed the world:


















