Steven Parent

Tate murders victim

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Steven Parent was one of the five victims murdered during the Tate-LaBianca murders on August 8–9, 1969. He was an 18-year-old who was visiting the caretaker of the property where the murders occurred. The killings were carried out by members of Charles Manson's "Manson Family" cult. Parent was killed along with Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Jay Sebring at the Los Angeles home of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. Manson ordered the murders but was not present at the scene.1

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…people in the home—celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, a close friend of Tate’s, was also there—were made to gather in the living room, and Tate and Sebring were linked by ropes tied around their necks. Sebring was shot and stabbed to death. Frykowski and Folger managed to free themselves and flee…
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…people in the home—celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, a close friend of Tate’s, was also there—were made to gather in the living room, and Tate and Sebring were linked by ropes tied around their necks. Sebring was shot and stabbed to death. Frykowski and Folger managed to free themselves and flee…
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