

With a group of friends, Sharon came upon the movie set and caught Richard Beymer's eye. Paul Newman, Richard Beymer, and Susan Strasberg were filming the movie, Adventures of A Young Man in a town nearby Verona. But just as things appeared like they couldn't get any better, she fell victim to a date rape, which she kept to herself because she was afraid it would bring shame to her family's name. Things seemed to be going well for Sharon in Italy, she soon found herself speaking Italian fluently. There Sharon attended Vincenza American High School and became a very active student, joining the Library club, the Student Council, the Cheerleading squad and eventually becoming the school's very first Homecoming Queen. In 1960, Paul was relocated to an Army base in Verona, Italy. Winning such events wasn't anything new for her when she was only six months old she was named Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas. Frykowski was stabbed 51 times and Folger 28.As a teenager, Sharon began modeling and competing in beauty pageants.

Bugliosi claimed that Sebring was shot by Tex Watson after he challenged the way that Tate was being treated.įrykowski and Folger both fought against their murderers, but were eventually overpowered. According to Bugliosi, Sebring and Tate were tied together by the neck from a rope hung from the rafters. In Helter Skelter, a book penned by Manson murder prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, it was claimed that Watson was the first to enter the home. (Garretson survived the encounter as he lived in a separate cottage and was initially suspected for the murders, however was later released.) The Manson family members encountered Parent as his car was in the property’s driveway and Watson shot Parent, before the group later broke into the main house where Tate and her friends were. The first victim that night was an 18 year old boy named Steven Parent, who had been on Tate’s property to visit the caretaker William Garretson. Undated photo of Sharon Tate / Globe Photos/Shutterstock
