Find A Grave - Charles Manson Murder Victims

Folger, Abigail Anne b. August 11, 1943 d. August 9, 1969
Coffee Heiress, Manson Family Murder Victim. Abigail Anne Folger was born to Peter Folger, then chairman of the Folger Coffee Company, and Inez Mejia in San Francisco, California. Her parents divorced in the early-1950s and her father married again and had two sons. She attended the Catalina School for Girls in Carmel, California, graduated from Radcliffe College with honors, and received a graduate degree in Art History from Harvard (writing her senior thesis on the politics in the plays of...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, Hallway N
Frykowski, Wojciech b. December 22, 1936 d. August 9, 1969
Manson Family Murder Victim. Wojciech (pronounced "Voytek" in English) was the son of Jan Frykowski, a textile printer who lost his business during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II, and Teofila Stefanowska. He was a longtime friend of director Roman Polanski. In English, his name translates to Albert. According to Polanski's 1984 autobiography, "Roman," he (Roman) was working the door at a school dance and refused Frykowski entry due to his reputation as a troublemaker. The two...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Saint Josef's Cemetery, Lodz, Poland
Hinman, Gary Allen b. December 24, 1934 d. July 31, 1969
A music teacher who was murdered by members of Charles Manson's "family." As with the Tate and La Bianca residences, a message was scrawled in blood on a wall. Paw prints (symbolic of the Black Panthers) were put next to the phrase "political piggy." Official cause of death is "stab wound to chest." (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Cause of death: Murdered
Rosebud Cemetery, Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado, USA
Plot: Block 78, Lot 7, Grave 7 (corner of 3rd & Glenwood)
GPS coordinates: 39.5173492, 107.3209305 (hddd.dddd)
Hughes, Ronald b. March 16, 1935 d. 1970
Attorney who represented Leslie Van Houten during the Manson murder trials. He refused to go along with Manson's ploy to have his three "girls" take all of the blame for the murders. He mysteriously disappeared in the last weekend of November, 1970, just days after the defense rested its case. His badly decomposed body was found four months later near the Sespe Hot Springs. A couple of Manson's followers later confessed that the Manson Family had murdered Hughes.
Cause of death: Murdered
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section D
GPS coordinates: 34.0583000, -118.4412994 (hddd.dddd)
La Bianca (La Bianca), Leno b. August 6, 1925 d. August 10, 1969
Manson Family Murder Victim. Born Pasqulino Antonio La Bianca in Los Angeles, CA to Antonio and Corina La Bianca. His father immigrated from Canneto di Lipari, Messina, Sicily, Italy, arriving at Ellis Island on March 15, 1911, at the age of sixteen, and settled in Los Angeles. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army from 1943-1946, having done a tour of Europe during this time. Leno's father started a grocery business, Gateway Ranch Markets and State Wholesale Grocery Company...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
La Bianca, Rosemary b. December 15, 1930 d. August 10, 1969
Manson Family Murder Victim. Rosemary La Bianca's origins were, and remain, a mystery. It is reported that she was born in Mexico to American parents and another story has it that she was abandoned there. She was placed in an Arizona orphanage where she was adopted by a California couple by the surname of Harmon when she was 12. Rosemary married Frank Struthers in the late-1940s and had two children - Suzan and Frank, Jr. They divorced in 1958. She met [Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
Parent, Steven Earl b. February 12, 1951 d. August 9, 1969
Murder Victim. He was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, where his father, Wilfred Elmer Parent, was a construction superintendent, and his mother, Juanita, a homemaker, took care of him, his younger sister and two younger brothers. He attended Arroyo High School in El Monte, graduating in June 1969, and his main interest was in electronics. He planned to attend Citrus Junior College in September, and was working two jobs to save money for college: as a delivery boy for Valley...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Queen of Heaven Cemetery and Mortuary, Rowland Heights, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section B, Grave 32, Tier 11
GPS coordinates: 33.9804916, -117.9084396 (hddd.dddd)
Polanski, Paul Richard b. 1969 d. August 9, 1969
Unborn son of director Roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate. He died when his mother, actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant with him, was murdered by members of the Manson family on August 9, 1969.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: St. Ann's Section, Lot 152, Grave 6
Sebring, Jay (Thomas J. Kummer) b. October 10, 1933 d. August 9, 1969
Manson Family Murder Victim. Born Thomas John Kummer in Alabama and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan, he served in the US Navy for four years and was a veteran of the Korean War. While in the Navy, Sebring developed the hairstyling skills that would make him famous. When he arrived in L.A., Thomas changed his name to Jay Sebring - the J for the first initial of his middle name and Sebring from the race car. According to some accounts, he was the first person to open a male hair salon in...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
Plot: Section 24, Lot 281, Grave 12
Spahn, George b. February 11, 1889 d. September 22, 1974
Owner of 'Spahn Ranch,' refuge of the infamous Manson Family.
Eternal Valley Memorial Park, Newhall, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Tate, Sharon Marie b. January 24, 1943 d. August 9, 1969
Actress/Manson Victim. Sharon Tate was the daughter of Army intelligence officer Paul and housewife Doris Willett. At the age of 6 months, she won the Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas beauty contest. She would go on to win the title of Miss Autorama, in Richland, Washington, appeared atop a missile for a cover of the military magazine "Stars and Stripes," and would be nominated homecoming queen of her high school...[Read More] (Bio by: Donna Di Giacomo)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Saint Ann's Section, L152, 6

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