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Charlie instructed me and Tex Tohasss Watson), a git tthe name of Linda (Kasabian) and Katie —that's Patricia Ktenwinkel. Well, Charlie instructed us to go to this particular house and gave us a ear, a 1958 or '59 black Chevy, and “old us to get two changes of clothes, basically black. We had been buving black clothes for what we call creepy-crawlies. We'd go around and creepy-crawlie people's houses. We wouldn't take anything. Just for the experience of getting the fear and bringing our- selves out of it. Told to Obey Tex Actually, he instructed us in the details through Tex. He just told me to do everything Tex said to do. Charlie had control over everybody. J never questioned what Charlie said. I just did it. And he instructed us to get the clothes and our knives and such and such, and the four of us got in the car and started going to this place. Then 'Tex explained the situation to us, but honestly. 1 bad no knowledge of what was happening until we got there. Tex told me that he and Charlie had been up to that house before— that's why they chose the house. Tex fold me the house used to helong to Mr. Melcher. That's Terry Melcher, Doris Day's son. But he said that Mr. Melcher didn't live there any more. But the reason Charlie picked the house was to instill fear into Terry Melcher because Terry had given his word on a few things and never came through with them. So Charlie wanted to put some fear \rmeeneemecs Ri eae into him, fet him know that what Charlie said was the way it is. I had no idea who lived in the house when we were driving up there, not when we got there and not_after it was all over. I don't guess anyone else did either, Not Charlie, not Tex. No one. Not 'til the next: day when it came over TV. When I saw the faces again—it blew rp=rnien = a. s we drove, Tex bega inin, ~TESRIip of tio hone Tee We had a set of bolt cutters with us and a rope and Tex had a gun, Each one of us had a knife: I'm not sure whether the gun Tex had was Charlie's or not. All I know is that the gun was used in previous killings and that it was the gun he used to target practice with out on the ranch, Tells How It Began We drove up to the house, turned the car around and parked it between the gate and a neighbor's house. We got out of the car and got the bolt cutter. Tex climbed up the telephone pole and snipped two wires, hoping that they were tele- phone wires. [ guess they were. The lights in the house stayed on. Then we got back in the car, drove down the hill and parked the car at the base of the hill, but a little ways up, so it wouldn't look too suspi- cious, so it would look like it belonged there in the neighborhood. We walked back up the hill to that metal gate which was closed. We didn't touch the gate because we didn't know if it was electrified or not, whether there was an alarm svstem that we didn't want to set off. We saw a fence up a slope from the roadway and we decided to try that. Well, we climbed up the hill and there was a place where we could climb over the fence. So we went over the fence, the four of us. And all of a sudden we saw a light coming out along the driveway inside the grounds. We knew it was a car. Tex told us to lay down and be still. So we all just. did exactly what he said. Just laid down and Kept quiet. vesemnnm worth ist as the car drove into our sight—I couldn't actually cae..whst —but I heard Tex say: "Stop. Halt." Then Tex had a gun on this young boy (Steven Parent) and I heard the boy say: “Please, don't hurt me. I won't say anything." Then the gun went off four times, and Tex came back and said: "Come on." And we proceeded to go, but the young boy who was killed in the car —his death, I felt very bad about it when I saw it had happened. And all of a sudden I found I was at the front door. . . well, there's a Winreowtight next to it. | a kin _1ex..he lifted up and opencd, the ‘window, climbed inside and wen around and opened the front door. A Man on the Couch We had no idea how many people © were in the house. When we got into the living room, there was a man (Wojciech Frykowski) sleeping on the couch. The back of his head was facing me. He had on kind of a "mod" outfit; the pants fitted low. Tex went up to the couch, and the man woke up, thinking—I guess— that it was a friend of his. He said: "What time is it?" And Tex stood in front with the gun and said: "Don't move or you're dead." Then Tex motioned for us to come and stand behind the couch. Just Katie and I had gone in. We left Linda outside to listen for sounds. It surprised me that nobody heard the gunshots that killed the young boy. But they weren't that loud. It was a quiet gun. And, anyway, Tex told me to go down the hall and check the other rooms. So I went down the hall and found a bedroom, I went in, and this girl (Abigail Folger) put down the book she was reading, and looked at me. I smiled and waved. : I knew they “turned on," just looking at the house. They hide it from society, but just looking at them, I knew they used narcotics. I guess she thought I was a friend. So, then I looked in the other bedroom and saw Sharon Tate and I heard the boy say: “Please don’t hurt me. I won't say anything.” Then the gun went off four times. the younger man, the shorter man— . Jay Sebring. She was in a see through shortie nightgown, wearing of halter underneath it, But they were just talking and didn't see me. I came back out tothe living room — | afftltelde Tex: