Warning. This podcast involves discussions of a spooky and graphic nature, not suitable for children or the faint of heart.

Strong language and mature content is present. Listener discretion is advised. You have been warned. Hey, Spooksters, and welcome back to part two of the Manson Family Cult. We're going to go ahead and dive in to the other half of this week's topic.

Okay. I'm going to be talking about like the investigation and the trial and all that other shit that comes after essentially the deed itself.

On August 9th, 1969, the Tate murders, which at that point it's become

known as the Tate murders became national news. And they were discovered by Pulaski's

housekeeper, Winifred Chapman. She arrived to work and basically walked in on a fucking

murder scene, which let's be honest, that would be fucking insane. I would not be okay with that. I'd be very like, uh, okay, I'm not cleaning.

So, and that this is the same day that, you know, they go over to the law, Bianca's, and do the

killing. So it's like, it's a very short window of time. The first person that is held in question is the groundskeeper.

His name is William Gerritsen because he lived in the guest house.

And he was hired by like a kind of like a friend of the families or something like that to take care of the property while

the actual like groundskeeper was away. So Stephen Parent, who was found in his car, who was like

the first victim they like really, the police really found was visiting him. He was leaving and

that's when bad things happened. So with Garrison,

he was taken in, but he was released on August 11th because they gave him a polygraphs test,

and it indicated that he had not been involved with the crimes. Now, he claimed he never heard

anything, he never witnessed anything, anything. He said that his stereo was on and it was, the stereo was on. It was he claimed he never heard anything. He never witnessed anything,

anything. He said that his stereo was on and it was, the stereo was on, it was really loud

he couldn't hear anything. However, the polygraph did indicate that he had witnessed portions

of the murder. Oh, wow. And he, of course, denied it. And then he later came out and made a public statement, I think,

because he died in 2016. But I want to say that he came out later in life and said, yep, I actually

witnessed part of it. Oh, fuck. Right. And so, and I could understand, like, why if you were in his position, you'd be

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