One gram of cocaine, 7.8 grams of loose marijuana and a two-inch marijuana roach were all found in Sebring’s car, parked in the driveway. Also in the nightstand, McGann said officers found 10 capsules of MDA. Seventy-six grams of marijuana were found in a sack in a living room cabinet at the home, and 36 grams of hashish were found in a night stand in the front bedroom of the home, believed used by Miss Folger and Polish playboy Voityck Frykowski. McGann, in charge of police investigation at the Tate home, told the court marijuana, hashish, cocaine and MDA (a synthetic hallucinogenic drug) were found in the Tate home and in the car belonging to Sebring after the murders. Noguchi will continue his testimony Monday morning.Įarlier Los Angeles Police Sgt. Nine autopsy photographs of Miss Folger, whose body was found on the lawn of the Tate home, were introduced, but no further testimony was presented.ĭr. Noguchi supervised, died, he said, of “a stab wound of the aorta - the large blood vessel from the heart.” Noguchi testified, was eight months pregnant with a baby boy “in the normal state of development.” There had been no injury to the baby, he said, but he estimated it lived “no more than 10 or 15 minutes after the maternal death occurred…only as long as circulation existed.”Ĭoffee heiress Abigail Folger, whose autopsy Dr. Three of eight stab wounds in the actress’ back which pierced her lungs, the doctor termed, “potentially fatal.” She also had been stabbed in the upper right “and upper left arms, and I in the back of the right thigh, and had two sharp cuts on her left forearm. Noguchi said five “by themselves…would have been fatal.” Three others, he said, were potentially fatal wounds.įour four-inch deep stab wounds in the chest, which penetrated the heart and lungs, and a five-inch deep stab wound in the upper abdomen which penetrated the liver, Dr. Her body shook, as though she had been startled. Only once, when the coroner discussed one of the seven autopsy pictures of the actress’ body, did one of them - Miss Atkins - move. The three girls - Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel - sat silently, almost immobile. Manson, sitting at the counsel table scowling and rubbing his beard, stared first at the seven-man five woman jury, then at the Japanese-born pathologist as he continued his detailed testimony. Noguchi testified that her death was caused by “multiple stab wounds of the chest and back, penetrating the heart, lungs and liver and causing massive hemorrhage.” Using a life-sized drawing of the 26-year-old actress’ body to indicate where the 16 stab wounds and two cuts were located, Dr. Noguchi, who said he personally conducted the three-hour autopsy, testified the body contained no post-mortem wounds, indicating she had been hanged before or as she was dying of the stab wounds. Of Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring, another victim.ĭr. A rope had been found tied around her neck, thrown over a ceiling beam in the living room of the home, then tied around the neck
However, it was indicated later that in addition to the abrasions on the left cheek of the actress, rope burns also encircled her neck. Interrupted by objections from defense attorney Irving Kanarek, representing Manson, Dr. “From the appearance of the abrasions,” the Coroner said, “…it is consistent with…the decedent was hanged.”
SHARON TATE AUTOPSY RESULTS TRIAL
Noguchi, testifying in the trial of hippie cult leader Charles Manson and three of his girl followers, shocked the crowded courtroom Friday when he identified two abrasions on a blown-up picture of the actress’ face as “rope burns”. 22 – Pregnant actress Sharon Tate was not only stabbed 16 times, but was hanged by the neck from a ceiling beam by the murderers who invaded her Benedict Canyon home last August.
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