“I saw something in my mother’s eyes that really shook me to the core, and that was to see my mother in a darkness and a pain that I don’t think very many children see their parent go through, especially their mother,” DiMaria said.Īs a child, he tried to be proud of his uncle’s legacy. He spotted an 8-by-10 photo of Sebring and asked his mother when he would get to see his uncle again. These people were loved, and their families haven’t stopped missing them.Īnthony DiMaria, 51, was only 3 when his uncle, Jay Sebring, was killed.ĭiMaria remembers being about 4 and looking through a family photo album. That narrative, the families argue, ignores the people who can’t speak for themselves: Sharon Tate, an actress who was 8 ½ months pregnant Jay Sebring, a Hollywood hair stylist Voytek Frykowski, a friend of Sharon Tate’s husband, director Roman Polanski Abigail Folger, Frykowski’s girlfriend and the heir to the Folger coffee fortune Steven Parent, an 18-year-old who was visiting a resident at a guesthouse on the estate where Tate and Polanski lived Gary Hinman, a musician Donald “Shorty” Shea, a horse wrangler at the Spahn Movie Ranch and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, owners of a chain of Los Angeles grocery stores. For almost 50 years, Manson and his followers have remained at the forefront of many Americans’ minds as their violent, tortuous rampage has been retold in books, films, podcasts and more.īut for the victims’ families, Manson’s legacy as a counterculture icon is a bastardized version of history that ignores their pain and mocks their loved ones.
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