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MURDERS! ' LOS ANCELES-A SIX-MANTEAM OFPOLICE DETECTIVESTODAY PROBEDTWO MACABREMURDER CASESWHICH BORE STARTLINC SIMILARITIES-'SENSELESS, SAVAGESTABBINGSWITH ALMOST RITUALISTIC OVERTONES.,

POLICE MAINTAINEDTHERE WAS NO DIRECT PHYSICALEVIDENCE TO _ IFONNECT THESTABBING DEATHSOFAMIDDLEACED COUPLE SUNDAYAND *E MASSMURDER SATURDAYOF ACTRESSSHARONTATE AND HER FOURGUESTS.ifT ASECLUDED ESTATE. - }

BUTAN OFFICER SAID IT IS UNUSUALTO HAVETHE SAME TEAMON TWO ASES UNLESSTHERE'S ANINDICATION THECASES ARELINKED.A/// THE SOLE SUSPECT INTHETATEMURDERSWILLIAM GARR5%SON19CARETAKER ATTHE BENEDICTCANYON HOMELEASED BYTHE AESS, WASRELEASED YESTERDAY.

AFTER HISONLY SUSPECTWALKED OUTOE POLICEHEADQUARTERS INSPECHAROLD YARNELLSAID THEREIS NOTSUEFUCIENT EVIDENCETO HOLDGARRETSON.THEREIS NO REASON TOSUSPECT HIM.

DETECTIVES TODAYLEANED TOWARDTHE THEORYTHESTABINGS SUNDAY OFMARKET OWNERLEON LABIANCA ANDHIS WIFEROSEMARY EIR HOMMIGHT

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Ho icide detectives fannedout a . this sprawling city todly eh 'ng similaritiesbe-tween e m rders of actressShar Iate and tour othersand the Biziire deaths of amarried couflea dozenmilesaway.- -. 4_Q_g___'H

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mutilated by multiple knife"wounds, as werethe bodies ofimarket owner Leno LaBianca,44, and his wife, Rose-mary, 38. Their bodies werediscovered Sunday night intheir Silverlake home, whichwas once owned by Walt Dis-

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LosAngeles,Aug.11-Fantasy rulednotso longon the land where the gigantic $500 million complexof buildingscalledCenturyCity now stands.Here,fake cowboysstrutted alongfalse-frontedwesternstreetsandphonyexplorersstruggledthroughbogusAfrican jungles. -

Then it was the back lot of 20th Century-For studios andthousands of men and women spent their days spinning fairytalesfortheworldfsscreens.Nowtheminiaturecityofthefuture is here,dominatedby the ultra-modernhotel,the Cen-tury Plaza.

Today,SecretServicemenandhighpolice officialsmetinthehotelto considera situationsoextraordinarythat derisiveeyebrowsmight havebeenraisedif it hadbeenofferedatastoryconferencein the olddays. v

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It wasnotenoughthatin twodayss statedinnerwould-beheldin thebanquetroomof thehotelfor thethreemoon

1 astronauts.It wasnotenoughthat PresidentNixonwouldbe'arrivingfrom thesummer WhiteHousedownthe coast atSanClemente.Itwasnotenoughthatantiwarprotestgroupswereplanninga showdownwi policeoutsidetheliote.

Ontopof all thesesecurityproblems,local lawenforce-ment officialswere strugglingwith bizarre masskillings, aneffort that wasusingtheir resourcesto the utmost.

Asthehuntwentintoits thirdday,policealsohadto dealwithrepeateddemandsfrom residentsin isolatedareasforadditionalpolicepatrols. _

LooksThroughBinocularsNobodywasusing thewordpanic,butit wasnotfar away

earlythis morningasneighborsgatheredin thesultydark- nessoutside3301WaverlyDr. in the LosFelizsectionof thecity.Fromtheroadway,.theycouldjustmakeoutsmears oibloodonthewallsof the livingroom.Oneyoungsterhada pairof binocularsto bringthesceneintocloserfocus.

The bodiesof LenoandRosemarieLa Biancawere stillinsideand detectiveswerestartingworkon the inevitablequestion:wastherea linkbetweenthisandthe killingofactressSharonTate andfour othersFridaynight?Wasamadkillerat large,able_tostrikeagainandagain?

As High Cop Sees IfOnewomanpulledher robecloseraroundher, hugging

herself as if chilled,althoughthe night was warm. I don't

knowwhat to do she said.I can'tsleepknowingwhoeverdidthisis stiLlfree.Howcananyone_ goto sleep!I'llhaveto standhereall night.I feel betterseeingthat policemanat the gate." _ _ -

Latera gray-hairedpoliceinspectorcameoutandsaidhedidnot think therewas anyconnectionbetweenthe two cases.If it was meant as a reassurancefor the neighborsit wasnot helpful. _

All it meant was that there wasa surfeit of madness,enoughfor two separatehorrors.The enemywaswithinthegat-asandnobodywassafe.

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fourother persons, and theslayings of Leno and Rose-mary La Bianca gripped movie-land with terror yesterday.The new victims were discov-

ered by Mrs. La Bianca'sdaughter photo far left! andson, by an earlier marriage. Hewas comforted by his father

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earliermurders,"said a po- liceinvestigatorof the deathof grocery-chain heir Leno La Bianca and his wife,Rosemary,who were founddead last night, 36 hours after the discovery of the bodiesof Miss Tate and the others.

A coroner's office spokesman disclosed hisfindingsafter view- ing the bodiesof the La Bianca couple.Full autopsiesare still to be performed.

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_ '1'he_lat_est murdersthrewthe investigationof Sharon's slaying into chaos. Police, almost without cluesin the_death of Sharon,the wifeof Polishlm director Ro- man Polanski, working around the clock whentheyhadto halt thatinvestigation andturn their attentionto the newkillings.

At _lesst_onesuspect intheTate caseis still at large.

A secondsuspect,William E.Garretson,a 19-year-oldcaretak- er at theBenedictCanyonestate,was released today without any chargenowpendingagainsthim.

_'I'he latestvictimswere La Bianca,4f,aninsurance aglent,andhiswife Rosemary,88. wo teemge children from a previous marriage of Mrs. La Bianca,Frank andSusanStruthers,came upon the grotesque sceneas theyreturned homeat 10:30 last night.

Stunned police found strong similarity between the murders of the La Biancas and those attheBenedict CanyonEstate . _

In the latest murders, the killer dipped a hand in .his victimsblood and smeared the words death topigs" infoot-high print across a living room wal . Police saidthe killer usedthe heel of his hand-appainntly in an ef t

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La Bianca's bodywassprawled onthefloor.A bigheavyset man,he was wearing trousers but his whiteshirt hadbeenrippedopen and a meat-carving fork was stuck in his chest. The word war was carvedinto his chest,apparently with the fork. Under- neath the word, the killer had cut several Xs intohisbody.

¢A-wlte pillow csseuiaiursd his head and a lam};-nerd-had b!en*'tl'!Il"around his neck.

His wife lay face down in the bedroom next to her bed. She was wearing a negligee which had been pulled over her head.Her back had been so badly mutilated that police could not at

ITfirstdetermine whethershehad been stabbed or beaten with a whip. Later, it was theorized that she had been stabbed with a ba onet-like weapon.Through thelong night.fright-

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house, they watched detectives who stood silhouetted against aIsinglehouse lightastheydusted the front door for fingerprints.

At one point,a neighbor brought out eld glassesand fo- cused through the open front dooron the living room wall. He spelled out his findings to the small crowd: d-e-a-t-ii" the first bloodywordof themessage.

Inch-by-lnch Search At sunrise,eight rookie police-

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When_Sharon'sbodywasfound at her $200,000red barn-stylehome,a nyloncordwas loopedaround herneck and around theneck of her former boy friend,hairdresserJay Sebring,35, whohada_ piece of blackcloth wrap-pedlike a bandagearound hishead. -- -

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A policeinvestigator said aboutthe two setsof killings: Thereis a similarity,but whetherit isthesameperson,orjustsomeonecopying te Tatemurders, wedon'tknow. it'spossiblethat

someone read about the otherkillings and decided on the samekind of thing.

One of the strongest leads in-thehuntfor Sharon'skiller evap-ogtedigglastnight.iv---.,_

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fesnrnn Los Angelss-garageIt apparentlyhadbeen takenthere for repairs last week.Policetfnoughtthe ear might have beenused for a getaway by the killer-

Sharo ndhe four comn ar -panionswerekilled_I-ridsynightor Saturday morning, savag_elyendingapartySharonwasgivingfor her friends. _

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detectortestatFolice head-quarters yeserdsy. oliee said itwasa favorable test and hewasreturned to hiscell as detectivessought to ll in some minor de-tails. Later today, he was uncon-ditionally released.

Garretsons attorney, Barry _!arlow, saidthat the Tate killer

was more likely someone con-nected with the murder vcitimsthemselves.

"Therewasa partyat tbehousethenightof the killings, hesaid.From theinvestigationmadebymgofficeourbestfuessisthatw oevei;diditwaszihvolvedinlapersona way wi esepeop ewho were killed.

Resultsof AutopsieaCoronerThomas Nogucblre-leasedthe resultsof autopsieswhich determined the causes of death tor Sharon and the otherfour victims at her home:

Sharon,whowas eightmonthspregnant, was killed by multiplestab wounds in the chest andback. The autopsyshowedthatthebabywould havebeena boy.

Sebrlng died from stab woundsl theupgerpart of thebody.

Abigail olger, 26, heiress tothe Folger coffee fortune, diedof stab woundsin thechest.

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