Beausoleil called the Spahn Ranch and told the person on the other end, allegedly Linda Kasabian, that he’d been arrested for Hinman’s murder. “I need help,” he was heard telling her. “Leave a sign.” That night, Sharon Tate and her friends were killed, and Susan Atkins scrawled the word “Pig” in blood on the front door of the Cielo house, just as she’d done on the wall at Hinman’s. Guenther believed this was the “sign” Beausoleil referred to—Atkins hoped to exonerate Beausoleil, since he was in jail when the Tate–LaBianca murders had taken place. Manson’s followers were, in effect, imitating
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