In later decades, experts on the case would single out this part of TIME’s coverage as particularly exaggerated. In fact, however, the coroner’s testimony at the murder trial would make clear that she received multiple chest wounds, including around the breast, but it was not “cut off” and her stomach was not carved. “She was nine months pregnant, and there was an X cut on her stomach.” Tate’s sleepwear was skimpier than first acknowledged, and “ of Miss Tate’s breasts had been cut off, apparently as a result of indiscriminate slashing,” TIME added. Bullets filled the ceilings and blood covered the floors.
Tate and the victim to which she was tied, Jay Sebring, had been repeatedly slashed. Even decades later, the description is not for the faint. It turns out the crime was “far bloodier and grimmer” than the police had initially admitted, TIME reported in the following week’s issue. Their terror only increased when the full extent of the horrific scene came to light. Shocked Hollywood denizens began to hire extra body guards. “The brutality of the killings shocked even homicide-squad detectives,” TIME noted.
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