The stunning blond starlet, whose most famous role was as Jennifer in Valley of the Dolls, was 8 ½ months pregnant when she was brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home along with her hairstylist and ex-boyfriend Jay Sebring, Folger’s Coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent on Aug. 9, 1969. Police eventually traced the slayings to the followers of Charles Manson, who used the victims’ blood to write messages on the walls of the home.
