The next day , in a Las Vegas newspaper report of the LaBianca murders , which also , had taken place overnight , Watkins saw that police were dismissing a connection between the two sets of murders and that a suspect in the Tate murders was already in custody . ( The suspect was William Garretson , a youth who was employed as caretaker of the property where the Tate murders took place and who happened to have been the only person found alive on the premises the morning after the killings . By August 11 , having been effectively dismissed as a suspect , he was released from custody . ) The story did not indicate that the words " Healter sic Skelter " had been written in LaBianca 's blood at the crime site , that information not having leaked to the press
LaBianca murders
Tate murders
Paul Watkins (Manson Family)