"At the wrong place at the wrong time."
Those words were never more prophetic than when speaking of
Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger's coffee fortune. On the night of August 9, 1969, 26-year-old Folger (along
with boyfriend Voytek Frykowski and friend Jay Sebring) was visiting with her friend, actress Sharon Tate.
What Folger and her friends didn't know was that Charles Manson and his disciples had staked out Tate's
secluded estate. Wanting to do something which would "make the world take notice" of them, they went on
a killing spree. By the time they'd finished, seven innocent people had been murdered.
Like many wealthy girls, "Gibby" (as her friends called her) had looked for something meaningful to do
with her time and became very involved in social work, commuting between her family's home in San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Before her death, she'd confided in friends that she'd worried that her contributions
were futile in combatting the enormous problems of ignorance and poverty, saying "...the suffering gets under
your skin."
Abigail is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
