Today in True Crime History: August 8

Photo by Brodie Vissers from Burst

1886 — Three men find a wooden shoe box on a Connecticut logging road. Inside the box was a man’s torso.

1969 — Charles Manson directs several of his followers to enter a home on Cielo Drive and kill everybody inside. Sharon Tate, her unborn baby, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, and Wojtek Frykowski are killed.

2002 — Quincy Allen fatally shoots Jed Harr after he tries to intervene during a confrontation between Allen and a Texas Roadhouse employee.