Abigail Folger

Abigail Anne Folger (August 11, 1943 ? August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She is the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee.

Death and murder on a hill

On Friday morning, August 8, 1969, Abigail and Wojciech ran some errands together. Folger purchased a yellow lightweight bicycle around 2pm from a shop on Santa Monica Boulevard and arranged for it to be delivered to Cielo Drive later that afternoon. She and Wojciech then drove back to the Polanskis home and had a late lunch with Tate and her friends, Joanna Pettet and Barbara Lewis, on the front lawn patio. The late lunch was served to the party of five by Winifred Chapman, the Polanskis housekeeper. Shortly after, around 3:45pm, Gibby left Cielo Drive in her 1969 yellow Firebird in order to keep an appointment she had later that afternoon. Frykowski left minutes later himself, in Tate's rented 1969 red Camaro, to unload a box at the couple's Woodstock Road home.

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August 8 - 1969 - Santa Monica Boulevard - Joanna Pettet - Barbara Lewis - Winifred Chapman - Firebird - Camaro

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That evening, just after 9pm, Abigail, Wojciech, Jay Sebring, and Sharon Tate went out to a Mexican restaurant called the El Coyote to have a meal together. Returning home, Wojciech fell asleep on the couch while Gibby was in her room reading. Abigail's mother called her at 10pm that night to verify their weekend plans. Gibby was scheduled to fly the 10am United Airlines shuttle Saturday morning to San Francisco, in order to celebrate her birthday on the 11th. Her mother Inez would join her later as she was coming in from Connecticut, after spending time with some of her friends. The Charles Manson followers then broke into the house in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 9, 1969, and killed everyone inside.

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Jay Sebring - Sharon Tate - Mexican - United Airlines - Connecticut - Charles Manson - August 9 - 1969

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Abigail Folger's body was returned to San Francisco, and taken to Crippen and Flynn Mortuary in Redwood City,CA, the funeral home handling the arrangements. Her funeral was held on the morning of Wednesday, August 13, 1969, at Our Lady of the Wayside Church in Portola Valley, CA, a church that had been built by her grandparents, the Mejias, in 1912. Following a Catholic requiem mass, Abigail 'Gibby' Folger was then entombed inside the Main Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.

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San Francisco - Crippen and Flynn Mortuary - Redwood City - CA - August 13 - 1969 - Our Lady of the Wayside Church - Portola Valley - 1912 - Holy Cross Cemetery - Colma, California

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After her death, investigators reported that Folger's estate was worth $530,000. She left no will.

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