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15.

FIRST HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION
PROGRESS REPORT
DR 69-059 593

and asked him to drive her to the Polanski residence as she was a little late for work. She arrived at the front gate of the Cielo address at approximately 0830. Upon her arrival she noticed an electrical wire hanging loosely on the ground going from the telephone pole near the push button for the gate onto the Cielo property and hanging across the gate. She pressed the electric button which operates the gate and entered the driveway. She picked up the morning newspaper, walked to the garage (Addendum 1A) and turned off the overhead lights.

She went to the west side of the Polanski home, service porch entrance, (Addendum 1 B ) and obtained a back door key which was secreted on a rafter above the door. After opening the door, she placed the key back on the rafter in its original position. It is unknown if this door was locked or unlocked, as she did not try the door without the key. She was concerned over the fact that the wire was down and was going to check the living room phone to make sure it was operational. After entering the house, she walked in a southerly direction through the kitchen and dining room to the entry hall. When she reached the entry hall, she noted that the front door was wide open. She also noted two trunks just inside the living room which were not there when she left the residence on the evening of 8-8-69. She looked in an easterly direction out the front door and noticed Frykowski's blood-soaked body lying on the front lawn. She then looked down at the front porch and entry hall and saw pools of blood and a blood-spattered yellow towel. She ran from the house, using the same route that she had taken when entering, toward the gate. As she ran down the driveway, she noticed Parent's white Ambassador sedan and his apparent lifeless body inside the car.

Mrs. Chapman ran to the first house west of the property and rang the doorbell. She did not receive an instant reply and ran to the second house west of the Cielo property. At this location she aroused the owner, explained the situation and he called the police.

At 0914 hours, West Los Angeles Units 8L5 and 8L62, were given a radio call, "Code 2, possible homicide, 10050 Cielo Drive." Officer W. T. Whisenhunt was assigned to unit 8L62, and Officer J. J. D e Rosa was assigned to Unit 8L5.

Numerous other patrol officers who will be listed in Personnel at the Scene portion of this report arrived and assisted. Also arriving at various intervals in the early stages of the preliminary investigation and crime scene protection were investigators from West Los Angeles Detective Division. The following information regarding the evidence found a t the scene is a condensed opinion of the officers and detectives from West Los Angeles Patrol and Detective Divisions. At the time of this report, Homicide Division investigators are in the process of scheduling a meeting with all personnel at the scene, including S.I.D. personnel, in an attempt to place the exact sequence of the events at the time of their arrival and to place the pertinent evidence in the location that it was in at the conclusion of the crime. (For statements of first officers on scene, see Addendum 3.)

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