386 pages. Cielo Drive cuts like a beautiful scar along the bottom of a V-shaped canyon in the hills of Bel Air, off of Benedict. In February, 1969, as she looked out on it from the red farmhouse at 10050 Cielo that she and her husband Roman Polanski had just rented, Sharon Tate had no way of knowing that she only had 6 months to live. On the night of August 9, the hyper-violent 'Manson Family' would invade that house, killing Sharon and 3 of her closest friends. But strangely, half a year earlier, she'd had a brush with a different killer. It happened after her sister Patti, then 11, looked across at the ominous Spanish-Moorish estate Sharon called 'The Haunted House.' In Restless Souls, their remarkable memoir, Alisa Statmen & Brie Tate write that Patti hiked down and crossed Cielo Drive, walking up to 1436 Bella Drive. There, she encountered an open gate where pillars bore the name: Falcon Lair. Once the home of Rudolf Valentino, it had been purchased in 1953 by the fabulously
