Before her murder, Sharon Tate had built a successful acting career and shared a loving relationship with her husband. She was also pregnant and preparing to become a mother. Her life was abruptly ended when she was killed by members of Charles Manson's cult. Tate became one of the defining victims associated with the Manson murders. Accounts of her final words have remained chilling ever since. The details are often cited as a stark record of the cruelty of the people who murdered her.