Gibbie being surveilled?

 This poster on a defunct forum claims to have had connections to the case via her dad's friendship with Vince Bugliosi, and posted this re Gibbie:

http://truthontatelabianca.com/threads/maybe-something-new-maybe-not.5232/

When Abigail moved to NYC, she did so with the blessing of her father. He was eager to see her begin a career and was hoping that she might also be introduced to another blue-blood, marry, and have little blue-bloods. But we know that Gibbie liked the bad boys and had a few of them as paramours prior to her being introduced to Voytek.

Peter Sr. immediately became suspicious of the new man in his daughter's life, after all he was an immigrant who had only been in the US for a very short time and seemed to have neither ambition nor money.

What many do not know is that from very early on in their relationship, Peter Sr. had all of Gibbie's and Voytek's comings and goings monitored. Peter Sr. had an investigative and security team which could put the CIA and FBI to shame. In fact, both of these teams were made up of former members of these institutes and of the Secret Service as well as other high-ranking retired military men. His legal team was beyond reproach as well.

Needless to say, Gibbie was on a much shorter leash than she believed she was. And the heat on she and Voytek only increased with their move to California. Peter did not approve of Voytek whom he saw as an opportunistic cad who was riding on Gibbie's financial coattails.

This being said, Peter Sr. did have Voytek extensively investigated and traced his whereabouts in the US prior to meeting Gibbie and throughout Europe. Unfortunately, for those tin-foil hat wearers, Peter Sr. was only able to find out that Voytek was a deadbeat dad and husband having left behind in Poland both a wife and son who were barely getting by while he was flitting around Abigail's fortune. He also found out that although Voytek was a drug user, and a sometimes seller of the stuff, he was not a dealer of any notability.

It has been said that Voytek didn't want to marry Gibbie because of her money. That's total BS. He would have jumped at the chance at marrying her had it been possible. But it couldn't, because, #1 he was married already, and #2 Peter Sr. was in the process of putting in place an iron-clad pre-nup should the event ever occur. There was no way Voytek was ever going to inherit a penny from Abigail other than what she willingly gave him while alive.

Voytek was a cad, and a user...no doubt, but he wasn't a high-level drug-dealer as much as we would like to believe he was.   ....

Abigail was watched the entire time she was living in LA.  ...

Peter Sr. had people stationed in LA who reported back to him regularly about Abigail's whereabouts. I do know that he was concerned about the frequency of her visits with her psychiatrist. He was afraid that this information would get into public hands and that Abigail would be perceived as "unstable". Back then, seeing a shrink wasn't nearly as accepted as it is today. There was a definite stigma associated with it.

As far as Voytek was concerned, he was definitely low-level when it came to drug-selling. Peter thought him to be dangerous to Abigail not so much because of who he would expose her to, but rather because he could provide her with drugs that she could become dependent on. He was suspicious of Jay too but not for the same reasons. Abigail had asked her father to look into investing in Sebring International. Jay was not a great businessman. His forte was PR and the actual artistry of the cut. When he died he was in debt, not to drug dealers but to creditors. He tried to expand too much and too quickly and this is what Peter was wary of.

Peter Sr. was an incredible businessman and he did question Abigail's judgment in investing in Jay's company even though the amount of her investment was negligible. He was looking into Sebring International's fiscal viability at the time of the murders. I doubt he would have invested had that night not happened because Jay had bitten off more than he could chew.

I will say that Jay's investors were all legit. There was not money laundering within his business nor were there any sketchy shareholders. This was all confirmed via investigation by the DA's office.

 

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Thoughts?  It sounds realistic, imo.

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Larry Buendorf, U.S. Agent Who Saved President Ford, Dies at 87

By Sam Roberts NY Times
March 13, 2025

By grabbing a loaded handgun from Squeaky Fromme in 1975, Mr. Buendorf, as part of a Secret Service detail, thwarted a would-be assassin in California's capital.

Larry Buendorf, foreground, with President Gerald R. Ford at McClellan Air Force Base in California the afternoon after the assassination attempt by Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme.Credit...David Hume Kennerly/Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

Larry Buendorf, the Secret Service agent who, by wresting a handgun away from Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, was credited with saving the life of President Gerald R. Ford in an assassination attempt in 1975 in California, died on Sunday at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 87.

His death was announced by his wife, Linda.

After leaving the government in 1993, Mr. Buendorf (pronounced BOON-dorf) was the chief security officer for the United States Olympic Committee until he retired in 2018.

On Sept. 5, 1975, President Ford spurned his limousine, which was idling outside the Senator Hotel in Sacramento, and, flanked by Secret Service agents, strode across the street to greet a throng of well-wishers on his way to the State Capitol to meet with Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.

"My position was right at his shoulder," Mr. Buendorf recalled in 2010 in an interview for the President Gerald R. Ford Oral History Project.

"Squeaky was back in the crowd, maybe one person back, and she had an ankle holster on with a .45," he said, referring to a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. "That's a big gun to have on your ankle. So, when it came up, it came up low, and I happened to be looking in that direction, I see it coming, and I step in front of him, not sure what it was other than that it was coming up pretty fast, and yelled out ‘Gun!' When I yelled out ‘Gun!' I popped that .45 out of her hand."

He added: "I got a hold of her fingers, and she's screaming — the crowd is screaming — and I'm thinking, ‘I don't have a vest on, I don't know where the next shot is coming from,' and that I don't think she's alone. All of this is going on while I'm trying to control her."

Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme was handcuffed by security agents in Sacramento after Mr. Buendorf grabbed a gun that she was about to use against President Ford.Credit...Associated Press

"She turns around, and I pulled her arm back and dropped her to the ground, and agents and police come from the back of the crowd" as Ms. Fromme shrieked in disbelief, he said.

"She's screaming, ‘It didn't go off!'" he continued. "I had it in my hand. I knew what she was doing, she was pulling back on the slide, and I hit the slide before she could chamber a round. If she'd had a round chambered, I couldn't have been there in time. It would've gone through me and the president."

Ms. Fromme, who was nicknamed Squeaky because of her high-pitched voice, was a 26-year-old disciple of the cult leader Charles Manson, whose gang's brutal killing spree in 1969 claimed the lives of the actress Sharon Tate and eight others.

Cloaked in a full-length red robe and matching turban, Ms. Fromme had cocked the hammer, but none of the four bullets that the gun was armed with had entered the chamber yet.

Testifying for the prosecution at Ms. Fromme's trial, Mr. Buendorf said she jerked the gun when he grabbed it "as though she was trying to pull it away or fire it." Other agents hustled Mr. Ford to safety.

"I was in the right place at the right time," Mr. Buendorf, who was 37 at the time and had been an agent for five years, said. "If I had been looking someplace else, who knows how history would have changed."

Ms. Fromme was convicted of attempted assassination and sentenced to life in prison. She was paroled in 2009.

Harvey Schiller, the former chief executive of the Olympic Committee who hired Mr. Buendorf, described him in an interview as "a real hero who was universally loved and trusted."

Mr. Buendorf while he was on the job protecting Mr. Ford, days after the assassination attempt. Credit...United Press International

Lawrence Merle Buendorf was born on Nov. 18, 1937, in Wells, a city of about 2,000 in southern Minnesota. His father, Merle, managed a furniture store. His mother was Ruby (Meyer) Buendorf.

In high school, Larry himself was a president — of his junior class. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Mankato State College (now Minnesota State University, Mankato) in 1959, then joined the U.S. Navy and became a pilot during the Vietnam War.

"I think he wanted to serve the country in the military — that was his first choice — and wanted to be a defender of freedom," Mr. Schiller, the Olympic Committee official, said.

Mr. Buendorf pointed at reporters as he and President Jimmy Carter left the White House press room after a briefing in 1977. Mr. Buendorf had earlier been assigned to protect Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Ford.Credit...Peter Bregg/Associated Press

After he was discharged in 1970, Mr. Buendorf applied to the Secret Service and the F.B.I. and was accepted by both. Choosing the Secret Service, he was assigned to its Chicago field office before being deployed in 1972 to the Presidential Protective Division in Washington, where he helped safeguard Presidents Richard M. Nixon, Ford and Jimmy Carter.

He served in the Denver field office from 1977 to 1982 and ran the Omaha office from 1982 to 1983 before returning to the Protective Division, where he became special agent in charge of a California-based team that was assigned to Mr. Ford. Mr. Buendorf retired from the Secret Service in 1993. Mr. Ford died in 2006, at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

When Mr. Ford skied, Mr. Buendorf's job was "to make sure that he didn't trip over his own skis or let the chair hit him," he said, referring to mountain ski-chair lifts — although he added that the president was actually a good athlete. When Mr. Ford went swimming in the ocean, Mr. Buendorf said, "I was one of the assigned swimmers that would go out as shark bait — go further out than the president — and swim along."

He was awarded the U.S. Treasury Meritorious Service Award (the service was an arm of the Treasury Department until 2003, when it was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security) and the United States Secret Service Valor Award.

In addition to his wife, Linda (Allen) Buendorf, whom he married in 2013, Mr. Buendorf is survived by a daughter, Kimberly, from a previous marriage; a stepdaughter, Stephanie; and three grandchildren.

Even after Mr. Buendorf left government service, he and Mr. Ford maintained their relationship; they touched base by phone almost every Sept. 5, the anniversary of the assassination attempt.

Mr. Buendorf in 2004, when he was the chief security officer for the United States Olympic Committee.Credit...John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times

At the Olympic Committee, he supervised security at its headquarters in Colorado Springs and at training sites in Lake Placid, N.Y., and Chula Vista, Calif.

During the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he oversaw the safety of the athletes after a call to 911 warned of a terrorist's pipe bomb in the Centennial Olympic Park. The explosion killed one person and injured more than a hundred.

"Him smiling gives you a lot of confidence," Rulon Gardner, who won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in Australia, told The Gazette of Colorado Springs. "You feel like you had a cocoon whenever you traveled with him. You put him in a 450-degree oven and he's as cool as ice. The man will not sweat."

After the attack in 1975, Mr. Ford resumed his prearranged schedule, meeting with Governor Brown and then returning to Air Force One, where he was met by his wife, Betty Ford, who, Mr. Buendorf said, "had been off doing her thing."

Mr. Buendorf was being debriefed at the time, but he vividly remembered the president's account of her greeting.

"He said he approached the plane and Mrs. Ford goes, ‘So, how was your day?'" Mr. Buendorf recalled in the oral history interview, with the biographer Richard Norton Smith.

"‘How was your day?'" Mr. Smith repeated quizzically. "I assume he wanted to tell her very gently. I mean, how do you answer that?"

Sam Roberts is an obituaries reporter for The Times, writing mini-biographies about the lives of remarkable people. More about Sam Roberts

Disappearing Act: The Avulsion Cut (GRAPHIC)

Video interview of TLB first responder LAPD Robert Burbridge:

"The only wound I could see on Sharon Tate was right in her pregnant belly. It was a big gash... like an avulsion cut... It's like they were almost going to cut the baby out of her, that's what it looked like."


It appears to me that there is indeed a large, deep, horizontal 'avulsion' cut across Sharon's belly, filled with blood.  Also, there appears to be a shorter vertical slash through the middle of the horizontal cut, as though an 'X' was cut into the flesh of the belly.  

 Greg King, Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders, c. 2000  pg243
Time magazine 8-15-69: "..there was an X cut on her(Tate's) stomach." 

 

Also note the puckering and swelling in the flesh along the borders of the horizontal cut.  This suggests the wound was inflicted while Sharon was still alive.

Though this prominent and clearly visible cut mark is not mentioned in the autopsy report of Sharon Tate. 

Nor is it marked on the autopsy diagram.

Tate Autopsy Report
'There are four stab wounds on the chest.  ...others labeled #5 through #16 are described in a subsequent report.'

So why the discrepancy?  Was it because the avulsion cut suggests it was done for the purposes of removing the baby from the womb, as Burbridge suspected, and that the prosecution did not want to go there, for whatever reason?

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The only possible reference to the avulsion cut on the frontal autopsy diagram is a 'stab wound #5'.  Oddly, there is another 'stab wound #5" marked on the rear view of the autopsy diagram.

Was this the coroner's roundabout way of letting us know that there was something hinky about 'stab wound #5'?  Or did The LA County Coroner's Office suffer a bout of "sudden-onset amateur hour" syndrome?

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