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The night after the Tate murders, Manson Family members killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their Los Feliz home.
3311 Waverly Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Research updated June 2026
Age
18+
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Free
Public street; drive-by or sidewalk observation only. The house is a private residence.
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Wheelchair OK
Residential neighborhood street.
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Photos OK
Tate-LaBianca Murders 1969 · Manson Family Case · Charles Manson Conviction · Zak Bagans Purchase 2020
The LaBiancas — Leno, 44, a president of the Gateway Markets supermarket chain, and Rosemary, 38, co-owner of a dress boutique — had no connection to Sharon Tate or any of the previous night's Cielo Drive victims. Their selection appears to have been based partly on familiarity: Manson had attended parties at a neighboring address on Waverly Drive in the past.
On August 10, 1969, Charles Manson drove several Family members to the Los Feliz neighborhood and entered the LaBianca home himself to bind the couple before leaving. He directed Charles 'Tex' Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten to carry out the killings. Watson stabbed both victims; Krenwinkel and Van Houten also participated. Rosemary LaBianca was stabbed forty-one times. The killers used the victims' blood to write 'Death to Pigs,' 'Rise,' and the misspelled 'Healter Skelter' on the walls and refrigerator.
The Tate-LaBianca murder trials concluded with Manson, Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten convicted of first-degree murder in January 1971. Charles Manson died in prison in 2017. Van Houten was paroled in 2023 after serving more than fifty years.
The house at 3311 Waverly Drive passed through several owners in the decades after the murders. In 2020, television personality and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans purchased the property for approximately $1.9 million — a transaction that drew significant press attention. The property was subsequently relisted. It remains a private holding.
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The LaBianca house is not the site of well-documented paranormal investigation in the same way as institutional buildings with decades of staff reports. It is a private residence that has cycled through owners, each of whom has had to contend with the property's public identity as a murder site.
Ghost tour operators who route clients past 3311 Waverly Drive describe a site that affects visitors in proportion to their knowledge of what happened there. Those who arrive with a detailed understanding of the Tate-LaBianca case report the standard suite of dark-site responses: atmospheric heaviness, a reluctance to approach too close, a physical sensation of the historical event pressing against the present.
Zak Bagans — whose Ghost Adventures television program has visited dozens of documented haunted locations — purchased the property in 2020 for approximately $1.9 million, explicitly citing both its historical significance and his interest in investigating it. Whether a formal investigation took place before the property was relisted has not been publicly documented.
The LaBianca murders occupy a particular position in American cultural memory as the second night of a two-night killing sequence organized around an ideology, rather than as a single discrete crime. The killers wrote messages in the victims' blood on the walls. That specific act — the attempt to use the house itself as a medium for a message — gives the location a different quality than crime scenes defined purely by violence.
The house at 3311 Waverly Dr is where Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were killed on August 10, 1969, the second night of the Tate-LaBianca murders. The property was purchased by Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans in 2020 for nearly $1.9 million. It remains a privately held property viewable from the public street.
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