Sandra Good
Sandra Good | |
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 Mug shot taken in 1969 | |
| Born | Sandra Collins Good February 20, 1944 |
| Criminal status | Paroled in 1985 |
| Children | 1 |
| Criminal charge | Conspiracy to send threatening letters |
| Penalty | 15 years in prison (served about 10) |
Sandra Collins Good (born February 20, 1944[1]) is a long-time member of the Manson Family and a close friend of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. Good's Manson Family nickname is "Blue", which was given to her by Charles Manson to represent clean air and water.[2]
Early life
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She was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of a stockbroker. Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Good attended Point Loma High School and was a member of the Student Opinion Club. Good attended California State University Sacramento, the University of Oregon and San Francisco State College off and on for seven years, but never received a degree.
Manson Family
Good joined the Manson Family in April 1968 and a few months later went with them when they moved to a new home at Spahn Ranch, in the mountains west of Chatsworth. She was in jail with Mary Brunner for attempting to use stolen credit cards when the Tate/La Bianca murders took place, but was back at the ranch in time to get arrested on the August 16th raid.[3]
She has a son named Ivan S. Pugh (born September 16, 1969).[citation needed] Various men have been named as the father, most notably Joel Pugh (June 7, 1940 – December 1, 1969), who was found dead in a London hotel room under suspicious circumstances.[4]
In a telephone interview with WWL (AM) in New Orleans soon after Lynette Fromme's attempted assassination of Gerald Ford, Good threatened that "a wave of assassins" from a group that she identified as the International Peoples Court of Retribution (see ATWA) would kill or disfigure certain business executives whom she named as well as members of their families.[citation needed] Good accused the executives of polluting the environment. On September 10, 1975, in a subsequent interview with Barbara Frum of the CBC radio program As It Happens Good made similar threats against persons to avenge the killing of trees.[5] She also did a telephone interview with Hamilton Ontario broadcaster Bob Bratina on CHML Radio. As a result Bratina was subpoenaed to appear at the trial of Sandra Good in Sacremento where the air-check of the interview was introduced as evidence by the prosecution.
Prison
On December 22, 1975, Good and another Manson devotee, Susan Murphy, were indicted for "conspiracy to send threatening letters through the mail" by a Federal Grand Jury in Sacramento, in connection with death threats against more than 170 corporate executives who Good believed (see ATWA) were polluting the earth.[6]
Found guilty on March 16, 1976,[7] Good was sentenced on April 13,[8] to 15 years in prison.
Parole
Good was paroled in early December 1985, after having served 10 years. Unlike many of the Family members, Good still professed total allegiance to Manson.[9] A stipulation of her parole was that she could not return to California. She moved to Vermont, where she lived quietly under the name Sandra Collins (or at times, "Blue Collins") until 1989, when her environmental activism made the news and her identity was made public.[citation needed]
After her time on parole ended, Good moved to Hanford, California, near Corcoran State Prison, to be closer to Manson, although she was not allowed to visit him. On January 26, 1996, she and George Stimson began a pro-Manson website on which they claimed to have a real source of Manson thought. [citation needed] She also supported Manson's environmental movement, ATWA (Air Trees Water Animals). The website went offline in 2001, but is archived.
References
- ^ Jensen, Vickie (2011). Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues. ABC-CLIO. p. 439. ISBN 9780313337130.
- ^ Bravin, Jess (1997). Squeaky: The Life and Times Of Lynette Alice Fromme. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-18762-9.
- ^ "Evidence: The Story Of The Manson Family And Their Victims". CieloDrive.com. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
- ^ Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter, 1974, pg 241.
- ^ "Barbara Frum interviews Manson Family's Sandra Good - CBC Archives". Retrieved 2017-08-25.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, Dec. 23, 1975, "Sandra Good Indicted in Death Threat Conspiracy – 2 Manson Devotees Indicted", p. B 1.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, Mar. 17, 1976, "Two Devotees of Manson Guilty of Death Threats", p. B 1.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, Apr. 13, 1976, "Sandra Good Given 15-Year Sentence – Susan Murphy Gets 5 Years for Conspiracy", p. A 3.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 1985, "Manson Follower Sandra Good Paroled", p. SD 2.