Sandra Collins Good (born February 20, 1944) is a long-time member of the Manson Family and a close friend of

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American criminal who was a member of the Manson family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manson family is best known, ...

. Good's Manson Family nickname is "Blue", which was given to her by

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to represent clean air and water.

Early life

Good was born in

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, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer. Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Good attended

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and was a member of the Student Opinion Club. Good attended

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, the

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and

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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 off with them when they moved to a new home at

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in the mountains west of Chatsworth. She was in jail with

Mary Brunner Mary Theresa Brunner (born December 17, 1943) is a former member of the " Manson Family" who was present during the 1969 murder of Gary Hinman, a California musician and Ph.D. candidate. She was arrested for numerous offenses, including credit c ...

for attempting to use stolen

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s when the

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/ La Bianca murders took place, but was back at the ranch in time to get arrested during the August 16th raid. (Good wrote extensively about meeting Charles Manson, her life in “the Family,” and the Tate/LaBianca murders in Lynette Fromme's 2018 memoir ''Reflexion''.) She has a son named Ivan S. Pugh (born September 16, 1969). Various men have been named as the father, most notably Joel Pugh (1940–1969), who was found dead in a

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hotel room under suspicious circumstances.Bugliosi, Vincent. ''Helter Skelter'', 1974, p. 241. In a telephone interview with

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in New Orleans soon after

Lynette Fromme Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American criminal who was a member of the Manson family, a cult led by Charles Manson. Though not involved in the Tate–LaBianca murders for which the Manson family is best known, ...

'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

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) would kill or disfigure certain business executives, whom she named, as well as members of their families. Good accused the executives of polluting the environment. On September 10, 1975, in a subsequent interview with

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of the CBC radio program ''

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'', Good made similar threats against persons to avenge the killing of trees. She also did a telephone interview with Hamilton, Ontario broadcaster Bob Bratina on CHML Radio.

Prison

On December 22, 1975, Good and another Manson devotee, Susan Murphy, were

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for "conspiracy to send threatening letters through the mail" by a

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in connection with

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s against more than 170 corporate executives who Good believed were polluting the earth (see

). Found guilty on March 16, 1976, Good was sentenced on April 13 to a 15-year prison term.

Parole

Good was

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in early December 1985, and released from the Federal Correctional Center for Women in

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, after having served nearly 10 years of her 15-year sentence; unlike many Manson Family members, at that time Good still professed total allegiance to Manson. A condition of her parole was that she could not reside in California. She lived instead in

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, 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. Following her parole, Good moved to

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, near

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, to be closer to Manson, although as a convicted felon she was not permitted to visit him. On January 26, 1996, she and George Stimson began a now-defunct, pro-Manson website named ''Access Manson'', about which prosecutor Stephen Kay said, " tgives her

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an outlet where she can do things for

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" Good also used the website to support Manson's

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(Air Trees Water Animals). In a 2019 interview, Good said, "They anson and his "family"really saved my health, my brain, my emotional health, my mental health, my physical health. I'm thankful to them all," and credited Manson with teaching her about the "deep connection to the natural world." Good also said,"You want to talk about devils and demonic and immoral and evil, go to Hollywood ..How can you point the finger at us and call us evil for being good soldiers and doing what needed to be done?”

In popular culture

*Goode is portrayed by

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's 2019 film ''

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References

External links

Official website (ATWA)
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CBC Archives: A 1975 interview with Sandra Good
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