Sandra Collins Good (born February 20, 1944[Bravin, Jess (1997). Squeaky: The Life and Times Of Lynette Alice Fromme. St. Martin's Press. .]
Early life
Good was born in
San Diego, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer. 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 off 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
when the
Sharon Tate/La Bianca murders took place, but was back at the ranch in time to get arrested during the August 16 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.
[Fromme, Lynette (2018). Reflexion. The Peasenhall Press. ])
She has a son named Ivan S. Pugh (born September 16, 1969).[Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter, 1974, p. 241.] Although Ivan took Joel's surname, his biological father is Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil, who murdered Gary Hinman in 1969.
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.
Prison
On December 22, 1975, Good and another Manson devotee, Susan Murphy, were
indictment for "conspiracy to send threatening letters through the mail" by a Federal Grand Jury in Sacramento in connection with
against more than 170 corporate executives who Good believed were polluting the earth (see
ATWA).
[ Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1975, "Sandra Good Indicted in Death Threat Conspiracy – 2 Manson Devotees Indicted", p. B 1.] Found guilty on March 16, 1976,
[ Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1976, "Two Devotees of Manson Guilty of Death Threats", p. B 1.] Good was sentenced on April 13 to a 15-year prison term.
[ Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1976, "Sandra Good Given 15-Year Sentence – Susan Murphy Gets 5 Years for Conspiracy", p. A 3.]
Parole
Good was paroled in early December 1985, and released from the Federal Correctional Center for Women in Alderson, West Virginia, after having served nearly 10 years of her 15-year sentence. Unlike several other Family members, Good was still loyal to Manson.
A condition of her parole was that she could not reside in California. She lived instead in
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.
Following her parole, Good moved to Hanford, California, near Corcoran State Prison, 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,
In a 2019 interview, Good still professed total allegiance to Manson, saying, "They Manson 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."
In popular culture
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Rob Zombie cites Good as one of the inspirations for Sheri Moon Zombie's character Baby Firefly for his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses.
[Zombie, Rob (DVD, 2003). House of 1000 Corpses: Director Rob Zombie Commentary. ]
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Good is portrayed by Kansas Bowling in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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