Sandra Good
Sandra Good | |
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Born | Sandra Collins Good February 20, 1944 San Diego, California, U.S. |
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 an American criminal and member of the Manson Family. Good's Manson Family nickname is "Blue", which was given to her by Charles Manson to represent clean air and water.[2]
Early life
Good was born in
Manson Family
Good joined the
She has a son named Ivan S. Pugh (born September 16, 1969).
In a telephone interview with
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 were polluting the earth (see ATWA).[11] Found guilty on March 16, 1976,[12] Good was sentenced on April 13 to a 15-year prison term.[13]
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.[14] A condition of her parole was that she could not reside in California. She lived instead in Vermont,[15] 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.[16]
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,[17] about which prosecutor Stephen Kay said, "[it] gives her [Good] an outlet where she can do things for [Manson]."[18] Good also used the website to support Manson's environmental movement, ATWA (Air Trees Water Animals).[9]
In a 2019 interview, Good still professed total allegiance to Manson, saying, "They [Manson 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."[19] 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?”[20]
In popular culture
- Good is portrayed by Kansas Bowling in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
References
- ISBN 9780313337130.
- ISBN 0-312-18762-9.
- ^ "Member of Manson family from San Diego". KGTV. March 18, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
- ^ a b "Your Guide To The Manson Family Members – And Where They Are Now". LAist. June 18, 2021. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
- ^ "Evidence: The Story Of The Manson Family And Their Victims". CieloDrive.com. Retrieved March 6, 2009.
- ISBN 978-0-9913725-1-5
- ^ Bugliosi, Vincent. Helter Skelter, 1974, p. 241.
- ^ "Sandra Good | Charles Manson Family and Sharon Tate-Labianca Murders | Cielodrive.com". www.cielodrive.com.
- ^ a b Solotaroff, Ivan (November 20, 2017). "Letters from Prison: When Esquire Talked to Charles Manson". Esquire. Retrieved October 22, 2021.
- ^ "Barbara Frum interviews Manson Family's Sandra Good – CBC Archives". Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1975, "Sandra Good Indicted in Death Threat Conspiracy – 2 Manson Devotees Indicted", p. B 1.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1976, "Two Devotees of Manson Guilty of Death Threats", p. B 1.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1976, "Sandra Good Given 15-Year Sentence – Susan Murphy Gets 5 Years for Conspiracy", p. A 3.
- ^ Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1985, "Manson Follower Sandra Good Paroled", p. SD 2.
- ^ "Vermont Gets Manson Cultist and Is Angry". Los Angeles Times. December 9, 1985. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ "Bridport Journal; A Ghost Of Manson Reappears In the East". The New York Times. December 5, 1989. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ Fairley Rainey, Rebecca (October 21, 1997). "Manson Family Web Site: History Rewritten by Losers". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ Fairley Rainey, Rebecca (October 21, 1997). "The Prosecution Objects". The New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ Sederstrom, Jill (August 14, 2019). "Manson's Female Followers Now Have Vastly Different Perspectives Of The Cult Leader". Oxygen. Oxygen Media LLC. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
- ^ Verhoeven, Beatrice (August 9, 2019). "Former Manson Women Speak Out 50 Years After Tate Murders: 'How Can You Point the Finger at Us and Call Us Evil?'". TheWrap. The Wrap News Inc. Retrieved February 2, 2023.