{{Short description|Member of the Manson Family cult}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox criminal |name= Sandra Good |birth_name=Sandra Collins Good | image_name = Sandra collins good.jpg | image_caption = Mug shot taken in 1969 |birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1944|02|20}} |birth_place= San Diego, California, U.S. |death_date= |death_place= |charge= Conspiracy to send threatening letters |conviction_penalty= 15 years in prison<br/>(served about 10) |conviction_status= Paroled in 1985 |parents= |spouse= |children= 1 }} '''Sandra Collins Good''' (born February 20, 1944<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jl2EuFEou6cC&pg=PA439|title=Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues|last=Jensen|first=Vickie|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2011|isbn=9780313337130|pages=439|language=en}}</ref>) 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.<ref>Bravin, Jess (1997). Squeaky: The Life and Times Of Lynette Alice Fromme. St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|0-312-18762-9}}.</ref>

==Early life== Good 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.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 18, 2017|title=Member of Manson family from San Diego|url=https://www.10news.com/news/member-of-manson-family-from-san-diego|access-date=October 22, 2021|website=KGTV|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=June 18, 2021|title=Your Guide To The Manson Family Members – And Where They Are Now|url=https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/manson-family-guide-where-they-are-now|access-date=October 22, 2021|website=LAist|language=en}}</ref>

==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 credit cards when the Tate/La Bianca murders took place, but was back at the ranch in time to get arrested during the August 16 raid.<ref name=cielodrive.com>{{cite web|title=Evidence: The Story Of The Manson Family And Their Victims|work=CieloDrive.com|url=http://www.cielodrive.com/family/good|access-date=March 6, 2009}}</ref> (Good wrote extensively about meeting Charles Manson, her life in “the Family,” and the Tate/LaBianca murders in Lynette Fromme's 2018 memoir ''Reflexion''.<ref>Fromme, Lynette (2018). ''Reflexion''. The Peasenhall Press. {{ISBN|978-0-9913725-1-5}}</ref>)

She has a son named Ivan S. Pugh (born September 16, 1969).<ref name=":0" /> Various men have been named as the father, most notably Joel Pugh (1940–1969), who was found dead in a London hotel room under suspicious circumstances.<ref name=Bugliosi241>Bugliosi, Vincent. ''Helter Skelter'', 1974, p. 241.</ref> Although Ivan took Joel's surname, his biological father is Manson Family associate Bobby Beausoleil, who murdered Gary Hinman in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cielodrive.com/sandra-good.php|title=Sandra Good &#124; Charles Manson Family and Sharon Tate-Labianca Murders &#124; Cielodrive.com|website=www.cielodrive.com}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Solotaroff|first=Ivan|date=November 20, 2017|title=Letters from Prison: When Esquire Talked to Charles Manson|url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a13807379/charlie-manson-saves-the-whale/|access-date=October 22, 2021|website=Esquire|language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/barbara-frum-interviews-manson-familys-sandra-good|title=Barbara Frum interviews Manson Family's Sandra Good – CBC Archives|access-date=August 25, 2017|language=en}}</ref> 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 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).<ref>''Los Angeles Times'', December 23, 1975, "Sandra Good Indicted in Death Threat Conspiracy – 2 Manson Devotees Indicted", p. B 1.</ref> Found guilty on March 16, 1976,<ref>''Los Angeles Times'', March 17, 1976, "Two Devotees of Manson Guilty of Death Threats", p. B 1.</ref> Good was sentenced on April 13 to a 15-year prison term.<ref>''Los Angeles Times'', April 13, 1976, "Sandra Good Given 15-Year Sentence – Susan Murphy Gets 5 Years for Conspiracy", p. A 3.</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=December 3, 1985|title=Manson Follower Sandra Good Paroled|page=SD 2}}</ref> A condition of her parole was that she could not reside in California. She lived instead in Vermont,<ref>{{cite news |title=Vermont Gets Manson Cultist and Is Angry |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-09-mn-15240-story.html |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=December 9, 1985}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bridport Journal; A Ghost Of Manson Reappears In the East |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/05/us/bridport-journal-a-ghost-of-manson-reappears-in-the-east.html |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=December 5, 1989}}</ref>

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'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fairley Rainey |first1=Rebecca |title=Manson Family Web Site: History Rewritten by Losers |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/102197manson.html |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=October 21, 1997}}</ref> about which prosecutor Stephen Kay said, "[it] gives her [Good] an outlet where she can do things for [Manson]."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fairley Rainey |first1=Rebecca |title=The Prosecution Objects |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/102197manson-object.html |access-date=June 10, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=October 21, 1997}}</ref> Good also used the website to support Manson's environmental movement, ATWA (Air Trees Water Animals).<ref name=":1" />

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."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sederstrom |first1=Jill |title=Manson's Female Followers Now Have Vastly Different Perspectives Of The Cult Leader |url=https://www.oxygen.com/manson-the-women/crime-time/charles-manson-what-squeaky-fromme-sandra-good-diane-lake-think-now |website=Oxygen |date=August 14, 2019|access-date=June 10, 2020}}</ref> 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?”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Verhoeven |first1=Beatrice |title=Former Manson Women Speak Out 50 Years After Tate Murders: 'How Can You Point the Finger at Us and Call Us Evil?' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/former-manson-women-speak-out-50-years-after-tate-murders-how-can-you-point-the-finger-at-us-and-call-us-evil/ |website=TheWrap |date=August 9, 2019 |access-date=February 2, 2023}}</ref>

== In popular culture == *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''.<ref>Zombie, Rob (DVD, 2003). ''House of 1000 Corpses: Director Rob Zombie Commentary''. </ref> *Good is portrayed by Kansas Bowling in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood''.

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==External links== * [https://atwaatwar.blog/2011/10/22/blue/ Official website (ATWA)] * {{IMDb name|0328732}} *[http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/barbara-frum-looks-back-at-her-i-am-a-man-interview CBC Archives: A 1975 interview with Sandra Good]

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