Manson Followers Move to Be Closer to Prison
Saturday, February 8th, 1975
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 8 — Two of Charles Manson’s women followers have moved to Sacramento so they can be closer to Folsom Prison, where Manson is held, a state prosecutor says.
“That’s one reason,” conceded Sandra Good, 30, who is living in an attic apartment in an old downtown boarding house with Lynette Fromme, 26, another Manson girl.
Both are remembered for their long vigils outside the Los Angeles Hall of Justice where Manson and three other women followers were tried and convicted for the 1969 Sharon Tate murders.
The X’s carved in their foreheads in dedication to Manson have left scars that are still visible on Miss Good and Miss Fromme, who moved here six months ago.
“They’re waiting for their god to be set free and 20 miles from their god is better than a couple of thousand,” said Vincent Bugliosi, the former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who successfully prosecuted Manson.
“To my knowledge they still think he’s Christ,” he added in a telephone interview.
The two women have been denied permission to visit or correspond with Manson. A spokesman at the Department of Corrections said the pair come in at least once a month “to talk about how Manson is doing.”
Miss Fromme, who has been arrested twice on murder charges that were later dropped, was mysterious in what little she would say to a reporter.
“We have something going between us and the people over there,” she said, pointing toward the state capitol, only blocks away.
She was asked if she meant the Legislature or the corrections department.
“The answer is in the problem and if these people want to play around with their psychologists and people of different stations who don’t know anything about the problem you’re not going to get anywhere. You have to go to the problem. Charles has got the answer,” she said.
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