Editing Squeaky Fromme (section)

==Charles Manson and her involvement with the Manson Family==
By 1967, at the age of 19, Fromme had dropped out of college. She went to [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice Beach]] after her parents threw her out of her family's house. Suffering from [[depression (mood)|depression]],<ref name=bravin/>{{page needed|date=August 2022}} she sat on a curb and watched a bus arrive, and [[Charles Manson]] exited. Manson stopped and looked at her and said, "Your parents threw you out, didn't they?" Fromme immediately decided Manson was a psychic. Manson walked away as Fromme picked up her belongings and followed him.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLYHGs17zzo | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005031037/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLYHGs17zzo&feature=autoshare| archive-date=October 5, 2018 | url-status=dead|title=The Manson Women |publisher=Serial Killers Documentaries|date=January 4, 2018|access-date=December 28, 2019}}</ref> Manson had recently been released from the [[Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island|federal prison at Terminal Island]], and Fromme became the second member of what would become the [[Manson Family]].

Fromme found Manson's philosophies and attitudes appealing, and the two became friends and traveled together with other young people, including [[Mary Brunner]] and [[Susan Atkins]]. She lived with the Manson Family at [[Spahn Ranch]] where they worked for their keep,<ref>{{cite web |first=Hadley|last=Meares|url=https://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/the_story_of_the_abandoned_movie_ranch_where_the_manson_family_launched_helter_skelter.php|title=The story of the abandoned movie ranch where the Manson family launched Helter Skelter|website=Curbed Los Angeles|publisher=[[Vox Media]]|date=October 22, 2014|access-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref> and at the Barker Ranch in [[Death Valley]], which was owned by the grandmother of one of the Family members.<ref name=bravin/>{{page needed|date=August 2022}} According to Manson Family member [[Paul Watkins (Manson Family)|Paul Watkins]], ranch owner [[George Spahn]] gave her the nickname "Squeaky" because of the sound that she made when Spahn ran his hand up her thigh.<ref>Watkins, Paul with Guillermo Soledad, ''My Life with Charles Manson'', Bantam Books, 1979. {{ISBN|0-553-12788-8}}. Page 40.</ref>

Manson and some of his followers were arrested for the [[Sharon Tate]] and [[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]] murders in 1969, and during the murder trial, Fromme and the remaining members of the Manson Family camped outside the courthouse. Manson and his fellow defendants Atkins, [[Patricia Krenwinkel]], and [[Leslie Van Houten]] carved Xs into their foreheads, and so did Fromme and her compatriots. They proclaimed Manson's innocence and they also preached his [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] philosophy to the news media and anyone else who was willing to listen to them. Fromme was not charged with involvement in the murders but she was convicted of attempting to prevent Manson's imprisoned followers from testifying, and she was also convicted of [[contempt of court]] when she refused to testify. She was sentenced to serve short jail terms for both offenses.<ref name=bravin/>{{page needed|date=August 2022}}

Fromme and [[Sandra Good]] moved into an older attic apartment in downtown [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]], because they wanted to be near Manson after he was moved to [[Folsom Prison]]. She and Good lived in the third-floor apartment at 1725 P Street in Sacramento ({{coord|38.571136|-121.485786|region:US-CA_type:landmark|display=inline}}).<ref>{{cite web|first=Alexa|last=Renee|date=June 14, 2017 |url=https://www.abc10.com/mobile/article/news/local/midtown-home-holds-connection-to-charles-manson-family/103-422645258|title=Midtown home holds connection to Charles Manson family|website=ABC 10}}</ref>

Around 1973, Fromme started to write an extensive 600-page book about the Manson Family. It included intricate drawings and photos; other family members had also contributed to it. Fromme sent it to publishers, but she dropped her plan to get it published after she discussed it with [[Clem Grogan]], deciding that the project was too incriminating.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ed|last=Sanders|author-link=Ed Sanders|title=The Family|date=2002|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|location=New York City|isbn=1560253967|page=[https://archive.org/details/family00sand/page/442 442]|url=https://archive.org/details/family00sand/page/442}}</ref> The book, titled ''Reflexion'', was eventually published in 2018 by the Peasenhall Press.<ref>{{cite book |first=Lynette |last=Fromme |title=Reflexion |publisher=The Peasenhall Press |location=Cobb, California |date=2018 |isbn=978-0-9913725-1-5}}</ref>