Editing Squeaky Fromme (section)

==Murder in Stockton, California==
Fromme traveled to [[Stockton, California|Stockton]] in 1972<ref name=SJ>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/stockton-metro-columnist/2009/08/06/squeakys-connection-to-stockton/|title=Squeaky's connection to Stockton|date=August 6, 2009|author=Fitzgerald, Michael|website=esanjoaquin.com|access-date=September 18, 2019|archive-date=October 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011104303/http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/stockton-metro-columnist/2009/08/06/squeakys-connection-to-stockton/|url-status=dead}}{{self-published source|date=August 2022}}</ref>{{self-published source|date=August 2022}} with {{interlanguage link|Nancy Pitman (override redirect)|lt=Nancy Pitman|it}}, Priscilla Cooper, and [[Aryan Brotherhood]] members Michael Monfort and James Craig, in order to follow through with Manson's deal with the Brotherhood.<ref name=SHK>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o2eUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT157|title=The Summer of Helter Skelter|author=Kennedy, David|date=September 12, 2018|publisher=David Kennedy |isbn=9781386586548}}</ref> This group met James and Lauren Willett at a cabin. In November 1972, Monfort and Craig forced James Willett to dig his own grave and then shot him because he was going to tell the authorities about a series of robberies that they had committed after they were released from prison.<ref name="stockton" /> His body was found with his hand still sticking out of the ground.<ref name="stockton">{{cite news|title=Linked to Manson 'Family' 5 Held Here in Couple's Murder|work=[[The Record (Stockton)|The Record]]|location=Stockton, California|date=November 13, 1972|volume=78|pages=220, 226}}</ref> The housemates were arrested on suspicion of murder, after which Lauren Willett's body was discovered in the basement. She had been shot to death.<ref name="stockton"/> The Willetts' eight-month-old daughter, Heidi, was found alive in the house.<ref name="stockton"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Heidi Willett to be adopted by maternal grandparents. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4781617/heidi_willett_to_be_adopted_by_maternal/ |access-date=March 21, 2019 |newspaper= [[The Record (Troy)|The Record]]|location=Troy, New York |date=November 16, 1972 |page=2 |language=en}}</ref> Fromme was released for lack of evidence.<ref name=bravin/>

The [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma County]] [[coroner|coroner's office]] concluded that James Willett was killed sometime in September 1972, although his decapitated body was not found until the beginning of November. He had been buried near [[Guerneville, California|Guerneville]].<ref name="stockton"/> On the night of November 11, 1972, the [[Stockton, California#Police department|Stockton Police]] responded to information that a station wagon owned by the Willetts was parked in front of 720 W. Flora St. Sergeant Richard Whiteman forced his way into the house: "All the persons subsequently arrested were in the house except for Fromme. She telephoned the house while police were there, asking to be picked up, and officers obliged, taking her into custody nearby. Police found a quantity of guns and ammunition in the house along with amounts of [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] and noticed freshly dug earth beneath the building."<ref name="stockton"/>

Fromme later told reporters that she had been traveling in California trying to visit "brothers" in jail and to visit Manson.<ref>{{cite news|title='Squeaky' had brief stay in S.J.|work=[[The Record (Stockton, California)|The Record]]|location=Stockton, California|date=August 9, 2009|page=A9}}</ref> She said that she came to Stockton on November 10 to visit William Goucher, who was in jail on a robbery charge, when Lauren died.<ref name="Visiting Friend">{{cite news|title='Visiting Friend' Clan Girl Says Murder Charge a 'Coincidence'|newspaper=[[The Record (Stockton, California)|The Record]]|location=Stockton, California|date=November 17, 1972|volume=78|issue=224}}</ref> When Fromme left the jail after visiting Goucher, she called the house on Flora Street to have someone pick her up, and the Stockton Police traced the call and arrested her at a phone booth.<ref name="Visiting Friend"/>

The Stockton Police exhumed the body of Lauren Willett the following day. Cooper told investigators that she had been shot accidentally, contending that Monfort was "demonstrating the dangers of firearms, playing a form of [[Russian roulette]] with a .38 caliber pistol" and had first spun the gun cylinder and shot at his own head, and then pointed it at the victim, when it fired.<ref name="stockton"/> The police determined that Lauren had been with them voluntarily.<ref name="stockton"/> Fromme was held in custody for 2½ months but never charged; she said she was innocent of any wrongdoing.<ref name="Visiting Friend"/> The other four people who were involved were convicted.

After leaving Stockton, Fromme moved into a Sacramento apartment with Sandra Good. The two wore robes on occasion and they changed their names to symbolize their devotion to Manson's new religion, Fromme becoming "Red" in honor of her red hair and the [[California redwood]]s, and Good becoming "Blue" for her blue eyes and the ocean; both nicknames were originally given to them by Manson.<ref name=bravin />