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LYNETTE "SQUEAKY" FROMME
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From the Philadelphia Daily News, March 15, 1988:
"Squeaky" Found Guilty of December Jail Break
Associated Press
Would-be assassin Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was convicted of escape after she told jurors she fled from prison because she thought her lover and mentor, mass murderer Charles Manson, had cancer.
A federal jury yesterday convicted Fromme of the two-day escape from the Federal Correctional Institution at Alderson, where she is serving a life sentence for her 1975 attempt on then-President Gerald Ford's life.
"You don't have any choice," she told the jurors while acting as her own attorney. "I'm guilty as charged, legally, and without remorse morally, so that's that."
The jury returned its verdict within 10 minutes. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Hallanan set sentencing for April 28.
Fromme, 39, faces five years in prison and $250,000 fine for the conviction.
Fromme, who escaped Dec. 23 and was recaptured two miles away on Christmas Day, has been described as the main member of the Manson "family." Manson is serving a life sentence in San Quentin prison in California for the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and eight others.
"He needs a relative, somebody to check on him," Fromme said of Manson, whom she described as "my husband, my brother, my father, my son, the man who's been my friend."
Fromme called only herself as a witness. She carefully followed Hallanan's instructions that her testimony had to be in the form of questions and answers.
She questioned herself on the pronunciation of her name and cautioned: "Miss Fromme, you talk too much," and "Wait a minute, you're getting ahead of yourself."
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