[1] As a child, Fromme performed with a popular dance group called the Westchester Lariats, which began touring the United States and Europe in the late 1950s.

Suffering from depression,[3][page needed] she sat on a curb and watched a bus arrive, and Charles Manson exited.

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.

[3][page needed] Ranch owner George Spahn gave her the nickname "Squeaky" because of the sound that she made when he touched her.

Manson and his fellow defendants Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten carved Xs into their foreheads, and so did Fromme and her compatriots.

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.

[3] The Sonoma County 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.

[12] On the night of November 11, 1972, the Stockton Police responded to information that a station wagon owned by the Willetts was parked in front of 720 W. Flora St.

Police found a quantity of guns and ammunition in the house along with amounts of marijuana and noticed freshly dug earth beneath the building.

Fromme, described as frantic and with a nervous tic marring her face, asked to meet with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page to warn him, claiming to have foreseen the future and wishing to warn Page of imminent "evil" which she believed might take place that night at the concert.

[16] On the morning of September 5, 1975, Fromme went to Sacramento's Capitol Park, ostensibly to plead with President Gerald Ford about the plight of the California redwoods, dressed in a red robe and armed with a Colt M1911 .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol.

When Fromme pointed the gun at Ford she was immediately restrained by Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf.

After U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes recommended severe punishment because she was "full of hate and violence"; Fromme threw an apple at him, hitting him in the face and knocking off his glasses.

"[21][non-primary source needed] In 1979, Fromme was transferred out of Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, California, for attacking fellow inmate Julienne Bušić with a hammer.

On December 23, 1987, she escaped from Federal Prison Camp Alderson in West Virginia in an attempt to meet Manson.

[23] She waived her right to request a hearing and was required by federal law to complete a parole application before one could be considered and granted.

[24] She was released on parole from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, on August 14, 2009,[25][26] and she moved to Marcy, New York,[27][28][29] where she and her boyfriend Robert Valdner live in a house which is decorated with skulls.