Article: No Sign of Ford Assailant In W.Va. Prison Vicinity;Mountains Combed for Squeaky Fromme

Searchers with bloodhounds combed the mountains of southern West Virginia yesterday for Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, a follower of mass murderer Charles Manson who vanished Wednesday from the federal prison where she was serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of President Gerald R. Ford 12 years ago.

Officials at the Federal Correctional Institution for Women in Alderson, W.Va., said two searches of the 96-acre prison grounds had turned up no sign of Fromme, who still corresponds regularly with Manson and wears the red bandanna that marked her as a member of his "family." Manson is imprisoned in California.

Spokesman Lane Wagaman said there is a "possibility" that Fromme had ...

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