Three Is A Crowd
Review by Kim Cantrell
Warren “Miles” Bondurant was a Texas millionaire. After divorcing his first wife of 18 years, he went through a series of younger, gold-digging women then left him feeling used and unappreciated.
When he turned to the personals ads, he met Sandra Coburn Underhill. Incarcerated for drug crimes with a long history of abuse, she was desperate to find a man who would care for her.
Of course, nothing comes free.
Bondurant was willing to provide her with a nice home, cars, and plenty of spending money as long as she danced to his tune.
But once an addict always an addict, and when things got tough, Sandra frequently returned to drugs.
It was during one of her rehab stays that Sandra met Carrie Coppinger, an open lesbian who fell in love with Sandra.
Although an intimate relationship between the two was short lived, they developed a friendship that would last a lifetime.
Unfortunately, a lifetime wasn’t very long for Carrie.
Irene Pence tells about a Texas love triangle that became a little too crowded in her 1998 true crime book titled Triangle.
While Pence produces a very gripping story, her bias is obvious in how she sells Sandra as a poor little abused woman just seeking love. I personally wasn’t buying it, believing Sandra to be a very voiatile participant in the stormy relationship with Miles.
That aside, Triangle is an interesting story and one I would highly recommend adding to your reading list.
Updates from this book:
At the time of this writing, 75-year-old Warren Miles Bondurant continues to serve his fifty year sentence at the Powledge prison in Palestine, Texas. His first eligible date for parole is in May 2021.
On December 29, 1998, Sandra Lee Coburn Underhill married Mike Lester. Following this union, it seems that Sandra simply fades from the spotlight.
However, I was able to learn that her two youngest children, Cody, 16, and Clark, 15, Bondurant, are living separately; Cody in California and Clark in Azle, Texas.
