Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival

Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival
by Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson

Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival
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Author: Carmina Salcido, Steve Jackson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-06
ISBN: 0061210056
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: William Morrow

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Book Review: Carmina Salcido - Not Lost Forever
Summary: 5 Stars

After I saw Carmina's story on 20/20 just a couple weeks ago I was shocked and in deep sadness. During that broadcast I learned about the book she has written that covers her survival story. Just as many other readers I couldn't stop reading this tragic and very sad story. I am by far not a big reader but I wasn't able to lay this book aside and finished it in more or less one day with many tears in my eyes. Since the day I first heard about Carmina's sad story she is in my thoughts and prayers and I am very emotional about all this. Besides that tragic day of April 14, 1989 I refuse to understand how it was possible that her path continued so traumatic? Why did nobody check on her and the family she was adopted by? All these years while she was living with this family she was isolated and in captivity and these people didn't seem to care at all about Carmina. Not enough they treated her so badly they also did steel the money that was set up for her and she could have needed that money after she returned to Sonoma, CA.
Fortunately God equipped Carmina with so much strength and courage which helped her through all this and for that I am very thankful. She is a very beautiful woman inside and outside and I want to wish her nothing but the very best in this lifetime. She will make it very far because she is determined and not willing to simply accept things that are thrown into her way. We all can learn so much from Carmina but most important pay a lot of respect to such a brave young woman. May the rest of her life be free of trouble.

God bless you Carmina Salcido. You are wonderful!

Summary of Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival

Twenty years ago, one man's murderous rampage destroyed his own family . . . and devastated a community. Now the only survivor?his daughter?tells her story at last.

On April 14, 1989, for reasons still debated today, Mexican immigrant RamÓn Salcido went on a violent rampage in the idyllic Sonoma Valley wine country where he lived and worked. In the course of just two hours, he killed his wife, Angela, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and the man with whom he suspected Angela was having an affair. He then slashed the throats of his three young daughters?four-year-old Sophia, three-year-old Carmina, and twenty-two-month-old Teresa?leaving them for dead in the county dump. A little more than a day later, the bodies of his daughters were discovered. Miraculously, tiny Carmina was still alive and able to tell her rescuers, "My daddy cut me."

In Not Lost Forever, Carmina Salcido explores the events surrounding these headline-making murders with extraordinary clarity and composure. Reaching back to understand the events that traumatized her in childhood?and weaving them together with the recollections of detectives and witnesses?she reconstructs the story of her father's crimes, and their aftermath, in sobering detail.

Yet Carmina's story doesn't end there. Those who remember her as the tiny victim of these murders will also be shocked by what followed: how she was adopted by a Catholic extremist family who tried to change her name and bury her past; how she tried to escape their sheltering influence by joining a Carmelite convent and then a ranch for troubled girls; and how the psychological trials she endured along the way nearly broke her spirit?until, at last, she found peace by turning to the one relative still alive to share her grief: her grandfather.

As a young woman, Carmina returned to California to share her experiences and discover the family that was brutally taken from her. The devout Catholic also returned to look into her father's eyes on death row and confront the man who took away her entire family. With clear-eyed candor, courage, and grace, this brave young woman takes readers along on her miraculous journey of survival, discovery, and hope.

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