Not Lost Forever

Carmina Salcido

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 Ramon 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...