Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival

By: Steve Jackson and Carmina Salcido

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Synopsis: In this memoir of true crime and survival, a woman recounts the remarkable story of her father&’s murderous rampage and how she was left for dead. On April 14, 1989, in California&’s idyllic Sonoma Valley, Mexican immigrant Ramón Salcido went on a rampage, killing his wife, her two younger sisters, his mother-in-law, and his wife&’s suspected lover. Then he slashed the throats of his three young daughters—ages four years, three years, and twenty-two months—and left them for dead in the county dump. A day later, when the children&’s bodies were finally discovered, three-year-old Carmina was miraculously still alive. &“Daddy cut me,&” she told her rescuers. In Not Lost Forever, Carmina Salcido reaches back into her traumatic past to reconstruct, in sobering detail, her father&’s crimes and their aftermath. Recalling with clear-eyed candor, courage, and grace the horrific event and troubled childhood that followed, a remarkable young woman carries readers along on her miraculous journey of survival, discovery, and hope.