Carmina Salcido, now 23, was left with a slashed throat by Ramon Salcido, her father, when she was 3. Carmina Salcido the co-author of ‘Not Lost Forever’ is the only survivor of 1989 Sonoma Valley massacre that involved brutal killing of seven people. ABC’s 20/20 focused on Carmina Salcido last night.

It’s been some ten days that media are chasing Carmina Salcido, a nice and pretty young lady. Both media and famous bookstores are requesting her to spare few minutes for interviews and appearances since her efforts as a co-author of a new book ‘Not Lost Forever’ have been recognized. The book Carmina co-authored with Steve Jackson is already on sale in the open market.

Last night at 10.pm, an hour-long program on Carmina aired at ABC News 20/20 focussed on the most unforgettable event of her life. The event refers back to a 20 year back April morning in 1989 whereby seven persons lost their lives in a brutal massacre and Carmina was the only lucky survivor.

According to the details on 14 April, 1989 Ramon Salcido who was 28-year-old then and had a reputation of a short-tempered drunken character (as described by Carmina), slaughtered 7 persons including his wife, two sisters-in-law, mother-in-law, a co-worker and two of his daughters and fled away to Mexico.

Ramon had thrown three of his daughters with slashed throats into a garbage plunk but he never knew one of them would survive even after nearly 36 hours. Carmina Salcido was rescued later in a critical condition but the in-time paramedic care enabled her to live on. At present at the age of 23, Carmina Salcido lives in Sonoma where she is with a dog-grooming shop.

After her first combined effort with Steve Jackson that proved to be a Copperfield’s No. 1 selling non-fiction hardcover book, Carmina will be seen live at 4 p.m. at the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St on Sunday the 25 October, 2009, sponsored by Sonoma Readers’ Books.

Here is a photo of ‘Carmina Salcido,’ and that of the couple ‘Ramon and Angela Salcido’ as well.

Carmina Salcido

Ramon and Angela Salcido