Alone
Orphaned on the Ocean

As tragic as this story was, the story felt incomplete leaving out many details and leaving a host of questions unanswered. A true crime story of a little girl named Terry Jo, survived for 4 days on a small dinghy in the sea after her mother, father, and siblings were murdered on a chartered yacht c......more

I read it in a day. It was quite a story! I truly can not imagine how this young girl physically survived this ordeal. A lot of details of the "mystery" will never be answered, but the book does a good job of investigating from a number of sources. The survivor gives voice to much of the book too.......more

I gulped this down in a couple of hours. It's a fascinating, horrible story of a family lost at sea for reasons that may never really make sense. It's also a testament to the human ability to pick up the pieces -- sometimes very few pieces -- and move on. Don't miss this one if you liked And the Sea......more

This was a difficult book to read. It’s an inspiring story of survival and integrity, but it’s also a story of a mentally ill narcissist and possible serial killer. He was a war hero who may have cracked in Korea, and she was a little girl who found that she was strong. When Terry Jo was 11 years ol......more