Today’s post is on A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of
Faith, Love, and Overcoming by Kerri Rawson. It is 325 with notes and is
published by Nelson Books. The cover has at the top pictures of the author and
her father with the bottom ¾ being a newspaper with the title as a headline.
There is some foul language, no sex, and discussion of violence in this book.
The story is told from the first person perspective of the author. There Be
Spoilers Ahead.
From the dust jacket- What is it like to learn that your
ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?
In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious series killer known as BTK, a name he’d given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture, kill. As news of his capture spread, Wichita celebrated the end of a thirty-one-year nightmare.
For Kerri Rawson, another was just beginning. She was plunged into a black hole of horror and disbelief. The same man who had been a loving father, a devoted husband, church president, Boy Scout leader, and public servant had been using their family as a cover for his heinous crimes since before she was born. Everything she had believed about her life has been a lie.
Written with candor and extraordinary courage, A Serial Killer’s Daughter is an unflinching exploration of life with one of American’s most infamous killers and an astonishing tale of personal and spiritual transformation. For all who suffer from unhealed wounds or the crippling effects of violence, betrayal, and anger, Kerri’s Rawson’s story offers the hope of reclaiming sanity in this midst of madness, rebuilding a life in the shadow of death, and learning to forgive the unforgivable.
In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious series killer known as BTK, a name he’d given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture, kill. As news of his capture spread, Wichita celebrated the end of a thirty-one-year nightmare.
For Kerri Rawson, another was just beginning. She was plunged into a black hole of horror and disbelief. The same man who had been a loving father, a devoted husband, church president, Boy Scout leader, and public servant had been using their family as a cover for his heinous crimes since before she was born. Everything she had believed about her life has been a lie.
Written with candor and extraordinary courage, A Serial Killer’s Daughter is an unflinching exploration of life with one of American’s most infamous killers and an astonishing tale of personal and spiritual transformation. For all who suffer from unhealed wounds or the crippling effects of violence, betrayal, and anger, Kerri’s Rawson’s story offers the hope of reclaiming sanity in this midst of madness, rebuilding a life in the shadow of death, and learning to forgive the unforgivable.
Review- An interesting and moving story about a woman
rebuilding the life she thought she knew. Kerri Rawson was just living her life
as best she could. She has had some hard knocks in life and had struggled with
depression and grief. But with therapy and her faith Rawson had worked to have
a life she loved. When her father was caught everything about her life and past
was thrown into question. Every little detail about her father and her
experiences with him suddenly become different, every time he lost his temper
over little things, every time he was paranoid about locked doors, and every
time he almost crossed line into abuse was now to be viewed in a different
light. Rawson had to relearn herself, her family, and her father in this new
light and her faith was her new guiding light. This is not a book about the BTK
killer and his crimes or victims, this book is about one woman’s search for
herself and making peace with the past so that she can have a present and future.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for
my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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