House of Secrets | Lowell Cauffiel | Yet Another....What Ever Happened to These People?

House of Secrets | Lowell Cauffiel | Unbelievable :(

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House of Secrets

	House of Secrets Lowell Cauffiel Pinnacle, 1999 - 429 pages average customer review:based on 76 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"House of Secrets" is a story of tragedy and dark horrors. With terrifying detail, Cauffiel takes readers into a shocking world of abuse, incest, and family murder--a world ruled by psychopath Lee Sexton whose ability to manipulate his children produced one of the most sensational cases in true crime history. 16 pages of photos.

Yet Another....What Ever Happened to These People?

Here is another Cauffiel book that I recently re-read and am left wondering what ever happened to the children of the Sexton family, and little Dawn & Shasta, and how are they doing these days?

This story is highly disturbing yet I find myself re-reading it about once every year or so.

I would love to see a cable special with interviews from the family members and an update on how their lives have fared since everything happened. There is virtually NOTHING on the internet and, like Cauffiel's book on the Alan Canty case, unfortunately both cases happened before things like this were really-super-highly publicized. The Sexton case broke out in the 90's, but I don't remember it much....just...want...updates.....!

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Unbelievable :(

As a book I will have to rate the writing five stars. It was easy to follow along and kept my attention. As a true story, this has been the most sickening book I have ever read considering I have read many true crime books and do read many of Anne Rule's books as well. What a twisted father? This family takes the word dysfunctional to a new height.

NOT EASY TO FORGET

I READ THIS BOOK ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO ANDI STILL REMEMBER IT. THE TITLE IS DEFINATELY HOW THIS STORY GOES! IT'S UNBELIEVABLE HOW ONE PERSON RULED OVER COMPLETELY ONE WHOLE FAMILY. I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS BOOK!!!

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Bone-Chilling and True!!!!!

I still remember this book very well. Maybe because it is that I never read about a dysfunctional family like the Sextons. They are a large family. Both parents are involved in horrific acts of child abuse. The House of Secrets have children so terrified to misbehave and suffer the frightening and painful consequences. I think the crime of killing a family member who married into the family and became a father of a young son was bad enough. When his infant son was also murdered, it made me cringe with anger over such behavior. Family members are disposable but the author paints a very clear family portrait about their upbringings and backgrounds in West Virginia and their migration to Ohio to get work. It is clearly the family patriarch of these Sextons who rules with an iron fist and a dark hand to torture his children. His wife is no better. I don't blame their backgrounds because the Uncle is reasonable and consciousable regarding his brother's behavior. The Sexton parents are just horrible people who should have never had children. Now these children who are adults by now are completely damaged like war victims or concentration camp survivors. Nothing in life could further damage them anymore even a prison. This is one of the worst cases of child abuse that I have read about in recent history. Why it wasn't reported to the authorities, because the children were so terrified of the punishment later on including the rapes, the incest, the physical abuse, etc. that went on in that home. The house of secrets Sextons migrated to Florida where they were finally caught and brought to somewhat justice. I still remember reading about the young boy who married one of the Sexton girls who was supposedly already married in a sick way to her own father. He would be killed along with his son. I remember reading about them being buried properly in Ohio together. It was just a sad, horrific story of child abuse and a family that should have never been.

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Seriously Dysfunctional

Whoa is all you need to say once you've started to get into this book. The crimes perpetrated by the mother & father of this family are so disturbing! I found this book to be so easy to read & so gripping. It's sad that it's a true crime story, but it does make for a seriously wild ride! Mr. Cauffiel is a great storyteller. He does not insult the average reader, he understands that not everyone is an investigative journalist or policeman. He writes in a very comprehensible style that is not dumbing down at all.

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