If You Tell
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After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.
For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.
Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor’s story of absolute evil—and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today—loving, loved, and moving on.
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Incredible true story about one of the worst moms in history. I had to constantly remind myself that this story was true as the horrors were so over-the-top evil that they were difficult for a psychologically average person to comprehend as possible. As a consistent true crime consumer, it was a new case I had never heard about. The author has a clear voice and determination to tell the victim's stories.
Absolutely horrific! I had a hard time reading through this book, but managed to get to the end. Gregg Olsen takes the most heartbreaking cases and brings them to the public.
If you want to further understand the Sylvia Likens case—how kids can be in the middle of someone's abuse and torture and not tell an outsider, and even participate—this is the book to read.
