The One That Got Away - My Life Living with Fred and Rose West

By Caroline Roberts

Book Overview

Caroline Roberts is "the one that got away." Just 16 years old when she was hitchhiking home from a weekend with her boyfriend, she was picked up by two of the most twisted and dangerous people in the country, names that would, years later, become synonymous with pure evil: Fred and Rose West. Unsuspecting, she took a job as a nanny to the Wests. The events that followed were to scar her for the rest of her life. Remarkably, Caroline has now rebuilt her shattered life--one of the few who came in contact with the couple to live to tell the tale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843589524
• ISBN13: 9781843589525
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Metro Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Bio of a wounded girl

Caroline Roberts is a survivor victim of Rose and Fred West. The Wests were arrested in February 1994 during an investigation into the disappearance of their daughter, Heather. They were accused of murdering 12 people (the tip of the ice-berg?) over a period of over 20 years. The verdicts from the jury followed some of the most shocking evidence ever heard in a British court. The pair had subjected their victims to horrific sexual violence before they were killed, dismembered and buried beneath the Wests' house at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. Caroline takes 10 years to write this book, her biography. Her experience with the Wests is quite shocking to say the least, her story is so perplexing that by the time she was reporting the events to the police, she forgets to tell that Fred raped her. In her shocked mind, Fred's rape was the least traumatic event of the whole thing. In fact, it seems that is Rose West who scarred her the most. Another thing that was very shocking and sad, was how she dropped the rape charges for the trial because she didn't had the strength to do it and the police detective was treating her pretty much like a whore. Imagine experiencing one of the most shocking events in your life and then being blamed for that experience, like a piece of crap who deserves the worst. At the end the Wests get away with their behavior and it will take years of years until they are found out for what they are, serial killers. At this point Caroline feels tremendous guilt for every murdered victim that is unburied, after all perhaps she could had stopped them a long time ago if Fred was convicted for her rape. She was indeed a lost girl and a very wounded one, but her experiences are captivating as she struggles to make sense of her life (I read the book in one day!). We could all learn from her mistakes and story and in order to be better capable of protecting ourselves and the ones we love the most.