‘MY DAUGHTER WAS ADOPTED BY A KILLER’
ebellious, free-spirited and adventurous, Cathy Terkanian ran away from home in Norfolk, Virginia, at just 14 years old, eventually finding work in a bar and then in a travelling carnival. She fell in love with a 19-year-old boy, and by 16 she was pregnant. The young lovers were married and tried to be parents to the little girl they named Alexis, but “it just fell apart, as things like that will do”, she recalls. “I went back to my mother’s house, and
