It was the vacation of a lifetime for Arthur and Jean Duperrault and their three kids, a week of fun in the sun on a chartered yacht in the Bahamas. But it was a voyage only one of them would survive, the others killed by the boat's captain in a bloody spree.
Terry Jo Duperrault was the middle child, an 11-year-old girl sandwiched between older brother Brian, 14, and her little sister, Rene, 7. She was also the survivor.
The story was huge news when it happened in 1961. Now, 49 years later, Tere Duperrault Fassbender is finally telling her story in a book, "Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean."
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