Updated Jun 21, 2018 My Struggle To Find Peace As The Daughter Of A Serial Killer "Before I had even turned 10 years old, I was a suicidal kid with a homicidal father." Guest Writer Suzan Barnes was the daughter of a newspaper executive and a well-heeled country club divorcee with two teenage kids. Jim Carson, my father, was the hippie son of an oil executive; he had a wife and a young daughter. The night they met at a party in 1978, they pushed away from their families, moved in together and became inseparable until their arrest for multiple murders five years later.