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What America's Most Sensational Crimes Tell Us About Ourselves
Touchstone
June 2007
On Sale: June 5, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0743299361
EAN: 9780743299367
Hardcover
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Respected television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell
asks a probing, disturbing question: Are killers like Scott
Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest
of us? What kind of monster would do this? When journalists break
the story of a child who's been kidnapped, a young woman
who's been brutally raped, or a family who's been
slaughtered, that's the question most of us ask. Secrets Can
Be Murder exposes the hidden motivations behind the most
sinister acts of recent times, with a behind-closed-doors
look at these sensational crimes that will astound you. After weighing in on high-profile cases for CNN, Fox News,
Court TV, and MSNBC, author Jane Velez-Mitchell helps us
understand these infamous crimes by unmasking the deceptions
that turned toxic, exploding in rage and violence. People lie every day to protect secrets, big and small. From
desperate Hollywood personalities covering up their
eccentric lifestyles to Bible Belt mothers who take the
lives of their own children, Secrets Can Be Murder probes
twenty-one separate cases. Each illustrates how leading a
double life can land you in prison, and how failing to spot
liars can get you killed. Secrets Can Be Murder offers the inside story on each
horrific case, unlocking the jaw-dropping secrets of the
accused and revealing the common, innocent mistakes of the
victims. After all, many of us have gone out alone late at
night like Imette St. Guillen, or partied while on vacation
like George Smith and Natalee Holloway. From Dan Horowitz, the high-profile lawyer whose wife was
brutally murdered by a teenage neighbor while Horowitz was
defending a housewife accused of murder, to Neil Entwistle,
the British husband who ran out of funds for an extravagant
American lifestyle, Velez-Mitchell shows how each of these
crimes has its own secrets to spill. Many of us possess the same trusting nature as victims and
carry around the same secrets as criminals -- whether it's
debt, infidelity, or fetishes. With fascinating new insights
from investigators and psychologists plus the friends and
family of both the victims and the perpetrators, Secrets Can
Be Murder illustrates just how little separates our
so-called normal lives from that of a sociopath -- and how
you can stay out of harm's way.
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