Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell
Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell
On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona, home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander's ex-girlfriend, the attractive and soft-spoken Jodi Arias. Though Arias initially said that she was nowhere near the scene of the crime, little about this case was as it seemed, and before long she was caught lying to the police. As the investigation progressed, her lies evolved multiple times before finally resting on an appalling claim: she had killed Travis in self-defense. Along the way, startling details emerged about the Mormon couple's relationship, and soon graphic stories of their lurid sexual encounters and jealousy-driven blowouts revealed a dark side to their life together. These revelations launched a trial filled with sex and deception but also raised substantial questions about Aria's deceit, as people from across the country struggled to understand the bizarre world of Jodi Arias.
Now award-winning broadcast journalist and bestselling author Jane Velez-Mitchell, a veteran of some of the most storied court cases in recent memory, goes behind the scenes of the trial and into the mind of a killer. Using insider accounts from friends who knew Travis and Jodi, Velez-Mitchell turns her sharply-focused lens on Arias and offers her seasoned perspective on the case's most pressing questions. Separating fact from fiction, she reports on the bizarre and explicit stories that have both shocked and fascinated the American public -- from Jodi's romantic history before meeting Travis to their torrid sex life together and the complicated role their Morman faith played in the relationship's demise. With unbridled access to the evidence and the case's key players, Velez-Mitchell sheds light on Jodi's contentious life with those closest to her, examining the paranoid and erratic behavior behind each relationship and illustrating the disturbing pattern of a murderer in the making.
Complete with photos from the case and Jane Velez-Mitchell's fresh insights on the crime, Exposed takes readers inside the bedroom to uncover the truth about the secret and sordid life of Jodi Arias.
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WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2013.