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Secrets Can Be Murder by Jane Velez-Mitchell (Autographed)

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Respected television news journalist, Jane Velez-Mitchell, dissects our nation’s most fascinating recent trials and court cases, unearthing the disturbing secrets of criminals and victims and revealing how they mirror our own lives.

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O.J. Simpson. JonBenet Ramsey. Robert Blake. Following sensational crimes has become a national pastime. Now veteran journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell goes behind the headlines to probe the dark secrets that lead to shocking crimes. Drawing on thirty years of experience as a reporter, Velez-Mitchell explores how many of us share the very same secrets as killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates.

The author also illustrates how easily we can become victims like high schooler Natalee Holloway and honeymooner George Smith, both of whom mysteriously disappeared on vacation.

The secrets unearthed are about sex, class, pedigree, race, fetishes, family, religion, childhood trauma and abuse, money and addiction. But, as this book will continuously reveal, all these secrets have one thing in common: they’re poison. They make you sick inside. By seeing how and why the secrets in these cases turned so murderously toxic, we can learn how to extricate ourselves from the quicksand of secrecy and remind ourselves that honesty is always a viable option, even if it doesn’t feel that way.

Velez-Mitchell has weighed in on high-profile cases for CNN, Fox News, Court TV and MSNBC. Now, she goes deeper. Why can pregnancy trigger primal, violent urges in the father? Do we really know the depths of our spouse’s mental problems? When we accumulate debt do we become prone to desperate, unthinkable acts?

With never-before-seen photographs provided by victims’ families and friends, and court documents, search warrants and transcripts packed with shameful revelations, Secrets Can Be Murder will astound by showing us how little separates our so-called “normal” lives from that of a sociopath.