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 had been caught lying to 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 Arias’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, to the
complicated role their Mormon faith played in the relationship’s demise. With
unbridled access to the evidence and the case’s key players, Velez-Mitchell
unearths 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 behind closed bedroom doors to uncover the truth
behind the secret and sordid life of Jodi Arias.
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