Hardback: On 9 June 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 crime: 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 - which began on 2 January 2013 and ended on 8 May 2013 - and into the mind of a killer.
She wrote, "The writing of this book posed an extraordinary challenge because the person at the very centre of the horrific events is a habitual liar...Given these remarkable circumstances, the reader is strongly advised to regard everything that Jodi Arias claims...with skepticism and suspicion. She has earned her reputation as a pathological liar."
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 Mormon 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 illustrating the disturbing pattern of a murderer in the making.
Complete with photos from the case and Jane Velez-Mitchell's fresh insights into the crime, Exposed (2013) takes readers "behind the scenes of what has become one of the nation's premiere case studies on killers who lie and liars who kill" and "unpacks this case in full, from Arias's childhood to the stunning guilty verdict." Hopefully we can all learn a life lesson from the Jodi Arias story.
Latest news: On 13 April 2015, Jodi Arias, now 34, has been sentenced to natural life without parole. Arias will begin serving her sentence in a maximum-security unit at the Perryville prison for women, located 30 miles (48km) west of Phoenix.
About the author: Jane Velez-Mitchell is an award-winning television journalist, a bestselling author and the host of her own show on HLN, Jane Velez-Mitchell, which airs weeknights at 7pm EST. She is frequently in the media as an expert commentator on high-profile court cases, appearing on CNN, HLN, omg! Insider, TRU TV, E!, and other national television programs. She has also served as a guest host for Nancy Grace on her HLN show. In 2010, her HLN show garnered a Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States, her third. Velez-Mitchell has won two others for Celebrity Justice, as well as a Los Angeles Emmy Award and a New York Emmy Award.
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