From a pair of "New York Times"-bestselling authors comes an in-depth account of the manhunt for Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba and, five years later, the murder of a young woman in Peru.
My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
“Both creepy…and quite moving.” — New York Times Book Review “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.” — People Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.
"In the bestselling tradition of Escape and Stolen Innocence, the first look behind the curtains of the Westboro Baptist Church, by a young woman cast out from its clutches"--Provided by the publisher
The niece of the Church of Scientology's commander-in-chief reveals the strange and disturbing details of her childhood, piercing the veil of secrecy that has shrouded this religion and exposing the inner workings of Scientology's celebrity culture.
Autobiografie over uithuwelijking, seksueel misbruik binnen een mormoonse sekte in Amerika. Auteur groeit op in een gemeenschap van de mormoonse sekte, Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FDLS), waar polygamie gebruikelijk is. Ze beschrijft haar gedwongen huwelijk op haar veertiende jaar en seksueel misbruik door haar echtgenoot. Dit leidt tot een rechtszaak in de periode 2005-2007 waarbij ze de sekteleider wegens verkrachting en misbruik van minderjarige meisjes aanklaagt.