01688cam a2200253 4500 429561052 TxAuBib 20200713120000.0 070728t20082007||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780743296540 0743296540 (OCoLC)166373232 TxAuBib Latus, Janine, 1959- If I am Missing or Dead / Janine Latus. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. ©2007. 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer: "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways." That same spring Janine was struggling to leave her marriage, to a handsome and successful man--a marriage in which she felt afraid, controlled, inadequate, and trapped. Ten weeks later, Janine had left her marriage when she learned Amy was missing. It took more than two weeks to find Amy's body, and two years to convict her former boyfriend for her murder. Haunted, Janine turned her journalistic eye inward. How did two seemingly well-adjusted, successful women end up in physically or emotionally abusive relationships with men? The resulting book traces the roots of her own--and her sister's--victimization with unflinching candor, a heart-wrenching journey of discovery.--From publisher description. 20200713. Latus, Janine, 1959- Latus, Amy, 1965- Abused women United States Biography.