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Shanna Hogan

Biography

Shanna Hogan

Shanna Hogan is a journalist and New York Times bestselling author of two previous true-crime books. She has written for numerous publications for nearly a decade and has received more than 20 awards for her feature writing and investigative reporting. Shanna was named Journalist of the Year by the Arizona Press Club in 2010 and again in 2011 by the Arizona Newspaper Association. She has appeared on "The View," "Dateline," "20/20," CNN, HLN, Fox News, Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen and Investigation Discovery. Shanna lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband, Matt LaRussa, and their three dogs.

Shanna Hogan

Books by Shanna Hogan

The Stranger She Loved: A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder
by Shanna Hogan - Nonfiction, True Crime

In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill --- a doctor, lawyer and Mormon bishop --- discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home. At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill appeared natural. But days after the funeral when Dr. MacNeill moved his much younger mistress into the family home, his children grew suspicious. New York Times bestselling author Shanna Hogan delves into the high-profile case, unmasking the monster beneath the doctor’s carefully concocted façade.

Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder
by Shanna Hogan - Nonfiction, True Crime

When Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias met at a convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, neither realized that they were about to embark on a tumultuous, tempestuous frenzy of sexual attraction and obsession that ultimately would leave one of them dead and the other behind bars in a scandal that was anything but "picture perfect."

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