Secrets of a Marine's Wife by Shanna Hogan

Secrets of a Marine's Wife by Shanna Hogan

**Now a TV Movie**

In Secrets of a Marine's Wife, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Shanna Hogan tells the true story of a young Marine wife whose illicit affair ended in tragedy.

In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a quiet life in Twentynine Palms, California, expecting her first child with her husband, U.S. Marine Corporal Jon Corwin--until the day she drove off into the desert and never returned. As temperatures climbed into the hundreds, friends and family teamed up with local law enforcement in a grueling search of Joshua Tree National Park. Nearly two months after her disappearance, Corwin's body was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, a homemade garrote wrapped around her throat.

Suspicions mounted within the tight-knit Marine community as residents questioned if the killer was one of their own. Fellow Marine Christopher Lee and his wife lived next door to the Corwins, and the two young couples had leaned on each other for support. But detectives soon discovered that Chris and Erin's relationship had developed into a whirlwind romance that consumed them both and called the paternity of Corwin's baby into question. Lee told investigators he'd been out hunting the day of Corwin's disappearance, but his claims of innocence soon began to crumble. And while Erin was researching baby names, Lee was reportedly searching the internet for ways to dispose of a human body.

Through interviews, court records, and extensive research, bestselling true-crime author Shanna Hogan constructs a chilling story of betrayal, deception, and tragedy.

SHANNA HOGAN is a New York Times bestselling true-crime novelist who has written several books, including Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story. She has written for a variety of media and has won over twenty accolades for her investigative reporting and feature writing. Shanna received the Arizona Press Club's Journalist of the Year award in 2010 and the Arizona Newspaper Association's Journalist of the Year award in 2011. She's been on The View, Dateline, 20/20, CNN, HLN, Fox News, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen, and Investigation Discovery, among other shows. She also teaches journalism at Arizona State University, where she graduated. Shanna and her husband, Matt LaRussa, live in Phoenix, Arizona, with their two dogs.