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The Nature of Secrecy

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The Psychology of Secrets

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″I once killed for love.″ It was this late-night confession in August 1996, to two of her college roommates at the Naval Academy, that led Diane Zamora to a sentence of life in prison with no possibility for parole for at least 40 years. Zamora and her ex-fiancé, David Graham, were convicted of bludgeoning and shooting Adrianne Jones to death in 1995 (when all three were in high school together). The two had lured Jones to a remote area in Texas to kill her after Graham told Zamora he had slept with Jones. Zamora later confessed to the police that when Graham admitted to having had sex with Jones, Zamora had flown into hysterics, screaming, ″Kill her, kill her!″ (People Magazine, March 4, 1998, p. 67).

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Kelly, A.E. (2002). The Nature of Secrecy. In: The Psychology of Secrets. The Plenum Series in Social/Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0683-6_1

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