Tainted Love: The True Story of Domestic Violence and the Bornhoeft Murder Trial details the life of Shawn “Candy” Bornhoeft/Johnson.
After being pregnant at age seventeen, Candy married her baby’s father. Despite that she didn’t want to get married, and had a nagging feeling that something was amiss, Candy wanted to do the “right” thing. Throughout the next decade, Candy would fight that nagging feeling while she tried to make an unhappy dysfunctional marriage work. In the end, Candy would rue the day she said “I do”. Tainted Love: The True Story of Domestic Violence and the Bornhoeft Murder Trial is an emotionally filled book in which the author tells her story about her first marriage and the dramatic events that unfolded after her subsequent divorce. The author also describes many of the clues leading up to this event that she should have noticed. She also shares her dismay with the American justice system in what she describes as a system in which the guilty are protected and the victims further victimized.