The Truth behind Truth

By Troy Veenstra

Enter a world most believe does not exist, a world where men can be abused, beaten & even murdered by his significant other. Enter the world where men, everyday are ignored by our own society as victims of Male Domestic Abuse. Men being abused and killed by the Female's they vowed to love until death do they part. These facts, these truths behind truths may surprise you and even invoke a sense of urgency to help…

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Nov 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301091614

Troy Veenstra

1974-2018Troy Veenstra grew up in the city of Wyoming Michigan. He was born the eldest of two brothers and two sisters. In 1998 after the death of his father: who he quit school to take care of, he went to live with his maternal grandparents, living with them until they passed away one after the other in 1999.In 2000, his mentor, John Collins, owner of Weird Review Magazine, felt that Troy had much more potential than he realized, assisted him in getting back to school, where he obtained his High School degree six months later. Throughout 2001-2003 Troy attended Grand Rapids Community College majoring in English & Criminology studies. Later in 2004, he transferred to Davenport University studying in the area of Law, making the Dean’s List in both summer and winter semesters for 2004, 2005, and 2006. Troy also received several competitive scholarship awards from various foundations, twice obtaining an award from the Grand Rapids Foundation.In late 2004, he became a member of the Kent County CASA program (Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children) and served as a child advocate until health issues prevented him from doing so in late 2008.Currently Troy has six novels accredited to his name as well as over 150 other titles in two pen names, ranging in genres such as True Crime, Legal Reference, Drama, Historical Fiction, Legal Fiction, Christian Fiction, satire, comedy, Children Fiction and women's romance/lit.Troy has won 2nd place in the 2013 Best Author Award from Fiction4all.comTroy’s Links:[e-mail]://www.independentauthornetwork.com/troy-veenstra.htmlhttps://www.smashwords.com/interview/TVeenstrahttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/troy-veenstra/36/910/470http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=179079https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4205489.Troy_Veenstra?from_search=truehttp://www.xinxii.com/adocs.php/en?aid=42296https://www.facebook.com/Authortroyveenstra?ref=hl

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Forward/Introduction

At 2:45 am on the humid summer morning of July 18, 2010 Jeffrey Dryden, a 28 year-old male returned home after hanging out with his twin brother. In the moments that followed, evidence indicates that his live-in 21 year-old girlfriend stabbed Jeff in the neck as he attempted to flee from her after an altercation erupted over her cell phone. Jeff ran out of the apartment before collapsing feet away from his car just outside of the apartment, he was pronounced dead shortly after Police arrived on scene.

His alleged girlfriend, Chiquita R Fizer, was taken into custody and subsequently charged with Second Degree Murder in Jeff's death. In the days and months that followed, it became clear that Jeff had been living a secret life, a life that our society does not currently recognize nor socially accepts as existing. Jeff was the victim of Male Domestic Abuse, the batterer, his Female Girlfriend.

The Murder of Jeffrey Dryden: The Grim Truth Surrounding Male Domestic Abuse, details the days and months leading up to Jeff's Murder.

It further goes into detail on the hearing and trial of his abuser and murderer, now serving 14 to 45 years in prison for the death Jeffrey Dryden.

Furthermore, this book exposes the truth behind truth in regards to the highly ignored and purposely overlooked disease known as Male Domestic Abuse... Men being abused by their Female Lovers

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What you have read above is the description details for the book I wrote about the Abuse, and sadly the Murder of my cousin by his female lover.

Before then, had you told me, or even tried to persuade me towards the idea that a man could be abused to the point of ultimately being killed by his girlfriend I would have laughed it off as myth, bias-slanted information.

At that time, I was no different from the countless masses that believed (and continue to believe) whatever I was spoon-fed to believe by the establishments.

From the time, I wrote this book in November 2011 until a few weeks ago I have been promoting the awareness of Male Domestic Abuse as much as I could financially, using the royalties from Jeff’s book to promote Male Domestic Awareness in the West Michigan Area.

I had gone to a few local author book conventions in the area, promoting Jeff’s book, had managed to get the book in the local libraries, as well as even in the Lee High School Library for which Jeff had graduated.

Jeff’s book is available for sale in all e-book formats as well as in print, and on almost every book sale’s platform and even advertised it on various social media’s such as Facebook, Myspace, Google, and Twitter.

Over 27000 copies of the book have been sold in e-book format alone, not including in print, (true that’s not a lot in the grand scheme but it is better than most Indie published books).

The book has been used around the state of Michigan in teaching students about the issue of Male Domestic Abuse.

Thus, I thought that out of all the people in the world, my friends or rather those that I called my friends would have known about the stance I take.

As well as possibly even read the book when I offered it at