This is inconsistent with forensics analysis, which proves that due to the lack of bleeding, the gunshot wound was sustained AFTER he was already dead. My personal opinion? It was a look that appeared to be one of a sick desire to taint every aspect of the life she was never going to be a part of but was surely not a look of remorse.
None of it is okay. That article is filled with hate. Jodie was a woman desperately in love. He knew he no longer loved her, yet he chose to exploit her and took advantage of her feelings for him, he exploited her vulnerable emotions. She understood what he was doing to her and how demeaning it was yet her need to be with him at any cost was overwhelming. Jodie was willing to do what she had to do just so she could be with Travis.
This degrading interaction with Travis triggered her irrational breakdown and in that moment of frustration, humiliation, and insanity she lost all rationality and killed him.
His horrific treatment of her was the trigger that caused his death. Jodie was clearly insane when she killed Travis as indicated by the severity in which the murder was committed.
Jodie was Guilty By Reasons of Insanity. The media got a hold of this, distorted, demonized, defamed, and slandered Jodie with impunity.
Had she been, white, blue-eyed, with the last name of, Welk or Smith and with enough resources the outcome of her trial would have been very different? You best lay off the dope. It is frying your brain, and your common sense has been erased completely. It sounds to me as if you ARE condoning her actions. He was stabbed, shot and his throat was slit. There were no self defense marks or wounds on HER body. NOT the moves of an innocent woman! You need to recheck your facts before making accusing remarks with seudo innuendo.
Well he was so religious yet he was acting like a pervert. Alexander was stabbed repeatedly, shot and nearly decapitated five years ago. Arias says she killed him in self-defense after he attacked her, but the grisly slaying caused even some anti-domestic violence advocates to doubt her case. The jury, which has been in court since January 2, heard closing arguments on Friday. Jurors deliberated for 15 hours and five minutes. As they took a lunch break after revealing they had reached a verdict Wednesday, some jurors were seen smiling and breathing sighs of relief.
One juror returning from lunch wiped her eyes. A massive crowd swarmed around the Maricopa County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon. Some onlookers said they had been following the trial for months.
The case has drawn worldwide attention and followers lined up daily for courtroom seats. In the trial, both sides dramatically presented their arguments with details about Arias' love affair with Alexander. And with regard to being a good man, well, she slit his throat as a reward for being a good man. And in terms of these blessings, well, she knocked the blessings out of him by putting a bullet in his head.
There is no question about it. The million-dollar question is what would have forced her to do it? Willmott said Arias was the victim of a controlling, psychologically abusive relationship, and Alexander considered Arias "his dirty little secret. Martinez accused Arias of playing the victim. He alleged she staged the crime scene to make it look like self-defense.
He also accused her of actively seeking to profit from her media attention. That's something Alexander's family hopes to stop with its civil lawsuit, Beckstead said Wednesday. Arias told KSAZ that longevity runs in her family, and that the worst possible outcome in the case would be a life sentence without parole. Several members' of the Arias family were at the jail where Arias was being held Wednesday night, waiting for a chance to meet with her.
Mother Sandra Arias said she had heard about her daughter's post-verdict TV interview, but hadn't watched it. While serving time, Sandra Arias said, her daughter "can do a lot of good for others. Jodi Arias 'was obsessed with Travis Alexander, 30, and stalked him after he broke up with her and started dating someone else'. Arias initially denied seeing him until police discovered naked photos of her on his camera taken on the day of his murder.
Arias told police that she and Alexander exchanged their online passwords because they distrusted one another. Jodi Arias, 32, is on trial for allegedly murdering year-old Travis Alexander by stabbing him in the shower, slitting his throat and then shooting him in the face in June , months after the two had broken up. Arias, a photographer who had dated Alexander for nearly five months in , has been in jail since her arrest.
She has pleaded not-guilty to first degree murder. If convicted, Arias could become the fourth woman on Arizona's death row. On Thursday, jurors heard testimony from lead detective Esteban Flores and a recording of a conversation he had with Arias in June On the call, Arias denied being involved in the death and calmly told the detective that she had not seen Alexander in two months.
According to Flores, the defendant told him during questioning that she and Alexander were so distrustful of each other that they shared their Facebook, MySpace and Gmail passwords in a failed bid to patch up their unraveling relationship, ABC News reported.
During the first full day of testimony, the prosecution introduced emails between the couple. Flores testified that the communique included the year-old Mormon writing to Arias: 'I think I was little more than a dildo with a heartbeat to you.
Attorneys in the trial painted opposing pictures of Alexander, with prosecutors describing him as a person of faith and a 'good man,' and the defense saying he was violent and abusive. Prosecutors argue Arias was a jealous woman who brutally attacked Alexander after he tried to end their relationship. Jennifer Willmott, an attorney for Arias, told jurors her client acted in self-defense after Alexander 'lunged at Jodi in anger' in his suburban Mesa home after she dropped his new camera. He knocked her to the ground in the bathroom where there was a struggle,' Willmott said.
Since the murder, investigators said Arias has changed her story three times. Initially, the woman denied being at the scene of the crime until officials found her bloody hand-print on the floor of Alexander's bathroom. Arias later told police that two masked intruders attacked her and killed Alexander, and she didn't call police because she was scared. She then offered an alternative version of events, claiming that she killed Alexander in self-defense because he got violent.
Alexander had told friends Arias had become too possessive and was acting like a stalker, so he ended their relationship to see other women. But phone and email records indicate the pair continued to carry on a sexual relationship, The Arizona Republic reported.
Flores downplayed the stalker description, saying Alexander was inviting Arias to his home and the phone calls between them 'were back and forth. Arias' attorneys have said she was not the sexual instigator in the relationship and pointed to provocative photos Alexander had sent her in an attempt to paint him as a sexual deviant who sought to control his on-again, off-again lover.
Willmott showed the jury a T-shirt she says he made Arias wear emblazoned with the phrase 'Travis Alexander's' across the front. According to court records filed by Arias' attorneys, Alexander persuaded her to come to his home on June 4, They claim the couple had sex, then took provocative photographs of each other, one even showing Alexander posing naked in the shower.
Authorities said a camera found in the washing machine at Alexander's home contained a memory card with the photos, including one taken minutes after Alexander posed naked showing his bloody body in the shower. Another photo allegedly showed Arias dragging Alexander across the floor.
The couple had met at a work conference in Las Vegas in September and began speaking on the phone every day. Court records show they exchanged as many as 82, emails.
They started dating in February and, because Alexander was a Mormon, Arias chose to be baptized into the church. But they broke up in June , with Arias telling police jealousy on both sides was to blame. In December , Alexander began dating another girl and allegedly told friends that Arias became so jealous that she slashed the tyres on his car twice. In June , Alexander told friends he thought Arias might have hacked into his Facebook account and told her to stay away. Yet on June 4, she visited his home and they had sex before he was murdered.
She later told police that they had maintained a secret sexual relationship despite breaking up, ABCreported. At first she denied being at his house the day he was killed, yet police found a camera in Alexander's washing machine containing graphic pictures of the pair having sex. The water-logged camera, which belonged to Alexander, had been damaged in the washing machine, but the Mesa police crime lab was able to recover images, some of which had been deleted.
Among those deleted were pictures showing Alexander posing naked in the shower at 5. Later photos showed him bleeding while on the floor. The camera also contained pictures of Arias posing naked on Alexander's bed at 1. On June 9, his friends went to his upscale home after he had failed to return their calls. They found him dead in his shower and his body was 'well into the decomposition process'.
Wounds show that Alexander attempted to fight back, court records show. An autopsy found he sustained 27 puncture wounds and one gunshot wound, with the bullet found in his left cheek. Investigators also found a bloody left palm print with Arias' DNA on the bathroom wall. After initially claiming that she had not been at his home that day, Arias changed her story to admit she had been there - but had not killed her ex-boyfriend.
I don't know. I couldn't pick them up in a police lineup. She later changed her story once again, telling the court that she killed Alexander in self defense after he became angry when she dropped his camera. She claims he had been sexually and physically abusive throughout their relationship. As well as the inconsistencies in her story, Arias' case has been plagued with difficulties with her legal representation.
She asked to represent herself but when she submitted letters to the court that she claimed Alexander had written - saying he was a pedophile - they were found to be forgeries, and she told a judge she was in 'over her head'. Her defense team was reinstated but in December , her attorney, Victoria Washington, was granted a motion to withdraw from the case.
Jennifer Willmott, a death penalty-qualified defense attorney, had now been assigned to represent Arias. In January , a judge denied a motion asking for the death penalty to be rejected.
Convicted of murder, "48 Hours" interviews were used as evidence in her trial. Will Arias get the death penalty for killing Travis Alexander? Since then, she has become a national sensation, the focus of newspaper and magazine profiles and the subject of hour cable news coverage. During the three-hour interview, Arias told Maher a tale of secret intimacy, the drama of masked intruders and, ultimately, a desperate escape. It was an incredible story. As it turned out, that incredible story was an incredible lie.
At her trial, Jodi Arias told the world a new story, weaving a tale of fear and abuse. Like Casey Anthony and O. Simpson before her, Jodi Arias captured the attention of the country. Now, looking back at these interviews, it would appear that Arias thought she could fool everyone. But in the end, Jodi Arias could not have been more wrong.
And that's when I really begin to try and remember and relive that day. And-- and then, it just gets so horrible that I shut it out and I don't want to think about it," Arias told "48 Hours". It all started in When Travis Alexander was found dead in his bathroom, the first question homicide investigator Estaban Flores had was "who?
Now, four-and-a-half years after Jodi Arias was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, the question that needed to be answered was "why? Well she knocked the blessings out of him by putting a bullet in his head," prosecutor Juan Martinez addressed the court in his opening statement.
Martinez wasted no time exposing the jury to the brutal reality of this homicide. I noticed large amounts of blood pooling and smears," Officer Sterling Williams testified. When Maher first walked through the crime scene in , she was struck by the echoes of the extraordinary struggle that had taken place there. And it was the evidence of that struggle collected at the scene that spoke volumes to the jury:.
Baden has seen more than her share of murders, but few like this. It was the ultimate control over him. When he wasn't going to say anything bad to her ever again. To me, that was just vicious. Since her arrest in Yreka, Calif. But her details of how he died have changed repeatedly:. Juan Martinez: "Ma'am, there's -- a number of stories that you gave in this particular case -- involving the killing.
There was one that you gave to Detective Flores, right? Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "He was, like, on his knees like this doing something like this or something like -- I don't know.
What's going on? And I turned around, there were two people there, one was a guy and one was a girl. Juan Martinez: But then you still gave another view of what happened to "48 Hours", right? Jodi Arias: I think I was inconsistent in my lies. Juan Martinez: So let's take a look at -- what you may have said to "48 Hours. In the 25 years that it's been on the air, this is the first time a "48 Hours" interview has been used as evidence in a death penalty trial:.
Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "I was hit on the back of the head. I don't think I was out very long, but when I came to Travis was on all fours on the tile -- and well, I say all fours, but one of his hands was actually holding his head.
Juan Martinez: And that's -- another version of the events that occurred on June fourth of , correct? Jodi Arias: Neither -- of them. Well, it's all the same thing. It's just different versions. Couldn't keep my lies straight. But Baden says that her experience with other defendants suggests that the story Arias told "48 Hours" may contain elements of the truth. She gave us an insight right into what she is thinking," she explained.
Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "She was in the bathroom standing over Travis and I charged her. And she describes the woman who attacked Travis as being, you know, about her height and Caucasian. That's her," said Baden.
Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "I ran down that hall and I pushed her as-- as hard as I could and she fell over him. Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "They just kept arguing back and forth-- whether or not, you know, to kill me. Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "It's like everything just stops.
When you -- when someone else is sitting there with a gun pointed to your head deciding your fate. Jodi's various stories aside, the prosecution says there are critical pieces of evidence that speak for themselves. These are photographs that the killer did not want taken," Martinez told jurors.
She at one point says she likes to document everything," Baden pointed out. Arias' "48 Hours" interview [shown in court]: "I've always had my camera. It goes everywhere I go. You see Mr. Alexander's head, you see his arm, you see him bleeding profusely," told the court, referring one of Arias' photos from the crime scene. After nine days and 20 witnesses, Martinez believed his case against Jodi Arias was ironclad. Now, despite all the lies and deceitful behavior that the court has heard, the defense would have to convince the jury that on the day Travis died, it was actually Jodi Arias who was the victim.
Even in jail awaiting trial, Jodi Arias had little trouble keeping herself in the spotlight and caught the attention of the media, when she won a jailhouse Christmas singing competition. And when the defense finally presented its case, Arias took the spotlight again, taking the stand to tell her unbelievable story of self-defense. Among those listening were her mother, her aunt and Travis's family:.
Jodi Arias: The simple answer is that he attacked me and -- I defended myself. But according to trial lawyer Linda Kenney Baden, putting a defendant like Jodi Arias on the stand can be extremely problematic. And that jury is always going to go back to what Jodi said. Jodi Arias I'm taking pictures of him. We were trying out different poses.
And when I went to delete the photos -- as I moved the -- the camera, it slipped out of my hand. Kirk Nurmi Jodi Arias: Travis flipped out And he stepped out of the shower And he body slammed me again -- on the tile.
Jodi Arias: I remembered where he kept a gun, so I grabbed it. He was chasing me. I turned around we were in the middle of the bathroom I pointed it at him with both of my hands. I thought that would stop him, but he just kept running I didn't even think I was holding the trigger I was just pointing it at him I didn't even know that I shot him.
It just went off and after I broke away from him Arias' memory of how Travis allegedly attacked her was striking. And yet, she was at a loss for words when asked to explain her actions:. Kirk Nurmi: Once you broke away from him, what do you remember? Kirk Nurmi: Do you remember stabbing Travis Alexander? Jodi Arias: [Crying] I have no memory of stabbing him. That is, until Jodi relocated to Mesa, Arizona, to be closer to Travis. But alas, around April , Jodi moved back to her home state and began living with her grandparents.
Her passionate and fiery love tale with Travis was getting too out of hand. Despite all this, they often got together for the night, which seemingly led to the June 4, tragedy, when Jodi missed a crucial work meeting. Later, Jodi changed her narrative to claim that two men had broken into his house and attacked them while she was there. Arias was a carefree aspiring photographer from Palm Desert, California when she met Alexander, a motivational speaker, salesman, and devout Mormon from Mesa, Arizona.
The pair had met at a company convention in Las Vegas in September At the time, Arias was looking for opportunities in network marketing.
The pair seemed to have hit it off and started a long-distance relationship for a few months. Unbeknownst to friends, the two were having premarital sex, going against one of the most important principles of the Mormon faith.
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