We, the jury, find the defendant, as to count one first Degree Murder, guilty. [cheering] Narrator Jodi arias, who brutally murdered her lover, was facing a possible death sentence. Interviewer did you ever think that she would do what she did . Who would think that . Narrator it was a steamy story of sex. We hang out, we have sex. Narrator lies. Shes able to tell a lie. She believes the lie. Narrator and murder. He attacked me and i defended myself. Narrator after one of the most sensational and bizarre trials ever, here are the chilling details from her friends. You see any cuts on her . Tiny, little cuts. Narrator and his. He was very afraid of her, but every time he tried to break things off with jodi, she would threaten to kill herself. Narrator inside the Jodi Arias Trial. This isnt a ride at disneyland, guys. This is somebody who was tragically murdered. [music playing] hello, and welcome to dateline. When Travis Alexander was murdered, friends immediately suspected his former girlfriend, Jodi Arias. Graphic evidence found at the scene pointed to jodi as well, and soon, she was arrested. Her trial captivated the nation with months of lurid testimony. Through it all, there was a fascinating mystery at the heart of the crime, who was Jodi Arias . Heres Josh Mankiewicz with along came jodi. Mr. Alexander was stabbed. You would acknowledge that, right . Yes. It would be you that did it, correct . Yes. Josh mankiewicz the Jodi Arias Trial never played is a murder mystery. Jodi, after all, had admitted to 12 jurors in open court, and a few million viewers on tv, that she was The One who shot, stabbed, and then stabbed some more, her former boyfriend and secret sex partner. Judge as to count one first Degree Murder, guilty. Josh mankiewicz why, then, did so many millions of Trial Followers stick around for the final act . [cheering] and why did so many leave home and work to gather on the Courthouse Steps to await the final verdict . Justice for travis. Justice for travis. Josh mankiewicz well take an indepth look at the case into why Jodi Arias became so obsessed with Travis Alexander, and why so many of you became obsessed with this trial. Hello, carol . [laughter] Josh Mankiewicz we start with this home video, played for the jury. It shows travis Holding Court amid a circle of friends. Look a little closer and youll see a blonde tenderly nestled in his lap. Thats jodi in much happier times, when she and travis first started dating. No hint then of what was coming. We were excited for Travis Finding Somebody that he was interested in. Josh Mankiewicz Chris Hughes was traviss mentor at work. Thats him on the couch with travis and jodi. Chris and his wife, sky, were there when the two met. When we met her that first night, we liked her. Yeah. Right off the bat, she was someone that would be a good match for travis. Josh Mankiewicz Aaron Dewey was a roommate of traviss. Aside from the physical chemistry that was already there, there seemed to be a lot of emotional Chemistry Right off the bat as well. Josh mankiewicz Jodi Arias has been described as seductive, sexy, sultry. And Travis Alexander, when they first met, probably felt he was every bit her counterpart. He was a successful insurance salesman, handsome, charismatic. Dave hall worked with travis and was close to him. Interviewer good friend . Close friend . Very good friend. Best friend . You know, its funny because ive seen, recently, numerous people come forward and say, hey, he was my best friend. And thats just the type of Guy Travis was. He made everybody feel like you were his best friend. Josh mankiewicz according to his friends, travis was more than a bit of a ladies man. But this time, travis was out of his league. Jodi became traviss drug. He was able to get something from her that he couldnt get anywhere else with the good, wholesome Mormon Girls that he typically dated here in arizona. Which was what, not just sex, but crazy sex, or . Yeah. Sex that overthetop, overthetop stuff. Jodi used sex to control travis. At first, she tried to be like this good girl with morals and values. And then that didnt work and so then she turned on the sex. Josh mankiewicz and that had travis, a devout mormon, tied up in knots. Breaking the Churchs Law of chastity, that is, having sex before marriage, is serious stuff. Mormons believe the sinner risks an eternity in hell if he or she fails to repent before death. The result seems to have been that travis kept his relationship with jodi in the closet. Aaron dewey he wanted people to believe, especially the girls that he was dating, that he was still a virgin, that he was still worthy to have a healthy, longterm marriage with a good mormon girl. So this was a guy leading a double life. Yeah. Josh Mankiewicz Jodi tried to resolve that conflict by converting to mormonism, only to find it wasnt good enough for travis. He summoned his will and broke it off with her. The moral equation may have been cruel, but to travis, it was undeniable. Jodis lust, her willingness to have sex in all sorts of ways before marriage, might have made her the perfect secret girlfriend, but it simultaneously disqualified her as a wife. Aaron dewey she was not going to be The One that he was going to spend the rest of his life with, and he communicated that to her. That would make anybody feel pretty bad and pretty hurt. Yeah. Josh mankiewicz what travis kept secret from his friends was that he and jodi were still having sex. What he didnt keep secret were his concerns that jodi was stalking him. He was very disturbed by her behavior, but every time he tried to break things off with jodi, she would threaten to kill herself. Josh mankiewicz clearly, Jodi Wasnt serious about suicide. We know that now because at the time she was making those threats, she was Prowling Sales Conventions and on the phone at night, flirting with a guy named Ryan Burns. She seemed like a cool girl. We exchanged numbers. But about two or three weeks after that, we started talking on the phone four or five times a week. Josh mankiewicz during one of those calls, jodi promised to visit ryan in utah. And one morning in june 2008, she came knocking at his door. He had no idea what had just happened at Traviss House in arizona, and he didnt know jodi had been there just one day before. How did she look . She looked fine. She just looked normal. You see any cuts on her . Tiny, little cuts. She had a couple of little bandages on one of her hands. There wasnt a moment where i thought, you know, are you ok . Is anything wrong . We were laughing about simple, little things. She seemed totally into the moment. Josh mankiewicz back in arizona, traviss friends found him dead, his home a bloody crime scene. In the washing machine, police found a waterlogged camera that would come to mean everything in this case. Some of traviss friends, like Chris And Sky hughes, suspected jodi from the start. I knew, in that very moment, that Jodi Arias did it. He turned to me and said, jodi did this. Josh mankiewicz Ryan Burns thought he knew jodi, and the girl he knew was no killer. I honestly and genuinely didnt believe that she could have had anything to do with it. I thought theres no way. I mean, this Girl Wont even let me kill a spider on the wall because she didnt want to hurt gods creature. But then you started hearing, from other friends of yours and people who were friends of travis, that they suspected her. Right. People told me not to take her calls. People told me not to talk to her. But at that point, she had become either a very good friend that this is a horrible time to turn the back on her or it was just the situation where, am i really talking to a murderer . Josh Mankiewicz Aaron Dewey wasnt sure what to believe. Jodi, he said, played the role of the innocent perfectly. 13 days after Traviss Murder, she volunteered to talk to the Mesa Police, asking dewey for a ride to the station. Tell me what happened in the car that day. Ironically, nothing out of the ordinary. She was acting like nothing was going on. And she came out and said, what, everythings fine . Were good. Lets go home. What else did she say about Traviss Murder . She claimed to know nothing about it, you know. She was saying that she wasnt there, that she hadnt seen him in months. Josh mankiewicz thats the Story Jodi told police as well, and The One she stuck with for weeks, up until the Day Police took her away in handcuffs, and thats when Jodis Story started changing. Coming up. 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She rewarded that love by sticking a knife in his chest. Josh Mankiewicz Juan Martinez laid out his case for jodis guilt, as detectives, technicians, and analysts, One By one, took The Stand and connected jodi to the crime. Her Hair And Dna at the scene. So this hair that you examined, who did that match . The root matched Jodi Arias. Josh mankiewicz a crime Scene Specialist testified she found jodis Bloody Handprint on the wall. Martinez had that part of the wall brought into court. What is it . This is the piece of the wall that was cut out and collected as Item Number 77 lb. And this is what were looking at in this photograph . While its still in the wall, yes. Josh mankiewicz perhaps the most damning evidence came from this sony camera, discovered in traviss washing machine. After weeks of work, technicians restored photos that were once deleted. And with regard to the items that were deleted, were there some that involved mr. Alexander in the shower . Technician yes. Josh mankiewicz what made these pictures key to the case had to do with a feature built into the camera. These images, when you take them with this camera, it embeds the date and time that the camera has set on it to the file itself. Josh mankiewicz meaning, for the prosecution, those photos, along with the other evidence, told a story, that jodi showed up at Traviss Home around 4 00 am on june 4th, 2008. They had steamy sex until about 5 00 pm, photographing Each Other as they did so. Between 5 22 and 5 29, jodi took these timestamped photos of travis in his shower. About one minute after this picture was taken, the repeated stabbing of Travis Alexander began. Maricopa county medical Examiner Kevin Horne testified that cuts on traviss hands help explain what happened, as he was stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated, and shot in the head. I believe the wounds to the hands must have occurred before the fatal injuries, either of the head or of the throat. Josh mankiewicz at 5 31, the camera snaps what seems to be an accidental photo of the bathroom ceiling. The next photo, taken at 5 32, shows travis on the floor, bleeding profusely around the neck. In the foreground is what looks like a Womans Pant leg. According to the prosecutor, it could only be jodis. Brian burns testified, telling the court the same story he told us, about how jodi visited him in utah one day after killing travis. She got on top of me pretty aggressively and we were kissing. Josh Mankiewicz Martinez then played for the jury powerful video of Jodi Lying outright to Mesa Police detective esteban flores, just before her arrest. Why wont you admit to it . Josh mankiewicz an accusation that would make many people crumble. But jodi persistently stuck to her story. Whats so remarkable, looking back at this police interview tape, is that even in the face of immutable evidence, jody can lie, seamlessly and definitely, and very creatively. Because the next day, after being booked and charged with Traviss Murder, jodi had a completely different story to tell the police, admitting she was there that night, but that masked intruders had burst in and killed travis, and that shed been too afraid to say anything. And it was through these videotapes the jury heard, in jodis own words, how her story had evolved. But its the outtakes from these recordings, the parts the jury didnt see, that may also give insight into how jodi operates. Lets go back to the exchange between Jodi And Detective flores, just before he confronted her with the photos from traviss camera. I was like, no. Esteban flores its him, typical. Yeah. Josh mankiewicz if jody was nervous, she didnt show it, maybe because a giggle and a Head Toss had worked on so many guys so many times before. Then after her flirtatious routine fell flat and she was about to be arrested, Jodi Still seemed completely unworried. Facing murder charges, many of us might think the world had turned upside down. But for Jodi Arias, it was a chance to get into a headstand. In yoga, its called salamba shirshasana, a cure for whatever is ailing you. Then finally, before being led away, she made one last request. She wanted to look good, apparently, for this cheerful mug shot, in control and out to win over an audience, no matter how big or small, which may explain why, when the defense was ready to put on its case, the first witness they called judge you may come forward and take a seat, please. Josh mankiewicz was Jodi Arias. Narrator coming up. Jodis new defense, selfdefense, as she takes The Stand and almost wont get off. He gets a hotel room, i show up. We hang out. We have sex. Josh mankiewicz when dateline continues. Craig here pays too much for verizon wireless. [music playing] so he sublet half his real Estate Office to a pet shop. Theres a smarter way to save. Comcast business mobile. 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