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Just don't think it's there. i thought something was probably going to come down because of this dam tv show. which i've said before is great television but it's not really a search for the truth. >> when did you find out about the statement in the bathroom? >> when i saw it on television like most everybody else in the country. and i've got my own opinions about that. and if that's the strength of tear case man, i can be ready tomorrow. >> reporter: as durst waits for next step in this legal process the mental and health of this 71-year-old defendant has come into question. >> the judge may h...

Seen the pictures, but i didn't remember them until i saw them. i remember taking pictures i just don't remember the pictures themselves even though we looked at them. and now i see them i remember them. >> what factors influence your having a memory problem? >> usually when men are screaming at me or travis doing the same. >> that affects your memory? >> it does makes my brain scramble. >> reporter: driving from california to alexander's home in arizona bringing with her, her grandfather's gun. after sex ka paids caught on camera ariana martinez said went in for the kill. >> so get the knife....

Of stabbing her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander, 20 times and shooting him in the head. the premeditated crime, juan martinez said, came after arias realized that alexander would not marry her. the two had a volatile relationship and much came before the jury. salacious audio from sex tapes. >> remember the first time you and i grinded? >> reporter: journal entries by arias. >> i wish that suicide was a way out, but it is no escape. >> reporter: jodi herself taking the stand for more than two weeks. >> there's a lot of that day that i don't remember. there are a lot of gaps. i don't remember th...

Of things? >> there's three broad categories when something like this happens, some sort of brain injury of some sort, he doesn't appear to have had that and usually causes a short term memory problem as opposed to language loss, you think he's malingering or a hoax, and this dissociative amnesia usually because of a traumatic event people will literally wall off a part of their lives. >> we met somebody after their honeymoon as they're going to the airport to leave for the honeymoon they disappear and they find him in the forest three days later, doesn't remember who is he, getting married, n...

Prosecutor martinez set the tone from the beginning of his cross-examination. he found a crack in jodi's trademark composure when jodi appeared to have a perfect memory of her sexual escapades but not of stabbing travis 27 times. >> i have no memory of stabbing him. >> at first, jodi gave as good as she got in sparring with the prosecutor. >> what factors influence you're having a memory problem? >> usually when men like you are screaming me or grilling me, or someone like travis doing the same. >> that affects your memory problem? >> it does. it makes my brain scramble. >> and then the matter...