If you're not familiar with the case, I suggest you read up on it. I'm not going to recount every detail in this post - as there's a whole lot of them - but I will go over the main issue.
So, basically, a man named Travis Alexander was found dead laying naked in his shower back in June of 2008. He had been stabbed 29 times, shot in the head, and his neck had been sliced from ear to ear. Right from the beginning, people were accusing his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias, of doing this to him and now she is on trial for murder and, if convicted, will receive the death penalty. Jodi has admitted to brutally killing Travis, but claims it was done in self defense.
I'm not buying that for a second.
I know that some people think she's innocent and that Travis was a monster. In fact, there is a whole website devoted to her innocence. But to me, it seems like most of what being's said there is speculation and the same people also had a site that claimed Casey Anthony was innocent so...yeah. That speaks for itself.
One of the main reasons I doubt Jodi is because she's a liar. She has been lying to detectives since day one. First she claimed she wasn't there and didn't do it, then she said she was there but two intruders did it, then she said she did do it but it was self defense. Sure, Jodi. We believe you this time. Not.
So much has happened during this trial that has been going on for over a month, I can't possibly recount everything.There has been witness after witness after witness. Jodi herself has been on the stand. She was on the stand for a long time. The news commentators say that she has been on the stand longer than anyone they have witnessed in their careers.
There are several reasons that I don't believe Jodi is innocent of first degree murder - not just because she's already admitted to lying about several things. Her behavior has been strange from the very beginning. Not only did she deny killing Travis, but she made up a ridiculous story of two intruders who came in and killed him but she was somehow able to escape and, get this, never called 911. Never went to any authority of any kind. Didn't tell anyone. She just drove away and left him there to die.
I don't know about you, but if intruders broke into a friend's house, and it was only me and my friend there and they killed my friend and I got away, the first thing I would do is call the police, especially if I wasn't 100% sure that my friend was dead, which Jodi claims was the case.
Now that she's admitted to being the killer, things are a little different. Jodi claims self defense, but there isn't any evidence to suggest that he was ever violent with her or anyone else. Everyone else that knew him says he wasn't abusive or violent, even his other girlfriends. They all say that they always felt safe around him. Jodi is the only one who says he behaved this way and, ironically, she's the only one who needs that to be true. She says he attacked her when she dropped his camera. He was so angry she had to kill him. I think if dropping his camera was enough to make him so violently angry that he could have killed her and the only way out was to kill him, then someone else he knew at some time in his life would have seen at least a sign of such uncontrollable aggression. But, strangely, no one ever did. All we have in respect to him being abusive is Jodi's word and she tends to lie a lot. People also say that, at one point, Jodi slashed the tires on Travis' car. He knew about that. He didn't try to kill her then or get violent. So slashing his tires is fine, but don't drop his camera or he'll kill you? I don't think so.
Not only that, but Jodi doesn't have any injuries from the abuse she claimed happened. She would tell people of the physical abuse she had received and where she had been hurt, but the wounds always seemed to have already healed so she couldn't show them to anybody. There was one injury, though, a broken finger that she was able to show the jury. She claimed that her finger broke after Travis kicked her hand. She never went to go see a doctor about her "broken" finger.
I put broken in quotation marks because I don't believe it was ever broken. If she did in fact injure her finger, I think it's more likely that it was while she was stabbing Travis one of the twenty-nine times.
Take a look at the video below*. There are a couple of foul words in it, just to warn you, but if you watch the whole video, Jodi's injured finger is being discussed. She can be clearly seen showing a bent finger to the jury but if you watch up to around the five minute mark, her left hand (the one with the injured ring finger) is shown several times and I see no bend at all. Do you?
*For some reason, I cannot get the video to post, but here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_bl67g4Pk
And I find it hard to believe that after being body slammed, thrown to the ground and kicked by such a large guy that an injured finger is all she has to show for it. Her body must be super resilient.
I don't want to post any pictures because I don't want to get into copyright issues, but if you look, you can clearly see that Travis is quite a bit bigger than Jodi is. It's unreal the amount of injuries she doesn't have if he was as violent as often as Jodi claims.
This injury thing is important because it will help the jury decide if he was violent with her in his last moments. Jodi says after she dropped his camera, he attacked her. She was pushed and thrown around and body slammed twice. No injuries to show from this attack. Just the injured finger that happened a few days prior.
Another thing to pay attention to is her behavior. Ever since she killed Travis she has not been acting like a victim of abuse that had to kill someone in self defense, she has been acting like she loves the attention. Go look up her mug shot. She's smiling in it. She said she smiled because she was thinking "what would Travis do?" Yeah, right. My dog could come up with a better lie than that.
Her interrogation videos are strange, too. If you watch them, she just doesn't look like someone who cares about her friend being dead. She's more concerned about things like her makeup and whether or not she's being recorded. In fact, when she was first arrested, the first thing she said was "Do I have time to get my makeup?" She is not acting like a victim of abuse at all.
In one of her interrogation videos, she's in the room by herself. She starts singing. She sings a song called Here With Me by Dido and then she sings O Holy Night. In the middle of the latter song - and remember she's in here alone - she stops singing and starts laughing. Legitimately giggling! Then she starts singing again. Is that the behavior of an abuse who was forced to kill someone so violently in self defense? No, it's not.
Besides the fact of all this strange behavior, she took the time to cover her tracks after the crime. She tried to get rid of the evidence. Before the killing, they were taking naked pictures with each other. The last photo of him alive is him naked in the shower. She's dressed now. After she murdered him, she deleted some pictures, put the camera in the washer and ran it. She disposed of the knife and the gun and they haven't been found. She put the license plate on her car upside down. She called his cell phone after she knew he was dead and left a message. Then she drove to another man's house and made out with him. She's guilty.
She is so good at playing the innocent little girl, though. She's all sweet and polite, and it's just horrifying to know that hidden underneath the sweet, innocent girl lies a cold blooded killer. But it's the truth. She was interviewed by 48 Hours and you can watch the video below. You can see her smile and laugh the whole time. She is loving this attention! She's not acting like she misses Travis or is even sorry that he's dead. She gave this interview during the time she claimed intruders killed Travis so it's full of pathetic lies and she plays them so convincingly, you have to think that this can't be all she's lying about. If she lied about this, she lied about something else. I think her self defense story is as fake as the story she told in this interview. Just watch it. She doesn't look like an innocent victim here.
There are several other reasons I think she's guilty as well. I mean, this trial has been going on for four months and every witness has contributed to the case and there is so much to go over that I can't cover nearly all of it. You watch the trial coverage on HLN. It's pretty interesting.
Other factors of the case are that Jodi says she got the gun out of his closet during the attack, but everyone who knows Travis says he didn't own a gun. Even Jodi said he didn't own one during her interrogation, but I guess she changed her mind when she decided to claim self defense. Something fishy, though, that happened a few days before the she murdered Travis is that a gun was stolen from Jodi's grandparents' house. Just a gun. Just one out of the several different kinds they owned. It just happened to be the same kind of gun used to shoot Travis. Jodi had been at her grandparents' home around the time of the robbery. This is looking more and more like premeditation.
It seems as though Jodi was holding the camera while she brutally killed Travis because there are some accidental photos on it of the floor and the ceiling and one of Travis after he's been murdered and Jodi's foot in the same picture. Travis is naked. Jodi, as seen from the picture, at least has on socks and a pair of pants.
Something interesting, though, is that these pictures are date and time stamped. There is a photo of the ceiling which Jodi says is a picture the camera took as she dropped it. So it's a picture that tells us when Travis attacked her then there is a picture of him after he's been murdered. These two pictures, before and after the attack, are 62 seconds apart. That is not enough time for everything Jodi says took place to have taken place.
Other witnesses that the defense has called up hasn't really helped their case, in my opinion. They called up a psychologist that had seen Jodi four times during one year and gave her a diagnosis of PTSD but I think that discussion was a waste of time because if she does have PTSD (even though I don't find the psychologist to be very credible) I don't see how that helps prove self defense as she would have developed the disorder after the killing.
They've also had a domestic violence expert on the stand who appears to be buddy-buddy with the defense team. She was very rude to the prosecutor while on the stand and, frankly, I don't think her testimony should be given much weight to the final outcome.
Just to add another piece of evidence against Jodi, while on the stand, Jodi says she shot Travis in the bathroom. But apparently she told the domestic violence expert that she shot him in the closet. Make up our mind!
Anyway, there is so much more to this case out there, every little thing just shows how guilty she is. I am just going over the evidence that I find the most damning. But explore the case yourself and see what you think.
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Jodi Arias is tweeting from jail. Her twitter account is Jodiannarias. Sometimes she tweets about the case, which is mostly just insulting the prosecutor and HLN, but mostly it's about her website where she is selling her artwork. Seriously? Not much of a victim, is she? Please, please, please, don't give her money. She is a violent, cold blooded killer who deserves the death penalty. Not money. Don't support murderers.
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I will be tweeting what I think as I watch live coverage of the trial. Hope to see you there!
