Jamie's trial notes: Jodi Arias

I wasn't going to blog about this trial. Even though I watch it daily on the HLN network. I am literally obsessed with the day to day drama. Most Americans are actually right where I am. I have even heard of people missing their scheduled vacations to tropical islands to switch tickets to go to Arizona and wait outside the courthouse in Phoenix at 5:00 am to hopefully get themselves a seat. This trial is all over every type of media (i.e. radio, all the news stations; local and otherwise, in newspapers, blogs, etc.).
If you haven't been watching, and I'd have to ask if you have been hiding under a rock.... just kidding, but SERIOUSLY.

Jodi Arias is on trial for the massively brutal murder of her one time Mormon boyfriend, Travis Alexander.
The murder was gruesome. SO, so gruesome. The murder took place on June 4, 2008 at the beautiful home of the successful Travis Alexander in Mesa, Arizona. ***PLEASE NOTE*** THIS WILL BE GRAPHIC.
Travis wasn't just shot. Travis wasn't just stabbed. Travis was shot in the head, stabbed 29 times (in the heart, back, defensive wounds all over his head and hands, and finally, sadly and brutally- he had his throat slit from ear to ear, all the way back to the spinal cord.
It sickens me.
I know I have so many better things to be doing with my free time, other shows I can watch, but this trial is captivating. I watched the whole 18 days that Jodi was on the stand, and I have to add lying under oath. Lying about the fog.
And mind you that Jodi changed her dang story 3 times!!!
Her first story was she was no where near the crime scene, the next was that two ninjas broke in, attacked Travis, left hear unharmed and let her run away, and finally, after 2 years in jail, she changed her story again- self defense. Travis was abusive.
If you have not been watching-
currently there is Alyce Laviolete or whatever on the stand and she is the defense's dv expert and she is biased, and won't even consider that Jodi was the stalker, Jodi was the abuser.
I know this is so out of order, and I 'm here and there, but Jodi is a liar, an admitted murderer, and this man did not deserve to die.
Until this trial I was really against the death penalty, but after seeing those crime photos and hearing Jodi get caught in lie after lie, especially under oath (swearing to tell the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH), and not only that but the defense experts are also getting caught up in incomplete stories and half-truths.
Well, now my opinion on the death penalty has changed, and in Jodi's own fake journal entry- the death penalty, death by lethal injection is too good for whoever committed this awful crime, well Jodi- it was you, and may you pay for the crime you committed.
Travis was young and he grew up having one of the worst childhoods I have ever heard of, and instead of falling into a statistic he made something of himself. You can tell he loved to travel, he enjoyed life, had so many people in his life that loved him and cared for him and from all the evidence(or lack thereof you know that he is not into child porn or pedophilia, that he was not physically abusive or hateful. He was kind and cared for Jodi and everyone in his life. When Jodi needed a car, he gave her a BMW, when she needed money, he let her do light house keeping and paid her 200.00 each time, he paid for trip after trip. Travis was a giving, kind and loyal man, and after months of being stalked and manipulated by this ugly human being he had had enough and sent her a very determined email that was supposed to be the final communications. The kind of email that says- LEAVE ME ALONE, I want nothing to do with you! He DID NOT deserve to die. Mostly, he didn't deserve to die the way he did, suffering for those 62 seconds.
Speculation as to why she did this:

1. a trip. A trip to Cancun. Her name was the first on that ticket, then Travis uniinvited her and gave the ticket to Mimi Hall.
2. The email/text where he told Jodi she was worse that Hitler, that she was evil and the worst person he had ever met and to leave him alone.

As for premeditation?
1. 4 large gas cans
2. The rented car.
3. The .25 auto stolen from her granparents 3 weeks before the murder. The caliber found at the crime scene? A .25 auto.
4 The back license plate on her rental turned upside down.
5. Coloring her hair from bleach blonde to brown.
6.Turning off her cell when she got into Az so her cell wouldn't ping towers, but turning it on when she was near the Hoover Dam.
7. Collecting and keeping all the receipts from her fake vacation.


If you are the least bit interested in this case- you can follow up with police interviews, trial days, experts and witnesses on the stand, crime scene photos, and oh yeah, the 48 hours interview where Jodi goes on camera telling the bogus ninja story to the world. They are all on youtube: Jodi Arias.