Murder With My Husband - 64. Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander – The Dirty Little Secret

Episode Date: June 14, 2021

On this episode of MWMH, Payton and Garrett discuss the infamous case of Jodi Arias. LIVE ONLINE SHOW TICKETS HERE! https://www.moment.co/murderwithmyhusband Case Sources: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jodi-arias-timeline_n_2387245 amazon documentary called “Jodi Arias” https://filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/jodi-arias/ Links: https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/murderwithmyhusband) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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They're gonna be like, well, they, he's just bark. Only the people on YouTube are gonna get it. I know, because I'm like, mm-mm. Okay, so my 10 seconds this week would be that my mom is actually in town. Um, she's over in the corner to the left of me. Try not to look at her and look at the camera. She is watching us. So we have live audience today, but we love her. We love having her here. So that's my 10 seconds this week. Other than that, I don't know. He does have a weird tan line on his head. Oh my gosh. Yes.

If you can see it, I'm sorry. We were playing pickleball. He was wearing hats. And we didn't realize it. Sorry, yes. That's what I'm saying. If you're on YouTube, if you can see it, I'm sorry, we were playing pickleball, he was wearing hats and we didn't realize it. Sorry, everybody. It's cute. So we are actually covering a very infamous case this week. It's a big one, I think. I kind of heard about this case, watch this case on the media on the news

when I was like 13 years old. My little true crime self was just enthralled with it. I would keep watching Nancy Grace as my mom went to bed. So most of you are probably going to know this case. Garrett has absolutely no idea what this case is. He just knows that a lot of you have suggested it. So here we go. We are jumping into the case of Jody Aries and Travis Alexander. This case has everything that made it a media whirlwind, beautiful people according to societal beauty standards,

passion, lust, sex, betrayal, lies, it has everything that made it huge. There is a lot of imagery that will be on our YouTube video and we can also load some of it on our media channels. So if you wanna watch, as we go, check it out on YouTube. So we are trying to cover this case in one episode. And like I said, it's a large case. So there's a lot of details.

So there might be some that we leave out just trying to condense it. And so I'm sorry about that. If you have any other important details that you want to include, we can always like do it in comments and stuff. I love going on continuing the conversation there. Our case sources this week are HuffPost.com and Amazon documentary called Jody Areas, filmDaily.co and also JCS, the YouTube channel covers this two hour long interrogation and it's

amazing, like I always say I know I read about them, but yeah, so you can check that out too. It was really good to watch. Our case starts in September of 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada at a conference. A 30-year-old clean cut man named Travis Alexander who was a motivational speaker and legal insurance salesman was speaking at said conference in Las Vegas.

Travis had grown up in Southern California with drug addict parents. It was a rough childhood. He was physically abused and neglected as a child. And so when he was 10, him and his siblings went to live with their grandparents who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And I know this is the second case we've covered with Mormons and I know that makes it seem crazy, but this just happened to be the case I chose. So I'm sorry about that. Travis began attending church and then at age 18, he served a mission in Denver, Colorado. When he came home from his mission, he found a job at a multi-level marketing company

that was called PPL, which stands for Prepaid Legal Group. This is why he's a salesman and a motivational speaker at the same time. Because in multi-level marketing, the higher up you get, you kind of stop doing the work and you more start encouraging people to join and stuff like that. So he kind of had moved on to the motivational speaking, trying to get people under him type thing. In 2004, Travis moved to Mesa, Arizona because it had a larger Mormon community than California.

And, you know, he was a young bachelor. He was looking for a wife and he was kind of living a good life. He had a big house, he had a BMW. And so this is where he wanted to end up. 28-year-old blonde Jody Arias attended the same Las Vegas conference for PPL. She was traveling in from Palm Desert, California. Jody grew up in California in a stable home. She was described as quiet, a good student,

and from the time she was young, she always had a boyfriend. Parents say it was her weakness. She loved boys. Jody and Travis were both reps for PPL. Jody was just barely getting into PPL. Travis was high up in PPL at this conference. So, he spoke and she saw him at the conference.

But in 2006, at this conference, she was aspiring to be a saleswoman and an independent photographer. Travis and Jody ended up meeting at the conference and had an instant connection. They were both young, both attractive, and they instantly just started exploring this relationship. As the conference ended, Jody and Travis returned to their separate homes and called and emailed every day. They exchanged approximately 82,000 emails during the course of their relationship. Yeah. As time goes on, Jody begins to fall in love with Travis from afar. Remember, she's in California, he's in Arizona. And because Travis was a Mormon who lived in Arizona,

Jody decided to be baptized by Travis into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on November 26, 2006. So only a couple of months after they had met. On February 2, 2007, Travis and Jody began officially long-distance dating. And despite them both being LDS, they immediately began a physical relationship which usually Mormons don't do because of

something called the law of chastity which basically just means saving yourself for marriage type thing. And they were doing this before they became officially boyfriend and girlfriend, they were having a sexual relationship. Jody probably didn't realize that the more physical her and Travis were, the less marriage material she began to look in Travis' eyes according to his standards.

And on June 29th, 2007, Travis and Jody break up and around this time Jody decides to also move to Phoenix, Arizona. What was the reason they broke up? Because of the whole sexual relationship, Travis was feeling like I need to be taking dating more seriously. I'm looking for a wife. I'm old enough.

I want to settle down. And unfortunately, our relationship is just not, it's not that for me. So once they break up is when she decides to move to where he lived. So they dated a far the whole time. And then once they break up, she's like, okay, I'm going to move to Arizona. Is it because she wanted to date other... Exactly. So she says it's because she too wanted to immerse herself in this religion that she had joined. Although Travis is upset with the move and is telling friends that, you know, Jody wasn't marriage material and he wanted her out of his life, but now she's moved here and that's made it hard. Travis and Jody just can't seem to stay away from each other.

Jody literally becomes Travis's kryptonite. They maintain their physical relationship, but not dating. They just maintain a physical relationship, which goes against Travis's beliefs. They begin hiding it from his friends and family because she lives close by now. They can sneak around and it kind of becomes

this hidden romance that they aren't telling anyone else. She knew that Travis was beginning to only see her in a physical light, but Jody was just falling more and more in love with each rendezvous they had. Okay. This is when Travis and Jody's relationship becomes extremely toxic and rocky, it's back and forth.

They're on again, They're off again. One minute they are hooking up. The next day Travis is taking a girl from church on a date. So he's living this secret life with Jody and then going to church and preaching and being like, yeah, let's go on a date I want to get married. The Jody not care. You know, she did care. Okay, but she liked him.. So she wanted to be with him. And this was the way to be with him. In December of 2007, Travis begins steadily dating another woman from church and tells his friends that Jody has been harassing him. She slashed his tires twice. She's breaking into his house. She's logging into his Facebook to his bank account all of this stuff Travis's new girlfriend was also being harassed via email and Travis says I think it's from Jody because it was like anonymous He's like I'm pretty sure it's from this girl named Jody

She's obsessed with me. She's a stalker all that type thing in January of 2008 Travis and Jody are maintaining a physical relationship on the side After the new girlfriend doesn't become as serious as Travis thought. So this new girlfriend ends up like leaving Travis's life and he goes right back to having a whole time. Are they still? I think kind of, you know, in and out, but once the new girlfriend is out, it's more common again. He's hookups. So very promiscuous texts and phone calls going between Travis and Jody at this time. Meanwhile, Travis is still dating and portraying himself as single and Mormon to his friends and family. In March of 2008, Travis and Jody traveled together to Oklahoma and Texas. They need to get away

because they've just happened to be hiding their relationship. But if they go out of state, they can be open about it. In April, Jody moves back to California from Arizona after growing tired of sneaking around and not being more than just a physical relationship for Travis. So they break up, I mean, they break off their hookups. She was also growing extremely jealous of each new date that Travis was going on in between their hookups. Travis tells friends that he's looking forward to his life now that Jody is in California.

You can finally get rid of that toxicity that was keeping him from living the standards that he wants to live, that type thing. He feels like he can get his life back on track and focus on finding a wife because that's what he wants to do. Okay. On April 20th, Jody and Travis are still in contact via text flirting once again,

even though she's moved back to California. On May 10th, Jody and Travis are fighting via text. On May 18th, Travis makes a post about dating to Mary and why it's important. On Facebook? Yes. Well, it was on his blog, but he was also using Facebook. Travis makes a post about dating to Mary and why it's important. On Facebook? Yes. Well, it was on his blog, but he was also using Facebook.

This just goes to show that they're like up and down, up and down, hooking up, texting, flirting. Yeah, they're all over the place. Never mind. I don't want you. I'm focusing on cleaning up my life and getting wife back together, hooking up again. In June of 2006, Travis tells his friends that Jody has hacked into his Facebook account. He tells his friends that he talked to her and told her to stay out of his life forever.

Travis seemed to care a lot about what other people thought about the relationship. Society standards, everyone around, I mean his surroundings were people at church. And they all share the same standards. I got to tell my parents, I told people at church, I told my friends this. And they all share the same standards. I got to tell my parents, I told people at church, I told my friends this. And they all have the same standards. And so if Travis is breaking the standards, and he cares a lot, he cares a lot that he's not, because he liked Jody, but he was like,

I can't marry you because we can't seem to agree upon these standards or whatever. And it wasn't like Jody was pressuring him. I don't want to put that out there. I'm just saying that they as a couple We're not living the standards on June 9th 2008 Travis's friends are worried because they haven't heard from him in several days

He had missed some important meetings and was supposed to be going to Cancun for work with a new love interest named Mimi Hall whom he had met at church So they go to his home and they find his roommate home. They ask him, hey, where's Travis? He's not replying to Texan. He's supposed to be leaving to Cancun. And the roommate's like, oh, I thought he wasn't Cancun already. So his friends are like, no, he's not in Cancun.

So they're like, okay, let's go check his room. The door was locked so they get the extra key. And they walk in and they say, blood. All over the floor, he has like a little hallway, a bedroom, and then the master bathroom. They see blood all over the floor. They walk into the bathroom and they find him dead on the floor of his shower.

Keep in mind, his roommate has been sleeping at the house. What? Yes. How many roommates is he of? Just one. Just one. Was the bathroom inside his room roommates is he at? Just one. Just one. Was the bathroom inside his room or outside his room? It was inside.

It was connected to his room. Got it. His state of decomps suggests that he's been dead for multiple days. So this roommate has been living in the house. Wouldn't he smell it? There was a foul smell. And the roommate told police, dude, we're a bunch of guys. It could have been the garbage for all I know.

Our house constantly stinks. We smell something funny. We just wait for the next person to take the trash out. Yeah. So there were large amounts of blood discovered in the bathroom, on the floors, on the walls, on the sink. But the rest of the house, besides the master bedroom and shower,

were in orderly condition. That's also why the roommate didn't notice anything. Weird. The bedding had been removed from Travis' bed, but there were no signs of forced entry. The bedding was gone? Yes. Like the sheets and...

Yes, the sheets and everything. Okay. Police determined that Travis had been shot in the head with a 25 caliber gun. The bullet was found in his left cheek. He had then been stabbed 27 times. And his throat slashed from ear to ear. He was almost decapitated. 27 times.

Crime scene investigators found a 25 caliber shell casing on the floor next to the sink and also a hair and handprint in blood were found near the bathroom entrance. So like the bathroom door is here and it's kind of on the wall outside the bathroom door. My other question is did no one hear the gunshot go off? Well, I know that he was home alone at the time, but I'm going to say no because no one came forward and said anything. Travis's digital camera was then found in the washing machine in the laundry room downstairs. And the camera had been run through a wash with some towels on the machine. And the pictures that were on the memory card

have been deleted. Why in the world? Yes. When Travis's friends are questioned, they all mention his stalker and harasser ex-girlfriend Jody Areos. This is from the HuffPost.com. His friends say Jody was totally obsessed with him.

Travis's close friends said she wouldn't let him go. Whenever he would try to sever all ties with her, she would threaten to kill herself. He would tell her he didn't want anything to do with her and she would show up at his house. After all of this, like the next day, police get a call from Jody Areas. The girl that all his friends have been telling them about. And she says, you know, I'm a good friend of Travis. I want to help out in any way I can. She says, I haven't seen Travis since I moved back to California. But I've, you know, texted him. We've talked a couple times. She tells police that just a couple days later. I guess I am a little confused because

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On June 5th, 2008, three days later, after she leaves, Jody arrives in Salt Lake City and visits Ryan Burns, that love interest and coworker who lived in West Jordan, Utah. So it took three days to get from California to Utah. Okay. Now, Garrett and I have, okay, from Northern California to Utah. Garrett and I have made the drive multiple times from Southern California to Utah and back. I will say it does not take three days.

No. And Northern California shouldn't be, I mean, do you know what part of Northern California? Reading, California. Yeah, so reading is probably 10, 11 hours from here? Yeah, so not, definitely not three days. Yeah. I mean, she could have stopped, but then that's only two days, you know what I mean?

So police asked Jody why it took her so long to get there. She says that she stopped and visited friends in Southern California. First, she didn't sleep the night. She just stopped and saw them. Police contact Ryan, who says, yeah, she really did show up that day. It was, you know, it was good.

She wasn't acting weird. It was, you know, it was good. She was an acting weird. It was a little weird because blonde, bombshell, Jodie, like blonde, had actually died her hair brown. So when she showed up, she had brown hair all of the sudden. And, you know, she had some cuts on her hand, but other than that, like nothing really stood out to me. Oh, just a couple of cuts. Jodie tells police on June 7, 2008 that she made it back to Northern California and returned

the rental car and that was the extent of her road trip to Salt Lake City. That just happened to be over one of the days that Travis had been murdered. What a coincidence. So on June 13th, 2008, Jody posts an album on my space titled in loving memory of Travis. This is after Travis's died. On June 17th, 2008, Jody is voluntarily fingerprinted, also gives her DNA along with some of Travis's other friends, so it wasn't that weird that she had agreed to this. While waiting for the results, police are shocked to discover that technicians had been able to recover some images from the camera in the

washing machine at Travis's. No way. Okay. And what they found on there would change the case in its entirety. There were deleted pictures of Travis naked in the shower. He appeared to be posing for the pictures, like promiscuously, but the next pictures on the camera were dark and grainy, and there was also a picture of Travis on the floor of the bathroom bleeding profusely,

like just a part of his body. And in that picture is a foot and like a shin, someone standing over Travis. It's almost like the camera had accidentally gone out after being dropped in the struggle. Holy crap. The, there were also pictures before the one, those ones I just described, that were of Travis and Jody Areos nude on their bed in provocative sexual poses.

They had had a whole entire photo shoot and these pictures are timestamped during the time that Jody had driven from California to Salt Lake City. So why, why did she throw in the washer? Why wouldn't she just take it with her? So these photos prove that Jody had lied to police about when she had last seen Travis. It also proves that Jody was the last person Travis was in contact with before he died in the shower seconds before those pictures were taken. And can they tell like who's footed this? No. Like if Jody had her foot out, could they tell? I mean, no, there's no way to positively 100% match that.

But if Jody's naked on his bed posing minutes before he's in the shower, which is seconds before he's killed, I think it's easy to draw the line that Jody was at least there. Maybe she wasn't the person that did it, but she was definitely in the shower, which is seconds before he's killed. Yeah. I think it's easy to draw the line that Jody was at least there. Maybe she wasn't the person that did it, but she was definitely in the house, which she told police. She hadn't seen him since she moved to California. Later that day at 10.54 pm, Jody posted a message on MySpace that said, I'm missing Travis, see you soon, my friend, but not soon enough. So the day that police figure out that she had lied, she's also on my space posting

about how she misses Travis. On June 26th, 2008, the tests come back and conclude that the bloody handprint and the hair in Travis' apartment belonged to Jody Areos. This seems so, I mean, open and shut, right? The bloody print also had both Jody and Travis's DNA on it. So like on the hamprint was also some DNA that was both Travis and hers. And that same day, the police like discovered this match, Jody attends Travis's memorial service. On July 14, Mesa police

drive to California to interview Jody in person. They're like, okay, we have the evidence, so now we need to like go get her. This is when their investigation opens into Jody. This interrogation is pretty intense, and this is what JCS criminal psychology does a deep dive into, the two-hour one, and I would look it up if you're interested. He like dissects all of it. We're not going to go into it here, but that's a great source if you want to watch it. Jody was very open and offered a lot of information during her interrogation, but police tell her that even if she had slept in her car, her road trips still left 18 plus hours of time uncalled for.

They tell her that they have her blood, hair, and DNA at the crime scene after she promises she was never at his house during the road trip. No matter what they tell her, Jody maintains that she was never there. That she wasn't there at all. Or just there when he died. Just there when he died. So she says, well, my hair's probably there because I've been there multiple times.

And she's like, but I was never there during this time. They're like, Jody, your DNA is in blood. Yeah. And she's like, well, I wasn't there. I don't know what to say. And as she lowered up at this point, no, she's just sitting in the room alone. Police finally tell her that they also have the images from the camera in the washing machine. And this was a bomb show on Jody, because she had just said,

oh my god, she freak out. These images are timestamps. So she was definitely there. Police pull out the pictures and show her. And I do have to say these pictures are full on naked, so how awkward to sit there and they slide out and say, look, this is you with a timestamp right there, full on spread eagle in this bed. And she's like, she says, oh, that is me, isn't it? That's what she said. Like just blown away.

OK, so I do have to tell you this about Jody. And JCS said this. She puts on this character around everyone to try to make her seem less guilty or less likely. Like innocent almost. Yes, and she talks like, oh yeah, like very soft spoken, very Christian, very god-fearing, like she sits on this whole character. Police pull out the pictures and she's like, well, yeah, that is meat, but I don't know when those were from. And they're like, well, they're timestamped. So you can't argue with that.

And she says, well, I mean, but you can doctor those. Like those timestamps could be fake. So she's just, oh my, she's just trying to lie. She sticks with the fact that she wasn't at Travis's house on the fourth or the fifth of June, 10 days earlier. Jody says that timestamps can be altered, but then police show her the image of Travis on the ground bleeding and they say,

hey, we think the camera kept going off. And they say, and also Jody, that's your foot. That's your foot and your pants in this image standing above the body while the camera's accidentally shooting. Jody doesn't budge. That's not me. So she can't believe she can say that with a straight face. Yes. Well, she's like very blinking. Uh-huh. Like that's not me. Yeah. So she's read her Miranda rights and left alone in the interrogation room. And this next part is why some listeners have commented on our episode 24 Ryan Poston and Shayna Hubers

that their case reminded them a lot of this case. And this is why. Before the detective leaves, Jody looks up at him through tears and says, well, if you're arresting me, can I have some, you know, this is going to show you how vain I am, but can I have some makeup and a mirror to get my face ready for my mug shot? And he's like, yeah, and he's like,

oh no, you're gonna take it, just how you are. Detective walks out. Jody immediately stops crying. Instantly turns off the tears. She's in full blown. Oh my gosh, I'm getting arrested. He walks out, she doesn't know that the video tape is in there and she immediately stops crying, looks up.

Moves her chair, crawls on all fours over to the wall and does a headstand against the wall for like a minute. Doesn't say anything. No, she does not. Yes. And this is going to be playing. Yes, this is going to be playing on YouTube. And you do watch this. Does a headstand against the wall. Just seconds after being told that she's going to have to take a normal mug shot. Oh, impressive. And then after that, it kind of was, I was kind of thinking that like I wouldn't even do a headstand right now because the blood rush, like she just got up and did one. What?

So then after that she goes and sits back down. She starts singing all holy night to herself out loud. And once again has a good voice, just like Shayna did. And once again, why can't I not have a good voice? It makes me mad But whatever so she then starts talking to herself like in the chair She goes she mumbles these still hate me And then she mumbles brat

Like you can hear all this yes, yes, just talking out loud and keep it might she doesn't know she's being recorded So she's just Okay, yeah, so the next day doesn't know she's being recorded. So she's just, okay. Yeah. So the next day, police continue the interrogation with Jody this time she's in a jumpsuit because she spent the night in jail. And they try to bring in a female detective,

Jody won't talk to her. She obviously only wants the man. Where the cops not scared, like is she possessed? Like what's going on right now? I just think they think that she doesn't care. Maybe they're used to this. Detective Flores comes back in and Jody unloads.

She tells him, okay fine, I'll tell you what I know. Travis knew that I was stopping by during my road trip to Salt Lake and that she got to his house around 3am. She says that they went to bed and then they woke up later in the afternoon and they had sex and they took those naughty pictures of each other on the bed. The last photos of Travis and the shower were taken around 5-20 p.m. that day. Jody finally tells the detective that a man and a woman in ski masks barged in on her and Travis during their shower photoshoot. She says that they attacked Travis in the shower

and through sobs she says she ran into the closet and the man held a gun to her head and that she began fighting with the woman who had a knife and that the woman eventually let go and that's how she got the cuts on her hand. She says the man and woman in ski masks argue about whether or not to kill Jody and she says that the man says killing her is not what they came Therefore that they came there to kill Travis She says that the fight left her cut and that the intruder told her if she ever said anything about it that they would go and kill her family They had gone in her purse looked at where she lived everything and they let her go So she just got in her car and drove to Salt Lake City and met up with Ryan

whom she also was interested in and he said she was an acting weird, they made out, they were basically dating that weekend and she went to the PPL conference. So, this seems like such a just, it's all case, like she did it and... You and everyone else agrees. But now I'm confused because you're still talking. So. So Jody's parents are interviewed during this time and they tell police that Jody got along well

with her siblings, but not with them. The Jody had moved out during junior year of high school, moved in with her boyfriend. And after getting busted for growing marijuana in middle school, it was just kind of downhill from there. Parents say she's a really smart girl. She's very friendly, but they just didn't have a good relationship with her. They say that a couple days after Travis's murder, Jody came back to California, sat them down and told them that she was

going to leave the country because she was going to be blamed for something she didn't do and she couldn't tell them any more details. Why? This whole thing is insane. It's just an open and shut case, it seems. So we're in 2008 still? Yes, correct. They met in 2006 and we're now in 2008. Got it. On September 5th, Jody is extra-dited to Arizona and assigned a public defender.

Juan Martinez is assigned as the lead prosecutor and he decides to go for the death penalty. On September 11th, 2008, Jodie pleads not guilty and tells the media that she and God knows that she's innocent. Her arrest and glamorous mugshot and now facing the death penalty means Jodie becomes instantly famous in the United States. The media picks up this story, jealous girlfriend, kills her boyfriend, acts crazy, has a beauty,

because in her mug shot, she's smiling. And her head's tilted. She's crazy. Yeah, and so they're like, oh my gosh, look at this crazy girl who goes instantly haywire. And this is when I, at 13 years old, was like turning on Nancy Grace, like what's new in the Jody Aries case?

I kind of am picturing Harley Quinn a little bit of my head. Yes, I would say yes a little. I mean, she's a little more refined. Like she, she guys to go for the innocent look, but definitely crazy eyes. Like definitely a little weird. Jody's face is all over the news in media in 2008.

An infamous clip from Nancy Grace that I remember is when they show Jody during an interview with media because she just starts taking any interview she can get. She's doing interviews with everybody from jail, talking about her innocence. How did I not hear about this? Because you don't pay attention. I don't understand.

So during an interview that she's doing, she takes a little break during the interview and they're still filming her and she goes to put makeup on while in her jumpsuit. She's like, can I just freshen up my face while she's talking about being convicted of murder and on the death penalty. And she's doing her makeup and Nancy yells literally at the TV. Gotta get your makeup straight before you're asked questions about your lover's murder. She just said that. She yells it.

And it's just, it's so good because Nancy Grace is just, you know, and it's so good. So yeah, Jody gets a selfish, self-consumed, flirtatious, wrap around the nation. They're like, this girl's just trying to flirt her way to innocence. She isn't taking much seriously. She's laughing in her interview. She's talking about herself a lot. And on August 8, 2011, Jody requests to represent herself at trial.

Eight days later, after failing to get some forged letters from Travis that she had forged herself stating that he was a pedophile, she admits to court, you know, judge, I think I'm in over my head here. And so Judge Reen states her defense counsel. Jody also changes her story to domestic violence defense stating that Travis had attacked her that night,

and so she had shot him in self-defense after sexual and physical abuse throughout their two-year relationship. So, once you change your story, I feel like that instantly makes you like that your guilty. I think it's the fact that she's going from one extreme to another extreme to another extreme. I wasn't even there.

Fine, I was there and two people broke in. Fine, that didn't happen either. I was there and I shot him in self-defense. Exactly. So we're in 2012 now. This is how long this is taking. Okay. Jody was assigned a new defense attorney after hers requested to be released from position.

So her attorney was like, can't work for this lady. Next, that's why this is taking just so long. Oh my gosh. Isn't it just all right? You're guilty, you like? Right. On January 2, 2013, Jody Areas' trial begins.

And people line up outside the courtroom just to see the Jody Areas in person. The state cites the number of times Jody changed her story. The fact that the murder was so violent and everything as points against Jody in their opening statements, the defense states that Jody had killed him in self-defense and so they shouldn't convict her of first degree murder. Like they say, okay, she did kill him,

but it was in self-defense, so it's not first degree murder. Take the death penalty off the table. And I feel like, is that something you can prove? Right? Because I mean, she could lie pretty well that it was self-defense. Yes, except for if the state can prove that there were things she did previously to plan out the murder, then it'll go against it and they won't be able to prove it.

They say that if Jody hadn't killed Travis, she wouldn't be alive today. That it would have been her instead of him. That's how abusive the relationship was. But the biggest bombshell that defense dropped is that Jody was forced into a sexual relationship with a dominant Travis and that every aspect of their sex life would be exploited at trial. So they come right out and they say, sorry about it, you're about to learn every single aspect of this very abusive sexual relationship between Travis and Jody. Welcome to the trial. That's what the defense says. Wow. And I mean, is it true? Well, some of it's proved at trial. And this trial is a

big deal. This trial's television. This trial's televised. And also you have to think about this from Travis's friends and family who are sitting in the courtroom. They get the first couple rows. He was obviously not living the values that he wished to. And he had been lying to everyone about it. Now his sins from his point of view as the victim would be on full blast at his own murder trial. That's really rough and exploitive and disgusting and hard and not how he should be remembered, but it's going to happen because she's trying to get off. The state blasts during their couple days that the number of lies Jody told police in

her first interviews downplaying her and Travis's relationship. The gruesome nature of Travis's death should all prove that she did this and it was first-degree murder. Also, how hard it would be to kill someone of Travis's size if it was self-defense and her not have any extensive wounds besides a couple cuts that he had to have been caught off guard or surprised in the shower in order for someone of her size to actually overpower him and kill him that nearly decapitating someone and stabbing them 27 times isn't self-defense. That's what the state says. Got it.

The state also shows during their time a lot of the crime scene photos which are brutal and you can see them. Everyone in the courtroom had to see them as well. It was a really awful time. Think of Travis's family sitting there having to see Travis nearly decapitated in the courtroom had to see them as well. It was a really awful time. Think of Travis's family sitting there and having to see Travis nearly decapitated in the shower. Yeah. Jody hid behind her hair for most of the time

that the state was up. Jody also said that she shot him in the head and he kept attacking her, but the Emmy comes out for the state and says that wouldn't make sense that he would have gone down immediately after being shot in the brain. Why would you then stab him 27 times?

Well, there's no way he kept attacking you because she's like, well, you know, he just kept attacking me after I shot him. So then that's why I had to stab him 27 times. And the Emmy's like, no, he would have gone down. Yeah. You shot in the brain, you're down. You don't keep attacking enough to have you know 27 sab wounds the defense says there's no evidence of that though and the Emmy's like yeah You're right like on cross examination. They're like, but there's no evidence that he actually didn't go down

That's just your professional opinion that getting shot in the head would make you go down He's like well, yes because because of the decomp There was no evidence that the brain had necessarily been messed with. You know what I mean? But he's like, but I mean, he got Sean in the head. Jody's grandparents also said at trial that their 25 caliber gun had been stolen one week

before Travis's murder. This seems just so obvious to me. I'm so confused. I agree. The gun was never found. And on day nine, prosecution rests its case. So the states like that's it. We're done.

We've done what we can to prove that this was, you know, first degree murder and the Jody did this. The defense comes up and Jody's ex-boyfriend testifies about how calm and nice she was. I dated her for years when she moved out of her house and lived with me and she was great, there was nothing ever wrong. But it comes out that before Jody left for her trip, she had stopped by this same ex's house that was just testifying and picked up two cans of gas from him. It doesn't seem like that big a joke.

Oh, okay. But the steak gets up and cross-examines him and they say, you know what, we went through the receipts, we found a box of receipts from the trip, this row trip she took from California Salt Lake during the time that Travis was murdered. And she never filled up with gas in Arizona. Never once, and she spent a whole day there, we know.

Never once did she fill up with gas. She instead used those gas cans that she had picked up from your house. Almost like she was trying to keep herself out of Arizona when it came down to paperwork. Like I was never there. I didn't even get gas there. And that proves that this was calculated and planned

which would prove first degree murder just like you were saying. If the state can come up with something to say, no, she planned this and there you go. There you have it. She knew she was gonna kill him and she wanted, she turned off her cell phone, so her cell phone wouldn't ping the whole entire day

she was there and she brought gas with her so she wouldn't have to fill up there. One of the biggest questions during trial was if Jody Arias was going to get on the stand or not. This is a big deal. Are you gonna testify at your own trial not. This is a big deal. Are you going to testify at your own trial? Like, that's a big deal. It was day four of the defense's testimony when Jody walked

into court and walked right up to stand. She would testify. This is huge. And this part is going to get a little in depth sexually. So if you are uncomfortable with that, or your kids are listening or whatever, you can feel for whatever. Jody says the day the Travis baptized her. they went back to his house and into his bedroom and Travis and her had anal sex

This combined sexuality and religion and they say this because sex was being used in a not good way like When it came down to religion it was being used to control her. That's what the defense is trying to say. They began reading through Jody and Travis's emails and this is all while Jody's standing like on the stand and they're saying did you say This this this to him and she has to say yes. I did and they're bad like they're I mean, they're not bad But they're very sexual in nature and it's just it's an uncomfortable situation for everyone. Yeah. He called her a slut said she would rejoice in being a whore for him and that her whole purpose in life was to please him and to have animal sex with him and all of this is written or recorded. So it's all proved. He also does a big deal from the trial. He also refers to her multiple times as a three-hole wonder.

Oh wow. Okay. Yes. So his whole family sitting here, having to hear about this very secret, I'm not saying bad, secret life he was having and outing him in a way because he didn't want to be portrayed as this or perceived as this. And so it's just, it's horrible. So it definitely threw a fork in everything that had been going on. Yep. This relationship had emotional and mental abuse according to the jurors. Like the jurors said that. Especially because I assume the state was painting him as this perfect kind of guy.

Yeah, like this religious, very successful guy. And he was. Yeah. I don't want to take that away from Travis because he was and I don't think just because you have a sexual relationship with someone makes you a bad person like the defense is trying to portray it and they are, they're trying to portray it. And now if he was being abusive.

It's because it's according to his religion. Exactly, exactly. And but the jurors say no, it was abusive. Like he was calling her. Got it. The regulatory things, the only thing was, was it consensual or was it abuse? Okay.

So Travis and Jody were acting as good Christian church goers and then living this secret life together. Jody tells the court that she saw him one time masturbating to child pornography, says he was a pedophile. So Travis, our victim is just getting slandered. The worst, basically the worst accusations and things were said about Travis while Jody was testifying.

She herself was saying these things. And was everything proved or just some of it? None of that pedophile stuff was proved. There was no child pornography on his computer. There was nothing. That all came single-handedly from Jody. Some things were in the emails, like I said, but also some things were just said by Jody.

Jody says that he was physically abusive and the physical abuse would then turn into sexual abuse. So it would start as punching and then turn into rape. And then the defense plays a phone sex tape session between Jody and Travis. And they play it for everyone to hear, and it's long, and it is x-rated. And it is very shocking to hear

considering the situation of this girl murdered him and now we're hearing their sex So it's a very intimate moment being shared publicly to try to say this is how nasty he was during sex Keep in mind during the sex tape Jody never once is like I don't like that. Why are you saying those degrading things to me? So that's why I'm saying so it sounds consensualual almost? Yeah, it is. It is. Like she's very, she is acting very consensual. And so now it's up to the jury to decide is Jodi actually the victim because she's on stance saying none of this was consensual. But in the literally in this in the tape, he'll say something nasty to her and she'll be like, oh, that makes me feel bad. I like it. So she literally saying the words, I like it.

So that's, it's up to the jury. And I will give it to the defense doing good job of making this questionable. The trial was so sexually graphic, there was moaning in the sex tape, it was raunchy, it just felt embarrassing and sad considering the situation. Jody finally testifies that the day she was taking pictures of him in the shower,

the camera had accidentally slipped out of her hands, and this had caused Travis to explode and get mad at her, and he began chasing her through the house trying to kill her. So she ran into the closet, and remembered that he kept a gun there, this gun that no one knew about, like he didn't know, and she grabbed the gun, and she pointed it at him and she fired on accident. She says that after this, she then blacked out

and she has no memory of stabbing him 27 times or dragging him back to the shower after she shot him. Cross examination comes and the prosecution brings up her journal saying, you didn't write anything negative about your sex life with Travis in this journal. There was no pedophilia, there was no rape, there was no physical abuse. All that you write about is,

I have this relationship with Travis. No, I think he's only using me for sex. Now he's dating this girl. Everything we knew, Jody was on the stand for 18 days, testifying. Whoa, it's a long trial. Because her team has a chance, and then the state team has a chance. And both sides then prepared for their closing arguments.

The trial was wrapping up. After four months of trial, the jurors left to deliberate. Days and days go by, no news. Four days later. And are they locked in a room together for four days? Yes. I mean, they're getting food and they get to go home and sleep. Oh, okay.

But four. I thought they were just sitting there for four days. And I don't know if this jury was sequestered or not because they might be sleeping at the hotel or whatever, but four days later, the jurors come back and they find Jody guilty on first degree murder. Okay. So now Jody is going to go to sentencing and we will decide if she gets the death penalty

or life in prison without the possibility of parole because she was sent in. Oh, so she hasn't been sentenced yet. No, she's only been convicted. But before Jody can go to sentencing, she immediately after getting declared or after getting announced that she's guilty. She does a TV interview once again minutes after the verdict. She sits down. She says she's overwhelmed that it was unexpected, but the death is the ultimate freedom. I would rather die and live my life in prison. She said that. Mm-hmm. Minutes after getting up.

Wow. Yep. That's heavy. Yes. So at sentencing, Jody comes up. So his whole family comes up and testifies, tells the judge, you know, Travis was our rock. Travis has been painted in such a bad light, but he was such a good man. And this is why we think she should get the death penalty.

Jody gets a chance to talk at sentencing every single person that is being convicted or has been convicted gets a chance to talk. So Jody gets up and she holds up a shirt that says survivor on it and then proceeds to tell the judge that she's selling this shirt and she's created this shirt and that all proceeds will go to victims of domestic violence. So she is still holding to her story that this was a domestic violence situation, which is not a good look. It's not a good look because it was kind of obvious. Like the trial didn't necessarily go in her way at all. The jury comes back with the decision for life or death. And this is a big deal. Every single like media outlet is covering this. And the jury says, judge, we can't decide. We have eight for it. This many against it.

So doesn't it go to the judge at this point? No, it goes to misch trial. So the judge declares a misch trial and they have to start all. No, no, freaking way. Yeah. So they have to start all over with the sentencing. Oh, so not with the whole trial. No, so she will still convicted, but now they're gonna have to go through a whole new trial to try to convince a whole new set of jurors to give her the death penalty.

I thought they had it, I mean, that's tough. But I thought they had to start like from blank one. Yes, no, no, they kind of do because they have to convince a whole new set of jurors. Okay. But I mean, she's whole new set of jurors. Okay. But, I mean, she's already convicted. So the jurors aren't deciding if she's guilty or not. The jurors are deciding death penalty or life in prison.

Okay. So, a year later, that's how long it takes to regather everything, create all these cases again. Everyone comes back and tries to prove that Jody deserves death. The second trial is over. And after six days of deliberation, the jury comes back and says, Judge, we're hung once again,

11 to 1, 11 for the death penalty. Oh my God. One person holds out. Judge declares a mistrial. You can keep doing that over and over again? No. So Arizona rule is that you only get two shots to send in someone to death.

And if both those shots come back with a hung jury, she immediately gets life in prison without the possibility of parole. Okay. So Jody is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on April 13th, 2015. And as she said, anything else about that recently? She did a couple interviews after that.

She has appealed her sentence twice, and she's in some public battles with her attorneys, saying she had misrepresentation, she's suing them, all this stuff, but nothing has really changed. She kind of died out after that, because there was like a nice little bow after the mistrials and her getting sentence. I was like, okay, this is nice and wrapped up.

It's over with. Yeah. But that is the very summarized version of Jody Areos and Travis Alexander. That whole thing was insane. I can't believe you knew nothing about that. And maybe this case isn't as big to other people. I think you say her name and it's pretty popular. I've seen it in the DMs a couple of times.

We've had a ton of suggestions for this. Everyone always sends in like, their names that I've spoken to now, but I don't know. He said, you should, I was like, I don't know what case to do this week. And he was like, there's been one a couple of people sending it. It's like, Jody or something.

And I was like, oh, Jody Areas. I was like, yes, I can do that one. So Garrett knew the name, but he didn't know anything about this case. There was so much evidence. And as we're watching these trials unfold and she's getting up on the stand, everyone's thinking, how are we even at trial?

Like, there is so much evidence against her. It's crazy. I mean, she obviously did it. And so then they go in a trial and they're like, yeah, yes, she did it for sure. But this is why she did it. But then you have to imagine, before they went to trial,

no one knew about this secret sex life. No one knew about the kinkiness, the deep dive into everything, and all of this is exploited at trial. So can you imagine the media is just coming out? I mean, I feel like we will have moments like this with the Rexburg kids. But try to Lori? Yes, I feel like we will have moments like this with the Rexburg kids. But Tadamori.

Yes, I feel like we will have moments of trial where we are like blown away. What? No one had any idea that this happened. And that was kind of what happened with Jody Arias and Travis Alexander. It was this nice little blonde woman who killed her boyfriend, and it was this,

ever all so much stuff involved, it was insane. Crazy, that was crazy. Yeah, so 13-year-old me was just... I mean, you did a really good job condensing it. Surprise we got it all into one episode. I mean, like I said, there was probably some, I mean, I could be like, and then she went to this place, there's in this city that we know, but we got to do it.

We got to do on this podcast. Like I said, there's plenty, plenty of other sources that really do more, like deeper dive into all the nitty gritty little details if you're wanting to know, you know what color-bearing she wore or whatever. But yeah, it's insane. All right, you guys, thank you so much for listening. We love you guys so much.

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