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I've loved photography since,
since I can remember,

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since I got my first camera.

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I've taken pictures of
everything you could think of,

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and I think what I'd really
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and settle in on was people.

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Hey, everyone.
I'm Hill Harper.

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Welcome to
"How It Really Happened."

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Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias
first meet in September 2006.

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Sparks fly, and their instant
chemistry turns to romance.

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The young lovers seem like a
made-for-each-other couple.

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Travis predicts 2008
will be, quote,

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"The best year of my life,"

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but he couldn't
have been more wrong.

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His relationship with Jodi
now turns troubling.

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He breaks up with her, and then
suddenly, silence from Travis.

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He's not in touch with anyone.

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When concerned friends
go to his house to check on him,

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none of them are prepared
for what they find.

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Here's how it really happened.

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Mimi Hall is shattered.

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Her voice is shaking.

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Mimi is supposed to go to Cancun
with Travis Alexander.

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They're supposed to leave
the next day,

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and she hasn't heard
from him for days.

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Skoloff: She's thinking,
"This is very strange."

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She's calling.
He's not answering.

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She finally decides
to grab a friend

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and go over to his house.

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Nobody's answering the door.
She can't get in.

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Other friends show up,

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so they let themselves
in the garage door,

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and they go in the house.

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Right away, they notice
something smells kind of funny.

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Hogan: They look around.
They see his dog has been fed

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and all of the lights
are off around the house.

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They see his car keys.
They find his wallet.

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They find all his possessions.

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His car is in the garage,
and he's nowhere to be seen.

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Velez-Mitchell: Where is
Travis Alexander?

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Travis Alexander is
a successful businessman.

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He's a motivational speaker,

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and he's very popular
in the Mormon community.

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He's just an all-around,
well-liked man.

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Travis is at a business
convention in Las Vegas,

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and he meets
a beautiful young woman.

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Her name is Jodi Arias.

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Velez-Mitchell: Jodi is outside
the Rainforest Cafe

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at the MGM Grand, and this
dashing young man

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comes up to her and says,
"Hi. I'm Travis."

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And she says, "Hi. I'm Jodi."

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Hall: I could tell he was
impressed by her.

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He thought she looked very good.

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Arias: We began to walk
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and he made it a point
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and keep me engaged
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you know, by the time we made it
around to the big gold line

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in the front
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we had discovered
a couple of common interests.

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Velez-Mitchell: And in short
order, Travis Alexander is

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inviting her to be his date
at the big VIP dinner,

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and there's a photo of the two
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and he has a look in his eyes
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"Look who my date is."

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We hung out throughout
the weekend, had a lot of fun,

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exchanged phone numbers,
and it was one of those things

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where I didn't expect him
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but he called me
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and so I was like, "Oh, hi,"
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he's a good conversationalist.

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Hogan: Right away, Jodi learns
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what a pure, Mormon guy he is,

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and she really sees him
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Velez-Mitchell: Over the course
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they're spending hours together,
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trading stories,
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were drawn to each other
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When Travis met Jodi,
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Skoloff: The relationship
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Travis was in Arizona.

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They sort of began
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The relationship eventually
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seeing each other now and then,
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into much more of a traditional

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boyfriend-girlfriend
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where they went
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Jodi Arias started using
social media to broadcast

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her love of Travis,
and she created a page

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on her MySpace that was filled
with photographs,

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mostly of her and Travis.

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Jodi and Travis ended up
coming up to my house

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for a week to go see
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in Salt Lake City.

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the national parks and stuff
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This was like any normal
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boyfriend, girlfriend
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As they got closer,
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about his Mormon faith.

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Skoloff: Travis explained to her
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eventually, with a Mormon woman.

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Jodi was very eager to learn
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At some point, she decides she's
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Velez-Mitchell: Just about
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Jodi gets baptized
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and Travis performs
the ceremony,

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and there is a picture of them
dressed in their white garments.

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Arias: He was the first person
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and give me a copy
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and he challenged me
to read it, and I did,

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and, you know,
it was a decision that I made,

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and I could tell he was
very honored when I asked him,

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and he, you know, of course,
was happy to do so.

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Baptizing, I think, is a --
it's a sacred thing.

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Velez-Mitchell: Travis was
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the Mormon religion, dating is
for one purpose and one purpose

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alone, and that is to find
a marriage partner,

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and the Book of Mormon
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that outside
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there is no sexual
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They would meet halfway in
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on these weekend,
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where they would stay holed up
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There was a lot of sex.
It was sex, sex, sex.

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He was living a double life

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because what he was doing
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was not what he was supposed
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Mormon follower.

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Jodi Arias was in love
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She wanted to spend
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and at some point, got the sense
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She wanted him to marry her.

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The operator is asking,
"Do you know anyone

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who could possibly want
to hurt Travis?"

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Traveling with Travis
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with your own personal comedian
or serenader or philosopher.

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He always, you know,
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that would make you think,

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and he was always
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and he was a very funny guy,

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so there was never
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and so he was just
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He had an enthusiasm and lust
for life that, you know,

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he always wanted to see
what was around the next corner.

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On the evening of
June 9, 2008,

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Mimi Hall, desperate,
goes to Travis' house.

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Nobody's seen him in days.

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They realize that one of Travis'
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with his girlfriend.

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Billings: I remember getting
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and Travis' friends
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and they said,
"Have you seen Travis?"

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And I said, "Well, no,
I haven't seen Travis.

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He's supposed to be in Cancun

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or out on vacation right now,"
and they said, "Yes, he is,

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but he's supposed to be here
with Mimi."

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And so I said, "Well, have you
checked his bedroom?"

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One of the roommates goes in
with one of the friends.

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Billings: The door was opened.

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On the right-hand side,

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I did end up
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And looked down the hallway

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and saw just blood strewn
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And my heart just sank.

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I ended up going into
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and that's when I saw his body,
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and I just told everybody,
"He's dead. Call 9-1-1."

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Cortez: Zach had told me
the police were coming,

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and, you know, they needed us
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It just kind of felt like you
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this Twilight Zone
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suddenly wasn't
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and I just had to sit there
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looking at the house
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The operator is asking,
"Do you know anyone

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who could possibly want
to hurt Travis,

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who could possibly
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Velez-Mitchell: The most
shocking thing we hear

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in this 9-1-1 call,
Travis' friends are pointing

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the finger at Jodi Arias.

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We're trying to figure out who.
who could possibly do this?

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Because everybody loved Travis.

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Numerous times people said,
"Jodi."

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It's like,
"No, it can't be Jodi.

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She lives
in Northern California."

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Billings: I relive walking
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and seeing everything
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and it's something
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regardless of how much I try
to get it out of my head.

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This scene spoke to an overkill.

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The murder was beyond brutal.
It was savage.

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It was rage.
It was passionate.

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It was disturbed.
It was inhumane.

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It was just a mess.

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It's clear that there has been
some kind of major battle

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between the killer
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He was very uplifting,
very uplifting person.

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He knew every one of my buttons.

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He could bring me up or down,
you know, at the drop of a hat,

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but mostly he brought me up.

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What you hear is, "I struggled.

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I worked hard,
and I fell on my face."

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There was times when I didn't
want to do it anymore.

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There was times
when I just wanted to quit.

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Reporter: The death of
Travis Alexander caused such

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an uproar in his Mesa community,
police had to hold a meeting

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to address concerned friends,
neighbors, and churchgoers.

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It was a typical summer morning,
back on June 10th of 2008,

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and I received a call
that there had been a homicide

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or a killing out in East Mesa.

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Hall: Travis lived in
a very nice part of Mesa,

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nice, family dwellings,
very, very low crime.

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You would not expect
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to happen in this neighborhood.

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One of the first people
that I met was the case agent,

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a detective by the name
of Steve Flores.

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We began to walk the scene.

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We entered the bathroom.

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I looked to my left,
which was the shower,

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and that's when I saw
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Travis' bloated,
partially decomposed body

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crumpled up in the shower stall.

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As Detective Flores
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one of the things
that he pointed out to me

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were the stab wounds.

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Skoloff: We're talking nearly
30 stab wounds

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all over his body,
defensive wounds on his hand.

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His head was down.

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His arms were sort of
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and his legs were kind of
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Detective Flores and I turned
to the right to take a look at

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the sink area, I remember
that there was a mirror there.

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And one of the things that
struck me about the mirror

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was that there was blood on it,
and it appeared that there had

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been movement that was
associated with placing

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the blood there.

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Something had happened
there to shed all the blood

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In this bathroom, it's clear
that there has been some kind of

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major battle between
the killer and the victim.

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A large part of it took place
near the sink.

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The other thing that I remember

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is that the body had been
stuffed in the shower,

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and what that indicated,
that there was a lot of rage

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or violence and strength

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by the person
who actually had put him there.

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There was blood everywhere.

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Velez-Mitchell: Detective Flores
has a real whodunit

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on his hands,
and he starts from scratch,

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and you always look
at the people who are there,

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who are closest, so he starts
looking at Travis' roommates.

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I think the thought of being
considered a suspect

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had definitely entered my mind
at some point.

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Hogan: The detective
enters the house,

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and right away, he is struck
by the noxious odor.

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He can't believe that these
roommates had lived there

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with Travis' dead body.

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Cortez: You couldn't really
smell it in my bedroom yet,

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but you go into the common areas
of the house,

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and it seems like you
could start to smell it

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as you went upstairs.

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The roommates explained away
the smell saying that it,

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really, had only started
to smell very recently,

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and they're a bunch
of bachelors.

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They just figured, "Hey, maybe
there were some dishes

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in the sink with food."

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They didn't put two and two
together.

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Cortez: They definitely asked
if I had any problems

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or issues with Travis,
if we had any sort of argument

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or if Travis and somebody else
had some sort of dispute.

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I knew that if the police were
to really investigate my alibi,

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there would be no issues
in them finding out

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that I was at work
the entire time.

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Velez-Mitchell: Detective Flores
quickly says, "You know what?

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Who would kill somebody and then
live in the same house

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without disposing of the body?"

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So the roommates are kind of
checked off

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the suspect list
pretty quickly.

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Friends indicated that a person
that could have done this

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and that the police should
look at was Jodi Arias.

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The body was taken and examined
by Dr. Ken Horn

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of the Office
of Medical Examiner.

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Travis Alexander had been
killed three times over.

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There was a stab wound
to the chest area.

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Stabbed straight in the heart,
stabbed in the back.

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The next wound was the slashing
of the throat.

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From ear to ear, 3 to 4 inches
in terms of his head,

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almost decapitating him,
and then for good measure,

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there's a shot to the forehead.

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It's kind of a coup de grace,
a final message to him.

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That's how I believe
the murder scene went down.

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One of the most
shocking discoveries

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was the palm print
in blood on the wall

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about waist high,
and Detective Flores looks at it

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and says, "That's likely
the palm print of the killer."

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Among the blood stain, they find
a large blood spot on the carpet

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at the end of the hallway,
and on the wall, one dark hair.

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Who could it belong to?

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Hogan: The forensic team
takes the blood sample.

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They take the hair samples,
and they send it for testing.

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We found a casing that's right
over here near the sink area.

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What we were looking for was
a .25-caliber,

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semiautomatic handgun,

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but one of the things that
struck both Detective Flores

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and me was that they found
no handgun.

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They found no knife.

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They found nothing that would
have caused these injuries.

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One of the most important parts

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of that crime scene
investigation

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was when they noticed that
the bed did not have sheets.

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Right away they're wondering,
"Where did those sheets go?"

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Where could they be?
So first place he looks

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is the washing machine,
and to his surprise,

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when he pops open the lid
to the washing machine,

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there's all of the sheets
and the comforter to the bed.

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It had been washed,
and to his further surprise,

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there's a digital camera
in there, as well,

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that had been washed.

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A digital camera that somebody
tried to destroy.

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They took it back to the police
station to see whether or not

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they could actually get
some photographs from it.

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Mesa police had basically
found the smoking gun.

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It seemed that Detective Flores
had found his killer.

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Welcome back to
"How It Really Happened."

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As Travis' murder case unfolds,
Detective Flores anxiously hopes

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photographs will be recovered
from the camera

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found at the crime scene.

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In the meantime, he questions
Travis' friends,

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trying to discover
why anyone would want him dead.

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The officer comes to know
Travis Alexander

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as an exceptional person,

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a young man rebuilding his life
after a traumatic childhood.

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Abdelhadi: I know
Travis Alexander from his story.

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And it was a story he would tell
from the front of the room

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when he was presenting.

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And it was a pretty
incredible story

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because he did have
a hard background.

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Hogan: Travis grew up with two
drug-addicted parents.

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They were very poor,
living in Riverside, California.

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He had several siblings.

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His dad was abusive.

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There was drugs laying
around the house,

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and it was a very poor
environment for a child

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to be raised in.

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With no food, no water,
house infested with bugs,

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the parents were just on
drug binges all the time.

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Hogan: She would smack Travis
into a refrigerator

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until he had bumps on his head.

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The children were all afraid
of their mother,

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and it was a terrible household.

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Hall: Your heart would break,
why a little child

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would go through
living circumstances like that.

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He went to his grandmother's
house one day and just said --

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as a little kid, he said,
"I'm not going home.

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I'm going to live here,"

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and finally,
the grandmother agreed

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and took him and his siblings,

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and Norma, the grandmother,
was a Mormon.

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At an early age, we
all ended up moving in

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with our grandma
one by one.

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Hogan: She provided a stable
home for the first time

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in their lives, and Travis
was able to go to school

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and learn religion,
and he really blossomed

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after he moved in
with his grandmother.

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Hall: He developed his own
beliefs in the LDS faith.

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He ended up serving a two-year
mission for the LDS church

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and was trying to be as devout
Mormon as he possibly could.

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Hogan: He came back to
California with a new sense

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of confidence, and through
church, he was able to

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get involved with
prepaid legal services.

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Skoloff: He sort of
picked himself up,

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pulled himself up
from his bootstraps

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and became the man that he was,
got involved with this business.

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Hogan: Travis found success and
was able to make over $100,000

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a year in this company

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selling prepaid legal insurance
out of his home.

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Became a real up-and-comer,
a motivational speaker,

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sort of an idol
to some of the younger people

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coming up in the company.

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Enjoy yourself.

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Be happy with where you're at.

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Velez-Mitchell: Travis believed
2008 would be

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the best year of his life.

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He wrote, "I will earn more,
learn more, travel more,

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serve more, love more, give more

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and be more than all the other
years of my life combined."

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But it was not to be
the best year of his life.

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It was the year he was murdered.

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The group of people at the home

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that night were
Travis Alexander's friends.

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They're all questioned
by police,

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and the name that they kept
saying as a group,

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one after the other,
was Jodi Arias.

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The police need
to talk with her.

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On June 10, 2008, a day after
Travis' body is discovered,

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Detective Flores and Jodi Arias
have a 30-minute phone call.

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Arias: I just wanted to offer

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any assistance
that I might have.

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I was a really good friend
of Travis'.

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We dated for, like, five months,
and we broke up,

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and we continued actually to see
each other for quite a bit.

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Flores:
When did you guys break up?

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Arias: We officially broke up
June 29th of last year.

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Even though we broke up
and were no longer boyfriend

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and girlfriend,
we decided to remain friends,

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but, you know, I kind of feel
embarrassed talking about this,

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but it was more than that,

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but it wasn't boyfriend
and girlfriend.

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We were intimate,
but I wouldn't say romantic

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as far as a relationship goes.

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Flores: Okay.
I know it's kind of embarrassing

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to talk about stuff like that.

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Arias: I know.

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Yeah, and if you can just
keep it confidential for now

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because, you know,
he's Mormon.

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I'm telling you this to help
in any way I can.

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Velez-Mitchell:
Jodi insists, unequivocally,

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she has not been back
to Mesa, Arizona,

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since a couple of months
earlier in April.

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Flores: And that was around
April that you

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last saw him, right?

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Arias: Early April.

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Flores: You haven't been back
in town since then?

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Arias: No, I haven't. No.

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Flores: Someone had mentioned
your name,

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and you'd been back in town
for, like, a week

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or a couple of days.

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Arias: Oh, like, I've been
thinking about going there,

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so yeah, I definitely was
planning on headed down here.

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Flores: But you haven't
physically been here

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since you left?

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Arias: Since I moved, no.
I haven't.

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Skoloff: This guy has been
a detective at quite some time,

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handled a lot of murder cases.

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At that point, she wasn't
the number one suspect,

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but she was on his mind.

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Casarez:
Detectives have few leads.

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They're waiting for
the DNA results to come back.

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That can take time.

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But suddenly, they have
a big break in the case.

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Martinez: The Mesa Police
Department had been successful

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in obtaining these photographs
from the camera

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that the police had found
in the washing machine.

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I remember Detective Flores
coming down to my office

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with a binder
to show me the photographs.

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All the photographs are time
stamped June 4th,

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so they knew
the exact time and date.

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The first group was a group
of photographs

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of Travis and Jodi Arias,

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and they were engaged
in sexual activity,

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and those were taken at about
1:30 in the afternoon.

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Velez-Mitchell: Jodi is naked,
wearing pigtails,

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and there's four photos of her.

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One of them is so graphic,

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I don't even know
how to describe it,

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but it leaves nothing
to the imagination.

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Then there are a couple
of photos of Travis, as well.

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It seems pretty clear
that they've had sex,

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and now they're taking
photographs of each other.

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Martinez: The second set of
photographs were of

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Travis Alexander in the shower
sometime around 5:30 P.M.

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Hogan: Travis had just
gotten a new camera,

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and they start taking
naked photos of each other,

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which later escalates
to a naked photo shoot

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in the shower stall
of his master bathroom.

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The last picture of him in the
shower was somewhat chilling,

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in the sense that it's
a very close-up shot.

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He's looking directly
at a camera,

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and everyone can look
at the picture

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and see something different,

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00:26:55,433 --> 00:26:57,433
but it certainly appears
that he's not pleased,

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and, frankly, that's the last
photograph that police find

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before the murder takes place.

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00:27:04,083 --> 00:27:06,253
It was a case where you are able
to almost pinpoint his death

486
00:27:06,283 --> 00:27:09,353
to the moment because of knowing
that time stamp

487
00:27:09,383 --> 00:27:11,283
and seeing the photographs
of when he was alive

488
00:27:11,316 --> 00:27:12,396
and when he was dead.

489
00:27:12,433 --> 00:27:16,023
It shows a bloody Travis
on the ground,

490
00:27:16,050 --> 00:27:19,230
and you see
the killer's pants leg.

491
00:27:23,316 --> 00:27:26,026
They were just photos
that we took,

492
00:27:26,066 --> 00:27:29,326
and it was nothing that he nor I
ever intended to be made public.

493
00:27:29,366 --> 00:27:32,076
It's something that we intended
to keep private.

494
00:27:36,450 --> 00:27:39,230
during the last day
that Travis was seen alive

495
00:27:39,266 --> 00:27:42,026
in sexually intimate positions.

496
00:27:44,183 --> 00:27:47,053
The next photos are of Travis
in the shower,

497
00:27:47,083 --> 00:27:49,373
posing for the camera, looking
straight into the camera lens

498
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,000
as water drips down his face.

499
00:27:52,033 --> 00:27:56,003
We now know that Arias
was there on June 4th.

500
00:27:56,033 --> 00:27:57,433
The last group of photographs

501
00:27:57,466 --> 00:28:01,266
were inadvertent
or accidental photographs,

502
00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:03,200
and those were the ones
that were the most striking

503
00:28:03,233 --> 00:28:07,233
because it was clear
that the camera,

504
00:28:07,266 --> 00:28:10,216
because of movement
or accidental touching,

505
00:28:10,250 --> 00:28:12,450
had actually taken
three photographs

506
00:28:12,483 --> 00:28:15,373
at the time
that Travis was being killed.

507
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,070
[ Camera shutter clicking ]

508
00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,250
The first photograph in that
third group was of the ceiling.

509
00:28:21,283 --> 00:28:25,123
The camera was maybe dropped,
and the shutter was clicked.

510
00:28:25,150 --> 00:28:29,100
At that point, I knew the time
that the attack started.

511
00:28:29,133 --> 00:28:32,483
A minute later, there's another
photo, even more incriminating,

512
00:28:33,016 --> 00:28:37,166
that shows a bloody Travis
on the ground.

513
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,280
The second photograph
showed Travis

514
00:28:39,316 --> 00:28:41,226
laying on his back, bleeding.

515
00:28:41,266 --> 00:28:43,446
Skoloff: You can see Travis,
a portion of his body,

516
00:28:43,483 --> 00:28:46,023
bloodied, on the floor,

517
00:28:46,050 --> 00:28:50,320
and you see a foot
and a pant leg in there.

518
00:28:50,350 --> 00:28:53,150
Martinez: The third inadvertent
photograph showed the body

519
00:28:53,183 --> 00:28:55,183
as it was being dragged
down the hallway.

520
00:28:55,216 --> 00:28:57,166
It was a case where you were
able to almost pinpoint

521
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,100
his death to the moment
because of knowing that

522
00:29:00,133 --> 00:29:02,433
time stamp and seeing the
photographs of when he was alive

523
00:29:02,466 --> 00:29:06,066
and when he was dead.

524
00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:09,080
Martinez: Initially, Arias
told the story that when

525
00:29:09,116 --> 00:29:11,466
Travis was killed,
she had nothing to do with it,

526
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,300
and the reason she didn't have
anything to do with it

527
00:29:14,333 --> 00:29:16,403
was because she wasn't there
on June 4th.

528
00:29:16,433 --> 00:29:19,083
After the pictures
were developed,

529
00:29:19,116 --> 00:29:21,346
the police knew that she wasn't
being truthful to them.

530
00:29:21,383 --> 00:29:23,473
I believe at this point,

531
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,300
all other suspects
are being ruled out,

532
00:29:25,333 --> 00:29:28,273
and Detective Flores
is down to one suspect,

533
00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:30,150
and that's Jodi Arias.

534
00:29:30,183 --> 00:29:33,003
I thought at first,
"There's no way that Jodi could

535
00:29:33,033 --> 00:29:36,273
do it because she's 110 pounds.

536
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,250
He's solid muscle, great shape.

537
00:29:39,283 --> 00:29:41,153
She couldn't have done it."

538
00:29:42,283 --> 00:29:44,073
Skoloff: Things start to move
pretty quickly

539
00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:46,430
once the evidence
starts coming back in.

540
00:29:46,466 --> 00:29:50,146
In early July, a grand jury
is convened and indicts Jodi

541
00:29:50,183 --> 00:29:52,233
for first-degree murder.

542
00:29:52,266 --> 00:29:56,166
On July 14th, Detective Flores
and two other associates

543
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,320
from the Mesa Police Department

544
00:29:57,350 --> 00:30:01,100
fly from Arizona
to Yreka, California,

545
00:30:01,133 --> 00:30:04,033
to arrest Jodi Arias for murder.

546
00:30:05,433 --> 00:30:07,423
Casarez: Once Jodi Arias
is arrested,

547
00:30:07,450 --> 00:30:10,000
she's placed in custody,

548
00:30:10,033 --> 00:30:13,473
and that's when Detective Flores
begins an interrogation,

549
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,050
and he wants a confession.

550
00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:17,483
The detective wanted to know,
why did she do this?

551
00:30:18,016 --> 00:30:19,176
Why did she kill Travis?

552
00:30:35,366 --> 00:30:39,046
Jodi just kept denying, denying,
denying that she was there.

553
00:30:55,050 --> 00:30:56,320
She seemed to have
no understanding

554
00:30:56,350 --> 00:31:00,120
of her circumstances
or what she was involved in.

555
00:32:27,383 --> 00:32:29,153
No matter what he says,

556
00:32:29,183 --> 00:32:31,403
she just sticks to her story
that she wasn't there.

557
00:32:31,433 --> 00:32:34,403
The lies really backed her
into a corner.

558
00:32:34,433 --> 00:32:37,033
Velez-Mitchell: Jodi Arias'
behavior in

559
00:32:37,066 --> 00:32:41,126
the interrogation room is
some of the craziest behavior

560
00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:44,416
ever exhibited by anybody
who's ever been arrested.

561
00:32:44,450 --> 00:32:47,220
This interrogation just gets
stranger and stranger

562
00:32:47,250 --> 00:32:48,450
by the minute.

563
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,200
After presented with evidence
that she was there on the day

564
00:32:52,233 --> 00:32:53,373
Travis was killed,

565
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,130
Detective Flores
leaves the room,

566
00:32:55,166 --> 00:32:58,366
at which point, Jodi just does
some very strange things

567
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,380
for someone who has
just been arrested

568
00:33:00,416 --> 00:33:02,466
and charged
with first-degree murder.

569
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,250
She kind of talks to herself
a little bit like,

570
00:33:05,283 --> 00:33:07,153
"Oh, Jodi, you should have
done your hair,"

571
00:33:07,183 --> 00:33:08,383
or, "You should have
done your makeup."

572
00:33:12,033 --> 00:33:13,453
She is singing to herself.

573
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:23,480
She stretches around.

574
00:33:24,016 --> 00:33:26,426
She kind of dances,
and she does a headstand.

575
00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:30,080
It was bizarre.

576
00:33:30,116 --> 00:33:31,466
She asked Detective Flores,

577
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,470
"I know this is going to
make me sound --

578
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,220
but is there any way
I can freshen up?"

579
00:33:48,066 --> 00:33:51,096
She wants to be able to put
on makeup for her mug shot.

580
00:33:51,133 --> 00:33:54,273
She's already seeing herself
as a celebrity.

581
00:34:15,366 --> 00:34:17,416
I really enjoy nature
and sunsets,

582
00:34:17,450 --> 00:34:21,100
but people
and their expressions,

583
00:34:21,133 --> 00:34:22,453
moments, especially weddings

584
00:34:22,483 --> 00:34:25,283
when, you know,
you can just see expressions

585
00:34:25,316 --> 00:34:27,316
on people's faces
in emotional moments.

586
00:34:27,350 --> 00:34:29,350
I love capturing
that sort of thing.

587
00:34:36,383 --> 00:34:39,173
Narrator: Jodi Arias is
questioned by detectives.

588
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,120
She says she was not
with ex-boyfriend

589
00:34:41,150 --> 00:34:44,180
Travis Alexander the day
he was brutally murdered.

590
00:34:44,216 --> 00:34:46,476
The next day,
Arias changes her story,

591
00:34:47,016 --> 00:34:49,446
blaming Alexander's death
on intruders.

592
00:34:49,483 --> 00:34:52,303
There's overwhelming evidence
that she was there.

593
00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:54,373
She can't continue to deny
that she was there

594
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,030
because there's photographs,
there's tons of evidence.

595
00:34:58,066 --> 00:34:59,196
Eventually, story number one,

596
00:34:59,233 --> 00:35:02,123
"I wasn't there,"
morphed into story number two,

597
00:35:02,150 --> 00:35:05,220
"I was there,
but this is what happened.

598
00:35:05,250 --> 00:35:09,180
Two masked intruders barge in
the house with guns."

599
00:35:26,133 --> 00:35:28,253
Hogan: According to this version
of her events,

600
00:35:28,283 --> 00:35:31,273
Jodi claimed that she and Travis
were having

601
00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:34,030
a sexy photo shoot
in the bathroom,

602
00:35:34,066 --> 00:35:35,196
when she claimed
that two intruders

603
00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:38,323
barreled up the stairwell,
broke into the bedroom,

604
00:35:38,350 --> 00:35:40,320
and started stabbing
and attacking Travis,

605
00:35:40,350 --> 00:35:42,230
throwing her to the side.

606
00:36:33,283 --> 00:36:36,323
Jodi said they were both armed.
The man was carrying a gun.

607
00:36:36,350 --> 00:36:38,050
The woman was carrying a knife.

608
00:37:27,133 --> 00:37:29,173
♪♪

609
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,000
Hogan: She says one of the
intruders puts a gun to her head

610
00:37:32,033 --> 00:37:34,003
and threatens her life.

611
00:37:34,033 --> 00:37:37,083
He pulls the trigger,
but apparently the gun misfires.

612
00:37:37,116 --> 00:37:38,476
At one point, she said
that they looked away,

613
00:37:39,016 --> 00:37:42,146
she grabbed her purse
and ran out the door.

614
00:37:42,183 --> 00:37:43,273
Instead of calling 9-1-1,

615
00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:46,430
she just ran off in her car
and drove away.

616
00:37:47,216 --> 00:37:48,376
Skoloff:
Why she didn't call 9-1-1,

617
00:37:48,416 --> 00:37:50,166
why she didn't call police,

618
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,320
why she didn't call anyone
to let them know,

619
00:37:52,350 --> 00:37:55,450
"Two masked intruders may have
just killed my boyfriend."

620
00:37:55,483 --> 00:37:59,073
She just ran out of the house
and left.

621
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:02,050
Grace: Bombshell tonight,
in the last hours,

622
00:38:02,083 --> 00:38:06,303
27-year-old Jodi Arias has
wild sex all day

623
00:38:06,333 --> 00:38:10,383
with Travis Alexander, even
photographing the whole thing.

624
00:38:12,016 --> 00:38:14,226
Hogan: She's in a California
jail in Yreka,

625
00:38:14,266 --> 00:38:17,476
and once they secure
the extradition,

626
00:38:18,016 --> 00:38:20,196
she's transported
to the Maricopa county jail,

627
00:38:20,233 --> 00:38:22,453
where she's arraigned
for Travis' murder.

628
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,220
Skoloff:
The prosecution's side,

629
00:38:24,250 --> 00:38:27,180
they believe they had a really
good case for the death penalty.

630
00:38:27,216 --> 00:38:29,276
Casarez:
So the prosecution filed notice

631
00:38:29,316 --> 00:38:33,216
of intent to seek the death
penalty against Jodi Arias,

632
00:38:33,250 --> 00:38:37,070
saying that this crime
was committed in a cruel,

633
00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:39,270
heinous, and depraved manner.

634
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:43,070
The state of Arizona versus
Jodi Ann Arias, indictment,

635
00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:46,170
count one, first-degree murder,
premeditated murder,

636
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,380
to which the defendant enters
a plea of not guilty.

637
00:38:52,250 --> 00:38:54,430
Hogan: She calls a conference,
and local reporters

638
00:38:54,466 --> 00:38:57,276
gather at the police station
while she puts on her makeup.

639
00:38:57,316 --> 00:38:59,376
Arias: I guess that's really
all I needed.

640
00:38:59,416 --> 00:39:02,316
Sorry. Don't roll the tape yet.
[ Laughs ]

641
00:39:02,350 --> 00:39:06,200
She immediately started
doing interviews with reporters.

642
00:39:06,233 --> 00:39:08,303
I think that being in love
and loving someone

643
00:39:08,333 --> 00:39:11,303
are two different things,
and there was a point in time

644
00:39:11,333 --> 00:39:14,203
where we were in love,
but it was short lived.

645
00:39:14,233 --> 00:39:18,253
Skoloff: This sort of marked
the beginning of Jodi Arias

646
00:39:18,283 --> 00:39:21,483
becoming sort of, in her mind,
at least, a TV star,

647
00:39:22,016 --> 00:39:26,166
a social-media phenomenon,
a tabloid sensation.

648
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,220
It is clear, and it was clear.

649
00:39:28,250 --> 00:39:32,030
It still is clear,
that the camera loved her,

650
00:39:32,066 --> 00:39:33,226
and she loved the camera.

651
00:39:33,266 --> 00:39:35,126
Hogan: She spoke to
any news organization

652
00:39:35,166 --> 00:39:38,346
who wanted to interview her,
including "Inside Edition."

653
00:39:38,383 --> 00:39:41,433
Not proud that I just left
my friend there to be

654
00:39:41,466 --> 00:39:43,146
slaughtered at the hands
of two other people.

655
00:39:43,183 --> 00:39:46,473
And that's where
I got really angry because

656
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,220
she was so smug,
and she was so certain.

657
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:51,350
God knows I'm innocent.
Travis knows I'm innocent.

658
00:39:51,383 --> 00:39:52,403
And I'm like, "really?

659
00:39:52,433 --> 00:39:54,103
You're going to bring God
into this now?"

660
00:39:54,133 --> 00:39:55,403
No jury is going
to convict me.

661
00:39:55,433 --> 00:39:57,353
Why not?
Because I'm innocent,

662
00:39:57,383 --> 00:39:59,033
and you can mark
my words on that one.

663
00:39:59,066 --> 00:40:00,166
No jury will convict me.

664
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:07,350
♪♪

665
00:40:07,383 --> 00:40:15,033
♪♪

666
00:40:15,066 --> 00:40:19,026
She stuck to the general story
of the two masked ninjas

667
00:40:19,066 --> 00:40:23,246
for two years, and then she
came up with a new one.

668
00:40:23,283 --> 00:40:25,353
Grace: All the other stories
were out the window now

669
00:40:25,383 --> 00:40:28,133
except to show
that her story has changed.

670
00:40:28,166 --> 00:40:31,296
The only story the prosecution
is dealing with now

671
00:40:31,333 --> 00:40:33,423
is her story of self-defense.

672
00:40:33,450 --> 00:40:36,350
There were three stories that
Jodi Arias said.

673
00:40:36,383 --> 00:40:38,273
Number one,
that she wasn't there.

674
00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:39,380
Knew nothing about it.

675
00:40:39,416 --> 00:40:41,416
Number two, that she was there,

676
00:40:41,450 --> 00:40:45,130
but it was two masked intruders
that came

677
00:40:45,166 --> 00:40:47,466
and murdered Travis
in cold blood.

678
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,320
And number three, she did it.
She was there.

679
00:40:51,350 --> 00:40:55,300
But it was all in self-defense
because she believed

680
00:40:55,333 --> 00:40:57,353
that he was going to kill her

681
00:40:57,383 --> 00:41:00,323
Martinez: Once the defendant
indicated that she was now

682
00:41:00,350 --> 00:41:03,270
going to claim
self-defense at trial,

683
00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:06,330
that changed the posture
of the case dramatically,

684
00:41:06,366 --> 00:41:11,116
because self-defense cases are
the most difficult to prosecute.

685
00:41:11,150 --> 00:41:13,320
Wilmott:
He lunged at Jodi in anger,

686
00:41:13,350 --> 00:41:15,170
knocking her to the ground
in the bathroom

687
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,120
where there was a struggle.

688
00:41:17,150 --> 00:41:19,270
Jodi's life was in danger.

689
00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:24,300
In that one minute, had Jodi not
chosen to defend herself,

690
00:41:24,333 --> 00:41:26,473
she would not be here.

691
00:41:30,183 --> 00:41:32,373
Jodi Arias is placed
in the Maricopa County Jail

692
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,230
until trail, held without bail

693
00:41:34,266 --> 00:41:36,426
due to the brutal nature
of the crime.

694
00:41:36,466 --> 00:41:38,066
In the court of public opinion,

695
00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:40,380
Jodi is already guilty
as charged,

696
00:41:40,416 --> 00:41:43,076
but she does have
some supporters.

697
00:41:43,116 --> 00:41:46,146
To them, Jodi is the real victim
in Travis' murder.

698
00:41:46,183 --> 00:41:49,133
There are so many twists
and turns to this story,

699
00:41:49,166 --> 00:41:52,066
including the surprising
star witness

700
00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:54,320
in The People versus Jodi Arias.

701
00:41:54,350 --> 00:41:57,100
Next time on
"How It Really Happened."

702
00:41:57,133 --> 00:41:58,333
Thanks for joining us.

703
00:41:58,366 --> 00:42:01,166
I'm Hill Harper.
Good night.

704
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,270
♪♪

705
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