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♪♪
I've loved photography since, since I can remember,
since I got my first camera.
I've taken pictures of everything you could think of,
and I think what I'd really began to enjoy
and settle in on was people.
♪♪
♪♪
Hey, everyone. I'm Hill Harper.
Welcome to "How It Really Happened."
Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias first meet in September 2006.
Sparks fly, and their instant chemistry turns to romance.
The young lovers seem like a made-for-each-other couple.
Travis predicts 2008 will be, quote,
"The best year of my life,"
but he couldn't have been more wrong.
His relationship with Jodi now turns troubling.
He breaks up with her, and then suddenly, silence from Travis.
He's not in touch with anyone.
When concerned friends go to his house to check on him,
none of them are prepared for what they find.
Here's how it really happened.
♪♪
♪♪
Mimi Hall is shattered.
Her voice is shaking.
Mimi is supposed to go to Cancun with Travis Alexander.
They're supposed to leave the next day,
and she hasn't heard from him for days.
Skoloff: She's thinking, "This is very strange."
She's calling. He's not answering.
She finally decides to grab a friend
and go over to his house.
Nobody's answering the door. She can't get in.
Other friends show up,
so they let themselves in the garage door,
and they go in the house.
Right away, they notice something smells kind of funny.
Hogan: They look around. They see his dog has been fed
and all of the lights are off around the house.
They see his car keys. They find his wallet.
They find all his possessions.
His car is in the garage, and he's nowhere to be seen.
Velez-Mitchell: Where is Travis Alexander?
♪♪
♪♪
Travis Alexander is a successful businessman.
He's a motivational speaker,
and he's very popular in the Mormon community.
He's just an all-around, well-liked man.
Travis is at a business convention in Las Vegas,
and he meets a beautiful young woman.
Her name is Jodi Arias.
Velez-Mitchell: Jodi is outside the Rainforest Cafe
at the MGM Grand, and this dashing young man
comes up to her and says, "Hi. I'm Travis."
And she says, "Hi. I'm Jodi."
Hall: I could tell he was impressed by her.
He thought she looked very good.
Arias: We began to walk throughout the casino,
and he made it a point to keep walking next to me
and keep me engaged in conversation, and we just --
you know, by the time we made it around to the big gold line
in the front of the lobby, we just --
we had discovered a couple of common interests.
Velez-Mitchell: And in short order, Travis Alexander is
inviting her to be his date at the big VIP dinner,
and there's a photo of the two of them at that dinner,
and he has a look in his eyes that says very clearly,
"Look who my date is."
We hung out throughout the weekend, had a lot of fun,
exchanged phone numbers, and it was one of those things
where I didn't expect him to call,
but he called me the very next day,
and so I was like, "Oh, hi," and, you know, we just --
he's a good conversationalist.
Hogan: Right away, Jodi learns what a successful guy he is,
what a pure, Mormon guy he is,
and she really sees him as a catch.
Velez-Mitchell: Over the course of this five-day conference,
they're spending hours together, talking, sitting around,
trading stories, and they just, like,
were drawn to each other like magnets.
When Travis met Jodi, if he was happy,
I was happy for him.
Skoloff: The relationship took off from there.
At the time, Jodi was still living in California.
Travis was in Arizona.
They sort of began a long-distance relationship.
The relationship eventually morphed from one of just
seeing each other now and then, talking on the phone a lot,
into much more of a traditional
boyfriend-girlfriend relationship,
where they went on road trips together.
Jodi Arias started using social media to broadcast
her love of Travis, and she created a page
on her MySpace that was filled with photographs,
mostly of her and Travis.
Jodi and Travis ended up coming up to my house
for a week to go see the Temple Square
in Salt Lake City.
They were doing a lot of sightseeing of some of
the national parks and stuff while they were there.
This was like any normal long-distance
boyfriend, girlfriend relationship
As they got closer, he would talk more and more
about his Mormon faith.
Skoloff: Travis explained to her that he really wanted to be,
eventually, with a Mormon woman.
Jodi was very eager to learn more about the Mormon religion.
At some point, she decides she's going to convert to Mormonism.
Velez-Mitchell: Just about two months after they met,
Jodi gets baptized into the Mormon religion,
and Travis performs the ceremony,
and there is a picture of them dressed in their white garments.
Arias: He was the first person to share the gospel with me
and give me a copy of the Book of Mormon,
and he challenged me to read it, and I did,
and, you know, it was a decision that I made,
and I could tell he was very honored when I asked him,
and he, you know, of course, was happy to do so.
Baptizing, I think, is a -- it's a sacred thing.
Velez-Mitchell: Travis was very aware that in
the Mormon religion, dating is for one purpose and one purpose
alone, and that is to find a marriage partner,
and the Book of Mormon is very clear
that outside the bounds of marriage,
there is no sexual contact whatsoever.
They would meet halfway in between California and Arizona
on these weekend, you know, romantic excursions
where they would stay holed up in the hotel and have sex.
There was a lot of sex. It was sex, sex, sex.
He was living a double life
because what he was doing with Jodi
was not what he was supposed to be doing as a faithful,
Mormon follower.
Jodi Arias was in love with Travis.
She wanted to spend the rest of her life with him,
and at some point, got the sense that he was stringing her along.
She wanted him to marry her.
The operator is asking, "Do you know anyone
who could possibly want to hurt Travis?"
Traveling with Travis was kind of like traveling
with your own personal comedian or serenader or philosopher.
He always, you know, had great things to talk about
that would make you think,
and he was always bursting out in song,
and he was a very funny guy,
so there was never a shortage of laughs,
and so he was just a great person to travel with.
He had an enthusiasm and lust for life that, you know,
he always wanted to see what was around the next corner.
♪♪
♪♪
On the evening of June 9, 2008,
Mimi Hall, desperate, goes to Travis' house.
Nobody's seen him in days.
They realize that one of Travis' roommates is there
with his girlfriend.
Billings: I remember getting a knock on my door,
and Travis' friends came to the door,
and they said, "Have you seen Travis?"
And I said, "Well, no, I haven't seen Travis.
He's supposed to be in Cancun
or out on vacation right now," and they said, "Yes, he is,
but he's supposed to be here with Mimi."
And so I said, "Well, have you checked his bedroom?"
One of the roommates goes in with one of the friends.
Billings: The door was opened.
On the right-hand side,
I did end up seeing a pool of blood.
And looked down the hallway
and saw just blood strewn throughout the hallway.
And my heart just sank.
I ended up going into the bathroom,
and that's when I saw his body, and I came back out,
and I just told everybody, "He's dead. Call 9-1-1."
♪♪
Cortez: Zach had told me the police were coming,
and, you know, they needed us to get out of the house.
It just kind of felt like you were entering, like,
this Twilight Zone where reality
suddenly wasn't what it used to be,
and I just had to sit there alone on the curb,
looking at the house the whole time.
The operator is asking, "Do you know anyone
who could possibly want to hurt Travis,
who could possibly do this to Travis?"
Velez-Mitchell: The most shocking thing we hear
in this 9-1-1 call, Travis' friends are pointing
the finger at Jodi Arias.
We're trying to figure out who. who could possibly do this?
Because everybody loved Travis.
Numerous times people said, "Jodi."
It's like, "No, it can't be Jodi.
She lives in Northern California."
Billings: I relive walking through that room
and seeing everything I saw that day,
and it's something that will always be with me
regardless of how much I try to get it out of my head.
This scene spoke to an overkill.
The murder was beyond brutal. It was savage.
It was rage. It was passionate.
It was disturbed. It was inhumane.
It was just a mess.
It's clear that there has been some kind of major battle
between the killer and the victim.
He was very uplifting, very uplifting person.
He knew every one of my buttons.
He could bring me up or down, you know, at the drop of a hat,
but mostly he brought me up.
What you hear is, "I struggled.
I worked hard, and I fell on my face."
There was times when I didn't want to do it anymore.
There was times when I just wanted to quit.
Reporter: The death of Travis Alexander caused such
an uproar in his Mesa community, police had to hold a meeting
to address concerned friends, neighbors, and churchgoers.
♪♪
It was a typical summer morning, back on June 10th of 2008,
and I received a call that there had been a homicide
or a killing out in East Mesa.
Hall: Travis lived in a very nice part of Mesa,
nice, family dwellings, very, very low crime.
You would not expect a heinous murder
to happen in this neighborhood.
One of the first people that I met was the case agent,
a detective by the name of Steve Flores.
We began to walk the scene.
We entered the bathroom.
I looked to my left, which was the shower,
and that's when I saw Travis Alexander's body.
Travis' bloated, partially decomposed body
crumpled up in the shower stall.
As Detective Flores and I leaned over,
one of the things that he pointed out to me
were the stab wounds.
Skoloff: We're talking nearly 30 stab wounds
all over his body, defensive wounds on his hand.
His head was down.
His arms were sort of hunched in,
and his legs were kind of pushed up against the wall.
Detective Flores and I turned to the right to take a look at
the sink area, I remember that there was a mirror there.
And one of the things that struck me about the mirror
was that there was blood on it, and it appeared that there had
been movement that was associated with placing
the blood there.
Something had happened there to shed all the blood
In this bathroom, it's clear that there has been some kind of
major battle between the killer and the victim.
A large part of it took place near the sink.
The other thing that I remember
is that the body had been stuffed in the shower,
and what that indicated, that there was a lot of rage
or violence and strength
by the person who actually had put him there.
There was blood everywhere.
Velez-Mitchell: Detective Flores has a real whodunit
on his hands, and he starts from scratch,
and you always look at the people who are there,
who are closest, so he starts looking at Travis' roommates.
I think the thought of being considered a suspect
had definitely entered my mind at some point.
Hogan: The detective enters the house,
and right away, he is struck by the noxious odor.
He can't believe that these roommates had lived there
with Travis' dead body.
Cortez: You couldn't really smell it in my bedroom yet,
but you go into the common areas of the house,
and it seems like you could start to smell it
as you went upstairs.
The roommates explained away the smell saying that it,
really, had only started to smell very recently,
and they're a bunch of bachelors.
They just figured, "Hey, maybe there were some dishes
in the sink with food."
They didn't put two and two together.
Cortez: They definitely asked if I had any problems
or issues with Travis, if we had any sort of argument
or if Travis and somebody else had some sort of dispute.
I knew that if the police were to really investigate my alibi,
there would be no issues in them finding out
that I was at work the entire time.
Velez-Mitchell: Detective Flores quickly says, "You know what?
Who would kill somebody and then live in the same house
without disposing of the body?"
So the roommates are kind of checked off
the suspect list pretty quickly.
Friends indicated that a person that could have done this
and that the police should look at was Jodi Arias.
The body was taken and examined by Dr. Ken Horn
of the Office of Medical Examiner.
Travis Alexander had been killed three times over.
There was a stab wound to the chest area.
Stabbed straight in the heart, stabbed in the back.
The next wound was the slashing of the throat.
From ear to ear, 3 to 4 inches in terms of his head,
almost decapitating him, and then for good measure,
there's a shot to the forehead.
It's kind of a coup de grace, a final message to him.
That's how I believe the murder scene went down.
One of the most shocking discoveries
was the palm print in blood on the wall
about waist high, and Detective Flores looks at it
and says, "That's likely the palm print of the killer."
Among the blood stain, they find a large blood spot on the carpet
at the end of the hallway, and on the wall, one dark hair.
Who could it belong to?
Hogan: The forensic team takes the blood sample.
They take the hair samples, and they send it for testing.
We found a casing that's right over here near the sink area.
What we were looking for was a .25-caliber,
semiautomatic handgun,
but one of the things that struck both Detective Flores
and me was that they found no handgun.
They found no knife.
They found nothing that would have caused these injuries.
One of the most important parts
of that crime scene investigation
was when they noticed that the bed did not have sheets.
Right away they're wondering, "Where did those sheets go?"
Where could they be? So first place he looks
is the washing machine, and to his surprise,
when he pops open the lid to the washing machine,
there's all of the sheets and the comforter to the bed.
It had been washed, and to his further surprise,
there's a digital camera in there, as well,
that had been washed.
A digital camera that somebody tried to destroy.
They took it back to the police station to see whether or not
they could actually get some photographs from it.
Mesa police had basically found the smoking gun.
It seemed that Detective Flores had found his killer.
Welcome back to "How It Really Happened."
As Travis' murder case unfolds, Detective Flores anxiously hopes
photographs will be recovered from the camera
found at the crime scene.
In the meantime, he questions Travis' friends,
trying to discover why anyone would want him dead.
The officer comes to know Travis Alexander
as an exceptional person,
a young man rebuilding his life after a traumatic childhood.
Abdelhadi: I know Travis Alexander from his story.
And it was a story he would tell from the front of the room
when he was presenting.
And it was a pretty incredible story
because he did have a hard background.
Hogan: Travis grew up with two drug-addicted parents.
They were very poor, living in Riverside, California.
He had several siblings.
His dad was abusive.
There was drugs laying around the house,
and it was a very poor environment for a child
to be raised in.
With no food, no water, house infested with bugs,
the parents were just on drug binges all the time.
Hogan: She would smack Travis into a refrigerator
until he had bumps on his head.
The children were all afraid of their mother,
and it was a terrible household.
Hall: Your heart would break, why a little child
would go through living circumstances like that.
He went to his grandmother's house one day and just said --
as a little kid, he said, "I'm not going home.
I'm going to live here,"
and finally, the grandmother agreed
and took him and his siblings,
and Norma, the grandmother, was a Mormon.
At an early age, we all ended up moving in
with our grandma one by one.
Hogan: She provided a stable home for the first time
in their lives, and Travis was able to go to school
and learn religion, and he really blossomed
after he moved in with his grandmother.
Hall: He developed his own beliefs in the LDS faith.
He ended up serving a two-year mission for the LDS church
and was trying to be as devout Mormon as he possibly could.
Hogan: He came back to California with a new sense
of confidence, and through church, he was able to
get involved with prepaid legal services.
Skoloff: He sort of picked himself up,
pulled himself up from his bootstraps
and became the man that he was, got involved with this business.
Hogan: Travis found success and was able to make over $100,000
a year in this company
selling prepaid legal insurance out of his home.
Became a real up-and-comer, a motivational speaker,
sort of an idol to some of the younger people
coming up in the company.
Enjoy yourself.
Be happy with where you're at.
Velez-Mitchell: Travis believed 2008 would be
the best year of his life.
He wrote, "I will earn more, learn more, travel more,
serve more, love more, give more
and be more than all the other years of my life combined."
But it was not to be the best year of his life.
It was the year he was murdered.
The group of people at the home
that night were Travis Alexander's friends.
They're all questioned by police,
and the name that they kept saying as a group,
one after the other, was Jodi Arias.
The police need to talk with her.
On June 10, 2008, a day after Travis' body is discovered,
Detective Flores and Jodi Arias have a 30-minute phone call.
Arias: I just wanted to offer
any assistance that I might have.
I was a really good friend of Travis'.
We dated for, like, five months, and we broke up,
and we continued actually to see each other for quite a bit.
Flores: When did you guys break up?
Arias: We officially broke up June 29th of last year.
Even though we broke up and were no longer boyfriend
and girlfriend, we decided to remain friends,
but, you know, I kind of feel embarrassed talking about this,
but it was more than that,
but it wasn't boyfriend and girlfriend.
We were intimate, but I wouldn't say romantic
as far as a relationship goes.
Flores: Okay. I know it's kind of embarrassing
to talk about stuff like that.
Arias: I know.
Yeah, and if you can just keep it confidential for now
because, you know, he's Mormon.
I'm telling you this to help in any way I can.
Velez-Mitchell: Jodi insists, unequivocally,
she has not been back to Mesa, Arizona,
since a couple of months earlier in April.
Flores: And that was around April that you
last saw him, right?
Arias: Early April.
Flores: You haven't been back in town since then?
Arias: No, I haven't. No.
Flores: Someone had mentioned your name,
and you'd been back in town for, like, a week
or a couple of days.
Arias: Oh, like, I've been thinking about going there,
so yeah, I definitely was planning on headed down here.
Flores: But you haven't physically been here
since you left?
Arias: Since I moved, no. I haven't.
Skoloff: This guy has been a detective at quite some time,
handled a lot of murder cases.
At that point, she wasn't the number one suspect,
but she was on his mind.
Casarez: Detectives have few leads.
They're waiting for the DNA results to come back.
That can take time.
But suddenly, they have a big break in the case.
Martinez: The Mesa Police Department had been successful
in obtaining these photographs from the camera
that the police had found in the washing machine.
I remember Detective Flores coming down to my office
with a binder to show me the photographs.
All the photographs are time stamped June 4th,
so they knew the exact time and date.
The first group was a group of photographs
of Travis and Jodi Arias,
and they were engaged in sexual activity,
and those were taken at about 1:30 in the afternoon.
Velez-Mitchell: Jodi is naked, wearing pigtails,
and there's four photos of her.
One of them is so graphic,
I don't even know how to describe it,
but it leaves nothing to the imagination.
Then there are a couple of photos of Travis, as well.
It seems pretty clear that they've had sex,
and now they're taking photographs of each other.
Martinez: The second set of photographs were of
Travis Alexander in the shower sometime around 5:30 P.M.
Hogan: Travis had just gotten a new camera,
and they start taking naked photos of each other,
which later escalates to a naked photo shoot
in the shower stall of his master bathroom.
The last picture of him in the shower was somewhat chilling,
in the sense that it's a very close-up shot.
He's looking directly at a camera,
and everyone can look at the picture
and see something different,
but it certainly appears that he's not pleased,
and, frankly, that's the last photograph that police find
before the murder takes place.
It was a case where you are able to almost pinpoint his death
to the moment because of knowing that time stamp
and seeing the photographs of when he was alive
and when he was dead.
It shows a bloody Travis on the ground,
and you see the killer's pants leg.
They were just photos that we took,
and it was nothing that he nor I ever intended to be made public.
It's something that we intended to keep private.
during the last day that Travis was seen alive
in sexually intimate positions.
The next photos are of Travis in the shower,
posing for the camera, looking straight into the camera lens
as water drips down his face.
We now know that Arias was there on June 4th.
The last group of photographs
were inadvertent or accidental photographs,
and those were the ones that were the most striking
because it was clear that the camera,
because of movement or accidental touching,
had actually taken three photographs
at the time that Travis was being killed.
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
The first photograph in that third group was of the ceiling.
The camera was maybe dropped, and the shutter was clicked.
At that point, I knew the time that the attack started.
A minute later, there's another photo, even more incriminating,
that shows a bloody Travis on the ground.
The second photograph showed Travis
laying on his back, bleeding.
Skoloff: You can see Travis, a portion of his body,
bloodied, on the floor,
and you see a foot and a pant leg in there.
Martinez: The third inadvertent photograph showed the body
as it was being dragged down the hallway.
It was a case where you were able to almost pinpoint
his death to the moment because of knowing that
time stamp and seeing the photographs of when he was alive
and when he was dead.
Martinez: Initially, Arias told the story that when
Travis was killed, she had nothing to do with it,
and the reason she didn't have anything to do with it
was because she wasn't there on June 4th.
After the pictures were developed,
the police knew that she wasn't being truthful to them.
I believe at this point,
all other suspects are being ruled out,
and Detective Flores is down to one suspect,
and that's Jodi Arias.
I thought at first, "There's no way that Jodi could
do it because she's 110 pounds.
He's solid muscle, great shape.
She couldn't have done it."
Skoloff: Things start to move pretty quickly
once the evidence starts coming back in.
In early July, a grand jury is convened and indicts Jodi
for first-degree murder.
On July 14th, Detective Flores and two other associates
from the Mesa Police Department
fly from Arizona to Yreka, California,
to arrest Jodi Arias for murder.
Casarez: Once Jodi Arias is arrested,
she's placed in custody,
and that's when Detective Flores begins an interrogation,
and he wants a confession.
The detective wanted to know, why did she do this?
Why did she kill Travis?
Jodi just kept denying, denying, denying that she was there.
She seemed to have no understanding
of her circumstances or what she was involved in.
No matter what he says,
she just sticks to her story that she wasn't there.
The lies really backed her into a corner.
Velez-Mitchell: Jodi Arias' behavior in
the interrogation room is some of the craziest behavior
ever exhibited by anybody who's ever been arrested.
This interrogation just gets stranger and stranger
by the minute.
After presented with evidence that she was there on the day
Travis was killed,
Detective Flores leaves the room,
at which point, Jodi just does some very strange things
for someone who has just been arrested
and charged with first-degree murder.
She kind of talks to herself a little bit like,
"Oh, Jodi, you should have done your hair,"
or, "You should have done your makeup."
She is singing to herself.
She stretches around.
She kind of dances, and she does a headstand.
It was bizarre.
She asked Detective Flores,
"I know this is going to make me sound --
but is there any way I can freshen up?"
She wants to be able to put on makeup for her mug shot.
She's already seeing herself as a celebrity.
I really enjoy nature and sunsets,
but people and their expressions,
moments, especially weddings
when, you know, you can just see expressions
on people's faces in emotional moments.
I love capturing that sort of thing.
Narrator: Jodi Arias is questioned by detectives.
She says she was not with ex-boyfriend
Travis Alexander the day he was brutally murdered.
The next day, Arias changes her story,
blaming Alexander's death on intruders.
There's overwhelming evidence that she was there.
She can't continue to deny that she was there
because there's photographs, there's tons of evidence.
Eventually, story number one,
"I wasn't there," morphed into story number two,
"I was there, but this is what happened.
Two masked intruders barge in the house with guns."
Hogan: According to this version of her events,
Jodi claimed that she and Travis were having
a sexy photo shoot in the bathroom,
when she claimed that two intruders
barreled up the stairwell, broke into the bedroom,
and started stabbing and attacking Travis,
throwing her to the side.
Jodi said they were both armed. The man was carrying a gun.
The woman was carrying a knife.
♪♪
Hogan: She says one of the intruders puts a gun to her head
and threatens her life.
He pulls the trigger, but apparently the gun misfires.
At one point, she said that they looked away,
she grabbed her purse and ran out the door.
Instead of calling 9-1-1,
she just ran off in her car and drove away.
Skoloff: Why she didn't call 9-1-1,
why she didn't call police,
why she didn't call anyone to let them know,
"Two masked intruders may have just killed my boyfriend."
She just ran out of the house and left.
Grace: Bombshell tonight, in the last hours,
27-year-old Jodi Arias has wild sex all day
with Travis Alexander, even photographing the whole thing.
Hogan: She's in a California jail in Yreka,
and once they secure the extradition,
she's transported to the Maricopa county jail,
where she's arraigned for Travis' murder.
Skoloff: The prosecution's side,
they believe they had a really good case for the death penalty.
Casarez: So the prosecution filed notice
of intent to seek the death penalty against Jodi Arias,
saying that this crime was committed in a cruel,
heinous, and depraved manner.
The state of Arizona versus Jodi Ann Arias, indictment,
count one, first-degree murder, premeditated murder,
to which the defendant enters a plea of not guilty.
Hogan: She calls a conference, and local reporters
gather at the police station while she puts on her makeup.
Arias: I guess that's really all I needed.
Sorry. Don't roll the tape yet. [ Laughs ]
She immediately started doing interviews with reporters.
I think that being in love and loving someone
are two different things, and there was a point in time
where we were in love, but it was short lived.
Skoloff: This sort of marked the beginning of Jodi Arias
becoming sort of, in her mind, at least, a TV star,
a social-media phenomenon, a tabloid sensation.
It is clear, and it was clear.
It still is clear, that the camera loved her,
and she loved the camera.
Hogan: She spoke to any news organization
who wanted to interview her, including "Inside Edition."
Not proud that I just left my friend there to be
slaughtered at the hands of two other people.
And that's where I got really angry because
she was so smug, and she was so certain.
God knows I'm innocent. Travis knows I'm innocent.
And I'm like, "really?
You're going to bring God into this now?"
No jury is going to convict me.
Why not? Because I'm innocent,
and you can mark my words on that one.
No jury will convict me.
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She stuck to the general story of the two masked ninjas
for two years, and then she came up with a new one.
Grace: All the other stories were out the window now
except to show that her story has changed.
The only story the prosecution is dealing with now
is her story of self-defense.
There were three stories that Jodi Arias said.
Number one, that she wasn't there.
Knew nothing about it.
Number two, that she was there,
but it was two masked intruders that came
and murdered Travis in cold blood.
And number three, she did it. She was there.
But it was all in self-defense because she believed
that he was going to kill her
Martinez: Once the defendant indicated that she was now
going to claim self-defense at trial,
that changed the posture of the case dramatically,
because self-defense cases are the most difficult to prosecute.
Wilmott: He lunged at Jodi in anger,
knocking her to the ground in the bathroom
where there was a struggle.
Jodi's life was in danger.
In that one minute, had Jodi not chosen to defend herself,
she would not be here.
Jodi Arias is placed in the Maricopa County Jail
until trail, held without bail
due to the brutal nature of the crime.
In the court of public opinion,
Jodi is already guilty as charged,
but she does have some supporters.
To them, Jodi is the real victim in Travis' murder.
There are so many twists and turns to this story,
including the surprising star witness
in The People versus Jodi Arias.
Next time on "How It Really Happened."
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Hill Harper. Good night.
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