Jodi Arias
Appearances
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
No. And I just remember screaming. I don't remember anything after that.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
There was an attraction, and, you know, it found an outlet on occasion.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I didn't know, but I didn't think he was. I was scared and I couldn't imagine calling 911 and telling them what I had just done.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
And because I may be the only person that will ever be able to say what happened that day, I wrote them a letter.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Yes. When you asked me if I was angry or outraged, I'm more angry and outraged that his life was taken and that he had so much potential. I know that I'm innocent, and even though this is a very serious thing to be charged with, There's no reason for me to be sad because I know that I'd never hurt Travis. I did see Travis the day that he passed away, and a lot of things happened that day.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
There were two individuals walking toward us, and I just heard a loud bang, and Travis was screaming.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
That's correct. I have faith that in the end everything will be made known, everything will come out, and in the meantime, smile, say cheese.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me or someone like Travis doing the same.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
He was holding the gun at my forehead, and he pulled the trigger, and nothing happened with the gun. And so I just grabbed my purse, and I ran down the stairs and out of there, and I left him there. It was an incredible story. So at that point, I remember pulling over again at the Hoover Dam, and I thought, I'm going to call Travis. And I tried calling him, and it just went to voicemail.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
He lost his temper a few times, and it wasn't anything that really required me to... that I felt... I never felt my life was in danger. I'll say that.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Yes. But I was able to hide it pretty well, I think. Arms? Arms, legs, torso.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
He called me a bitch and he kicked me in the ribs. He went to kick me again and I put my hand out and it clipped my hand and hit my finger.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I walked in and Travis started grabbing at something on the bed. It was a photograph.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
It was a picture of a little boy. He was dressed in underwear. He seemed very...
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
He didn't leave welts as often as my mom. She also used a belt. My dad was very intimidating, so I don't think he needed to hit us quite as hard to get the point across. My mom didn't carry that fear factor with her, so I think she used more force.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I grabbed the gun. He was chasing me. I turned around, and I didn't even know that I shot him.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
The lies that I've told in this case can be tied directly back to either protecting Travis's reputation or my involvement in his death.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I know that I won't be held accountable for killing him because I had nothing to do with that. I had everything to lose and nothing to gain if I were to kill Travis.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
If a conviction happens, I know that I won't be the first person to be wrongly convicted and possibly wrongly sentenced for either life in prison or the death penalty.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
And he's just screaming angry. He had already almost killed me.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Was he ever abusive to you in any way? He lost his temper a few times. I never felt my life was in danger.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
If I had my choice, I would take the death penalty because I don't want to spend the rest of my life in prison.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Yeah. Did you know that that relationship was going on? No, I would have never allowed him and I to continue to behave the way we did had I known.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I don't believe that I'm going to be convicted. I don't think that I'm going to spend one day in prison.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I know that people will look at me and say, oh, yeah, he really meant a lot to you, didn't he? By the way that you just left him there. Not only that, they think that this is a fabrication and that I was the one that murdered him.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I know that I won't be the first person to be wrongly convicted and possibly wrongly sentenced for either life in prison or the death penalty. And personally, if I had my choice, I would take the death penalty because I don't want to spend the rest of my life in prison.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I have nothing but time on my hands to think. And that's when I really began to try and remember and relive that day. And then it just gets so horrible that I shut it out and I don't want to think about it.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Yes. He was, like, on his knees like this, doing something like this or something like... I don't know. And I was like... I was like, are you okay? What's going on? What's going on? He's like, go get help. Go get help. And I said, okay. And I turned around. There were two people there. One was a guy and one was a girl.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I don't think I was out very long. But when I came to, Travis was on all fours on the tile. And he was, well, I say all fours, but one of his hands was actually holding his head.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Neither of them. Well, it's all the same thing. It's just different versions.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
She was in the bathroom standing over Travis. and I charged her.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I ran down that hall, and I pushed her as hard as I could, and she fell over him.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
They just kept arguing back and forth whether or not, you know, to kill me.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
It's like everything just stops when you... when someone else is sitting there with a gun pointed to your head, deciding your fate.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I've always had my camera, always. So it goes everywhere I go.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Travis flipped out and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up and he body slammed me again on the tile.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Um, the simple answer is that he attacked me and I defended myself.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
And what Jodi had to say was shocking. I'm taking pictures of him. We were trying out different poses. and when I went to delete the photos, as I moved the camera, it slipped out of my hand.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Travis flipped out and he stepped out of the shower and he lifted me up and he body slammed me again on the tile. I remembered where he kept a gun, so I grabbed it. He was chasing me. I turned around and we were in the middle of the bathroom. pointed it at him with both of my hands. I thought that would stop him, but he just kept running. I didn't even think I was holding the trigger.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
Today, I am interviewing with you. I've been charged with first-degree murder of my friend, Travis Alexander, and I'm just here to have a conversation with you about it.
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Untangling The Lies of Jodi Arias
I just was pointing it at him. And I didn't even know that I shot him. It just went off. And after I broke away from him, he said, kill you, bitch.