Details surrounding the Jodi Arias murder case, including excerpts from Arias' personal journal and victim Travis Alexander's blog, and new interviews with Alexander's friends and family. Originally aired 02/14/2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the shocking allegations against the Alexander Brothers?
Hi, I'm Brad Milkey. I'm the host of The Crime Scene Weekly, a new show from ABC Audio about the latest headlines in true crime. This week, I'm talking about the shocking allegations against the Alexander Brothers, once the golden boys of luxury real estate, now facing serious sex crime charges. Listen to The Crime Scene Weekly on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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She's the sanest, crazy person you've ever met. The public was obsessed because this was a case that was drenched in sex and lies and religion and sex. That is so debasing. I like it.
Travis was addicted to Jodi.
He's had a little taste, but he wants even more.
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Chapter 2: How did Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander meet?
she was his kryptonite she was his dirty little secret he made me feel like a very beautiful person on the inside she became very possessive of him very possessive i said travis i'm afraid we're gonna find you chopped up in her freezer it was a fatal attraction definitely a fatal attraction here what's going on um our friend of ours is dead in his bedroom the amount of blood all over all over it was everywhere
He was slaughtered. There's no other way to describe it. She arrived at the house. She's having sex with him. They're taking the pictures.
The camera accidentally fell and took a couple shots. Photos of Travis in the shower.
Even as the homicide occurred, the camera is continuing to click photographs. It's almost like having somebody videotape your murder.
The final picture of him alive.
Jodi is taken into the interrogation room, and what she does there stuns the world.
If it's wrong, then I don't want to be right.
I am an artist. I'm a photographer. It started off that way when I was younger. I got a little 110 camera, which is kind of that old, cheap film. I took pictures of everything from my foot to a tree or a leaf or my cat. Over the years, it developed into something that I became really passionate about.
Jodi Arias had a very normal upbringing. She grew up in the middle of California.
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Chapter 3: What was the nature of Jodi's relationship with Travis?
We got to know each other through hours upon hours of phone conversations. We just discovered a lot of common interests and grew close.
Travis lives in Mesa, Arizona. Jodi lives in California. So they're having a long-distance relationship, and they begin meeting at Travis's friend's house. It's a convenient rendezvous point.
She was really excited about the relationship. She loved how funny he was, how much fun they would have together. Travis loved to take adventures and do different things.
Jodi documented their time together online by posting photos on her MySpace page.
So Jody and Travis, they shared a lot of interests together, key being traveling. They had a book called A Thousand Places to See Before You Die, just traveling around to these places in the book together.
We went to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. We saw Sedona. We saw the Grand Canyon. It was a mutual goal to check things off that list. I'm always pointing the camera in every direction, and he was always a very enthusiastic and willing subject.
In emails that Travis sent to Chris and Sky, he actually talks about how deeply he cared about Jodi.
I went from intrigued by her to interested in her to caring about her deeply to realizing how lucky I would be to have her as a part of my life forever. She is amazing. It's not hard to see that whoever scores Jodi, whether it be me or someone else, is going to win the wife lotto.
The biggest problem, however, when it came to any kind of romantic relationship was one of religion. Travis Alexander was Mormon and Jody Arias was not.
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Chapter 4: What led to the demise of Travis Alexander?
I love him so greatly that my love is bigger than even I can grasp. It fills me and explodes through me.
So within months of meeting, Jodi is attached to Travis beyond belief.
They were dating long distance, and Jodi was going to a lot of work for this relationship. Jodi desperately wanted not just to be Travis's girlfriend, she wanted to be Travis's fiance and Travis's wife.
Travis's friends didn't embrace Jodi the same way Travis did. They saw her a little differently.
As they get to know her better, they get more and more creeped out by her behavior.
Very, very early on, she was completely obsessed with him. I started seeing things that were just disturbing, you know, her following him to the bathroom and standing outside the door without him knowing or eavesdropping on his conversations, freaking out if he was out of her sight.
She went through his cell phone on multiple occasions. She went through his emails. She went through his Facebook.
She went on his email and forwarded every email message to or from a woman to herself.
There was this one time where she said that she was getting these messages from some strange man who says that he watches her.
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Chapter 5: How was Travis Alexander murdered?
I said, T-Dog, you better be dead, bro. Yeah, like I was joking. Call me back. You know, why are you dissing me? Why aren't you calling me back?
Nobody can reach Travis. Nobody has seen Travis. They know something is wrong. There's a company retreat coming up in Cancun, Mexico. All expenses paid. Travis is going with Mimi. Travis's friends have gone ahead a few days before Travis was supposed to fly out. Once they get to Cancun, they keep calling Travis. But it's very strange. They can't reach Travis.
Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice... His phone just kept going to voicemail. We kept trying to call again and again, and all of a sudden the voicemail was full. At the same time, Mimi is getting concerned because they're supposed to leave to Mexico the next day.
By June 9th, it has been five days since any of Travis's friends have heard from him. A few of Travis's friends, including Mimi, go to Travis's house.
They knock, but nobody's answering the door. So they call another friend to get the garage code. Travis has rented out bedrooms in the house, so he's got two roommates. They hear music on in Zach's room, who is one of Travis's roommates. And they ask him, hey, have you seen or heard from Travis? He said, no, he's in Mexico. And Mimi said, he's not in Mexico.
I'm supposed to go with him to Mexico tomorrow.
So that roommate gets the key to Travis's bedroom.
I found the key to Travis's bedroom, and so I unlocked the door.
When they first cast open the doors from the master bedroom, there's this smell, this horrendous foul odor, something that appears to be rotting.
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Chapter 6: What evidence was found at the crime scene?
He made me feel unique and special.
The trial was a circus. It was Arizona's version of the O.J. Simpson trial.
Jealous, devious killer shooting her boyfriend, stabbing him.
Raunchy graphic pictures. This was the classic, can't live with you, can't live without you.
You know, it was a fatal attraction. Definitely a fatal attraction.
He was murdered. They're all thinking, she did it. She had gone from blonde bombshell, sex pot, boom. Now she's walking into court looking like a librarian.
And we're like, that's it? Are you kidding me? You sliced this guy up and stabbed him. And you don't remember any of it? None of it proves that I committed a murder. But Jodi is still fighting, and she has a pending appeal right now.
So is this case ever going to be really over? Who knows? Love is a battlefield.
Within hours of the body being discovered, Jodi calls the homicide detective to ask what was going on. I mean, I got a call last night, but
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Chapter 7: What was Jodi Arias's response to the investigation?
I contacted her and said, look, if you're ever in town, please get a hold of me. We're getting fingerprints and DNA from everybody who has been in the house. And she said, absolutely. I'm coming down for his memorial service.
I just remember there being tons and tons of people It was a great service. My siblings, a lot of my siblings spoke.
He just loved to be with his family and his friends and just bring joy to everybody's life. He truly loved life.
Memorial service, I think, looking back on it, would have been something that he would have really liked, and they honored him in a very, very good way.
She showed up at the memorial for Travis down in Arizona as if she's some grieving widow.
They look across the room, and there is Jody Arias. He was murdered. They're all thinking, uh,
His family members were there, some family members, and there's a part of me that wanted to reach out to them. I don't think that they would have felt comfortable with me approaching them as much as I wanted very much to express my condolences.
While Jody's in town and the investigation is ongoing, police are collecting evidence from everybody. Jody volunteers to go down to the police station and be fingerprinted.
She got her fingerprints done. I had a DNA sample from her, and that's all I needed.
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Chapter 8: How did the trial unfold for Jodi Arias?
That's right, people actually standing in long lines.
The public was obsessed because this was a case that was drenched in sex and lies and sex and religion and sex.
People quit their jobs to attend this trial.
This is the time set for trial to begin.
When Jodi Arias first came into the courtroom, it was quite different from the image we had of her in photos with Travis.
She had gone from blonde bombshell, sexpot, boom, now she's walking into court looking like a librarian.
What a makeover. Please be seated. They don't sell Clairol hair dye in jail, so this is my natural hair color. My eyes deteriorated in here, my vision, so I got glasses.
It just seemed like it was all a ploy to manipulate the jury.
All right, this is the state of Arizona versus Jody and Arias. Is the state ready?
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