On June 12, 2008 Jodi Arias was back in Yreka. It had been eight days since she killed Travis. On that day she decided to start a Youtube account. She posted one video, the one above. It is a video of Travis from 2006 at one of his motivational speaking events. It’s humorous. One can assume that she laughed.
The last entries on her MySpace page were those wishing her a happy birthday. Check out the posts by her sister Angela and Travis’s last post on her page. Her birthday is July 9th. On July 9th 2008 a grand jury indicted Jodi on first degree murder charges.
Fun Fact: Jodi shares a birthday with both OJ Simpson and Amanda Knox. Both were found not guilty of murder. They say things happen in threes.
It was funny, but, weird that she would post it, but, then again, your last sentence sums it up to a T.
And, his wig looks better than most of the RH women’s weaves LOL!
That is so freaking creepy regarding the shared birthday! I too went to JAs myspace account and Travis had written her a note saying “you are as enlightened as you are beautiful”. Thanks for the post and glad you put your foot down regarding the negativity. When I posted this morning, I was not aware of bomb threats or death threats to the defense, that is totally unacceptable behavior, my apologies, I was not aware things had gotten that bad, not COOL!
I wouldn’t trust anything posted under the name of Travis in early 2008. Remember, Jodi had access to all of his social media accounts (so I’m told). It really too bad, she’s cried wolf one time to many.
Excellent observation, that she did. I think by early 2008 TA was beyond thinking of her in the way described.
bite your tongue for saying that about running in threes. Casey took care of that. I know wrong birthday. One big difference i dont think Amanda did hers and is now facing a new trial anyway so that just leaves OJ
Someone on facebook said we should look at it as “Third times the charm!” And Amanda will not be extradited back to Italy. They had a trial, she was found not guilty. Not going to happen again.
AGREE 100% Tamar
My mothers birthday is July 9th. I prefer to think she shares it with Willie Nelson.
Oh My! Well just to be safe, don’t make her mad!
If she gets mad maybe I should try puff puff pass?
What’s really creepy… I know a few people born on or around that July date – and I wouldn’t want to anger them. They all have very short fuses.
Sick. She was trying so hard to look innocent. In retrospect, I think it makes her look even more guilty. Why would you post videos of a man that was abusive and called you a sociopath? Oh because you just killed him and were sitting still obsessing over him…
Good one, may Hodi have life w/o parole, or the needle. Your birthday shared with the best rocker still touring 🙂
Ok we have wondered what jodi keeps scribbling in her notepads for a while now. If she has been makin lots of notes and pics of the trial can she give those to her mom to use in moms book and that way avoid son of sam laws profiting from this crime? Mama can profit though right? And Travis’ Snell character could have been on tv
In alot of cases, a Son of Sam law can include family members and friends of the convicted criminal who try to profit as well.
Hi steve, good question. I wish I knew the answer, but it won’t surprise me if someone writes a book or makes a movie out of this terrible murder.
There is already a movie in the making on LMN.
There is indeed! And today is a good day for us to go over to the thread about it and start casting out dream casts!
http://s17948.p858.sites.pressdns.com/2013/04/17/jodi-arias-lifetime-movie-dirty-little-secret-the-jodi-arias-story-casts-leads/
I’m happy all this will be over soon. I’ve been following the trial since the beginning and now I’m bored. There’s no new information. I hope the jury makes a decision quickly. The Andrea Sneiderman trial should be exciting.
This is reported on ABC15 out of Phoenix about Juror 8:
PHOENIX – A local Valley police department confirms to ABC15 that a man arrested over the weekend on a DUI charge was also claiming to be a juror in the Jodi Arias trial .
The arrest happened on Saturday and it was at that time the suspect told the officer he was a member of the jury.
On Tuesday, the arresting officer was called into a “sealed proceeding” with the judge, the prosecutor and the defense attorneys, the police spokesperson said.
What was discussed in the secret meeting is confidential.
Two days later, juror #8 was dismissed and the judge gave no reason.
Since the topics discussed during the officer’s testimony are sealed, police said there is no way they can confirm that the man arrested for DUI is indeed juror #8.
On Thursday night, ABC15 attempted to reach the man who w
Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/Jodi-Arias-trial-Valley-man-arrested-for-DUI-tells-officer-hes-on-jury-5-days-later-hes-excused#ixzz2RZ0m8RlA
Why would they dismiss him for DUI? Doesn’t affect his ability to serve as a juror. Is there a legal reason I’m not thinking of?
I CAN’T BELIEVE JA SHARES BIRTH DATE W/ OJ AND KNOX! Creeeepy.
I’m sure the State does not want any questions of even the appearance of inappropriateness (is that even a word?) The State will be prosecuting this juror just like they are prosecuting Jodi. They don’t want any suggestion that the guy would A) vote guilty to cozy up to them b) vote not guilty cuz he is pissed off at them? kh
If he were drunk enough to tell the police he was a juror, who knows what else he may have said regarding the case. Therefore, he could be viewed as tainted… I’m shocked they didn’t let him go earlier….
Travis was a big guy. Athletic, muscle-y, a wrestler, outdoor sportsman…………. how the hell did that Jodi get the upper hand with him? It seems impossible. kh
@khintx You stated the same exact comment I was going to. I’m no small girl and there is no way I could get the upper hand on a man, especially one as bed as Tarvis. She had to of caught him off guard or something. Just weird.
OH Gosh one as BIG lol
I read a theory on twitter that perhaps she did shoot him first and he was not immediately incapacitated (even though ME says he was), that he stumbled to the mirror to see how badly he was injured and that’s when she started stabbing in the back. Would explain blood splatters in sink and on mirror. Then started crawling in hallway, where she cut his throat. But, that doesn’t explain how she had the power to drag him back to the shower… then again fits of rage=massive strength, and even her ex said she’s INCREDIBLY stronger than she looks.
i always wonder about that too, because even in a rage i still think it would be almost impossible to overtake him with a knife first. Also, since she brought the gun i would think her plan was to shoot him (if he didnt take her to Cancun) Common sense would dictact using a gun on someone much bigger and stronger.
As for dragging him was there carpet or tile in the hallway? Its hard to tell, but if it is tile, then dragging him would be fairly easy with it being so bloody.
@eve good point as well
this killing was personal, a knife causes fear, suffering, AND DEATH, one stab to chest and the victim has minutes to live, WAKE UP this was freakin personal look at all the premed, this bitch had a plan only problem was she left bloody prints and the memory card, if not we would still be wondering who killed travis!!!!!!
Wayne, I also think she ad blood prints on the walls
If i remember correctly.
Sorry Wayne I misread your post
OH MY GOSH THAT VIDEO WAS A TELL ALL!!! SUPER JOB!!! AS FOR JODI GETTING TRAVIS TO THE SHOWER ,I WAS HAVING A BRAINSTORM & I THINK WHAT SHE COULD HAVE DONE WAS ROLL TRAVIS ONTO THE COMFORTER & PULLLED HIM ! JUST A THOUGHT! MY PRAYERS OUR FOR THE FAMILY OF TRAVIS.
Maybe it was her inner child – that evil one with the spinning head! But, it was definately a neener-neener moment, you can’t have him, he’s mine – even in death. Did anyone bother to check under her skanky hair for a tattoo of “666”? Ok, I’m done – vented for the day! Climbing off the soap box and chillin! Thanks for all the hard work you do to keep us up to speed and informed TT.
I hear her laughing but, I don’t think she thought it was funny. She’s laughing because others are laughing. I doubt if she has a real sense of humor. She told too many people that Travis made a big joke of everything and it irritated her; I just don’t think she appreciated his humor. When she calls herself shallow while talking to Detective Flores, I think she was being truthful, she sees herself as shallow, but didn’t want others to know. In some ways, I feel bad for her, could she have done anything about this (?) but bottom line I think she is extremely dangerous, and next time will take more care in the planning.
jodis posts were just another part of her coverup because other friends of Travis did the same..posted memories. She did the same when leaving arizona when she heard others leaving messages on his voicemail she had to too. Evreyone knows im crazy but i just did the same things they did is her line of thinking there. What really pisses me off is her art looks like Tanisha. how cold can she be? Best of court yesterday was THE STATE RESTS. Now the jury knows the delay..again is from the defense side. If juror #8 got a DUI then he had to be excused. Jurors are not to be involved in a legal issue of their own while a trial is ongoing. Thats one of the first questions asked of potential jurors so they have no bias toward legal system.
I guess everyone has the same thought…that TA was so much bigger and stronger than JA so how could she have taken him down!
My husband told me something interesting yesterday. He was in the marine corp and while in boot camp, while they were practicing with bayonets, his drill instructor said, “you will have 30 seconds to use the element of surprise against your enemy. If you can get that 30 seconds of surprise, you can get him before he can get you!”
That was an ah-ha moment for me. In 30 seconds, JA could have stabbed TA in the heart at least twice before he was able to react. And his reaction would have been way off because of the injury and his lungs filling up with blood but he could have fought her off, thus the injury to his hands, at least enough to get out of the shower and to the sink where all the blood was found. The rest was history.
@Rose good point
Rose, my hubby told me the same. We were discussing how a woman could overtake a man, and he insists that it is simple…all she had to do was surprise him and get one good stab/shot in. After that he would be losing blood and in shock. Combine a shocked and weakened man with an armed and physically fit woman in a psychotic rage who is quickly stabbing him..
The fact that he was taking a shower and she was distracting him with the camera – I think he just turned around and she snuck up on him or caught him just as he turned to face her. He was pretty vulnerable at that point
I think she told him to close his eyes, and told him she was going to take a pic directly in front of him-instead, she stepped in and stabbed him right in the heart. I think she thought that would incapacitate him, and was shocked that he could get out of the shower and attempt to escape. I think that’s why she kept stabbing…
We have to wait until Wednesday?? How on earth do they get to take so many days off in a murder trial? Because the last witness has to travel there?
When did her ex boyfriend say she was stronger than she looks? She probably lifts weight…body weight that is. Psychotic.
the new defense sur rebuttal witness needs time to formulate some sort of a workable story so the judge has allowed a pause for the psycho cause
I think this sur rebuttal witness had a scheduling conflict and was not available until Wed.
kh
u think lol
As a condition to allowing the surrebuttal witness to testify, the judge probably ordered the witness to be available for a deposition by Juan prior to Wednesday. Juan will definitely be prepared.
this trial gave us sex and violence and religion…if jodi just could have squeezed politics into it then think of how snarky we all could have been
HAHA Good point, Steve!
Oh but she did, when Jodi Girl was on the stand she mentioned something about Clinton…not sure what the jist was ,a sexual inuendo…anyone refresh their memory.
she was refering to bill and travis both liking anal sex
ew I thought she was talking about the “Bill Clinton version of sex” thing, meaning oral sex isn’t really sexual relations, as in “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
she tried with the bill clintin comment when she was on witness stand
If she’d have mentioned a bravo housewife it wudda been purrfect. kh
I know a little about how adrenalin can affect a person. When my oldest daughter was only 2, my husband had parked his motorcycle on a small front porch…unknown to me. When I took my daughter outside, she ran ahead of me and as I was coming around the side of the house, I saw her sitting on that motorcycle and it falling off that porch, pinning her underneath! She never made a sound and I was freaked out. I ran and picked that motorcycle off my daughter, jumped in my car and took her to the hospital. Thankfully, praise the Lord, she was not injured, only bruised.
When my husband got to the hospital he asked how I’d gotten the motorcycle off of her. I told him I had picked it up and he just gave me this weird look, saying, “That old motorcycle probably weighs 300 lbs or more. You must have pulled her from under it!”
When we got home, the neighbor across the street came over and asked if everything was okay. He said, “I saw your wife come running around the side of the house, screaming and she picked up your motorcycle and threw it across the yard. She picked up your baby, ran to the car and left!” At that point, we noticed the motorcycle was laying on it’s side about 6 foot from the porch. It had to be adrenalin flowing through me that gave me the strength to pick up that motorcycle and throw it off my daughter. I think adrenalin is what enabled JA to move TA to the shower.
wow! I’m so glad your daughter was safe! And wow…that’s a lot of adrenaline to throw a motorcycle!
I think it was explained-a long time ago, at the beginning of the trial, that there were signs that Jodi had poured water on the tile floor, and may have been able to drag Travis more easily because of it. HLN did a re-enactment of the dragging, with a staffer approximately the same size and weight as Jodi and a fireman’s dummy. approximating Travis and though it wasn’t easy, the staffer was able to get the body down the hall and into the shower.
I saw that on HLN too and if I recall the floor was dry. So add the wet floor from water and a whole lot of blood, mix it with Jodi’s rage and it was a fast slide across the floor.
Travis was not a HUGE man. He was about 5’9″ and Jodi was 5’5-5’6″. There are very similar in height in every picture ever shown of them. He was also sitting in a wet shower naked when he was attacked. You HAVE to believe Jodi’s lie that there was even a fight to go with thinking he had any movement TOWARD her (as opposed to away from her) on his part. If he was sitting there and the girl he just had sex with stabbed him even once, he was scared, shocked, and hurt all at the same time. He hands were all cut up and even one of those hands wounds would have made anyone bend over and scream holding that cut. It’s not even a question in my mind. I’ve also been on the couch for a week in pain from just a sinus infection. What IF she did shoot him first miracualously he was able to stumble out of the shower, he would have been in such shock and such pain from a bullet tearing through his sinus cavity he would have only thought about trying to survive. Either way she is guilty of inflicting horrible pain, trauma, torture and cruelty on Travis. I HOPE she gets 1st degree and I don’t care if she ets the death penalty. She will be just as miserable rotting away with NO pencils for life.
hmmm that’s a good point too… lots of good theories… i guess all we’ll ever know for sure is what a horrific battle there must have been to have all those wounds… and to be alive while his throat was being… i can’t even type it. i almost pity her parents for giving birth to such a monster.
This video of the Arias Trial is a keeper – imo. The producer has done excellent job of connecting events from beginning to end in a visual format. Seems HLNTV has legitimate competition. It’s amazing how much careful thought, passion, and effort have been invested in the production.
I hope this is appropriate place to share the link.
That was extraordinary. Thanks Janna.
kh
WARNING VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES, I know the video warned me but not in time, wow, I have no words. That was the most gruesome thing I have ever seen. She is a monster…pure evil, poor Travis.
Great complilation, especially the maps. But definitely close your eyes if you don’t want to see it, I was skipping thru a bit and it popped right up. The video creator did a great job, love the “fog” that rolls in.
THE VIDEO IS JUST AWESOME ,GREAT JOB!!!!
Wow this is a zillion times better than anything produced by HLN, seriously. If Juan’s closing follows this theme and he doesn’t go off on a tangit, the desired outcome should be Murder in the First with Deatth Penalty. This video and the replicating psycho effect coomment totally convinces me that Jodi deserves death penalty over life without parole.
Um….I share a birthday with Hitler, so let’s not be painting with the birthday brush please 😉
Harold? Izzzat you?
also, totally off topic, but related to the birthday thing-TT you mentioned Amanda Knox. Do you think she was guilty?
I second that question. Amanda Knox was not guilty — in court AND in real life.
I do.
I did not follow the trial and the evidence very closely. I am …unsure.
I didn’t follow it very closely either, but I thought she was innocent.
Amanda Knox was found guilty. She was in prison for a couple of years before her trial verdict was overturned. They want to retry her but I’m sure she’ll never return to Italy. I never made up my mind on her but Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor, I like to listen to, says there was too much evidence that proved she did it. You can go to her site, wendymurphylaw.com. She also discusses this case. I want to buy her book. She discusses the evidence on the Jon Benet Ramsey case in her book, I believe.
I followed the case closely as is occurred and I am certain Knox committed the murder. Knox’s lies after the murder were similar to Arias’, now that I think about it. Also, if you read the news articles from sources outside of the United States you learned many things not reported here and got a different picture of the case.
Does it say why Beverly? I was never sure if she did it or not because I couldn’t see a motive.
I still can’t believe people are still confused about which came first, shot or stabbed. He was stabbed first!!! He could not have had as much activity as he did to go from the shower…to the sink…down the hall…to fall and have his throat slit at the juncture of the tile floor and carpet in the bedroom… And bleed profusely onto the carpet. He was dragged back down the hall into the bathroom. I think the dragging would not have been hard. What I think was hard was pushing his body into the shower, over the raised shower pan, into a slumped position on the floor of the shower. But I believe her adrenaline was definitely pumping to accomplish all these actions. What if she was worried that a roommate might come in downstairs, or she heard one come in, and the fear of being discovered motivated her to “hide” his body in the shower, as well as to wash him off. I believe she mopped up the majority of the blood with towels, rinsed them in the shower or tub, took a tub bath to clean herself off, redressed, further cleaned and dried the bathroom, took dirty towels and sheets, comforter to laundry to clean them, while waiting for first load of laundry to finish, finished cleaning as far as she did, put last load with the camera in to wash, got in her car and left. Bottom line: she stabbed FIRST…shot LAST, probably after she place him in the shower.
Justobserving: I agree. That’s exactly how I think it happened. She shot him after she put him in the shower just because she’s sooo evil.
Jodi had commented that the shower pica in the movie Physco were so cool and wanted Travis to have pica like that. I believe she went there to change his mind about Mimi.he probably rejected her..she said lets do the pics. She was prepared to reinact the movie..stabed first..the rest is history’
And, Deb, doesn’t she, in later writings or somewhere, try to attribute the obsession w/ movie, Psycho, to Travis? When it seems clear (all her behavior & other obsessions considered) that it was she, who was obsessed w/ the movie &, as w/ so many other fantasies, co-opted & re-enacted the script? And, in doing so, also nailed Fatal Attraction. In those last minutes, by the time she was in her full fury, it’s appalling to think what filth was spewing from her mouth. I think of the email that she (as John Doe) sent to the young girlfriend and imagine that her final murderous tirade had similar contorted, confrontational religious/demonic content & pitch.
YES JANE!
I agree with the ME and others who say the knife wound to the chest came first. in my head I see it happening when Jodi is taking her Psycho shots. At the end, she tells Travis to sit down, perhaps offers to have oral sex with him and then when he is off guard, she rips out the knife she has hidden in her waistband and gives him a fast debilitating stab to the heart. She probably thought that would be enough to do him in. Fitting as in her sick head a stab to the heart would be her way of saying I love you. Then the stab would would ultimately have been fatal without fast medical attention but Travis had a strong will to survive and he didn’t just keel over and die quickly. He got up and he tried to escape and fight back. Now her “picture perfect” killing was messed up and she then went Psycho on him and in a total rage just kept stabbing and stabbing.
In my head I also think she bundled up the bedding and tossed it in the wash not realizing the camera was in it. She had already erased the pictures so in her mind they were gone so no need to worry about where the camera was. And who knows if the cops hadn’t found the camera in the washing machine they might not have done the forensics on the memory card to retrieve deleted images. Too bad Miss Three Hole Wonder Who Thinks She is Einstein was too stupid to know you can recover anything deleted if you haven’t already written over it, duh!
I just hope the Son of Sam laws prevent her from profiting off Travis’ death either by selling her drawings or a book.
Why oh why after their heated exchange when Travis called her out, did he let her in the house and proceed to have sex with her, knowing she was a sociopath? What kind of sick hold did Jodi have that he let his guard down rather than just refusing to let her in the house. A classic Black Widow Jodi is.
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I think she poured water on floor so it made it easy to drag his body!thats why there was so much water on floor and in that closet going up the box. Yes stab wound first ,thanks for sharing this! He seemed like a funny,fun,talented guy,who loved his life and she was nothing but a whore,who thought love was sex! And sucked him in with that! When he still wouldn’t change his mind that night she wasn’t going to let him get away,after she had spent all her energy,dumped a guy that really loved her ,she just couldn’t take his rejection.hopefully tomorrow she will get the ultimate,and then she will be in hell for eternity!
So…guilty of premeditated first degree murder. And NO VERDICT on the death penalty phase. It’s making me nuts. I want Arias to be OVER, to be yesterday’s news, to just GO AWAY. I find it so hard to accept that the jurors had been on this trial since Jan. 2 and couldn’t agree on a verdict. I cannot believe Arias has a second run at the “celebrity” she so craves. Or maybe the Alexanders will decide, after a little time to begin to decompress, will decide it’s fine if Arias takes a deal for LWOP. What do you think?