January 5, 2013 Afternoon testimony
Jodi Arias on the stand
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--Talking about payments. Her income did not quite cover the mortgage. She was hoping to earn more money.
--Began paying the mortgage with her credit cards.
--Value of the home wasn't increasing. Market was turning into a buyers market.
--Went south very quickly, last full payment she made was in November 2006. By January she was not able to pay anything. Her and Daryl; decided to let the property lapse into forclosure.
--re: relationship with Daryl. She still loved him but that summer, a lot of reality hit, she was no longer 22 but was 26 now and questioned where she was going with her life. Her goal was marriage and children. She wanted to focus more on that but they had the house together and she wasn't sure how that was going to work.
--Daryl had a lot of stress going on with his work, son and his ex-wife.
--Jodi was looking for other ways to get on her feet financially so that she could invest in real estate which was going to be her main income. Other ways was photography but it was more of a hobby. She wanted to get her art into galleries. Wanted to become a wedding photographer.
--re: spiritual part of her life. Didn't have a particual religion she identified with. She still considered herself spiritual.
--re: finding other ways to make money. Was working at California Pizza Kitchen and the manager asked her where she saw herself in five years. The manager said he was going to be retired. The manager gave her PPL information.
--Jodi took the PPL DVD home and didn't look at it for a long time. 5-6 months later she came across the DVD and watched it. She liked what she saw and called back the person who gave it to her. He wasn't in the business anymore but gave her a name...she called him who wasn't in the business anymore but was going to get back to her. Jodi then went on the PPL website and submitted her information and a person from PPL named Michelle called her. March 2006.
--Michelle was in the area. Michelle was at a convention and told Jodi where to go to sign up. To pay the fee to become an independant associate.
--Jodi was interested because she liked what she saw on the DVD. Two executives on the DVD explained it in simple terms.
--Michelle gave Jodi marketing material such as DVDs which she took home. Was living with Daryl still at that time as boyfriend/girlfriend. This is at the end ofMarch 2006.
--Michelle called Jodi in the summer. There was a team event in July. Jodi had her cousin's wedding to go to. Michelle called her in August and invited her to another event. Jodi bought a ticket to the event.
--September 2006, Jodi was going to back to the restaurant in ?????
--The money that Jodi had saved was long gone
--Financial situation in September 2006 was pay cheque by pay cheque.
--She gave up things she liked such as Starbucks to make ends meet.
--Her and Daryl hadn't discussed their relationship, she did not realize Daryl's feelings for her were as deep as what he testified to on the stand.
--Jodi purchased a ticket for the PPL event in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand. Jodi drove to Michelle's house and anther girl, Lenore carpooled to Las Vegas.
--Jodi was comfortable around Michelle but didn't really know her. Michelle was around her mother's age.
--Didn't look forward to going to the convention but thought that she should give it a shot.
--Upon arrival in Vegas there was a swarm of people everywhere checking in. Convention of 12,000 people from all different walks of life. Not everyone stays at the MGM but they stay in Vegas.
--Jodi shared a room with Michelle and Lenore and another person? Jodi thinks there was four of them.
--Convention is Friday/Saturday and they got there Wednesday night.
--Didn't know what to expect, had never attended a PPL convention before.
--Was going to leave on the Sunday.
--Michelle was on Team Renew and Jodi became part of that team.
--Wandered around the hotel. There was a swimming pool, did not bring a bathing suit, but Jodi did not bring a bathing suit. She felt awkward because she was in her business clothes.
--On the Thursday, Michelle, Lenore and Jodi got dinner at Applebees and killed time just doing things around town. Jodi was introduced to people Michelle knew.
--Later learned that there was an executive director banquet on the Thursday evening.
--Met Travis at the convention.
--On Wednesday night, early September 2006, Michelle, Lenore and ??? mother were at the Rainforest cafe outside the entrance. Tons of people everywhere, a lot of them were PPL associates.
--Michelle introduces Jodi to people in her upline.
--Jodi sees somebody walking toward her fast paced, looked like he had a purpose. He stuck his hand out and introduced himself. It was Travis. Jodi shook his hand and tried to log the name.
--The group began to wander throughout the casino. Travis made it a point to walk with the group, he was also with team Renew. Travis knew all the people. He made it a point to move next to Jodi and keep her engaged in the conversation.
--After wandering around they went to the lobby and took pictures there with some people. Jodi noticed that she had ignored everybody else in the group as she had been talking to Travis.
--Doesn't remember how her and Travis parted but she went back to the hotel room. Michelle thought Travis liked Jodi.
--When at dinner at Applebees Michelle's phone rang and she said that it was Travis wanting to know if Jodi wanted to go to the executive director banquet with him.
--The banquet is an upscale event. Formal attire.
--Jodi turned him down because she didn't want to go as she didn't have the attire. The banquet started in less than an hour and she did not have enough time to get a dress and get across town.
--Jodi did attend the banquet. Michelle said it would be a very good experience, there were a lot of executives to meet. Thought it would be a good opportunity. Not everybody gets the opportunity.
--Ran around town, went to Kohls and tried a few things on. Called Travis and told him that she was going to find a dress. Did not find a dress at Kohls. Got a dress from Travis' friend who had packed an extra dress.
--Did you find it strange that Travis was asking you to this banquet? She didn't really find it strange, she was just going with the flow.
--Went back to MGM. Got changed. Met Travis and walked to the ballroom together.
--Borrowed a dress from Travis' friend's wife Sky Hughes.
--Had not met the Hughes before.
--Banquet was nice, familiar with table etiquite and her eyes were opened to the success of the people at the banquet. The business was legitimate, not a get rich quick scheme.
--The success of others made a big impression on her.
as soon as she heard how much people were earning here, she wasn't going anywhere, in my opinion.
