This is my first posts so please be kind!
Mid February: I was recuperating from disk fusion surgery. Lying in a recliner, drugged to the gills, wasnt able to do much but watch TV. Flipping through channels, and there she was, testifying (on Tru TV, which friggin disappeared on me two days later -- grrr). Juan Martinez hammered at her. Her responses were so ... flat and odd. The predominant emotion I read was defiance.
Whoa, I thought.
Sociopath.
Then I remembered who she was. Had seen the
48 Hours segment when it first aired. Read a couple of articles about the case, and then forgotten about it as the years passed.
Came to Websleuths to catch up on the earlier testimony -- and been a constant lurker ever since. Id been here before, haunted by missing persons cases, especially missing children. Kyron Horman, Isabel Celis, Lisa Irwin. I would read here, always hoping for a breaking news post, hoping for a miracle.
Below is MOO [When I first came here, I couldnt understand why people were lowing all the time. I figured it out, though
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* Travis did not abuse Jodi. Travis was NOT a pedophile. She murdered him in body, then tried to murder his reputation and memory. There was no question about who, so why and how ran the show.
* We only have Jodis word for the frequency / number of times she and Travis had sex. Drives me crazy when the talking heads cite Jodis versions of events as if they were fact. Some sexy emails and texts; the sex recoding**; some nude photos. Actual sexual contacts and their frequency? We only have her word for it (going by the evidence that has been publicly released). Did they have sexual contact the night he baptized her? Jodi says so. Without supporting evidence, though, its equally likely she had sex with two ninjas. With Jodi Arias, pictures or it didnt happen.
** MOO, Jodi set up the sex recording to use against Travis at some future point; she introduced the twelve-year-old girl scenario (before beginning the recording) by saying it was her fantasy, and he obliged her supposed kink. Travis didnt know he was being recorded. The recording had something to do with the May 26 blow-out. He finally realized just how deep her sickness runs.
* Something Is Really Wrong with Jodi. TV-pundit psychological experts aside, the parents interviews with DF convince me that the woman is bent, and has been for years. Dad said she is a strange person. [Lulz. I wrote very strange, and then I heard Juan Martinezs voice: Did the tape say very strange? Yes or no? Gulp. No. No, it didnt.]
Two things in DFs interrogation of Sandra Arias jumped out at me. DF asks, Did you have any suspicion at all that she had anything to do with his death? SA says, I asked her. I asked her.
Its the first thing I asked her. [my emphasis] ... And then when he died, she -- she didnt call me either. She called
my daughter and just told me in tears.... [my emphasis] (
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/03/ijvm.01.html)
1) Mom knows something about Jodi that leads her to easily believe Jodi is capable of murder; and 2) SA said, She called my daughter... Not She called my other daughter; not She called her sister. Subconsciously anyway, SA has only one daughter. The normal one, the one she wouldnt automatically suspect of murder.
Contrary to the THs, IMO Jodis problems stem from childhood. Theres a secret history out there. What Jodi wrote in her diary about Travis -- Theres something off about that boy -- sounds like something she overheard her parents saying about her. She takes someone elses genuine feelings and tailors them to shore up her make-believe world. The diaries read like something a twelve-year-old would write to fool the parents. Superficial, surface. Nowhere in them does she express her real thoughts.
Three months after I got pulled in, the trial goes on, post most-excellent verdict. JA is completely unrepentant. No grief or remorse for Travis, the man she supposedly adored.
IMO, the interview after the murder one verdict was her fallback plan. (If she got a lesser charge, she would keep her mouth shut, bide her time, and hope for a light sentence.) Facing the death penalty, though, shes compelled to do what she does best -- look out for Jodi.
The interview took focus from the Alexander family and placed it firmly back on the worlds most interesting woman [in her own mind]. Second, she planted the suicide seed that got her a trip to the psych ward and delayed the mitigation phase of the trial for a week. She forced the Alexander family to wait yet another week before they can call her out to her face. In some circles its known as topping from the bottom -- and Jodis a pro. (Google that phrase at your own risk.)
I hope the psych ward was a very unpleasant experience. I hope that after a few days of unrelenting scrutiny and oversight, Traviss murderer understands that she now belongs to the Arizona penal system. I hope the Twitter account disappears for good. I hope she is sued for copyright infringement for selling copyrighted material as original artwork. I hope Jodi Arias disappears into a deep hole and is never heard from again. That would be worse than death to her. I hope the psych/relationship experts who abetted her efforts to destroy the character of a good man are haunted by their actions. I hope the Alexander family can grow past this in the years to come. My thoughts are with them.
