jodi Arias TAKES THE STAND FOR 8TH DAY #45 *may contain graphic and adult content*

[Boodles]

Great point. But I guess she could have taken the ammo with her... she allegedly took the alleged 'ropes', the gun, maybe the knife, the CDs, the KY (maybe?), her bloody clothes, her belongings... I think there are more things 'missing' but I'm drawing a blank...

Odd behaviour given she was in cover-up mode almost immediately, and it seems pretty clear she took pains to dispose of the gun and the knife asap - in separate locations where they could never be found. No need for bullets in that case.

Oh! I know! Maybe she thought the bullets would be a great gift for her mother! That would explain the box of .25 ammo found at Mom's house... (eye roll).

Wonder how many of Travis' close, long-term friends and family (particularly his police officer sister, Samantha) knew about 'Travis' gun'.

I'll take a guess and say NONE of them, because he didn't have one.

Another laughable (if it weren't so tragic) question about the gun: Where was Travis while she went to the closet, reached up to the right shelf, got the gun down then turned around with it in both hands? Granted all that could happen very, very fast, but if Travis was attacking her - does he just pause for a second to let her get his gun from his closet so she could shoot him in his bathroom?

Ugh.

It would seem she had to: drop the camera, have TA lunge at her, knock her down onto the tile and bang her around, roll to the left to get away, run down the hall and into the closet (but the closet is right there, not sure why she had to run down the hall -oops!), think "oh, I know, I'll grab the gun,", pull the stool over, reach up on the shelf to get the gun, get back down, confront TA with the gun, get tackled at the waist over by the scales/windows, then get him over to the hallway to be captured in the "dragging" picture...all in one minute and two seconds (time between ceiling lights and 'drag' pix). And that assumes he is stabbed afterward.

Who takes one murder weapon with them while putting the other in the DISHWASHER?

I expected 'better' lies from her.

 

[nursebeeme]

All I can say is she BETTER NOT finally committ suicide tonight! Please wait til after sentence ing!

she has talked about suicide enough today to warrant suicide precautions imhoo

 

[Rena_TN]

All I can say is she BETTER NOT finally committ suicide tonight! Please wait til after sentence ing!

I know it is bad but I was thinking the same! :floorlaugh:

 

[4Jacy]

Jodi hd soooo much rage that Travis was taking Mimi to Cancun. Not that she necessarily wanted to go to Cancun, but the fact that he was taking someone else drove her over the edge. JA gave TA all he wanted (sexually) and she thought she deserved all of Travis; his body, his life, his money. Poor Travis, he was trying to live a good Mormon life, but Jodi kept pulling him back into her web.....the only web she ever had so that she could trap men into her own craziness! :banghead:

 

[kscornfed]

Jodi claims she stopped in TA's closet to jump (apparently higher than Michael Jordan) to grab a gun on the top shelf on TA's closet. And yet she couldn't just continue running out of the closet through the bedroom, down the stairs, and out of the house...you know...in fear for her life? She took the time to go get a gun (and as we all know there was no 'gun' that TA owned).

How does anyone reconcile that story and decide she was acting in self defense? Even if you want to believe this chick and are bending over backwards to do so (much like JA bends backwards during interrogations), does any of that actually make sense? It's so painfully bad it's laughable.

Don't you have a duty to retreat in order to claim self defense? She had only to RUN. Right out the door to her packed car. Drive away!

She was able to flee from this grave threat and yet, she chose to get that gun and fire it at him. Buh bye, self defense.

(Plus , with all that mortal fear, it's amazing she remembered this gun and where it was, after seeing it one time.). :floorlaugh:

 

[Hopeful One]

but heres the problem,,where did the casing land,,in a pool of blood and stuck there so ta had to have been cut first

My opinion on the bullet casing is there is no way to prove it hadn't been kicked onto the blood during her movements. But I still tend to believe he was shot last.

 

[TigerBalm]

Arrrrgh just wrote a whole long thing then it got deleted underneath my very fingers...ugh!

Ok again.

I got there and mingled a bit with some journalists --talked to Monica Lindstrom who's been a talking head. Also talked to Troy Hayden and asked him if he thought he'd interview Jodi again and he said he hoped to after the trial. He offered me a candy. lol

I was talking to my friend Ray Stern who's blogging this for PHX New Times (worth a read) and realized we were trash talking Jodi right next to her friend Donovan and his/her girlfriend. Told Ray we needed to shhh it and he asked if I thought they'd talk to him and I said sure why not? So he went and talked to them...we'll see if they show up on his blog.

There were quite a few weird minglings like that in the hall or in the bathroom. You really gotta be aware of your surroundings. I was right behind Jodi's mom in the BR line.

Ok gonna launch this before I lose it again then go on to page 2

First I was reading and I thought it said Monica Lewinsky, then I corrected myself to Nicklas Lindstrom .. oh boy I think I am catching the eye disease that seems to be going around this place. :giggle:

Funny you mention Troy offered you candy, I was going to ask you what you put in your mouth.. candy.. gum.. cough drop. LOL I tried catching a photo but missed it.

It broke my heart when Samantha starting crying after the defendant spoke like she did Travis a favour. She has been so strong! :cry:

Can't wait to read more of your notes from today.

 

[Curious Me]

Thanks! I want to take tomorrow off of work now! This is what I've been waiting for!

Go ahead and do it. Tomorrow is a national Eye Infection Day anyways. :lol:

 

[katiecoolady]

Page 4, word for word from my notes:

Not one juror is buying this (gun business).

She starts crying then the jurors look toward Nurmi as if to say "ok...go on...". They don't seem interested in staying with her crying pause. They seem to be more like "ok let's get on with it".

Young male juror on the front row keeps rubbing his forehead.

She uses the phrase "several reasons" for things over and over again. It's an obvious embellishment tactic.

"I thought the level of violence would be construed as a motive to kill him".
not a good line Jodi

SHe's clearly going off script there..Nurmi was taken off guard with that one--he quickly changes the subject to "day you were arrested".

Attorney advised her to never admit anything. Uh huh.

If she doesn't remember what happened that day, how does she know "what forensics will show?".

Next page............

 

[elementary]

sooooooo I was kinda ticked today after listening to her for 7 days, and all of a sudden she has memory loss. I actually went away from the computer and baked a 4 layer cake!!!! We haven't eaten it yet, but I feel better now. When I put on 5 pounds, I will definately blame that on Jodi too!!!

Anyway, while I was baking, I decided that I'm glad that she didn't say more. I'm glad that TA's family didn't have to listen to her try to justify the stab wounds, and definately glad they didn't have to listen to her try to justify why she would cut his throat in the way she did. I was brought to tears when they showed his sister, Sam, today sobbing. I can't wait until tomorrow. I want to see Juan kick some @ss.

I suggest that Jodi stocks up on diapers before tomorrow morning, she might need them ;-)

Same here. I was away all day just to come back and learn that I missed almost nothing. That's psychopaths for you- promise you the earth and then pull the rug out from under you and give you nothing. Total tease. Pass the cake.

 

[minor4th]

All I can say is she BETTER NOT finally committ suicide tonight! Please wait til after sentence ing!

That's what I was thinking - if ever there was a time to be depressed and suicidal it would be now.

 

[Hopeful One]

she has talked about suicide enough today to warrant suicide precautions imhoo

As long as they keep her away from the Advil, we're good.

 

[StephanieHartPI]

How many time did he almost kill her...

I ran down the hall, I could hear him ru...behind me and because he almost killed me...he almost killed me before so I knew.

Now all of a sudden she is jumbled up on her right and left, got the knife in, i mean on, i mean...

all of her tenses are off = TOTALLY MAKING IT UP AS SHE GOES, OR ITS A LIE AND SHE CAN'T KEEP IT STRAIGHT

 

[Karmady]

I still don't understand how it's relevant.

Neither do I. But the OP thought employment history and education level is relevant. So there you have it.

 

[Anita Richman]

I swear they all use us as a focus group and lurk here, gleaning our knowledge and use it as their own original thought. Just sayin. :moo:

We'll know for sure if Vinnie shows up in a Bieber wig or Nancy starts using the words "testibaloney" or "testalies" on her show! :rocker:

 

[TotallyObsessed]

Jodi claims she stopped in TA's closet to jump (apparently higher than Michael Jordan) to grab a gun on the top shelf on TA's closet. And yet she couldn't just continue running out of the closet through the bedroom, down the stairs, and out of the house...you know...in fear for her life? She took the time to go get a gun (and as we all know there was no 'gun' that TA owned).

How does anyone reconcile that story and decide she was acting in self defense? Even if you want to believe this chick and are bending over backwards to do so (much like JA bends backwards during interrogations), does any of that actually make sense? It's so painfully bad it's laughable.

Not to mention...were any of the roommates home? How about screaming?

How come nobody (roomates) heard gunshot? Were they home during this timeframe?

 

[Hopeful One]

That's what I was thinking - if ever there was a time to be depressed and suicidal it would be now.

I just think she's WAY too narcissistic for that. She thinks she's playing the jury and she's going to win.

 

[Hopeful One]

Not to mention...were any of the roommates home? How about screaming?

How come nobody (roomates) heard gunshot? Were they home during this timeframe?

I don't believe anyone was home at this time.

 

[StephanieHartPI]

page 4, word for word from my notes:

Not one juror is buying this (gun business).

She starts crying then the jurors look toward nurmi as if to say "ok...go on...". They don't seem interested in staying with her crying pause. They seem to be more like "ok let's get on with it".

Young male juror on the front row keeps rubbing his forehead.

She uses the phrase "several reasons" for things over and over again. It's an obvious embellishment tactic.

"i thought the level of violence would be construed as a motive to kill him".
Not a good line jodi

she's clearly going off script there..nurmi was taken off guard with that one--he quickly changes the subject to "day you were arrested".

Attorney advised her to never admit anything. Uh huh.

If she doesn't remember what happened that day, how does she know "what forensics will show?".

Next page............

i love love love your notes!

 

[katydid23]

Page 3, word for word from my notes:

***** just got serious today.

She cries at the thought of her own funeral and Travis doing a eulogy.

Nurmi shot himself in the foot w/ the gun purchase question.

Tri color (my stenographer juror) looks at gallery when she starts crying re: the memorial. she does NOT look at crying JA.

Male Juror #2 NEVER looks at her.

Juror 1 turns toward gallery during side bar. Again never looks at Jodi and she's nearest to her.

Tri color smiles at another juror during sidebar.

No jurors watching her during sidebar...not a one.

No juror questions in the box .

Less concerned about my male juror who's bothered me today.

Ok on to next page..............

BBM


LOVE hearing both of those facts