Couldn't remember for certain how many times Detectives Flores and Blaney tried to get JA to play the remorse card.
Remorse, remorseful... nearly a dozen times they hammered it during the interrogations.
Arias never bit.
Oh sure, she said. She would be more than remorseful if she killed him, but since she didn't kill him...
Reminds me of her rationale about Levi lovin' Ryan Burns and trying to hook up with the guy on the flight home from TA's memorial service. I mean why not? After all, she was single, wasn't she?
In those interrogations she even went to the double negative well once: "Its not that Im not remorseful that he died."
I used to think that the cruelty of the torture slaughter in all its butchery would secure her the death penalty.
But now I'm convinced that her consistent steadfast lack of remorse, her inability even to fake it convincingly, may be the determinant which sways any reluctant jurors over the sentencing line separating LWOP and the DP.
BBM. I think a lot of what the detectives were trying to do at this stage was to get Jodi to say
anything that could be seen as a confession. They had all the evidence they needed, but she was still denying that she murdered Travis. Was she sorry she killed him? Would she please tell them why she did it because they needed that information for the judge, for the Alexanders, for her parents who were worried about her? Was it just a situation that got out of control? If she didn't understand why she did it, could she at least tell them what led up to it? Did she realize they had enough evidence to convict her without a confession, and did she understand judges and juries can be very harsh with convicted murderers who neither admit to the crime nor express remorse?
But she refuses to say anything that could be construed as a confession. I think she does tell Detective Flores on the second day that she feels responsible for Travis' death -- not because she killed him, but because she should have fought off the ninjas. Oh, she also told him on the first day that she felt responsible, because if she
had gone to visit Travis like he'd been begging her to
(she was still maintaining she was never there), maybe they would have been out doing something or she could have helped fend off whoever it was who actually had killed him.
Yes, she does say she'd be more than remorseful if she'd killed him, she would beg for the death penalty, etc, etc, but she didn't kill him... I honestly don't know what she thought such statements would accomplish. Maybe Detective Flores would think "Boy she's really serious, she would be
more than remorseful and she would
beg for the death penalty... so I guess she really didn't kill him.
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Anyway... none of this is really my point. The main thing I want to say is that Jodi doesn't seem to realize that "remorse" applies to actions, not events. And yet as we all know she's an expert editor and all-around wordsmith.
There is just no end to the things that infuriate me about her. Maybe I need to get a life...
I think she hasn't expressed the slightest bit of remorse, and never will, because:
she truly feels no remorse
she knows her attitude and behavior since the murder are causing the Alexanders even more pain, and she loves having this power over them
expressing remorse would also mean taking responsibility -- but Travis deserved to die, none of this is her fault
she knows she'll be spending the rest of her life in prison, whether she gets the death penalty or LWOP, and she's going to do her absolute damnedest to cause as much trouble, pain, heartache, and expense to as many people as possible, for as long as possible. That's all she has left.