denied him access to his adoption records, he was determined to find his birth parents. he ended up getting in touch with ancestry dna. and what do you know? >> we basically hit the bull's- eye immediately. >> wow. >> they found his birth father living in maine. >> that feels amazing. overwhelming. >> not long after first speaking with his birth father, sean traveled to meet him and they now chat regularly on the phone and as they plan to see each other more often, sean is discovering a whole new life, a whole new future. e new future. hello, i'm craig melvin, and this is "dateline." hello, i'm craig melvin, and this is "dateline." hello, i am craig ermelvin, and this is "dateline." jodi became travis's drug.

he very much recognized how bad she was for him, but she kept showing up in his life and just like a drug addict, he kept letting her right back in the door. her trial riveted the country. >> we, the jury find the defendant has to count one first-degree murder, guilty. >> jodi arias, who brutally murdered her lover , was facing a possible death sentence. >> did you ever think she would do what she did, who would think that? >> it was a steamy sorry story of sex, lives. >> she was able to tell a lie, she believes the lie. >> and murder. after one of the most sensational and bizarre trials ever, hear the chilling details from her friends. >> did you see any cuts on her? >> tiny, little cuts. >> and his.

>> he was very afraid of her, but every time you try to break things off with jodi, she would threaten to kill herself. >> inside the jodi arias trial . >> this is not a ride at disney world, this is a guy who was tragically murdered. tragically murdered. friends immediately suspected his former girlfriend, hello, and welcome to "dateline." when travis alexander was murdered, friends immediately suspected his former girlfriend, jodi arias. graphic evidence found at the scene pointed to jodi as well and so she was arrested . her trial captivated the nation with months of blurred testimony. through it all, there was a fascinating mystery at the heart of the crime who was jodi arias? here is josh mankiewicz with, "along came jodi." mr. alexander was stabbed, you would acknowledge that, right? >> yes. >> it would be you that did it,

correct? >> [ crying ] yes. >> the jodi arias trial never played as a murder mystery. jodi, after all , had admitted to 12 jurors at open court and a few million viewers on tv that she was the one who shot, stabbed, and stabbed some more her former girlfriend-- boyfriend and secret sex partner. >> has to count one of murder, guilty. >> why didn't, did so many millions of trial followers stick around for the final act, and why did so many leave home and work to gather on the courthouse steps to await the final verdict? we will take an in-depth look at the case into why jodi arias became so obsessed with travis alexander, and why so many of you became obsessed with this trial.

we start with this home video played for the jury. it shows travis holding court amid a circle of friends. look a little closer, and you will see a blonde, tenderly nestled in his lap, that is jodi , in much happier times, when she and travis first started dating. no hint then of what was to come. >> we were excited for travis to find someone who was interested in. >> chris hughes was travis's mentor at work. that is him on the couch with travis and jodi. chris and his wife were there when the two minute. >> when we met that first night, we liked her . >> right off the bat, thought she was someone that would be a good match for travis. >> aside from the physical chemistry that was already there, there seem to be a lot of emotional chemistry right off the bat as well. >> jodi arias has been described as seductive, sexy, sultry. and travis alexander,

when they first met, probably felt he was every bit her counterpart. he was a successful insurance salesman, handsome, charismatic. dave holte worked with travis and was close to him. >> good friend, close friend? >> very good friend. >> best friend? >> it is funny, i have seen numerous people come forward and say, hey, he was my best friend. that is the type of guy travis was he made everybody feel like you were his best friend. >> according to his friends, travis was more than a bit of a ladies man, but this time, travis was out of his league. >> jodi became travis's drug . he was able to get something from her when he could not get anywhere else with the good, wholesome, mormon girls he typically dated here in arizona . >> which was what, not just sex, crazy sex? >> over-the-top, over-the-top stuff. >> jodi used sex to try to

control travis. at first she tried to be this good girl with morals and values. that did not work, so she turned on the sex. >> and then had travis, a devout mormon, tied up in knots, breaking the church's law of chastity, that is having sex before marriage, serious stuff. mormons believed the senate risked an eternity in hell if he or she fails to repent before death. the result seems to have been that travis kept his relationship with jodi in the closet. >> he wanted people to believe, especially the girls he was dating, that he was still a virgin, he was still where the to have a happy, long-term marriage with a good, mormon girl . >> this was a guy leading a double life? >> yeah. >> jodi tried to resolve that conflict by converting to mormonism, only to find it was

not good enough for travis. he summoned his will and broke it off with her. the moral equation may have been cruel, but to travis to me it was undeniable. jodi's lust, her willingness to have sex in all sorts of ways before marriage might have made her the perfect secret girlfriend, but it simultaneously disqualify her as a wife. >> she was not going to be the one he was going to spend the rest of his life with him and he communicated that with her . >> that would make anybody feel pretty bad and pretty hurt. >> what travis kept secret from his friends was that jodi and him were still having sex. what he did not keep secret is his concerns that jodi was stalking him. >> he was very concerned about her behavior, but every time he would break things off with jodi, she would threaten to kill herself. >> clearly, jodi was not serious about suicide. we know that now because at the time she was making those threats, she was probably sales conventions and on the phone at

night flirting with a guy named ryan burns. >> she seemed like a cool girl. we exchanged numbers and about two or three weeks after that, we started talking on the phone, four or five times a week. >> during one of those calls, jody promised to visit ryan in utah. one morning in 2008, she came knocking at his door, he had no idea what had just happened at travis's house in arizona, and he did not know jodi had been there just one day before. >> how did she look marks >> she looks fine. >> did you see any cuts on her? >> tiny, little cuts. she had little bandages on her hand. there was not a moment where i thought, are you okay, is anything wrong? we were laughing about simple little things. she seemed totally into the moment. >> back in arizona, travis's friends found him dead, his home a bloody crime scene, and in the washing machine, police found a waterlogged camera that

would come to mean everything in this case. some of travis's friends like chris and skye hugest, suspected jodi from the start. >> i knew in that moment that jodi arias did its . >> he turned to me and said, jodi did this. >> brian burns thought he knew jodi, and the girl he knew was no killer. >> i honestly and genuinely thought she could not have anything to do with it. i thought, this girl would not let me kill a spider on the wall because she did not want to hurt god's creature. >> then, you started hearing from prince from yours and from travis's that people suspected her? >> at that point, she had become a very good friend. this was horrible to have come back on her, or, it was the situation of am i really talking to a murderer? >> aaron dewey was not sure what to believe. jodi he said, play the role of

an innocent perfectly. 13 days after travis's mother, she volunteered to talk to the mesa police, asking dewey for a ride to the station. >> tell me what happened in the car that day. >> ironically, nothing out of the ordinary. she was acting like nothing happened. it's >> what else did she say about travis's murder? >> she claimed to know nothing about it. she was saying, she was not there, she had not seen him in months. >> that is the story jodi told police as well, and the one she suck with -- stuck with for weeks up until the day police took her away in handcuffs, that is when jodi's story started changing. coming up, love and death caught on camera for all the world to see. >> where there some that involved mr. alexander in the shower? >> yes. >> when "dateline" continues. i

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>> juan martinez laid out his case for jodi's guilt as detectives, analysts one by one took the stand and connected jodi to the crime . her hair and dna at the scene. >> this hair that you examined, who did that match? >> the roots matched jodi arias. >> a crime scene investigator testified, she found jodi's bloody handprints on the wall. martinez had that part of the wall brought into court. >> this is the piece of all that was cut out and brought in as item number 77 lv. >> perhaps the most damning evidence came from this sony camera, discovered in travis's washing machine. after weeks of work, technicians restored photos that were once deleted. >> with regard to the items that were deleted, where there

some that involved mr. alexander in the shower? >> yes. >> what made these pictures key to the case have to do with a feature in the camera. >> these pictures in the camera embeds the date of the camera the timer is set on in the camera itself. >> those photos, along with the other evidence, told a story that jodi showed up at travis's home around 4:00 a.m. june 4th, 2008 . they had steamy sex until about 5:00 p.m. , photographing each other as they did so. between 5:22 and 5:29, jodi took these time stamped photos of travis in his shower, about one minute after this picture was taken, the repeated stabbing of travis alexander began. maricopa county medical examiner kevin horn testified that cuts on travis's hands help explain what happened, as he was

stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated, and shot in the head. >> i believe the wounds on the hands must have occurred before the fatal injuries either of the head or the throat. >> at 5, 31, the camera snaps what seems to be an accidental photo of the bathroom ceiling. the next photo, taken at 5:32, shows travis on the floor, bleeding profusely around the neck. in the foreground is what looks to be a woman's pant leg. according to the prosecutor, it could only be jodi's. brian burns testified, telling the court the same story he told us about how jodi visited him in utah , one day after killing travis. >> she got on top of me pretty aggressively and we were kissing. >> martinez then played for the jury powerful video of jodi lying out right to mesa police detective esther von floris just before her arrest. >> i want you-- why won't you

admit it? >> i just can't, i did not kill travis. >> jodi, you did. >> no, i did not. >> an accusation that would make many crumble, but jodi consistently stuck to her story. >> absolutely not. i was nowhere near mesa. >> what is the remarkable looking back at this police interview tape is that even in the face of immutable evidence, jodi can lie seamlessly and deftly, and very creatively . because the next day, after being booked and charged with travis's murder, jodi had a completely different story to tell the police, admitting she was there that night. >> travis was screaming. >> but that masked intruders had burst in and killed travis and she had been too afraid to say anything. >> and i turned around and

there were two people there, one was a guy, one was a girl. >> and it was through these videotapes the jury heard in jodi's own words how her story had evolved. but it is the outtakes from these recordings, the parts the jury didn't see that may also give insight into how jodi operates . let's go back to the exchange between jodi and detective flores, just before he confronted her with the photos from travis's camera. if jodi was nervous, she did not show it, maybe because a giggle and a hentoff had worked on so many guys so many times before. >> i'm a christian, i just live my life by the 10 commandments. those are my rules. thou shalt not this or that, but it does not say thou shalt fornicate. i used to joke about that. >> then, after her route

flirtatious routine fell flat and she was about to be arrested, jodi still seemed completely unworried , facing murder charges, many of us might think the world had turned upside down, but for jodi arias, it was a chance to get into a headstand. in yoga it is called [ speaking non-english ], a cure for whatever is ailing you. and then, before being led away , she made one last request. >> this is a really trivial question and it will reveal how shallow i am, but before they book me me can i clean myself up a little bit? >> she wanted to look good, apparently. >> you should have at least done your makeup. gosh. >> for this mug shot, in control to win over an audience, no matter how big or small, which may explain how when the defense was ready to

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death of her boyfriend changed over time. first, she told police, she wasn't there. next, that masked home invaders had killed travis. then, in court came version number three. this time, she swore she was telling the whole truth. >> did you kill travis alexander june 4th, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> the simple answer is that he attacked me and i defended myself. >> having a client that has lied in the past makes it very difficult for a defense attorney . you are trying to play catch- up the entire time, trying to prove your client is credible. >>-- varies is a defense attorney who has tried death penalty cases, but was not a part of the jodi arias trial. he says, jodi's defense team was right to put jodi on the

stand, risky enough to try to connect with the jury . >> they do need to try and have the jury feel some type of sympathy, some sorrow for her. it was very important to humanize jodi. >> the defense started with a claim that jodi had suffered long-term ethical, and emotional abuse. first around the age of 7 from her parents. >> i think that is the first year my dad started using a belt. my mom began to carry a wooden spoon in her purse. >> jodi's parents who were there for much of her testimony won't say whether her claims are true. the defense team of jodi as a victim with her accusations that she felt used by travis alexander.

>> what do you mean you felt used? >> he gets a hotel room, i show up, we hang out, we have sex. i'm getting a lot of attention, but only engaging in sexual activity. i'm feeling like a prostitute of sorts. >> the graphic sexual testimony really goes to the heart of the question as to whether travis was physically and emotionally abusing her through the sexual relationship they had. >> the jury heard a recording jodi made , she said, at travis's request, of a steamy phone call. >> your bed. you make me feel so dirty. >> you are dirty, baby. >> did you and travis ever videotape yourself while having sex? >> yes. >> and whose desire was it for that to take place? >> his. >> defense expert, who co- authored a book about battered women, suggested emails from travis's friends to jodi, show travis took advantage of women

. >> they advised her to move on from the relationship, that mr. alexander has been abusive to women. >> that testimony, heard by millions and the jury, were stricken by the judge. jodi's defense lawyers never called to the stand the authors of those emails , chris and scott hughes, who say, their words were twisted by the defense. >> the defense abuse does not exist. >> what is it like to hear your words used as defense when the victim was your friend? >> it is gut wrenching. they are using our words to make travis something he absolutely was not. >> during her marathon 18 days on the stand, 11 coming under friendly defense questioning, jodi said , travis had once become enraged after they'd argued over money. >> he went to kick me again and i put my hands out. it's >> what happened? >> i screamed really loud. i

think i yelled out my finger, or my hand, something to that effect. >> jodi showed the jury the misshapen finger she claimed is the result of travis's outburst . whatever concerns she may have had about violence, she and travis did not stop seeing each other. just jodi came to travis's house early one morning june 2008. that day he died, there was sex, lots of it, she acknowledged. after all, there was no denying all the photos they took. jodi herself described a happy, playful , day, until travis's brand-new camera slipped out of her hands. >> he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot, and he body slammed me again on the tile. >> jodi testified that she remembered travis kept a gun in his closet and ran to get it

. >> i grabbed the gun, i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. it's >> she described travis lunging at her, the gun going off without her even knowing it. she said, travis then kept coming, even with a bullet in his head. >> he fell, i got up, just screaming angry. after i got up he said, [ bleep ] yelling. >> do you remember stabbing travis alexander? >> i have no memory of stabbing him. >> do you remember dragging him across the floor? >> no. >> do you remember placing him in the shower? >> jodi had lied so many times before, she must have hoped she would get away with it one last time with the 12 people that mattered most, the jury. so many people watching on tv and the internet had by now heard enough of jodi's stories , that they had now reached their own

verdict. >> the jodi arias trial goes viral with its own twitter accounts, ticket scams, and an unexpected new cable star. >> coming up, people ask you for your autograph? >> they do. >> they want to take a picture with you. >> they do. >> when "dateline" continues. e

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spinning a graphic tale of sex and abuse. welcome back to "dateline." i am craig nolan. jodi arias took the truck stand at her own murder trial, spinning a tale of graphic sex and abuse. she admitted to killing travis alexander both said, it was self-defense. millions watched her testimony live on tv and the internet. and some would take their obsession further. here again is josh mankiewicz with , "along came jodi. " the many faces of jodi arias and a steamy four month saga of sex, lies, and videotape quickly made her trial the hottest show in town. every morning at daybreak, people would line up, hoping to get a seat for a close-up look at moments like these. >> yes or no, my question is, are you talking, yes or no? >> are you angry at me?

>> is that important to you? >> please refrain from laughing in the courtroom. >> one regular even sold her spot in line 28 latecomer for $200. the judge, unhappy to hear tickets to her trial were being scalped, ordered the money refunded, and this juror dismissed for reasons unknown, returned to court the following day. apparently, she was hooked on the action. >> i knew that my life was pretty much over. >> as where millions of people, who just couldn't get enough of the story of girl meets boy, girl kills boy. it was not just televised, but streamed live, raw, unfiltered across the internet. >> people are content to just watch. they want to participate. they are doing research on the players. >> arizona reporter michael keefer covered the trial and said, many were ready with their verdicts long before the

testimony was over. >> anyone who takes less than an approach of she deserves the death penalty and deserves it now, is considered bias. >> any perception of bias for the defense, even by defense witnesses, could bring a hostile reaction from jodi haters. this all became dangerously interactive . a second therapist testified for defense, supporting jodi's claim she had been sexually used by travis. >> he tells her he is horny, and they have oral sex. she performed oral sex on him. >> while the testimony was calm and measured, the vitriol thrown at her on the internet was anything but. she was personally and professionally attacked. a petition was started to stop her from speaking at conferences . in her book about by battered women stay with their accusers was hit with hundreds of online, mud slinging reviews.

>> she got hundreds and thousands of those remarks over the internet. people calling her office, threatening her. they had to call the police. if i were to walk up to her in the hallway of the courtroom and say, i don't like your testimony and i may hurt you, and i'm going to try to ruin your career, that is a felony. >> and she was not the only target. michael kurt kieffer reported jodi's lawyer also received threats. jodi also herself to to social media with a twitter account that drew more than 51,000 followers. she did it through a friend she met in jail. donovan barrett became jodi's unofficial spokeswoman and twitter administrator. >> you actually operated the twitter account? but those are jodi's words? >> yes. everything on there is room jodi, those are her thoughts and opinions. >> she used this to sell the

original artwork and to make points she could not make on the witness span stand. one, anger management problems, anyone? another tweet was more snarky, insinuating that martinez was inflicted with little man syndrome. that comment has since been deleted. all of this attention has elevated the public persona of juan martinez, he wants anonymous will talk to the prosecutors, not a prominent costar in the jodi show . just ask some of the trial tourists me the most the women who traveled from around the country to witness the trial firsthand. >> juan martinez, you never know what he is going to pull out of his hat. he is travis's voice, and we admire him for that. >> sisters both took the week off from their jobs in st. louis in hopes of getting a ringside seat here and maybe

meeting some cable tv celebrities. >> once you go into the courtroom, it is so surreal. like you have been seeing all of these people on tv. >> and here they are in person. >> this is like our hollywood. >> one of the stars the sisters were hoping to spot was katie week. every night, katie gave her take on the trial during hln's "dr. drew show." she wasn't an anchor, reporter, or an attorney, just a regular spectator who caught the eye of a cable news booker and voila. >> people want to take a picture with you. >> they do. they do. >> to the audience excited on the jodi trial, you are a celebrity. >> i don't want to say average

person, in essence, i am. i am not a doctor or a lawyer, i am going in as a regular person. >> this is not jersey shore. did you see it last night when joww popped to mike the situation in the eye? this is a real case. >> americans are reacting to it like it is an reality show. >> like a reality show. >> this reality show was about to get real. "dateline" returns after the break. the break. (granddaughter laughing) when pain freezes you in your tracks... ...vapofreeze your pain away. penetrating pain relief... ...with vicks vapors. (granddaughter laughing) vapofreeze your pain away. now at walmart.

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have played like entertainment to millions of devoted viewers hooked on the day look daily drama unfolding on cable, but this wasn't a tv show. it was a murder trial. the steaks were literally life-and- death. >> what are you trying to say? >> can i tell you what i am trying to say? >> looking back the four month trial really came down to this, a showdown between the bulldog prosecutor and the woman whose image changed at trial from sexy, want to be photographer, to plain jane, admitted killer. prosecutor martinez set the tone from the beginning of his cross-examination. he found a crack in jodi's trademark composure when jodi appeared to have a perfect memory of her sexual escapades, but not of stabbing travis 27 times. >> i have no memory of stabbing him.

>> at first, jodi gave as good as she got with sparring with the prosecutor. >> what factors influenced your having a memory problem? >> usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling me, or someone like travis doing the same. >> and then, there was the matter of the gun jodi used it to shoot travis. she testified, she found it at his house. martinez prevented evidence that a gun of the same caliber was stolen from the home of jodi's grandparents in yreka, california, just before the killing, while jodi was living there. >> you brought the gun from yreka, didn't you? >> no. >> the implication, this was premeditated murder . after all the lies and the tweeting by jodi arias, finally, after days of cross-examination, prosecutor martinez seemed to

break her down. >> you would acknowledge that stabbing was after the shooting, according to you, right? >> i don't-- yes, i don't remember. >> i'm not asking if you remember, i'm asking if you acknowledged that it would be you that did it, correct? >> yes. [ crying ] >> if he is being stabbed in the back, would you acknowledge at that point, he is no threat to you, right? >> i don't know. >> well, if he has already been shot, according to you, and he is facing away from you, how could he possibly be any threat to you? >> i could only guess, i don't know what you are asking me? >> jodi's claim of self-defense was being whittled away . >> would you agree that you are the person who actually slipped mr. alexander's throat from ear to ear?

>> yes. [ crying ] >> would you also agree that you are the individual that stabbed him in the upper torso? >> yes. [ crying ] >> and you are doing all of this , according to your version of events, you are doing this to this innocent individual after you had already shot him, right? >> yes. >> jodi initially tried to lie her way out of this jam , but was she now trying to cry her way out of it on the witness stand? >> she is manipulative. she is cunning. and i expect she could be extremely seductive. >> forensic psychiatrist steve pitt, who was familiar with the case, but did not examine jodi

arias, saw a woman good at manipulating others, but not so good with being rejected. >> eyes are being diagnosed by the prosecution's expert witness as having borderline personality disorder, what does that mean? >> what could be the understatement of this particular case that do not do well with rejection or abandonment. jodi arias is essentially the 21st century version of the character glenn close played in natal attraction. >> if there was any time during the trial when jurors tipped their hand about how they felt about jodi arias, it came over the course of two days , when they questioned her directly. arizona is one state where jurors can actually ask questions of the defendant. the judge reads them. >> did elise ever find your grandfather's gun? >> while the tone was not as biting of that of the prosecutors, those jury

questions were overwhelming met with skepticism and disbelief. >> why did you place travis's body back in the shower? why not just tell police the truth from the start? after all the lies you've told, why should we believe you now? >> the lies i have told in this case are-- can be tied back to either protecting travis's reputation, or my involvement in his death in any way, because i was very ashamed. >> and that is what this would all boil down to, all of jodi's lies. >> she was a communion . she read people really well, really well. she would adapt to whatever situation she was in. >> jodi's old friend, aaron dewey. >> she would reflect back to you what you wanted to hear, whoever it was you wanted her to be. >> jodi arias spent 18 days on the stand, an almost unheard of stent for a defendant on any

murder trial. was that a part of the defense's grand strategy, keep jodi on the stand so long, jurors would never vote to execute someone they had gotten to know so well in such intimate detail ? phoenix criminal defense attorney-- followed the case. >> i think that was the defense strategy. the longer we keep her on the stand, the more they hear from her, they will hopefully ingratiate themselves to her to a certain extent and hopefully spare her life. >> jurors had four months to think about all the questions, now it was time for answers and a verdict. "dateline" returns after the break . eak . . they are not part of the official uniform. no tunes today? no. my apartment was robbed last night. took my cable ready tv, vcr, portable cassette player. yup. all the latest tech. if only progressive had renter's insurance like their home insurance. then we could bundle our cars and get the same 24/7 protection. -i think we just invented that. -huh.

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end neared... the spectacle that was the jodi arias trial spilled out of the courtroom treatment anis the end neared the spectacle that was the jodi arias trial spilled out of the courtroom and all the flat screens, and onto the street. >> did you kill travis alexander? >> this trial started with jodi arias admitting she killed travis alexander, and yet, she testified in her own defense for weeks, as if she still thought she could talk her way out of trouble. >> you saw her crying on the witness stand, anybody debate the reason she was crying is because she cries for herself? >> if there was one point juan

martinez wanted to drive home in his closing arguments for the jury, it was that jodi arias had spent the last four months running a con on them. >> are you going to believe what she tells you? >> in his summation, defense lawyer did not ask for an acquittal, even he seemed to acknowledge that jurors were likely to convict jodi of something. >> if ms. arias is guilty of any crime at all, it is the crime of manslaughter, and nothing more. >> and he pointedly reminded the jury that this wasn't a reality show, that their decision shouldn't be about whether they approved of the one who sexually excavates have been a part of their daily routine to four months. it was a phrase that resonated, if not with the jury come assertively with his client, who responded via twitter, nine days out of 10, that sounds about right. if

you think it strange that a murder defendant would laugh it up via social media, even while a jury deliberated her fate, then you don't know jodi arias . but of course, that was kind of the issue throughout this trial. who was she? look closely at jodi arias during cross- examination. no matter how much she solves, while strategically perhaps covering her face, there seem to be no teardrops falling from her eyes. forensic psychologist was struck by her ability to lie with confidence. >> it is a terrific, sociopathic skill. she is able to tell a lie. she believes the light and she is narcissistic enough and entitled enough to believe she is so good, she is going to pull the wool over someone else. >> if that is true, this jury did not fall for it in their assessment of jodi's state of mind. their judgment, that it

was premeditated. >> with the jury, to find the defendant, as to count one, first-degree murder, guilty. >> outside. the crowd erupted in cheers. inside, a much different mood. jodi arias sat in silence as each juror was individually polled, this time, her tears were definitely real. while travis's family quietly cried and hugged, his old friend, dave hall, took to the courthouse steps. >> i'm just glad that the jury realized jodi is a pathological liar and gave her what she deserves . >> while travis's friends believe jodi would be held accountable, they also held fast to their mormon faith. >> to forgive her it is going

to take some time. >> just after her conviction, the rarely silent jodi made clear what kind of punishment she would like to receive in an interview with a phoenix tv station . >> i believe-- i would rather have my freedom as soon as i can get it. >> after those words, the sheriff department announced it was placing her on suicide watch. her family members left the jail that night in stunned silence and the next phase of her motor trial-- murder trial to determine if the county death standards was unexpectedly postponed, note explanations, although the maricopa county sheriff's office confirmed she had been transferred to a jailhouse psych ward. turns out, two juries deadlocked on whether arias should be executed, leaving the decision to a judge. in april 2015, jodi arias was sentenced to life without parole . as for the man who prosecuted her, in march 2019, one juan martinez was hit with a misconduct complaint followed by the state bar of arizona.

it alleged in part that he leaked information to a blogger during a penalty phase of the arias trial and that he had inappropriate communications with a dismissed juror. in february 2020, martinez was dismissed from the county attorney's office. in july, he agreed to give up his offense to practice in the state of arizona, ending the misconduct complaint. martinez's attorney said, although he agreed to be disbarred, he was not admitting misconduct. meanwhile, arias remains behind bars after being the center of attention for so long, she is serving her sentence and living her own reality. that's all for this edition of "dave hon." craig melvin. thank you for watching. live good morning and welcome to the special holiday edition morning joe.