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disagree with the jury's decision and whether jodi deserves the death penalty. we want to warn you, it is graphic. and the images and the language may be too explicit for young viewers. a sordid story of sex, lies -- >> i'm not guilty -- >> and audio tapes. the trial of jodi anne arias has finally come to a dramatic end. >> state of arizona versus jodi anne arias, verdict, count one. we, the jury, find the defendant as to count one, first-degree murder, guilty. >> it was a trial that transfixed the nation. >> this is a case, this is a story, this is a criminal defendant unlike any other we've ever met before. jodi arias, beautiful, young woman, accused of brutally

murdering her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander, a young guy, seemingly had this great, sexual relationship. but then she stabs him 29 times, almost decapitates him, shoots him in the head. >> it's a verdict that delivered justice for travis alexander. >> i think justice worked. i listened to the same evidence that the 12 jurors listened to. ives convinced. jodi arias wasn't attacked, no, no, no, travis alexander was the one who was attacked, slaughtered and killed. >> this tale of passion gone wrong cost travis alexander his life. now, it could cost jodi arias hers. she faces the death penalty. >> i think the evidence in this case was overwhelming about her obsession and her fatal attraction to travis alexander. an attraction that began, in of all places, sin city.

>> we were there for a convention. our company had a big event there. i was there in las vegas with them. >> travis alexander was a motivational speaker, compelling and effected. he was also a close friend and co-worker of david hughes in the fall of 2006. >> and i knew that he was single and he was always looking for ms. alexander. >> enter sales woman and aspiring photographer, jod jodi arias. >> i said hey, there's this cute girl i work with. and he introduced me. they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. >> they met in vegas. the night they met, it seemed things heated up very quickly. jodi arias has said, within a week or so, they're having sex in the car.

>> jodi and travis had an sbant physical connection. a whirlwind romance, but a long-distance one with her in palm desert california and him, five hours away, in mesa, arizona. still, that wouldn't slow them down. shanna hogan is the author of picture perfect, about the jodi arias case. >> travis and jodi were almost in constant communication. they exchanged thousands of e-mails and text mes s&ls. >> jodi was so attracted to travis, she converted to the church of latter day saints because travis was a mormon. >> i'm sure that made their relationship even stronger. >> to outsiders, travis and jodi appeared devout. appearances, as was often the case with these two, would prove deceiving.

>> secretly, behind the scenes, travis and jodi's relationship was not pure. it wasn't chaste. they had this intense, sexual relationship that they kept hidden from everyone. >> but jodi couldn't keep everything hidden, especially from travis' long-time friends. many who found his new love a bit odd and a bit troubling. >> we don't like jodi coming over to our home. we felt very uncomfortable with her coming to our home. >> david hughes recalls a chilling encounter. >> well, they're having this conversation trying to convince travis to break up with her. she is right outside the upstairs door listening to the whole conversation and she walked in and she just had this face on like she was the devil and she was going to commit a murder right then and there. >> right away, travis' friends were concerned. it was clear that she liked him and he liked her a lot more than he liked her.

travis wanted a lot more life. jodi wanted to be with him more than anything. and it was extremely unhealthy bond that they shared. >> and a normal, healthy life was something that travis had wanted desperately, since growing up in riverside, california. >> travis' childhood was full of poverty, neglect, physical violence. >> his parents were both addi addicted to drugs. his grandmother was the one who raised him. it was a tough upbringing. >> jodi, too, has said she didn't have it easy growing up. that she was no stranger to abuse. >> she grew up being very artistic. she had a lot of brothers and sisters and was very close with them all. so jodi's childhood was fairly ideal compared to travis'. but she does describe ins dinss of physical violence. >> jodi and travis burned red hot, at least for a while. but, by the summer of 2007,

their relationship had cooled, in part, because of jodi's increasing jealousy over travis' interest in other women. >> jodi went through his phone and discovered these 40 messages to other women. and she decided to end the relationship at that point. but, at the same time, travis was looking to end the relationship. >> jodi and travis did break up. but that didn't mean they weren't still friends with benefits. >> clearly, jodi enjoyed her sexual life with travis. but it must have been tormenting. in her diary, jodi writes about how she loves travis so fully and completely that she doesn't know any other way to be. it was just her entire focus. she was extremely obsessed with him. >> so obsessed, apparently, that jodi never took her eye off of travis no matter how far apart they were. >> i absolutely know that she was stalking him many times, just like when she went in through the back door when he

was kissing another girl. she's spying on him. that's what's really happening here. >> she slashed his tires. she broke into his e-mail acount, she hacked into his facebook page, she broke into his house and stole his journals, she read his diary. she just did these crazy, stalking behaviors. >> jodi has long-denied stalking travis. then, on june, 2008, she made one last visit to her estranged lover's home, arriving in the wee hours of the morning. >> travis is there, according to her, and he's online and they go to sleep. but when they wake up, then they get back to what travis and jodi always do. which is engage in sex. and they didn't just engage in sex. they brought cameras into play. travis taking pictures of jodi, jodi taking pictures of travis. neither one of them wearing any clothes. but it's what they do. it's what they've always done. since they've met.

>> coming up, a sex-fuelled afternoon explodes into an orgy of violence. [ male announcer ] running out of steam?

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monday, june 9th, 2008. 90 minutes inside a mesa community. nobody heard from travis alexander in five days. so a handful of concerned friends went looking for him. >> they get to the garage, they go inside the house. it smells. there's a fowl odor hanging in the air. >> they found their friend pale and lifeless on the shower floor. travis' body had nearly 29 stab marks, including the slash across his neck from ear-to-ear. there was a gunshot wound over

his right eyebrow and massive amounts of blood soaked all over the master suite. splattered all over the bathroom. the sink, the mirror, the floor. his friends has immediate suspicions about who did it. >> he has an ex-girlfriend who's been following him. her name is jodi. >> but when investigators reached jodi by phone, she insisted she'd be nowhere near mesa, for months. this was version one of her story. >> investigators are able to place jodi at the crime scene. >> can you imagine when the police found that camera and

they said oh, the camera is destroyed. it's been through the washing machine. but they take that little memory card and find these photos? and detective flores got the call. you're not going to believe this. the memory card survived the wash. >> those photos lay out a timeline. at 5:30 p.m., jodi uses the camera to take the last picture of travis alive. he's in the shower. >> she's taking pictures of him and probably said to him, oh, let me get a picture of you seated. she needed to level the playing field. she's able to stab him in the heart. >> investigators say there's a struggle in the bathroom and then jodi follows travis into his bedroom. >> he's false. maybe he's on his hands and knees and that's when she did the coup 'd grat.

>> this is at 5:32 p.m. it is one of three accidental photos taken after the last shower picture. prosecutors will later claim it's jodi's leg over travis' upper body, as she prepares to drag him back to the shower. >> what if i could show you proof? >> i wasn't there. >> you need to be honest with me, jodi. >> i was not at travis' house. >> you were at travis' house? you guys had a sexual encounter, which there's pictures. >> they're from another time. >> you're positive? by now, it was july. jodi was in police custody, but she was still sticking to version number one. >> you need to tell me the truth.

>> listen, the truth is i did not hurt travis. >> during that same interview, there was this, yoga moves, stretches and even a head stand. >> i believe it tells you that jodi arias is trying to get comfortable in that room. and she's not able to get comfortable because she has to change her story. because investigators have more evidence than she thought they were going to have. >> the very next day, jodi decided to change her story to version two. >> she talked about two intruders coming into the house when they attacked travis and they're attacking her and she gets wounded in the incident and he's being stabbed and he's yelling and screaming and telling her go to the neighbors and get help. >> we just argued.

>> jodi took version 2 to the court of public opinion moents later on the show, "inside editi edition." >> i witnessed travis being attacked by two unarmed individuals. >> who? >> i don't know who they were. i couldn't pick them out in a police line-up. >> and she made this bold prediction. >> no jury is going to convict me. >> why not? >> because i'm innocent. and you can mark my words on that one. >> then, in 2010, two years after the murder, jodi's lawyers file a shocking court document, indicating jodi will change her story yet again. she would finally admit to killing travis, but claim it was self defense. >> story one, i wasn't there. all right, i was there.

but there was these two ninjas that were there and they killed travis and i was able to get out of there. story three, i was there. i dwid it. but did it in self defense because travis was going to kill me. >> coming up, the trial. jodi takes the stand to give her side of the story. >> he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. itive?? have you eaten today? i had some lebanese food for lunch. i love the lebanese. i... i'm not sure. enough of the formalities... lets get started shall we? jimmy how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? happier than dracula volunteering at a blood drive. we have cookies... get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. how we get there is not. we're americans. we work. we plan.

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the state of arizona versus jodi anne arias, indictment.

count one, first-degree murder, ple-meditated murder. >> it's been more than four years since friends discovered travis alexander's dead body crumpled up in his bathroom shower. >> jodi arias killed travis alexander. there is no question about it. the million dollar question is what would have forced her to do it. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4th, 2008. >> yes, i did. >> but she denied the charge against her that she had planned travis' murder. >> why? >> this is the last time he attacked he. >> she pled not guilty, claiming self defense, that she was forced to kill travis.

>> in just those two minutes, jodi had to make a choice. she would either live or she would die. >> in the death penalty case, you want sympathy. you need an explanation for the defendant's actions and what they did. >> the defense's explanation was to blame the victim. >> that's what they have to do. in a self defense case. >> in sessions, beth caris has been in the courtroom every day of the trial. >> they have to blame the victim. they're saying, look, he was attacking me. he was about to kill me. i had no choice. her problem is, you know, self defense is you can use force when you're being threatened. but you have to use equal force. >> the defense called witnesses, including a close friend.

>> in your religion, is pre-marital sex allowed? >> did travis claim to be a virgin? >> yes, he did. >> did he seem happy to be a virgin? >> yes. >> and did he seem proud? >> travis alexander, there's no question he was conflicted. he was trying to be a good mormon and probably was, kpept when it came to jodi arias. >> she would have sex with him. they kept it a secret. but if this got out in his social circle, it might have hurt him professionally. >> jodi was, in the words of her defense attorney, travis' dirty little secret. something he vividly demonstrated in this lurid phone call. >> when you hear this call, it's crucial to understand the difference, the difference between the type of person that travis portrayed himself to be versus the things that he said

on this recorded call. >> jodi's attorneys argue that travis was just the last in a long line of people, family and boyfriends who had physically and mentally abused jodi. >> it appears the strategy was that everything that happened in her life from her childhood and from all the relationships with her men culminated in this killing. >> your life was pretty ideal up until about age 7. something different after age seven? >> i think that's the first year my dad started using a belt. >> jodi told the court that her

brawny father inflicted great pain. >> that's when my dad would get rougher and rougher. he would just shove me into furniture, things like that, in the tables, chairs, desks, whatever was around. he would just push me really hard. >> and with her mother looking on from the front row, jodi also accused her of being abusive. >> my mom began to carry a wooden spoon in her purse if we were misbehaving, she would use it on us. >> what do you mean by "use it on you"? >> she would hit us with it. >> she hit you hard? >> it felt pretty hard, yes. >> jodi portrayed herself as the victim of a string of bad choices when it came to men. describing one abusive relationship after another, especially travis alexander admitting that she loved him

despite his being what she described as demeaning, physically abusive and controlling. >> he body slammed me on the floor at the foot of his bed, called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. and that hurt for real. >> a somber jodi recalled that the day travis baptized her, what was supposed to be a new beginning, turned out to be more of the same. >> i was in my church clothes, he was in his church clothes, the kissing got more passionate, more intense. and then he spun me around and he bent me over the bed and he was just on top of me. i didn't think that -- that he was just going to keep kissing me. he began to have anal sex with me and --

>> after this encounter on this spiritual day, how did you feel about yourself. >> after he left, shortly after he left, i felt -- i didn't feel very good. i kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> the portrayal of a domineering and sexual travis was difficult to hear. >> do me a favor and take a look at this exhibit and see if you recognize it. >> text messages from travis appearing to treat jodi as his sex slave. >> he says that this photo shoot is going to be one of the best experiences of your life and his. he also says you'll rejoice in being a whore. that sole purpose in life is to be mine, to have animal sex with

and to please me in any way i desire. >> jodi even accused travis of being a pedophile. >> i walked in and travis was on the bed masturbating. he started grabbing something on the bed and i realized they were papers. and as he was grabbing the papers, one came off the bed and it was a picture of a little boy. >> you are still willing to be tied to a tree, if that's what he wanted. >> attack his character. >> a sort of aggressive and aauthoritative. make the jury dislike him. hate him. loathe him. he's the bad guy. he's the evil doer, he's the pedophile, he's the sexual dooef yent. this guy is bad news and he's the one who ruined jodi arius' life.

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no jury is going to convict me. >> why not? >> because i am innocent. you can mark my words. no jury will convict me. >> i made that statement in 2008, i think it was. and at the time, i was planning on committing suicide. i was extremely confident because i didn't expect anybody to be here. >> and you say that you're not going to be convicted because you're going to commit suicide. >> that's correct. >> you're saying that you're innocent, right? >> yes. >> and you believe that no jury would convict you because you are going to lie your way out of it, right?

>> the road to the death penalty here is paved with pre-meditation. that's what the prosecution has to prove. where do they go for pre-meditation? >> for starters, juan mart nez goes to what he says was jodi's attempt at a cover up. like wanting a less conspicuous rental car for the drive to travis'house. >> you didn't want the color red. it seems to stand out, doesn't it? >> i don't know, i heard they get more tickets. >> right. so it had to do with the police department, right? you did not want to stand out. >> and just hours after killing travis, calling his cell phone and leaving a message. >> this is number 365.

>> and the reason that you went to great lengths to do that, was if there were a suspicion, it wouldn't be drawn to you, correct? >> not immediately. that was the point, yes. >> right. you wanted the police to look elsewhere, right? >> i guess. >> so you called mr. alexander and you left him a message, right? >> yes. >> but despite her earlier efforts shlgs jodi took him through the details of the grizzly killing, starting when she dropped travis' new camera. >> at that point, travis flipped out again.

he stood up and he stepped out of the shower and he picked me up as he was screaming that i was a stupid idiot. and he body slammed me again on the tile. he told me that a five-year-old can hold a camera better than i can. >> when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. >> then, jodi reached for a .25 caliber gun she says travis kept on the shelf. >> i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. he just kept running. he got like a linebacker. he got kind of low and grabbed

my waist. but before he did that, the gun went off. >> there's zero evidence, independent evidence, evidence other than words out of jod jodi arias' mouth that establish travis alexander as a gun owner. there is none. >> prosecutor juan martinez' theory was that one week before killing travis, jodi had staged a burglary at the home she shared with her grandparents. >> you heard that, right? >> prosecutors were questioning his burglarly because they believed the .25 caliber gun that was allegedly stolen was used by jodi arias to shoot travis alexander. >> there was only one bullet wound, but almost 30 knife wounds.

and he'd nearly been decapitated. an unforgettable scene that jodi claims she doesn't remember. >> i remember dropping the knife and it clanged the tile. and i just remember screaming. there were a lot of gaps. i don't know if i blacked out or what. there was a huge gap. she had such memory recall of things from years before, details of years before and how many people of what happened on this date and how many what kind of sex she had on that date and when it came to slicing and stabbing travis alexander 29 times, she had no recollection.

it appears that your memory is faulty immediately upon shooting him. >> yeah, things get foggy from there. >> so the shot takes him down and it creates a fog for you. is that what you're saying? >> it begins to create a fog. >> a psychologist for the defense testified that the fog was caused by the stress of travis' attack. >> dr. samuels said jodi's amnesia was caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. ptsd.

>> yes, i believe she was in an abusive relationship. >> and do you believe in your expert opinion that jodi was a battered woman -- or is a battered woman? >> yes, i do. >> but martinez tore into the defense experts.

>> so you lied, right? >> objection. argumentative. asked and answers. >> you didn't tell the whole story then, right? that's what you said, right? >> that would be accurate. >> and, with that, prosecutor juan martinez abruptly ended his grilling and gripping cross-examination of jodi arias. next, jurors get a turn to ask questions. >> what is your understanding of the word "skank." >> a hint of what they might be thinking. changing the world is exhausting business.

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>> can you imagine how much it must have hurt mr. alexander when you stuck that knife right into his chest? >> that was argumentative. >> in arizona, lawyers aren't the only ones who can grill witnesses. after weeks of testifying, jodi arias faced questions from the jury. >> this is the time set for the court to ask the questions you have submitted. how is it that you were so calm on the television interviews?

>> it's rare that jurors get to ask questions and this jury asked hundreds and hundreds of questions to witnesses and to the defendant herself. this is the woman who was facing murder one charges and the death penalty and the jury asking her questions. some of them very, very important questions. others just a little sarcastic. >> what is your understanding of the word "skank." >> they had questions about jodi's sex life with travis. >> if you didn't want to be tied up to a tree, why would you go up and look for a place where he could do that? >> questions about her killing travis. >> were you mad at travis while you were standing there. >> and question after question about jodi's many lies. >> why did you decide to tell the truth two years after the killing. why did you wait for so long to tell the truth. would you decide to tell the truth if you never got arrested? >> i honestly don't know the

answer to that question. >> i believe that jurors who asked those questions did not believe her. >> after the barrage of testimony from a few more defense witnesses, next up, prosecutor juan martinez with rebuttal witnesses. martinez worked to cast doubt on every aspect of jodi's story. both what she claimed happened and what the defense witnesses said was her state of mind. >> jeannine demarte had conducted a 12-hour interview. >> did you have an opinion to what the diagnosis was in this case? >> after looking at that, taking into consideration her behavior obama ser valgss and all of the pieces of information i had, yes. i did. >> and what was that? >> i diagnosed her as access 2

borderline personality disorder. >> you can think of it as to what we see in teenagers. this unstable interpersonal relationships and an unstable sense of identity, meaning who am i as a person? tles's this constant fluctuation. >> the defense attempted to discredit demarte's diagnosis by calling one last witness. do you have an opinion? >> yes. >> what is that opinion? >> she does not appear to have an adequate understanding of their uses or their interpretation or the actual ways those tests are to be used. >> finally, closing arguments. >> the key for the prosecution is premeditation. premeditation in this case is the road to first-degree, which is what then puts this case into

the death penalty phase. premeditation. that she reflected upon her plan to kill travis alexander. doesn't have to take a week. doesn't have to take a month. can just be a moment. but he has to prove that jo jodi arias had time to plan it and then act on that plan. >> at this time, the defendant, jodi anne arias killed travis alexander. even after stabbing him over and over again, and even after slashing his throat from ear to ear, and then even after taking a gun and shooting him in the face, she will not let him rest in peace. but, now, instead of a gun, instead of a knife, she uses lies.

and she uses these lies in court. she's an individual who is manipulative. this is an individual who wants to play victim. >> juan martinez, closing arguments, cheer theme is manipulation. if jodi arias manipulates everybody, including the members of the jury, by lying to them, lying to travis, lying to inv investigators. that's a theme throughout. >> then, it was the defense's turn. >> it's not even about whether or not you like jodi arias. >> something happened in the heat of passion between these two people who, at one time, were linked as lovers. >> he called her stupid.

he says even a five-year-old could hold a camera. and then he jumps. and then he attacks. and then he holds her down. and she remembers that on a previous occasion when he held her down, he had choked her to the point where she lost consciousness. she feared it might go farther. this time was different. he was angry. he was angry in ra different way. she was in reasonable fear that he was going to end her life. >> after four months of testimony and 18 days of jo jodi arias taking the stand, her fate rested with the jury. >> single count against jod jodi arias. first-degree murder. if they don't find first-degree, they can go down to second-degree. if there's no premeditation. if they find that it was done in the heat of passion, then it's

manslaughter. or if they believe self defense, the record is not guilty. >> ladies and gentlemen, i understand you have reached a verdict. >> it would take just over 15 hours to reach a verdict. >> the state of arizona versus jodi anne arias, verdict, count one. >> we do find the defendant as to count 1, first-degree murder, guilty. >> wow. wow. >> a huge win for juan martinez. juan martinez convinced 12 people that it was her attacking him that she planned it. it was her idea and she executed it. >> the victim's family breathed sighs of relief while the public

celebrated outside. they are all seated kbhiend everything. and you can hear them. you can see them. some are hugging, others are just breaking down and crying. >> jodi arias' reaction? measured. >> i don't think jodi ariss was shocked. she was able to talk her way through everything. but you can't talk your way out of first-degree murder. >> minutes after the verdict, jodi would do more talking, this time, with a local tv station. >> just a couple minutes ago, you heard the verdict from the

jury. what are your thoughts? >> i think it was unexpected, for me, because there was no premeditation on my card. >> i've been covering the nation's biggest trials for more than a decade. i've never seen this. the first thing you do, you don't huddle with your lawyers. you don't talk to your mom. >> jodi talks about her possible death sentence. >> i said years ago, i'd rather get death than life. and that's still true today. >> she says i'd rather die than spend life in prison. >> that's up for the jury to decide. >> well, next to jodi arias, sitting next to those jurors. >> they're going to decide whether or not she lives or

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welcome back. there you have it, a first-degree conviction against jodi arias. the arguments don't end there. the prosecution was especially cruel and warrants the death

penalty. more witnesses will be called and victim impact statements given. the defense may call its own witnesses and offer the jury reason to spare jodi's life. stay tuned to cnn for the latest developments. i'm randi kaye, thanks for watching. this is "piers morgan live." breaking news out of cleveland where three women were held for a decade. tonight the dna results are back, and it shows that ariel castro is the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old daughter. are there other children? what about the other victims? they're comparing his dna against national databases. plus developments about castro and the cell he was held in. and did he play favorites? we'll get to that in a moment. also, a homecoming ten years in the making. michelle knight is finally out of hospital released today. along with amanda berry, and gina dejesus, she is free after years of unspeakable crimes committed by ariel castro. a man many considered a monster.