hello, i'm randi kaye. it was a shocking trial. revealing details of sex, stalking, and secrets. now, five years after jodi arias killed her boyfriend, after four months of riveting testimony, we have a verdict. guilty of first degree murder. tonight, watch the testimony, weigh the evidence yourself, and you decide whether you agree or 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 viers. a sordid story of sex, lies --

>> i'm not guilty. >> and audio tapes. >> certainly the best times -- >> the trial of jodi ann arias has finally come to a dramatic end. >> state of arizona versus jodi ann areas 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 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. i listened to the same evidence that the 12 jurors listened to. i was 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 had a big event there. i was there in las vegas with him. >> travis alexander was a motivational speaker. compelling, and effective.

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 miss alexander. >> enter saleswoman and aspiring photographer jodi arias. >> and i told travis, hey, there's this cute girl that i work with, you should meet her. he goes, introduce me. so i introduced them, and then they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. >> they met in vegas. the night they met, it seemed that they -- things heated up very quickly because jodi arias has said within a week or so, they're having sex in the car. >> jodi and travis had an instant 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 shore of

"picture perfect" about the jodi arias case. >> from the very beginning, travis and jodi were almost in constant communication. they talked every day. they exchanged thousands of e-mails and text messages. >> jodi was so attracted to travis, that she converted to the church of latter-day saints because travis was a mormon. >> she started to inquire more about the lds faith and ended up joining the church, which i'm sure that brought their relationship, made it even stronger. >> to outsiders, travis and jodi appeared devout, a pure mormon couple. but 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' longtime

friends. many of whom found his new love a bit odd. and a bit troubling. >> we don't like jodi coming over to our home, we feel very uncomfortable with her in our home. >> david hughes recalls a chilling encounter between his brother, his sister-in-law, and jodi arias. >> while 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' trends were concerned. it was clear that she liked him a lot more than he liked her. travis wanted a normal 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 travis had wanted desperately since growing up in riverside, california. >> travis' childhood was full of

poverty, neglect, physical violence. >> his parents were both addicted to drugs, and so he wasn't raised by his parents. he was eventually his grandmother is the one that raised him. but yeah, 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 played the flute. 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 doesn't describe like incidences of physical violence. >> jodi and travis burned red hot. at least for awhile. 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 their 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. he was just her entire focus. and 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, you know, kissing another girl on his couch and she's spying on him. that's what's really happening there. >> she slashes tires, she broke into his e-mail account, 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 4th, 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, 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 met. >> coming up, a sex-fueled afternoon explodes into an or ji of violence. [ jennifer garner ] why can't powerful sunscreen feel great? actually it can. neutrogena® ultra sheer. its superior uva uvb protection helps prevent early skin aging and skin cancer, all with the cleanest feel.

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so a handful of concerned friends went looking for him. >> so another friend, they get the code to the garage. they go inside the house. it smells. there's a foul odor hanging in the air. >> they found their friend pale and lifeless on the shower floor. >> oh, my gosh. >> 911 emergency. >> a friend of mine is dead in his bedroom. we haven't heard from him for awhile. his roommates just went in there and said there's lots of blood. >> travis' body had nearly 29 stab wounds. including the slash across his neck from ear to ear. there was a .25 caliber gunshot wound over his right eyebrow and massive amounts of blood all over the master suite. soaked into the bedroom carpet, and splattered all over the bathroom. the sink, the mirror, the floor. his friends has immediate suspicions about who did it. >> has he been threatened by anyone recently? >> yes, he has. he has an ex-girlfriend that's

been bothering him, and following him and slashing tires and things like that. her name's jodi. >> but when investigators reached jodi by phone, she insisted she'd been nowhere near mesa. for months. this was version one of her story. >> that was around april that you last saw him, right? >> early april. >> you haven't been back in town since then? >> no, i haven't at all. >> but investigators are able to place jodi at the crime scene, thanks to a handprint, hair, and travis' camera, discovered in his washing machine. >> 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 they find these photos? and detective flores got the call. you're not going to believe this. what we've got. >> the memory card survived the wash? >> 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. because 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 falls. maybe he's on his hands and knees, and that's when she did the cue day gras across his next. and then turned him over and turned him around and graged him down the hall. >> 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

were there? >> i wasn't there. >> you need to be honest with me, jodi. >> i was not at travis' house. i was not. >> you were at travis' house. you guys had a sexual encounter, which there's pictures. >> are you sure those pictures aren't from another time? >> positive. absolutely positive. >> by now, it was july. jodi was in police custody, but she was still sticking to version number one. >> this is absolutely over. 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. >> this is his shower. >> 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 didn't discuss much. they just argued. >> about what? >> about whether or not to kill me. >> because i witnessed. >> witnessed what? >> him. travis. >> of travis' murder? >> jodi took version two to the court of public opinion months later on the show "inside edition." >> i witnessed travis being

attacked by two 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. wasn't there. what are you talking about? verse number two, all right, i was there. but there was these two ninjas that came in, and they killed travis and they threatened to kill me, and i was able to get out of there. story three, i was there. and i did it. but i did it in self-defense because travis was going to kill me. >> coming up, the trial. jodi takes the stand to give her

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the state of arizona versus jodi anne arias, indictment. count one, first-degree murder, premeditated 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. >> after telling two different stories about her innocence, jodi now admitted, under oath, she was the killer. >> 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 me. and i defended myself. >> 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 a 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 session's" beth karas 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 that, 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.

>> to try and shatter the image of travis as the pure, mormon man. >> in your religion, is pre-marital sex allowed? >> no. >> did travis claim to be a virgin? >> yes, he did. >> did he seem happy to be a virgin? >> yes. >> and did he seem proud? >> yes. >> travis alexander, there's no question he was conflicted. he was trying to be a good mormon and probably was, except when it came to jodi arias. she would have sex with him. and they kept it a secret. but if this got out it would hurt his standing in his church, 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. >> you are hot.

>> 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. >> that was so hot. that actually, so like the way you moan sounds like a 12-year-old girl having her first orgasm. it's so hot. >> 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 their strategy was that everything that happened in her life, from her childhood, and through all the relationships with men, culminated in this killing. >> your life was pretty ideal up until about age 7.

something different after age 7, or -- >> i think that's the first year my dad started using the belt. >> jodi told the court that her brawny father inflicted great pain. >> when i became my teenager my dad would get rougher and rougher. he would just shove me into furniture, sometimes into the piano, or things like that, into tables, chairs, desks, whatever was around. he would just push me really hard and i would go flying into that. >> 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 anything -- 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. >> for the victim's family, sitting in the courtroom, the portrayal of an allegedly 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 kind of went sailing off the bed and it was a picture of a little boy. >> the defense is trying, literally, to trash travis. you are still willing to be tied to a tree, if that's what he wanted? >> attack his character. >> a sort of aggressive and authoritative. >> make the jury dislike him. >> he said i looked like a pure whore. >> hate him. loathe him. because he is the bad guy. he's the evil doer, he's the

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no jury is going to convict me. >> why not? >> because i'm innocent. and you can mark my words on that one. no jury will convict me. >> i made that statement in september 2008, i believe it was. and at the time i had plans to commit suicide. so i was extremely confident that no jury would convict me because i didn't expect any of you to be here. >> and you're saying that you're going to not 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? >> no. >> objection. >> sustained. >> jodi arias has since admitted

to killing travis alexander. but claimed it was a justified split-second decision to save her own life. >> the road to the death penalty here is paved with premeditation. that's what the prosecution has to prove. so where do they go for premeditation? >> for starters, prosecutor juan martinez 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. >> yes. >> correct? >> the color red seems to stand out, doesn't it? >> i don't know. i just 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 exhibit number 365. >> so i wasn't getting back to

anybody. so i drove 100 miles in the wrong direction, thank you very much. you were here to prevent me from going into the three digits so fun, fun. tell you about it later. >> 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. >> and so you called mr. alexander and you left him a message, right? >> yes. >> but despite her earlier efforts at a cover-up, jodi now took the jury through the grisly details of the 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 5-year-old could hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. so i ran into the closet and i slammed the door. >> then, jodi reached for a .25 caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around and we were in the middle of the bathroom, i pointed it at him with both of my hands. 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 as he was

lunging at me, the gun went off. >> there's zero evidence, independent evidence, evidence other than words out of jodi arias' mouth that establish travis alexander as a gun owner. there is none. >> your grandfather also had guns, didn't he? >> prosecutor juan martinez's theory is that one week before killing travis, jodi had staged a burglary at the home she shared with her grandparents. >> you heard what items were taken, including a .25 caliber handgun, you heard that, right? >> yes, i heard that. >> prosecutors were questioning this burglary because they believed the .25 caliber gun that was allegedly stolen from her grandfather's house, was actually the gun used by jodi arias to shoot travis alexander. >> when travis' body was found in the shower, 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 have no memory of stabbing him. i was in the bathroom. i remember dropping the knife and it clanged to the tile. it made a big noise. and i just remember screaming. i don't remember anything after that. there is a lot of that day that i don't remember. there are a lot of gaps. like i don't know if i blacked out or what. there's a huge gap. >> she had such memory recall of things from years before, details of meals and how many people were in the elevator, what happened on this date and 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. >> are you saying that you're

having a hard time remembering things that have happened to you now that you shot him? >> yes. >> so it appears that your memory is faulty immediately upon you shooting him? >> yeah, things get very foggy from there. >> so immediately -- 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. >> it appears as if she suffers from dissociative amnesia. and according to the research, the more intense the trauma, the more likely and the more complete the amnesia. >> dr. samuels said jodi's amnesia was caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. ptsd. another defense expert testified that jodi was a victim of domestic violence. >> given everything that you have reviewed, that you've read

in this case, that you've seen, do you have an opinion, an ultimate opinion in your expertise about whether or not ms. arias was in an abusive relationship? >> 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. >> i'm sorry, i don't see it that way. >> right, you wouldn't see it that way because you have to stand for the defendant, right? >> i beg your pardon, sir. >> you seem to be having trouble answering my question. >> i have -- >> if you have a problem understanding the question, ask me that. if you want to spar with me, is that -- will that affect the way you view your testimony? >> objection. >> sustained. >> and on his final exchange with jodi arias, martinez made perhaps his most important point. that she is a liar. >> so you lied to him, right?

>> well -- >> objection, argumentative. asked and answered. >> you didn't tell the whole story then, right? that's what you said, right? >> that would be accurate. >> nothing else, thank you. >> 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. [ female announcer ] love. it's the most powerful thing on the planet. love holds us in the beginning. comforts us as we grow old. love is the reason you care. for all the things in your life... that make life worth living. ♪ ♪ sweet love of mine

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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 really must have hurt, right? >> objection, argumentative. >> sustained. >> 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. i mean, this is the woman whose facing murder one charges and the death penalty, and the jury asking her questions. some of them very, very important questions.

others, 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 the jurors who asked those questions did not believe her. >> after the barrage of questions and testimony from a few more defense witnesses -- >> at this point the defense rests. >> 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. clinical psychologist janine demarte had cutted a 12-hour clinical interview. >> i conducted the four tests we already discussed. >> after that did you have an opinion as to what the diagnosis was in this case? >> after looking at that, taking into consideration her behavioral observations 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. >> what does that mean? >> you can think of it similar to what we see in teenagers often. a sense of immaturity. there's unstable interpersonal relationships, unstable emotions. and an unstable sense of identity, meaning who am i as a person? there's this constant there's this constant fluctuation.

>> you can think of it as to what we see in teenagers. there's a lot of manipulation. >> 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 how to administer these tests and make a diagnosis? >> 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 jodi arias planned the killing,

had time to reflect on it and then acted on that plan. >> this individual, the defendant, jodi ann arias, killed travis alexander. and 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 when she testified. she's an individual who is manipulative. this is an individual who wants to play the victim. >> juan martinez, closing arguments, clear theme is manipulation. if jodi arias manipulates everybody, including the members

of the jury, by lying to them, lying to travis, lying to investigators. that's a theme throughout. >> then, it was the defense's turn with kurt nurmi making their case. >> it's not even about whether or not you like jodi arias. nine days out of ten, i don't like jodi arias. >> anything less than first degree is a victory for the defense here. so what you want to play is obviously their story of self-defense, that something happened in the heat of passion between these two people who, at one time, were linked as lovers. >> jodi arias says travis alexander yelled at her for dropping the camera. he called her stupid. he says even a 5-year-old could hold a camera. and then he jumps. out. 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 a different way. she was in reasonable fear that he was going to end her life. >> after four months of testimony and 18 days of jodi arias taking the stand, her fate rested with the jury. >> single count against 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, then it's not guilty. >> please be seated. the record will show the presence of the jury, the defendant and all counsel. 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 ann arias, verdict, count one. we the jury duly empaneled and sworn in the above entitled action, upon our both, do find the defendant, as to count one, first degree murder, guilty. >> wow. wow. 12 people, all agreeing that this was premeditated murder. 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. >> juror number four, is this your true verdict? >> yes. >> the victim's family breathed sighs of relief while the public celebrated outside. >> you have more reaction from travis alexander's siblings, who are all seated behind 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 arias was shocked. but i think this is a confusing part of her life, because i think she always got her way. because she took advantage of her looks. she took advantage of who she was, and 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 i just went blank. it was unexpected for me, yes, because there was no premeditation on my part. >> i've prosecuted cases, i've been covering the nation's biggest trials for more than a decade. i've never seen this. you've just been convicted of first degree murder, and the

first thing you do, you don't huddle with your lawyers, you don't talk to your mom. >> jodi talked about her possible death sentence. >> i said years ago, i'd rather get death than life. and that still is true today. i believe death is the ultimate freedom. so, i'd rather just have my freedom as soon as i can get it. >> she's saying, i'd rather die than spend life in prison. >> that's up to the jury to decide. >> well, next for jodi arias is sitting in front of those same 12 jurors. eight men and four women who found that she premeditated the kidding of travis alexander, and they're going to decide whether or not she lives or dies. >> juror number two, is this your true verdict? >> yes. >> juror number three, is this your true verdict? actually it can. neutrogena® ultra sheer. its superior uva uvb protection helps prevent early skin aging and skin cancer, all with the cleanest feel. it's the best for your skin.

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welcome back. there you have it, a first degree murd irer conviction against jodi arias. but the arguments don't end there. now the prosecution will attempt to prove the murder 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. the monster is a goner. a cnn exclusive. ariel castro's brothers speak out for the very first time. what it was like to be implicated in the rape and kidnappings of three women. and behind the scenes of their time behind bars with their brother, as well. >> multiple gunmen open fire at a mother's day parade. this morning the manhunt is under way. shocking new developments in the case of the 8-year-old girl found stabbed to death in her california home. why police have arrested her 12-year-old brother. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." a big, big morning here. i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it is monday, may 13th. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. dramatic new v