we'll have a few beers and we'll talk about music, movies we love, and what's the most [ muted ] thing we can do next week. trucked up. did i say trucked up? >> a sordid story of sex, lies -- >> i'm not guilty. >> and audiotapes. >> certainly the best times with a freakin' romp session. >> we the jury find the defendant as to count one first degree murder guilty. >> though unanimous on their verdict, the jury deadlocked on the right penalty for arias.

>> now a new jury must decide whether it will cost jodi arias her life. in the next half-hour, revisit the crime and decide whether jodi deserves life or death. in the cnn spotlight, the trial of jodi arias. monday, june 9, 2008, 90 minutes until midnight in a mesa, arizona, community called mountain ranch. nobody had heard from travis alexander in five days. so a handful of concerned friends went looking for him. they found their friend pale and lifeless on the shower floor. >> 911 emergency. >> a friend of ours is dead in

his bedroom. we haven't heard from him in a while. his roommate just went in there and sees lots of blood. >> travis' body had 29 stab marks including the slash across his neck from ear to ear. this was a .25 caliber gunshot wound over his right eyebrow and massive amounts of blood all over the master suite. his friends had immediate suspicions about who did it. >> has he been threatened by anyone recently? >> yes, he has. he has an ex-girlfriend who's been bothering him and following him and slashing tires and things like that. her name is jodi. >> jodi arias, the woman travis met in las vegas two years before. >> we were there for a convention. our company 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. >> i knew that he was single and he was looking for ms. alexander. >> enter saleswoman and aspiring photographer jodi arias. >> i said hey, there's this cute girl i worked with. you should meet her. he said introduce me. i introduced them and they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. >> they met in vegas. the night they met it seems things heated up very quickly. because jodi arias 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. >> 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. >> but there were signs of trouble in the start. >> right away, travis' friends were concerned. it was clear she liked him a lot more than he liked her. >> by the summer of 2007, their relationship had schooled in part because of jodi's increasing jealousy over travis' interest in other women. >> jodi went through his phone and discovered flirty messages with 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 talks about how she loves travis so fully and completely, she didn't know any other way to be. he was just her entire focus. she was extremely obsessed with him. >> an obsession that led jodi to spying and violence against travis. >> she slashed his 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. >> on june 4, 2008, she made one last visit to her estranged lover's home, arriving in the wee hours of the morning. vinny politan covered the trial for hln. >> travis is there, according to her and he's online. and they go to sleep. then they wake up and they get back to what travis and jodi always do, which is engage in sex.

>> when travis was stabbed to death, jodi was immediately a suspect. but when investigators reached jodi by phone, she insisted she had 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 her at the crime screen, thanks to a hand print, hair and travis' camera discovered in his washing machine. at 5:30 a.m. jodi uses the camera to take the last picture of travis alive. he was in the shower. >> what if i can 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 and

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. >> the truth is i did not hurt travis. >> the very next day jodi decided to change her story to version two. claiming two intruders came into the house, attacked her and fatally stabbed travis. >> they didn't discuss much. they just argued. >> about what? >> about whether or not to kill me. >> for what reason? >> because i'm a witness. >> a witness of what? >> him, with travis. >> travis' murder?

>> she would final admit to killing travis but would claim it was self-defense. >> story one, i wasn't there. what are you talking about? version number two. all right, i was there but there were 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 side of the story. >> he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs.

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>> in the murder trial of jodi arias, guilty of count one, first degree murder. >> jodi arias killed travis alexander. there is no question about it.

the question is what 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 4, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> but she denied the charge against her, that she had planned travis' murder. >> why? >> 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 explanation was to blame the victim.

the defense portrays travis as conflicted, publicly a devout mormon, respected in his community, but privately, a man with lewd interests. jodi was, in the words of her defense attorney, travis' dirty little secret, something he vividly demonstrated in this lurid phone call. >> you were hot. touching yourself. >> when you hear this call, it's crucial to understand the difference, the difference between the type of person travis portrayed himself to be versus the things that he said on this recorded call. >> then there were the text messages. >> he said this photo shoot is

going to be one of the best experiences of your life and his. >> text messages from travis appearing to treat jodi as his sex slave. he also says you'll rejoice in being a whore whose soul purpose in life is to be mine to have animal sex with and please me in any way that i desire. >> the defense is trying literally to trash travis. >> to the defense, it was travis the monster, jodi his victim. but to the prosecution, it was all an unsustainable lie. >> the road to the death penalty here is paved with premeditat n 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, including this message

left on travis' voice mail after he was dead. . >> if there was 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 early efforts at a cover-up, jodi now took the jury through the grisly details of her version 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 can hold the camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on my 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, ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around. we were in the middle of the bathroom, pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that was stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop.

and he just kept running. he got, like a linebacker, he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did that, he was lunging at me, the gun went off. >> there's zero evidence, independent evidence other than words out of jodi arias' mouth that established travis alexander as a gun owner. there is none. >> your grandfather also had guns, didn't he? >> but there is evidence that jodi's grandfather owned a gun, a gun that martinez stole in a burglary she staged at the home she shared with her grandparents. when travis' body was found in the shower, there was only one bullet wound but almost 30 knife wounds and he had 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 and made a big noise. and i just remember screaming. i don't remember anything after that. there are a lot of things i don't remember. there are a lot of gaps. i don't know if i blacked out or what. there was a huge gap. >> but prosecutor martinez didn't buy any of it. and in his final exchange made his most important accusation that jodi arias was a liar. >> so you lied to him, right? >> well -- >> argumentative. asked and answered. >> you didn't tell the whole story then, right? that's what you said, right? >> that would be accurate. >> i don't have anything else. >> next, jurors get a chance to ask questions. >> what is your understanding of

the word skank? >> a hint of what they might be thinking.

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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 who is facing murder one charges and the death penalty. and the jury asking her questions. some of them very, very important questions. >> what is your understanding of the word skank. >> they had questions about jodi's sex life with the word 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 stabbing him? >> and question after question about jodi's many lies.

a. >> 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. >> after the barrage of questions, both sides wrapped their cases. after five months of testimony, including 18 days with jodi on the stand, her fate was in the hands of the jury. >> 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 em panelled and sworn 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. >> jury number four, is this your true verdict? >> yes. >> the victim's family was relieved. outside the courthouse the public celebrated. [ applause ] >> you have more of a 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. >> and jodi arias? >> i 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. >> but jodi wasn't finished

talking. as the case moved into the sentencing phase, jodi focused on convincing the jury that she deserves to live. >> over the years i've spent in incarceration, i had many requests from women to teach them spanish. i didn't have the time. in prison, i will. very recently, i couldn't imagine standing before you all and asking you to give me life. to me, life in prison was the must unappealing outcome i could possibly think of. i thought i would rather die. but as i stand here now, i can't in good conscious ask you to sentence me to death. >> ultimately, the jury deadlocked at the sentencing phase. >> no unanimous agreement. >> voting 8 to 4 for the death penalty. the judge had no choice but to declare a mistrial. now more than a year later, a new jury will convene to sentence jodi arias. new witnesses will be called and

a jury of her peers will finally decide her fate. giving her either life or death.