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tonight on "nightline" -- >> first degree murder -- guilty. >> moments after she's convicted of first degree murder, jodi arias speaks. >> i believe death is the ultimate freedom. >> an interview with the local fox station, she sends a message to the family of the man she murdered. >> i hope that now that a verdict has been rendered that they're able to find peace. >> four months on trial, tonight, jodi arias is on suicide watch. should she be sentenced to death? home at last, more than a decade of torture, three young women are efrooed. and tonight, chilling video of the man suspected of locking

them inside that house of horrors.

good evening, thanks for joining us. after four months of shocking evidence, tearful accounts of self-defense and stomach-turning details of a grizzly killing, the jodi arias case neared its end today when an arizona jury found arias guilty of murder in the first degree, but it's not over yet. in the wake of this highly anticipated verdict, the same jury now holds her life in their hands. here's abc's ryan owens. >> the state of arizona versus jodi anne arias, verdict, count one. >> they were the words the family has been waiting to hear.

>> as to count one of first degree murder, guilty. >> reporter: travis' family broke down in turns. for the woman convicted, jodi arias barely flinched. it was almost as if she knew it was coming. immediately after the verdict, arias spoke to the fox affiliate in phoenix with this message for the victim's family. >> i hope that now that a verdict has been rendered that they're able to find peace, some sense of peace. >> reporter: arias also said she was surprised by the verdict. >> it was unexpected for me, yes. because there was no premeditation on my part. i can see how things look that way. but i didn't expect premeditation. >> reporter: outside the phoenix courthouse, the crowd erupted as word spread this state's most notorious defendant was a convicted killer. >> she's evil. and i love when evil people go

down. >> i don't want to hear about her ever again. >> reporter: travis' closest friends, chris and skye hughes sat down with abc news just after the verdict. >> skye and i were best friends with travis until the day he died. and we did a lot of fun things together. and it has been -- it's been a tough five years. >> reporter: it took those eight men and four women just more than 15 hours to convict the 32-year-old killer of premeditated murder. she stabbed alexander 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and then shot him in the head in the bathroom of his mesa, arizona, home. not a big surprise that jodi arias was convicted of first degree murder. there was not just evidence that she killed travis alexander, she admitted that. but the evidence of premadation was pretty overwhelming. >> reporter: hln anchor nancy grace has been following every sensational detail of the trial.

>> it was as if she was looking each one in the eyes, beseeching them to reverse their verdict. >> juror number one, is that your true verdict? >> yes. >> i think truly this is the first time that jodi arias has ever been held accountable for what she did. >> reporter: before reaching this verdict, the jury heard four months of tawdry and often tearful testimony. >> i just couldn't believe what had happened. that i couldn't take anything back, what had just happened. >> reporter: a remarkable 18 days of them from jodi arias herself. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4, 20012348 -- 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> the simple answer is that he attacked me. and i defended myself. >> reporter: her defense came right from her own mouth, that she killed her ex-boyfriend travis alexander before he could kill her. she told the jury of a violent

fight for life that happened in travis' bathroom on june 4 of 2008. the aspiring photographer said she was snapping sexy photos of her ex in the shower when she dropped his new camera. >> he said i'm going to [ bleep ] kill you, bitch. he body slammed me on the tile. >> reporter: the 32-year-old even acteded out how she claimed travis lunged at her. she said she shot him in the head. >> what factors influence you having a memory problem? >> men or people like you yelling at me or travis doing the same. >> reporter: juan martinez has a very different story about what happened that fateful summer day in the bloody alexander's mesa, arizona, home. >> she slit his throat, stabbed in the heart and we know she shot him. there are three different ways that she killed him.

>> reporter: he told the jury arias stocked the mormon businessman and planned his murder so no other woman could have him. travis' own friends suspected jodi immediately. >> reporter: shanna hogan is a true crime writer who followed this case from the beginning. she interviewed travis' friends who found his decomposing body five days after she killed him for her book "picture perfect." >> they go to the door and the door is locked. they're hit with this putrid smell and they open up the door and the light shining from the bathroom is reflecting off a blood pool on the carpet. and the room made and one of the friends goes in and they follow this path of bloody footprints up to the show wrer ther where the friend lying there dead. >> reporter: once the friends find travis in this condition, they're obviously panicked, but they have an initial thought about who might have done this? >> from the moment of the 911

call, people are pointing the finger es at jodi. everyone in his life knew jodi was obsessed with him. they knew he was coming into his house, break into his facebook page, reading his e-mails. he told everyone in his life. and they were all aware of this woman. and so immediately, on the 911 call, the friends are saying jodi, you need to look at jodi. >> reporter: but at this point, detectives have no evidence that those friends are right until one cop notices a clue a long way from the bathroom. >> as he's exiting the house, he passes through the laundry room and he sees a red smear on the washing machine. and inside is where we discover the clue that unlocks this whole case. >> reporter: and that is? >> the camera with the photos of him on his last day of his life. photos of him in sexually provocative photos with jodi. and then the second batch of photos of him in the shower. and then a final batch, which are these photos of him and he's bleeding on the ground.

and he's being murdered. >> that's right. detectives not only had pictures of the couple having sex the day of the crime and the shower pose, but they actually had a shot of jodi arias moving travis' bloody body. and that's when the lies began. on these police interrogation tapes played in court, first she denied being at travis' mesa, arizona, home. >> if he was here today, he would tell you it wasn't me. >> reporter: when confronted with the pictures and a mountain of forensic evidence. >> that is not my foot. >> reporter: jod icon cobbed a new tale, she was at travis' house that fateful day when two masked intruders broke in and slaughtered him but spared her. she even acted out the dramatic scene for the detectives. >> and i was just going through the pictures and i heard this loud ring. >> reporter: the detective didn't buy it. and jodi was arrested for murder. she flashed a smile in her mug shot.

since being locked up, she's made quite a name for herself, winning jailhouse singing competitions. and granting national television interviews, like this one with the show "inside edition" where she made this bold prediction. >> no jury is going to convict me. >> reporter: why not? >> because i'm innocent. you can mark my words on that one. no jury will convict me. >> reporter: she was wrong about that. now the same jury will decide if she lives or dies. the penalty section will start tomorrow afternoon and it could last several weeks. >> i don't think she deserves the freedom of life without parole. i think she deserves the life of somebody on death row. >> the worst outcome would be natural life. i would much rather die sooner than later. longevity runs in my family and i don't want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place. i believe death is the ultimate freedom, so i would rather just have my freedom as soon as i can

get it. >> reporter: tonight, that statement has landed jodi arias on suicide watch in jail. tomorrow, the same eight men and four women who just convicted her of first degree murder will hear evidence that could decide if she, in fact, becomes the third woman on arizona's death row. i'm ryan owens for "nightline" in phoenix. >> our thanks to ryan owens for that. next, homecoming after more than a decade in captivity, two of the cleveland kidnapping victims return home. but what did they endure while a madman locked them away? ♪ [ lighter flicking ] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where giving up isn't who you are. ♪ this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have.

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. a decades ago, three young women went missing in england. we now know they were held in an abductor's home just miles from where they were kidnapped. tonight, two of the brave women leave the hospital, returning to homes they wondered if they would ever see again. authorities are uncovering horrifying details about the captor charged with kidnapping and rape. here's byron pitts reporting from cleveland. byron? >> reporter: cynthia, we're standing outside the house of the accused. this has been a day of raw emotion and new heart breaking details about what the women allegedly endured, rape, forced abortions and years of being treated, not like human beings but property. healing, the experts del us, is a long way off. but they're on the road.

thunderous applause welcomed amanda berry first. her sister spoke for the family. >> i want to thank the public and the media for their support and courage over the years. at this time, our family would request privacy so my sister and niece and i can have time to recover. >> reporter: and the doors are opening. hours later, gina dejesus was back in her old neighborhood, hidden between a hoodie. she gave the crowd a thumb's up. amidst the joys of the homecoming, details are beginning to emerge about the years in captivity and the man accused of committing the crimes. her mother called today the best mother's day present ever. >> i want to thank everybody that believed even when i said

he was alive and believed. >> reporter: abc news has learned amanda, gina and michele knight told authorities they were abducted the same way. the accused allegedly offered each a ride home but instead they ended up here at his house. michele in 2002, amanda in '03, gina a year later. once inside this two-story house, the unthinkable. year after year. a senior officer in the cleveland police department tells abc news, each girl would be chained in the basement and raped. quote, once their spirit was broken, the chains were no longer necessary. they were moved upstairs. according to sources in the investigation who spoke to abc's cleveland affiliate wews, amanda's daughter was born inside the house. she was forced to deliver the child in a small inflatable pool so, quote, the mess was easy to clean up. one of the other captain is, michele, delivered the child and

was allegedly told by castro, if this baby dies, so will you. michele was said to have told authorities, she was impregnated five times. each time she says, castro allegedly aborted the child by punching her in the stomach repeatedly. police told us for a time two of the girls were kept in a same room, another down the hall. they were allowed on rare moments to go outside in the backyard wearing wigs, sunglasses, their heads down. as the police chief told abc news's david muir, the one captive with the most freedom was amanda's 6-year-old daughter jocelyn. >> she did leave the house. i have information that she did leave the house occasionally with the suspect. >> reporter: for nearly a decade, these three young women endured both physical and emotional abuse. two were schoolgirls, 14 and 16 years old. the oldest 20 when we were abducted. when the chance came, amanda escaped first through this front door. >> help me, i'm amanda berry.

i've been kidnapped and i've been missing for ten years and i'm here. i'm free now. >> reporter: and the other two ran into the arms of the police officers who entered the house. >> we found them. we found them. >> reporter: as for the accused, ariel castro, he virtually came and went as he pleased for ten years. this is the one time we hear his voice when he was stopped by police for riding a motorcycle without a helmet in 2008. >> what's wrong? >> you don't have a helmet on. you don't have the license to operate. you're subject to being arrested. is that what you want? >> no, sir. >> reporter: a public school bus driver unless he was suspended and fired later for negligence. he was also a fill-in bass player for a local latin jazz band. the band's manager describes him as a talented musician and talented man. >> good guy, gift mud situation?

>> very talented. >> any indication at all that he might have had a dark side? >> no. >> reporter: not surprising says northeastern university professor and criminal profiler james fox. >> time and time again, we see people who have a dark side, a secret side that they don't share with other people at all. >> reporter: castro will have his say in court. the fbi removed some 200 items in his home and searched a house next door. but this day, the public stage belonged to the families of his alleged victims. >> has she said anything you can share with us in particular? >> what more can she say? her face, her expression, her smile, hugging, says it all. >> reporter: once inside the house, gina bonded easily with her immediate family, but shied away a bit from her other relatives. those first few minutes at home, there was very little talking but plenty of crying. and we're told when gina saw her

father for the first time, she said to him, quote, dad, you stopped smoking yet? her answer, yes. this young woman who endured so much hardship maintained a sense of humor. cynthia? >> byron, that is great to hear. thanks for the report. next, hours after jurors in the jodi arias case reached a verdict, we asked, should she be sentenced to death? [ male announcer ] start with a dodge dart. now give it a "tiger shark" engine and 41 mpg. good. now add some of this. and that. definitely him. and her. a little more of her. perfect. time out. how we doin'? [ car accelerating ] okay, let's take it up a notch. give it a heap of this, one of those and that. got anything with grappling hooks and a plane? [ explosions ] yeah, that'll work. ♪ tens of thousands of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! go to e-trade and roll over your old 401(k)s to a new e-trade retement account.

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>> we turn back now to the jodi arias trial. it took jurors over 15 hours of deliberation to find jodi arias guilty of murder in the first degree today. it is a conviction that carries the possibility of a death sentence. in the coming days, the same jury that convicted her will decide whether she should be sentenced to death for shooting, stabbing and slashing her one-time boyfriend travis alexander. under the law, at least one so-called aggravating circumstance must be found by the jury. for example, did arias act in a cold and calculated manner? or did arias commit the murder in an especially heinous, cruel or depraved manner? if the jury answers yes to any of these question, she could become the third woman on arizona's death row. tonight, arias is on a suicide watch after telling a reporter she saw death as the ultimate freedom and would rather die