but what you might not expect, is you can get all this with a prepaid card. spends like cash. feels like membership. jodi became travis' drug. he very much recognized how bad she was for him. but she kept showing up in his life, and just like a drug addict, he kept letting her right back in the door. >> the trial that riveted the country is finally over. >> we, the jury, find the defendant as to count one, first degree murder, guilty. >> jodi arias who brutally murdered her lover could face death herself. >> did you ever think that she would do what you did? who would think that? >> it was a steamy story of sex. >> we hang out, we have sex. >> lies. >> she believes the lies. >> and murder.

>> tonight after one of the most sensational and bizarre trials ever, stories you haven't heard from her friends. >> you see any cuts on her? >> tiny little cuts. >> and his. >> he was very afraid of her. but every time he tried to break things off with jodi she would threaten to kill herself. >> inside the jodi arias trial. >> this isn't a ride at disney land, guys, this is somebody who was tragically murdered. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." here's josh mankiewicz. >> mr. alexander was stabbed. it would be you that did it, correct? >> yes. >> the jodi arias trial never played as a murder mystery. jodi, after all, had admitted to 12 jurors in open court, and a few million viewers on tv, that

she was the one who shot, stabbed and then stabbed some more, her former boyfriend and secret sex partner. >> as to count one, first degree murder, guilty. >> why then did so many millions of trial followers stick around for the final act? and why did so many leave home and work to gather on the courthouse steps to await the final verdict. tonight with new information and new interviews we'll take an in-depth look at the case into why jodi arias became so obsessed with travis alexander and why so many of you became obsessed with this trial. we start with this home video played for the jury. it shows travis holding court amid a circle of friends.

but go closer and you'll see tenderly nestled in his lap. that's jodi in much happier times, when she and travis first started dating. no hint then of what was coming. >> we were excited for travis finding something he was interested in. >> chris hughes was travis' mentor at work. that's him on the couch with travis and jodi. chris and his wife scott were there when the two met. >> when we met her that first night, we liked her. >> yeah. >> right off the bat, thought she was someone that would be a good match for travis. >> reporter: aaron dewey was a roommate of travis'. >> aside from the chemistry that was already there there seemed to be a lot of emotional chemistry right after the bat, as well. >> jodi arias has been described as seductive, sexy, sultry, and travis alexander, when they first met, probably felt he was every bit her counterpart. he was a success insurance salesman, handsome, charismatic. dave hall worked with travis and was close to him.

glad friend, close friend? >> very good friend. >> best friend? >> it's funny because i've seen recently numerous people come forward and say, hey, he was my best friend. and that's just the type of guy travis was. he made everybody feel like you were his best friend. >> according to his friends, travis was more than a bit of a ladies' man. but this time, travis was out of his league. >> jodi became travis' drug. he was able to get something from her that he couldn't get anywhere else with the good, wholesome mormon girls that he typically dated here in arizona. >> which was what, not just sex but crazy sex or -- >> yeah. >> sex -- >> over the top, over-the-top stuff. >> jodi used sex to control travis. at first she tried to be like this good girl with morals and values, and then that didn't work and so then she turned on the sex. >> and that had travis, a devout mormon, tied up in knots,

breaking the church's law of chastity, that is having sex before marriage is serious stuff. mormons believe the sinner risks an eternity in hell if he or she fails to repent before death. the result seems to have been that travis kept his relationship with jodi in the closet. >> he wanted people to believe, especially the girls that he was dating that he was still a virgin. that he was still worthy to have a healthy long-term marriage with a good mormon girl. >> this was a guy leading a double life? >> yeah. >> jodi tried to resolve that conflict by converting to mormonism, only to find it wasn't good enough for travis. he summoned his will and broke it off with her. the moral equation may have been cruel, but to travis it was undeniable. jodi's lust, her willingness to have sex in all sorts of ways before marriage might have made

her the perfect secret girlfriend, but it simultaneously disqualified her as a wife. >> she was not going to be the one that he was going to spend the rest of his life with and he communicated that to her. >> that would make anybody feel pretty bad, pretty hurt. >> i think he way he put it is we are going to be friends but we both agree it is time to start seeing other people. >> what travis kept secret from his friends is that he and jodi were still having sex. what he didn't keep secret were his concerns that jodi was stalking him. >> he was very disturbed by her behavior, but every time he tried to break things off with jodi, she would threaten to kill herself. >> clearly jodi wasn't serious about suicide. we know that now because at the time she was making those threats she was prowling sales conventions and on the phone at night flirting with a guy named ryan burns. >> she seemed like a cool girl. we exchanged numbers. but about two or three weeks after that, she started talking on the phone.

four, five times a week. >> during one of those calls, jodi promised to visit ryan. and one morning in june 2008, she came knocking at his door. he had no idea what had just happened at travis' house in arizona. and he didn't know jodi had been there just one day before. how did she look? >> she looked fine. she just looked normal. >> did you see any cuts on her? >> tiny, little cuts. she had a couple of little bandages on her hands. there wasn't a moment where i thought, are you okay, is anything wrong? we were laughing about simple little things. she seemed totally in to the moment. >> back in arizona, travis' friends found him dead. his home a bloody crime scene. in the washing machine, police found a water-logged camera that would come to mean everything in this case. some of travis' friends like chris and sky hughes suspected

jodi from the start. >> i knew in that very moment that jodi arias did it. >> he turned to me and said jodi did this. >> ryan burns thought he knew jodi, and the girl he knew was no killer. >> i honestly and genuinely didn't believe she could have had anything to do with it. i thought there is no way. i mean this girl wouldn't even let me kill a spider on the wall because she didn't want to hurt god's creature. i mean -- >> then you started to hear from other friends of yours and people that were friends of travis that they suspected her. >> right. people told me not to take her calls. people told me not to talk to her. but at that point she had become either a good friend, that this is a horrible time to turn a back on her, or it was just the situation where, am i really talking to a murderer? >> aaron dewey wasn't sure what to believe. jodi he said played the role of the innocent perfectly. 13 days after travis' murder she volunteered to talk to the mesa police. asking dewey for a ride to the station.

tell me what happened in the car that day? >> ironically nothing out of the ordinary. she was acting like nothing was going on. >> and she came out and said what? everything's fine? >> we're good. let's go home. >> what else did she say about travis' murder? >> she claimed to know nothing about it. you know. she was saying she wasn't there. that she hadn't seen him in months. >> that's the story that jodi told police, as well, and the one she stuck with for weeks, up until the day police took her away in handcuffs. and that's when jodi's story started changing. >> when we come back, jodi's bizarre encounter with detectives and her last encounter with travis alexander. "love and death, cause on camera, for all the world to see. >> was there something that involved mr. alexander in the shower? >> yes. e over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time.

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a former boyfriend of hers, an individual that she was in love with. >> on january 2nd, four and a half years after the slaughter of travis alexander, the prosecutor opened the first-degree murder trial of jodi arias by talking about a love that had gone very, very wrong. >> she rewarded that love by sticking a knife in his chest. >> juan martinez laid out his case for jodi's guilt as detectives, technicians and analysts, one by one, took the stand and connected jodi to the crime. her hair and dna at the scene. >> so this hair that you examined, who did that match? >> the root matched jodi arias. >> a crime scene specialist testified she found jodi's bloody handprint on the wall. martinez had that part of the

wall brought in to court. >> what is it? >> this is the piece of wall that was cut out and collected as item number 77-lb. >> this is what we are looking at in the this photograph. >> while it is still in the wall, yes. >> perhaps the most damning evidence came from this sony camera, discovered in travis' washing machine. after weeks of work, technicians restored photos that were once deleted. >> and with regard to the items that were deleted were there some that involved mr. alexander in the shower? >> yes. >> what made the pictures key to the case had to do with a feature built in to the camera. >> these images, when you take them with this camera, it embeds the date and time that the camera has set on it to the file itself. >> meaning for the prosecution those photos, along with the other evidence, told a story. that jodi showed up at travis' home around 4 a.m. on june 4th, 2008. they had steamy sex until about

5:00 p.m. photographing each other as they did so. between 5:22 and 5:29, jodi took these time-stamped photos of travis in his shower about one minute after this picture was taken the repeated stabbing of travis alexander began. maricopa county medical examiner kevin horn testified that cuts on travis' hands help explain what happened as he was stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated and shot in the head. >> i believe the wounds to the hands must have occurred before the fatal injuries, either of the head or of the throat. >> at 5:31, the camera snaps what seems to be an accidental photo of the bathroom ceiling. the next photo at 5:32 shows travis on the floor, bleeding

profusely around the neck. in the foreground is what looks like a woman's pant leg. according to the prosecutor, it could only be jodi's. ryan burns testified telling the court the same story he told us about how jodi visited him in utah, one day after killing travis. >> she got on top of me pretty aggressi aggressively and we were kissing. >> martinez played for the jury powerful video of jodi lying outright to mesa police detective esteban flores just before her arrest. >> why won't you admit to it? >> i just can't. i didn't kill travis. >> you killed him. >> no. >> jodi, you did. >> i did not. >> an accusation that would make many people crumble but jodi persistently stuck to her story. >> were you at travis' house? >> absolutely not. i was nowhere near mesa. >> what's so remarkable looking back at this police interview tape is that even in the face of

immutable evidence, jodi can lie seamlessly, and deftly, and very creatively. because the next day, after being booked and charged with travis' murder, jodi had a completely different story to tell the police. admitting she was there that night. >> travis was screaming. >> but that masked intruders had burst in and killed travis and she had been too afraid to say anything. >> and i turned around and two people there, one was a guy and one was a girl. >> and then possibly in an effort to provoke the jury, martinez played a clip from an interview that jodi gave to "inside edition." >> no jury is going to convict me. >> why not? >> because i'm innocent and you can mark my words on that one. >> and it was through these videotapes the jury heard in jodi's own words how her story had evolved.

but it's the outtakes from these recordings, the parts the jury didn't see, that may also give insight in to how jodi operates. let's go back to the exchange between jodi and detective flores just before he confronted her with the photos from travis' camera. >> i was like, no. >> that's typical. >> yeah. >> if jodi was nervous she didn't show it. maybe because a giggle and head toss had worked on so many guys so many times before. >> i'm christian. i just live my life by the ten commandments and those are my rules. you know, thou shalt not this or that. but it does not say thou shalt not fornicate, so i just used to joke about that. >> then after her flirtatious routine fell flat and she was about to be arrested, jodi still seemed completely unworried. she laughed. and sang apparently to herself.

♪ i can't breathe until you're resting here with me ♪ >> facing murder charges, many of us might think the world had turned upside down, but for jodi arias, it was a chance to get in to a headstand. in yoga it is called salamba sirsasana, a cure for whatever is ailing you. then, finally, before letting bed away, she made one last request. >> this is really a trivial question and it's going to reveal how shallow i am. but before they book me can i clean myself up a little bit? >> she wanted to look good apparently -- >> forgot your makeup jodi, gosh. >> for this cheerful mug shot. in control and out to win over an audience no matter how big or small. which may explain why, when the defense was ready to put on its case, the first witness they called. >> you may come forward and take

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>> next that masked home invaders had killed travis. then in court came version number three. >> do you solemnly swear to tell the truth. >> this time she swore she was telling the whole truth. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4th, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> the simple answer is that he attacked me and i defended myself. >> having a client that's lied in the past makes it very difficult for a defense attorney. you are trying to play catchup the entire time, trying to prove your client is credible. >> ulysses farragut is a phoenix defense attorney who's tried death penalty cases but isn't part of the areas trial. he said jodi's defense team was right to put jodi on the stand, risky as it was, to try to connect with the jury. >> they do need to have the jury feel some sense of sympathy,

some sorrow for her. it was very important to humanize jodi. >> the defense started with the claim that jodi had suffered long-term physical and emotional abuse. first around the age of 7 from her parents. >> i think that's the first year my dad started using a belt. my mom began to carry a wooden spoon in her purse. >> jodi's parents, who were there for much of her testimony, won't say whether her claims are true. the defense theme of jodi as a victim continued with her accusations that she felt used and debased by travis alexander. >> what do you mean that you felt used? >> he gets a hotel room, i show up, we hang out, we have sex. i'm getting a lot of attention but only while we're engaging in sexual activity. i kind of felt like -- like a prostitute, sort of. >> the graphic sexual testimony

really goes to the heart of the question as to whether travis was physically and emotionally abusing her through the sexual relationship they had. >> the jury heard a recording jodi made, she said, at travis' request of a steamy phone call. >> you're mad. you make me feel so dirty. >> you are dirty. >> did you and travis ever videotape yourself while having sex? >> yes. >> and whose desire was for that to take place? >> at his. >> defense exert alice la vie olate who co-authored a book about battered women, suggested e-mails from travis' friends to jodi showed travis took advantage of women. >> they advised her to move on from the relationship. that mr. alexander has been abusive to women.

>> that testimony heard by millions and the jury was stricken by the judge. jodi's defense lawyers never called to the stand the author of those e-mails, chris and sky hughes, who say their words were twisted by the defense. >> it doesn't exist. the abuse does not exist. >> what is it like to see your words used as a murder defense when the victim was your friend? >> it is gut wrenching. you know, they're using our words to make travis like something that he absolutely was not. >> he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. >> during her marathon 18 days on the stand, 11 coming under friendly defense questioning, jodi said travis had once become enraged after they'd argued over money. >> he went to kick me again and i put my hand out. >> what happened after that. >> i screamed really loud. i think i yelled out, my finger, or my hand, or something to that effect.

>> jodi showed the jury the misshapen finger she claimed was the result of travis' outburst. but whatever concern she may have had about violence, she and travis didn't stop seeing each other. >> he seemed very happy to see me. >> jodi came to travis' house early one morning in june 2008. that day, the day he died, there was sex. lots of it, she acknowledged. after all, there was no denying all the photos they took. >> we were trying out different poses. >> jodi herself described a happy, playful, erotic day. until travis' brand-new camera slipped out of her hands. >> he was screaming i was a stupid idiot and he body slammed me again on the tile. >> jodi testified that she remembered travis kept a gun in his closet and ran to get it. >> i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. >> she described travis lunging at her.

the gun going off without her even knowing it. she said travis then kept coming, even with a bullet in his head. >> i fell, and i got up, and he's just screaming angry and after i broke away from him, he -- he said [ bleep ] kill you, bitch. >> do you remember stabbing travis alexander? >> i have no memory of stabbing him. >> do you remember dragging him across the floor? >> no. >> do you remember placing him in the shower? >> jodi had lied so many times before that she must have hoped she'd get away with it one last time. with the 12 people who mattered the most, the jury. but so many people watching on tv and the internet had by now heard enough of jodi's stories that they had already reached their own verdicts. coming up the jodi arias trial goes viral with its own twitter account.

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every morning at daybreak, people would line up, hoping to get a seat for a closeup look at moments like these. >> mr. martinez -- >> yes or no? my question is are you talking, yes or no. >> mr. martinez, are you angry at me? >> ma'am, is that relevant to you? is that important to you? >> please refrain from laughing in the courtroom. >> one early rising regular even sold her spot in line to a late-comer for 200 bucks. the judge unhappy to hear tickets to her trial were being scalped, ordered the money refunded. and this juror dismissed for reasons unknown returned to court the following day. apparently she was hooked on the action. >> i knew that my life was pretty much over but -- >> as were millions of people who just couldn't get enough of a story of boy meets girl, girl kills boy. >> bombshell tonight -- >> it wasn't just televised but streamed live, raw, unfiltered,

across the internet. >> people aren't content to just watch. they want to participate. they are doing research on the players. >> arizona republic reporter michael kiefer, who's been writing and tweeting about the trial, says many were ready with their verdicts long before the testimony was over. >> anyone who takes less than an approach of well, she deserves the death penalty and just deserves it now is considered biased. >> and any perception of bias for the defense, even by the defense witnesses, could bring a hostile reaction from jodi haters. this all became dangerously interactive. when the physchotherapist testified for the defense, supporting jodi's claim she had been sexually used by travis. >> what does he do? after he gives her the book of mormon? >> he tells her he is horny and they have oral sex. she performs oral sex on him.

>> while her testimony was calm and measured, the vitriol thrown at her on the internet was anything but. she was personally and professionally attacked. a petition was started to ban her from speaking at conferences, and a book about why battered women stay with their accusers was hit with hundreds of online mud-slinging reviews. >> she got hundreds and thousands of those kinds of remarks over the internet. people calling her office, threatening her. they had to call the police. >> if i were to walk up to her in the hallway of the courtroom and say, you know, i don't like your testimony and i may hurt you. and i'm going to try to ruin your career. that's a felony. >> she wasn't the only target. michael kiefer reported that jodi's lawyer jennifer willmot also received threats. jodi herself also took to social media with a twitter account that drew more than 51,000 followers. she did it through a friend she met in jail.

donovan barry became jodi's unofficial spokeswoman and twitter administrator. you actually operate the twitter account. >> yes. >> but those are jodi's words. >> everything that's on there comes from jodi. you know, those are her thoughts, those are her opinions. >> jodi used twitter to sell her own original artwork and to make points she couldn't make on the witness stand. in one she needled prosecutor martinez. hmm, anger management problems, anyone? another tweet was more snarky, intimating that martinez was aflingted with little man syndrome. that comment has since been deleted. but all of this attention helped elevate the public persona of juan martinez. a once anonymous bulldog of a prosecutor. now a prominent co-star in the jodi show. just ask some of the trial tourists.

the mostly women who traveled from around the country to witness the trial firsthand. >> juan martinez, you never know what he's going to pull out of his hat. >> he is travis' voice and we admire him for that. >> oh, yeah. sisters amy markham and dawn johnson both took the week off from their jobs in st. louis in hopes of getting a ringside seat here, and maybe meeting some cable tv celebrities. >> once you go in to the courtroom it is so surreal like you have been seeing all of these people on tv -- >> and here they are in person. >> yeah. this is like our hollywood. >> one of the stars the sisters were hoping to spot was katie wick. >> oh, dr. drew what a crazy day. >> every night, katie gives her take on the trial during hln's "dr. drew" show. >> i have a lot of respect for juan martinez. >> she's not an anchor or an attorney. just a regular spectator who caught the eye of a cable news

booker, and, voila. people want to take a picture with you. >> they do. they do. >> to the audience fixated on the jodi arias trial you are a celeb. >> what i have people telling me is katie i love that you're just, i don't want to just say average person, but in essence i am. i'm not going in there as a lawyer or a doctor, i'm just going in there as just a person. >> just a regular person in the jodi arias show. >> this is not "jersey shore" this isn't like, did you see it last night when jay-wow popped mike the situation in the eye? this is life and death. this is a death penalty case. >> and america is reacting to it like it's a reality show. >> like it is a reality show. >> this reality show was about to get real. [ male announcer ] this is bob,

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the jodi arias trial may have played like entertainment. the millions of devoted viewers hooked on the daily drama unfolding on cable. >> miss arias, you may come forward and take a seat, please. >> but 'tis wasn't a tv show. it was a murder trial. the stakes were literally life and death. >> what are you trying to say? >> am i allowed to tell you what i'm trying to say? >> looking back, the four-month trial came down to this, a showdown between the bull dog prosecutor and the woman whose image changed at trial from sexy

wanna-be photographer to plain jane admitted killer. prosecutor martinez set the tone from the beginning of his cross-examination. he found a crack in jodi's trademark composure when jodi appeared to have a perfect memory of her sexual escapades but not of stabbing travis 27 times. >> i have no memory of stabbing him. >> at first, jodi gave as good as she got in sparring with the prosecutor. >> what factors influence you're having a memory problem? >> usually when men like you are screaming at me or grilling at me or someone like travis doing the same. >> that affects your memory problem? >> it does. it makes my brain scramble. >> and then there was the matter of the gun jodi used to shoot travis. she testified she found it at his house. >> how now he's in the closet. >> martinez presented evidence that a gun of the same caliber was stolen from the home of

jodi's grandparents in yreka, california, just before the killing. while jodi was living there. >> you brought a gun from yreka, didn't you? >> no. >> the implication, this was premeditated murder. after all of the lies and the tweeting by jodi arias, finally after days of cross-examination, prosecutor martinez seemed to break her down. >> you would acknowledge that that stabbing was after the shooting, according to you, right? >> yes. i don't remember. >> i'm not asking you if you remember, ma'am. i'm asking if you are acknowledge that it would be you that did it, correct? >> yes. >> so if he is being stabbed in the back, would you acknowledge at that point that he's no threat to you, right? >> i don't know. >> well, if he's already been shot, according to you, and he's facing away from you, how could

he have possibly be any threat to you? >> i could only guess. i don't know what you are asking me. >> jodi's claim of self-defense was being whittled away. >> would you agree that you are the person who actually slit mr. alexander's throat from ear to ear? >> yes. >> would you also agree that you are the individual that stabbed him in the upper torso? >> yes. >> and you're doing all of this, according to your version of events, you're doing this to an individual after you have already shot him, right?

>> yes. >> jodi initially tried to lie her way out of this jam. but was she now trying to cry her way out of it on the witness stand? >> she's manipulative. she's cunning. and i suspect she can be extremely seductive. >> forensic psychiatrist steven pitt, who's familiar with the case, but who's not examined jodi arias, sees a woman good at manipulating others, but not so good with being rejected. i saw her diagnosed by the prosecution's expert witness as having borderline personality disorder. what does that mean? >> it could be the understatement of this particular case. they do not do real well with rejection or abandonment. jodi arias is essentially the 21st century version of the character that glenn close played in "fatal attraction." >> there was any time during the trial when jurors tipped their

hand about how they felt about jodi arias, it came over the course of two days, when they questioned her directly. arizona is one state where jurors can actually ask questions of the defendant. the judge reads them. >> did the police ever find your grandfather's gun? >> while the tone was not as biting as that of the prosecutor, those jury questions were overwhelmingly full of skepticism and disbelief. >> why did you place travis' body back in the shower? why not just tell the police the truth from the start? after all the lies you have told, why should we believe you now? >> the lies that i've told in this case are -- can be tied directly back to either protecting travis' reputation, or my involvement in his death in any way. because i was very ashamed. >> and that's what this would all boil down to, all of jodi's lies. >> she was a chameleon.

she read people really well, really well. she would adapt to whatever situation she was in. >> jodi's old friend aaron dewey. >> she would reflect back to you whatever it was that you wanted to hear. whatever -- whoever it was that you wanted her to be. >> jodi arias spent 18 days on the stand, an almost unheard of stint for a defendant in any murder trial. but was that part of the defense's grand strategy? keep jodi on the stand so long that jurors would never vote to execute someone they had gotten to know so well, in such intimate detail? phoenix criminal defense attorney ulysses farragut has been following the arias case. >> i think that was the defense strategy. the longer we keep her on the stand, the more they hear from her they will hopefully ingratiate themselves with her to a certain extent and hopefully spare her life. >> jurors had four months to

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as the end neared, the spectacle that was the jodi arias trial spilled out of the courtroom and off the flat screens and on to the street. >> did you kill travis alexander? >> this trial started with jodi arias admitting that she killed travis alexander. and yet, she testified, in her own defense, for weeks. as if she still thought she could talk her way out of trouble. >> you saw her crying on the witness stand. can anybody debate the reason she was crying is because she cries for herself? >> if there was one point juan martinez wanted to drive home in his closing arguments to the jury -- >> she's such an ornate liar. >> it was that jodi arias had spent the last four months running a con on them. >> you are going to buy the lies? are you going to believe what she tells you?

>> in his summation, defense lawyer kirk nurmi didn't ask for an acquittal. even he seemed to acknowledge that jurors were likely to convict jodi of something. >> if miss arias is guilty of any crime at all, it is the crime of manslaughter and nothing more. >> and he pointedly reminded the jury that this wasn't a reality show. that their decision shouldn't be about whether they approve of the woman whose sexual escapades have been part of their daily routine for four months. >> nine days out of ten, i don't like jodi arias. >> it was a phrase that resonated, if not with the jury, then certainly with his client, who responded via twitter. nine days out of ten. that sounds about right. if you think it's strange that a murder defendant would laugh it up via social media even while a jury deliberates her fate, then

you don't know jodi arias, but of course that was kind of the ish a throughout this trial. who was she? >> i don't know. >> look closely at jodi during cross-examination. no matter how much she sobs, while strategically perhaps covering her face, there seemed to be no tear drops falling from her eyes. forensic psychiatrist steven pitt is struck by jodi's ability to lie with confidence. >> that's a terrific sociopathic skill. she is able to tell a lie. she believes the lie and she's narcissistic enough and entitled enough to believe that she's so good that sheet going to pull the wool over someone else. >> if that is true, this jury didn't fall for it. in their assessment of jodi's state of mind. >> ladies and gentlemen, i understand that you have reached a verdict. >> their judgment, that it was premeditated. >> we the jury do find the defendant as to count one, first degree murder, guilty. >> outside, the crowd erupted in cheers.

>> justice for travis! >> inside a much different mood. jodi arias sat in silence as each juror was individually polled. this time her tears were definitely real and while travis' family quietly cried and hugged, his old friend dave hall took to the courthouse steps. >> i'm just glad that the jury realized that jodi is a pathological liar and gave her what she deserves. >> while travis' friends were relieved jodi will be held accountable, they also held fast to their mormon faith. >> i'm required to forgive her. it's going to take me some time. >> forgiveness will come but it has nothing whatsoever to do with her. it has to do with me. >> i feel i have forgiven jodi but along with that i'm grateful that justice was served today. >> just after her conviction, the rarely silent jodi made clear what kind of punishment she'd like to receive in an

interview with phoenix tv station ksaz. >> i believe death is the ultimate freedom. so i'd rather have my freedom as soon as i can get it. >> after those words, the sheriff's department announced it was placing jodi on suicide watch. her family members left the jail that night in stunned silence. and the next phase of jodi's murder trial, to determine if the level of brutality met arizona's death penalty standards, was unexpectedly postponed until next week. no explanation. although the maricopa county sheriff's office confirmed jodi had been transferred to a jailhouse psych ward. indefinitely. and jodi's wisecracks on twitter have ended. her account taken down. maybe reality has finally hit jodi arias. that after being the center of attention for so long her show is finally coming to an end. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline."

join us again for "dateline" wednesday at 8:00, 7:00 central. i'm lester holt. i'll have new details in the case of the three missing women found alive in ohio next on "rock center" with brian williams. newly disclosed e-mails are producing mounting pressure over the white house talking points on the benghazi attack. also, a decision in what to do with the site of sandy hook elementary school. plus, in this morning's office politics, luke russert tells alex why he thinks congress is like a jenga game. and after an abrupt recess, what's next for jodi arias? she says she wants the death penalty. will she get it? good morning, everybody, i'm betty nguyen. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." now, here is what is happening today. first, to front page politics.