Jodi Arias Trial: In Her Own Words.. How I Killed Travis Alexander With HIS Gun and HIS Knife
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Phoenix, Arizona- In today’s highly anticipated morning testimony, Jodi Arias finally “gets there”.
After weeks of what can only be described as the dog ate my defense testimony led by Kirk Nurmi, Jodi Arias explains the events leading up to and during the murder of Travis Alexander.
Arias describes an irate and menacing Travis who bounds from the shower, causing her to drop his new camera and pouncing on her, knocking her to the wet tile floor.
“ A five year old can hold a camera better than you.” Arias stated Alexander screamed at her among other threatening expletives while she struggled to break free.
She then ran to the master bedroom closet and apparently using the Spiderman techniques she absorbed via osmosis from the alleged Valentines gift, retrieved a gun she claimed Travis owned over two feet out of her reach while he was sprinting behind her.
She pointed the gun at him, did not realize it went off and then Travis, still coming at her, stumbles to his knees on the now bloody tile beneath him. ( Editors Note: As I have always said, I believe the order of this injury is true and is important to the charges against her)
Enter gratuitous memory gap.
“I have no memory of stabbing him.” – Jodi Arias
Although Arias admits to having flash backs, she states she cannot remember any other details with the exception of her crouched in the bathroom covered in blood and drops a knife she believes was upstairs used by Travis to cut ropes he used to tie her up to the bed.
She did however, have the presence of mind to grab the ropes, the gun, apparently removes and loses her shoes and has no idea what happened to the knife she used to stab Alexander 29 times and slit his neck from ear to ear.
Next memory she is driving in the desert with the gun she alleges was Travis’s when she pitches it out the window at a random location, then puts the ropes in a dumpster behind a gas station and washes blood off her hands.
Pause for Arias innocuous driving babble and road scenery.
“Why didn’t you call 911 and tell them what happened?” Kirk Nurmi asks his sniffling but tearless client.
” …He attacked you, why did you feel You messed up pretty badly?”
“This time it was different, he had done it before and nothing happened, it was heightened.” Responded Arias.
While approaching a check point in Utah, she feels like she will be apprehended there.
Arias decided to do a “whole bunch of things” to cover up she was ever there.
So .. “I called his phone to leave a voice mail”. For nearly 16 minutes she says she tried numerous times to leave a cheery voice mail to ask as if she was not present in Alexander’s home.
“I just thought they would be listening to his voice mail, so I just thought it would throw the scent off for a while.”
– Jodi Arias
Yes, she actually said that on the stand. Defense Attorney Kirk Nurmi was observed writing a note to co-counsel Jennifer Wilmott to send an assistant out to Sam’s for an industrial size supply of Tums.
I made that part up. Testimony continues following jury lunch break.
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Well I was on a hunt to see if I could find what the gallons were on the rcpts. Did not find those, but what I did find was a part of a text message from Ryan to Jodi that said “hurts me to think you were so hurt you were shaking”. So that must be where the shaking comes from. Not from fear. One of the juror questions was if she was shaking during the trial and during cross from Martinez. Of course she said she was and then went on to explain how it is controlled. Probably because no one saw her shaking, if they did they would not have had to ask her. Yes just more confirmation that there are snippets of truth within the lies.
Mom3.0 says:
March 11, 2013 at 7:45 pm
First thought is shes “hyperliteral” so perhaps she can lie because As Joan said it was a kerosene container, not gasoline
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Exactly what I think.
Pam says:
March 11, 2013 at 11:56 pm
Well I was on a hunt to see if I could find what the gallons were on the rcpts. Did not find those, but what I did find was a part of a text message from Ryan to Jodi that said “hurts me to think you were so hurt you were shaking”.
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My thoughts are that she does not shake from fear but from anger.
Good morning Blink & Blinksters.
I went back to look at Travises last pictures alive because i am so unsure if JA shot or stabbed first. I formyself thought she must have shot first because Travis could not fight back for his life. And i can see two last pictures of Travis. The one where he looks in the camera as if he would know about his fate and one where he sits and there is no head to be seen. I now noticed that in this picture we cannot see his arms also. He must have been holding his arms up to the air. Because i just do not know when this picture was taken i ask myself if this picture could have been the last one from Travis alive instead of the one where he is looking at the camera and if this picture could have been shot accidentally by JA as she attacked Travis? If so, because he had defensive wounds on his hands i would think she stabbed him first and at this point under the shower as he was sitting with his arms up. Can someone look at this picture ? It may be irrelevant. I don ‘t know…
Travis.
Beautiful boy. son, brother, friend. Funny, bright, handsome, intuitive, philosophical, daring, bold, motivated.
Please take time today to be with this video that was shown at Travis’ memorial. In your own words, Travis, God created the unfathomable heavens… where you are now, safe in His keeping. God bless you, sweet boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHT5ii-lLmI
Pam
There is only the text message about the shaking. Jodi IMO will do what ever is necessary to convince people that she should have sympathy for behavior. Shaking can be from nothing more than a drop in blood sugar and would go away when that is balanced.
There are three or more emotions associated with shaking; Fear, Anger and Hurt to name three. If that story is true, my bet would be anger.
Receipts tracking JA’s travel:
6/2, 5:37 am – Yreka – Shell/Syskiou Food Mart; Matercard 2015; Fuel $15.00
6/2, 8:04 AM – Redding -Budget; MasterCard 2015. (2007 or 2008 Ford Focus is a solid 13 gallons, and at 30 mpg, that afforded Jodi 390 miles per tank) States Exhibit #237.001, Budget Redding CA, Rented 6/02/08, 0804am, Return 6/07/08 13:08 (1:08pm), Due In 6/7/08 0930am, Miles driven 2834
6/2, 7:32 pm – Lodi, CA – MacDonald’s
6/2, 8:41 PM – Valero – - Mastercard 2015
6/3, 10:10 am – Monterey, CA – WAMU; deposit 400, acct 8006/States Exhibit #237.005, WaMu Monterey CA, 6/03/08 10:10, Deposit $400.00 Acct Bal $548.65 Avail Bal $548.65, ACCT #8006
6/3, 10:11 am -Monterey, CA – WAMU; deposit 300, acct 7148/States Exhibit #237.006, WaMu Monterey CA, 6/03/08 10:11, Deposit $300.00 Acct Bal $240.43 Avail Bal $207.43, ACCT #7148
6/3, 10:15 am – Monterey, CA – WAMU; deposit 100, acct 7148/States Exhibit #237.007, WaMu Monterey CA, 6/03/08 10:15, Deposit $100.00, ACCT #7148
6/3, 3:22 pm- Monterey/Salinas ? – Walmart; facial cleaner x2, neutrogena product x2, 5 gal kerosene container; paid cash $45 States Exhibit #237.008, WalMart 6/03/08 15:22:09, Facial Clnsr 3.97 x 2, Neuus85bns (?) 9.92 x 2, 5G Kero Carb 12.96, Total $43.90 Cash $45.00 Change $1.10
6/3, 8:31 pm – Pasadena, CA – CVS/
States Exhibit #237.009, CVS Pasadena CA, 6/03/08 8:31pm, Health Care Eligible $6.37
6/3, 8:41 PM – Pasadena, CA – Starbuck; Mastercard 2015, $10.85:
States Exhibit #237.011, ARCO Pasadena CA, 6/03/08 08:42pm, Fuel 8.301 @ 4.169 gal, Unlead 87 $34.61, Trans fee $0.45, Total $35.06, Debit Acct # 2015
6/3, 8:42 PM- Pasadena, CA – Arco; Mastercard 2015, 8 gallons $35.06 States Exhibit #237.011, ARCO Pasadena CA, 6/03/08 08:42pm, Fuel 8.301 @ 4.169 gal, Unlead 87 $34.61, Trans fee $0.45, Total $35.06, Debit Acct # 2015
6/3, 8:46 PM – Pasadena, CA – Arco, 9.59 gallons, $40 & 6/3 – Pasadena, CA- Arco, 2.77 gallons:
States Exhibit #237.012, ARCO Pasadena CA, 6/3/08, 20:46:50, Fuel 9.594 @ 4.169 gal $40.00, Initial Pmt $40.00, PrePay Dep $40.00
States Exhibit #237.013, Duplicate ARCO Pasadena CA, Fuel 2.774 @4.169 gal $11.56, PrePay Deposit $20.00, Change $8.44
6/6, 10:38 am – Sparks, NV – In and Out Burger using Mastercard $3.37
6/6, 3:57 am – SLC Utah – Tesoro; Mastercard 2015, 10.6 gallons, $41.18
6/6, 4:05 am – SLC Utah – Tesoro; Mastercard 2015; Fuel $36.98, 9.58 gallons
6/6 – SLC Utah – Tesoro- cash $ 19.65
6/6 – Winnemucca, NV- Flying J; Mastercard 2015, 12 gallons, $49.91 States Exhibit #237.018, Flying J Winnemucca NV, 6/6/08, Fuel 12.175 @4.099 gal $49.91, MC 2015
& States Exhibit #237.019, Flying J Winnemucca NV, $4.90, MC 2015
6/6, 10:34 AM – Sparks, NV – 7-11; Mastercard 2015, 5 gallons States Exhibit #237.020, 7-Eleven Sparks NV, 6/6/08, 10:34:38, Fuel 5.178 @ 4.999 gal, MC 2015
6/7, 12:28 PM – Redding CA – Valero; Mastercard, gas $40 States Exhibit #237.021, Hilltop Valero Redding CA, 6/7/08, 12:20, Fuel 8.947 @ 4.499 gal $40.25, MC credit
6/7, 1:08 pm – Redding, CA – Budget
http://www.hlntv.com/slideshow/2013/02/11/jodi-arias-trial-tragic-roadtrip
Just read this on HuffPost……
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/travis-alexander-arrest-record_n_2856562.html?utm_hp_ref=crime&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl8%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D282451
Arias’ statement that she returned to California with 2 gas cans could be true. She may have left the third gas can in the desert between Utah and California, burning with the other evidence.
Where was Napolean for five days and who was feeding, watering and letting him out?
Here in TN, kerosene is sold at the pump. Usually an ‘older’ type pump where the numbers roll. (does that make sense?)
Here, when the weather gets cold, there are lines for kerosene.
I don’t know what to make of her gas can/odd gas purchase follies. She literally SCRAMBLES MY BRAIN.
I still can’t shake that DB has WAY WAY more to do with this than we know yet.
Jodi is doing everything she can to trash Travis’ name and reputation.
She threatened it in her plea…and by God, she’s carrying it out.
@Joan, I too think JM should have a chart for jurors to see during close. Maybe use a circular design, like…here’s where she started her plan, executed it, hid it, returned home and went on with her life.
I don’t think I’ll be able to watch the upcoming “hired experts” that Nurmi has lined up to say that JA was a victim of abuse/domestic violence at the hands of Travis.
It would just make my blood boil.
It’s insulting and hurtful to TRUE victims of domestic abuse.
Just disgusting.
Mom3.0 says:
March 11, 2013 at 10:48 am – I think she tormented him in more ways than we can imagine.
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Mom, this makes me ill to think she tortured him! Maybe she used Travis’ horrible childhood as a basis for her BWS defense.
I have no doubt she’s capable of having terrorized Travis first before she killed him, and using his own past fears would have been the most diabolical evil way to accomplish that!
I now wonder if she got the pedo idea from someone in her past. She reminds me of the monster in the movie “The Thing”.
She absorbs the people she comes in contact with, and then replicates them, but she can never truly be human.
Yes Christy it does make sense that in some locations a pump is kept for kerosene. When I was a youngster in the 1930′s those pumps existed at all service stations. One could go to the station with a quart fruit jar and by kerosene for a nickel. In those days all the pumps were hand pumps and one pumped the material from the storage tank into a measured glass container at the top of the pump and it was gravity fed to your container or if gasoline, your vehicle tank. The pump you describe is an electric pump from the time prior to the 1980′s when electronic smart pumps came into being because of the development of computers on a chip.
Today, because of EPA regulations, putting a hydrocarbon into a glass container is no longer lawful.
I’ve been back at a hotel with TV & wonder how many times a day HLN
can re-play the sex tape? TG for mute.
Great comments on this thread by the Blinksters…been following BOC for many years and want to throw in my two sense.
I’m counting on the jury taking the following into consideration.
There is evidence proving that Jodi went to such pains AFTER the fact to cover up that she had committed this brutal murder. My thoughts are that she is certainly capable of premeditation BEFORE hand.
She surprised Travis one last time. He was on trial to either get on board with her agenda or else. This henious killing was his punishment for not complying. No way Travis was going to carry on with his life without her. Interesting though…she had no problem heading off into the sunset to be with another potential meal ticket after she’d immediately rid herself of a man who dared to reject her as a life mate. She was after all getting older and seriously shopping, and Travis looked so good on her.
She is one diabolical sick human being. When you see the aftermath of what she did to that young man, it’s beyond comprehension. Self denfense? I don’t believe it for a minute. That was a RAGE killing.
I have faith that Juan Martinez has more evidence that he will methodically thread together for this jury. All the loose ends will make sense and prove beyond a reasonable doubt she is not only a liar but a cold blooded murderer who deserves the appropriate punishment for what she did.
Matt McCartney. “Was”
PS~ Love the fogomania referenced in here ~ She has no memory issues, and I think she remembers everything explicitly, and takes great pleasure in it.
Prayers going out to TA’s family and friends to stay strong throughout the remainder of this trial. God bless.
AIMO ~
Jden says:
March 12, 2013 at 11:50 am
Where was Napoleon for five days and who was feeding, watering and letting him out?
The girlfriend of the roommate was feeding/watering when there-but there were accidents-they thought he had left for Cancun.
did Arias return the gas cans to Brewer
@ Jden…
Travis’s roomate’s girlfriend was tending to Napolean’s needs. Travis also had a doggy door so the pup could come and go out into the back yard as he needed. This is documented in the initial interviews when Police arrived at the scene.
Whether it was a gas can or a kerosene can doesn’t matter except that I think gas station attendants are obliged to warn you that you’re not supposed to put gas in a kerosene can and vice versa. But I suppose if she were at a gas station after hours when there wasn’t an attendant, it wouldn’t matter.
What makes me nervous is that Martinez keeps calling it a gas can and the receipt clearly says kerosene container. He hasn’t pointed that out. He asked her then would it surprise you if Walmart said they had no returns for a gas can on June 3, 2008? If Martinez gets someone from Walmart on the stand or admits some statement from Walmart regarding returns of gas cans, I know I won’t be satisfied until Walmart is questioned specifically about a return of a kerosene can. It would just seem like a stupid little error to me because if Walmart searched their returns for gas cans for that day, they would have been searching for the wrong thing.
Also, I’m with you, Elizabeth. Martinez was showing that she filled up the car and all the gas cans in West Jordan, Utah for her trip home to Yreka, so Martinez pointing that out kind of proves that she wasn’t trying to hide her trip to Mesa because she did that on the way home too. Also, I could have sworn Darryl Brewer testified that JA had borrowed his gas cans at other times, as though this was her usual routine for long trips. The gas can issue can work for or against the prosecution IMO.
Jden,
The girlfriend of one of the roommates took care of Napolean during those five days.
I think the gun is the thing that could really point to premeditation. It’s just too much of a coincidence that her grandfather’s gun, same caliber, was stolen on May 28. She left on June 2! Does anyone know what type of gun her grandfather had? Was it the kind that expels a shell when it shoots? I read that those are more rare than a .25 revolver that wouldn’t expel a shell. I’m not sure but I would focus on the coincidence of it. JMO
Also, wouldn’t it show premeditation if they could get the roommates on the stand to say they didn’t see an extra car at the house during the whole week of June 4th? Wouldn’t that show that she parked somewhere else so she wouldn’t be detected? Granted, after reading the police report, the roommates don’t seem to be the most observant individuals (LOL), but I think when they were asked what day they think the murder occurred, they would have remembered a strange car being there.
@Christy
(snipped) “Jodi is doing everything she can to trash Travis’ name and reputation. She threatened it in her plea…and by God, she’s carrying it out.”
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Sickening. She physically destroys him in a grotesque manner and continues to slander his image. I pray the jury gets she at least needs to be locked away forever. Although imo she’s earned the DP.
Looks like the defense and prosecution have been busy during the break.
http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket/CriminalCourtCases/caseInfo.asp
Sorry, type in CR2008-031021 in case number…
http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket/CriminalCourtCases/caseInfo.asp
Mom3.0 says:
March 9, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Mom3.0,
Oh gosh I posted the comments above before reading your post! I don’t know how I missed your post before, but I just read it now! Very good one, and yes it does make me reconsider some things.
YOU:
Is it reasonable to call an ex boyfriend you only talk to “occasionally” and haven’t seen in a LONG long while to hound him to borrow gas cans?
Is it reasonable to travel hundreds of miles to borrow these cans and then go to Walmart in yet another town to pick up an additional can on a whim?
ME:
I’ve been unclear on how often she saw Darryl B. and Matt M. over the years, and it’s something I’d really like to know. Martinez asked Darryl B. when he was on the stand how often and I think he said they stayed in touch, talked from time to time via phone but I was unclear on how often they saw each other in person. Also, I thought he said she had borrowed his gas cans before as though having extra gas cans is something she does usually when she goes on long trips.
If she HADN’T seen them or been in touch with them often, it seems strange in more ways than one that she suddenly decided to go and visit two ex-boyfriends on that trip, never mind the gas cans. I mean when you consider that she killed Travis on that trip, I wonder if the ex-boyfriends still get the creeps when they consider she visited them only one day before that. Another weird thing is that Darryl B. said she seemed completely normal during that visit. Pleasant. Completely normal. I turn things like that over in my mind.
The thing is Mom3.0, if she didn’t want to be detected going to Mesa, why BORROW gas cans?? Why not buy all the gas cans she would need to remain undetected, pay cash for them, and throw the receipts away?
YOU:
She claimed to be broke- and frugal a “coupon clipping” thrifty person, yet she bought starbucks over and over again on this trip and… even after admitting when she was broke earlier in her life, the starbucks purchases was the first thing she eliminated from her budget she bought them over and over and still she shelled out more money to visit a salon…
Most broke people would just clip/file their own nails and/or apply polish..
ME:
I don’t know if I saw it right Mom3.0, but when Martinez put one of her bank statements for June 2008 on the screen on Thursday, I could have sworn the balance was $4,207. That was for one of two bank accounts. I didn’t see the balance in the second account. She WAS living rent free with her grandparents so while she may be thrifty as a general rule, she may have been less worried knowing she was restoring her savings and that when she returned to Yreka she would continue to live rent free and bank her earnings. I will watch that part again to see if I saw the balance right. I’ll let you know.
YOU:
She only elaborated on the reasons when it was brought out how illogical it was as she saved no money…IMO again illustrating her pattern of a new lie when it benefits her.
ME:
Well, if I’m remembering it right, what she said was that she INITIALLY borrowed the gas cans to save money. She did use the word INITIALLY but she wasn’t given the chance to elaborate until later when Nurmi asked her. I have noticed that she always has more than one reason for doing any one thing. And isn’t life like that? Martinez gets extremely frustrated with her long explanations and he cuts her off. YES or NO, YES or NO!!! Personally, I’d like to hear the entire explanation. I wish he wouldn’t do that because the answer could be important later.
YOU:
If she was so conscientious to saving money and being safe with extra water and extra gas when traveling at night thru desert states then Why didnt she invest in her OWN gas cans?
ME:
Well I agree, but I’d ask the same question about trying to travel to Mesa undetected. Why on earth would she borrow gas cans? Why not buy them for cash and throw away the receipt so no one in the world would know?
YOU:
how is it that we are supposed to believe this woman who would be traveling alone at night thru the desert didnt have a fully charged phone and an extra phone charger and didnt buy a new one immediately? She didnt noo she just went mile after mile with no contact with no phone pinging just because her charger was lost under a seat? how safe and conscientious is that?
ME:
I can’t imagine. Even if you wouldn’t have service way out in the middle of the desert, wouldn’t most people want to have a fully charged phone just for areas where it would work? And turning the phone off to save the battery was very convenient if she was trying to travel undetected. Agreed.
YOU:
because 3 cans enabled her to travel thru Arizona to Travis house without leaving any paper trail without showing up on any GS/store cameras- the extra gas allowed her to travel to the boondocks (the desert she was soooo afraid of being stranded in)
These cans go to premeditation because of that- they allowed her to not stop for gas in Arizona before or after the murder
She made her way to THAT desert that dump spot- the one she had always planned for…
to dispose of the evidence-
ME:
Well you may be right! Martinez pointing out that she refilled the gas cans and the car in SLC, Utah though doesn’t point to that. If this were the plan, she would have been finished with the gas cans by the time she got to Ryan Burns house.
YOU:
Claiming she was in a fog…never stopping for gas yet she thankfully “defogged” enough during the drive and recalled she had heeded the red stop lights…again giving explanation to why she was not picked up (either on traffic cams or by LE for running reds) during her “foggy” flight.
ME:
Well the fog is a whole different subject! There is a ton of doubt there! LOL
YOU:
The difference is because it WAS three – not less not more 3 cans allowed her to accomplish the exact miles to travel thru Arizona each can allowed her to reach her planned destination undetected –
she planned this out
ME:
Mom3.0, You have to admit, if she planned it this way, she did a TERRIBLE job!!!!!
YOU:
As for the receipts— why is it the only receipt that is missing from her gas purchases in SLC is for the one that goes to prove she bought more gas for third can?
ME:
That is interesting, and it did cross my mind. When we first saw the receipts and we saw the huge number of gallons of gas she bought, I thought it pointed to her having someone with her. I wasn’t thinking of gas cans. I was thinking of an accomplice in a second car. Now with all this about the gas cans I’m following what you’re saying, and I do wonder why the third can wouldn’t have been used back in Pasadena.
YOU:
and why is it after killing someone she had the presence of mind to worry about her taxes in JUNE (even though according to her she was just trying to prolonge the inevitable arrest or her suicide)
she went thru all of her receipts and got rid of any and all that would either put her in Arizona or put that 3rd gas can in her hand-
ME:
Mom3.0, it’s occurred to me that if she premeditated this from the time she was back in Yreka (and I think there is other evidence for that) why would she care about tax deduction expenses at all??!! If she planned on traveling 1,000 miles to murder someone wouldn’t she have used cash for the entire trip and not keep any receipts for anything at all?
YOU:
perhaps she EXCHANGED the blue for another red..
ME:
OMG!!! Great point Mom3.0.
YOU:
Or maybe the truth is that she never returned it- and she never received cash back- because if she did- Walmart would either have the documentation or they would have come up short in their registers that day
ME:
I hope Walmart does provide information to straighten it out.
YOU:
I hope the jurors are as thorough as we all all in scouring the evidence both circumstantial and concrete and trying to reach a reasonable verdict based on careful deliberations
ME:
I hope so too Mom3.0. It’s not that I think the gas can theory is unreasonable, I just think there are better things that Martinez could focus on if he’s trying to prove premeditation. Like the gun. And why the roommates didn’t see her car there at the house. The biggest thing that points AWAY from premeditation IMO though is why would she spend the whole day at Travis’ house sleeping, having breakfast, being intimate, taking photos, looking at his computer and THEN kill him a half hour before the roommates were due home from work?? Also, by not killing him the moment she got there, it completely blew her alibi. She showed up in Utah an entire day late! I find it very hard to not consider that when talking about the whole premeditation subject.
But you raise very, very interesting questions!! I wonder about the visits to her ex-boyfriends on that trip too! I don’t think they helped her by the way. I really don’t. (I think Jodi asked MM to help her AFTER the fact, but that doesn’t mean he did or even wanted to.) But why, in her mind, would she choose to go to see them THEN, especially if she hadn’t seen them in a very long time? That’s why I’m trying to find out for sure how often she talked with them and saw them. Hmmm.
No need to apologize to me for lengthy posts Mom3.0. I can leave pretty lengthy posts too, and I really enjoy talking these things over with you.
I don’t know this jury or any jury but they are people just like us
It is such a disgrace the way Travis is getting trashed and I think she has gone to far
I hope the jury is fed up
So, after a little review and study I read that Matt, JA one time faithful friend to the end, is on the State’s side. Is that because he made a deal with them about the letters he forged or tried to pass off as TA (about pedophilia)? The letters that JA Mother is trying to sell.
Are the questions Martinez is asking (about her loyal friend) because he is telling JA that her friend Matt is going to sit on the stand and talk about those letters and expose the pedophilia issue as a lie that she made up? Wouldn’t that just blow the top right off the case and send her to death row?
JA must have something on Matt, or the State is worried about some info coming out about him or else they would have used this already. Right?
Am I missing a piece of the puzzle?
Sorry all. Apparently I was completely wrong about the balance of one of the JA bank accounts. Thanks for posting all the transactions Eloise.
6/3, 10:10 am – Monterey, CA – WAMU; deposit 400, acct 8006/States Exhibit #237.005, WaMu Monterey CA, 6/03/08 10:10, Deposit $400.00 Acct Bal $548.65 Avail Bal $548.65, ACCT #8006
6/3, 10:11 am -Monterey, CA – WAMU; deposit 300, acct 7148/States Exhibit #237.006, WaMu Monterey CA, 6/03/08 10:11, Deposit $300.00 Acct Bal $240.43 Avail Bal $207.43, ACCT #7148
6/3, 10:15 am – Monterey, CA – WAMU; deposit 100, acct 7148/States Exhibit #237.007, WaMu Monterey CA, 6/03/08 10:15, Deposit $100.00, ACCT #7148
So it does seem strange that she would take a trip at all cutting things so close. She spent so much on gas alone. And where did those deposits come from in Monterey? Hmmm.
@pale rider,
thanks for posting the links.
Yeah, a simple circular chart for the timeline would help the jury I think. I know it would help me!
And a simple map showing her route might help too. I looked at the western states on mapquest when people were posting about JA’s possible routes, and what impressed me is how far south she traveled! I saw that so clearly on the map! She was going to West Jordan, Utah to meet Ryan Burns and she could have gone almost directly east to get there. Instead she went so far south! Then east, then north. And all the reasons she said she went south for (to possibly go to an art gallery in San Diego, to take pictures of her friend’s baby, to take pics in Death Valley) never happened! So she didn’t just swing by Mesa to see Travis.
jden says:
March 12, 2013 at 10:05 am
jden,
The memorial video moves me to tears and your words did too. Thanks for posting that.
I think she went to see her ex boyfriends in order to finance her trip to Arizona, selling them the dvd and the stereo etc. that she had stolen from her grandparents. She had a pattern of being reliant on her boyfriends after she broke up with them.
Even if I wasn’t a follower of cases like this, and if I were sitting on that jury, just JAs smug answers to JM would tick me off.
She cuts him off and says *ok??* very smart alecky and like a 10 year old, “that’s not what I said” and even muttering under her breath at him.
I bet her parents went through hell with her.
Travis sending her the text message telling her off for something she did, I’m so hoping JM has the answer as to what precipitated that.
I have a feeling she not only snuck into his email, facebook, MySpace…but she could have gotten into his banking info too.
DB also has a vast knowledge about a lot of what’s really up, as does MM. How the HELL does she manage to get a hold of these men this way? And, does anyone know if DBs son, who was 5yrs old when Jodi was living with them, was his welfare checked on? I’m concerned she may have mentally and/or physically abused him.
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Good morning Blink & Blinksters.I went back to look at Travises last pictures alive because i am so unsure if JA shot or stabbed first. I formyself thought she must have shot first because Travis could not fight back for his life. And i can see two last pictures of Travis. The one where he looks in the camera as if he would know about his fate and one where he sits and there is no head to be seen. I now noticed that in this picture we cannot see his arms also. He must have been holding his arms up to the air. Because i just do not know when this picture was taken i ask myself if this picture could have been the last one from Travis alive instead of the one where he is looking at the camera and if this picture could have been shot accidentally by JA as she attacked Travis? If so, because he had defensive wounds on his hands i would think she stabbed him first and at this point under the shower as he was sitting with his arms up. Can someone look at this picture ? It may be irrelevant. I don ‘t know…
“You are a sociopath. You only cry for yourself. You have never cared out [sic] me and you have betrayed me worse than any example I could conjour you are sick and you have scamed [sic] me.”"You couldn’t get off your lazy butt to to [sic] read it could you. That’s the sociopath I know so well. It freakin figures.”"I don’t want your apology I want you to understand what I think of you. I want you [sic] understand how evil I think you are. You are the worst thing that ever happened to me.”~ Travis Alexander
Via Phone to JA – 05.26.08
How I wish that had been the end of it. So horribly tragic.
B
@Blink to my previous post the court document says Travis vrote this to JA on the 05.25.08 sorry not 26.
“Arias describes an irate and menacing Travis who bounds from the shower, causing her to drop his new camera and pouncing on her, knocking her to the wet tile floor.”
That is NOT what Jodi said on the stand. She said that she accidently dropped the camera and that’s what angered and enraged Travis Alexander to body slam her after stepping out of the shower. The events just after that caused Jodi to kill Alexander in self defense. It was either she or him according, to her testimony.
Oh and one last thing Blink, if you’re gonna make sarcastic jokes on a true crime blog, about a death penalty case where a woman’s life hangs in the balance, please see to it that those jokes are funny!
I did not quote her, it is my interpretation, and this woman’s life is not hanging in the balance for any other reason other than she is a monster who brutally murdered this man because she is a sociopathic imp who could not convince another non-crazy person she was telling the truth if she told them teeth are for chewing.
I have seen that graffiti site in favor of JA. Best of luck on that.
B
Correction: Third purchase at Tessoro was not cash. ( boo-boo)
Hey Blink FYI the front page is showing up blank again…is there another glitch in the system?
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Sott Ha, No I got that from IMDB
rmack- thanks for taking the time to write out such a thought provoking post- I think your scenario is just as likely as any other-
the saddest thing of all is the family will never know the exact truth of what happened.
RE:
Redrelaxed says:
March 12, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Great comments on this thread by the Blinksters…been following BOC for many years and want to throw in my two sense.
I’m counting on the jury taking the following into consideration.
There is evidence proving that Jodi went to such pains AFTER the fact to cover up that she had committed this brutal murder. My thoughts are that she is certainly capable of premeditation BEFORE hand.
Hi Redrelaxed welcome, I agree thanks for weighing in with your thoughts-
Ode says:
March 12, 2013 at 7:58 am My thoughts are that she does not shake from fear but from anger.
Ode agreed-
AJMO
Please tell me that is not still true about the f/p..ugh.
On Dana’s show tonight, will post link
B
RE
Joan says:
March 12, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Hi Joan thanks for wanting to continue the conversation – and thanks for not minding my very lengthy posts-
I have to say you have given me much to think about especially since learning the Prosecution is just now asking for the business records….
This worries me – because just like with the finger pic that Juan held up as proof and it later became iffy…(although it is still not proof that Jodi was telling the truth of when and who injured it)
–This distracts from the other points he made IRT the days with her journals and work schedule and texts etc…it was more visual …-
if this Walmart gascan issue does not pan out for the prosecution, if the tesero purchases do not prove she bought gas for the cans then it would again be a blow to the prosecution because they have made a big deal out of it- and even though it wouldnt necessarily mean she didnt drive down the street and pay cash for two more at Target…it still looks bad.
Our convo cont:
Me:
DB said they spoke “sporadically…occasionally” I would think this means they saw one another even less in that year and ahalf- possibly never until June 2nd matt i am unsure of.
You:
Also, I thought he said she had borrowed his gas cans before as though having extra gas cans is something she does usually when she goes on long trips.
ME:
he may have said this on redirect joan but again when did this happen? if they lived so far apart is it really likely that JA borrowed his cans and traveled back thru the area to return them again and again..then made her way back home miles away? Each time she would have borrowed and returned it would have cost her more money more time and more milage…
YOU
If she HADN’T seen them or been in touch with them often, it seems strange in more ways than one that she suddenly decided to go and visit two ex-boyfriends on that trip, never mind the gas cans. I mean when you consider that she killed Travis on that trip, I wonder if the ex-boyfriends still get the creeps when they consider she visited them only one day before that. Another weird thing is that Darryl B. said she seemed completely normal during that visit. Pleasant. Completely normal. I turn things like that over in my mind.
Me
Joan what if seeing her ex boyfriends was initially supposed to be part of the cover-up part of the premeditated plan to visit and kill Travis?
Imagine jodi thinking: well Ill make a trip of visiting my exs that way, it wont seem so out of place that i stopped and visited Travis… it isnt stalking its traveling…
I am still am not convinced that some part of her didnt leave that camera behind knowingly -to make sure that EVERYONE knew once and for all that Travis was bedding her… I think part of the plan may have always been to destroy his reputation-
remember her reaction when the Det told her about the camera catching images? –”Oh really?” she said..then she later asks well did you watch the video we made? ” She was playing coy but she was loving every minute of it. IMO
could it be that she always had the three “excuses in mind, in case the other didnt work? her first choice was to not be a suspect, second choice claim someoneelse did it and she was a witness, third claim self defense…She already said “I was postponing the inevitable”-
AJMO
2b cont
RE: My prior post regarding the shaking and quoting a piece of text from Ryan, was to just make the point that she is inserting some truth into her lies. That was something pointed out by another poster. Anyway she claims she was so scared of Travis that she shakes and also shakes in court because of JM. The text came from huffingtonpost crime scene photos # 46 and they were discussing Jodi discovering Travis cheating on her via going through his phone. Ode and ATG, yes the shaking was definately from anger. It was definately not because she was afraid of Travis. I personally do not think Jodi fears anything.
Re Koan-
You
The thing is Mom3.0, if she didn’t want to be detected going to Mesa, why BORROW gas cans? Why not buy all the gas cans she would need to remain undetected, pay cash for them, and throw the receipts away?
Me
IDK but is it possible the visits to her exs included other agendas we have not heard about? \
part of it again. could have been setting up her innocent excuse for the travel — saying, in essence: why officer i wasnt stalking him, i was just on an innocent road trip visiting old friends and old lovers..
Perhaps she thought it would look less suspect if she borrowed the cans then went out and bought 3 new ones?
I dont understand it either Joan.
You
I don’t know if I saw it right Mom3.0, but when Martinez put one of her bank statements for June 2008 on the screen on Thursday, I could have sworn the balance was $4,207. That was for one of two bank accounts. I didn’t see the balance in the second account. She WAS living rent free with her grandparents so while she may be thrifty as a general rule, she may have been less worried knowing she was restoring her savings and that when she returned to Yreka she would continue to live rent free and bank her earnings
Me:
Joan if thats the case, then why was she only paying Travis a measly 100 bucks a month for the car she said he “pawned off ” on her?
And why didnt she write Travis another check for June, when she visited him?
Perhaps the car and the money she owed, was one of the reasons she was so poed at Travis-
Joan, she likes to claim she was responsible but when?
SHe ran away from home, didnt finish school, she bought boobs instead of paying her bills, went from job to job- took off on a whim frequently.. stopped paying her bills altogether it seems, once she had her sights on Travis
Addd to that, she lost her car- She had no rent history- she owned NOTHING
IRT her business- it was not some booming score she had just recently set up a couple of people willing to pay her for a picture- a thriving business that does not make.
You: I will watch that part again to see if I saw the balance right. I’ll let you know.-
Me: Thanks Joan i’d appreciate it.. if thats true where was she getting all this money? she traveled almost constantly- it makes no sense.
YOU:
Well, if I’m remembering it right, what she said was that she INITIALLY borrowed the gas cans to save money. She did use the word INITIALLY but she wasn’t given the chance to elaborate until later when Nurmi asked her.
Me: Im not sure you could be right…
You
I have noticed that she always has more than one reason for doing any one thing. And isn’t life like that? -
me-
Yes Joan life is like that, but not in every regard and not in each and every instance… but again people dont travel 100 of miles to”borrow” 2 gas cans then buy a 3rd and never return those “borrowed” cans…they dont , and it seems rather self serving that she always has another potential excuse in her bag… IMO
You: Martinez gets extremely frustrated with her long explanations and he cuts her off. YES or NO, YES or NO!!! Personally, I’d like to hear the entire explanation. I wish he wouldn’t do that because the answer could be important later.
Me i agree – but if he let her ramble on and on she would have no trouble going on for days and days and still, we never get a straight answer –its always some line IMO
Joan I hear what you are saying and I totally respect your view and i think Mr Martinez would do well to listen to your concerns, as I am certain that if you are feeling this way, at least one juror is too- and he better find a way to calm your doubts or she may just get off.
AJMO
Thanks again for talking with me Joan -
2b cont-
Eloise,
Thanks for your post of her purchases. I was convinced she needed the 3rd can to go undetected and goes towards premeditation. So a 13 gallon tank in the car plus 15 gallons extra gas was definately needed to go undetected in AZ. She had enough to go 840 miles based on the 30 mpg. Not to mention that there is no evidence of any gas being purchased in AZ.
Re Joan-
I apologize to everyone for being a board hog–
Last part Joan just wanted to say I am not trying to sway you I have my concerns too, I think our conversation may just be an inside look at what jury deliberations are going to be…
Here goes:
Me
If she was so conscientious to saving money and being safe with extra water and extra gas when traveling at night thru desert states then Why didnt she invest in her OWN gas cans?
You
Well I agree, but I’d ask the same question about trying to travel to Mesa undetected. Why on earth would she borrow gas cans? Why not buy them for cash and throw away the receipt so no one in the world would know?
Me:
maybe because she wanted to make sure that she had her character witnesses?
perhaps she wanted to make sure that matt and darrell were part of her story…two men she was sure were her allies two men that would have her back two men that would try very hard to save her….
YOU:
Well you may be right! Martinez pointing out that she refilled the gas cans and the car in SLC, Utah though doesn’t point to that. If this were the plan, she would have been finished with the gas cans by the time she got to Ryan Burns house.
Me:
actually it may point to it- if she filled up three gas cans in SLC that goes to show that she used up the gas in Arizona— so she didnt have to stop at stations most likely so she could make it comfortably to the dump stop without worrying anbout being stranded…
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You:
Mom3.0, You have to admit, if she planned it this way, she did a TERRIBLE job!!!!!
Me
Joan I dont know for certain that she had three, and you cant say for certain she didnt, and it seems the prosecution is trying and failing at proving this and the defense is failing to prove their side too-
She has kept everyone guessing about everything
So IMO she did not do a terrible job- she succeeded in hiding the truth and based on our worries and our conversation she may have succeeded in providing reasonable doubt for premeditation…
You
Mom3.0, it’s occurred to me that if she premeditated this from the time she was back in Yreka (and I think there is other evidence for that) why would she care about tax deduction expenses at all??!! If she planned on traveling 1,000 miles to murder someone wouldn’t she have used cash for the entire trip and not keep any receipts for anything at all?
Me- no Joan this is the excuse she gave for keeping the receipts she did- she claims to have paid cash for gas in Arizona she claims alot of things- those receipts were to prove she went on a “business trip” not a killing trip…. again if she bought Gas in Arizonia she could have counted it- athe same as she counted the other legs of the trip even though she never did take those pics of that baby… the receipts were all for show. IMO
You:
I hope Walmart does provide information to straighten it out.
Me too-
you:
What makes me nervous is that Martinez keeps calling it a gas can and the receipt clearly says kerosene container. He hasn’t pointed that out. He asked her then would it surprise you if Walmart said they had no returns for a gas can on June 3, 2008? If Martinez gets someone from Walmart on the stand or admits some statement from Walmart regarding returns of gas cans, I know I won’t be satisfied until Walmart is questioned specifically about a return of a kerosene can. It would just seem like a stupid little error to me because if Walmart searched their returns for gas cans for that day, they would have been searching for the wrong thing.
Me:
Good point Joan- you went on to write- this was her usual routine for long trips. —I just cant see this being her usual way Joan again each time she had to make the trip to return the cans she would have lost money gas. time and mileage- -
You:
The gas can issue can work for or against the prosecution IMO.
Me
Totally agreed- thanks again for hashing this out with me Joan I enjoy our talks and i learn so much
AJMO
Peace
@Malty
March 12, 2013 at 8:49 pm
“I don’t know this jury or any jury but they are people just like us
It is such a disgrace the way Travis is getting trashed and I think she has gone to far
I hope the jury is fed up”
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I’m with you Malty. This trial is more about Travis’ so called travesties than Jodi’s premeditated slaughter of this innocent man. Shades of the CA trial. I’ve heard and seen enough already
of JA’s unconvincing performance in the court room and the jurors have probably had it up to their eyeballs. It’s been dragging on far too long. Maybe the court should allow more time/days in the week to wrap it up and bring it to a finale. Wishful thinking huh?
Hello to all of us who have been waiting so patiently for today to come- let’s hope it will be as rewarding as expected.
Mom3.0,
Another correction! It looks like there may have been a third gas can filled in Pasadena too.
From CNN transcripts, Beth Karras:
“…Pasadena, where she had three gas purchases, all in a row within minutes of each other. One appears to be for the car on the debit card, and two were cash purchases, one for 9.5 gallons. That`s the two five-gallon gas cans that she borrowed from Darryl Brewer (ph), and then a little over two gallons in the third one…”
Pam says:
March 10, 2013 at 4:19 pm
Pam,
I’m so sorry you’ve been through that. Prayers for you.
I’m wondering what you meant by this? I know it might be a lot to explain. Is there a book or article you can point me to? No rush! I’m just curious, so if you come across an article or something that explains it, please post it sometime. Thanks!
“He would had to have known that her stalking ways would have resulted in a fight to the death. This is hard to know unless you have educated yourself on stalkers and the criteria for it to get to that point. Some of the criteria in this instance is just not there from what I know.”
Joan
The gas and kerosene cans don’t matter. Kerosene is a precursor to jet fuel and will burn the same as gasoline. However, the octane rating for kerosene is around 80 and would not work in an auto or truck engine and if it did would cause considerable damage.
Most gasoline except for American Oil water white will have coloring agents in them to prevent people from mixing kerosene and gasoline in the same container. Western states regular gasoline octane ratings at the pump are usually 86 whereas in states East of New Mexico & Colorado the value for regular is 87 octane.
An automatic pistol will eject the spent casing prior to loading a new shell from a magazine. A revolver has a rotary magazine (cylinder)that contains a number of shells from five to 10 depending on the caliber of the gun. Small caliber more shells. Large caliber less shells.
Firing a round from a revolver just fires the shell lined up with the firing pin and the barrel. This action also rotates the cylinder the necessary distance to place the next round in position to be fired. The brass casing is not ejected and must be removed by an action by the shooter at some later time.
Using a cell phone in a sparsely populated area is somewhat iffy. In the mountains, towers may have areas that are not reachable. Around populated areas in mountains, this is not a real problem. The telephone companies are going to spend the capital for towers and electronics where high population would create the greatest demand.