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⚠️ 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗿𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. ⚠️

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Convicted killer Jodi Ann Arias was born on July 9th, 1980, in Salinas, California. In the summer of 2008, Arias made national headlines when she was charged with murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old Mormon who was working as a motivational speaker and an insurance salesman.

Arias and Alexander had met at a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006, while he was still living in Arizona while she was still a resident at Palm Desert, California. By the following year, they were a committed couple. After only five months as a couple, however, the two went their separate ways in June 2007 but still maintained a sexual relationship.

On June 9th, 2008, Alexander's body was found in a pool of blood in the shower of his Mesa, Arizona, home by friends who had become increasingly worried about his whereabouts. Almost immediately after entering the residence, the young men began taking in the heinous crime scene.

In the bathroom, they found Alexander with a gunshot wound to the head, more than two dozen stab wounds and a deeply and widely slit throat. Investigators later determined that the murder had occured five days before his body was found, on July 4th 2008.

Arias quickly became the focus of investigations. She was indicted on first-degree murder charges on July 9, 2008, and arrested in California soon after. Arias initially denied any involvement in the killing, despite the discovery of her DNA mixed with Alexanders blood at the crime scene, but she later changed her story, claiming that she and her ex had been attacked by two masked intruders. After killing Alexander, the criminals decided let her live, she told the police, adding that she chose not to alert authorities at the time because she feared the intruders might seek revenge. 

Testimony in Aria's trial began in early January 2013 which was aired live to the public and became a media sensation. The following month the alleged killer took the witness stand to her defense, from where she would testify for 18 consecutive days. Already infamously known for her different accounts of Alexander's murder, Arias stated that she had killed her ex in an impassioned act of self-defense. She testified that Alexander frequently abused her and that she killed him after he came at her in a fit of rage when she dropped his camera. She also claimed to have suffered memory loss as the result of emotional trauma experienced during the incident, witch a psychological expert corroborating that she was suffering from post-traumatic-stress-disorder.

"Lying isn't something I just do", Arias stated during the trial in response to a query from a jury. "The lies I've told in this case can be tied directly back to either protecting Travi's reputation or my involvement in his death...because I was very ashamed." she stated.

On May 8th, 2013, Arias was found guilty of first-degree murder. Five jurors found her guilty of premeditated murder and seven found her guilty of both premeditated and felony murder, a verdict that sparked elation from Alexander's family members. However, the judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase after the jury deadlocked whether Arias deserved the death penalty.

The penalty retrial began on October 2014, with a new jury revisiting the evidence presented the first time around. This time, the focus wad on the psychological makeup of both parties, with the defense attempting to portray their client as a vulnerable woman and Alexander as emotionally & physically abusive. In March 2015, the second jury was unable to agree on Aria's sentence as well, removing the option of death penalty and leaving punishment terms to Judge Sherry Stephens.

On April 13, after expressing remorse for her actions in a statement, Arias received a life sentence without the possibility of parole after 25 years, and she began serving her term at the Arizona State Prison-Complex Perryville.

A/N: this was quiet an interesting case. There's this picture of Alexander in the shower the day of his murder. It's really haunting thinking that was his last moment alive.