Background

On the afternoon of June 4, 2008, Travis Alexander was savagely murdered by his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias, in the bedroom of his home in Mesa, Arizona. Though no one but Jodi knows exactly why she committed such a heinous crime, several theories have been put forward. Some feel it was because Travis had plans to take another woman on a trip to Cancun, Mexico, on June 10, 2008. Others speculate that Jodi decided that if she could no longer have him, no one would. Still, others feel it was the big fight between them, which occurred on May 26, 2008, that ultimately triggered her decision to slaughter him. We believe it was all of the above. We feel strongly that each of these stressors contributed to her premeditated decision to end his life, specifically the May 26 blowout. It was in the heat of this fight, via text and Google Chat, where Travis would finally see Jodi for the monster that she really is, and he told her so, saying things like:

“I’ve never been hurt so badly by someone!” “You don’t care! It doesn’t serve your evilness!”

“I don’t want your apology! I want you to know how evil I think you are!”

“You are the worst thing that has ever happened to me!”

“Why did you manipulate me into loving you? Why me? I was a good guy! Why did you have to do it to me? Why do you hate me?”

“I’m just tired of all of this, it’s killing me!”

He even called her a sociopath.

Jodi Arias was a twenty-seven-year-old waitress from Yreka, California. She worked incredibly hard to manufacture an image, one that in no way resembled who she really was. She painstakingly and purposefully made Travis’s worldher world—his business, his religion, his friends … his life. And all of that was about to go away for her. Travis was her “golden ticket” out of her miserable life. No more jumping from meaningless job to meaningless job. No more moving around. No more struggling to pay the bills. No more living in a tiny, little room in her grandparents’ humble home in a small town most people have never heard of, much less ever been to. Yes, all of that was abruptly threatened, including the status she wrongfully assumed she had achieved by being “Travis’s girlfriend.”

After eighteen months, Travis’s eyes had been pried open. Jodi was about to be exposed for what she really was. Travis was finally moving on. Jodi was attractive, and she knew how to work it. She could find another rising star in the company to manipulate, but maybe she feared that Travis was going to tell the truth about her, ruining her prospects in the only social circle where she had access to people who could save her from her unhappy, little world. Realizing her predicament, she began to plan what she naïvely thought was the perfect murder.

Following that May 26 fight, Jodi asked Darryl Brewer, an old boyfriend she lived with while she was dating Travis, if she could borrow a couple of gas cans for a “trip she was taking to Mesa.” This trip to Mesa, which only Darryl and one other person knew about, would coincide with another trip she had planned to Utah to spend time with Ryan Burns, another rising star in Pre-Paid Legal. Jodi planned this trip to see Ryan after the fight as well. Two days after the May 26 fight, Jodi’s grandparents’ home, where she was living at the time, was robbed. Everything of value was left untouched in the home except a DVD player, a .25 caliber pistol, and $30 Jodi claimed had been taken from her bedroom. It wasafter the May 26 fight when Jodi evidently decided that her car—a newer, silver Infinity G35—would be too conspicuous to take on her secret trip. She opted to rent a car instead. At first, the rental company offered her a red car. That, too, would be conspicuous, so she refused the car. She wanted something more muted, less conspicuous. Finally, they offered her a white car, which she accepted.

One of her first stops was at Darryl’s house to pick up two five-gallon gas cans she had asked to borrow. She also visited Matt McCartney, another former boyfriend. She also met up with a man that said she borrowed money from him. He reported that she was in a rush to get to Mesa to fix things. Later, she stopped at Wal