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FEBRUARY 2006

Victims of the Great Recession (Part 2)

Jodi begins work with Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (now LegalShield). Her boss is a man named Dr. David Hughes. [Other sources say March/April]

(http://jodi.projectwasabi.com/)

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Jodi first heard about the opportunities at Pre-Paid Legal from a stranger who had come into the restaurant where she worked as a waitress. Her job at California Pizza Kitchen in Palm Desert was one of several she was juggling in an attempt to make her monthly bills. She and the stranger got into a casual conversation, so it kind of surprised her when he asked her where she saw herself in five years. He let her know that he was going to retire soon, having made enough money at a company called Pre-Paid Legal Services to do so at a young age. Jodi did not object when he handed her some printed material and a promotional DVD. The DVD sat in her house gathering dust for six months, when one day she came across it while cleaning. She was going to throw it away but decided to watch it first. She popped it into her machine. The message seemed like providence. Here, possibly, was the answer to her mounting problems.

Jodi got so excited about the potential financial windfall that she signed up online and was soon contacted by one of the company’s salespeople, who signed Jodi up as an independent associate. At the time, Jodi had been struggling, working several jobs just to make ends meet, but because PPL’s associates work from home, Jodi didn’t have to give up her other jobs in order to make money. After she signed up with PPL, she heard about the company’s semi-annual convention in September. Apparently it was a great way to pick up tips on how to profit with the multilevel marketing firm, so when September came, Jodi traveled to Las Vegas with her sponsor/mentor and another Pre-Paid Legal associate to attend her first convention. She had been searching for something financially stable to lock on to and maybe this convention would provide the key. Jodi had just finished lunch and was standing with a group of people near the gorilla bench at the entrance to the Rainforest Café when Travis walked right up to her and introduced himself with an extended hand.

(Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell)

As Darryl started pondering a return to Northern California, Jodi started looking around for options, which was when she discovered an opportunity called Pre-Paid Legal. Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (PPL) encouraged individuals who represented them to sell legal insurance to others. The more people you signed up to sell legal insurance, the bigger your take, and the higher you rose in the company’s ranks. To some the corporate structure seemed to look a little like a pyramid. To others it seemed like a fun way to make money while meeting lots of new people. There was a social aspect to PPL that was very attractive to those who got involved. It felt a lot like being part of a club.

From Darryl’s perspective, it all looked like magical thinking. Jodi was thinking positive thoughts but stopped paying her share of the bills. Jodi started putting her half of the mortgage on her credit cards. Instead of getting better, her financial situation was becoming even more precarious. But Jodi appeared to be counting on Pre-Paid Legal to solve it all, and in September 2006 she decided to attend PPL’s Las Vegas convention, where a chance meeting with Travis Alexander would change the rest of her life.

(Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell)

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MAY 2005

Victims of The Great Recession (Part 1)

Together with her boyfriend Darryl, Jodi buys a house in Palm Desert, California (about 100 miles east of LA). The two agree to split all the costs 50/50. At the time they purchase the house -Brewer is living off his savings and seeking employment. Jodi works at California Pizza Kitchen. Jodi’s parents Bill and Sandy ask if they can make the trip down and visit, see Jodi’s new home. Her father Bill Arias recalls Jodi as saying, “Where you going to stay? I don’t want you staying here, snooping through our stuff…”

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JUNE 2006 - AUGUST 2007

In Palm Desert, California – Jodi Arias stops paying her share of the mortgage. This is when Darryl said on the stand that Jodi started to change.

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[Honestly, her entries from spring/summer of 2007 start to sound delusional, and they get worse as the year progresses. Also, I was quite surprised to find that the Palm Desert house was not foreclosed on until summer 2007…? An entry there says the water was turned off yet friends are coming to swim in the pool.]

[She mentions the date her house was auctioned off in her journal, but I didn’t make note of it and I am too sleepy to go look for it now.]

Notes from Webslueths

[Jodi and Brewer purchased a house in 2005 during the US housing bubble/subprime mortgage era. Hard to believe now, but during those times, home buyers only needed $0 or very little down payment and easily got approved on mortgages with ridiculously low (subprime) adjustable interest rates. They didn’t need good credit history, job history, no nothing. And they paid only the interest portion of the mortgage for the first few months or a year, until the mortgagees start asking for payment that included principal with newly set higher interest rate. When this time came, most subprime mortgagors had no means to pay higher mortgages and lost their houses to foreclosures.

This is exactly what happened to Jodi and Brewer in 2006. When Brewer asked Jodi to pay her portion, she came back at him with the law of attraction. She did not want to focus on any negativity (ie, having to pay bills). According to DB, he paid for few months by himself but couldn’t keep up so in Dec 2006, left the house to foreclose. Jodi lived in it for free during the foreclosure process.]

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JUNE 4, 2008

VOICEMAIL TO TRAVIS

(11:37 pm) (6-04-2008)

“Hey what’s going on? It’s almost midnight. Um? Anyway right about the time you’re starting to gear up. I know Leslie called you so I already called her so you can call her back if you want but it’s not necessary. Um? My phone died so I wasn’t getting back to anybody. Um? And what else? Oh, I drove 100 miles in the wrong direction, over 100 miles, thank you very much. So, yeah, remember New Mexico, it was a lot like that only you weren’t here to prevent me to go into the three digits, so fun, fun. I’ll tell all about that later. Um? Also we were talking about, when we were talking about your upcoming travels my way, I was looking at the May calendar, duh, so I’m all confused. Um? But Heather and I are going to see Othello on July 1st and we would love for you to accompany us. Um? I don’t know whether Team Freedom’s event is though but you know it’s on the list so we can so, um, we could do Shakespeare, Crater Lake and the coast, if, if you can make it. If not, we’ll just do the coast and Crater Lake. But let me know and I will talk to you soon. Bye.” – Jodi, a few hours after murdering Travis Alexander.

JULY 1, 2008

IMAGE: From Jodi’s MySpace, caption: Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR. Peter makes a great Othello! Don’t know who the guy in the background is.

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JUNE 2007

A Getty/Disneyland Trip

The trust was broken…

On several weekends Travis also drove to California to see Jodi and they toured nearby beaches and museums. In Los Angeles, they went to the Getty Center, a museum specializing in pre-twentieth-century European paintings, drawings, and sculptures, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and European photographs.

In the spring of 2007, they spent a day at Disneyland and Disneyland California Adventure. Together they posed for a picture on the teacups ride.

On their last day together, Travis and Jodi stopped by Anaheim, where they spent the day at Disneyland and Disneyland California Adventure.

For a few fleeting moments on the trip, Jodi felt connected to Travis, which was even more painful because it reminded her of how much she truly loved him.

“I knew the relationship couldn’t continue like that,” Jodi recalled. “I was kind of waiting for the right moment to tell him.”

While Jodi planned to end the relationship at the end of the trip, she couldn’t quite bring herself to look in Travis’s eyes and tell him they were over. Instead, she confronted him days later by phone.

“There’s some things I want to talk to you about,” she told Travis.

Jodi confessed about seeing the messages from other women. Travis apologized, but to Jodi he seemed only mildly remorseful. He did not grovel for the transgression.

“I don’t think either of us is ready to be in this kind of relationship,” Jodi told Travis.

The trust was broken. They both seemed to agree it was better that they were no longer a couple.

“I don’t think I could trust him fully to be monogamous,” Jodi later told detectives. “And I didn’t think he thought he could trust me to not get into his phone again.”

On June 29, 2007—about a month before his thirtieth birthday—Travis and Jodi officially ended their relationship.

(Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story by Shanna Hogan)

In addition to Jodi’s distrust of Travis and other women, her finances may have fueled some of her insecure behavior. Because of the foreclosure on her home back in February, she knew that she would soon be forced to find a new house. With that, there was likely a new urgency in her interest to move things forward with Travis, but it looked less and less like Travis was going to swoop in and offer her a place to live anytime soon.

Finally it got to the point where Jodi had to do something for herself, and in April she called the Ventana Inn in Carmel to inquire about being rehired. When she learned there was an opening, she packed up her belongings and headed north for Big Sur. She found a room in a historic house off Highway 101 in Monterey that her ex-boyfriend Matt was sharing with other roommates.

According to Jodi, Travis was not jealous that she was going to be under the same roof as Matt. However, he did have his jealous moments at other times. One time, Travis and Jodi were planning a trip. The idea was to rendezvous in Anaheim and go to Disneyland. Before Jodi took to the road, she wanted to shower, but the water had been turned off at the Ventana Inn. She showered at a friend’s house instead. The friend was a male, and when Travis called her to find out if she had left yet, she told him where she was. She said he started yelling at her, saying she had put herself at risk, that she should have showered later. When she arrived in Anaheim just before sunset, Travis was still angry. Jodi claimed it didn’t lead to a fight, but that Travis wouldn’t let it go.

(Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell)

“Disneyland, 50th Anniversary” by Thomas Kinkade

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Travis & Jodi: Emails

...deeply in love with you…

Jodi writes:

“There are times I am overwhelmed about things to tell you. I just want you to know that I haven’t forgotten what I said more than a year ago; that no matter what happened, we’ll always have our friendship. … I fell deeply in love with you.. I sort of knew deep down your weren’t the one. …. When I think of you now I have radiating feelings of warmth. I know it’s unconditional love. U know love w/o conditions is an interesting thing…We are each destined for extraordinary things…I wish I could wave a wand and make things right for you….This wish stems from unconditional love… our path is something to be cherished and remembered I love you, Jodi"

Travis response:

“Wow, that kind of choked me up a little and I know our path hasn’t always been roses but I am grateful for the time we have had and the amazing experiences we have had together as well. I’ve had more noteworthy things happen with you than with anyone. I’m not talking about the places I’ve been but the journey of the heart…I just missed a call from you so I’m going to call you now.”

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MARCH 2007

Travis, Clancy & Jodi

Drunk & Slurring Woman

Referencing the March PPL convention, remember, the next morning, Jealous Jodi went to the executive director floor of the hotel, and followed Clancy Talbot, the “drunk and slurring woman” into the bathroom. There, she proceeded to spray her scent all over her perceived rival, who, by the way, was finally rescued by a friend who had to get Jodi out of the way of the bathroom door so that she could get in.

Yes, Nurmi, there were instances of jealousy, and the only reason that the Clancy Talbot episode was admitted to by your client is because the “drunk and slurring woman” was on the prosecutor’s witness list, and you wanted to strike first. However, you’re looking for uncorroborated stories of the angry phone yeller/sleep rapist exhibiting jealous behavior toward a woman he didn’t care about. Carry on.

(Behind the Words: A Logical and Satirical Guide to the Impossible Defense of Jodi Arias by Kim Anne Whittemore)

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Over the course of their relationship, however, Jodi’s jealously took a toll.

At the Prepaid Legal event in Oklahoma that March, Clancy Talbot was among the dozens of his friends from the company who were in attendance. On the night of the executive ball, Clancy had a little too much to drink, and at one point staggered over toward Travis and laid her head on his shoulder. To brace her, Travis grabbed her by the waist. At the sight of her boyfriend even touching another woman, Jodi fell apart.

“I just got this feeling inside like my stomach flip-flopped,” Jodi recalled. “I couldn’t believe he was doing that, especially in front of our friends. I felt like I wanted to cry, but I didn’t want anyone to see that.”

Jodi slipped away into the women’s bathroom. She locked the stall door, put her feet on the toilet seat, and wept for an hour.

The next day, Jodi followed Clancy into the bathroom.

“She cornered me in the bathroom, she was shaking and upset,” Clancy said. “She just kept saying the same thing over and over.”

Jodi explained that she was now with Travis.

“I am more upset with Travis than I am with you,” Jodi said, trembling. “But I wanted to let you know Travis and I are official now. We are together now.”

After several minutes, a friend of Clancy’s came into the bathroom and she was able to escape. Years later, Clancy would look back on the encounter.

“It was just so strange, so weird, so creepy,” Clancy recalled. “Jodi was so possessive. She didn’t want anyone anywhere near Travis.”

For the next few days, Travis and Jodi fought about the incident. But even after they made up, doubt and suspicions continued to plague her.

Jodi would later admit she was jealous in their relationship, but it was only because she believed she was being two-timed.

“There’s sort of a distinctive feeling that comes when you have that sneaky suspicion that somebody might be not so monogamous,” Jodi recalled. “I had a suspicion.”

(Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story by Shanna Hogan)

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As Jodi’s paranoia grew, it became harder for her to contain, and later, in March 2007, a couple of weeks after the eavesdropping incident, Jodi revealed her true colors to another member of Travis’s inner circle. Travis and Jodi were attending a Pre-Paid Legal convention at Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City with a large group of friends. Busy networking, Travis paid little attention to her, and she became more insecure, complaining that he was treating her like just another conventiongoer, not his girlfriend, and that he had a tendency to treat her more affectionately when no one else was looking. It was as though he was comfortable with her being the companion in his bed, but not in his everyday life, she complained. This attitude toward Jodi was something that had also been noticed by some of Travis’s friends, who said that he seemed less affectionate toward her whenever they were in a group. Dan Freeman observed that the smaller the group, the cozier he was to her. But others disputed that and even produced a videotape that got a lot of airplay on national news showing Travis hugging Jodi as she cradled up against him, while he spoke to a sizable group of people. Travis’s friends asked rhetorically, if Travis was hiding his relationship with Jodi, why was the Internet awash with photos of them hugging?

Suffice it to say at the convention and at the convention’s executive banquet, Jodi was unhappy and lonely. Travis was ostensibly ignoring her, and seeing him chatting in a group that included the vivacious but happily married Clancy Talbot didn’t help Jodi’s mood. Clancy had had a couple of glasses of wine and stumbled, grabbing on to Travis’s arm for support. The two were laughing and enjoying the embarrassing moment, but Jodi took deep offense, calling a friend and crying hysterically that Travis was flirting with another woman. She was already suspicious of Clancy, having spied email exchanges between the two that she considered “flirtatious.”

Clancy said she was flabbergasted when the following day, Jodi followed her into the ladies’ room and confronted her. As Clancy recalled recently, Jodi “comes in and says, ‘I just want you to know Travis and I are an item now. We’re a couple. We’re together. And I’m not upset with you as much as I am with him. I’m mostly upset with him.’ And she’s shaking and she’s angry … and she kept saying it over and over.” Clancy said she felt intimidated as Jodi tried to block the exit door. “I couldn’t leave, and she was standing really close to my face. She was talking and while she’s talking, she’s really angry and shaking. And she just kept saying over and over that I just want you to know that Travis and I are boyfriend and girlfriend. We’re a couple. We’re an item. We are together.” Clancy stared back at Jodi, before brushing past her. “I just thought you are so crazy. And, then, I left.”

(Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell)

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Okay, back to convention. Nurmi recalls the confusion that Jodi experienced earlier when she was asked about Travis’ public displays of affection (PDAs) in Kansas City, but Jodi thought the subject was his PDAs during convention. I guess we’re going to dissect that now.

Nurmi wants to know how Travis acted toward her at convention. Jodi answers, “Umm…just, I just sorta became, it seemed like, I was just another person there. Uh, maybe on a friend/acquaintance level. Umm…I wasn’t expecting (BS), he had told me ahead of time that convention is crazy, and all that, but there were plenty of moments where we were all just hanging out, and he wasn’t incredibly affectionate (why should he be “incredibly” affectionate in public?), umm, but there was one time when we were up very late, and we were in the hotel lobby, and, umm, I was really tired, but I stayed to hang out with everyone, and he put a pillow on his lap and let me lay there. So that was really nice of him”.

We remember this, Jodi. You didn’t look very appreciative in that video. In fact, you looked quite put upon; kind of like a hostess with a house full of friends who are not getting the hint that it’s time for them to leave. Why not just take you butt back to your hotel room and go to sleep if you’re so exhausted that you cannot remain in an upright position among a group of people who are all quite alert? He was obviously awake and ready to socialize. You, on the other hand, wanted to go and have sex. He preferred the company of other people – at least when given the choice of staying and talking or being alone with you. You were an anchor. Let’s not even get into what he was talking about – his near death experience dream.

Also, I would like to know what Jodi Arias considers appropriate when it comes to PDAs. Should Travis have grabbed her by her hair, shoved his tongue down her throat, and his hand down her blouse? Does she not realize that many people find adolescent displays of affection off-putting and awkward?

Oh, I’m sorry. I cut Jodi off. She wasn’t finished. She continues, “Other than that, he was actually very flirtatious with another woman (oh, could this be Clancy, the woman who was trapped in the bathroom with a territorial Jodi?)”. Nurmi tells Jodi not to get into the details, but he wants to know if this flirtation happened in front of her? “Yes”, says Jodi. Nurmi continues, “Did that hurt your feelings?”. Jodi answers, “Yes, it hurt my feelings”. Nurmi asks, “Did you ever say anything to him about it (I’d be more interested in what she said to the woman, frankly)?”. Jodi answers, “Afterward, after the incident, we ended up talking about it”. Nurmi reminds us all, including Jodi, that in the past, it had been very difficult for Jodi to bring “these things” up to Travis. He would like to know what gave her the strength to do it this time.

My theory: She had no choice. I suspect she confronted this woman, and word was going to get around. Jodi answered, “I didn’t bring it up to him. He came to me. I think he knew he screwed up”. No, absolutely not. He came to her, and he was probably very angry and embarrassed when he found out that she had cornered this woman in the bathroom. I have a very strong suspicion that she is talking about Clancy Talbot. Because this woman isn’t testifying, Jodi is free to spin whatever tale she wants about this “incident”.

Nurmi asks if all was forgiven after they talked about it. Jodi answers, “Eventually. We talked about it for a few minutes. Getting into it made me cry because it was very blatant, what he did (as blatant as 27 stab wounds, a slit throat, a bullet to the face, and a shower stall for a grave…that blatant, or was it more subtle than that?). And, he was very apologetic”. There is an absolutely disgusting expression of smug victory on her face. Do you know what I just realized – as in, it just really hit me? I think any penalty Jodi Arias will pay will always be secondary to the fact that she truly believes she won. I just saw that look on her face. She wasn’t reflecting or reacting to an incident in the past – that is her heart, and that is the way she feels today. She may pay a huge price for what she did, but the price he paid will always be bigger. Even if she dies by lethal injection, she will never know the absolute frenzy being experienced by a mortally wounded man trying, in vain, to crawl away from his attacker, only to feel her cold, blood drenched, bony fingers on his body again, pulling his head back, and ending his life. This is beginning to feel pornographic.

Jodi is now going to go into the realm of the ridiculous. Nurmi continues to hammer away at the PDA disparities based on location. Jodi says, as far as the convention was concerned, she didn’t over analyze it. After all, she realized it was a business convention, and while there were other couples there who were sitting together and holding hands, she wasn’t really upset that Travis wouldn’t do that. What upset her is what he did with the other woman. She says, “…So it hurt my feelings a little bit, but it was very mild in comparison to the way he was actually acting with another woman”.

Nurmi is back to sleeping arrangements. He wants to know if they shared a hotel room. She answers, “Definitely not. We were in separate hotel rooms (that makes me happy, and hopefully, he made her pay for her own room)”. Nurmi pounces on “definitely not” (didn’t see that coming), and he wants an explanation. Here we go. Travis the Mormon hypocrite, right? Jodi answers, “Well, he explained to me that it wasn’t looked upon very well when…to stay in the same hotel room. Umm, plus, we weren’t married, we weren’t going to get the same hotel room. We would stay in the same…he would stay in a room full of guys, and I would stay in a room full of girls, and we would all split the cost”.

Just a point that’s dying to be made. Why did any of this need to be explained to New Creation Arias? Four months earlier, she was subjected to a stalled baptism because she lived under the same roof as a man who was not her husband and not a relative. If anyone should understand what the issue with a shared hotel room was, it would be Jodi Arias. By the way, let’s not forget that she’s allegedly as much of a Mormon as Travis Alexander. There was probably quite a bit of bitching about this. I can almost hear it: “We barely get to see each other as it is, and you care more about what a bunch of hypocrites think than what I think, blah, blah, blah”. I think she would have loved to have gotten him out of that church. I think she would have loved to see him excommunicated from that church.

Nurmi says, “I’m a little confused then, because it seems like this man had concerns about appearances at the convention, but didn’t have any concerns about sharing a hotel room with you a night or two before hand, right?”. Nurmi should not be trying to make his point by feigning confusion. It’s transparent, and it makes him sound stupid – or even worse, it makes the jurors believe that he thinks they’re the stupid ones. Framing questions while pretending that you haven’t been listening to all of the testimony you have elicited is a low level mistake. We all know why the sleeping situation was set up the way it was. If he has any further confusion on the subject, maybe he should stop trying to figure out the Mormon brain of the victim. Maybe he should look at his client, who also claims to have a Mormon brain, and ask her to explain the doctrinal issues of premarital sex. No. Instead he will act like he is talking to a woman who never pretended to be a Mormon, and he’ll pretend the man she was dating suddenly foisted his odd Mormon beliefs on her at a convention.

Jodi says, “Yes”. Nurmi asks, “Did you ever question him about that disparity?”. Oh, I’ll bet she did, whether or not she admits it now. There was no reason for her to question anything. She knew the rules. She was a baptized member of the faith. If she didn’t like it, she could have told him that she wasn’t willing to have this type of relationship. The truth is, she held onto this type of relationship with the same white knuckled fervor as a man hanging from a ledge.

Jodi answers, “No. I knew it was a church standard, and I knew we were going against the church standard when no one else knew about it, but, not that time. Eventually, it came up between us, but not at convention, I didn't”.

Nurmi wants to know how they got back home from the convention. Jodi says she believes they flew directly back to Phoenix. Jodi makes it clear that they did not fly with a group of people. There may have been other people they knew on the plane, but they made their own reservations and flew together (you want to bet that she whispered, “It’s a short flight, babe. Wanna join the mile high club?). Look at how things have changed for the waitress from Yreka. At the last convention in September, Jodi was left watching as Travis pulled away in a taxi to be driven to the airport. She was stuffed into the back seat of a Honda and subjected to a long car ride back to Palm Desert (and she wasn’t even driving). Now, this non-earner, but very actively involved PPL associate, is flying in and out of conventions. It’s so much fun to play house, isn’t it?

Once they got back to Phoenix, Jodi did not get into her car and drive back home. Instead, she hung around Travis’ house and wrangled herself an invitation to a weekly Sunday dinner Travis attended at someone’s home. Nurmi wants to know if Jodi slept over. Of course, Jodi slept over. I think Travis might have even compensated Jodi for her travel expenses…just a guess. Does Jodi have a job she needed to be at on Monday morning at 8:00 AM (and Tuesday morning, a1nd Wednesday morning…all the way to Friday)? No, and even if she did, she’d just get up at 2:30 AM and start driving.

Back to the dinner. Jodi had not met these people. They are, at present, not being named. Nurmi wants to know if Travis introduced Jodi to this family as “his girlfriend”. Jodi answers, “No, I was kind of just a friend”. No, he didn’t say, “Hey, this is Jodi. She’s kind of just a friend. Do you mind feeding her?”. Of course not. He said, “This is my friend, Jodi Arias. She’s a PPL associate, and a recent convert”. That’s what he said.

Once again, we need to know if Jodi’s feelings were hurt. She says “not particularly”. Nurmi continues, “That evening, you went to this home and you were introduced as his buddy, again. When you go back to the home, is there more sexual activity?” Jodi answers, “Right before I left…(long pause)…I really don’t recall about that night”. She looks apologetic, but she needn’t be. Nurmi’s been over-sexed today.

Judge Stephens grants Nurmi’s request for a break, and the afternoon recess begins. There are only twenty minutes left to Jodi’s third day under direct. Jodi stands for the jury, and she immediately turns toward them, looks at them, and crosses her arms across her chest. This is significant in terms of body language. It signifies that she is feeling negative, defensive, and nervous.

(Behind the Words: A Logical and Satirical Guide to the Impossible Defense of Jodi Arias by Kim Anne Whittemore)

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