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>> justice for travis! >> tonight with new information and new interviews, we will take an in depth look at the case in to why jodi arias became so obsessed with travis alexander and why so many of you became obsessed with this trial. >> hello. >> we start with this home video played for the jury. it shows travis holding court amid a circle of friends. look a little closer and you'll see a blond 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 somebody 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 sky 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 kmem industry there was emotional chemistry as well. >> jodi arias has been described as 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. >> good friend, close end. >> very good friend. >> best friend? >> i have seen recently people come forward and say he was my best friend and that's the type of guy travis was. he made everybody feel like you were his best friend. >> reporter: 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. >> at first she tried to be this good girl with morals and values and then that didn't work and then she turned on the sex. >> reporter: than 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 is his concerns that jodi was stalking him. >> he was disturbed by her behavior but every time he tried to break things off with jodi she would threaten to kill herself. >> reporter: 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. two or three weeks after that, we started to talk on the phone. four, five times a week. >> reporter: during one of those calls, jodi promised to visit ryan and one morning in june of 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 jodied a been there just one day before? . >> how did she look? >> fine. >> 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. this girl wouldn't let me kill a spider on the wall because she didn't want to hurt god's creature. >> then you started to hear from other friends of yours and people that were friends of travis they suspected her. >> people told me not to take her calls or 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 a situation where am i really talking to a murderer? >> reporter: aaron 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. she came out and said, what, everything's fine. >> we're good. let's go home. >> reporter: what else did she say about travis' murder? >> she claimed to know nothing about it. she was saying she wasn't there. she hadn't seen him in months. >> reporter: 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, caught on camera, for all the world to see. >> was there something that involved mr. alexander in the shower? 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>> yes. >> reporter: what made the pictures key to the case had to do with a feature built in to the camera. >> it embeds the date and time the camera has to the file itself. >> reporter: 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 timestamped 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. >> reporter: 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 aggressive live and we were kissing. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: what's so remarkable looking back at this police interview tape that even in the face of immutable evidence, jodi can lie seamlessly and deathly 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: it was through these videotapes the jury heard n 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. >> 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, thou shall not this or that. but it does not say thou shall noz fornicate. i used to joke about that. >> after they are routine fell flat and she was about to be arrested, jodi 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 head stand. in yoga it is called salamba shirsosan, a cure for whatever is ailing you. and before betting led away she made one last request. >> this is really a trivial request and reveal how shallow i am. but before they book me can i clean myself up a little bit? >> reporter: she wanted to look good apparently 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 a seat, please. >> reporter: was jodi arias. coming up -- jodi's new defense, self defense as she takes the stand and almost won't get off. >> we hang out. we have sex. >> reporter: when "dateline" continues. : when "dateline" con. . get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. 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>> it is a hotel room. i show up. we hang out. we have sex. i'm getting a lot of attention but only when we are engaging in sexual activity. i felt like a prostitute sort of. >> the graphic sexual testimony goes to the heart of the question as to whether travis was physically and emotionally abusing her through the sexual relationship they had. >> reporter: 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. >> who's desire was it for that to take place? >> at his. >> reporter: defense expert who co-authored a book about battered woman suggested e-mails from travis' friends to jodi show 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 does not exist. 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. they are using our words to make travis look like somebody he absolutely you not. >> he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. >> during her 18 days on the stand, 11 under friend di defense questioning, said travis had become enraged over they argued over money. >> he went to kick me again and i moved my hand out. >> what happened after that. >> i screamed out and yelled out to my finger or hand or something to that effect. >> jodi showed the jury that she claimed was the result of travis' outburst. whatever concern she may have had about violence she and travis didn't stop seeing each other. >> he seemed happy to see me. >> jodi came to travis' house in 2008, that day there was sex, a lot of it, she acknowledged. after all there was no denying all of the photos they took. >> we were trying out different poses. >> she described a happy, erotic day until travis' 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 run 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 that travis then kept coming, even with a bullet in his head. >> he fell and he is screaming angrily and after i broke away from him, he said [ bleep ] kill you, bitch. >> do you remember i 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 she must have hoped she would 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. ticket scalpers and an unexpected new cable star. >> people ask you for your autograph? >> yes, they do. >> people want to take a picture with you. >> ye they do. >> coming up next friday on "dateline." >> this is recorded with cameras. >> i see your get up. >> he's back. did you mishim. >> i know you did time in jail. >> no. >> chris hansen undercover in the wild world of the on-line classified. >> i know you are law enforcement. >> no, we are not. >> where anything goes. >> we told you they were dangerous. how do you justify that? >> this time around there are pills. >> this would violate fda rules. >> spills. >> that's not really you, is it? 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>> 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 on the anything anything but. she was she was personally and professionally attacked and her book about why battered women stay with their accusers was hit with hundreds of on-line 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 go ing to try to ruin your career. that's a felony. >> reporter: she wasn't the only target. michael kiefer reported that jodi's lawyer, jennifer willmont also receive threats. jodi also took to social media with a twitter account that drew 51,000 followers. she did it through a friend she met in jail. donovan became jodi's unofficial spokeswoman and twitter administrator. you actually operate the twitter account. >> yes. >> but those are jodi's words. >> everything on there comes from jodi. those are her thoughts and 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 talked about martinez, anger management problems anyone. and another was more snarky, saying that he was inflicted with little man syndrome. that comment has since been deleted. but all of the attention helped to elevate the pub he lick persona of martinez, a once bull dog of a prosecutor and 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 will pull out of his hat. >> he is travis' voice and we admire him for that. >> oh, yeah. >> sisters amy and dawn both took the week off from their jobs in st. louis in hopes of getting a ring side 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. >> like hollywood. o >> one of the stars the sisters were hoping to see is katie wick. >> what a crazy day. >> reporter: 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 is not an attorney but a regular spectator that caught the eye of a cable news. >> people want to take a picture with you. >> yes. >> to the audience fixated on the jodi arias trial you are a celeb. >> in essence i am. i'm not going in as a lawyer or doctor. i'm just going in as a person. >> just a regular person in the jodi arias show. >> this is not "jersey shore" this is not like did you see it when jay popped the situation in the eye. this is life and death. this is a death penalty case. >> and america is reacting to it like a reality show. >> like it is a reality show. >> reporter: this reality show was about to get real. why are twice as many people choosing verizon over any other carrier? 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>> 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 wannabe photographer to accused killer. 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 afcs your memory problem. >> it does. it makes my brain scramble. >> and then the matter of the gun that jodi used to shoot travis. she testified she found it at his house. >> how now he's in the closet. >> reporter: martinez presented evidence that a gun of the same caliber was stolen from the home of jodi's grarntds in yreka, california, while jodi was living there. >> you brought a gun from yre krk a, didn't you? >> no. >> the indication 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 acknowledging 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 he's no threat to you, right? >> i don't know. >> well, he's already been shot according to you and he's facing away from you. how could he possibly be any threat to you? i could only guess. i don't know what you are asking me. >> reporter: 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 are doing this to an individual after you have already shot him, right? >> yes. >> reporter: 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 is manipulative. she is cunning and i suspect she can be extremely seductive. >> reporter: forensic psychiatrist steven pitt who's familiar with the case but who has 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 personty disorder. what does that mean. >> it could be the understatement of this particular case. they do not do well with rejection or abandonment. jodi arias is essentially the 21st century version of the character that glenn gloes close played in "fatal attraction." >> if there was anytime 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 defend. the judge reads them. >> did the police ever find your grandfather's gun. >> reporter: 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 now? >> the lies that i have 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: jodi's old friend aaron dewey. >> she could reflect back to you whatever it was you wanted to hear. whoever it was you wanted her to be. >> reporter: 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 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 engraceuate themselves with her to a certain extent and hopefully spare her life. >> jurors had four months to think of all the questions. just two days ago, they came up with the answers. and a verdict. raclean texture that can help you get clean while still using less. and it's four times stronger versus the leading value brand. charmin ultra strong helps keep you and your underwear clean. we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra strong? 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[ male announcer ] well played, chef. the new margarita queso chicken & shrimp now on our fresh flavors menu. applebee's. see you tomorrow. now on our fresh flavors menu. your children's health can affect their gpa. yes, exercise and education go hand in hand. so make sure your kids are active 60 minutes every day. you'll help them feel good and even perform better in school. the more you know. 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? >> reporter: there is one point juan martinez wanted to drive home in his closing arguments to the jury. >> she's an ornate liar. >> reporter: 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? >> reporter: in his summation, defense lawyer didn't ask for an i quital. even he seemed to acknowledge that jurors were likely to convict jodi of something. >> if miss ariass is guilty of any crime at all, it is the crime of manslaughter and nothing more. >> reporter: he pointedly reminded the jury 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 owe di arias. >> reporter: it is a phrase that resonated if not with the jury, 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, than you don't know jodi arias but that was kind of the issue throughout the trial. who was she? >> i don't know. >> reporter: 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 and entitled enough to believe she's so good she's going to pull the wool over someone else. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: their judgment, that it was premeditated. >> we the jury find the defendant as to count one first-degree murder guilty. [ cheers ] >> reporter: outside, the crowd erupted in cheers. >> justice for travis! >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: 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 will take me some time. >> forgiveness will come but it has nothing 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: after those words, the sheriffs department announced it was placing jodi on suicide watch. her family members left the jail that night in stunned silence. in 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 sheriffs office confirmed that 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 will have new details in the case of the three miss