with months of lurid testimony. through it all, there was a fascinating mystery at the heart of the crime who was jodi arias? here is josh with along came jodie. you would know that, right? the trial never played as a murder mystery. jodie, after all, had admitted to 12 jurors in open court and a few million viewers on tv that she was the one who shot and stabbed and then stabbed some more her former boyfriend and secret sex partner. as to count one, first-degree murder, guilty. why did so many million trial followers stick around for the final act?