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 aggressi aggressively and we were kissing. 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. what s so remarkable looking back at this police interview tape is that even in the face of
0 jodi from the start. i knew in that very moment that jodi arias did it. he turned to me and said jodi did this. 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. i mean this girl wouldn t even let me kill a spider on the wall because she didn t want to hurt god s creature. i mean then you started to hear from other friends of yours and people that were friends of travis that they suspected her. right. people told me not to take her calls. people told me not to 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 it was just the situation where, am i really talking to a murderer? aaron dewey 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 most sensational and bizarre trials ever, the stories you haven t heard from her friends. you see any cuts on her? tiny, little cuts. and his. he was very afraid of her. every time he tried to break things off with jodi she would threaten to kill herself. inside the jodi arias trial. this isn t a ride at disneyland. this is somebody wo was tragically murdered. i m lester holt, and this is dateline. here s josh mankiewicz. mr. alexander was stabbed. it would be you that did it, correct? yes. the jodi arias trial never played as a murder mystery. jodi, after all, had admitted to 12 jurors in open court and a few million viewers on tv that she was the one who shot, stabbed and then stabbed some more her former boyfriend and secret sex partner. as to count one first-degree murder guilty. why then did so many millions of trial followers stick around for the final act? and why did so many leave home and work to gather on the courthouse steps to awai