we were there for a convention. our company had a big event there. i was there in las vegas with them. travis alexander was a motivational speaker, compelling and effected. he was also a close friend and co-worker of david hughes in the fall of 2006. and i knew that he was single and he was always looking for ms. alexander. enter sales woman and aspiring photographer, jod jodi arias. i said hey, there s this cute girl i work with. and he introduced me. they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. they met in vegas. the night they met, it seemed things heated up very quickly. jodi arias has said, within a week or so, they re having sex in the car.
there s a foul odor hanging in the air. they found their friend pale and lifeless on the floor. reporter: travis body had nearly 29 stab marks, including the stab across his neck from ear-to-ear. there was a .25 caliber shot, blood soaked into the carpet and splattered all over the bathroom, the sink, the mirror, the floor. his friends had immediate suspicions about who did it. her name is jodi.
reporter: jodi and travis didn t break up. but that doesn t mean that they weren t friends with benefits! jodi enjoyed her sexual life. she wrote about how se loves travis so fully and completely that she doesn t know any other way to be. he was just her entire focus. reporter: so obsessed, that she never took her eye off of travis no matter how far apart they were. she s spying on him. that s what s really happening there. she slashed his tires, she broke into his e-mail account, she hacked into his facebook
jodi had staged a burglary. you heard what items were taken, including a .25 caliber handgun. you heard that, right? prosz cecutors were question this burglary because they believe the .25 caliber gun was the gun used by jodi arias to shoot travis alexander. ment. an unforgettable scene that jodi claims she doesn t remember. i have no memory of stabbing him. i was in the bathroom. i remember dropping the knife and it clanged, the tile, made a big noise and i remember screaming.
i believe the jurors who asked those questions did not believe her. reporter: after the barrage of questions and testimony from a few more defense witnesses at this point, the defense rests. reporter: next up, prosecutor juan martinez with rebuttal witnesses. a friend of travis. how often would you see they were e affectionate? yus about every time they got together. we never really got mad at each other. we had a fun relationship. we liked being together. and police officers. jodi arias says she got the gun from va tra vis. travis. he has to establish to the jury that there was zero evidence that travis alexander owned a 25 caliber. and during the search, the house searched from bottom to top? yes, it was.