stricken by the judge. jodi s defense lawyers never called to the stand the authors of those e-mails, chris and skye hughes, who say their words were twisted by the defense. it doesn t exist. the abuse does not exist. what s it like to see your words used as a murder defense when the victim was your friend? it s gut-wrenching. they re using our words to make travis something he absolutely was not. he called me a [bleep] and he kicked me in the ribs. during her marathon 18 days on the stand, 11 coming under friendly defense questioning, jodi said travis had once become enraged after they d argued over money. he went to kick me again and i put my hand out. what happened after that second kick? i screamed really loud. i think i yelled out my finger or my hand something to that effect. jodi showed the jury the misshapen finger she claimed was the result of travis s outburst. but whatever concern
utah. and one morning in june 2008, she came knocking at his door. he had no idea what had just happened at travis s house in arizona. and he didn t know jodi had been there just one day before. how did she look? she looked fine. she just looked normal. did you see any cuts on her? tiny. little cuts. she had a couple little bandages on one of her hands. there wasn t a moment where i thought, you know, are you okay, is anything wrong. we were laughing about simple little things. she seemed totally into the moment. back in arizona travis s friends found him dead, his home a bloody crime scene. in the washing machine police found a waterlogged camera that would come to mean everything in this case. some of travis s friends like chris and skye hughes suspected jodi from the
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. so 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 he was going to spend the rest of his life with. and he communicated that to her. that would make anybody feel pretty bad and pretty hurt. what travis kept secret from his friends was that he and jodi were still having sex.
tiny. little cuts. she had a couple little bandages on one of her hands. there wasn t a moment where i thought, you know, are you okay, is anything wjuang. we were laughing about simple little things. she seemed totally into the moment. back in arizona travis s friends found him dead, his home a bloody crime scene. in the washing machine police found a waterlogged camera that would come to mean everything in this case. some of travis s friends like chris and skye 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. ryan burns thought he knew jodi, and the girl he knew was no killer. i honestly and genuinely didn t believe that she could have had anything to do with it. i thought there s no way. this girl wouldn t even let me kill a spider on the wall because she didn t want to hurt god s creature. but then you started hearing
videotape yourself while having sex? yes. and whose desire was for that to take place? his. defense expert alyce laviolette, who co-authored a book about battered women, suggested e-mails from travis s friends to jodi showed 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 authors of those e-mails, chris and skye hughes, who say their words were twisted by the defense. it doesn t exist. the abuse does not exist. what s it like to see your words used as a murder defense when the victim was your friend? it s gut-wrenching. they re using our words to make travis