in good conscious ask you to sentence me to death. reporter: hours afterwards, she went on a media blitz, appearing on several tv programs. so you really are never going to tell the truth about what went down in that bathroom? i don t know what you mean by that, because i told the truth. okay. i didn t know you were a hater when you came to interview me. a lot of people out there feel the only true justice for travis alexander is for you to get a death sentence. that s not justice, that s revenge. reporter: after three days of deliberations, the jury deadlocked 8-4 for the death penalty. the judge has dismissed the jury and now a new panel will be selected to sentence the convicted murderer to either life or death. it s yet another twist in the trial that s riveted the nation. first thing that drew me to this case, and i said this one is going to be different than
they did. reporter: the defense s explanation was to blame the victim. that s what they have to do in a self-defense case. reporter: in session s beth karas has been in the courtroom every day of the trial. they have to blame the victim. they re saying, look, he was attacking me, he was about to kill me, i had no choice. her problem is that you know, self-defense is you can use force when you are being threatened but you have to use equal force. reporter: the defense calls witnesses, including a close friend. the defense calls desiree freedom. reporter: to try and shatter the image of travis as the pure mormon man. in your religion is premarital sex allowed? no. did travis claim to be a virgin? yes, he did. did he seem happy to be a virgin? yes. and did he seem proud? yes. travis alexander, there s no question he was conflicted. he was trying to be a good
was around. he would just push me really hard and i would go flying into that. reporter: and with her mother looking on from the front row, jodi also accused her of being abusive. my mom began to carry a wooden spoon in her purse. if we were misbehaving, she would use it on us. what do you mean by use it on you? she would hit us with it. she hit you hard? it felt pretty hard, yes. reporter: jodi portrayed herself as the victim of a string of bad choices when it came to men. describing one abusive relationship after another. especially travis alexander. admitting that she loved him despite his being what she described as demeaning, physically abusive, and controlling. he body-slammed me on the floor at the foot of his bed. he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs.
had this face on like she was the devil, and she was going to commit a murder right then and there. right away travis s friends were concerned. it was clear that she liked him a lot more than he liked her. travis wanted a normal life. jodi wanted to be with him more than anything. and it was extremely unhealthy bond that they shared. reporter: jodi and travis burned red hot, at least for a while. but by the summer of 2007, their relationship had cooled. in part, because of jodi s increasing jealousy over travis interest in other women. jodi went through his phone and discovered these flirty messages to other women, and she decided to end their relationship at that point. but at that same time, travis was looking to end the relationship. reporter: jodi and travis did break up. but that didn t mean they weren t still friends with benefits. clearly, jodi enjoyed her sexual life with travis, but it
he told me that a 5-year-old can hold a camera better than i can. when i hit the tile, i rolled over on the side and started running down the hallway. so i ran into the closet and i slammed the door. reporter: then jodi reached for a .25-caliber gun she said travis kept on the shelf. i grabbed the gun. i ran out of the closet. he was chasing me. i turned around. we were in the middle of the bathroom. pointed it at him with both of my hands. i thought that would stop him. if someone were pointing a gun at me, i would stop. but he just kept running. he got like a linebacker he got kind of low and grabbed my waist. but before he did that as he was lunging at me the gun went off. there s zero evidence, independent evidence, evidence other than words out of jodi arias s mouth that establish