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. i think the way he put it was, we re going to be friends, but we both agree that it s time to start seeing other people. what travis kept secret from his friends was that he and jodi were still having sex. what he didn t keep secret were his concerns that jodi was stalking him. he was very disturbed by her behavior, but every time he tried to break things off with jodi, she would threaten to kill herself. clearly, jodi wasn t serious about sued, we know because at the time she was making those threats, she was prowling sales conventions and on the phone at night flirting with a guy named ryan burns. she seemed like a cool girl. we exchanged numbers. about two, three weeks after
mormon, tied up in knots. breaking the church s law of chastity that is, having sex before marriage. serious stuff. mormons believe the sinner risks an eternity in hell if he or she fails to repent before death. the result seems to have been that travis kept his relationship with jodi in the closet. he wanted people to believe especially the girls that he was dating, he was still a virgin. that he was still worthy to have a healthy, long-term marriage with, 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
was calm and measured, the vitriol was anything but. she was she was personally and professionally attacked and her book about why battered women stay with their accusers was hit with hundreds of on-line mud-slinging reviews. she got hundreds and thousands of those kinds of remarks over the internet. people calling her office, threatening her. they had to call the police. if i were to walk up to her in the hallway of the courtroom and say, you know, i don t like your testimony and i may hurt you. and i m going to try to ruin your career, that s a felony. reporter: she wasn t the only target. michael kiefer reported that jodi s lawyer, jennifer willmott also receive threats. jodi herself also took to social media with a twitter account that drew more than 51,000 followers. she did it through a friend she met in jail. donovan became jodi s unofficial spokeswoman and twitter
people aren t content to just watch. they want to participate. they are doing research on the players. arizona republic reporter michael kiefer who s been writing and tweeting about the trial say many were ready with their verdicts long before the testimony was over. anyone who takes less than an approach of well, she deserves the death penalty and just deserves it now is considered biased. reporter: and any perception of bias for the defense, even by the defense witnesses, could bring a hostile reaction from jodi haters. this all became dangerously interactive. when the physchotherapist testified for the defense, supporting jodi s claim she had been sexually used by travis. what does he do? after he gives her the book? he tells her he is horny and they have oral sex. she performs oral sex on him. while laviolette s atlantic
i don t know. look closely at jodi during cross-examination. no matter how much she sobs, while strategically perhaps covering her face, there seemed to be no tear drops falling from her eyes. forensic psychiatrist steven pitt is struck by jodi s ability to lie with confidence. that s a terrific sociopathic skill. she is able to tell a lie. she believes the lie and she s narcissistic enough and entitled enough to believe that she s so good she s going to pull the wool over someone else. if that s true, this jury didn t fall for it. in their assessment of jodi s state of mind. ladies and gentlemen, i understand that you have reached a verdict. their judgment that it was pre-med dated. premeditat premeditated. we the jury find the defendant as to count one first-degree murder guilty. [ cheers ] outside, the crowd erupted in cheers. justice for travis!