and she would adapt to whatever situation she was in. reporter: jodi s old friend aaron dewey. . she would reflect back to you whatever it was you wanted to hear. whoever it was you wanted her to be. reporter: jodi arias spent 18 days on the stand, an almost unheard of stint for a defendant in any murder trial. but was that part of the defense s grand strategy? keep jodi on the stand so long that jurors would never vote to execute someone they had gotten to know so well, in such intimate detail? phoenix criminal defense attorney ulysses has been following the arias case. i think that was the defense strategy. the longer we keep her on the stand, the more they hear from her they will hopefully ingratiate themselves with her to a certain extent and hopefully spare her life. jurors had four months to think about all the questions. just two days ago, they came up with the answers.
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 nude jonude knew jodi. and she was no killer. i honestly thought no way. this girl wasn t even let me kill a spider on the wall because she didn t want to hurt god s creature. then you started hearing from other friends of yours and people who were friends with travis that they suspected her. right. people told me not to take her calls. not to talk to her. at that point, she had become either a very 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
that a gun of the same caliber was stolen from the home of jodi s grandparents from california, while joad di was living there. you brought a gun from yreka, didn t you? no. the indication this was premeditated murder. after all of the lies and the tweeting by jodi arias, finally after days of cross-examination, prosecutor martinez seemed to break her down. you would acknowledge that that stabbing was after the shooting, according to you, right? yes. i don t remember. i m not asking you if you remember, ma am. i m asking if you are acknowledging that it would be you that did it, correct? yes. so if he is being stabbed in the back, would you acknowledge at that point he s no threat to you. right? i don t know. well, he s already been shot according to you and he s facing away from you. how could he possibly be any threat to you?
i can t breathe until you re resting here with me facing murder charges many of us might think the world had turned upside down, but for jodi arias, it was a chance to get into a head stand, in yoga it s called salumba sheersason. a cure for whatever s ailing you. then finally before being held away, she made one last request. this is a really trivial question, and it s going to reveal how shallow i am. butting before they bug me, can i clean myself up a little bit? she wanted to look good, apparently. smeared your makeup, jodi. for this cheerful mug shot. in control, and out to win over and audience, no matter how big or small, which may explain why when the defense was ready to
the gun going off without her even knowing it. she said that travis then kept coming, even with a bullet in his head. and he fell, got up and is screaming angry. and after i broke away from him, he said [ bleep ] kill you, bitch. do you remember stabbing travis alexander. i have no memory of stabbing him. do you remember dragging him across the floor? no. do you remember placing him in the shower? jodi had lied so many times bra that she must have hoped she d get away with it one last time with the 12 people who mattered the most. the jury, but so many people watching on tv and the internet had by now heard enough of jodi s stories, that they had already reached their own verdict. coming up, the jodi arias