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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
and as he was grabbing the papers, one kind of went sailing off the bed. it was a picture of a little boy. the defense is trying literally to trash travis. you were still willing to be tied to a tree if that s what he wanted. attack his character. assertive, aggressive, and authoritative. make the jury dislike him. he said i looked like a pure whore. hate him, loathe him. because he s the bad guy. he s the evildoer. he s the pedophile. he s the sexual deviant. this guy is bad news. and he s the one who ruined jodi arias s life. he s the one that made her do it. reporter: to the defense it was travis the monster. jodi, his victim. but to the prosecution it was all an unsustainable lie. when do you decide to tell the truth? when you re in this court and no place else?