graphic and the images and the language may be too explicit for young viewers. a sordid story of sex, lies and audiotapes. the trial of jodi ann arias has finally come to a dramatic end. the state of arizona versus jodi ann arias verdict count one, we find the defendant first-degree murder guilty. it was a trial that trap transfixed the nation. this is a case, this is a story, this is a criminal defendant unlike any other we ve ever met before. jodi arias, beautiful young woman, accused of brutally murdering her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander, a young guy.
yesterday s verdict making it clear she wants death. it s chilling to listen to. let s listen to some of that interview with the phoenix station. the worst outcome for me would be natural life. i would much rather die sooner than later. longevity runs in my family and i don t want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place. you know, pretty healthy, i don t smoke and probably live a long time. that s not something i m looking forward to. those shocking statements followed what has been one of the most salacious trials you could ever imagine. we ve been watching, evidence included as you know graphic sex tapes, photos, gruesome images of the victim in all this and really got a lot of people watching, paying attention, even obsessed with all of this and we want to make some sense of that as well. yeah. we ve got dr. tracy marks joining us. she s a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist based here in atlanta. talk to us about what we just heard from jodi arias to why s
world this hour. there are new details now emerging from this nightmare that happened to these women in cleaver land. yeah. we re learning more about the horrifying ordeal of those three women held captive for a decade. also the man accused of kidnapping and raping them, well, he s appeared in court. the other big story, jodi arias preferring death to life in prison. that in phoenix. jurors are beginning to determine her fate today. yesterday they found her guilty of first-degree murder for killing her ex-boyfriend. yeah. prosecutors are pushing for the death penalty in this case for jodi arias. in just a few hours from now we re discussing this earlier, there s going to be what they call the aggravation phase of her trial. that is when the prosecution they re going to try to prove that travis alexander s murder warrants the death sentence for the sentence. and the jurors who convicted her of first-degree murder, they re going to decide what her fate is. arias shockingly came o
hope for the opposite because she s playing with our minds. i think she s still trying to play us through the media. she still loves the spotlight. and she could go another six months like this, she would. she s not remorseful of anything. if she wants death penalty, let s leave her in jail for a lifetime. either way she ll be judged. let me ask you this as well, jaw l julie. would any kind of penalty be in vindication of travis, or would it be retribution against jodi? what s more for you? more for me, because travis was such a light person, and, you know, he practiced yoga, he was inquiring about different philosophies. he had such a beautiful light around him. that i think that he would want her to redeem herself and he
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