Jodi arias was the murderer of Travis alexander, he was 30 years old at his death, he was murdered on the 4th of June 2008 in his house whilst he was showering. This is what gave this case its popularity, as Jodi had taken photos of Travis before and during the attack, which had a striking resemblance to Psycho's ( 1960. ) shower scene.
When the two first met their friends said there was an instant attraction. They had extremely strong chemistry with eachother, the two lived in different states, they had a long distance relationship but in the first few months, Travis' friends had recognized the relationship was starting to have many red flags, specifically Jodi. Jodi was described to be extremely excited to be in this relationship, way more than Travis ever was, Travis' friends started to even get worried for his safety as the relationship had reportedly gone toxic and posessive.
His friend, Lovingier quoted during an interview : I said, 'Travis, I'm afraid we're gonna find you chopped up in her freezer.' ... From very early on, she was completely obsessed with him." Also confirming that thought. The reason why this is also reported is because his friends said that Jodi would even follow Travis to the bathroom, waiting for him outside and eavesdrope on conversations. She went through his accounts often, that meaning his social media and his emails. Always sitting next to him and was always displeased whenever a woman was around him.
What Jodi said about their relationship was that it was abusive on his side aswell, claiming that he was violent and it wasn't her that was being the toxic one : she claimed that the murder was in self defence because Alexander had lunged at her in anger right before the murder.
She described that on the night of the murder, her and her ex boyfriend, Travis as they had broken up prior to this, had violent sex that lead to his murder of self defence. The sex involved her being tied up by Travis, her arm being twisted and being bent over a desk for anal sex and made sexual videos with her.
Jodi also described a barrage of threatening text messages sent by Alexander in which he told her he would exact "revenge" on her soon and called her a "sociopath." Jodi also told that whilst they were dating, Travis would kick her in the ribs, cursing at her and called her insulting names when they argued. One attack broke one of her fingers, Jodi then showed one of her permanently bent fingers. It was also brought up that Travis used Jodi like a sex slave, and even was accused of being a pedophile as Jodi even caught him jerking off to a photo of a child, a naked boy.
On june 4th 2008, Travis was stabbed 27 times, Jodi also slit his throat and shot him in the head. On june 9th his body was discovered by his friends who worried after they were unable to reach him, in the 911 call they were asked if anyone could of been angry enough at him to do this to him : which brought up Jodi arias into the conversation due to their break up. Whilst searching Travis' home, police found his recently purchased digital camera damaged in the washing machine. Police were able to recover deleted images showing Jodi and Arias in sexual poses taken then the final photograph of Travis alive, showing him in the shower. There was also a bloody handprint, it was mixed dna of Jodi and Travis. She was indicted of murder on the 9th, arrested 6 days later.
She was found guilty, even with the claim of abuse ( That I do believe. ) , she was served life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
