Read Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias Online
Authors: Jane Velez-Mitchell
This shot was taken at the Pre-Paid Legal conference in Las Vegas when Jodi and Travis first met. Shortly after Jodi returned home, she broke up with her longtime boyfriend Darryl and began her conversion to Mormonism for Travis. (
Courtesy of Sky Hughes
)
During the five months during which Jodi and Travis openly dated, they remained long-distance, with Jodi often traveling to Mesa to see him. (
Courtesy of Sky Hughes
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Travis baptized Jodi into the Church of Latter Day Saints. What followed the baptism remains a subject of fierce debate, with Jodi alleging that the two engaged in anal sex, while Travis’s friends maintain that he never would have engaged in a sexual act following such a sacred occasion.
This photo of Travis
(left)
and his friend Taylor Searle
(right)
was taken on Travis’s personal camera around May 26, 2008, the day of a heated fight between Jodi and Travis. While the exact cause of the fight remains a mystery, many people believe it was that fight that set Jodi’s murderous plan in motion. This photo is believed to be from the same camera that took the infamous shots during the murder. (
Courtesy of T. Searle
)
These photos of Travis in the shower were taken by Jodi, and they are the last images of Travis Alexander alive. Documenting Travis’s final moments, these images became key evidence in Jodi Arias’s murder trial.
This final photo depicts Travis’s bloody shoulder being dragged and Jodi’s foot in the forefront.
On July 9, 2008, exactly one month after Travis’s body was found, Jodi was indicted for his murder. Her mug shot poses caught the public’s eye and became infamous. (
Courtesy of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
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While awaiting her murder trial, Jodi won a singing competition in jail for her rendition of “O Holy Night.” (
Courtesy of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
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The Maricopa County courthouse was the epicenter of the national media firestorm during Jodi Arias’s murder trial. (
Courtesy of Joe Conrad
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