Jodi Arias Trial

[carmen4]

I hadn't even heard of the trial until I saw the movie premier a couple of days ago on Lifetime.
On June 4th in 2008 in Arizona, a woman named Jodi Arias brutally murdered her ex boyfriend Travis Alexander with multiple stab wounds and a final gun shot to his head. Most of the movie talks about their dating relationship and events leading up to the tragic day. Since the trial is still going on, the movie only touched on the start of the trial proceedings. Jodi tried to claim that she killed him in self defense but with overwhelming evidence, the verdict was guilty of first degree murder. Not sure if the death penalty is still on the table as I just started looking into the actual trial. Of course Lifetime's movies are usually dramatic but I did a little research and the movie was pretty accurate as far as things Jodi actually did during the trial, making her seem extremely guilty and capable of this act. The hard part is figuring out why Jodi stabbed Travis to death. In the movie it was because she had a mental breaking point after she read a text on Travis' phone from another woman reminding Travis that he said Jodi was good for nothing and a *bleep* (of course theres more background to this)..then she just loses it and starts stabbing him. I guess that part is what prosecutors believed really happened but think Jodi is trying to save herself by claiming self defense. But in real life of course no one can really know why Jodi did it and what her thought process was but her. Its a very interesting story..
If anyone else has been following up on it or has seen the movie, what do you think?

[hvnlydevil]

I had to watch the Lifetime movie to figure out who she was. I still don't see the big to-do other than she was fairly pretty.

[jonhall37]

i saw the show, it was pretty much based on his friends and familys testimonys......i agree who knows why she did it. she had to be a little nuts but we will never know why she was really driven to do it...

[msmoneybags48]

I have DirecTV, so I saw some of it on HLN.  But as far as I can tell, nobody knows why she did it.  As she claimed, she killed him in self-defense.  I don't see what he did to die so brutally at Arias' hands.  Maybe the woman was one of those people with a split personality; she seemed happy in pictures but something about it changed.  I wouldn't want to be around someone like that.

[crazyzoo]

Only she knows why and she will never tell the truth! I am a HLN freak but so over hearing about her!! So many other topics they could be discussing