Travis Alexander’s Last Photograph

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When I first saw the photo of Travis Alexander in his last photographs in the shower, I felt a strong feeling that he had a sense of what was going on when this photo was taken — that he knew he was in serious trouble.  I sensed terror and fear and a sense of disbelief, like what they hell am I going to do?  I wondered when she took this photo, if she had a gun or a knife aimed or pointed at him at this point, and we see his initial reaction. Or I wonder if she was acting so deranged at this point, he knew it was a sticky situation.

Today an Eyes for Lies reader shared with me a photograph that she put into a face mirror software which splits the image of a face in half, and then mirrors it back.  She did both the left and right sides.

What it reveals is absolutely fascinating!  In the photo on the left you see sadness.  And the photo on the right you see an intensity that is gut-wrenching.  It’s like a mix of a fear and anger that one would feel if they have their back against the wall and they are cornered. As another Eyes for Lies reader said its a “fight or flight” response.  I can’t agree more.

This reader further conjectured, when we split a face in half, are we getting windows into the right and left brain?  You sure do wonder.

Thanks Eyes for Lies readers for sharing your thoughts with me and others!

Juror’s Question Concerning

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I have to admit that I have had little time to watch the Jodi Arias trial.  I typically try to tune into 20-30 minutes of HLN at night to catch up on the trial.  When I watched the other night and I heard one juror was taking notes, and the rest weren’t, it concerned me that there may be one juror who could be believing Jodi’s story. The behavior of that one juror was a standout.  See yesterday’s post for more info.

On Facebook, one of my readers “Alex K” saw my post from yesterday, and then linked to this video above and wrote, “Perhaps it was that very juror who submitted the questions starting at 15:08, as soon as I heard the judge read that question and the few following it I had a feeling one of the jury members was on her side. It’s just unreal.”

It’s very unreal and mortifying.

Jodi Arias and Juror Questions

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Yesterday the jurors got to ask their questions to Jodi Arias in the court and it was said there were more than 156 questions–some of which were objected to.  However, on CNN, one of the correspondents covering the trial said something noteworthy to me.  She said that most of the jurors were NOT taking notes, but that one in specific was.

This has significance to me.

When there is disagreement in a group, and the group gets a chance to get clarification, the person who is the standout is the one who has to defend their position.  That person is going to be the most likely to “take notes” of comments to support their argument.  I mean let’s face it, if you are in the consensus, and the majority of you feel the same, would you feel the need to take notes when you feel understood?  Probably not. But if you are the lone man out, you certainly would. 

This gives me great concern that there is at least one hold out juror on this jury who may believe Jodi was a victim of abuse!!

I think the jury, if they were all in agreement, would still ask questions, but I don’t think they would ask as many as they are asking because they would feel they have a good understanding of the truth.

It appears to me that the insightful jurors see that there is potential disagreement among them, and they needed to ask very clear and concise questions to get the one (or possibly more) jurors to see the truth.

I have to say this makes me quite nervous and I hope I am wrong!! Or I hope the ones who see the truth prevail with these questions and get the hold out to see the truth.

Jodi Arias lies constantly.  It is a rare moment when she says something truthful and to think there are believers, its mind-boggling to me.

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Update:  In Facebook discussions, it was brought up that jurors are not supposed to talk about the trial until deliberations, and while I understand this, I do not think you can interact with other members of the jury for 9 weeks and not have a pretty good idea of where people stand in general on this case. Juror are allowed to talk about other topics over lunches, recesses, etc.  So I am firm believer the jurors have a pretty good understanding of whose buying Jodi’s story and who isn’t…

Steve Kardian Talks about Interviewing…Jodi Arias

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Here Steve Kardian, a retired aw enforcement officer, detective, sergeant and chief criminal investigator, talks about how to interview someone such as Jodi Arias.  

Great interview, Steve! 

I love when Jodi says, “I wasn’t…I wouldn’t even say I was jealous.”  This statement by Jodi is a true admission as to the motive.  She wasn’t jealous. She was mad, and couldn’t control Travis to ultimately date her and her alone (and I suspect marry her), and for that he paid the ultimate price! 

See more of Steve Kardian here.

Jodi Arias’ Lies

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If you’ve been watching Jodi Arias on the stand, there is no doubt you are frustrated this week. She is doing everything in her power to confuse, manipulate and control the flow of information from her to the prosecutor. She’s quite skilled at it, too, holding her ground on the most nuanced of information. You can’t help but be convinced by watching her that she knows every idota of detail about what happened to Travis, but alas, when questioned in detail, she claims a poor memory. Something happened she says that doesn’t remember stabbing Travis.

Yeah, right.

While I am behind on the trial, this video above is very noteworthy to me.  It’s from a week ago.

Jodi says when talking about holding the gun at Travis, “I was just pointing it at him. I didn’t even know that I shot him.  It just…went off and he was…he lunged at me…”

This sentence is a whopper to me.  We can clearly see cognition, which makes no sense. Furthermore, I thought she killed him in self-defense.  Now she says it was an accident? Which is it?

If I was confronted by someone and a gun went off, I’d say it was an accident.  How does Jodi go from this to self-defense? Did she talk about how Travis responded after this? I’d love to hear what she has to say and how this escalated into stabbing him nearly three dozen times! But I suspect, she doesn’t remember–nonsense!

She continues, “I didn’t mean to shoot….him…or anything.”

Her words here are mind-boggling. If you are pointing a gun in self-defense, you may not have wanted to shoot, but if you felt threatened enough you would, and you’d own that–even if you are sorry you killed someone.

Jodi seems to also forget that she should be feeling fear, shock, surprise, etc but she feels none of it!   Oops. Jodi talks without any supportive emotions whatsoever. It’s flat out inconsistent.

Furthermore, she tells us that she went to Travis’ closet where he kept a gun, and grabbed it.  Now, if she was truly fighting with Travis, who is considerably bigger than her, do you think he would have let her run to the closet?

And let’s just say for arguments sake, she did get to the closet: Do you think Travis would have just watched her grab the gun?  He would know exactly what she was going for, if he had a gun and likely would have intervened, wouldn’t you think?

But oh no, Travis doesn’t seem to be present in Jodi’s memories. Not at all.  Hmmm….Interestingly, Travis’ friends say he didn’t own a gun.

I don’t believe a word out of this admitted LIARS mouth!!