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One Readers Thoughts On Jodi Arias…

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…caught my eye.  I thought his words and dissection of Jodi Arias’ trial are spot on, and beautiful written. Thank you, Milton Wah, for sharing this!

“Her pathology rivals the Great Narcissus, himself. She is drunk on the attention, twirling cartwheels in the spotlight.


We are circus-loving creatures, here in the stadium seats. It is in our DNA to grant the villain a final moment in the center ring, before the Thumb of Caesar drops upon her head, and one more vanquished heel is turned to dust.”

I love this! Thanks, Milton.

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!! 

Jodi Arias on the Stand Day 3

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Jodi Arias is really talkative on the stand and appears to be having a good time.  She smiles as if she is sharing the secret to a patent she intelligently dreamed up.  You’d never guess by just watching her face that she is talking about a man who she killed in self-defense (no, I do not buy that!).

When I watch Jodi, I see a manipulative, self-adoring, deceptive and cunning person.  She has learned to display her demeanor in a way that people think she is a meek little mouse so she can pull of her scheming without notice.  Thankfully, one of Jodi’s ex-love interests has been on Dr. Drew sharing that Jodi is anything but meek and timid as she wants the jury to believe!  He is being completely honest.  Jodi?  Not at all.

People who play the meek mouse role often don’t realize they give themselves away with direct eye contact as Jodi does here. It’s flat out contradictory to her message, but clearly Jodi doesn’t realize this in her scheming.

Jodi shows many traits of a psychopath:  arrogance, self-adoration, supreme belief in her intelligence, lack of sexual boundaries, etc.

Jodi, if you want my opinion, LOVES talking about sex on the stand.  She loves the shock value of it and I think that is what makes her smile.  I think she has always been one who had no issues making other people uncomfortable. 

Another well known trait of psychopathic liars is to blame others for what they themselves do and are blamed for. And here Jodi talks about an ex-girlfriend of Travis who was jealous–when likely she was recalling what people said about her.  I’ve seen this more times than I care to recount.

Jodi Arias Take the Stand

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To the surprise of many people, Jodi Arias took the stand in the murder trial of Travis Alexander yesterday.

We see a cold, calculating and manipulative woman playing the jury when we watch her talk.  She’s answer the questions looking straight at the jurors–hoping to convince them by the old myth of “direct eye contact” that she is being honest.  It’s going to backfire on her, if you ask me. I suspect the jurors will feel it is contrived and fake–playing to them to score points.

Jodi is a steely woman, and what many would call an “ice queen”–the typical traits of a psychopath.

Her soft near whisper demeanor is a weapon in her tool box as is her “innocent” and “frail” looks.  If you notice Jodi is wearing a short sleeve shirt to show off her small stature. She is hoping to convince a jury that she killed in self-defense, but if you know anything about this story, you will find that laughable.

When Jodi first killed Travis, she denied any involvement at all.  She told police she wasn’t at the scene.  Then when police confronted Jodi with evidence that she was at the scene (nude photos being one), she then tried to tell the police that two masked gunman broke into Travis’ house in the middle of the day and they simply killed him and left her go free. Her story was full of holes than as well–the biggest being a lack of supportive emotions–which I suspect we will continue to see as she tells her latest story.

But when Jodi found out she could get the death penalty, all of the sudden her latest story emgered:  she killed Travis in self-dense.  Yeah, she just happened to grab a gun and a knife in 50 seconds WHILE BEING ATTACKED (photos show the timeline) and killed him. I don’t think anyone will buy it.   This should not be the Case Anthony trial of the year. 

Jodi Arias is chillingly void of emotions.  She has them for herself, but no one else and trying to convince people that she was so scared for her life that she killed Travis will be entertaining to watch.

I can’t wait for the cross-examination. That’s when we’ll get to see this manipulator at her best!  Will she crack under pressure when she feels her life is on the line?  Will she be able to show any emotions at all?  That’s what I’m looking forward to.

 Stay tuned…