Episode 189: Jodi Arias Phone Call

This episode features a phone call between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander, whom she was dating intermittently between February 2007 and Alexander’s death in June 2008. A member of the LDS church, Alexander presented himself in public as a virgin and politely courted a number of LDS women while keeping his highly sexual relationship with Jodi as a “dirty little secret.” Eventually the two broke up, but Jodi continued to drive from her home in Yreka, CA to visit Travis in Mesa, AZ. As Travis increasingly ignored her in favor of “pure” Mormon women, Jodi became increasingly erratic and unhinged. On Wednesday, June 4, 2008, during a visit to Mesa, the pair got into a fight and Jodi shot and stabbed Travis to death.

The prosecution claimed that Jodi had driven to Mesa from Yreka with premeditated plans to murder Travis. The defense argued that the relationship had been abusive, and Jodi had killed Travis in self-defense. After a complex series of trials and appeals, Jodi was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.