Free Killer Girlfriend: The Jodi Arias Story by Josh Hoffner Brian Skoloff Page B

hearing is somebody who doesn’t give a crap about what happened. I’m hearing somebody
     who is worried about money, your appearance, everything about you. I don’t hear anything
     about Travis, unless you’re specifically asked.”
    Blaney gave Jodi countless opportunities to unleash her self-defense claim, practically
     putting the words in her mouth as she attempted to get a confession. “Was he roughing
     you up and you just couldn’t take it?” she suggested. “Was he being violent on his
     part?”
    She made some references to their relationship being rocky and how Travis was violent
     with her and left her bruised. But she didn’t go into the kind of painstaking detail
     that she did during her trial as she brought out the claim that she killed Travis
     because he was abusive.
    Jodi never cracked. They went after her for two days and threw everything they had
     at her in hopes of securing a confession, but she never admitted to the killing.
    If Jodi’s behavior in the interrogation room was notable for her flippant demeanor
     and evasiveness, her mother’s interview with Flores in July 2008 after her daughter’s
     arrest was torturous for its heartbreaking nature.
    Every mother and father dreads the day that they have to take a call from a police
     officer or school official telling them that their child has done something wrong.
    Whether it’s shoplifting a candy bar from a convenience store, getting detention
     for mouthing off at school or getting caught drinking, the calls are always painful.
    Being told your daughter is a murderer is pure torture.
    Sandy Arias’ pain was so palpable during her interview by Flores that it’s difficult
     to watch. The tears, the sobs, the questions of “how this possibly could have happened”
     are heartbreaking.
    Sandy described Jodi’s problems, her relationship with Travis, her behavior in the
     month or so since he died. She admitted Jodi’s friends would call her over the years
     and say that Jodi needed help, that she had mental issues. One day Jodi would be fine,
     the next day she would call her mother in tears. Her mother said Jodi had trust issues
     and was always paranoid.
    “Why would she do something like that? Did she snap? How could she come back here
     and be normal?” Sandy Arias pondered.
    Through tears, she told Flores that Jodi was a “very intelligent person,” and cited
     the many books she read in her life. She admitted their relationship had never been
     great and that Jodi clearly had mental issues, along with some “fantasy in her head”
     that she had a rotten childhood.
    But a murderer? No way. Sandy said she felt like she was “going to puke.”
    Flores tried to console the sobbing mother, but also explained to her how real the
     situation was.
    “The evidence is pretty damning,” he said. “I’ve never had this much evidence in
     a case before.”

Chapter 14 'No Jury Is Going To Convict Me'

Chapter 14
“No Jury Is Going To Convict Me”
    ‘“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile/And cry ‘content’ to that which grieves
     my heart/And wet my cheeks with artificial tears/And frame my face for all occasions”
     —William Shakespeare
    In the months after her arrest, Jodi finally started talking. She had moved on from
     her contention that she was not with Travis when he was killed. Then came her second
     story:
    Jodi heard a loud noise. She was startled. Travis was with her in his master bathroom,
     and they were immediately worried.
    Suddenly, two murderous, blood-thirsty intruders dressed in black, wearing ski masks
     and gloves, barged into the bathroom.
    The man and woman stabbed and slashed Travis with ferocious power, leaving him bleeding
     on the floor.
    Jodi was overcome with fear.
    They slashed and stabbed Travis. Travis lay on the floor still alive, bleeding profusely.
     He was screaming, saying “I can’t feel my legs!”
    Jodi charged the female burglar, despite the fact that the woman was carrying