Killer Girlfriend: The Jodi Arias Story Read Online Free PDF

pass on.
    It was now early February 2007. Jodi had known Travis for about five months - a period
     in which she was baptized into the Mormon faith, joined Prepaid Legal and fell so
     hard for Travis that she was willing to engage in all sorts of sexual acts. Again,
     no one but Jodi and Travis know who was the sexual instigator throughout their time
     together. Jodi would claim Travis coerced into the raunchiness, but it appeared clear
     both enjoyed it equally.
    She was ready to take the relationship to the next level.
    Jodi finished her restaurant shift in Palm Desert and got in her car and drove to
     Mesa. No phone calls, texts or emails to say she was coming - this was a completely
     unannounced trip.
    She was going to surprise Travis. Jodi testified that Travis made a similar trip
     earlier, so she wanted to do the same.
    They fooled around in his bedroom most of the weekend, watched TV, hung out with
     Travis’ roommate and surfed the Internet. The conversation eventually turned to dating
     - and doing so exclusively. They had seen other people in the early months of their
     courtship, and there was jealousy on both sides over the thought of either person
     being intimate with anyone else.
    “When we became what I believed was exclusive it just seemed like the natural next
     step,” Jodi would later say.
    While they surfed the Internet, Jodi hit the back button to look at something again.
     Then she kept hitting the button on the browser until she went all the way back to
     Travis’ MySpace page. It’s not known if it was an accident or the work of a woman
     who was an admitted snoop, but she found some things she didn’t like.
    She saw an old email exchange between Travis and another woman, but it was before
     they started getting serious, so she ignored it. They were a couple now, no need to
     mess up a good thing with a guy she was already thinking about marrying.
    Over the next couple months, Travis and Jodi carried on a long-distance relationship
     between Mesa and California, about four hours apart, seeing each other on a regular
     basis.
    They couldn’t spend Valentine’s Day together because of their geographic limitations,
     but Travis sent her a gift, she says: a package containing some melted chocolate and
     a T-shirt and pink shorts inscribed with Travis’ name.
    Jodi thought it was funny because Travis had joked he might do something like that.
     The package contained another surprise, Jodi claims: little boy’s Spider-Man-themed
     underwear. Photos of the T-shirt and shorts with Travis’ name on them were shown to
     jurors at her trial. The jury, however, never saw the mysterious comic book underwear
     that Jodi’s defense lawyers hoped to bolster their claim that the victim was a pedophile.
    In the spring of 2007, Jodi and Travis took a trip to the Midwest to visit Mormon
     holy sites in Missouri and Illinois before they went to a Prepaid Legal convention
     in Oklahoma City.
    Despite the fact that they were an official item at the time, Jodi says Travis was
     closed-off during the trip and refused to give her much attention, in what she perceived
     as his unwillingness to be seen as her boyfriend in public. She said he continued
     to refuse to introduce her as his girlfriend as the weeks went on.
    Her jealousy grew later in the trip when a drunken woman started causing a scene
     at the Sheraton where they were staying during the convention. She was bombed out
     of her mind, draping herself all over random men and cracking jokes. It was such a
     scene that Jodi pulled out her phone to capture some video of it.
    The woman was eventually drawn to Travis and started hanging on him. Jodi says Travis
     went along with it, and Jodi got mad. She retreated to a bathroom stall and cried.
    They made up and went back to their respective homes.
    Despite Jodi’s perceived slights at the hands of Travis, the relationship moved along
     like most relationships do. There were more trips, even meeting the