I Have Been Uploading

more episodes of 48 Hours Mystery to my iPod, and the most recent episode was the Travis Alexander murder in Mesa, Arizona. A "friend" of his, Jodi Arias, who was starting up a photography business and was a bartender in her hometown of Yreka, California, just 45 minutes away from my hometown of Medford, Oregon, was arrested and charged in his murder. I have to say she is one crazy individual.

The murder happened just nine months ago, and Arias won't be tried until sometime in 2010, but if she thought giving an extensive interview with CBS would help her case, she certainly was mistaken:


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I am surprised her attorney even allowed her to do the interview; she impeaches herself with her complete lack of feelings about the man she killed. She is eerily detached from the whole thing.

The murder was a classic O.J.-style case of jealousy. She couldn't have Travis, who was seeing other women after breaking it off with her, but she decided if he wouldn't have her, he wouldn't have anybody.

The show makes a big deal out of the fact both the accused killer and the victim were Mormons, but that detail really isn't important. Even if they were both atheists, this would have happened. People use others for sex all the time, whether they are religious are not, but few of these relationships end in murder. Arias is one screwed up individual.

The only way she will not get the death penalty is for her to plead insanity. Arizona is marginally more forgiving of murderers than Georgia, Florida, or Texas.

I suppose the reason her website and both of their MySpace pages are still up has to do with the fact they will be regarded as evidence in Arias' trial.