After five months together, the two called it quits in June 2007, however they continued to exchange sexually explicit text messages for the next two years. The deeply enamored couple had a passionate, yet quick-lived romance during which they exchanged 82,000 emails, according to court records. She converted to Mormonism in November 2006. The two hit it off right away and Alexander, a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, convinced Arias to check out "The Book of Mormon," according to a 2013 PEOPLE article. In April 2015, the 37-year-old was finally sentenced to life in prison - without possibility of parole.Īlexander met Arias, a photographer, at a 2006 conference in Las Vegas.
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For years, her trial became a national spectacle, rife with discrepancies, ethical complaints, and testimony laced with graphic images of sex and violence.
But when police discovered images of a racy-turned-violent encounter between the former couple only hours before Alexander's death, she switched up her story.Īfter lying to police about her alibi and fabricating a false home-invasion tale to the media, Arias finally settled on an account: she admitted that she was the murderer, but she'd killed in order to protect herself. The murderer? His allegedly "sex-crazed" ex-lover Jodi Arias, who initially feigned ignorance and pleaded not guilty. His body, five days decomposed, had been stabbed 27 times, with an ear-to-ear slash across his throat and a bullet to the head. Police found the motivational speaker brutally murdered in his Mesa, Arizona home on June 9, 2008. When Travis Alexander broke up with his girlfriend, Jodi Arias, he reportedly told friends, "Don't be surprised if one of these Sundays, I don't show up and you find me dead someplace."Įerily, the 30-year-old predicted his own gruesome fate.
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