nobody heard from travis alexander in five days. so a handful of concerned friends went looking for him. >> they get to the garage, they go inside the house. it smells. there's a fowl odor hanging in the air. >> they found their friend pale and lifeless on the shower floor. travis' body had nearly 29 stab travis' body had nearly 29 stab marks, including the slash across his neck from ear-to-ear. there was a gunshot wound over his right eyebrow and massive amounts of blood soaked all over the master suite. splattered all over the bathroom. the sink, the mirror, the floor. his friends has immediate suspicions about who did it. >> he has an ex-girlfriend who's been following him. her name is jodi. >> but when investigators reached jodi by phone, she insisted she'd be nowhere near mesa, for months. this was version one of her story. >> investigators are able to place jodi at the crime scene. >> can you imagine when the police found that camera and they said oh, the camera is destroyed. it's been through the washing machine. but they tak

cost travis alexander his life. now the jury had to decide whether it would cost jodi arias hers. jodi made an unusual appeal to spare her life, arguing she would be productive in prison. >> my hair was past my waist, and i donated it to locks of love. if i'm allowed to live in prison, i will continue to donate to that organization for the rest of my life. i'd like to implement a recycling program. i'd like to start a book club or a reading group. additionally, i've designed a t-shirt which 100% of the proceeds go to support non-profit organizations which also assist other victims of domestic violence. >> in the end the jury couldn't come to a unanimous decision on whether jodi arias deserves life in prison or to die by execution. under arizona law that means a new jury will have to step in to decide jodi's sentence. but she stands convicted of first-degree murder. >> i think the evidence in this case was overwhelming about her obsession and her fatal attraction to travis alexander. >> an attraction that began in, o

alexander's crumpled up body. >> jodi arias killed travis alexander. there is no doubt about it. the million dollar question is what would have forced her to do it. >> after telling two different stories about her innocence, jodi now admitted under oath that she was the killer. >> reporter: she pled not guilty. self defense. that she was forced to kill travis. >> in just those two minutes, jodi had to make a choice. she would either live or she would die. >> the death penalty case, you want sympathy. >> reporter: the defense's explanation was to blame the victim. >> that's what they have to do in a self defense case. >> they have to blame the victim. they're saying, look, he was attacking me, he was about to kill me. i had no choice. the problem is self defense, you can use force when you are being threatened. but you have to use equal force. >> the defense called witnesses, including a close friend. to try and shatter the image of travis as the poor, mormon man. >> in your religion, is premarital sex allowed? >> no. >> did travis claim to be a virgin?

travis alexander was the one who was attacked. slaughtered, and killed. >> this tale of passion gone wrong cost travis alexander his life. now it could cost jodi arias hers. she faces the death penalty. >> i think the evidence in this case was overwhelming about her obsession and her fatal attraction to travis alexander. >> an attraction that began in, of all places, sin city. >> we were there for a convention. our company had had a big event there. i was there in las vegas with him. >> travis alexander was a motivational speaker. compelling, and effective. he was also a close friend and co-worker of david hughes. in the fall of 2006. >> and i knew that he was single, and he was always looking for miss alexander. >> enter saleswoman and aspiring photographer jodi arias. >> and i told travis, hey, there's this cute girl that i work with, you should meet her. he goes, introduce me. so i introduced them, and then they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. >> they met in vegas. the night they met, it seemed th

especially travis alexander. admitting that she loved him despite his being what she described as demeaning, physically abusive, and controlling. >> he body-slammed me on the floor at the foot of his bed. he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. and that hurt for real. >> reporter: a somber jodi recalled that the day travis baptized her, what was supposed to be a new beginning turned out to be more of the same. >> i was in my church clothes. he was in his church clothes. the kissing got more passionate, more intense. and then he spun me around and he bent me over the bed and he was just on top of me. i didn't think anything was -- that he was just going to keep kissing me. he began to have anal sex with me. >> after this encounter on this spiritual day how did you feel about yourself? >> after he left, shortly after he left, i felt -- i didn't feel very good. i kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> reporter: for the victim's family sitting in the courtroom the portrayal of an allegedly dominee

nobody had heard from travis alexander in five days. so a handful of concerned friends went looking for him. >> through another friend they get the code to the garage. they go inside the house. it smells. there's a foul odor hanging in the air. >> they found their friend pale and lifeless on the shower floor. >> 911 emergency. >> a friend of ours is dead in his bedroom. we hadn't heard from him for a while. his roommates just went in there and said there's lots of blood. >> travis' body had nearly 29 stab marks, including the slash across his neck from ear to ear. there was a .25 caliber gunshot wound over his right eyebrow and massive amounts of blood all over the master suite. soaked into the bedroom carpet and splattered all over the bathroom. the sink, the mirror, the floor. his friends had immediate suspicions about who did it. >> has he been threatened by anyone recently? >> yes, he has. he has an ex-girlfriend that's been bothering him and following him and slashing tires and things like that. her name is jodi. >> but when invest

alexander's dead body crumpled up in his bathroom shower. >> jodi arias killed travis alexander. there is no question about it. the million-dollar question is what would have forced her to do it? >> after telling two different stories about her innocence, jodi now admitted under oath she was the killer. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4th, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> but she denied the charge against her, that she had planned travis's murder. >> why? >> the simple answer is that he attacked me and i defended myself. >> she pled not guilty, claiming self-defense, that she was forced to kill travis. >> in just those two minutes jodi had to make a choice. she would either live or she would die. >> in a death penalty case, you want sympathy, you need an explanation for the defendant's actions and what they did. >> the defense's explanation was to blame the victim. >> that's what they have to do in a self-defense case. >> "in session's" beth karas has been in the courtroom every day of the trial. >> they have to blame the victim. they're saying, look, he was attacking me, he was

that travis alexander's sisters were crying and hugging one another and hugging one of travis alexander's former girlfriends, deanna. a very emotional scene inside that courthouse. even jodi arias herself, we saw her sobbing throughout the trial. we saw real tears from her today as that verdict was read. >> you say you saw tears. because we were watching and it didn't seem that obvious that she was crying. >> reporter: from what i could tell, it looked like she was crying. but we've seen this many, many times over four months. only jodi arias could tell you whether those tears are true. >> yeah, of course. justice served in this case, rikki? >> yes. without any doubt. i do think the difference with casey anthony as i will say over and over again, even to criticism, the difference in casey anthony's is we did not know how that child died, where that child died, when that child died. all of that goes right out the window in this case. we know precisely how travis alexander died. and it was hideous. >> i totally agree with what rikki said. there's no comparison between the casey anthony case

cost travis alexander his life. now, it could cost jodi arias hers. she faces the death penalty. >> i think the evidence in this case was overwhelming about her obsession and her fatal attraction to travis alexander. >> an attraction that began in, of all places, sin city. >> we were there for a convention. our company had a big event there. i was there in las vegas with him. >> travis alexander was a motivational speaker, compelling effective. he was also a close friend and co-worker of david hughes in the fall of 2006. >> and i knew that he was single and he was always looking for ms. alexander. >> enter saleswoman and aspiring photographer jodi arias. >> i told travis hey, there's this cute girl that i work with. you should meet her. and i introduced them. they were able to develop a relationship pretty quickly from there. >> they met in vegas. the night they met, it seemed things heated up very quickly. because jodi arias has said within a week or so they're having sex in the car. >> jodi and travis had an insta

especially travis alexander. admitting that she loved him despite his being what she described as demeaning, physically abusive, and controlling. >> he body-slammed me on the floor at the foot of his bed. he called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. and that hurt for real. >> a somber jodi recalled that the day travis baptized her, what was supposed to be a new beginning turned out to be more of the same. >> i was in my church clothes. he was in his church clothes. the kissing got more passionate, more intense. and then he spun me around and he bent me over the bed and he was just on top of me. i didn't think anything was -- that he was just going to keep kissing me. he began to have anal sex with me. >> after this encounter on this spiritual day how did you feel about yourself? >> after he left, shortly after he left, i felt -- i didn't feel very good. i kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> for the victim's family sitting in the courtroom the portrayal of an allegedly domineering and sexual trav

this picture was taken the repeated stabbing of travis alexander began. maricopa county medical examiner kevin horn testified that cuts on travis' hands help explain what happened as he was stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated and shot in the head. >> i believe the wounds to the hands must have occurred before the fatal injuries, either of the head or of the throat. >> at 5:31, the camera snaps what seems to be an accidental photo of the bathroom ceiling. the next photo at 5:32 shows travis on the floor, bleeding profusely around the neck. in the foreground is what looks like a woman's pant leg. according to the prosecutor, it could only be jodi's. ryan burns testified telling the court the same story he told us about how jodi visited him in utah, one day after killing travis. >> she got on top of me pretty aggressi aggressively and we were kissing. >> martinez played for the jury powerful video of jodi lying outright to mesa police detective esteban flores just before her arrest. >> why won't you admit to it? >> i just can't. i didn't kill travis. >> you

. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4th, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> the simple answer is that he attacked me and i defended myself. >> having a client that's lied in the past makes it very difficult for a defense attorney. you are trying to play catchup the entire time, trying to prove that your client is credible. >> ulysses tried criminal cases but isn't part of the arias trial. he says the defense team was right to put jodi on the stand, as risky as it was, to try to connect with the jury. >> they do need to have the jury feel some sense of sympathy, some sorrow for her. it was very important to humanize jodi. >> reporter: the defense started with the claim that jodi had suffered long-term physical and emotional abuse. first around the age of 7 from her parents. >> i think that's the first year my dad started using a belt. my mom began to carry a wooden spoon in her purse. >> reporter: jodi's parents who were there for much of her testimony won't say whether her claims are true. the defense theme of jodi as a victim continued with her accusation

what about travis alexander's behavior? we'll see if the defense goes there, the victim's behavior, how he was towards jodi, impacted her, was something that psychologically affected her. post-tramatic distress disorder. you know know they will go there. there will be a lot of things argued for the defense. >> jean, quickly number one on the statute mitigators, does she present the wrongfulness of her action, number 11 of other mitigators, remorse and grief. so far, especially with that exstrord fairly unorthodoxed -- extraordinarily unorthodoxed jailhouse interview, there is nothing that shows she is remorseful or did this or she will let on in this courtroom. >> reporter: maybe that's why jodi said in the interview, i have no mitigating factors t. statutory mitigating factors, i would think the defense would bring in the tears you saw on the stand when travis' name was mentioned. when the injuries to travis were documented in court. she was crying during that time. one statutory mitigating factor is her age. apparently, t

and her last encounter with travis alexander. love and death caught on camera for all the world to see. >> were there some that involved mr. alexander in the shower? >> yes. [ female announcer ] your smile. like other precious things that start off white, it yellows over time. when it comes to your smile, if you're not whitening, you're yellowing. crest whitestrips whiten as well as $500 professional treatments. guaranteed. crest 3d white whitestrips. guaranteed. so you can capture your receipts, ink for all business purchases. and manage them online with jot, the latest app from ink. so you can spend less time doing paperwork. and more time doing paperwork. ink from chase. so you can. >>> a former boyfriend of hers, an individual that she was in love with. >> on january 2nd, four and a half years after the slaughter of travis alexander, the prosecutor opened the first-degree murder trial of jodi arias by talking about a love that had gone very, very wrong. >> she rewarded that love by sticking a knife in his chest. >> juan marti

travis alexander was dead. the wounds on his body so numerous, investigators couldn't even count them at the scene. the medical examiner eventually tallied the inventory of violence. 27 stab wounds, a deep cut to the throat and a gunshot wound to the head. and his friends said they knew just who did it. jodi arias. >> as soon as we found out he was dead, almost everyone i know said, "jodi did it." this is the only woman with enough hate and venom in her life to do this to travis. >> reporter: it began so differently. they met working for a legal insurance company. travis was 29, very successful, an elder in the mormon church, known for its strict poll sills against premarital sex. jodi was 26, an aspiring photographer and looking for mr. right. and for a little while, it looked like she'd found him. >> she was popular with everybody. with everybody. people flock around jodi. >> she was very quiet, very mysterious. >> but very polite. >> yeah, very nice. very sweet. everybody liked her and thought, originally, i

let's get to travis talbot, a friend of travis alexander, the victim in this case, whether murder victim or something else. clancy talbot on the line. >> hi. >> shepard: as we approach this last day of all of this, at least of the guilt or innocence phase, your thoughts? >> a lot of anxiety. just a lot of prayer, a lot of -- there's so much support out there and i just -- it's really nerve-wracking, there's so many mixed emotions. i'm praying it's first degree and the jurors could see through the lies. >> shepard: do you think travis would want her to be killed by the government? >> i think travis would want justice served. i don't know if that would be death or if that would be life in prison. but definitely one of those two. he believed in justice. that was what he was all about and so i believe when he was here, that's definitely what he would have wanted. i can't speak for whether he would want her put to death or life in prison but definitely one of those two. >> shepard: her claim is she did this in self-defense. that said she never presented any physical evidence that he had ever

there was not just evidence that she killed travis alexander, she admitted that. but the evidence of premadation was pretty overwhelming. >> reporter: hln anchor nancy grace has been following every sensational detail of the trial. >> it was as if she was looking each one in the eyes, beseeching them to reverse their verdict. >> juror number one, is that your true verdict? >> yes. >> i think truly this is the first time that jodi arias has ever been held accountable for what she did. >> reporter: before reaching this verdict, the jury heard four months of tawdry and often tearful testimony. >> i just couldn't believe what had happened. that i couldn't take anything back, what had just happened. >> reporter: a remarkable 18 days of them from jodi arias herself. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4, 20012348 -- 2008? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> the simple answer is that he attacked me. and i defended myself. >> reporter: her defense came right from her own mouth, that she killed her ex-boyfriend travis alexander before he could kill her. she told the jury of a v

for stabbing, slashing and shooting her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. within the next few days, we should find out whether she will get the death penalty for her crime. trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom. what more is the family saying by way of reaction? >> well, the family of travis alexander now says they are not going to give any further comment, shep until after jodi arias is sentenced. the family attorney came out and said they would be filing a wrongful death lawsuit against jodi arias. in court when the verdict was read, the alexander family did let out a small cheer. they began to hug each other and sob. those in court said it was very emotional. the police chief from mesa, arizona, just outside of phoenix was also in the courtroom and here's what he said. listen. >> you know, it's satisfying and i will tell you, i sat in front of the family when the jury came back with their verdict and the absolute relief, the sighs of emotion, it almost brought a tear to my eye. >> friends of the alexander family sent out twitter messages say

i was sitting directly behind the supporters of travis alexander and his family. when that verdict was read there was loud sighs, gasps, many members of his family including his sister and friends began sobbing. i could hear them saying i am so happy. thank god. i saw one friend of his praying before the verdict was read when the jury handed the bailiff the verdict form. one of his friends, hands class plea -- clasped, obviously praying. very happy with this case. on the other side i could see jodi arias's reaction almost no reaction from where i was sitting. not much reaction from her family that i could see but on travis alexander's side understandably a lot of emotion and a lot of relief. >> what about jurors? any emotion there? >> they were stone faced, stoic, had no reaction at all. they sure have a lot of work to do. they still have to decide on aggravating factors in this case. that will begin tomorrow at 1:00 local time. they still have to decide eventually on whether she is going to die or serve the rest of her life in prison. >> what about outbursts? you

she killed travis alexander. slitting his throat, stabbing him 29 times. shooting him in the face. then she stays off. when she's in this so-called -- at some point she calls the dead man and leaves him a voice mail, and she does it a couple of times to make sure she gets it absolutely right, and you whan she does? she invites him to go through othello. a friend of mine and i are going to see some shake peer. we would love you to join us. it gets worse. she then drives to utah, and she kanoodles with another guy who is a business associate of travis alexander and she goes to a business meeting and sits down at a chilli's restaurant with all of travis alexander's friends, and they're asking why do you have all these cuts on your hands? she's got them covered with band-aids. she said, oh, i'm a bartender. i cut my hand. they didn't put it together because they didn't know travis alexander was dead at that point, but once they found out that travis alexander was dead, they suddenly remembered that dinner and they went, wow. >> that was odd. >> beth, just quickly, the way the defense a

he's on trial for killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. the jury began deliberation yesterday following closing arguments. ted rollins is in phoenix. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for about abhour on friday before going home for the weekend. they'll be back on monday morning to begin again. before they started deliberations they sat and listened to more than soechb hours of closing arguments. jodi arias sat and watched both sides. absolutely without a shadow of a doubt she's a liar. >> prosecutor told arias planned the 2008 murder driving from northern california to arizona armed with a knife and a stolen dwun. he says after having sex with around she atamted him while his guard was down while he was posing photos in the shower. >> she absolutely knew and had already planned it. she knew. she was going to kill him. >> family members of travis alexander broke down while mar te nez showed crime scene photos showing the brutally of the killing where around was shot in the head and stabbed nearly 30 times. >> he was killed in three differe

as a friend of travis alexander, what is the sentence you would like to see? >> you know, i don't really have major feelings toward jodi, again, revenge or anything like that. to kill somebody. the only thing i known this country, we have a system of law and order and so i feel like penalties such as the death penalty, not so much punishment for jodi, but to keep order, so the next person doesn't do the same thing, we can't just let people off, then we will not have order. we'll have chaos. so part of that keeping order and we have a -- a rule of law, is enforcing maximum sentences, so if the death penalty is -- is going to help in that regard, i think that's -- that should occur, again, i'm not great and big -- i'm not a big person for the death penalty or anything like that or revenge for jodi, but i think that punishments are not really "punishments." they are preventative things for the rest of society to stay in line. >> doctor, this trial became something of a spectacle since january and yesterday when the verdict was read, there were hundred dollars of

alexander travis suffered in this murder. if they agree cruelty was in fact an aggravator that existed in this murder then they will move on to the penalty phase and that's where the aggravators and mitigators would be presented in possibly many days. i can't tell you how many days it would take. there's been a mitigation specialist jeffrey and i were just talking about working with jodi arias for months and months and visiting her in jail. she's been in jail for four and a half years so plenty of time to assess just what quality she is as a person and how much, i hate to say it, it really comes down to the qualities of jodi as a person, whether she is worth saving, or the a essential evils of this woman and whether she is worth putting to death. so two more phases. >> and, wolf, just to make clear, jodi arias, herself, has the option of testifying in both of these proceedings. this first proceeding about cruelty and then in the broader penalty phase jodi arias, who is a very familiar person to this jury, she testified for al

travis alexander's family and supporters of travis alexander's family made no effort to hold back emotion. they were sobbing with relief, sobbing with joy, if i can say. i heard i'm so happy. yes! thank god! lots of tears of relief. what was really interesting to me though was seeing the reaction of the jurors. i was standing in the third row of the courtroom, the jurors as they left the courtroom walked not more than ten feet in front of me. i looked at each one of them, looked at their faces. they were all stoic. showed no reaction at all. and perhaps that's because they've got so much work ahead of them over the next day or maybe days. erin? >> all right, casey wynan, thank you very much. day or days, that is the penalty phase he's referring to of the jodi arias case. it is set to begin tomorrow around 1:00 local time, arizona time. arias is now looking at three possible sentencing scenarios. one is death by injection, the other is life in prison without parole. the third is life with possible parade, up to 25 years. "outfront" tonight, a defense attorney, michael jackson's lead defens

he was talking about having respect for the memory of travis alexander. he was walking through through every detail of the crime scene, try oing to leave a lasting impression that jodi arias is a manipulator, liar and killer. the very next day we heard from ki kirk nurmi who painted a different scene. he was more folksy. he was talking about what kind of person jodi arias was. about the kinds of things she suffered through out her life. about her relationships and the way travis alexander treated her. we were told about graphic texts. we heard phone sex recordings, all designed to make it seem like travis alexander was not so innocent himself. he wanted the jury to see jodi arias as a battered woman suffering from ptsd who acted out of self-defense. we will hear what this jury ultimately close to believe but they have a tough task ahead of them. right now three women on death row here in arizona. jodi arias could be the next. this is a jury that took its time and yesterday i heard back from people on twitter, why don't we have a verdict yet? what is takin

they must show that jodi was extremely cruel as she killed travis alexander. the prosecution can put on witnesses. all the evidence in the guilt phase comes into this phase. it's accepted as true by the jury. the defense can put on witnesses. the victims, the family members of travis alexander, if relevant they can make a statement and then there are closing arguments, so the jury have to be unanimous in this case. if beyond a reasonable doubt jodi was cruel as she killed travis alexander. >> i always found it fascinating when you have aggravators listed and mitt gators, it's really just a gut science isn't it? >> it has to be unanimous, that's phase two which is the penalty phase. the jury then will hear anything to show leniency. why she is of more value on earth than dead. that's when they can put on witnesses including the parents of jodi arias begging for their daughter's life. it's an emotional part of the sentencing procedure. >> if you talk to any juror that's been through this it's the toughest thing you may ever go through as the citizen of this coun

and the friends of travis alexander. they tuck up three full rows in that courtroom. and you were there as that verdict came down. give me a feel for that family. >> there was a lot of relief on their part. this is the verdict they hoped for. this is the verdict they have been waiting five years for. a lot of tears. smiles also. hugs in the courtroom. and as jodi arias left, i stayed in the courtroom and watched. her family and her grandmother especially looking over at the alexanders and supporters all embracing and crying and her grandmother just stared at them. and i just thought wow, she must be wondering wow, my grandmother caused all this pain to them. i mean, her mother said to the police the day jodi was arrested, we have the interrogation video, what's going to happen, she's going spend the rest of her life in prison minimum. >> at a minimum. that leads me to my next question. weigh in on the technicalities of what comes next. there is a sentencing phase, and it is broken into two distinct phases itself. start with the first one. >> it's very unique. that is

the postmortem photos of travis alexander are likely to be discussed and displayed in court. i've seen them. they're very, very graphic. very, very difficult to look at. and what's going to be key is sort of the timeline as to how these injuries unfolded. he had 27 stab wounds in his body. he had his neck slit from ear to ear and he had a bullet hole in his head. how those wounds unfolded, what order they unfolded will be key for the jury to decide how much he suffered and whether this was an unusually cruel and horrific killing. once they decide that, if they unanimously decide it was, then it moves onto the penalty phase. that's when the jury will decide whether he gets -- jodi arias gets death or life in prison. that's when these mitigation witnesses, these friends and people who defend jodi arias will be brought to the stand. if that doesn't happen, the judge will then decide between life in prison or 25 years to life, if the jurors don't find aggravated circumstances today unanimously, wolf. >> the nature of cruelty or being cruel, if you slit someone's throat from ear t

the woman, of course, jodi arias killed her boyfriend travis alexander. today a jury determined she is eligible for the death penalty based on state rules on the facts of the crime. tomorrow is about a motion. prosecutors are expected to call on travis alexander's relatives to talk about his life and his death while jodi arias' lawyer presumably, will attempt to convince the jury she doesn't deserve to die. trace gallagher again with us. trace, jodi arias could elect to speed up this whole process. >> she can. she can address the jury, shep, and tell them that she believes that death is the proper punishment. and if the jury agrees with her, beyond that, jodi arias could then drop all of her appeals. keep in mind that in the state of arizona death penalties automatically are appealed to the state supreme court. that, in itself. takes a few years. beyond that if she shoes not to fight. she can speed up the process and there is precedent back in 1987 a man who killed dropped all of his appeal executed five years later and tonight the arizona attorney genera

they're entitled to their opinion. >> did you kill travis alexander? >> i absolutely did not kill alexander. i didn't harm him in anyway. >> well, the jury in this case may not have seen many of those early interviews and they certainly were told they were not to be seeing of the current interviews during the trial. nonetheless, they saw a lot of jodi, 18 days of her on the stand. at least the jury foreman told abc abc's "good morning america" eight in favor of the death penalty, four in favor of life. have a listen. >> so i'm 6-feet and if you can't feel that, then you have no emotion, no soul. and yet we couldn't allow ourselves to be emotional on the stand. we couldn't allow ourselves to show emotion though i'm sure some came through. i'm very, very proud of my peers and my jurors that were with us because they did a fantastic job of holding it together. >> and our thanks go out to that jury foreman and the other jurors in that trial for the tremendous sacrifice they made in their lives over the last five months to sit in judgment in this case. i wa

in this case, burglary, breaking into travis alexander's home. second option, second degree murder, same crime, no pre-medation. also, they could convict her of manslaughter which would mean that she did kill travis alexander but it happened in the heat of passion during an argument that erupted quickly and that travis alexander actually played a role and may have been the cause of that argument and the final option is not guilty. they could return a verdict of not guilty, even though jodi arias has admitted she killed travis alexander the jury could find that she did it in self-defense. the defense has been trying to raise that argument. all of the focus has been on jodi arias in this case. some frensd and supporters of traveling violation sis alex sand -- of travis alexander and his family held a candle light vigil last night. they want people to remember the victim that has been dragged through the mud in this trial. >> reporting live from phoenix this morning. who knew there were so many believers in the middle east. details on why security h

. >>> also today, it was jodi arias' turn to listen as travis alexander's brother and sister told the court how his brutal killing had ripped the heart out of their family. emotional testimony, we'll give that to you later on. >>> we start, though, tonight in north texas where at least 13 tornadoes touched down last night, 13. a terrifying night for everyone in their path. this is what it looked like on the ground. >> dude, look at that! it's right above us! look at that, it's right above us. film right above us! literally look straight up! >> oh, my god! oh, my goodness! [ bleep ]. >> the 13 funnels touched down and they unleashed their furry. this video was shot near bowie. imagine seeing that in your backyard. in granbury an ef-4 twister touched down, the second most severe on the scale. at least six people are confirmed dead right now, dozens more injured. as we said, a terrifying night, twister after twister ripping through north texas as people did their best to take cover. one neighborhood in granbury was particularly hard-hit. dozens of homes were destroyed or damaged. the sto

also to travis alexander's family. excuse me, yesterday. what is their reaction to jodi's media blitz. she's speaking to so many different reporters here. and are they asking why she is able to do all of these interviews? >> well, jodi arias is a piece of work and i i don't particularly care that she's doing these interviews, even though she's tremendously offensive and hurtful to the family. she comes across as particularly sociopathic, narcissistic. in other words the kind of person who should be put to death because she has no conscience and no heart. i didn't speak specifically to a member of travis alexander's family. i want to be clear here. but i did have contact with them. because their spokesperson was saying yesterday, that they were rightly distraught by not only her media blitz and the arrogance of it all. but fact that in those media appearances, she continues to disparage travis alexander. >> why is she able to do these? >> as a constitutional matter, the sheriff there says he has no choice, he's doing it because she has a rig

travis alexander died in june of 2008 will. and now, today, in just an hour, we are going to be hearing jodi arias's fate. >> all right. diana alvear, thank so you much. i will now bring in two former prosecutors and defense attorneys, ricky claimon and karen desoto. ricky, let me start with you. first degree murder means there is some sort of premeditated. do you think they have met that bar in this case? >> i think they met that bar or reasonable people could say so. but it is up to the jury to decide if the prosecution did their burden of proof. met their burden of proof, both in quality and quantity, beyond a reasonable doubt. >> s.e.? >> yeah, i want it ask karen about the four day deliberation. i good d a quick search and did found other cases. casey anthony 4 hours to 20 minutes. o.j. less than 4 hours. what does this tell us, if anything? >> this is interesting. as many cases as i've tried, you know, there is no rhyme or reason. a lot of people say in a more complicated case, if they come back quickly then it is not fav

especially travis alexander. >> he sat me at the foot of his wed, called me a bitch and kicked me in the ribs. >> a somber day for jodi. what was supposed to be a new beginning turned out to be more of the same. >> the kissing got more passionate, he spun me around and he bent me over the bed and he was just on top of me. i didn't think anything -- that he was just going to keep kissing me. he began to have anal sex with me. >> after this encounter on this spiritual day, how did you feel about yourself? >> after he left, shortly after he left, i fete -- i didn't feel very good. i kind of felt like a used piece of toilet paper. >> reporter: if for the victim's family, the sexually domineering travis was hard to take. text messages from travis appearing to treat jodi as his sex slave. >> he says that this photoshoot is going to be one of the best experiences of your life, and his. he also says you'll rejoice in being a whore. that sole purpose in life is to be mine, to have animal sex with and to please me in any way i desire. >> jodi even accused travis of being a pedaphile. >> he beg