Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell

move on . . .”
    “There seems to be a lot of jealousy issues.”
    Jodi seemed to know where this was leading, so she went on the offensive. “I think it was jealousy on both parts,” she responded. “For me, it wasn’t so much jealousy as it was, I just wanted him to be honest. And one of the reasons I moved was because we were spending too much time together, we weren’t moving on. I guess I could have dated other people, but our social circles were so small that any time he heard about something . . .”
    “Okay. Did you move down here . . . because of him?”
    “Yeah, because of him primarily . . . because of Travis.”
    “People were saying to call you because you probably know what happened and possibly had something to do with it.” The question came out of the blue.
    “Oh gosh, no, I . . . ,” Jodi stammered.
    “Yeah, that’s how bad it was getting at the scene. I needed to talk to you to see why they would say something like that, why they would start pointing fingers in your direction.”
    “I don’t know, maybe because I’m the ex-girlfriend?” The conversation had clearly taken a turn for the worse, but Jodi tried to face it head-on. “We had a lot of fights.”
    “Were there a lot of issues? Obviously, it wasn’t a great relationship.”
    “It was a great relationship until we started fighting . . . I had a suspicion . . . that he wasn’t being faithful, and I found a bunch of text messages that were no good. And rather than being an adult about it and confronting him, I kept it in and let it fester, and I was miserable . . . I realized this is no kind of relationship, so it finally all just came out. He was really apologetic, but we both just realized that neither of us could be in an adult relationship. And that was the end of a black year. So at that point we continued to see each other, a long time after that.”
    “I’m glad I did get a hold of you,” Flores commented. “It clears up a lot of the concerns that I had. I don’t think it’s what these people thought was going on.”
    “I should probably tell you that when Travis got upset, he would send me text messages and things. You’ll probably find Gmail, Facebook, you’re welcome to access all of my accounts.”
    “We’re probably going to subpoena all of his Facebook and Gmail and everything to see who he was communicating with. I’m not sure how far back we go, usually six months to a year . . . I hate telling people over the phone, but it is a homicide, it was an angry situation. When we see something like this, we think, these people hated each other. Somebody went in there to hurt him, and they did, and they hurt him really bad.”

CHAPTER 4

    JODI’S MEN
    J odi never returned to high school after her junior year. Instead, she took a series of waitressing jobs, and Bobby eventually got a job busing tables. Between them they made enough to make ends meet.
    Bobby did not have his own place; he lived with an elderly couple whom he considered his grandparents. The property was in bad shape—cigarette smoke hazing the interior light, linoleum buckling in the kitchen, and an unkempt lawn begging to be mowed. Inside, the house was a complete mess, with stuff hoarded in every corner. Amid that chaos, Bobby had carved out a bedroom of his own, and when Jodi moved in, she shared that space with him.
    At first things seemed to go well, until Jodi claimed she discovered that Bobby was being unfaithful. According to Jodi, Bobby was exchanging affectionate emails with another girl, which Jodi admitted she discovered with a little sleuthing on Hotmail. Jodi said the two would go to the library so they could each check their respective personal email accounts. While there, Jodi happened to see an email from another woman in Bobby’s inbox. In an early sign of Jodi’s penchant for espionage, or perhaps fabrication, she said she left the library with Bobby under the guise that she was heading to work, but