Friends said they’d alerted him to their concerns and that they'd even grown concerned for his safety as things grew toxic and volatile between the two.
, alleging many improprieties including prosecutorial misconduct. The state has denied those allegations in its response and says that Arias received a fair trial.
"She's beautiful. She's friendly, has long, blonde hair. Cute figure. She was very sweet," Lovingier Hughes said of Arias."During the dinner, they just talked the whole time. She seemed to like him as much as he liked her." Jodi Arias was 26 when she met Travis Alexander, 29, in 2006. The two were in a relationship before was brutally murdered. She was charged and convicted in his slaying. She spoke to ABC News, here, in 2008.After the convention, once Alexander and Arias began seeing more of each other, they traveled to popular sites in the Southwest. Arias documented online their time together, posting photos to social media. In an email to Hughes, Alexander shared how deeply he cared for Arias.
"The law of chastity basically says your body is a sacred space. Your body was given to you by God. It's not just yours, it's not just your decisions to do with as you will. God has given this to you and you must respect it," McDannell said."And, Latter-Day Saints believe that because marriage is so important and so intense and sexuality is so much a part of that, that you need to preserve those sexual expressions for your spouse.
"It was a very tough life living with our mother," Steven Alexander said."We kinda fended for ourselves. ... [Instant noodles] was the main source of nutrition." Sky Lovingier Hughes, a friend of Travis Alexander, said she and Chris Hughes told him they thought Jodi Arias was dangerous but he rebuffed their warnings.
McDannell told"20/20" that marriage was the foundation of the Mormon faith and that it was very important for members to meet each other and to marry in the temple. As his friends got to know her better, they said they grew increasingly creeped out by Arias' behavior. Lovingier Hughes said that Arias would follow Alexander to the bathroom and stand outside the door or eavesdrop on his conversations. Hughes said she went through Alexander's cellphone on multiple occasions as well as his emails and social media accounts. Lovingier Hughes added Arias would go so far as to forward emails between Alexander and other women to herself.
"There was a rage in her eyes. ... Sky and I are very frightened at this point. She might burn down our house, you know, with all of us in it," Hughes said.After five months together, Alexander broke up with Arias. Weeks later, she moved to Mesa, where he was living. His friends were baffled. Chris Hughes, a friend of Travis Alexander, said he witnessed odd behavior from Jodi Arias when they two were dating.Meanwhile, Alexander began dating a woman named Lisa, Lovingier Hughes said. Arias, she said, would try scaring Lisa by knocking on her door and windows before running away.Alexander’s friends said his tires were slashed on two occasions while he was dating Lisa, and that he and his friends believed Arias was the one behind it.
But in May 2008, although the reasons were unclear, Gchat and text messages revealed the two were in the midst of a huge fight, according to Jane Velez-Mitchell, author of"Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias."Jodi Arias speaks to ABC News in 2013 after her conviction. She said the first-degree murder conviction was a shock to her. She and her lawyers are appealing the conviction.
"I said, 'T-dogg, you better be dead, bro.' Yeah, like I was joking. 'Call me back.' You know, 'Why are you dissin' me? Why aren't you calling me back?' I said to Sky...'something's wrong,'" Hughes said. When Mesa Police detective Esteban Flores arrived on the scene, he told"20/20" that blood was everywhere.Steven Alexander, Travis Alexander's brother, said Jodi Arias was Travis' "kryptonite.""The first thing I thought was there was a major struggle in here. ... That it was deeply personal," Flores said."Somebody knew him. Somebody wanted him dead. ... Somebody wanted to make sure that he was dead.
Flores said Arias told him that she'd spoken briefly to Alexander the day he was killed as she was driving to Utah to see a new guy she was dating. During their conversations, Flores told Arias that her name had come up repeatedly during the investigation. Ryan Burns, the man she was visiting in Utah, told police he'd tried to reach her three or four times and that each time the call had gone to voicemail.
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