Killer Girlfriend: The Jodi Arias Story by Josh Hoffner Brian Skoloff Page B
Authors: Josh Hoffner Brian Skoloff
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witness to show what a perverted letch Travis was, how he abused her,
how her entire life was a series of wrong turns and dead ends, trying to gain sympathy
from the jury. Her biggest problem would be the lies.
Martinez proceeded to call witness after witness, portraying Jodi as a cold-hearted
killer who took Travis’ life with so little emotion and afterthought that she went
to see another man a day later for an intimate encounter.
Ryan Burns was called to the witness stand. He explained how he met Jodi at a PrePaid
Legal convention in Oklahoma in April 2008. They exchanged numbers and within a few
weeks began chatting on the phone often.
Toward the end of May 2008, just weeks before Jodi would kill Travis, Burns told
jurors Jodi made plans to come visit him in Utah.
She arrived on June 4, 2008, explaining that she was late because she had gotten
lost and needed to stop to rest. But something immediately struck Burns, he would
testify.
Jodi had cuts on her hands.
“She had two small bandages on a couple of her fingers,” Burns told jurors. Jodi
explained she had cut herself on broken glass while working in a restaurant.
Little did Burns know, the woman he would later spend the night with had just savagely
attacked and killed her last boyfriend. Burns said the two watched a movie at his
home in West Jordan, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City.
He said things soon got heated as they grew intimate.
“We were talking and we kissed … Every time we started kissing it got a little more
escalated,” Burns testified.
“Eventually, we stopped,” said Burns, also a devout Mormon. “I didn’t want to go
any further.”
Later that night the couple attended a PrePaid legal event then joined others at
a nearby restaurant.
“She was fine, she was laughing about simple little things like any other person.
I never once felt like anything was wrong during the day,” Burns told jurors.
After dinner, the two went back to Burns’ home and napped. When they awoke, things
again heated up.
“She got on top of me pretty aggressively and we were kissing. She was right on top
of me,” Burns said, explaining how the encounter soon cooled down just like earlier
in the day.
He told jurors Jodi left his home at about 1 a.m. to head back to California.
After his testimony, Burns appeared on cable network HLN for an interview with Nancy
Grace, explaining how “very awkward” the entire saga has been.
“It’s hard to believe you’re this close to something so dramatic,” Burns said. “I
really didn’t think she could have possibly done it.”
Burns went on to describe how he spoke with Jodi on the phone just hours after she
had killed Travis while she headed to Utah to see him.
“For that whole hour,” he told Grace, “we talked about simple things, giggling about
just little jokes, just like normal conversation you would think, obviously very abnormal
in retrospect.
“She seemed just like the Jodi that I’d been talking to for five or six weeks the
entire 14 hours that she was with me the day after Travis died.”
Jodi’s lies, and the stories she weaved in the days and months after killing Travis,
were becoming the crux of the prosecution case against her. These weren’t the actions
of a woman who had just killed a man in self-defense, the prosecutor would explain.
This woman was a murderer, clear and simple.
Jurors would later hear from Maricopa County Medical Examiner Dr. Kevin Horn, who
explained the severity of Travis’ wounds and the ferociousness of the attack.
Horn described gashes on Travis’ hands and feet, clearly defensive wounds as he tried
to fight off his attacker, and how it was extremely unlikely that Travis would have
been able to do much at all after the gunshot wound to the head. This testimony clearly
contradicted Jodi’s story that she shot him first but he kept coming after her, knocking
the gun from her hand and
how her entire life was a series of wrong turns and dead ends, trying to gain sympathy
from the jury. Her biggest problem would be the lies.
Martinez proceeded to call witness after witness, portraying Jodi as a cold-hearted
killer who took Travis’ life with so little emotion and afterthought that she went
to see another man a day later for an intimate encounter.
Ryan Burns was called to the witness stand. He explained how he met Jodi at a PrePaid
Legal convention in Oklahoma in April 2008. They exchanged numbers and within a few
weeks began chatting on the phone often.
Toward the end of May 2008, just weeks before Jodi would kill Travis, Burns told
jurors Jodi made plans to come visit him in Utah.
She arrived on June 4, 2008, explaining that she was late because she had gotten
lost and needed to stop to rest. But something immediately struck Burns, he would
testify.
Jodi had cuts on her hands.
“She had two small bandages on a couple of her fingers,” Burns told jurors. Jodi
explained she had cut herself on broken glass while working in a restaurant.
Little did Burns know, the woman he would later spend the night with had just savagely
attacked and killed her last boyfriend. Burns said the two watched a movie at his
home in West Jordan, Utah, just outside Salt Lake City.
He said things soon got heated as they grew intimate.
“We were talking and we kissed … Every time we started kissing it got a little more
escalated,” Burns testified.
“Eventually, we stopped,” said Burns, also a devout Mormon. “I didn’t want to go
any further.”
Later that night the couple attended a PrePaid legal event then joined others at
a nearby restaurant.
“She was fine, she was laughing about simple little things like any other person.
I never once felt like anything was wrong during the day,” Burns told jurors.
After dinner, the two went back to Burns’ home and napped. When they awoke, things
again heated up.
“She got on top of me pretty aggressively and we were kissing. She was right on top
of me,” Burns said, explaining how the encounter soon cooled down just like earlier
in the day.
He told jurors Jodi left his home at about 1 a.m. to head back to California.
After his testimony, Burns appeared on cable network HLN for an interview with Nancy
Grace, explaining how “very awkward” the entire saga has been.
“It’s hard to believe you’re this close to something so dramatic,” Burns said. “I
really didn’t think she could have possibly done it.”
Burns went on to describe how he spoke with Jodi on the phone just hours after she
had killed Travis while she headed to Utah to see him.
“For that whole hour,” he told Grace, “we talked about simple things, giggling about
just little jokes, just like normal conversation you would think, obviously very abnormal
in retrospect.
“She seemed just like the Jodi that I’d been talking to for five or six weeks the
entire 14 hours that she was with me the day after Travis died.”
Jodi’s lies, and the stories she weaved in the days and months after killing Travis,
were becoming the crux of the prosecution case against her. These weren’t the actions
of a woman who had just killed a man in self-defense, the prosecutor would explain.
This woman was a murderer, clear and simple.
Jurors would later hear from Maricopa County Medical Examiner Dr. Kevin Horn, who
explained the severity of Travis’ wounds and the ferociousness of the attack.
Horn described gashes on Travis’ hands and feet, clearly defensive wounds as he tried
to fight off his attacker, and how it was extremely unlikely that Travis would have
been able to do much at all after the gunshot wound to the head. This testimony clearly
contradicted Jodi’s story that she shot him first but he kept coming after her, knocking
the gun from her hand and
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