Jodi Arias

Greg Patterson, AZ Board of Regents Member, Restarts Controversial "Espresso Pundit" Blog; Says He Won't Cover University Issues

He's baaaaack. Conservative activist and former state lawmaker Greg Patterson has cranked up his controversial "Espresso Pundit" blog again, but has sworn off covering university issues because of his position as a state Board of Regents member. Patterson let his popular news-and-opinion blog go d ... More >>

Jodi Arias Jury Done -- No Decision on Death Penalty; Mistrial of Penalty Phase Declared; State Wants to Retry

Jury members in the Jodi Arias case wrapped up nearly five months of work today, causing a mistrial due to their failure to reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty. Some women jurors were crying and one even said "sorry" to the family of slaying victim Travis Alexander, according to a tweet ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: Top Reactions to Sentencing Mistrial by Pro-Arias Commenters

The failure of the Jodi Arias jury to agree on the death penalty sparked thousands of tweets and comments to various blogs and news sites. While many would prefer to see the vicious, calculating killer fry, we thought we'd check out one blog site that caters to Arias' supporters and well-wishers, j ... More >>

Will Jodi Arias Get the Death Penalty?

The jury in the Jodi Arias trial will continue deliberating this morning about whether the murderer should be executed.Arias, always the drama queen, changed her talking points while addressing the jury yesterday, as she pleaded with the jury to let her live -- despite previously saying she would "p ... More >>

Reporters Ask No Tough Questions of "Sex Kitten" Jodi Arias on Eve of Sentencing

Just watched the interview of Jodi Arias by Mark Curtis of Channel 12 (KNXV-TV), Troy Hayden of Channel 10 (KSAZ-AZ) and Ryan Owens of ABC News. In what may be one of the last TV interviews of Arias, since prison interviews aren't normally allowed, Curtis and Hayden -- who'd been invited by Arias - ... More >>

Jodi Arias Jury Can't Reach Decision on Death Penalty, Sent Back by Judge for More Deliberation

The jury in the Jodi Arias case announced just before noon today that they can't reach a unanimous decision on whether Arias should be executed. Maricopa County Judge Sherry Stephens sent the jury back to try again. Under Arizona law, the jury will be dismissed and a new jury convened if the stale ... More >>

Meet the Three Women Currently on Arizona's Death Row

While a jury's apparently having a tough time deciding whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for killing Travis Alexander, we'll point out that Arias would join just a few other women on death row, if that's where the jury decides to send her.There are only three Arizona women in the custody of ... More >>

Jodi Arias Asks Jury to Spare Her Life So Her Family Isn't Hurt; No Apology to Victim's Family, No Tears

Jodi Arias asked the jury in her long-running murder trial to spare her life, contradicting previous statements that she preferred the death penalty to life in prison. She failed to apologize for killing ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in her highly anticipated statement to the jury today. See bel ... More >>

Jodi Arias Jury Begins Deliberation on Sentence; Arias Attorney Tells Jury to "Find Mercy"

Jury members in the Jodi Arias trial have begun deliberating whether to sentence the cold-blooded killer to execution. The jury was dismissed just after 3 p.m. to begin their decision-making. With nearly five months of their lives invested in this trial, jury members probably can't wait to finish u ... More >>

Jodi Arias Jury Nears Final Decision on Death Penalty; Court Resumes Today for Penalty Phase of Trial

The jury in the sensational trial of boyfriend-slayer Jodi Arias is expected to hear testimony today from Arias' defense attorneys, who'll try to argue that Arias doesn't deserve execution. Arias has said she prefers life in prison. As we reported last week, state officials say Arias could be execu ... More >>

Scottsdale Woman Makes Jodi Arias Look Like an Amateur: Shari Tobyne Chopped Up Her Husband, Scattered Him Over Three Counties

While everyone's caught up in the hype of the Jodi Arias trial, we'll point out a quieter case that ended on Friday with a Scottsdale woman being sentenced to life in prison.Shari Tobyne shot her husband of 35 years, Dwight, then chopped up his body, and left most of his remains scattered over three ... More >>

Daryl Raetz's Body Circled by Nativist Buzzards

The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an "illegal immigrant," or any kind of immigrant, actually. In the Boston bombings, they made a feast of the two brothers, the alleged terrorists: one a naturalized U.S. citizen, the other granted asylum. See also: -Jesus M ... More >>

Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley - Desert Sky Pavilion - May 16, 2013

Miranda Lambert and Dierks BentleyDesert Sky PavilionMay 16, 2013 For me, the night the Desert Sky Pavilion (or whatever else it's called, from year to year) opens its gates for the first show of the season marks the beginning of summer. And the 2013 summer concert season kicked off with some red-b ... More >>

Jodi Arias Could Be Executed in Just Four Years — if Her Death Wish Isn’t Another Lie

Jodi Arias's Kinky Murder Trial in Arizona Continues

Jodi Arias Back in Court Today as Death Penalty Looms; Victim Statements, Mitigation Arguments Precede Jury's Final Decision

The engrossing saga of convicted slasher Jodi Arias is wrapping up after the jury took about an hour on Wednesday to decide her fatal attack on Travis Alexander was "especially cruel." Next up in the marathon trial that's gone on since January 2nd: Impact statements by Alexander's family, and the p ... More >>

Judge Bans Sheriff's Office From Setting Up Media Interviews With Jodi Arias

It looks like the local Fox affiliate's weak interview with Jodi Arias is the only interview with her anyone's going to get in the immediate future.The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office sent a brief to the news media this afternoon saying that the agency received an order from Judge Sherry Stephens t ... More >>

Jodi Arias Could be Executed in Just Four Years -- If Her Wish for Death Isn't Another Lie

In an exclusive post-conviction interview, boyfriend-killer Jodi Arias insisted that she didn't plan to kill 30-year-old Travis Alexander in 2008. But now that she's been convicted of premeditated murder, she'd "prefer to die sooner than later." Arias went on to say to Channel 10's Troy Hayden, "L ... More >>

Jodi Arias Drops the Dramatics, Gets Off Suicide Watch

Drama queen/convicted murderer Jodi Arias has been taken off "suicide protocol," according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Arias was placed on suicide watch after a jury found her guilty of first-degree, premeditated murder in her killing of Travis Alexander.See also:-Jodi Arias Says She Pre ... More >>

Laquint Cherry Arrested for Tweet Saying He Planted IEDs in Jodi Arias Courtroom

An 18-year-old man was arrested by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies after tweeting that he planted improvised explosive devices in Jodi Arias' courtroom.Laquint Cherry, whose Twitter account indicates a severe lack of common sense, was ratted out by local TV news station ABC 15, the station ... More >>

Should Jodi Arias Get the Death Penalty?

A jury found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder yesterday for killing Travis Alexander at his Mesa home in 2008.Arias' conviction means she could be sentenced to death for her crime.See also:-Jodi Arias Guilty of First-Degree Premeditated Murder-Psycho Killer: Jodi Arias' Kinky Death-Penalty T ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: CNN's Dramatic Coverage Mocked by the Daily Show (Video)

It seems nearly impossible to keep the state of Arizona off of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but, for once, an Arizona-based segment isn't due to the actions of the state's elected officials.This time, Stewart gave his analysis of the Jodi Arias trial, specifically, the over-dram ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: The Jury Has Reached a Verdict

UPDATE: Jodi Arias Guilty of First-Degree Premeditated Murder, Jury FindsThe jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Jodi Arias.According to a spokesman for the Maricopa County Superior Court, the verdict will be read at 1:30 p.m.See also:-Jury Deciding Arias' Fate-Psycho Killer-Jodi Arias ... More >>

Jodi Arias Guilty of First-Degree Premeditated Murder, Jury Finds

Jodi Arias was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder today, and now the jury must decide whether or not to put Arias to death. The jury also found Arias guilty of felony murder. The penalty phase of this trial, which already has lasted four months, will start at 1 p.m. on Thursday. It c ... More >>

Five Songs That Speak to Those Celebrating the Jodi Arias Guilty Verdict

News broke within the last couple of hours that Jodi Arias was found "guilty as charged" by a jury of her peers in a Maricopa County Superior Court room for the brutal 2008 murder of lover Travis Alexander. Needless to say, there's been much celebrating both outside the courthouse (where chanting ... More >>

Jodi Arias Heads Toward Probable Death-Penalty Sentence; Says She Prefers It to Life Sentence

Chances seem slim-to-none that Jodi Arias will escape a death sentence. The Maricopa County jury which today found Arias guilty of first-degree murder is scheduled to begin hearing the aggravation, or penalty, phase of the trial tomorrow starting at 1 p.m. Witnesses will likely be called for this p ... More >>

Travis Alexander's Family Agrees With Verdict, Plans to Sue Arias

The family of Travis Alexander agrees with the first-degree murder jury verdict against Jodi Arias, and plans to sue Arias in the near future, the family's lawyer said today.. Jay Beckstead, the family's lawyer, announced the planned wrongful death suit against Arias today on the steps of the Maric ... More >>

Jodi Arias' 10 Most Pathetic Tweets

While the jury is still considering Jodi Arias' fate for killing Travis Alexander, we have some insight on what's going on in her head.It's easy, really, because she's a nationally known murder defendant with a friggin' Twitter account, and one of the few words that accurately describes Arias' posts ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: Jury Deciding Arias' Fate; Announcement to Come in Hour or Less After Jury Makes Decision

The jury in the Jodi Arias murder trial huddled at 9 a.m. this morning on its big decision following about an hour of deliberations on Friday. The panel's decision will be announced about an hour or less after it's made, court staff tells us this morning. Whether individual jury members feel Arias ... More >>

Jodi Arias Is on Twitter, @Jodiannarias

Here's something that's totally normal: You can follow America's favorite murder defendant on Twitter. Seriously.There aren't too many tweets up there, but the story associating Arias with this account seems to check out.See also:-Psycho Killer: Jodi Arias' Kinky Death-Penalty Trial

Jodi Arias Trial: Judge Requests Defense Request to Sequester Jury; Damning Video of Arias' Parents; Booted Juror Watches Trial From Courtroom

The most interesting developments in the sensational trial of man-killer Jodi Arias this week had nothing to do with the boring, skepticism-inducing testimony by a domestic-violence expert. Two other key events had the public's attention: The booting of Juror #5 from the jury panel and her subseque ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: Defense Counters Attacks on PTSD Doc's Credibility; We Talk to Expert Who has Doubts on Amnesia Story

The capital murder trial of Jodi Arias continued with several delays today, focusing on the testimony of a local doctor who claims Arias' alleged amnesia seems real. The theory of Scottsdale psychologist Richard Samuels was tarnished badly by deputy Maricopa County Attorney Juan Martinez, as we det ... More >>

Richard Samuels, A.K.A. Doctor Fog, Hammered by Juan Martinez Over Jodi Arias' Alleged Memory Loss

Prosecutor Juan Martinez hammered a local psychologist over his evaluation of murder defendant Jodi Arias today, at one point asking him if he had memory problems. Richard Samuels, who has an office in Scottsdale, evaluated Arias while she was in jail following her 2008 slaying of ex-boyfriend Trav ... More >>

S. Renee Greene of Examiner.com Says She Plagiarized Intentionally to Make Point About Low Pay for Writers

S. Renee Greene, examiner.com freelancer until yesterday, called us today to admit she'd plagiarized from the Phoenix New Times, saying she'd done it in protest of the low pay she'd received as a writer for the Examiner website. Greene reached out to us following our Thursday blog post that called ... More >>

Psycho Killer: Jodi Arias' Kinky Death-Penalty Trial

"S. Renee Greene," Examiner.com Freelancer, Plagiarizes New Times' Jodi Arias and Sheriff Babeu Stories

Do your own freakin' work, Renee! We're speaking of "S. Renee Greene," one of the citizen-journalists who publishes articles on Examiner.com -- and who ripped off portions of the Jodi Arias feature article published in Phoenix New Times this week. Greene, through her writer's account with Examiner ... More >>

The MCAO Follows ICE's Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families

Jodi Arias Vs. Gavin Macfarlane: Tale of Two Death Penalty Cases

Something's wrong with Jodi Arias, that much anyone can tell. Her lack of emotion combined with the brutality of her crime -- stabbing, slashing and shooting her victim -- have led some to call her a sociopath, or psychopath. Not that most people could give a medical definition of the terms. But by ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Victims Plead Not Guilty En Masse as Their Children Weep

The cattle call began a little after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for the unfortunates arrested in the MCSO's Sportex Apparel raid in Tempe the first week of February. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Bill Montgomery Fails to Convict an Innocent Man -S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Un ... More >>

Jodi Arias Trial: Prosecutor Juan Martinez's "Meltdown" With Murder Suspect; Plus, KY or Baby Oil?

The Jodi Arias trial took another turn for the nutty today with a "meltdown" by prosecutor Juan Martinez and, to some extent, the justice system. Arias, who claims she shot, stabbed and nearly decapitated her ex-boyfriend in self-defense, said in her third day of being cross-examined that Martinez ... More >>

Jodi Arias Live Blog: Cross-Examination Continues Into Arias' Admitted Lies and Alleged Truths

Juan Martinez begins the day by asking Jodi Arias if she lies to her benefit. Seems like as good a way as any to start. Martinez tries to play an excerpt from Arias' police interview, when she was still sticking to the story that two masked intruders came in and attacked her ex-boyfriend, Travis Al ... More >>

Jodi Arias Live Blog: Arias Grilled Under Cross-Examination by Prosecutor Juan Martinez

It's 10:30 a.m. at the Jodi Arias murder trial. Every seat is full today because Arias is preparing to answer questions from prosecutor Juan Martinez, in his cross-examination. Martinez displays a picture of Arias and her younger sister, Angela, taken on May 10 of 2008. He tells her that she tape-r ... More >>

Jodi Arias Live Blog: Arias Describes How She Killed Travis Alexander in 2008; She Recalls Shooting Him, But Not Stabbing Him or Slashing His Throat

We're live-blogging this morning from the Jodi Arias trial. Be sure to check back frequently for updates. The testimony is beginning right now as her attorney, Kirk Numri asks for Jodi to tell what happens when she gets in the shower. This follows yesterday's testimony, in which she described showi ... More >>

Jodi Arias Live Blog: Goes Home After Killing Alexander, Wanting to "Deny Reality"

It's about 1:30 p.m., and the afternoon recess in the Jodi Arias trial has ended. Arias is back on the stand, having testified this morning about how she shot Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008, then drove to Utah to meet a guy she liked. She spent a few hours with him, made out, tried to "act normal ... More >>