August 8, 2011 - Arias told Judge Sherry Stephens of Maricopa County Superior Court that she wanted

The 32-year-old photographer is accused of shooting her lover, Travis Alexander, in the face, stabbing him 27 times and slitting his throat from ear to ear in the shower of his Mesa, Ariz., apartment.
September 2006 – Travis Alexander met Jodi Arias at a conference cheap airline ticket to miami in Las Vegas. At the time, Alexander was a 30-year-old motivational speaker and legal-insurance salesman. Arias, then 28, was living in Palm Desert, Calif., and was trying to make it as a saleswoman cheap airline ticket to miami and an independent photographer. The two had an instant connection and spoke on the phone every day. Court records indicate that the couple exchanged 82,000 emails.
December 2007 – Alexander began dating another cheap airline ticket to miami woman. He allegedly told friends that Arias was so jealous that she slashed the tires on his vehicle twice. After those incidents, his new girlfriend received a harassing email from a "John Doe." Alexander suspected that Arias was responsible.
January 8, 2008 – Arias, according to prosecutors, sent this text to Alexander: "Ahhh!! I fell asleep! But to answer your question, yes I want to grind you. And I want to be LOUD. And I want to give you a nice, warm 'mouth hug' too. :)"
April 2008 - Arias moved from Arizona to California. That same month, Alexander posted a blog entry stating, "This Year will be the Best year of my life. This is the year that will eclipse all others. I will earn more, learn more, travel cheap airline ticket to miami more, serve more, love more, give more and be more than all the other years of my life combined."
April 20, 2008 - Alexander, according to prosecutors, sent this text to Arias: "I am at a night club right now and it helped me to come to the conclusion cheap airline ticket to miami that you are one of the prettiest girls on the planet."
May 10, 2008 - Arias posted the last entry to her online blog . It reads, in part: "I cannot ignore that there is an ever-present yearning and desire that pulses within me. It throbs for gratification and fulfillment."
cheap airline ticket to miami That same day, according to prosecutors, Alexander sent this text to Arias: "Why don't you have him come and f--k you in the woods, I can only imagine you are so worried about me reading. You are paranoid because you have no respect for people privacy and you dare insult me of all people. Someone you should through your actions you hate more than love by denying me a human right of privacy countless times. You have a lot of freaking nerve. We are all not like you in that aspect."
May 18, 2008 - Alexander posted the last entry, titled "Why I want to marry a Gold Digger," to his online blog . It reads, in part: "I did a little cheap airline ticket to miami soul searching and realized that I was lonely ... I realized it was time to adjust my priorities and date with marriage in mind ... This type of dating to me is like a very long job interview and can be exponentially more mentally cheap airline ticket to miami taxing. Desperately trying to find out if my date has an axe murderer penned up inside of her."
June 2008 - During the first week of June 2008, Alexander told friends that he suspected Arias had hacked into his Facebook account. He allegedly said that he told her to stay out of his life forever.
June 4, 2008 - Arias allegedly went to Alexander's home in Mesa, Ariz. They had sex and took explicit photos of each other, according to court records. That same afternoon the last outgoing call was made from Alexander's phone. cheap airline ticket to miami That evening he missed an important business call.
June 9, 2008 - Alexander's friends, concerned because they had not heard from him for several days, went to his home in the 11,400 block of East Queensborough Ave. and found him dead inside his standup shower. A state of advanced decomposition suggested that he had been dead for several days. Large amounts of blood were discovered throughout the master bathroom, including on the floors, walls and sink area.
It was ultimately determined that Alexander cheap airline ticket to miami had been shot in the right brow with a .25-caliber gun -- the bullet was found lodged in his left cheek -- and that he had been stabbed 27 times. Someone had also cut his throat from ear to ear.
Investigators found several vital clues inside Alexander's bedroom and bathroom. A spent .25-caliber shell casing cheap airline ticket to miami was located on the floor near the sink, and a hair and a small latent print in blood were found near the entrance to the bathroom hall. Also, a digital camera was found in the washing machine in the downstairs laundry room. The camera appeared to have been run through the wash cycle.
cheap airline ticket to miami "[Arias] was totally obsessed with him," Alexander's close friend Sky Hughes told The Huffington Post . "She wouldn't let him go. Whenever he would try to sever all ties, she would threaten to kill herself ... He would tell her he didn't want anything to do with her, and she would show up at his house. We knew it was her. We didn't want it to be her, but [we] just knew it was."
June 17, 2008 - Arias went to the Mesa Police Headquarters and was voluntarily fingerprinted. She also gave investigators a sample of her saliva for DNA testing. While waiting for the lab test results to come back, investigators were notified that several cheap airline ticket to miami shocking images, some of which had been deleted, were recovered from the memory card of the camera found in Alexander's washing machine. The deleted pictures were of Alexander, naked in the shower, just before his death. He appeared to be posing in some of the photographs. However, other photos, which were dark and grainy, "were of a subject on the floor of the bathroom bleeding profusely," police said.
Based on the photos, an investigator wrote: "Jodi was lying about not seeing Travis since April of 2008. This also proves that Jodi was the last person I can prove had contact with Travis prior to his death."
An undated photo of Travis cheap airline ticket to miami Alexander and Jodi Arias that she posted to her MySpace page. According to the caption, the photo was taken in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in March 2008. Travis Alexander And Jodi Arias
An undated photo of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander that she posted to her MySpace page. According to the photo caption, it was taken at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Travis Alexander And Jodi Arias
An undated photo of Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias that she posted to her MySpace page. According to the caption, the photo was taken at the Cumbres and Toltec Rail Road, in Chama, New Mexico. Travis Alexander
An undated photo of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander cheap airline ticket to miami that she posted to her MySpace page. According to the photo caption, it was taken at the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York. Jodi Arias And Travis Alexander
June 19, 2008 - Police contacted Arias and questioned her about Alexander's murder. "Jodi stated she last saw Travis in April of 2008," a police officer wrote in a document cheap airline ticket to miami to establish probable cheap airline ticket to miami cause. "She admitted they had been seeing each other as boyfriend and girlfriend cheap airline ticket to miami for over five months but had officially broken up in June of 2007, after some jealously issues on the part of both of them. After they broke up, they continued to have a sexual relationship, but kept it quiet from people they knew. She said she last spoke to Travis on Tuesday 6-03-08."
June 26, 2008 - Investigators were notified that hair and a bloody print found inside Alexander's home belonged to Arias. DNA typing results also indicated that the bloody print was a mixture of Arias' and Alexander's DNA.
July 15, 2008 - Mesa police detectives and Siskiyou County sheriff's deputies arrested Arias at her Northern California home. Arias was booked in the Siskiyou County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.
September 12, 2008 - In a jailhouse interview with The Arizona Republic , Arias denied killing Alexander but refused to discuss how she would refute the DNA and photographic evidence that police claimed cheap airline ticket to miami linked her to the crime. "God knows I'm innocent. I know I'm innocent," said Arias. "I had nothing to do with his murder. I would never hurt him. He was my friend."
October 31, 2008 - The Maricopa County Attorney's Office filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Arias. The notice, filed in Maricopa cheap airline ticket to miami County Superior Court, accused Arias of committing first-degree murder "in an especially cruel, heinous or depraved manner."
June 23, 2009 – Following her arrest, Arias expanded on her second story about the day of Alexander's death. In an interview with "48 Hours," she admitted cheap airline ticket to miami that she was present when he was murdered, but she said that his death occurred during a home invasion. Arias reported that the two were having fun playing with his new camera when things took a sudden turn.
"I heard a really loud pop. And the next thing I remember, I was lying next to the bathtub and Travis was screaming," Arias told "48 Hours." "At that point, I sort of was just trying to come around and kind of orientate myself to what was going on," she continued. "And I looked up and I just -- I saw two other individuals in the bathroom. And they were both coming cheap airline ticket to miami toward us."
"He pulled the trigger. cheap airline ticket to miami And nothing happened with the gun. And so I just grabbed my purse, which was on the floor at that point, and I ran down the stairs and out of there and I left [Travis] there ... I pushed past him and -- and his gun. And I just didn't look back."
December 2010 – Arias beat out 50 other inmates to win an "American Idol"-style caroling contest for inmates held by "America's Toughest Sheriff," Joe Arpaio, at the Maricopa County jail. Her prize was a Christmas stocking full of goodies and a turkey dinner for herself and her cellmates.
August 8, 2011 - Arias told Judge Sherry Stephens of Maricopa County Superior Court that she wanted to represent herself. Stephens granted the request but had Arias' public defenders, Victoria Washington and Kirk Nurmi, remain on as advisory counsel.
August 16, 2011 – A request to admit letters that Arias claimed Alexander sent her prior to his death was denied. In the letters, Alexander cheap airline ticket to miami allegedly admitted to being a pedophile. Prosecutor Juan Martinez told the court that the letters were tested and found to be forgeries. After the ruling, Arias told Judge