Killer Girlfriend by Josh Hoffner & Brian Skoloff

Author:Josh Hoffner & Brian Skoloff [Hoffner, Josh & Skoloff, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRUE CRIME/Murder/General, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9780825307270
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Published: 2013-06-16T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14 'No Jury Is Going To Convict Me'

Chapter 14

“No Jury Is Going To Convict Me”

‘“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile/And cry ‘content’ to that which grieves my heart/And wet my cheeks with artificial tears/And frame my face for all occasions” —William Shakespeare

In the months after her arrest, Jodi finally started talking. She had moved on from her contention that she was not with Travis when he was killed. Then came her second story:

Jodi heard a loud noise. She was startled. Travis was with her in his master bathroom, and they were immediately worried.

Suddenly, two murderous, blood-thirsty intruders dressed in black, wearing ski masks and gloves, barged into the bathroom.

The man and woman stabbed and slashed Travis with ferocious power, leaving him bleeding on the floor.

Jodi was overcome with fear.

They slashed and stabbed Travis. Travis lay on the floor still alive, bleeding profusely. He was screaming, saying “I can’t feel my legs!”

Jodi charged the female burglar, despite the fact that the woman was carrying a knife. The male burglar became enraged at Jodi, presumably for fighting with his accomplice.

The burglars now had to decide whether to kill Jodi. They argued back and forth about it.

Finally, they put the barrel of a gun to Jodi’s forehead. This was it, she thought. She was about to die execution-style in a ruthless home invasion.

The intruder pulled the trigger. Nothing. The gun didn’t fire. Jodi grabbed her purse, sprinted downstairs, ran outside and sped away.

She knew Travis was still alive, but she was in so much shock that she just got out of there. The killers didn’t chase after her, she didn’t call 911 or anyone about what had just happened.

If the story sounds a little ridiculous, that’s because it was. Jodi made it up. And she told the story to the world after her arrest, including friends, family and journalists with “48 Hours,” “Inside Edition” and The Arizona Republic.

“No jury is going to convict me … because I’m innocent, and you can mark my words on that one: No jury will convict me,” Jodi told “Inside Edition.”

The masked intruder scenario was one of the three stories Jodi would tell since killing Travis.

Faced with mounting evidence against her and major holes in the intruder tale, Jodi changed her tune again. She did it, but it was self-defense.

As part of her new tale, Jodi started leveling a series of accusations during against Travis that cast him as a quick-tempered, physically abusive, sexual deviant.

Authorities believe she made it all up, pulling it out of thin air when she realized it was her only out, the only way to possibly avoid being convicted of first-degree murder: Demonize Travis.

Jodi claimed Travis was a violent man who had beaten her on at least four occasions, once even choking her into unconsciousness. Her defense attorneys would later depict these attacks as the beginning of Jodi’s spiral into erratic behavior not uncommon among abused women.

She went on to explain Travis’ many perversions: She fell asleep on a chair in his bedroom one night and awoke to find Travis aggressively performing oral sex on her.

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