Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder by Shanna Hogan

Author:Shanna Hogan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: True Crime, Non-Fiction, Bought
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
Published: 2013-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

“Oh my God,” Mimi Hall cried as she dialed 911 on her cell phone.

“Okay, what’s going on?” the operator asked.

“A friend of ours is dead in his bedroom,” Mimi said, her voice shaking. “We haven’t heard from him in a while. We think he’s dead. His roommate just went in there and said there’s a lot of blood.”

After stumbling away from the grisly scene, Dallin Forrest had whisked Mimi and Michelle down the stairs and out the front door. Travis’s dog had followed. Michelle hunched in the driveway, holding the pug’s collar, while Mimi phoned for emergency assistance on her cell phone.

On the front lawn, Dallin observed Zachary standing close to his girlfriend. After fleeing Travis’s room, Zachary had retrieved Amanda from his bedroom and exited the house. Zachary appeared somber and shaken—an expression Dallin imagined mirrored his own.

Dallin approached Zachary. “Is everybody out of the house?”

It was then that Zachary realized Enrique was likely still inside.

“Stay here,” he told Amanda. He went back inside the house, up the stairs, and toward his roommate’s bedroom. Zachary pounded on the door.

“Something happened to Travis,” he said. “The police are on their way.”

Meanwhile, Mimi had passed her cell phone to Dallin. The 911 operator had dispatched police and paramedics, but requested to speak with someone who had seen the body.

“What’s going on?” the operator asked.

“He’s dead. He’s in his bedroom, in the shower,” Dallin blurted out.

His mind reeling, Dallin tried to compose himself.

“I freaked out on the inside but I tried to steady myself, you know, cause you’re trying to talk on the phone with 911,” Dallin later recalled. “I didn’t want the girls to go nuts.”

“Okay, how did this happen?” the operator asked. “Do you have any idea?”

“No, we have no idea, everyone has been wondering about him for a few days.”

“Okay, she said that there is blood. Is it coming from his head? Or…”

“It’s all over the place.”

The operator asked if Travis had been displaying signs of depression.

“I don’t know Travis,” Dallin told the operator. “I’m the wrong person to be asking.”

“Okay, please put someone on the phone who knows Travis,” the operator requested.

As Dallin passed the phone to Michelle, he noticed that Zachary had reappeared on the lawn with another man—Enrique Cortez. The roommates and Amanda stayed huddled together, a few yards away from where Dallin, Mimi, and Michelle were standing.

Haltingly, Zachary explained the situation to Enrique. Dallin overheard him mutter something about the master bathroom.

“That’s why the light has been on for so long,” Enrique exclaimed.

Mimi called out to the roommates, “When was the last time you saw Travis?”

“It was either Wednesday or Thursday,” Enrique said.

Zachary nodded in agreement. “Wednesday. Maybe Thursday.”

“Had you checked his room since the last time you saw him?” Dallin asked.

Zachary shook his head, mumbling about “Cancún” and a “business trip.”

“His car was in the garage,” Enrique said. “I thought someone drove him to the airport.”

Dallin explained that the 911 operator had asked if Travis was suicidal.

“I didn’t know Travis well enough to know if he was self-destructive,” Dallin told the roommates.

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