Jodi Arias

Jodi Arias' trial just gets stranger by the day. In her latest testimony, she described her relations, sexually, with Travis Alexander in graphic detail.

Arias continued her bid to portray the slain devout Mormon as repeatedly demanding graphic acts from her despite his Church’s expected vow of chastity.

She admits killing Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old motivational speaker, back in June 2007, but said that “The simple reason is he attacked me.”

Alexander was killed after Arias shot him in the face, stabbed him 27 times and slit his throat - according to Arias, after she had to fight for her life.

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Jodi Arias admits killing Travis Alexander, but testified in court this week that her ex-boyfriend was abusive and that she did what she had to in self-defense.

The sensational murder trial in Arizona was not expected to feature Arias herself in the witness box, but she elected to take the stand in her defense.

Police and prosecutors don't buy it. Jodi Arias is charged with shooting Travis Alexander in June 2008, in what authorities describe as a jealous rage.

She also stabbed him repeatedly and slit his throat.

Yet took the stand in a Phoenix courtroom for the first time on Monday, and quickly admitted she killed Travis Alexander, but swore she had no choice.

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Jodi Arias is offering a vigorous defense, but Nancy Grace says there's "no way around" a conviction on murder charges for the accused Arizona killer.

Arias is being tried for the brutal slaying of ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, and to hear HLN's Grace tell it, she’s fighting a losing battle and the jury won't buy it.

“There is no way around a murder conviction for Jodi,” she says.

“In my opinion the facts have proven Murder 1. BUT, if they feel pity for her they may give her Murder 2. I think that they will give her murder 1 though, with no death penalty.”

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It's been an interesting week in the Jodi Arias trial.

Nude photos of the murder defendant were displayed for the jury - and the live feed - as was a video in which she said she would welcome the death penalty.

If she killed Travis Alexander, that is.

"If I am found guilty, I won't have a life ... If I killed Travis, I would beg for the death penalty," Arias told Esteban Flores, a Mesa, Ariz., police detective, in a 2008 interview.

As for the Jodi Arias nude photos? Jurors were shown pigtailed Arias' breasts, as well as explicit front and rear angles of her genitalia (NSFW, after jump).

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Travis Alexander believed Jodi Arias slashed his tires after he dumped her, and predicted she might be capable of much worse, a new report says.

Dr. Karl Hiatt, a friend of Travis, whose former lover is on trial for his murder, told HLN that Travis feared for his life after Jodi allegedly attacked his car.

“Travis came over to our house every week, we had family dinners and we would always ask him, how’s his love life, who’s he dating," he recalled.

"And recently, at that time, he had decided to leave Jodi and explained that the next day he was going to leave in his car and his tires were slashed."

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The Phoenix murder trial of photographer Jodi Arias is underway, and the sensational spectacle is starting to rival Casey Anthony's trial as a media circus.

Charged with stabbing Travis Alexander, slitting his throat and shooting him in the head, Arias could become the fourth woman on Arizona's death row.

The murder of Alexander took place back in 2008, and the trial of Jodi Ann Arias will unquestionably be one of the year's most closely watched.

Here are 10 revelations from the opening statements and first witnesses:

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In an eerie blog post, Travis Alexander wrote about his fear of dating "an axe murderer" less than a month before he was violently killed, allegedly by Jodi Arias.

The 30-year-old motivational speaker and insurance salesman wrote a lengthy commentary on May 18, 2008, titled "Why I Want To Marry A Gold Digger." 

In it, Jodi Arias' ex-boyfriend shared his thoughts about the perils of being single and his desire to change his priorities to "date with marriage in mind."

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Looking at Jodi Arias photos, you'd never expect she were being tried for killing someone, but she very much is; her sensational murder trial is now underway.

In what is expected to be one of the most watched trials since Casey Anthony's, Arias is accused of murdering ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in cold blood.

The now-32-year-old looks more like an aspiring model than a murderer in photos posted on her MySpace page, but prosecutors say she's anything but innocent.

Jodi Arias allegedly shot motivational speaker Travis Alexander in the face and then stabbed him 27 times, slitting his throat from ear to ear in June 2008.

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In a trial that may one day rival Casey Anthony's in terms of sensationalist media coverage, Jodi Ann Arias is finally face trial on murder charges.

Nearly five years after she allegedly killed boyfriend Travis Alexander.

Arias, now 32, is accused of shooting the 30-year-old motivational speaker and legal insurance salesman in the face and then stabbing him 27 times.

To finish him off, she then is accused of slitting his throat, ear to ear.

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