1. Jodi Arias Reads Torn-Out Diary Pages Bad-Mouthing Ex-
Boyfriend
Accused murdererJodi Arias tore out pages of her diary in which she complained about her ex-
boyfriend, Travis Alexander, and said she wanted to commit suicide, she testified today. She said she
was afraid he would snoop and read them.
Arias showed the court the torn pages of her journal and read the full excerpts to the jury, just a
week after prosecutor Juan Martinez used her partial diary entries to show that she never wrote
about the alleged abuse he inflicted on her.
Martinez has accused Arias of making up the allegations that Alexander was abusive. She is charged
with murdering her ex-boyfriend at his home in Mesa, Ariz., on June 4, 2008.
Arias, 32, claims she was forced to kill Alexander in self-defense during
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"Who besides yourself had access to your
journals?" lead defense attorney Kirk Nurmi
asked Arias today, on the first day of
redirect.
"Well, Travis would read them," she
testified. "There was the potential that
Travis could read something in there, and
also the biggest reason was the law of
attraction, which was a huge philosophy at that time in my life."
Arias said that she believed thinking positive thoughts would bring positive change to her life, and
thinking negative thoughts would bring about negativity.
"How would writing about Travis being violent in your journal violate this law of attraction?" Nurmi
asked.
"One thing it encourages is that if you're in a relationship to focus only on their good qualities, as
opposed to harping on somebody's faults," Arias said.
Martinez pointed out last week that Arias never detailed in her diary the violent fight the couple had
in which Alexander allegedly threw Arias to the ground in January, 2007, and kicked her in the ribs
and hand. She also never wrote about an alleged incident in which she saw him masturbating while
looking at pictures of young boys.
Today, however, she did read an entry in which she said Alexander made her "sick," after an incident
in which she went to Alexander's house and saw him kissing another woman.
"I don't understand it and at times have a hard time believing it. He makes me sick and happy,
2. makes me feel sad and miserable, and makes me feel uplifted and beautiful. I shouldn't be wording it
as the secret to attraction if he makes me feel those things. It all originates from within. All of my
darkness if fruit of my own creation, it originates within," she wrote.
Arias said that she was referring to the law of attraction when she said that negative thoughts were
her own fault. She also read an entry about suicide, one of what she claimed were many entries she
wrote about wanting to die and later tore out of the journal.
"I just wish I could die. I wish that suicide was a way out but it is no escape. I wouldn't feel any more
pain," she wrote.
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The testimony came as Arias and Nurmi tried to counteract some of Martinez's claims from cross-
examination, including his accusation that she planned to murder Alexander and then lied without
remorse to dozens of people after the killing in order to cover up what she had done.
Arias took the stand to mount her final
defense to the jury today, after nine days of
direct testimony and four days of withering
cross-examination by Martinez. She began
the day
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because "he was trying to kill me."
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