UPDATE: 2/13/2016: I still believe some version of what I wrote in February 2013 happened to Jodi Arias. I've read Kirk Nurmi's book and I'm reading Juan Martinez' book. I've looked at a lot of the evidence not shown in court. None of what I've read or seen has changed my mind.
UPDATE 2/9/2015: More than ever, after looking at more evidence outside the trial, especially Jodi's own journals, and the letter she wrote to Travis' grandmother, I believe Jodi didn't murder Travis Alexander, or kill him. I believe she and her defense team are wedged between many rocks and hard places. I don't know what happened to Travis Alexander, but what has happened to Jodi since she was interrogated by now media representative Esteban Flores, and previously lead detective on this case and jailed in Yreka CA and in Maricopa county's Estrella jail and finally after 6 years under the presumption of "innocent until proven guilty" in Maricopa Superior Court with Judge Sherry Stephens presiding over this death penalty trial with its panel of so-called "death impaneled" jurors to Jodi Arias is attempted pre-meditated murder. In Arizona, the court was empowered to do so twice, when the first jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict for death, thus causing a mistrial of the sentencing.
UPDATE 8/6/2014: I still believe that that there is a conspiracy of some type in Maricopa county intent on killing Jodi Arias through lethal injection for a crime she did not commit at all, or for which she was convicted wrongly.
UPDATE 10/25/13: Jodi has entered a motion to fire Kirk Nurmi. Jodi's letter to the court.
UPDATE: US postal records show Jennifer Willmott accepted my letter on June 21. However, Kirk Nurmi did not accept my certified mail and it was returned to me.
* I have published and unpublished my essay/letter several times. My own conundrum is wondering if my words will have any affect towards complete justice for both Jodi and Travis. Or if my words could distance that justice even further in some way. At this point though, things couldn't really get much worse, could they?
A Letter to Defense Attorneys Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott
Dear Mr. Nurmi and Ms. Willmott:
I'm writing to present a hypothetical situation. I hope you will indulge me.
What would you do if you had a defendant you were assigned to defend who had been wedged so severely between a rock and a hard place through some fault of her own, but also largely through the fault of many others, including law enforcement, the State of Arizona, and other unnamed, unknown parties that no current legal remedy for effective counsel, a fair trial, and untainted jury had even been invented?
What if that defendant's very life hung in the balance because of this quagmire of circumstances, legal impasses, and moral and ethical obstacles?
What if that defendant through happenstance came to visit an old friend found herself unwittingly in the middle of a murder scene? What if that defendant was Jodi Arias? What if that old friend was Travis Alexander?
Fast forward now to the discovery of Travis' mutilated body on June 9, 2008 in the shower of his Mesa home. What if a crowd of Travis' friends from the Mormon church and from the network marketing association, PrePaid Legal, as soon as Travis' body was discovered, started chanting the name, "Jodi Arias", as the obvious killer? What if salacious stories of stalking and obsessiveness, without so much as a shred of evidence or documentation, of Jodi and Travis' year and a half romance seemed to grow and morph into more and more sinister tales with portents of murder with each passing day?
What if Headline News became a megaphone to the entire world for these stories to be told, with sound bites, and edited clips of photos and videos, all carefully chosen to paint a picture of Jodi Arias as a villainous seductive, murderess, over and over and over again? What if this campaign was carefully and systematically orchestrated by a group of "friends" of Travis, of whom many had much to lose, over Travis' less than sainted life being revealed?
What if Jodi Arias had been at the scene of Travis' killing? Yet she had no part in taking Travis' life except as an innocent bystander who failed to immediately tell authorities? What if she had run, as she said during Detective Flores interrogation, "like a little bitch", out of fear and that her subsequent actions and lack of calling 911 were motivated by this complete and utter fear?
What if Jodi Arias fled from the scene at Travis' house after being warned by two intruders, who in no uncertain terms told her explicitly to act as if nothing had happened, as if she had not been at Travis' house or even in Arizona? Anything less than this, and the killers would hunt her and her family and kill them.
What if Jodi had acted just this way, flawlessly, as if nothing bad had happened, and then because of those actions was accused of being cold, heartless, and unaffected by the death of Travis Alexander, a man she has still professed love for, and whose reputation she went to great lengths to try and not reveal in a negative light, when in reality she was acting to protect her family and herself?
What if because of ignorance and an inaccurate perception of the honorable and just protections of Mesa Police Department, Jodi Arias came willingly to the police station and willingly subjected herself to hours of interrogation by Detective Esteban Flores, without legal representation? What if Detective Flores, obviously worn down by his work, stopped just shy of ever finding out what really happened to Travis Alexander that day? What if another person or persons stabbed and cut Travis Alexander's body in a manner he never believed Jodi Aria had the ability to do, and they are still freely walking the streets of Mesa today?
What if, because of zero evidence being collected or available to place anyone at the crime scene besides Jodi, through willful ignorance by Mesa Police Department, she was forced to create a defense of self-defense, to even give herself a chance at ever seeing daylight again?
What if prosecutor Juan Martinez was allowed by Judge Sherry Stephens to badger, coerce, intimidate, frighten, and abuse defense witnesses and Jodi Arias herself so much so that it has now come to light that the some of the jurors did not even understand completely the evidence that convicted Jodi or Murder in the first degree and felony murder?
What if, since the verdict, new information has come to light and even been sent to your offices, that raises serious questions as to Jodi being the only person at the crime scene? What if this information is from highly credible professionals in the forensics field? What if, it has been shown that indeed Travis Alexander had major money problems? What if through extensive online communications it has been shown that many others in Travis' life would suffer should his illicit behaviors with women, Mormon, some married, and some not, and his possible pedophilia tendencies be exposed? What if it can be shown that these friend and associates succeeded in tainting juror members with a variety of intimidation filtered through friends and family of the jurors?
What if the mental trauma Jodi suffered, both in her relationship with Travis Alexander prior to June 4, 2008, and/or on June 4, along with her interrogation by Detective Flores, along with the fears from threats against herself and her family that she received in jail, currently seem to have little chance of being presented in any kind of way that tells the entire truth of the killing of Travis Alexander? Or that tells the innocence, completely or in part, of Jodi Arias?
Mr Nurmi and Ms. Willmott, as Jodi's public defenders, what would be the next moral, ethical and legal move to make on behalf of Jodi Arias?
What part will you play in this conundrum of epic proportions?
UPDATE 2/9/2015: More than ever, after looking at more evidence outside the trial, especially Jodi's own journals, and the letter she wrote to Travis' grandmother, I believe Jodi didn't murder Travis Alexander, or kill him. I believe she and her defense team are wedged between many rocks and hard places. I don't know what happened to Travis Alexander, but what has happened to Jodi since she was interrogated by now media representative Esteban Flores, and previously lead detective on this case and jailed in Yreka CA and in Maricopa county's Estrella jail and finally after 6 years under the presumption of "innocent until proven guilty" in Maricopa Superior Court with Judge Sherry Stephens presiding over this death penalty trial with its panel of so-called "death impaneled" jurors to Jodi Arias is attempted pre-meditated murder. In Arizona, the court was empowered to do so twice, when the first jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict for death, thus causing a mistrial of the sentencing.
UPDATE 8/6/2014: I still believe that that there is a conspiracy of some type in Maricopa county intent on killing Jodi Arias through lethal injection for a crime she did not commit at all, or for which she was convicted wrongly.
UPDATE 10/25/13: Jodi has entered a motion to fire Kirk Nurmi. Jodi's letter to the court.
UPDATE: US postal records show Jennifer Willmott accepted my letter on June 21. However, Kirk Nurmi did not accept my certified mail and it was returned to me.
* I have published and unpublished my essay/letter several times. My own conundrum is wondering if my words will have any affect towards complete justice for both Jodi and Travis. Or if my words could distance that justice even further in some way. At this point though, things couldn't really get much worse, could they?
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A Letter to Defense Attorneys Kirk Nurmi and Jennifer Willmott
Dear Mr. Nurmi and Ms. Willmott:
I'm writing to present a hypothetical situation. I hope you will indulge me.
What would you do if you had a defendant you were assigned to defend who had been wedged so severely between a rock and a hard place through some fault of her own, but also largely through the fault of many others, including law enforcement, the State of Arizona, and other unnamed, unknown parties that no current legal remedy for effective counsel, a fair trial, and untainted jury had even been invented?
What if that defendant's very life hung in the balance because of this quagmire of circumstances, legal impasses, and moral and ethical obstacles?
What if that defendant through happenstance came to visit an old friend found herself unwittingly in the middle of a murder scene? What if that defendant was Jodi Arias? What if that old friend was Travis Alexander?
Fast forward now to the discovery of Travis' mutilated body on June 9, 2008 in the shower of his Mesa home. What if a crowd of Travis' friends from the Mormon church and from the network marketing association, PrePaid Legal, as soon as Travis' body was discovered, started chanting the name, "Jodi Arias", as the obvious killer? What if salacious stories of stalking and obsessiveness, without so much as a shred of evidence or documentation, of Jodi and Travis' year and a half romance seemed to grow and morph into more and more sinister tales with portents of murder with each passing day?
What if Headline News became a megaphone to the entire world for these stories to be told, with sound bites, and edited clips of photos and videos, all carefully chosen to paint a picture of Jodi Arias as a villainous seductive, murderess, over and over and over again? What if this campaign was carefully and systematically orchestrated by a group of "friends" of Travis, of whom many had much to lose, over Travis' less than sainted life being revealed?
What if Jodi Arias had been at the scene of Travis' killing? Yet she had no part in taking Travis' life except as an innocent bystander who failed to immediately tell authorities? What if she had run, as she said during Detective Flores interrogation, "like a little bitch", out of fear and that her subsequent actions and lack of calling 911 were motivated by this complete and utter fear?
What if Jodi Arias fled from the scene at Travis' house after being warned by two intruders, who in no uncertain terms told her explicitly to act as if nothing had happened, as if she had not been at Travis' house or even in Arizona? Anything less than this, and the killers would hunt her and her family and kill them.
What if Jodi had acted just this way, flawlessly, as if nothing bad had happened, and then because of those actions was accused of being cold, heartless, and unaffected by the death of Travis Alexander, a man she has still professed love for, and whose reputation she went to great lengths to try and not reveal in a negative light, when in reality she was acting to protect her family and herself?
What if because of ignorance and an inaccurate perception of the honorable and just protections of Mesa Police Department, Jodi Arias came willingly to the police station and willingly subjected herself to hours of interrogation by Detective Esteban Flores, without legal representation? What if Detective Flores, obviously worn down by his work, stopped just shy of ever finding out what really happened to Travis Alexander that day? What if another person or persons stabbed and cut Travis Alexander's body in a manner he never believed Jodi Aria had the ability to do, and they are still freely walking the streets of Mesa today?
What if, because of zero evidence being collected or available to place anyone at the crime scene besides Jodi, through willful ignorance by Mesa Police Department, she was forced to create a defense of self-defense, to even give herself a chance at ever seeing daylight again?
What if prosecutor Juan Martinez was allowed by Judge Sherry Stephens to badger, coerce, intimidate, frighten, and abuse defense witnesses and Jodi Arias herself so much so that it has now come to light that the some of the jurors did not even understand completely the evidence that convicted Jodi or Murder in the first degree and felony murder?
What if, since the verdict, new information has come to light and even been sent to your offices, that raises serious questions as to Jodi being the only person at the crime scene? What if this information is from highly credible professionals in the forensics field? What if, it has been shown that indeed Travis Alexander had major money problems? What if through extensive online communications it has been shown that many others in Travis' life would suffer should his illicit behaviors with women, Mormon, some married, and some not, and his possible pedophilia tendencies be exposed? What if it can be shown that these friend and associates succeeded in tainting juror members with a variety of intimidation filtered through friends and family of the jurors?
What if the mental trauma Jodi suffered, both in her relationship with Travis Alexander prior to June 4, 2008, and/or on June 4, along with her interrogation by Detective Flores, along with the fears from threats against herself and her family that she received in jail, currently seem to have little chance of being presented in any kind of way that tells the entire truth of the killing of Travis Alexander? Or that tells the innocence, completely or in part, of Jodi Arias?
Mr Nurmi and Ms. Willmott, as Jodi's public defenders, what would be the next moral, ethical and legal move to make on behalf of Jodi Arias?
What part will you play in this conundrum of epic proportions?
What if?
ReplyDeleteDid you ever get a response from either of them? That is a lot of "what if's"
ReplyDeleteI feel strongly, that your ''What If's'' are what IS. Will we ever find out, is the burning question...?
ReplyDeleteWhat if? the lead defence attorney, having been bribed $200,000 by the State, their having increased his pay by $100/hour; what if he is really working on behalf of the State, and not Ms. Arias . . . ?
ReplyDeleteThere is some praise out there on the Internet about Mr. Nurmi's legal ingtellect. For him to be managing this case so dastardly, it has to be that it is quite intentional. Yes, I agree with you that there is undoubtedly an orchestrated plan being engineered to terminate Ms. Arias' freedom, possibly even taking her life. Jodi's 12 page letter to Judge Staphens to remove the monster, Nurmi from her case is heartbreaking. Twelve hand written pages documenting Nurmi's calous refusal to be available to his client, Jodi; instructing his receptionist to hang up on Jodi if she tries to leave a message. Not to speak one word of contact with his client for five months, up to fourteen months at a time. There must be a crime in here somewhere! seabird
Most lawyers I've had were insensitive and obnoxious. They think you are guilty like most people and ignore you out of "professional detachment". They are probably also scared of police repercussions due to "guilt by association". Unfortunately, Jodi is not injured to this since its her first time dealing with them.
ReplyDeleteI remember joking about Nurmi & Wilmont being the intruders or part of the conspiracy to "disappear" Travis and they are defending her out of guilt. Like I've said its Jodi versus her lawyers, the prosecutor, and the judge since all 4 seem to think she belongs where she is.
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Yes, good points. All of it is still unsettling.
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DeleteOh my word. Why is being o Dr. Phil such a big deal to some? I don't get it. I do know that Jen Wood is NOT on the Dr. Phil show. Hmmm. They really didn't even need Juan on there. He said nothing. "Some details that we don't know where to be revealed".....um they weren't. What a sham of a story. But you kow what? Now in a day or 2 all the hoopla @ JM being on the show will die, the book will come out & those crazed sick Juan lovers will get their book and head to there corners to read, & the awe of his "book" will be over. It isn't important in the scheme of things.
DeleteWhat has not changed is Jen Wood is a do whatever it takes to make money off a murder & post, talk & tweet @ it at the expense of those hurt by it. Juan does not want her, he is not with her and she looks like a fool because she is a fool. This whole things is ridiculous and has taken the attention away from the gruesome way that someone died TA. She has recently been told to do a Juan interview herself and to write a book herself. Really Jen?? One of these days you are going to get confused on what acct you are using to do such and show your self. Already have on one occasion w/@Adeleatplay when she replied thinking she was on her real acct. Just wait folks, truth is on the way. It may seem slow but all will be shown.
Ewww WHAT is wrong with those who think Juan Martinez is all that? He isn't remotely attractive. The praise of him came from the fact that he was aggressive with Jodi Arias. Not interested in his book. I know all I ever need to know about Maricopa County's injustice & am surely not going to put money into pockets anyone associated with the trial of Travis Alexander. It is saddening to continually badger his family with all the details & constantly digging up bones on the case whether in discussion, a book or on TV. It is so disrespectful to Alexander family and Jodi gets just what she wants. I cannot get over the fact that Jen Wood tries to be right in the middle of all the recent "boring interest". She is who again? Nothing but a side piece. Wonder why her Juan didn't take her to Dr. Phil with him? I know b/c she is nothing to this. Nothing
ReplyDeleteWow just read statement from Tanisha. I do feel for her. Dr. Phil should not have done this show as Juan Martinez's story book or no book. Travis's story should ONLY be told by his family members. We can make up our own minds what is to believed in the truth of this injustice. but Juan telling his version is unfair considering the slime that he is. Dr. Phil's show was a total disappointment and he should have had the all family only on. All for the ratings huh?
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ReplyDeleteHere you go Sandra. This account used to have Alfred Hitch pic for profile pic until changed to Armchair. It is Jen Wood. Readers look at the replies & comments & who it is repeatedly commenting & "liking". It's the same ole ones attempting to be relevant in the fake popularity & fake interest of JM, this story, trial etc. It is their attempt at promoting him & book & attempting to make it appear as IF it was the most popular topic on twitter. NOT!! Read all for yourselves. It is just all of them trying to promote something that most don't care about hearing of anymore. Armchair @KillersLie 9m9 minutes ago
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@esneet4113 ha you could write a Hitchcock play running that ... until the end #gascansGun
You are right about account. She is also NY Jusitce Seeker. I am follower. (there are more)
DeleteFor those comments regarding why anyone who posts anonymously, we've learned the hard way that this story brings out the army of haters and have been subject of this same hate ourselves. Thank you for allowing comments anonymously. We have also seen what was done to you Sandra for so long here just for speaking the truth. They can't handle the truth and we don't have a forum or safe place to tell our truth. Thanks
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ReplyDeleteWhy are all Juan ones so worked up @ Juan Martinez's interviews with Dr. Phil & Nancy Grace? You'd think he was going to the White House for dinner w/President or something. There are so many more cases, stories, court trials, & victims all over US that need attention, yet they want to see or hear Juan. I just do not understand it. Promoting a liar & cheater whose misconduct will always speak louder than anything.
ReplyDeleteOh I agree with you on that. If Juan Martinez is your hero lawyer, you have lived a very sheltered life! Branch out and see so very many more attorneys who actually have integrity & intelligence Juan will never possess. It's just so disturbing to have this cult of teenage acting ones focus so much on Juan Martinez. It's become a sick obsession.
DeleteThere may be @ 5 real people who have legit interest, & the rest are fabricated to try to draw attention to The Juan. It has been simply humorous to me to watch it all. Those with any real life, career, professionalism, character, or intelligence cares about this story for Juan Martinez. Where is his professional law friends endorsing him & promoting his book or him? Surely someone of great reputation would have their peers stand up for them, right? Not a one. Says everything, doesn't it? Only one working overtime to say anything of him is his ex-lover turned twitter obsessed aliases.. That sucks. We will never forget who she is and will never have an ounce of respect for Juan or Jen. Cheaters and liars feeding off of a tragedy and an injustice. That's all they have and their 15 min are over.
ReplyDeleteThanks to the one who was brave enough & cared enough to call it out. Those who think they are so smart just got the air let out of their balloon.
Correction in above: Those with any real life, career, intelligence cares NOT about this story for Juan Martinez.
DeleteI would laugh my ass off if someone published online or twitter Juan's book just like "someone" did to keep Nurmi from profiting off of his book.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is why was Chris Hughes on Dr. Phil? Brought nothing, said nothing important or that we haven't heard before. All of a minute's worth of camera. Boring.
ReplyDeleteI really thought the whole Dr. Phil episode was a total waste of time. I mean sit back & think about it. What worth even an interview was even on there? It was rushed through and the ones who should be speaking of it and who never really got their full day, should have been Tavis' family. I mean no matter what side of the fence you sit on in this, his family are the ones who truly suffered in all of this.
You say book smook. That wasn't even given any time either. Although that was the best part.
Thanks Sandra.
Sandra, this is just too interesting. Don't know whether to be intrigued or further disgusted. After time & all transpired , I must say I am not shocked. But you can be sure there is more. The copyright issue mentioned & the investigations on misconduct, well let's just say people are going to be fired up until something is done. All good things come to those who wait.
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So Sandra dear, You going to read the BOOK? Got better things to do? It just dropped and already alot are done with it. I'll check back.
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ReplyDeleteLoving your blog! Have not been on in long time. I just wanted to say that you are doing just what gets them the worst, when you say nothing back to them. We see it all. We have your back fully. You had to know of the fakers on twitter, before someone commented here on it. I mean come on it doesn't take a rocket scientist and you are very smart. With my background, it is easy for me to dig deeper & trace things. I also look at twitter so much differently than most or differently than I did when first was on twitter. It takes nothing to recognize the vernacular of someone when you have followed them for a period of time then see them on another account.
Who is fooling who? They've made quite the fools of themselves, wouldn't you say? When someone craves to be a part of something that deeply & insert themselves in conversations that rudely, is so transparent and shallow.
Inability to allow or accept others so much that you must continually put another down has quickly become old to most. I'm embarrassed for those although they have no shame. It is so ugly & unattractive & nobody wants to be anywhere close to that behavior.
I am enjoying it too. I also have forever been changed by all of the issues relating to this case. I am not talking about the gruesome details of the trial. That is horrific way to die and a terribly sad tragedy for those who loved Travis. What I mean is I am forever changed by all the pretense of some ones of not being legit/honest about who they really are on social media. I have never seen such mess in my life. You cannot even enjoy the experience for someone(s) harassing you @ your likes, or to whomever you are communicating with. What gives these nuts the right? Have they not done enough and run off some very good people by acting like this?
DeleteEveryone has a right to whatever they want to say, read, follow or un-follow. I am saddened by these who think they own all the comments, tweeters, & simply opinions of others. It's so bad for this bullying to just continue.
Someone told me to come here and read your blog because you were fair, honest, truthful. Thank God, someone is. Thank you Sandra.
Thank you. Your words mean a lot to me.
DeleteThis may not matter really but it matters to me. so here goes. It matters to me because it is a matter of the heart. If you post a "Don't judge me about my past, because I don't live there anymore" quote and in the next breath talk @ someone's else's past, using it for entertainment value or to make yourself seem big & "in the mix" or "funnier than the last one who said something" way, you just might be a hypocrite. If you don't want to be judged people, don't judge someone else. It will come back to bite you.
ReplyDeleteThe book. Not impressed one bit. Not one thing in it that didn't already know. Not disappointed. After all, what was a liar suppose to say in a book? Did we really think he was going to address his misconduct in and out of the courtroom? Reviews not that great either,but it's done.
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I wanted to share. The scars from mental cruelty of ugly words can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious. Don't turn your face away or ever look the other way, when someone shares the results of the cruelty done them.
ReplyDeleteOnce you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.
Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.
Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.
The others are right, I have noticed that certain tweeters have several accounts, they jump in on your tweets to intimidate, be mean & ugly, they don"t add anything to conversation, that is intelligent, life is what you make of it, these people have to have a miserable life. I like reading your blog, Sandra, keep it up.
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