Inside Travis Alexander's Murder, The Man Whom His Jealous Ex Jodi Arias Killed

Travis Alexander believed he had found his true love when he first met Jodi Arias. He had met his killer instead. Less than two years later, Arias shot him in the head while stabbing him at least two dozen times in the shower.

How did their romance turn sour?

Jodi Arias claimed that Alexander had assaulted her and that she had felt compelled to kill him in self-defense during the murder trial that captivated the nation. However, according to Alexander's pals, Arias had a serious obsession with Alexander and had even eavesdropped on him and read through his emails.

Ultimately, in 2013, a jury would find Arias guilty after viewing gruesome crime scene photographs she had taken of Alexander both before and after his murder. However, what ultimately motivated Jodi Arias to kill Travis Alexander on June 4, 2008?

Travis Alexander's Early Childhood

Travis Alexander, who was born on July 28, 1977, experienced a tough childhood. He and his six siblings, according to E! Online, had drug-addicted parents and experienced physical violence from their mother. Alexander and his siblings moved in with their grandmom when he was ten years old.

But by the time Alexander was an adult, he had established a stable life for himself. He gained employment as a salesman with Prepaid Legal Services after converting to Mormonism. And in September 2006, Alexander first encountered Jodi Arias at a business event in Las Vegas.

According to ABC, it was love at first sight. Alexander and Arias, a blonde freelance photographer, stayed up until 4 AM talking. And Alexander gushed to friends the next morning that he’d found his wife.

Though Arias lived in Palm Desert, California, and Alexander in Mesa, Arizona, their relationship initially seemed strong. The couple traveled through the southwest together, and Arias even converted to Mormonism after just a couple of months of dating Alexander. But cracks soon appeared.

The Love Turned Sour

Travis Alexander’s joy at meeting Jodi Arias was tempered by guilt. He and Arias were having premarital sex, which the Mormon church forbids. E! Online additionally reported that he sometimes took out his guilt on Aria, calling her a “slut” in texts and emails.

Moreover, many of Alexander’s friends began to think that Arias had an unhealthy obsession with Alexander. She eavesdropped on his conversations, looked through his emails and social media accounts, and even forwarded emails between Alexander and other women to herself.

“I started seeing things that were just disturbing. I said, ‘Travis, I’m afraid we’re gonna find you chopped up in her freezer,'” Sky Lovingier Hughes, one of Alexander’s friends, explained to ABC. “From very early on, she was completely obsessed with him.”

Alexander maintained that he sincerely liked Jodi Arias and that she was a decent person, but he ultimately made the decision to break things off. The U.S. Sun claims that Alexander stopped seeing Arias because he felt too bad about having extramarital sex. But despite their breakup, they continued to see each other.

This exacerbated Arias' obsession with Alexander. Alexander told friends that Arias harassed the women he went out with, hacked into his Facebook account, and slashed his tires as he began meeting other women. She occasionally even broke into his home.

Their relationship had turned toxic.  According to texts and emails sent by the two in May 2008, Alexander and Arias got into a heated argument during which Alexander referred to Arias as a "sociopath." Alexander even told his friends, “Don’t be surprised if you find me dead one day.”

That's exactly what Travis Alexander's pals discovered shortly after.

The Murder Of Travis Alexander

Friends of Travis Alexander began to worry on June 9, 2008. Since they were trying to plan activities for a trip to Cancun, it seemed especially strange that they hadn't heard from him in five days.  A small group of them went to his house. There, they found Alexander’s crumpled, bloodied body in the shower.

The 30-year-old had been shot in the head, stabbed 27 times, and his throat had been cut. Long brown hairs, a digital camera in the washing machine, and a bloody handprint on the wall were also discovered by investigators.

As the police began to investigate his murder, Alexander's friends pushed them to look into Jodi Arias. "She was a stalker," one person claimed. "She was Travis' ex-girlfriend, and she would not leave him alone."

Arias, for her part, first denied visiting Alexander's home. According to reports, she even informed detectives that she hadn't seen Alexander in two months. However, detectives were able to recover shots from the waterlogged camera they discovered — and the images revealed a completely different narrative.

Investigators found time-stamped photos from June 4 that showed Alexander and Arias in bed together. One, from 5:29 p.m., showed Alexander in the shower. The next photos on the camera showed him bleeding on the floor.

Finally, Jodi Arias admitted that she had been with Travis Alexander that night. But she swore to the police that it hadn’t been her who had killed him.

The Sentencing Of Judi

When faced with images of Travis Alexander in the shower, Jodi Arias explained. She told police she had driven to Alexander's house on June 4th. Arias alleged that they had sex and that she had begun photographing him in the shower. She claimed that two masked intruders then appeared and murdered him.

Arias told ABC that the invaders threatened to harm her family if she told anyone about it. Investigators, however, did not believe it and charged Jodi Arias with first-degree murder.

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