He said, "This is a good deal. It's a beautiful home. It's in a great school district,"' the homeowner told USA Today. Crime scene turned family home: The Mesa, Arizona house was bought by Travis Alexander in and then purchased by a family a year after he was killed inside in The couple and their three sons, who are not releasing their name, have had to adapt to a lurid following of people from mostly outside of Arizona who have become enthralled with the case.
The murder trial, which began on January 2 of this year, is just now beginning to wind down with the closing arguments expected later this week. That said, the jury could deliberate for weeks, causing the spectacle around the murder- and in turn, this home- to continue for many.
Ghosts: Jodi Arias killed her on-off boyfriend Travis Alexander in his home and now it has become a tourist attraction. The family that bought the home did so after seeing more than others in their search, including a number of vandalized abandoned homes. As such, it came as little surprise when parts of the carpet were missing along with faucets and the shower.
At the time, the family didn't realized that they had been collected as evidence by investigators trying to piece together who had stabbed Alexander, and left his dead body in his shower for five days before anyone called the police.
What once was: Police took rolls of photos at the crime scene following the June murder, documenting where all of Alexander's blood had spattered throughout the bedroom and bathroom.
Gone: When the family looked at the house, parts of the carpet and the faucets had been removed. They thought it had just been vandalized, not knowing they were taken away as evidence.
Changes: The homeowner said they have completely changed the interior of the house, and the bathroom where Alexander's body was left for five days before being found. Though there have been residences with a colorful history that took longer to sell or that did not sell for the asking price, Henstein said she doesn't remember "ever seeing a property that's been on the market for years because there was a murder in it.
Public records do not show a sale for that amount, however, indicating that the house still may be owned by a relative of the couple who tried to sell it.
In January, the Gilbert house where Arizona vigilante J. For curious visitors who show up to Alexander's former home expecting at least a trace of the morbid scene depicted in crime reports, the house's revamped, almost showroomlike interior would likely be jarring. With Beatles memorabilia in the game room, a cozy sofa and TV in the living room and the boys' school pictures along the foyer wall, there's nothing to suggest the home was ever anything but a family's haven.
Nearly everything was refurbished or replaced after the slaying. Anything of Alexander's that was left behind was handed over to his relatives, with whom the new owners have maintained a friendly relationship. It needed some TLC. It needed some work," the homeowner said. Before Alexander was killed, they jokingly called the home he shared with friends the "frat house" — a setup that didn't necessarily mesh with the kid-centric street. Law en…. This place has always been known for being haunted.
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Steven Alexander, Travis' brother, said he was not too concerned about her latest efforts to get out of prison. Arias was looking for opportunities with a network marketing company called Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
The two hit it off, with Alexander even inviting Arias to the company's formal executive dinner as his guest. She's friendly, has long, blonde hair. Cute figure. She was very sweet," Lovingier Hughes said of Arias. She seemed to like him as much as he liked her.
Hughes, another close friend of Alexander's, said Alexander was smitten. After the dinner, Alexander and Arias talked with each other until 4 a. I mean, I was, like, 'OK. I mean, like, good for you, Travis. After the convention, once Alexander and Arias began seeing more of each other, they traveled to popular sites in the Southwest. Arias documented online their time together, posting photos to social media.
In an email to Hughes, Alexander shared how deeply he cared for Arias. She is amazing. It is not hard to see that whoever scores Jodi, whether it be me or someone else, is gonna win the wife lotto," Alexander said in that email. There was trouble, however, in the blossoming romance. Alexander was deeply involved in his faith and she was not Mormon.
Unbeknownst to friends, the two were having premarital sex, breaking one of the most important tenets of the Mormon faith. Your body was given to you by God. It's not just yours, it's not just your decisions to do with as you will. God has given this to you and you must respect it," McDannell said. So before you marry and after you marry, you have to keep yourself sexually pure. Being true to his religion was incredibly important to Alexander, and the guilt he felt about their relationship started to weigh on him, friends said.
For example, he wrote about a difficult childhood while growing up in Southern California with his parents, who were addicted to drugs at that time. We would eat what was there but before long what was edible would be eaten or rot and then what was rotten would be eaten too.
Alexander's grandmother eventually took him and his siblings in, and began clothing and feeding them, Steven Alexander said. I mean, she was the greatest woman. She got us all in church, you know, pointing us in the right direction," he said. Soon after Alexander met Arias, he sent missionaries to her home. He also talked about the Book of Mormon with her and quoted scripture to her. Within months of their meeting, Arias converted to Mormonism. He baptized her.
It was spiritual. It was powerful … it's a feeling that … like everything just comes right into alignment and nothing can go wrong," Arias said in a interview with ABC News. Hughes said that Alexander still struggled and suffered with guilt over the fact that he and Arias were having sex.
Travis wanted to marry a virginal, pure Mormon girl, and by having sex with him, Jodi eliminated herself as ever being marriage potential for Travis," said Shanna Hogan, an author and journalist who wrote the book "Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story.
Early on, Alexander's friends began noticing odd behavior from Arias, particularly her infatuation with their friend.
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