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In 2013, Jodi Arias was convicted of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander. Discover what the convicted killer is up to today.

Where is the murderous Jodi Arias today? Learn how she’s doing in jail

In 2013, Jodi Arias was convicted of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander. Due to the brutal nature of the murder, the prosecution asked for the death penalty. Because of complications during the sentencing process, it wasn’t until 2015 where she was handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole. 

Since her fate was handed to her, Jodi Arias hasn’t exactly been sitting in prison quietly. She has appealed her sentence twice and is currently engaged in public battles with attorneys involved in her trial, claiming misconduct on their part. 

Her antics in prison have also attracted media attention. Two of her cellmates did a candid special with Lifetime, painting Arias in quite a nefarious manner. They claimed Arias tried to inject herself into their romantic relationship and somehow managed to run an art business from inside her prison cell. 

Come with us as we catch up on all the updates surrounding Jodi Arias’s case and her subsequent life in prison today. 

The murder of Travis Alexander

On June 4th, 2008, Travis Alexander was murdered in his home. He was stabbed twenty-nine times, his throat was slit from ear-to-ear, and he sustained a gunshot wound to his head. Medical examiner Kevin Horn testified that Alexander had defensive wounds on his hands and was likely already dead when he was shot. 

Initially, Arias denied being at Alexander’s home that day. However, during the investigation, the police found a digital camera in the washing machine. They were able to retrieve some of the deleted files and found images of Arias & Alexander engaged in sex acts on the day of his murder. 

The camera also contained a photograph of Alexander in the shower, and then one of the same man sprawled on the bathroom floor in a bloody mess. A bloody handprint was located in the hallway of the house and contained DNA from both Alexander & Arias. Jodi Arias was arrested in July 2008 and pleaded not guilty to the charges. 

Despite her plea, Arias’ account of her involvement in the murder of Travis Alexander changed over time. Initially, she told police that she had not seen Alexander since March of that year and wasn’t in Mesa on the same day as the murder. She later changed her story and said two armed men broke into Alexander’s house and attacked them both. Today, Arias maintains Alexander was abusing her and she killed him in self-defense. 

Trial

During the trial, the prosecution was definitely gunning for the death penalty. In an unusual move, Arias took the stand to give her own testimony, which lasted for eighteen days. When deliberating whether to whether to give Arias life in prison or subject her to the death penalty, deliberations resulted in a hung jury. The judge declared a mistrial for that phase of the process. 

In 2014, her sentencing retrial began again. By the end of this phase of the trial, this jury found themselves at a stalemate. Eleven jurors voted in favor of the death penalty with just one voting for life imprisonment. The judge subsequently sentenced Arias to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 

Arias’s legal team has filed several appeals since then, the latest of which was deliberated in 2020. All have been unsuccessful at this time. However, one of the prosecutors who worked on her case was disbarred in 2020 for leaking the identity of a juror during the trial, in addition to sexual harassment incidents that took place in his offices.  

Life in prison today

In prison, Arias was housed with Tracy Brown & Donavan Bering. While they were incarcerated at the time on charges of kidnapping and arson related charges, Brown & Bering spoke to Lifetime about their time sharing a cell with Jodi Arias. They labeled her as “manipulative” among other things. 

In the Lifetime special, Jodi Arias: Cellmate Secrets, Brown & Bering claimed Arias would use her good looks & sexuality to manipulate the male guards. Brown & Bering – who were involved in a romantic relationship –claimed Arias even injected herself into their relationship from time to time. 

During one encounter, Brown & Arias performed a striptease for Bering. The two women claimed that although they never engaged in actual physical sex acts with Arias, when the two of them were having sex, Jodi Arias simply refused to leave the room. Eventually, the couple got married, a ceremony which Arias officiated. 

Artwork for sale on eBay

While sitting in jail, Jodi Arias used a lot of her time to focus on her artwork. As Arias did this while she was awaiting sentencing, it was legally impossible to stop her from profiting from her projects. Many wondered how Arias was able to orchestrate the operation in the first place. 

She’s able to have access to paper and purchase color pencils, and if she wants to release her property to someone outside, she can”, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office revealed at the time. 

Arias worked with two auctioneers on eBay at the time. According to Forbes, her current net worth stands between $1 million & $5 million. Despite being moved several times during her incarceration, today, Jodi Arias is being housed in Perryville Prison in Goodyear, Arizona. 

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  • Actually nice to see a news site without a million ads and no paywall. Good article

    June 20, 2021
  • Good read! Thanks

    June 26, 2021
  • Good article. I enjoyed reading it. Since I was recently released from perryville myself

    July 3, 2021
    • Lisa were you in the same pod as Jodi ? Her male supporters say the woman in prison all like Jodi which I know is BS and they claim Jodi is called the QUEEN in Perryville which is another BS lie. I’m wondering how the other inmates feel about Jodi using these guys for money ? One guy paid her $35,000 restitution bill and her lawyers fees of about $30,000 for a suit she filed against her lawyer. Jodi also has an appeal fund where she collected over $200,000. I know there are many women in Perryville who can’t even afford to call their family so why Jodi Arias ? They claim she’ hot looking but they are looking at her 14 ~ 15 year old pictures. I’ve seen pictures of her during her 2nd trial in 2015 with strands of gray so she must have more gray by now. Enjoy your freedom from Perryville and I wish you luck. 😊

      July 16, 2021
      • What was your crime ?

        September 10, 2021
  • So she’s between 1 and 5 million! WtH! People are nuts for buying anything that has anything to do with this monstrous person!

    July 29, 2021
  • I hate people who support someone who cut anther persons head off because they liked some other girl and not them, call ME crazy ! I wish someone would track those dudes down and make their life a little less fun.

    October 3, 2021
  • empty her bank account every time it gets over 5.00 and give it to the victim’s families. And pay back the taxpayers the millions they wasted on her sorry ass

    October 14, 2021
  • I’m not impressed by this girl’s artwork, John Wayne Gacy did art work too. I hope she dies in prison!

    March 6, 2022
  • She should be in the ground by now. She’s despicable , deplorable , arrogant, evil , an egomaniac. She ruined Travis name and stole his cash after killing him. She continues to smile being interviewed. JODI ARIAS IS SATAN ‘S SPAWN !!! 🤮🤮🤮

    March 25, 2022
  • I. Have. Never. Seen. Jodi. Airies. And. Probably. Never. Will. I. Live. Where. The. Lula. Lake. Murders. That. Took. Place. In. April. In. The. Year. 1963. No. Living. Human. At. That. Time. Saw. Those. Murders. Take. Place. It. Is. Said. That. A. Suspect. Was. Charged. And. Convicted. Of. That. Gruesome. Crime. To. This. Day. 59. Years. Later. There. Are. Still. Citizens. That. Say. That. No one. Will. Ever. Know. Exactly. What. Happened. I. Think. That. It. Is. Possible. That. There. Are. Citizens. In. This. Country. That. Are. Innocent. Of. The. Crimes. That. They. We’re. Convicted. Of.

    April 9, 2022
  • Let us be accurate. Jodi Arias had a one night stand with Travis Alexander and it dragged out to a five month thing, because she would not let go of him.

    Her law of attraction was working perfectly –amazing after so many blunders and such a totally irresponsible attitude. All she needed to do is marry Ryan Burns. He would have been the perfect husband and would have gotten psychological help for her.

    Instead, she wants to viciously slaughter the person who generously helped her.

    Did not want to be grounded for two months for refusing to cooperate with her parents –so now grounded for life.

    It is a news story that could be preventive –but only for people mature enough to realize that their opinions may be highly distorted.

    Her family should have disowned her.

    July 23, 2022

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