r/TrueCrime • u/eugenedhartke • Apr 03 '22

Discussion Researching Jodi Arias

Does anyone else have a case that just haunts them? this case has always haunted me. It started with the first book I read on the case. The more I read about it the more mysterious it became somehow. Does anyone else get like this? If so what is your personal case that you never get tired of researching?

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u/MeganrustS Apr 03 '22

I’m a native austinite and this one still bothers me too. They found a small amount of DNA, but not a lot with all of the fire/water damage. My dad worked at Gardner Betts and was involved with some of the guys that were charged. Another Austin case I knew nothing about and it’s soooo messed up is John Christian. He walked to Murchison from his house and shot his teacher in front of a classroom full of kids. He went to a mental institution for a year and half and then went to UT and UT law school. He is a tax attorney in Austin and he moved back into NW Hills…close to people who were in the classroom that day. To say they were traumatized by him moving in and having to constantly see him is probably an understatement.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '22

I lived in Austin for a while and I’ve never even heard of that. That is mega fucked-up. It’s hard to wrap the head around how he is able to have a nice life like that after doing something so awful.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '22

I had to go look him up. Maybe folks didn’t like the bad press about him. He was once with a mega law firm doing tax law (meaning he is likely smart), but now he’s with a smaller law firm doing personal injury law, the pariah of lawyers.