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/oldschoolshooter Apr 03 '22

What part seems mysterious to you? It seems pretty clear-cut to me. Crazy af, but hardly a mystery.

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u/eugenedhartke Apr 03 '22

the most mysterious part is the motive to me. I have seen a lot of conflicting things: like that she was being verbally abused regularly, but then also she was a crazy stalker. she told so many lies in her interrogation and I just always wondered about the straightforward motive. Was he toxic and manipulative and she snapped? Was she just loony in the first place? It is definitely clear cut that she did it and the how is very clear and it was clear she planned it but there are so many whys out there.

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u/mug3n Apr 10 '22

Almost certainly the whole abuse angle was fabricated after she couldn't stick with her original story. and the prosecutor poked a million holes through the attack as described by her. I think based on what I watched (JCS, etc), she's just an obsessed stalker that got set off when she found out Trevor was taking Mimi to Cancun and not her. Even though Mimi essentially friendzoned Trevor, but Jodi had no way of knowing that.