What is the amount of collateral damage to other individuals that would occur during the trial?
What does "when you consider them in the context of all parties' relationship and affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, they become a very big deal?"
Is Arias writing this? Does she believe that the LDS Church would be afraid of her?
What does "marriages, standing within the religious communities would be affected, personal friendships would be affected, and most of all the very poignant and cherished memories of Mr. Alexander would be tarnished," mean?
Was Arias so delusional that she believes that Travis Alexander was a prophet that also serves as President of the Church? Did Arias think that Travis Alexander was an extremely important part of the LDS Church? For example, if Travis Alexander happened to be Catholic instead of Mormon - would Arias believe that Travis Alexander was The Pope?
Travis Alexander is a wonderful person - but he was an average person (like the majority of us are).
I do not know what exactly Arias (or whoever wrote this) thought - that The State would back down because an average human being that happened to be Mormon had premarital sex?
Did Arias honestly believe that she had 'relationships' (Travis Alexander, PPL, Travis Alexander's friends) with the top echelon of society - the global elite?
Really, these statements "when you consider them in context of all parties' relationship and affiliation with the LDS Church they become a very big deal ... poignant and cherished memories of Travis Alexander would be tarnished," sound strange.
Did Arias think that the LDS church would stop her murder trial before letting "the secret" that Travis Alexander had premarital sex?
It's impossible to get inside the mind of a psychopath like Jodi Arias. Somehow, the Mormon Church became her salvation, along with Travis Alexander. She had been a drifter/grifter since the age of 17. Her life experiences consisted of waitressing and living in an unmarried state with 4 men. She was going nowhere.
When she discovered PPL, she also discovered Mormon men; young, clean-cut, successful, hardworking, non-smoking, drinking....the polar opposite of the men she had associations with. She quickly sized up the situation and learned that is was MORMONISM that was the key to the good life.
She took it upon herself to study every aspect of the Mormon Laws...including the fact that a Mormon man had to wait one year before marrying a convert to Mormonism. She didn't waste time - she got baptized and asked Travis to officiate. Two months after she met him!!!
Jodi became the 'good Mormon woman', as Nurmi described her in his Closing.
(That's when I wanted to throw my computer out the window!)
She joined a weekly meeting group of Mormon women (can't think of the name of it) and passed herself off as a 'good Morman woman'. Wouldn't Travis be proud of her?
The Church became her sanctuary....that... and Travis. It must have been pre-ordained that she would become Mrs. Travis Alexander, doncha know?
She was following all the rules EXCEPT for the Laws of Chastity. In one of her recordings, she referred to Mormon women as 'freaky' about sex, inferring that Travis was so lucky to have a sexy Mormon woman. She mentioned something about her need to 'blossom'...
Jodi hardly ever worked while she lived in Mesa. She was smothering Travis. He started to pull away - she would reel him back in with the sex. Meanwhile, she was building up her arsenal of 'blackmail'. If she couldn't have Travis, she would ruin him. He was the 'bad Mormon boy'...and she was the 'good Mormon woman'!
After the May 26 rant, JA told Travis she was going to call her lawyer. Instead, she plotted the 'murder road trip'. C. Hughes said she planned the road trip one week before she murdered Travis. It all fits.
IMO, JA was going to murder Travis according to the archaic Mormon Blood of Atonement ritual. He needed to be punished for being a 'bad Mormon boy'. She thought she would get away with it and return to the Mormon community - the grieving ex-girlfriend of the beloved Travis. The Mormon boys would flock to her.
When she was trapped in her own lies and had nowhere to turn after she was arrested, JA once again resorted to her arsenal of blackmail... and a plea deal. In her sick, depraved mind, JA actually thought Travis's family would allow her to get a few years in prison after savagely murdering their brother rather than exposing him as a 'bad Mormon boy'! REALLY???
When Jodi Arias meets her Maker, her epitaph should read: Here LIES a Good Mormon Woman.
