Prosecutor Juan Martinez releases new book, February 2016 - #1

[Becky Sharp]

Regarding my statement: "It was probably 3 am and he was burning the midnight oil and just had to know right then."

I forgot to add: I'm sure JM was very grateful that Walmart was open 24/7. Praise be to Walmart. Can you imagine what might have happened if it was closed for the night? Though I suppose he could have had the answer from any Walmart and not just the one where she made the purchase.

I doubt JM got much sleep that night. Was he in court the next day on another case? Lol.

Are you psychic? You've already made THREE correct guesses! I really admire your ability to know what's in a book without reading it!!

 

[Hope4More]

From my 'Twitter' account.

Justice4Travis ‏@Justice4TravisA 8m8 minutes ago
I would like to clear up some misconceptions arising from the Dr. Phil show. I will be forever grateful to Juan... http://fb.me/722pwly0H

Good for her.

 

[Becky Sharp]

At last, trial has begun! And I'm really enjoying JM's descriptions of the DT walking into his traps. (Well, not exactly traps, but the DT does exactly the ill-advised things he assumed they would and around which he planned his strategy. Heh heh.) I'm so impressed with him: I've yet to read an actual criticism of the DT; instead, JM merely describes their actions and lets those actions speak for themselves. Zing!

 

[Hope4More]

Pg 82-83.

Her explanations for how the pics could be there. About switching memory cards (Geevee!!!) JM says- " wholly implausible."

 

[Wing Ding]

Last lines in chapter 5--(p. 78)

(Flores is leaving room giving her the false promise he's going to get some of those pics to show her).

"Arias called out to him as he rose to leave the room. 'Detective,' she wailed with a hurt look. 'I am not a murderer."

* Didn't Arias say that to Det. Flores in regards to a request for a restroom break when Flores left the room after telling her she'd need a female escort and that her handcuffs weren't coming off? That's my recollection anyway. Unless she was saying that all the time until they believed her and let her go home.

 

[RickshawFan]

I don't see a book on either nightstand:

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This pic may help with the directionality of the windows, I don't see how his room is over the garage with the windows along the headboard wall and one to their right (and no windows on the east side of the house):

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I thought the new tidbit was that JM saw the 1000 places book on the nightstand when he visited the crime scene? It's not on those crime scene photos, as far as I can see. Was it in the sex photos?

The other thing that struck me is that TA had work lined up on his ottoman. All neat and tidy. It makes me feel so sad. I'll bet it was TA who stripped his bed to wash the sheets. Jodi would have plonked everything on top of those tidy papers. TA, by contrast, was meticulous and caring about his work (and a lot of other things) and wouldn't have wanted to muss them up.

 

[Becky Sharp]

That's her box all right. Interesting, huh?

I'm curious to know what you and other readers think of the letter from Travis that JA made sure to include in the box. Do you think it's genuine? To my eyes, it contains at least one glaring Jodi-ism, or thesaurus horror in Wing Ding's (??) words.

ETA: Just to be clear, I mean the letter in the box that contained the receipts that JA believed would back up her alibi, and the same receipts that contain the incriminating third gas can that neither she nor the DT thought about.

 

[Hope4More]

The photos.

JM believes she understood how damning the photos were and so proposed increasingly implausible- "fictional" - scenarios.

JM says - "she really did believe she could smile at the detective and make him believe such a scenario was possible." (Pics weren't taken that day).

 

[RickshawFan]

LOL about how she was arrested....

Say more!

 

[Wing Ding]

I'm curious to know what you and other readers think of the letter from Travis that JA made sure to include in the box. Do you think its genuine? To my eyes, it contains at least one glaring Jodi-ism, or thesaurus horror in Wing Ding's (??) words.

* Thesaurias

 

[Hope4More]

I'm curious to know what you and other readers think of the letter from Travis that JA made sure to include in the box. Do you think its genuine? To my eyes, it contains at least one glaring Jodi-ism, or thesaurus horror in Wing Ding's (??) words.

She did demand he send her a note, and given how he felt about her at that time the note fits what he would have sent. She didn't need a handwriting sample from him because she had stolen 2 of his journals. There's nothing sexual or affectionate in the note so I can't see why she'd forge it. But, could be I guess, theoretically.

 

[Becky Sharp]

Last lines in chapter 5--(p. 78)

(Flores is leaving room giving her the false promise he's going to get some of those pics to show her).

"Arias called out to him as he rose to leave the room. 'Detective,' she wailed with a hurt look. 'I am not a murderer."

Shades of Nixon.

 

[GigiG]

When where and what context for the bikini shopping? They were plural bikinis? Where did she get the money for this stuff? I have never figured this out, and she was spending a lot of money.... She had to buy that new red blouse for the murder, too, and maybe the pants she got for the occasion 'cos they were cheap (not to mention blood wouldn't show up and they allowed her to be athletic).

Plus a 9mm and new knives? That's $$$

 

[Hope4More]

Say more!

The cops knocked on her gparents door in the AM after watching her pack to flee until about midnight the night before.

They told her they needed to speak to her about the robbery, the theft of her grandpa's gun, and asked her to step outside. She stepped outside and bam- the handcuffs went right on and she was arrested.

The last moments of her life she'll ever be free, spent being conned by cops using her fake burglary lies against her.....

 

[RickshawFan]

Trying to do both.

JM definitely noticed just how cool calm and collected the killer was throughout the interogs, and knew she'd be like that on the stand.

She was being charged with 1st degree murder but seemed more interested in making herself the victim, complaining about being made to wear handcuffs and how cold it was in the room. JM heard her mumble clearly, within a few minutes---- its so f-cking cold in here.

He also picked up her keen interest in knowing what TA's family knew and how they were feeling.

Did they make the room cold on purpose? Throw off her thought process?

 

[Hope4More]

She led her parents to believe she and her victim would marry, but never showed them a single photo of Travis. Not one.

 

[Becky Sharp]

She did demand he send her a note, and given how he felt about her at that time the note fits what he would have sent. She didn't need a handwriting sample from him because she had stolen 2 of his journals. There's nothing sexual or affectionate in the note so I can't see why she'd forge it. But, could be I guess, theoretically.

I think I misunderstood the previous posts about JA's box and edited mine (#303) to clarify. Have you come to the transcibed letter found in the box of receipts that JA "casually" left for LE to find?

 

[Hope4More]

Flores was monitoring the female detective's turn with the killer. JM says they knew later but not then that she'd not bond with a woman detective because she had a much more difficult time manipulating women.

 

[Hope4More]

I think I misunderstood the previous posts about JA's box and edited mine (#303) to clarify. Have you come to the transcibed letter found in the box of receipts that JA "casually" left for LE to find?

Haven't seen a transcribed letter yet. Am just beginning chapter 7. I zoomed in on the note I've mentioned that in the pic I posted is laying on top of that box near the passport photo forms....

 

[Hope4More]

JM says the pics she most wanted to see were of the bathroom, of his body in the shower.