Jodi Arias’ mother, Sandy Arias has been by her daughter’s side during the last three months in her murder trial. Videotaped police interviews show Sandy Arias sobbing about her daughter’s “mental problems” and how she was afraid Jodi was spiraling out of control.
Jodi Arias is on trial for the 2008 brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander who was shot, stabbed 27 times and had his throat slit. If convicted, Jodi Arias faces a possible death penalty sentence.
Speaking to Detective Esteban Flores who informed Sandy Arias the crime her daughter was suspected of committing, Arias said, “I feel like I am going to puke.”
Detective Flores went on to say, "We have a lot of evidence to put her there." She is not willing to explain any of it.”
Sandy Arias told Flores, “I talked to her, she told me she was going to Utah. Then she came back. She was fine.”
“She said she spent a lot of time with some friends in Utah.” Sandy Flores went on to ask the detective, “How can someone who did this come back and act normal?”
Heartbroken and in tears, Sandy Arias revealed that, “Jodi has mental problems. Jodi would freak out all the time.”
“I had quite a few of her friends call me and tell me I needed to get her some help. We don’t have a good relationship, me and Jodi.”
During Jodi Arias’ testimony, she swore her parents had physically abused her. “My mother carried a wooden spoon in her purse.” Arias went on to allege that her mother would hit her and her brother so much it would leave welts.
Arias also claims that her father would take a belt to her from the time she was seven. She told the story of a day when he pushed her into a door frame so hard that it knocked her unconscious.
Arias testified, “He [her father] would shove me into furniture, piano, desk, one time I hit a door post. The side of my face hit a doorpost and knocked me out.”
“I remember waking up and my mother was telling him to be careful.” At the time of the incident, Arias says she was only 17.
Sandy Arias has been in the courtroom every day of the trial. Arias’ father, William Arias on the other hand has not been able to be in court due to his poor health.
When William Arias was interrogated during the investigation, he told detectives a totally different description of his daughter. Speaking to Flores, William Arias said, “Sometimes she’d call real sweet, and 10 minutes later, she’d call in a rage.”
“You know, just screaming at my wife. She did that over the last year and a half.”
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