Jody Areas, remember her?

In the early summer of 2008, the mortgage crisis in the US loomed large.

Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidential election in the fall.

The world was looking forward to the summer Olympics in Beijing.

And a horrifying crime was going down in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa, Arizona.

Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old Mormon motivational speaker of sorts,

will be found five days after his murder by his friends and roommates in a scene that looked like

something straight out of a slasher flick. Blood was splattered on the walls of the bathroom,

where Travis's body was found along the sink, mirror, and tiled floors.

He even stabbed nearly 30 times, his throat slit, and he'd been shot in the head.

And his friends and family immediately pointed their fingers at the one person

who they all thought was most likely responsible. Jody Areas, a slightly built attractive woman

with no criminal record. Someone who did not look like the person most would connect with Travis' brutal crime scene.

She was the woman Travis had been dating off and on for the better part of the past year and a half.

An odd woman once she looked into their relationship, a woman who'd once slept under Travis' Christmas tree

after he told her she couldn't sleep over at his house, a woman who'd snuck into his house

through the doggie door after they'd broken up and crawled naked into his bed.

A woman who they all suspected had slashed all four of his tires twice when he'd one started

dating someone else. For over a year and a half, Travis and Jody had been involved in a highly

toxic sex craze toward romance after meeting at a Las Vegas MLM conference in September of 2006.

And while Jody's jealous, suspicious, and sometimes downright crazy behavior towards Travis

set off a lot of alarm bells for his friends, and while Travis seemed to understand how unhealthy

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