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A task force of state, local and federal investigators was formed.
They look for links between the victims.
They all were academic stars of the University of Florida, or Santa Fe Community College.
All were in different programs.
Someone was targeting students and loved to terrorize them mentally and physically.
The killer had obvious major psychological problems.
This looks like a hunter, picking and stalking his prey.
The number of stab wounds varied.
This was not a panicked killer who acted out and then fled.
This killer took his time.
With all the evidence collected, the suspect list grows to over 600 men.
Aug. 30, 1990
Amid a campus panic, UF freshman Ed Humphrey, 18, of Indialantic is identified as a top suspect. He recently was evicted from Tracy Paules and Manny Taboada's apartment complex. He liked to dress in combat gear and carry a knife. He would often threaten tenants. People knew him as a violent weirdo. He was a scar-faced student, that got the scars from a traffic accident and who had a mental illness, is accused of battering his 79-year-old grandmother after driving home from Gainesville.
Is the Gainesville Ripper caught? Police search Humphrey's apartment. There was a bright side and a dark side to his apartment. One side was all neat and organized. The other side was all dirty, disorganized and broken. They found no murder weapon, and no new evidence. Results finally came back from semen that was left at the murder scenes, they didn't match Humphrey. A new lead points towards the killer... Investigators look back and find an unsolved triple murder in Shreveport, Louisiana a year earlier. The victims and the method of murder are strikingly similar.
Julie Grissom was a petite brunette college student. Julie along with her father Tom and her nephew Shawn were stabbed to death. Julie was staged the same way the ladies in the Gainesville murders were staged. The Shreveport police think they know who killed Julie and her family. He is a drifter, named Danny Rolling and he has been on the run ever since.
23-year-old Tracy Paules was living with Manny Taboada, a former football player, about a mile away from Hoyt's duplex.
The killer broke into the apartment by prying open the sliding glass door with the same tools he had used previously.
The killer found Taboada asleep in one of the bedrooms.
The killer attacked Taboada and their was a struggle.
Sadly, the killer overtook Taboada and stabbed him over 31 times, killing him.
Hearing the commotion, Paules went down the hall to Taboada's bedroom where she saw the killer.
She attempted to barricade herself in her bedroom, but the killer broke through the door.
"You're the one, aren't you?" Paules asked when the killer entered.
"I'm the one." The Killer replied.
He taped her mouth and wrists, cut off her clothing and raped her.
He then turned her over and stabbed her three times in the back. The killer posed Paules' body but left Taboada's in the same position in which he had died. Residents of Gainesville wake up to the shocking news of these horrific murders....
August 28
Police get a call from Paules' and Taboada's friend, he can't find them.
Paule's body is found just inside the front door.
Multiple stab wounds showed that Taboada fought until his last breath.
SERIAL KILLINGS OF FIVE STUDENTS TERRORIZE FLORIDA COLLEGE TOWN
By Laura Parker August 29, 1990
MIAMI, AUG. 28 -- Discovery of five murder victims since Sunday afternoon, including two today, has shocked and frightened residents and set off a massive dragnet for a serial killer in Gainesville, a quiet college town in northern Florida.
The bodies of four women and one man, all college students, were found inside three separate student apartments not far from the University of Florida campus, authorities said.
"We have every reason to believe the murders are probably all connected to one suspect or two suspects," said Gainesville Police Chief Wayland Clifton. He said the methods of the killer appeared similar, but he did not elaborate.
The Gainesville Sun reported today that the bodies of the first three victims had been mutilated and that at least one woman had been decapitated.
Spencer Mann, spokesman for the Alachua County Sheriff's Department, cited similarities in the slayings but said the most recent victims were not mutilated.
"I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that anybody that commits homicide using mutilation is a pretty sick individual and it's somebody we want to get off the streets very badly," he said.
Clifton said more than 50 police investigators from the FBI, Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Law Enforcement have been brought to Gainesville.
The killings evoked memories of Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer who stalked college campuses from Seattle to Tallahassee during the 1970s and whose execution last year, 35 miles from Gainesville, drew a crowd of 2,000 cheering spectators to a grassy field across the highway from Florida's death row in Starke.
Bundy was executed for murdering a 14-year-old school girl in 1978. He also was convicted of killing two sorority sisters at Florida State University in Tallahassee that year, and police officials in many states have said they believe that he may have killed as many as 36 college-age women.
"That's what we're all saying -- it's another Ted Bundy on the loose," said Jana Walters, 18, a University of Florida freshman. "Some sicko."
Three University of Florida students who live across the street from the apartment where the first two victims were found Sunday afternoon said they were going home to Key West.
"We're horrified, we're scared and we're going home until this thing blows over," Lydia Blanco, 22, told the Associated Press. Other students said they were so afraid that they slept with steak knives.
The first two victims, University of Florida freshmen rooming together, were discovered in their apartment after one of the victim's parents could not reach her by telephone and called police.
Sonya Larson, 18, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Christina P. Powell, 17, of Jacksonville, were found semi-nude and mutilated in a bedroom and the living room of their apartment near the campus after the maintenance man opened the door for police, authorities reported.
Investigators believe that the two had been dead 48 to 72 hours when found. Neighbors reported to police that they saw one or two people leaving the apartment early Saturday but did not recognize them.
Early Monday morning, eight hours after discovery of the first two victims, police found the mutilated body of Christa Leight Hoyt, 18, inside her apartment about two miles from the complex where Larson and Powell lived.
Hoyt was a records clerk at the Alachua County Sheriff's office, and deputies checked her apartment when she failed to report for her midnight shift. The Sun, quoting unidentified sources, said that she was decapitated and that her breasts and those of at least one other victim were mutilated.
The fourth and fifth victims were identified as Tracy Inez Paules and a friend, Manuel R. Toboada, 23, graduates of American High School in Miami. They were found this morning inside a ground-floor apartment at the three-story Gatorwood Apartments.
Toboada had just been accepted at nearby Santa Fe Community College and was planning to study architecture, a friend, Eric Dunham, 22, of Sarasota, told the Associated Press. Paules was a pre-law senior at the University of Florida and majoring in political science, the AP reported.
Gainesville police were going door to door today to reassure residents. But because so many students said they did not feel safe and want to leave town for a while, the university has extended until Sept. 7 the period during which students can add or drop classes.
University of Florida officials decided today not to cancel classes, which began Monday, and invited students who live off campus to move temporarily into dormitories on campus, where security has been increased. About one-third of the 34,000 students live off campus, but 95 percent of freshmen live in dormitories, a school spokesman said.
Several toll-free hotlines have been established in Gainesville so students can telephone their parents.
The university has long had student patrols to escort students around campus at night. On an average night, 50 escort patrols accompany students. Monday night, more than 200 patrols were at work.
The Media nicknames the killer The Gainesville Ripper.
Evidence at the crime scenes shows that he is a practiced killer.
That he is calculated and meticulous.
His twisted signature, each woman, posed in a lewd position.
This was his "Set".
He was the designer and the director.
This killer stalks before he kills.
He washed Christina Powell's and Tracey Paules' bodies before leaving.
He wore gloves.
The perpetrator had some knowledge of what kind of evidence could be used against them.
A man had followed 18-year-old university freshmen Sonja Larson and 17-year-old Christina Powell, the night before, to their Williamsburg Village Townhouse.
He climbed up an old wooden staircase to their back door to find it unlocked.
He then let himself in.
Powell was asleep on the downstairs couch.
The man stood over her briefly but did not wake her up.
He then went to explore the upstairs bedroom, where Larson was sleeping.
When the man got to the upstairs bedroom he taped her mouth shut and then began stabbing her.
She tried to fend him off, but sadly she died.
The killer went back downstairs to where Powell was still sleeping and taped her mouth shut.
He then bound her wrists together behind her back.
Then he threatened her with a knife as he cut her clothes off.
He then raped her and forced her face-down onto the floor.
The killer then stabbed her five times in the back.
He then posed the bodies in sexually provocative positions before leaving the apartment.
Saturday, August 25
The killer pried open a sliding glass door with a KA-BAR knife and a screwdriver at the apartment of 18-year-old, Santa Fe Community College student Christa Hoyt.
When he got inside the khaki colored apartment, it was empty.
The killer waited in the living room, hiding behind a bookcase, for her to return.
11 a.m., Hoyt entered the apartment.
The killer surprised her from behind, placing her in a chokehold. He subdued her, then taped her mouth shut, bound her wrists together and led her into the bedroom.
He cut the clothes from her body and raped her.
He forced her face-down and stabbed her in the back, rupturing her heart.
He then decapitated the body and posed her head on a shelf facing the corpse before leaving.
Sunday, August 26
Police get a call for a well fare check on two university students.
Sonja and Christina's parents hadn't been able to get a hold of their daughters for a few days.
Christina's car was parked outside their apartment, but no one answers the door.
The officers break down the door.
They find Sonja, who wanted to be a nursery school teacher, on the water bed on the third floor.
She had been stabbed 20 times.
In the downstairs living room they then find Christina.
The medical examiner tells police, he fears they are dealing with a Bundy style killer.
He then wonders how many more victims will there be, before the killer leaves Gainesville.
Sunday August 26, 9 Hours Later
Christa Hoyt failed to show up for her midnight shift as a clerk at the a local sheriff's office.
Christa had been studying chemistry and wanted to be a crime lab technician.
She is never late to work, so co workers decide to go check on her.
They find her body on the bed and her head on the bookshelf.
The killer wanted to terrify and leave a message, with the carnage and the posing of each scene.
Nabra Hassanen was a sophomore at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia. June 18, 2017 Hassanen was with 15 teenage friends near the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center Mosque.
As soon as they got some food from a McDonald's nearby, Hassanen and her friends made their way back to the mosque between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
All the girls were wearing hijabs and Nabra was wearing a long Muslim dress with it.
One of her friends that was on his bike got into an argument with a man in his car, later identified as Darwin Martinez Torres.
After pursuing the group in his car, Torres parked and then chased them on foot, a metal baseball bat in his hand.
Torres, beat Nabra with the bat and then drove her to a nearby pond and raped her.
After she died of blunt force trama, Torres dumped her in the pond.
Hours after the killing, according to a police warrant, Torres was apprehended by police, admitted to the attack, and led them to her body.
Darwin Martinez Torres, was 22, is an illegal immigrant.
He is from El Salvador and worked in construction.
Torres was a member of international criminal gang MS-13.
Days before Hassanen's murder, a woman told a representative of Loudoun County's Child Protective Services agency that Torres had punched, choked and sexually assaulted her.
The woman declined to press charges against Torres.
October 16, 2017, Fairfax County grand jury indicted Torres on eight counts including capital murder and rape.
Prosecutors there are seeking the death penalty.
Defense attorney's for Martinez Torres filed a report that claiming he was "likely intellectually disabled" and further evaluations should be held to determine whether he has the mental capacity to face the death penalty.
The motion was filed in May 2018, and lists issues such as significant cognitive limitations, poor memory, and severely impaired judgement and is functionally illiterate.
A separate motion for monthly motion hearings was filed in April by the attorneys, as Martinez Torres had difficulty following the legal arguments.
Do you think this is a racially motivated crime or is it just road rage gone too far?
He was born February 25, 1979, in Pickerington Ohio to Randy and Renee Shaffer.
He was a medical student at Ohio State University. March 31, 2006, Shaffer went out with friends to celebrate the beginning of spring break.
They went to the Ugly Tuna bar. Later they separated and his friends assumed he had gone home.
A security camera near the entrance to a bar recorded him briefly talking to two women just before 2 a.m., April 1, and then apparently re-entering the bar.
No evidence and no footage has ever been found of Brain leaving the bar.
That was the last time he was seen.
On Monday morning he missed the flight to Miami he and his girlfriend had scheduled long before.
That is when he was reported missing.
Some interest and suspicion has been directed at a friend of Shaffer's who accompanied him that night and has declined to take lie detector tests.
Foul play has been highly suspected.
Some suggest that he might have been a victim of the Smiley Face Serial Killer.
Brian's girlfriend called Brian's phone every evening before going to bed for a long time after the disappearance.
Usually it went to voicemail, but one night in September it rang three times.
"I kept calling it to hear it purely because it was one of the best sounds I have ever heard, even if no one picked up", she wrote on her MySpace page.
Brian's wireless provider, said what Brain's girlfriend heard may have been due to a computer glitch.
A ping from the phone was detected at a cell tower in Hilliard, 14 miles northwest of Columbus. His vanishing act remains unsolved.
She was born on February 2, 1963. Karen was 22 years old at the time of her disappearance. She was last seen around 7:20 p.m. in the 1600 block of Central Avenue in Colonie, New York , on March 27, 1985. She gone shopping at the Colonie Center for an upcoming spring break trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She had booked an appointment at The Tanning Hut, but no one at the salon remembers seeing her there.
Witnesses said they saw her walking Fuller Avenue.
Karen has never been seen again.
She had with her, a gray cloth pocketbook, a blue nylon wallet with a velcro closure, a green and white plastic bag from Ups N Down, and possibly also a blue knapsack containing a yellow dress, which are missing.
Investigators think she was abducted somewhere near Six-mile Waterworks, the entrance ramp to Interstate 90 westbound and the Northway.
A strange man was seen in the area at around the time Karen vanished.
He has never been identified.
Another SUNY-Albany student, Suzanne Lyall, disappeared in 1998. The circumstances of the women's disappearances were similar.
Susan Smalley and Stacie Madison were both just teenagers when they disappeared on March 20, 1988.
They both stayed Susan Smalley's house overnight.
They both briefly left the house for a short time in one of the girls' car, a 1967 Ford Mustang convertible, which was painted green and gold.
Susan and Stacie attempted to purchase beer at a local 7-11 convenience store in the early morning hours of March 20, but were turned down.
They were later seen at the Steak and Ale in Carrollton were Susan was employed as a hostess.
One of her co-workers told investigators that Susan spent approximately five minutes inside the restaurant speaking to a friend whilte Stacie stayed inside the vehicle. This was the last confirmed sighting of the girls.
The next morning Susan's mom reported both girls missing.
Stacie's convertible was located later in a strip mall parking lot in Dallas, Texas on Forest Lane and Webb Chapel Road.
The vehicle was locked and appeared undisturbed.
Inside the vehicle were both girl's personal belongings.
Investigators believe they may have accepted a ride to another location, probably from someone they knew.
Stacie's boyfriend, Kevin R. Elrod, was considered a possible suspect in the girls' disappearances.
He was allegedly abusive to her.
She had been trying to end the relationship before her disappearance.
Elrod began dating another woman shortly after Stacie vanished, and told her he'd killed Stacie and Susan and buried them in a cemetery outside of Carrolton.
The woman then went to the police with the story and they located and searched the cemetery indicated.
They found no evidence of a crime.
Elrod recanted his confession immediately and later passed a polygraph about the case.
He later moved out of state and changed his name.
A book written about the case in 2009, sparked investigators to reexamine the case from scratch.
In the book their are claims that investigators believe a particular suspect who has not been named publicly was never 'properly eliminated' during the investigation.
He was 22 when he went missing on March 3rd, 2014 from Panama City Beach, Florida. He was set to graduate the following May from the Rice University, with a 4.0 in mechanical engineering. He planned a spring break trip to Panama with 22 of his classmates. They all rented a beach house. He called his mom a few times when he got there. Last last time he talked to his mother on the phone, he stated that he was so excited. He said he already had job interviews set up for after graduation. March 3rd, around 7 p.m., Reny went missing. His friends didn't report him missing until almost noon the next day. March 4th, his clothes, wallet and phone where found in a garbage can behind the beach house. His socks where found on the beach. The family was notified and flew out to Panama. By the time they arrived, sixteen of Reny's friends had already left. The police treated Reny's disappearance like he had ran away. His family tried to ask the remaining six friends questions about what happened. Two of the friends refused to talk to them. The other four decided to talk to the family, but they had conflicting stories. One person said he went on a walk after he took LSD. Another one said they were asleep so they didn't know what happened. The third one said they didn't even notice. And the fourth one said he was out partying. They all had one thing in common with the stories though. They all said he was suicidal. An anonymous friend of Reny's said that he took alot of drugs, but would never touch LSD. The police didn't interview everybody. The people they interviewed were over the phone. They didn't interview people until after the family had asked them, and the police lied and said they had already did. The police hypothozied that Reny took LSD, went swimming and drowned. On a side note, the water was supposedly freezing cold that night. All 16 of the people that had immediately left, lawyered up and wouldn't talk to the family. There is still no trace of Reny and no new leads.
05/18/2022 Update: Britanee's remains were uncovered in a wooded area May 11 and positively identified through DNA and dental records.
Raymond Moody confessed to Britanee's rape and murder and led authorities to the location of Britanee’s body. Moody is a convicted sex offender and had previously spent 21 years in prison for the 1983 abduction and rape of a 9-year-old California girl. He was considered a suspect in other, similar rape cases but never charged.
Prosecutors allege that Britanee left a friend’s hotel in Myrtle Beach on April 25, 2009, and voluntarily got into Moody's car somewhere nearby. She was then driven 35 miles south to Georgetown County, S.C., where she was held against her will. Britanee was then assaulted and strangled to death at a boat ramp on the Santee River, and then buried in a wooded area 30 miles away the next day.
Moody has been charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing Brittanee but a court date has not been announced. The investigation remains ongoing.
Brittanee was fun loving and full of life. She relished being the center of attention. She was born on October 7th, 1991. She lived in Rochester, New York and was a junior at Gates-Chili High School. Brittanee was a star player on the soccer team. She was studying cosmetology in high school and was very interested in fashion and wearing stylish outfits. She moved frequently during her childhood because her father was in the military. Her parents were legally separated, and Brittanee lived with her mother, but saw her father frequently. She was upset over her parents' pending divorce. Her family and boyfriend don't believe she ran away, and they don't think she would have left her clothes behind.
April 2009, Brittanee was 17 years old when she asked for her mother's permission to travel to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for spring break with her friends and longtime boyfriend. Her mother said no, so Brittanee got permission to go to a friend's home, however she went to Myrtle Beach anyway. Brittanee's mother thought she was staying with a friend locally. They spoke several times on the telephone after Brittanee arrived in South Carolina. Her mother didn't find out where her daughter really was until she was notified that Brittanee had disappeared.
Brittanee was last seen by her friends at 8:00 p.m. on April 25, 2009. She was at the Bar Harbor Hotel in Myrtle Beach. Brittanee walked more than a mile to the Blue Water Resort on Ocean Boulevard, where other friends were staying. Surveillance cameras there show her going into the resort, then leaving after 8:30 p.m. 9:15 p.m., she sent a text message to one of her friends saying she was going to see a friend who was staying at another hotel. She has never been heard from again.
She left all her clothes behind at her hotel room. Her beige purse and pink cellular phone were nowhere to be found. The phone's last signal was near U.S. 17 and the Charleston County line the night Brittanee went missing.
2016, investigators announced they believe they know what happened to Brittanee and named a suspect in her case. They believe she was held against her will for four days then murdered and fed to alligators.
Taquan Brown, testified he'd seen Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor and several other people sexually assaulting Brittanee at a drug dealer's "stash house" in McClellanville, South Carolina. Which is about sixty miles south of Myrtle Beach. Timothy's father, Shaun Taylor, was also present. Police believe Timothy planned to force Brittanee into prostitution, but after her disappearance received widespread publicity, he decided to kill her. Brittanee tried to escape and ran from the house, but she was caught, pistol-whipped and taken back inside. Brown says he later heard two gunshots and later saw Brittanee's cloth-wrapped body carried out of the house. It was supposedly dumped in one of the many local alligator pits.
Timothy would have been sixteen years old at the time of Brittanee's disappearance and is currently awaiting trial in a 2011 robbery case where he was the getaway driver in the robbery of a restaurant. Timothy maintains his innocence in Brittanee's case and, due to lack of evidence, he has not faced charges in connection with her disappearance. He claims he doesn't even know Brown, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
Brown's his account of Brittanee's murder has not been substantiated by other eyewitnesses, although a second police informant says he heard about what happened from another eyewitness. A search of the house where she supposedly died turned up nothing. There are dozens of alligator pits in the McClellanville area. Her remains have never been found. Her family still holds out hope she is alive.
Jodi Arias was born on July 9, 1980, in Salinas, California to William and Sandra Arias. She dropped out of school when she was 17. While she was waitressing, a old man told her that the world was going to end. This prompted her to hook up with an old boyfriend and move in with him. She was an aspiring photographer.
She and Alexander met in September 2006 at a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Arias converted to the Mormon faith and, on November 26, 2006, was baptized into the LDS Church.
Alexander and Arias began dating in February 2007.
Arias moved to Mesa to live closer to Alexander.
In March 2007, she moved to Yreka, California, and lived there with her grandparents.
Travis Alexander was born on July 28, 1977, in Riverside, California to Gary David Alexander and Pamela Elizabeth Morgan Alexander.His parents were drug addicts, so Travis moved in with his paternal grandparents, at age 11.
His grandparents Norma Jean Preston Alexander Sarvey and her husband James Sarvey, introduced him to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a motivational speaker and a salesman. Alexander and Arias dated for a year and a half, often in a long-distance relationship taking turns traveling between their respective Arizona and California homes.
In 2008, Alexander was going to join him for a work-related trip to Cancún, Mexico, scheduled for June 15.
Alexander changed his travel companion to another female friend.
May 28, 2008, a burglary happened at Arias' grandparents.
Among the missing objects was a .25-caliber automatic Colt pistol, which was never recovered.
June 2, between 1:00 am and 3:00 am, Arias called Alexander four times, the longest of the calls was seventeen seconds.
3:00 am, Alexander called Arias twice, the first time for eighteen minutes, the second time for 41 minutes.
4:03 am, Arias called Alexander back and the call lasted two minutes, 48 seconds.
5:39 am, Arias set out to drive south to rent a car for a long trip to Utah.
8:04 am, Arias rented a car at Budget Rent a Car in Redding.
She visited friends in southern California on her way to Utah for a work conference and to meet with Ryan Burns, a co-worker.
On June 3, 2008, Arias apparently set out for Salt Lake City.
Alexander missed an important conference call on June 4.
Arias met up with Burns on June 4, in the Salt Lake City neighborhood of West Jordan, Utah and attended business meetings for the conference.
Arias' hair was now dark brown, and she had cuts on her hands.
On June 6, Arias left Salt Lake City and drove west towards California.
She called Alexander several times and left several voicemail messages for him.
She also accessed Alexander's cell phone voice mail system.
When Arias returned the car on June 7, the rental clerk testified that the car was missing its floor mats and had red stains on its front and rear seats.
June 9, having been unable to reach Alexander, a group of friends went to his home.
His roommates had not seen him for several days.
They believed he was out of town.
His friends entered his bedroom and found large pools of blood in the hallway to the master bathroom.
They discovered his body stuffed in the shower.
In the 9-1-1 call, the dispatcher asked if Alexander had been suicidal or if anyone was angry enough to hurt him.
Alexander's friends stated that Alexander had said Arias was stalking him, accessing his Facebook account, and slashing his car's tires.
While searching Alexander's home, police found his digital camera damaged in the washing machine.
Police were able to recover deleted images showing Arias and Alexander in sexually suggestive poses, taken at approximately 1:40 pm on June 4.
The final photograph of Alexander alive, showing him in the shower, was taken at 5:29 pm that day.
Photos taken moments later show an individual believed to be Alexander "profusely bleeding" on the bathroom floor.
A bloody palm print was discovered along the wall in the bathroom hallway containing DNA from Arias and Alexander.
Alexander sustained 29 stab wounds, his throat had been slit, and he had suffered a gunshot wound to the face.
A .25 caliber round was found near Alexander's body.
It was the same caliber that was stolen from Arias' residence in Yreka the week before.
Alexander's jugular vein, common carotid artery, and trachea had been slashed and Alexander had defensive wounds on his hands.
He may have been dead at the time the gunshot was inflicted, and the back wounds were shallow.
Alexander's death was ruled a homicide.
July 9, 2008, Arias was indicted by a grand jury in for the first-degree murder of Alexander.
She was arrested at her home on July 15 and extradited to Arizona on September 5.
Arias pled not guilty on September 11.
She gave several different accounts about her involvement in Alexander's death.
She originally told police that she had not been in Mesa on the day of the murder and had last seen Alexander in March 2007.
Later she told police that two intruders had broken into Alexander's home, murdering him and attacking her. Her behavior during her interrogation by police was odd.
POLICE INTERROGATION VIDEO
Two years after her arrest, Arias told police that she killed Alexander in self-defense, claiming that she had been a victim of domestic violence.
Was it really self defense?
She purchased three 5 gallon gas cans, so she could travel through the state of Arizona, without having to stop, which would make it harder to prove that she was there.
There was a handgun, knives and condoms found inside her rental car. In her journal, Arias talked about how obsessed she was with Alexander and how she loved their sexual escapades.
Her defense attorney tried repeatedly to be released from her case.
He stated that she tried to manipulate him and also creeped him out.
Arias was convicted of first-degree murder on May 8, 2013 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on April 13, 2015.
In Alexander last text message to Arias, he had called her a "sociopath" and "the worst thing that ever happened to me", he also stated that he was afraid of her. Alexander had a online blog. This is an excerpt from his last blog entry. "Desperately trying to find out if my date has an axe murderer penned up inside of her and knowing she is wondering the same thing about me. That’s usually when I think myself into a panic and start acting weird in consequence to trying so hard to act normal."
