'Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias': Lifetime's crime movie to unveil TRUTH behind Travis Alexander's murder
Warning: This article contains a recollection of crime and can be triggering to some, readers' discretion advised.
MESA, ARIZONA: Everyone is geared up for a follow-up to 'Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret', one of the most watched and successful true crime movies about the infamous accused murderess Arias while she awaits trial. She had been arrested and sent to prison for murdering her boyfriend Travis Alexander. Celinda Sinden stars in the new movie, ‘Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias’ as Arias. Tricia Black, Lynn Rafferty, Karl Campbell, Adesola Adesina, Michelle Haffey, Christine Noble, and Maggie Cassella are the other cast members.
For a crime story that has captivated the world for nearly a decade, we will see a whole new side of Arias. According to Lifetime, when Arias arrived in jail, she charmed her way through prison and befriended a couple named Donavan Bering and Tracy Brown. The three inmates became inseparable as Bering and Brown started doing anything and everything Arias asked— even letting the alleged murderess tattoo her name on one of them.
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Bering was released from prison as Arias' trial drew near and agreed to be the latter's mouthpiece, posting on her social pages and defending her friend to the world. However, when the details of the case and Arias' story were no longer adding up and Bering refused to continue to do her former friend’s bidding, Jodi’s vengeful side emerged.
The true story behind Travis Alexander's murder
On June 4, 2008, the 30-year-old legal-insurance salesman, Alexander was brutally slain in the bathroom of his Mesa, Arizona home. The body found after five days showed a clear case of homicide. It was reported that he was stabbed between 27 to 29 times, had his throat slit nearly ear to ear, and a gunshot in the head, making the crime scene disturbing and bloody to the point of horror.
The murder and trial received widespread media attention in the United States, and the following month after thorough investigation, his 28-year-old ex-girlfriend, Arias, was arrested for the murder. The trials started and Arias claimed she killed Alexander in self defense but she proved to be anything but a reliable witness. At first, Arias and Alexander’s love story seemed like a fairytale. After meeting by chance in 2006, they soon began an intense relationship. However, things quickly turned sour. Eventually, in 2013, Arias was found guilty of stabbing and shooting Alexander to death in his Arizona home.
A friend of Alexander said that Arias showed “obsessive” signs early-on. Alexander had broken up with Arias after five months of relationship. Despite their break up, Arias moved to Mesa, to be closer to Alexander. His friends said she’d show up to his house without him knowing because she knew the code. At one point, Alexander had revealed to his friends that Arias had snuck into his house through a doggy door, according to Brian Skoloff, co-author of 'Killer Girlfriend: The Jodi Arias Story'. It was also reported despite complaining to his friends about Arias, “Alexander would be angry and other times, he would jump into bed with her.”
Thereafter, Alexander began dating another woman. Soon after, his car tires slashed and the new woman started getting random knocks on her door with no one being there. Friends later would learn that while Alexander was dating his new love interest he was allegedly still communicating with Arias and engaging in intimate behavior over texts and phone.
Further, Alexander had plans to attend a company retreat in Mexico with a Mormon woman he was pursuing. But his plan never happened, five days later, on June 9, 2008, friends found him in his Mesa, Arizona, home murdered and dead. “Jodi Arias wanted to have Travis for herself. He didn’t want to see her anymore. So what she decided was, he wasn't going to be able to do that to her,” said Martinez, who wrote a book on the case named 'Conviction - The Untold Story Of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars'.
To look into the depth of Jodi Arias’s mind and behavior let’s wait for the true crime movie, ‘Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias’, to stream on Lifetime on Saturday, January 21 at 8 pm ET.
