Jodi Arias
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The prosecutor was pushing her to recall how her lover Travis Alexander allegedly attacked her before she stabbed him 27 times and shot him in the head.
Although she has testified in detail about many events in their nearly two-year, off-and-on relationship, the 32-year-old photographer says she killed Alexander in self defense after he attacked her for dropping his new camera – but that she blanks out when trying to recall the stabbing and shooting.
"Where were you taking these photographs when this happened?" prosecutor Juan Martinez asked as he displayed photos Arias took with Alexander's camera of him alive in his bedroom shower and then lying dead in it.
"Outside the shower," Arias said as she removed her glasses and wept.
"Ma'am, were you crying when you were shooting him?" asked Martinez, who suggests Arias cold-bloodedly planned the slaying out of jealousy, using a gun reported stolen from her grandparents' Yreka, Calif., home.
"I don't remember."
"Were you crying when you were stabbing him?"
"I don't remember."
"How about when you cut his throat – were you crying then?
"I don't remember."
"So take a look (at the photos) – you're the one that did this, right?"
"Yes."
"And you're the same individual that lied about all of this, right?" Martinez asked, referring to the way Arias has repeatedly changed her story.
"Yes," Arias said.
Martinez again asked Arias to look at the photos, but she was crying so much that the judge halted the proceedings and called an early lunch break.
If convicted, Arias could get the death penalty.
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