Tonight on 20/20 ` How did a serial offender... The people that come here are usually high-risk, mainly violent offenders. ...break free from his life of crime? Are you looking for forgiveness? Nah, I don't think I'll ever get it, and I don't think I'll ever forgive myself, to be honest. Is this the of face of a killer? I guess I've seen better days, but that'll have to do. A twisted story of sex and murder. If I killed Travis, I would beg for the death penalty. And... SCREAMING Is there just a little itty-bit of you that does believe in aliens? ...we talk to the stars of TV2's biggest new comedy. You must just lose it on set. What's a little, um, prompt you can think of to make yourself be serious? Don't get fired. That's a good one. www.tvnz.co.nz/access-services Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2013 Kia ora. I'm Sonya Wilson. They're murderers, sex offenders, violent men, repeat offenders. Some have lived over half their lives in jail, so where do they go when their sentence in served? Salisbury Street is a halfway house in Christchurch. It's one of only six in the country, rehabilitating paroled criminals back into society. One of the residents took 20/20 behind the scenes. So here's Emma Keeling with a house halfway between life and freedom. SOLEMN MUSIC He's a free man, but his past won't let him go. Are you looking for forgiveness? Are you looking for forgiveness? I'm not looking for forgiveness. I don't think I'll ever get it. And I don't think I'll ever forgive myself, to be honest, and I don't think I should either. As a kid, he was one of the worst. Yeah, makes me sick thinking of all the people that I've robbed and hurt. Now Reon Nolan rides with a new crowd. The people that are in my life now I wish were in my life from the start. I wish I knew this life was there. I wish, um... I just wish it happened earlier. In his teens, Reon was one of the top 10 offenders in Christchurch. Stealing milk money, sniffing glue, drinking alcohol, burglaries, stealing copper wire, stealing cars, drug addiction, methamphetamines, Ecstasy, LSD, marijuana, possession to supply ` all that sort of stuff. The old Reon would laugh at who he's become ` a counsellor at the Salisbury Street Foundation, rehabilitating criminals. Six years ago, he was a resident, doing the hardest thing he'd ever done ` facing up to his crimes. Just to sit there and say 'I need help' is the most vulnerable feeling I've ever felt in my life. Did you want to change? I don't believe I knew what change was. Well, uh, week three of, uh, looking at anger and conflict. In this Christchurch house, criminals on parole are reintegrated back into the community. If I'm not taking responsibility for my own thoughts and feelings, I might start using drugs again. That will lead to crime, you know, and create more victims. That's sort of a catchphrase around here as the guys live their life ` no more victims. Lyn Voice is the foundation's director. I mean, the people that come here are usually high risk or high profile or mainly violent offenders, so they have labels, and their labels are usually` you know, they're lifers or preventative detainees or, um, people who have committed violent sexual offending. What do you say to the people who think, 'Why should these people get a second, third, fourth chance?' If I shut the door on someone ` and you have to at times ` but if they come knocking again, why wouldn't I relook at them? Because if this is their moment, if this is the time... Like Reon, if he got it at that point, if the door had been shut, he wouldn't be where he is. Before Reon got it, he had to face up to why he started offending. He was brought up in a family with criminal connections. In 1994, television covered the brutal murder of his father in a Christchurch house. Reon was just 13. I just remember waking up early hours in the morning, and I heard my mum saying, 'Don't ring back here. It's not F-ing true. Don't ring back.' And kinda instantly, I felt like, um, they were talking about my dad. I wanted to go back to sleep and wake up and for it not to be real. I just felt, like, isolated and alone. The people I was hanging round with, um, to be honest, they were my new family, because I didn't want to go home and face the reality of my real family of my dad's been murdered. You know, like, I was just off it big time, and what made me happy and feel good about myself was money, drugs, alcohol. As a teen, he spent a lot of time in detention facilities. Then at 17, he went to prison. I walked in, and I was scared. I was, like, 'Oh, this is the big time.' I couldn't believe it. I was, like, 'Do you not know I'm a little kid?' But growing up on the streets and with all your mates, as soon as you walk into the wing, 'Hey, what's up, G?' 'What's up, bro?' 'Come get started off me.' And then it's, like, instantly... it's just another boys' home. Prison became a second home, reuniting him with family. The longest time I spent with my brothers was in jail. Tom Moana was also in jail with Reon and remembers him well. He was a good bloke, but he was, you know... he was someone that if you messed with him, he'll go hard out and do anything he could to, um` to mess you up. So when you first turned up here and saw Reon, what did you think? Yeah, I was amazed. I was, like, 'Nah, really? 'Staff member?' I was, like, 'Nah.' And he actually was a staff member here. And I was, like, 'Wow. Well, if you can do it, I can.' Tom has graduated from the programme. It's a huge achievement. His life of crime started at age 6. In my whole life, I have spent 10 years plus just in and out of prisons, doing the same things over and over and over. In prison, he learnt how to paint. It actually relaxes me and, um, keeps me nice and peaceful just takes me another place, really. Yeah. When I used to get frustrated, I used to resort to alcohol, drugs, cos I didn't want to deal with the frustration. I never knew how to deal with it. Learning how to deal with frustration happens daily in group therapy. It was in this room that Reon first thought about other people. It's what the programme's based on. Um, the main group for me which hit me the most and what I kind of remember is the victim empathy group, and, um, it's probably the first time where I was challenged about my crimes, um, about burglary. I used to think there wasn't any, like, major victims in burglary or drug dealing and supplying people with drugs. Reon used to dread the dose of reality group work dished up. Now he helps others face their demons and learn new behaviours. Reinforces I don't want to be like that again ` create those victims and, like, kill myself and the people around me. Are there things that trigger the old demons? In the first couple of years, yep. Like, I'd just be driving down the street or walking or something, and, um, I would see... Asians pull out of their driveway. I... Me and my mates used to always target Asian people or travellers for their currency and their jewellery and stuff and... Like, my old behaviour is see one, boom, 'Gotcha, we know where you live,' kinda thing. And then to sit back and see that, you can see why it's so hard to change, because your mind's gone crazy. What do you reckon it was like for the victims? Give into that temptation, break the rules here, and you're back in jail. It's a place that they can be where there's people that are watching them and they're watching each other 24-7. And it allows them to safely make mistakes so that they're with people who can pull them up, challenge them or hold them back if needed, because they're not yet ready to take another step. Sometimes it takes a few visits to Salisbury Street to go straight. Twice Reon stayed here; twice he ended up back in jail. Sooner or later, I was gonna die, or I was gonna, you know,... kill someone else through the stuff that I was up to. Still addicted to drugs and alcohol, he came back for a third time looking for help. I certainly knew that this was a make or break, or I felt it was. They don't usually take people off the streets, but Lyn said, 'We're willing to take you, um, 'if you stay here right now.' Lyn had had enough, and she took him away from the house to talk. Remember the last time we were in here together? Remember the last time we were in here together? Yeah, I certainly do. It was six years ago. I'm thinking about when we were talking and how awful I felt saying to you, 'You're not going anywhere.' Yeah. Yeah. 'And that's the deal. Yeah, take it or leave it.' I said I wanted help, and you said, 'You're staying here.' I was, like, 'Someone owes me some drug money. I've got to go and get that, and I've got to sell that. 'I'll use a bit more and then come back.' I wouldn't have come back unless you said no, and that's when I was, like, put on the spot, like, 'Jeez, what do I do?' And that's when I said, 'OK, I'll stay, and I'll stay now.' And I'm pretty glad I did, eh. Yeah, so am I. Residents must earn the right to come and go as they please. Tom's allowed to leave unsupervised. Now off parole, he has a full-time job helping rebuild the city. The thing that I most enjoy is going there straight ` you know, without the drugs and alcohol. Cos all my history of working has been under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and, um, I could never hold a job down. I love going to work. I'm up 5 o'clock in the morning, even half past 4. I don't start till 8, but I'm up, you know, really anxious to get in a good day's work. Tom and Reon are Salisbury Street success stories. Third time lucky, Reon got clean, finished the programme and returned to help and atone for his past. I mean, there's a whole lot of shame, and also, you can't ever take it back. Are we all good to leave at 9 o'clock, boys? They know they can't change it, and they're only in control of what they do today. But no more victims. Stay in one line, watch out for car doors opening, watch out for glass, point out potholes. Enjoy the day. Sweet? Cycling became his new addiction. He was invited to join a fundraising ride for Victim Support and became hooked. It just shows that there's another way to feel good about yourself, you know, and also, like, you know, challenging yourself. To change, Reon had to leave his family and criminal past behind. In some ways, cycling filled the gap, giving him a feeling of belonging. I just wanted to be a part of that ` the bunch riding around Christchurch. All these people, they're so nice. Like, normal people that I'd been afraid of, talking and joking, having coffees, going in the hills for three hours. Man, like, I wanted this to be my new gang, my little crew. You know what I mean? I was so blown away about how people accepted me into cycling so fast. Um, far` It just made me feel so good about myself. From weekend rides with the boys, he entered the Canterbury champs and came... last. And then the next year, I was in the same damn race, and I won it. Crossed the line, started crying, like, 'Hold on, have I just won?' Like, my coach comes up to me and cuddles me, started crying, and I started crying. Like, I mean, it's not the Olympics gold medal and stuff like that, but for me, it is. You know, like, to... Far, man, it blew me away. I still` For me, it's a massive thing. I'm the Canterbury champion for 2012. And it keeps getting better. This year, he was selected for the national team. I'm kind of speechless over that. You know what I mean? I had a top on that said the NZ national team on it, riding with actual professionals, people that I read about, guys that I look up to. There's no way I'm perfect, but I've been told that it's progress, not perfection, and as long as I just keep trying every day to do my best and to take responsibility for my actions straight away, admit when I'm wrong, um, then everything's all good. It's more than good. At 31, Reon's accepted his past and found Mel, who's willing to share the present. Do you sort of see it as, 'Well, that's the past and this is now'? Pretty much, yeah. Like, it's who it makes` it makes him who he is today. Like, if he didn't have that past, he wouldn't be the person that he is, I guess. So, Reon, how good is life right now? So, Reon, how good is life right now? It's pretty complete at the moment. It's all I could` It's all I've ever wanted, you know, and I've got it, pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. < (CHUCKLES) Yeah. < (CHUCKLES) I'm pretty happy. Bad start to life; good end. Who is Reon Nolan today? Someone that wants to do good, that wants people to stop doing bad, um, someone that wants to succeed, someone that wants the past to go away, someone that wishes that I wasn't brought up the way I was brought up, someone that's not going back, yeah, and someone that loves cycling. (CHUCKLES) Good on him. Great story. Next up on 20/20 ` Jodi Arias ` a story of sex, lies and murder. Now to that dramatic testimony in the Jodi Arias murder trial. How does she get to tweet from behind bars? Jodi Arias speaks out. The trial of Jodi Ann Arias ` the woman America loves to hate ` a 32-year-old femme fatale with made-for-TV looks, accused of slashing, stabbing and shooting to death her ex-boyfriend ` Travis Alexander. That ginger ` we're just gonna bash it in the bottom of the glass. Time is precious, right? So when you want to savour the moment with friends, Now fill the glass completely with ice. 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Check out the mix.co.nz The people that come here are usually high-risk, mainly violent offenders. a Welcome back. Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander were a young couple in love, so how did one end up dead and the other facing the death penalty? 20/20 was in court to get the whole shocking story of sex, lies, and murder. ELECTRONIC MUSIC When 30-year-old Travis Alexander closed his bedroom door on June 4th 2008, he assumed that whatever happened behind that door would remain between him and his guest. He also assumed he would walk out that door alive. But that very private rendezvous has now become very public. < WOMAN: Please stand for the jury. In fact, the details of what happened in this community on the edge of a desert and how that tryst turned into bloody murder have been at the heart of the most sensational and stunning courtroom drama this year. So to the dramatic testimony in the Jodi Arias murder trial. How did she get to tweet from behind bars? WOMAN: Jodi Arias speaks out. The trial of Jodi Ann Arias, the woman America loves to hate; a 32-year-old femme fatale with made-for-TV looks, accused of slashing, stabbing and shooting to death her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, a young, up-and-coming businessman active in the Mormon Church. Five years after the crime, the secrets of that bathroom have finally bubbled to the surface; some written in blood, some captured by photograph. Others from the mouth of an admitted killer. MAN: Did you kill Travis Alexander > on June 4th 2008? > Yes, I did. A story breathlessly told by correspondents. It's all anybody in this town is talking about. Local minstrels with Jodi-inspired ballads. # Now, Jodi is a narcissist # in the nth degree. # And even internet parodies. MAN: Miss Arias, do you have a problem with your memory? > MAN: Miss Arias, do you have a problem with your memory? > I don't remember. The verdict. We the jury do find the defendant, as to count one first degree murder, guilty. Eight men and four women who listened patiently through months of raunch and religion found Arias guilty of first degree murder. The crowds that gathered physically and virtually to follow the case seemed to agree. Thank God she got it. But back in 2008, police were just arriving at a crime scene. Travis Alexander was dead. The wounds on his body so numerous, investigators couldn't even count them at the scene. The medical examiner eventually tallied the inventory of violence ` 27 stab wounds, a deep cut to the throat and a gunshot wound to the head. And his friends said they knew just who did it ` Jodi Arias. As soon as we found out he was dead, almost everyone I know said, 'Jodi did it.' This is the only woman with enough hate and venom in her life to do this to Travis. It began so differently. They met working for a legal insurance company. Travis was 29, very successful, an elder in the Mormon Church, known for its strict policies against premarital sex. Jodi was 26, an aspiring photographer and looking for Mr Right. And for a little while, it looked like she'd found him. She was popular with everybody. With everybody. People flocked around Jodi. She was very quiet, very mysterious. She was very quiet, very mysterious. But very polite. Yeah, very nice, very sweet. Everybody liked her and, uh, thought, originally, it'd be a good fit for Travis. Jodi plunged head-first into Travis' world. Just weeks into their friendship, she was baptised in the Mormon Church, Travis at her side. To the outside world, they were a chaste Mormon couple. But behind the facade of faith and chastity ` illicit passion. Jodi wanted nothing but to please Travis. It really appeared like they were involved in a very loving relationship. But nothing could be further from the truth. Because in reality, Jodi was Travis' dirty little secret. There was a five-month window where they were dating and serious, but this was the girl he was going to have sex with. This was the girl that was gonna keep his bed warm until he married a proper Mormon girl. And yet, she stays in his life and in his bed. She moved just a few miles from Travis in Mesa. The temptation was even greater. Jodi wrote in her journal, 'His bedroom becomes our playground, 'where our passions run wild and certain fantasies are taken to the extreme. The rules melt away.' Travis, torn by his religious beliefs, decided to end the relationship. But somehow, even as he started dating other Mormon girls, Jodi and Travis secretly kept seeing each other. Why were you still acting as his booty call? I was making a string of bad choices during that time in my life. Listen to this tape recording from one of their phone calls. If you were here and my grandparents asleep, I'd let you into my room. And we'd shut and lock the door, and we would just have a big <BLEEP> fest. We'd go at it all night. But to his friends, Travis said they are done and painted Jodi as a jealous stalker. He said things like, 'You have no reason to be in Mesa. We're not together. 'We're not going to be together.' Um, 'Why are you there?' You know, 'Why can't you leave me alone?' In fact, just weeks before his death, Travis told Jodi Arias he had invited another woman to go with him on a trip to Cancun, Mexico. Everyone in his life knew Jodi was obsessed with him. He told everyone in his life. And they were all aware of this woman. So were police, now that he'd been found butchered in what appears to be a very personal crime. But the lead investigator, Mesa detective Esteban Flores, didn't have to go looking for Jodi ` she came looking for him. Jodi Arias calls the authorities. Jodi Arias calls the authorities. That takes a lot of gumption. Jodi Arias calls the authorities. That takes a lot of gumption. Well, this is part of the cover-up. I want to offer any assistance I might have. I was a really good friend of Travis'. MAN: What have you heard so far? MAN: What have you heard so far? Nobody's been able to get a hold of him for almost a week. And that was about the last time I spoke to him too. I did live there. I live in northern California now. You haven't been back in town since then? You haven't been back in town since then? Since I moved? No, I haven't. Very quickly, however, police learn that, in fact, Jodi had been at the house. It became very clear, uh, to the authorities, early on, that she was there. The detective, as he's exiting the house, he passes through the laundry room, and he sees a red smear on the washing machine. Inside? The clue that will unlock this entire case. These are inadvertent photographs, accidental photographs. These are photographs that the killer did not want taken. And the Jodi Arias interview you've never seen before. Arias, J-O-D-I A-R-I-A-S. Well, I guess I've seen better days, but that'll have to do. Stay with us. a 12 hours into Travis Alexander's homicide investigation, and detectives had a lot of blood, and a lot of fingers pointed at Jodi Arias, Travis' on-and-off ex-girlfriend, who, according to friends, was a full-on stalker. But what detectives needed was proof she was there, and they're about to find it in an unlikely place. Inside the washing machine, still wet from the rinse cycle, was Travis' camera. On the data card, stored in the memory, time-stamped photos from the day Travis was killed. On June 4th at 1.42, Mr Alexander was very much alive. Not only was he very much alive; he was involved in these photographs with a woman. And who was that woman? One Jodi Arias, now a brunette, posing in pigtails. The photos tell the story of an afternoon of prolonged passion. These were all taken between 1 and 2pm that day. These photos were taken around 5. But less than two minutes after Travis posed for this haunting picture, the camera captures this ` a series of inadvertent photos, caused by a design flaw in the camera. In this one, the camera appears to be falling to the ground, a shot of the bathroom ceiling. And then this one ` a foot alongside Travis' bloody body. They were able to retrieve these photos. And they somehow, miraculously, don't just tell the story of before and after, but during. And also provides, most importantly, a time frame when the actual crime occurred. And there is another critical clue ` a bloody palm print on a wall just down the hall from the bathroom where investigators believe Travis was dragged back to the shower. Lab tests reveal that too belonged to Jodi. And there's more ` one week before the killing, a break-in at the Arias' grandparents' home. One of the items missing? A 25-calibre gun ` the same calibre used to shoot Travis. Coincidence or criminal cunning on Jodi's part? The burglar, the person who went in there ` right there. It's Jodi Arias. That's the burglar. And she needs a gun, and she needs a gun to kill Travis Alexander. > It was time for a chat with Ms Arias. Investigators headed to Yreka, California, 1000 miles from Mesa, Arizona, and arrested her outside her grandparents' home. They brought her here to the local sheriff's office. So you remember me? So you remember me? Of course I do. Yeah, I've been working on Travis' case ever since it happened. OK. I know a lot of details. OK. Cos I believe that you know some of these details. And I think you can help us. I would love to help you in any way that I can. I would love to help you in any way that I can. OK. > When you watch the tapes of her interrogation, what strikes you most? She seems completely unflappable. < And this goes to... why she's such a good liar... and potentially a good witness. A good liar? Try Casey Anthony-calibre champion liar. Listen to this. Were you at Travis' house on Wednesday? > Absolutely not. I was nowhere near Mesa. I wasn't even close to him. What if I could show you proof you were there? Would that change your mind? I was not at Travis' house. Was not. You were at Travis' house. And you guys had a sexual encounter, which... There's pictures. And I know you know there's pictures, because I have them. She's very masterful at sounding very very believable and very innocent. If Travis were here today, he would tell you that it wasn't me. She seems very genuine in what she's saying. And we know now it's a lie. I would never hurt Travis. You did. > You did. > I'm not guilty. I didn't hurt Travis. If I hurt Travis, if I killed Travis, I would beg for the death penalty. Getting nowhere, the detective shifts gears and hits Jodi with the evidence. That's you. I wanted to cover you up because... Oh. Oh. That's you ` all of you. That looks like me. That looks like me. But this one, I don't know if I should show you, but it's just one of the photos that was taken by accident. That's your foot, Jodi. That's Travis. This is his bathroom. That is not my foot. But this may be even tougher to explain. Should have at least done your make-up, Jodi. Gosh. While Jodi waited, she didn't seem like a normal person facing potential murder charges. She seemed, well,... off the wall. The next day, after a night in jail and a wardrobe change, Jodi was back in the hot seat. But this time, she admitted she was at the house where the killing happened. I was, like, right here on my knees, and his bathtub is right here. She told the detective that masked intruders broke in and attacked her and Travis. I think I got knocked out, but I don't think I was out long. There were two people there. One was a guy and one was a girl. One was a guy and one was a girl. What did they say? One was a guy and one was a girl. What did they say? The girl wanted to kill me too. Why didn't they kill you? He said, 'That's not what we want.' She said she tried to help a badly injured Travis. I came back this way, pushed her, and he said, 'Go to my neighbours. Go to my neighbours.' And he's, like, 'I can't feel my legs.' And they wouldn't let me be by him. The police didn't buy Jodi's story. So many inconsistencies that I don't even wanna deal with right now. But it turned out there were plenty of people who wanted to hear it, and Jodi was more than happy to oblige. No jury is going to convict me. No jury is going to convict me. Why not? Because I'm innocent. You can mark my words on that one. One of the cameras Jodi sat down before was ours. Do you have a mirror? You are watching never-before-seen footage of Jodi in 2008, just after her arrest. Born and raised in California. Portraying herself as a family girl,... I have a large family. We're all pretty close. ...a loving girlfriend... He made me feel like a very beautiful person. On the inside. ...and an innocent victim. All of the evidence, to me, is very compelling, but none of it proves that I committed a murder. If this were something that... you know, that I could have done and... it would be scary times, I think, spiritually and, you know, thinking of what lies beyond this. What lies beyond is the answer to the ultimate question. Ladies and gentlemen, have you reached a verdict? Two stories. Which story do you wanna believe? Two minutes between an intimate moment and a stabbing frenzy. She gets a knife and stabs him in the chest. She gets a knife and stabs him in the chest. And that starts it. What really happened in that bathroom? That is almost certainly what killed him. That's next. How did a serial offender... a For four-and-a-half long years, Jodi Arias sat in this Phoenix jail. After dozens of media interviews, the chatty and seemingly confident murder suspect was now on a different stage, facing a very different audience ` 12 jurors who will decide her fate. Prosecutor Juan Martinez's case for first degree is clear ` if Jodi couldn't have Travis, she decided no one else would. He says it's the worst thing that's ever happened to him. And that's true. She couldn't let him go. Exhibit 237.001. The veteran prosecutor laid out a sinister tale, a paper trail of premeditation left by the defendant, including getting gas cans and turning off her cell phone so she couldn't be traced. As she travelled from California to Arizona, it was murder on her mind. But the crux of the state's case was here in this bathroom. What happened between this photo to this photo ` the camera flying through the air. She takes this haunting, beautiful last picture of him and then sets the camera down and what, whips out a knife and a gun and begins attacking him? whips out a knife and a gun and begins attacking him? We don't know what transpired... between Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander that day. Did he tell her it was over? Did all her anger at being his 'dirty little secret', warming his bed until a better girl came along, suddenly erupt? Or had she plotted this for weeks after he told her he was taking that other woman to Cancun? Each side ` the prosecution and the defence ` would tell very different stories of what happened next. Renowned trial lawyer Kathleen Zellner has agreed to walk 20/20 through the defence case although she does not agree with its theory. She stated they come back into the bathroom, Travis gets in the shower. Exactly. So he gets into the shower, and she begins snapping photographs of him. He's posing, and then she drops his camera on the floor. And that enrages him, she testifies? And that enrages him, she testifies? Enrages him. So she claims he comes out... and he lunges at her,... uh, flips her over in a body slam. uh, flips her over in a body slam. Mm-hm. She recovers from it, though, and takes off down the hall. She claims now she's in fear of her life. And she runs this way, according to testimony, and then back into the closet. Exactly. Cos she remembers that his gun supposedly is in the closet. She grabs the gun. It's a 25-calibre. She continues out this door. Runs into the middle of the bathroom, at which point she turns around? Right. And he's down like a linebacker. She demonstrated that. Shoots him right temple, through the left cheek. Shoots him right temple, through the left cheek. Does she remember after that? She doesn't remember slitting his throat or stabbing him 27 times. She has amnesia. According to Arias, this wasn't the first time Travis had snapped. Over 18 days of testimony, Jodi Arias defames her dead lover, claiming he degraded her,... He called me a skank. ...abused her repeatedly... He called me a bitch, and he kicked me in the ribs. And then got on top of me and started choking me. ...and exposed her to his alleged secret perversion. I walked, in and Travis was on the bed, masturbating. Um, he started grabbing at something on the bed, and it was a photograph. MAN: What was the photograph of? > MAN: What was the photograph of? > It was a picture of a little boy. But the defence cannot produce a single witness to corroborate these claims, and the prosecution says these are all just more wild and desperate tales from an admitted liar. We know the sequence is completely false, and that's why she has amnesia. You're saying Jodi's version of events doesn't match the forensic evidence? It absolutely does not. Jodi Arias is one of the greatest... liars ever. Dan Abrams, legal analyst for ABC News, makes the case for the prosecution. So she's taking photos of him and asks for one final picture where he looks directly into the camera. And at some point, the prosecution says, she gets a knife and stabs him in the chest. And that's when it starts. And he staggers... to the sink,... to the sink,... Mm-hm. to the sink,... Mm-hm. somehow gets here, puts his hands on the sink, coughs up blood on the mirror, trying to sort of balance himself. And she continues stabbing him, according to the prosecution, in the middle of his back. The attack continued. The attack continued. The attack continues. You've got the wounds in the front and back, and then he somehow continues to try to get away. Down this long hallway. Down this long hallway. Again, somehow staggering, probably not that quickly, and then around here, right at the edge of the bedroom, he collapses. And at this point she slits his throat from ear to ear, according to prosecution. We know this because there's a massive bloodstain on the carpet in this location. They believe that is what killed him. At this point, she then decides to drag him back into the bathroom. He's 5'9", 180 pounds; she's 5'4", weighs much less. And to balance herself, she puts her hand up on the wall and at that point leaves a bloody palm print. Very important piece of evidence because that's what placed her at the scene definitively in addition to the photographs. And she manages, even though he's so much bigger and heavier than she is, to drag him all the way back this long hallway, all the way back into the bathroom. And this is where we find the shell casing. And this is where we find the shell casing. So he was shot,... at some point, in the bathroom. They're not certain ` did it occur earlier, did it occur later, but we know that that shot occurred somewhere in this area. And then she's able to drag his body back into the shower, where the attack began, where she turns on the shower in an effort to clean up? where she turns on the shower in an effort to clean up? That's what they believe. Shot in self-defence or stabbed as part of a premeditated, cold-blooded murder? Please stand for the jury. It took just 15 hours of deliberation for the jury to decide. We the jury, duly impanelled and sworn, do find the defendant guilty. As relatives wept and crowds cheered, Arias looked into the eyes of the jury that will now decide whether she lives or dies. In an interview she granted with a local station, she said she would rather face death. I said years ago that I'd rather get death than life, and that still is true today. If I hurt Travis, if I killed Travis, I would beg for the death penalty. Arias is now on suicide watch. She says she wishes she could take it all back. I have a million regrets. I wish that it was just a nightmare that I could wake up from. And for the relatives of Travis, that's perhaps as close to an apology that Jodi Arias will ever come. OK, next up on 20/20 ` we talk to the stars of TV2's new show about the people living next door. Not to be confused with 'Neighbours'` Although I would love to be Kylie Minogue. I'm not gonna lie. A plotline even more peculiar than what happens on Ramsay St, though. A plotline even more peculiar than what happens on Ramsay St, though. BOTH LAUGH SCREAMING Stay away from them! Stay away from them! Take him! Take him! Is this the of face of a killer? a Welcome back. Neighbours, everybody loves good neighbours. Well, tonight it's a different sort from the old Kylie and Jason types we remember from Ramsay Street. These days we have aliens as neighbours. It's a brand-new comedy to our screens, and our own Erin Conroy got to meet the stars of the show in LA. Just a warning, though ` apparently, Erin gets involved in some graphic sex scenes in this story. I feel so deeply for you, my dear, I'm going to romance you all night. Why don't you start right now? Why don't you start right now? I already did. Why don't you start right now? I already did. I know you did. Do you like what I'm doing to you? Do you like what I'm doing to you? I love what you're doing. My god, are they doing it? On this show they do 'it' a little differently. Who's my daddy? Who's my daddy? That would be me. So I'm embracing it and experimenting with a bit of a different interview technique. OK, well, I think we should all get to know one another a little better. This means we've done it, right? This means we've done it, right? It does. We are. Oh! We are. Oh! Oh, that! It's just hands straight up in the air. It's just hands straight up in the air. It's group time. So we've just done it. Yes, we have. Yes, we have. I will do anything to get a good interview ` anything. This is Hollywood after all, right? And these are the stars of a new show called The Neighbours. Not to be confused with... ...Neighbours. Although, I would love to be Kylie Minogue. I'm not gonna lie. A plot line even more peculiar than what happens on Ramsay Street, though. BOTH LAUGH SCREAMING Stay away from them! Stay away from them! Take him! Take him! An explanation is in order. We hail from the planet Zabron. A decade ago we were deployed to investigate if Earth would make a nice home should temperatures on our planet continue to rise. You follow? 'X FILES THEME' Now, there have been a lot of shows about aliens ` serious aliens, sexy aliens, famous aliens and just plain weird aliens. Well, now we've got a whole new take on the genre ` side-splittingly funny aliens... Zabvronians. Zabvronians. CLAPPING SCREAMING ...learning about life here on earth. They find out about a lot of stuff they didn't know about. They find out about, uh, shopping and schools ` they have to send their kids to school ` and, um, food. Jackie, it feels a bit strange that only our family's eating and your family's... reading. We receive nourishment through our eyes and minds rather than through our mouths. We get a bed. We didn't have a bed before. We were sleeping in pods. What the hell are you doing? What the hell are you doing? I'm making my husband's sleeping pod. Because what better thing do I have to do than clean up after his mess? Because what better thing do I have to do than clean up after his mess? Or pick up his wet towels. Or fertilise his eggs. You must just lose it on set all the time. It's so funny. So what's a little prompt you can think of to make yourself be serious again? You must have little` Yeah, 'Don't get fired.' That's a good one. Yeah, 'Don't get fired.' That's a good one. ALL LAUGH You just wasted $20,000 of ABC's money. You just wasted $20,000 of ABC's money. < (CHUCKLES) Yeah. It's the first major TV role for these two English actors. She is Toks Olag... Olagu... Olagun... Best get her to pronounce it. Toks, how do you say your last name? > Toks, how do you say your last name? > Olagundoye. Oh my goodness. You might recognise Simon Templeman's voice... Call your dogs. They can feast on your corpses. If you're an avid gamer, that is. But there might be just one more clue as to how these two got cast. Is there just a little itty-bitty bit of you that does believe in aliens? Oh, I wholeheartedly believe in aliens. Really? Really? Yes. I'm not ashamed to say so. If the universe is infinite, right ` without getting metaphysical on you ` it stands to reason, right, that there's gotta be a parallel universe somewhere. If it's infinite. Yes, Simon. I'm with you. I've been a firm believer ever since the '80s. Willy. Willy. Alf! Willy! Alf! Alf! Willy! Alf! Alf! Willy! Alf! Willy! Alf! Willy? All right, before we leave you this week, here's a quick look at what we have coming up next week. ELECTRONIC MUSIC 20/20's packing its bags. 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