The prosecutor who convinced the jury that Jodi Arias planned to kill her ex-boyfriend has revealed the clues that led him to his conclusion—and also said Arias nearly got away with the murder.
Arias stabbed ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander 29 times and shot him in the face, but her lawyers argued it was the result of an impulsive “jealous rage.”
However, prosecutor Juan Martinez says he believed it was a premeditated attack, and sought to convince the jury.
Speaking on the Dr. Phil show this week, Martinez said one key clue came when detectives found Arias had bought spare gas cans before her trip to Arizona to visit Alexander, and filled them with 15 gallons of gas.
“With that information, I started to take a look at some of the receipts that were taken during an execution of a search warrant on her house, and I saw there was a receipt for a five-gallon gas can. So now I knew that I had three five-gallon gas cans – [a total of] 15 gallons,” Martinez told Dr. Phil.
