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On June 4, 2008, two young lovers named Travis and Jody were capping off an afternoon of lovemaking by taking pictures in the shower. As Jody sat in front of the shower looking at the photos, she heard a really loud pop just as she was knocked in the head and rendered on the screen.

She was unconscious, briefly. When she came to, Travis was huddling in the shower. He was terrified. She wanted to get help, but there were two masses of salons there, a man and a woman blocking her way. They looked like ninjas.

As Jody tried to escape, one of the armed intruders stopped her, held a gun to her head and told her not to move. The gun went off. But miraculously, because of a gun malfunction, she was spared.

Somehow, she escaped the mail and rushed the female assailant who was holding a gun to Travis's head. Jody was once again knocked out and awoke to her lover screaming. He'd been shot in the face. She tried to get him out of the shower, but the assailants came back into the room and argued about whether or not to kill her.

The female wanted to, but the man said they were not there for her. The female attacker ignored him and went after Jody with a gun. Or maybe it was a knife. Anyway, what mattered in that moment was that they got her name and address from her driver's license. And they said if she ever told anyone, they would kill her and her family. So Jody grabbed her purse and ran out the door.

Confused? Yes, well, so were the police. Why? Because this was the second version of the story that Jody told police about the events that occurred on the night that Travis was murdered. Sound unbelievable? That's because it was.

Jody could not keep her story straight. She would even change the details in numerous press interviews she gave after she was arrested. The only part of the story that did not change was this. Travis Alexander was brutally murdered in his home. Did two mass ninjas do this? No, it was one person. And her name is Jody Aureus.

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From Wondery and Tree Fort I'm Candice DeLong and this is Killer Psychie.

I've spent five decades studying people's minds through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse. I've interviewed many murderers, serial killers included. And the question I get asked time and time again is why they did what they did.

It's difficult to get a satisfying answer without diving deep into the killer's mindsets. So in this series I will do just that and give you my best analysis of what made them do what they did.

This episode is Jodiarius, the most hated woman in America.

Imagine if you will being called the most hated woman in America. This was what the press dubbed Jodiarius in 2008. Jodi got this moniker the old fashioned way. She earned it.

She not only brutally murdered a man beloved by his many friends and co-workers but the continual colossal changes in her story, her unwavering vanity and her unapologetic lies.

All of that made her a media celebrity. The case and the trial drew national attention and upset so many that massive crowds gathered each day at the courthouse calling for Jodi's death. But what inspired all this hatred?

The crime we have come to know Jodiarius for took place when she was supposed to be on her way from her home in Northern California to see her new boyfriend in Utah in 2008.

But on the way she made a detour to her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander's home in Mesa, Arizona. Although she and Travis had been officially broken up for almost a year and Jodi had moved back to California, they maintained a secret physical relationship.

After many hours on the road, Jodi was tired when she got to his place and said that they fell asleep for several hours. When they woke up, she said they had sex in his bed and then in his office.

Travis had bought a new camera and they decided to take some pictures. First, they took erotic pictures of both of them in bed and when I say erotic, I mean pornographic.

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