Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. Welcome back to Killers Amongst Us, a production of I Heart

Media and Crime Online. It was just a date, right? I mean, you go through your whole life

looking for that special person and you go on this date and go on that date, meet this

one, meet that one, date this one two months, that one three months, this one a year, in

the search for Mr. Wright or Mr. Wright, not necessarily Mr. Wright now, but that's how

this whole case starts. Just a date, a date with a beautiful blonde named Jody Areas. I'm

Nancy Grace. This is Killers Amongst Us. Who is Travis Alexander? Who is Jody Areas? First

of all, take a listen to this. Jody Areas grew up in California when she was younger. Her

parents moved around a lot, ultimately settling in Wyrika in Northern California near the

Oregon border. Areas was part of a larger family with four siblings. Picture perfect author

Shayna Hogan tells CNN compared to Alexander's upbringing Areas was more idyllic, but not

without its own problems. She grew up being very artistic. She played the flute. She had

a lot of brothers and sisters and was very close with them all. So Jody's childhood was

fairly ideal compared to Travis's, but she does describe like incidences of physical violence.

The Areas family opened a Mexican restaurant where as a teenager Jody worked as a waitress.

She developed a passion for photography and as an adult, shot weddings and the like. Wanting

to make more money and be more successful, Areas packs up and moves to Palm Desert, a

California resort town. Once in Palm Desert, Areas becomes interested in pursuing the network

marketing of prepaid legal. You're hearing our friend John Lumley at crimeonline.com.

We know a lot about Jody Areas in her life, seemingly an idyllic childhood, but what about

Travis Alexander? Now, we know Travis was good looking, charismatic and entrepreneur, even

a motivational speaker, but things weren't always so great for him. As a matter of fact,

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