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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, welcome back to Killers amongst Us,

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Speaker 1: a production of iHeart Media and Crime Online. You know,

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Speaker 1: we go through life and we meet so many people

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Speaker 1: along the way, people you pick up and leave behind,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like it all in and out as

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Speaker 1: you go through life, and you really never know who

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Speaker 1: you're passing along the way, whose life is going to

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Speaker 1: intersect with yours, and what if any effect it may have. Well,

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Speaker 1: the same thing here Jody Arius and Travis Alexander's lives

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Speaker 1: intersect or should I say collided? Who would have ever

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Speaker 1: suspected Killers amongst Us? I mean, Ncy Grace, thanks for

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Speaker 1: being with us. With me is what a group of experts.

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Speaker 1: Alexis tos Chuck, Crime Online dot com investigative reporter, also

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Speaker 1: with Lead Stories dot Com. Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics,

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on

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Speaker 1: Amazon Star, Poisonous Liaisons on the True Crime Network. Death

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Speaker 1: investigator Karen Stark, renowned psychologist joining us out of New York.

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Speaker 1: You can find her at Karen Stark dot com. Kirk

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Speaker 1: Nurmi legal commentator, cast member Radical Body Transformation Season three,

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime, and more importantly, in My Mind, author of

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Speaker 1: Trapped with miss Arius. You can find him at Kirk

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Speaker 1: Nurmi dot com Special guests with Me. A very dear

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Speaker 1: friend of Travis Alexander's Chris Hughes, inspirational speaker, author of

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Speaker 1: an Amazon number one seller, Our Friend Travis, The Travis

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Speaker 1: Alexander's Story. You can find him on instat at the

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Speaker 1: Real C. S. Hughes. Guys, thank you for being with me.

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Speaker 1: And before we go forward, I just want to pause

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Speaker 1: a moment and think about Travis Alexander and how he

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Speaker 1: and jodi Arius have affected in some way all of

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Speaker 1: that Jodi Arius was not as she seemed, but he

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Speaker 1: many times you warned him, Chris, he would not break up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was a weird thing. He I think what you

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Speaker 1: bad and and play playhouse. And you know Travis was

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Speaker 1: and then suddenly he's not living so Mormon anymore, you know,

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Speaker 1: with their rendezvous, and they couldn't give each other up. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: everything that Jodi Aris was doing was calculated toward marriage

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Speaker 1: not letting go much less throwing it back in the water.

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Speaker 1: That was not going to happen. Take a listen to

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Speaker 1: Aaron Dewey speaking to me. Aaron, you told me that

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Speaker 1: What was that relationship? Why what did you observe? If anything?

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Speaker 1: You know, when they first met, Travis was on cloud nine.

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Speaker 1: Here was a very attractive young lady that he that

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Speaker 1: right there, why there, Aaron, let's not put perfume on

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Speaker 1: lot of trust issues. Well, you know, she's admitted in

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Speaker 1: just right there, Karen Stark, we're now a psychologist joining

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Speaker 1: us out of Manhattan going through somebody's text messages, their emails,

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Speaker 1: somebody who has an antisocial personality, Nancy, this is somebody

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Speaker 1: But listening to his friends, things slowly began to change.

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Speaker 1: finally began to cool down. How well. Jody actually moved

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Speaker 1: ABC's twenty twenties. I absolutely know that she was stalking

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