Since we only had 30 minutes I'm going to have to address some of what was in the show here, where I can be more succinct and wordy without time constraints. Without further ado:
Was Travis Alexander leading Jodi Arias on?
I believe he was. If you participated in the live chat then you know that there was a little bit of disagreement with my POV. Mostly people have tried to paint the victim as an innocent lamb, and I do not buy this. He wasn't interested in pursuing marriage with Jodi, nor did he intend on staying with her in a longterm relationship. But he was interested in having phone sex and physical intercourse with her, while she obsessively tried to keep him in her life.
This was a recipe for disaster.
This in no way excuses what Jodi did, nor does it even remotely compliment her claims of "self defense."
Was Jodi Arias entrapping Travis?
I believe she absolutely was. The recorded phone sex session is absolute proof that she had nefarious intentions from early on -- but what exactly were they? Some in the live chat during the show believe she was going to use photos and the recording to blackmail him with the church -- and that might be right. But could it be that she had planned on killing him even then? Maybe, maybe not.
Was she abused?
I highly doubt it. However, I do think that Travis Alexander played his role in this very poorly. Nonetheless, many men do as he was and none of them deserve to be hacked, slashed, stabbed, shot and nearly decapitated. Jodi Arias's feelings of jealousy and abandonment are normal emotions in situations such as she was in, but her reaction is what went wrong -- and for that I believe she does deserve the death penalty.
