In the latest update of the Jodi Arias trial, Arias graphically described on Wednesday how Travis Alexander, the ex-boyfriend she admitted to murdering, made repeated sexual advances towards her all while converting her into the Mormon faith during their heated initial courtship, according to reports.
Arias spent the first two days of testimony recalling her troubled childhood and romances in her teens and 20s, and Wednesday, moved to recounting details of her volatile relationship with Alexander that culminated with her stabbing him to death after a lust-filled day of sex and raunchy photographs.
Arias, whose defense team put her on the stand in what seemed like an attempt to gain the sympathy of jurors in hopes that they see her as the victim of a womanizer, faces the death penalty if convicted of murder. She herself said that Alexander belittled her and used her for sex and that she killed him in self-defense.
Prosecutors on the other hand have portrayed Arias as a raging, jealous ex-girlfriend who snapped and brutally killed a motivational speaker and successful businessman.
Arias' testimony on Wednesday included X-rated descriptions of her relationship with Alexander, with naked pictures of Alexander shown in the courtroom at one point.
Arias started her testimony by saying that Alexander, a Mormon, persuaded her to become a member of the church and performed her baptism in late 2006.
However, she said that she felt unnerved by Alexander's behavior in the bedroom that seemed to contradict the church's teachings of celibacy.
On the same day that Alexander baptized her, Arias said that the two went into a bedroom, removed their church clothes and engaged in painful sexual intercourse. Alexander, though, told her that having the sex was alright under Mormon teachings because they weren't engaging in vaginal intercourse.
Arias said that she believed Alexander was using her for sex "like a prostitute" and had little interest in connecting with her on an emotional level.
Arias had previously told investigators that she went to Alexander's home just for sex on the day she killed him, but he turned violent, forcing her to fight for her life in what she claims was self-defense..
She also claims that she and Alexander dated for about five months, then broke up but continued to see each other strictly for sex. Alexander's friends said that Arias stalked him after the breakup, becoming possessive and jealous.
Authorities said they found her hair and bloody palm print at the scene of the killing, along with time-stamped photographs on a memory card in a camera discovered inside Alexander's washing machine that place Arias there on the day he died. The photos included one of Arias nude on his bed, one of Alexander alive in the shower, and one of his body on the bathroom floor.
In the trial that began in early January, defense attorneys have yet to explain why Arias apparently attempted to clean the scene, washing Alexander's bedding and the camera, and what happened to the weapons.
Authorities say Alexander was shot in the head with a .25 caliber gun, the same caliber Arias' grandparents reported stolen from their Northern California home about a week before the killing.
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