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RAW: Interview in jail with woman accused of murdering Mesa man Remaining calm inside Phoenix's Estrella Jail, a 28-year-old woman claims she is innocent of a brutal crime.
Mesa police accuse Jodi Arias of stabbing her boyfriend 27 times, then shooting him in the head.
"I didn't hurt Travis, I would never hurt Travis," said Arias during a jailhouse interview on Thursday.
Friends of 30-year-old Travis Alexander found his lifeless body at a Mesa home in June.
Police said they found sexually explicit photos of both Alexander and Arias while searching the home. Detectives also said Arias' DNA was found at the crime scene.
Arias said she had met Alexander in September 2006 at a company convention in Las Vegas.
They exchanged numbers and he apparently called her in California from his Mesa home the next day.
They dated five months, traveling the country together. Arias said she asked him to baptize her into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
But then she said, "There was sort of a breech of trust."
Arias said they told people they broke up, but remained friends. All the while, they were more than that, trying to split apart for good.
Arias said she saw Alexander days before his murder, then got a phone call in California that would change her life.
"It was a feeling of shock," she said, speaking about learning Alexander had died.
Arias said she would like to one day be able to forgive the person or people responsible for the gruesome murder of her friend.
She said right now, the only thing getting her through this jail time is her faith.
"I would be shaking in my boots right now if I had to answer to God for such a henious crime," she said.
Arias is being held at Estrella Jail on a $2 million bond.
