Jodi Arias: "The Worst Mistake of My Life"

'This is the worst mistake of my life: 'Jodi Arias tearfully pleads with jurors to spare her life

Convicted killer Jodi Arias tearfully pleaded with jurors to spare her from a death sentence on Tuesday during a bizarre 25-minute testimony in which she pledged, if allowed to live, to donate her hair to cancer patients and start a prison recycling program.

'I have made many public statements that i would prefer the death penalty to life in prison,' Arias told jurors. In each of those cases, 'I lacked perspective,' she said.

'Until very recently I could not imagine standing before you all and asking for you to give me life,' she said. 'But as I stand here now I cannot in good conscience ask you to sentence me to death.'

Arias made the statements as she tried desperately to humanize herself to jurors by sharing childhood photographs, talking about her 'red-headed stage' and displaying the drawings she has created while in prison.

Convicted killer Jodi Arias tearfully pleaded with jurors to spare her from a death sentence on Tuesday during a bizarre 25-minute testimony

Convicted: Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the premeditated murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008

Heartbroken: Sandra Arias, mother of Jodi Arias, wipes tears away as her daughter addresses the jury

Family: Members of Arias' family, including her sister (front left) and mother (front center) and father (front right) listen to her testimony in court on Tuesday

Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the premeditated murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed multiple times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face.

'This is the worst mistake of my life,' Arias said. 'It's the worst thing I have ever done...Before that day I wouldn't even want to harm a spider.'

Listing ways that she could contribute positively from prison, Arias promised to teach women how to speak Spanish and to help improve literacy among inmates, as well as start a book club.

Arias also noted that she has avoided looking at Alexander's family during the trial. 

 

'It's never been my intention to throw mud on Travis's name,' she said. 'I loved Travis and I looked up to him. At one point, he was the world to me.'

She choked up as she spoke about the impact of her crime on her own family, saying they would be destroyed if she was sentenced to death. 

'I want everyone's healing to begin and everyone's pain to stop,' she said. She also grew emotional while talking about her the fact that she will never be able to have children as a result of her actions.

Jodi Arias breaks down as she pleads for her life

Somber: Judge Sherry Stephens listens to Jodi Arias address the jury on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial

T-shirt sales: Arias holds up a T-shirt she designed for domestic violence survivors

Arias shared this photo of herself and her father (left) as well as this portrait from when she was 17 (right)

Former loves: Arias is pictured with former boyfriends Bobby Juarez (left) and Darryl Brewer (right)

'I'm not going to have children of my own,' she said. 'I'm not going to become a mother. Because of my own terrible choices, I've had to lay that dream to rest.'

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens on Monday denied requests by the defense for a mistrial and to withdraw from the case. She also denied a motion for a stay to give the defense time to appeal her decisions to the Arizona Supreme Court.

The defense said it would not call any more witnesses.

In a post-conviction television interview, the soft-spoken former waitress said she would prefer the death penalty to life in prison, and she was temporarily placed on suicide watch in jail.

In the mitigation phase of the trial, the defense had hoped to call Arias' friend Patricia Womack to testify on her behalf. But defense counsel Kirk Nurmi told the court on Monday that Womack had received threats and would not testify.

Artist: Arias shared some of her drawings that she has done while in prison. Illustrated on the left is Elizabeth Taylor. On the right is Elvis Presley.

Pleading: 'Until very recently I could not imagine standing before you all and asking for you to give me life,' she said. 'But as I stand here now I cannot in good conscience ask you to sentence me to death'

Saying Womack's absence would deny the jury a full picture of Arias' life prior to meeting Alexander in 2006, Nurmi unsuccessfully requested a mistrial, which would have affected the sentencing portion of the trial while leaving her murder conviction intact.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez told the court on Monday that, in a prior interview with Womack, she had refused to answer questions about her drug use. He said that her refusal to incriminate herself would have precluded her from testifying.

The jury that convicted Arias of murder found last week she had acted with extreme cruelty and ruled her eligible for the death penalty.

The murder trial has featured graphic testimony and photographs as well as a sex tape and became a sensation on cable television news with the tale of an attractive, young woman charged with an unthinkable crime.

Arias has said she shot Alexander with his own pistol when he attacked her in a rage because she dropped his camera while taking snapshots of him in the shower. She said she did not remember stabbing him.

Pressure: Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Monday. No witnesses are speaking in her defense

Martinez said Arias had repeatedly stabbed Alexander for two minutes as he tried to escape from the bathroom. She then followed the bleeding victim down a hallway and slashed his throat when he was too weak to get away.

Alexander, a 30-year-old businessman and motivational speaker with whom Arias said she was having an on-again, off-again affair, knew he was going to die and was unable to resist his attacker at that point, Martinez said.

Last week, Nurmi walked jurors through eight mitigating factors they are being asked to consider as they mull Arias' punishment. Among the factors is whether Arias, who was 27 at the time of the murder and had no criminal history, had suffered abuse.

Nichole Cable: Kyle Dube Turns Himself Into Police

Another "help find" perpetrator?

https://www.facebook.com/kyle.dube.775

see this:  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2494816300701&set=pb.1561620514.-2207520000.1369151955.&type=3&theater

We know that Billie Jean Dunn, Scott Peterson, Deborah Bradley, Justin DiPietro, Sergio Celis and others love to be front and center, join the search...and appear to be 'helping' when they are, in fact, in complete knowledge of the location of the remains.

Nichole Cable: Body Found, UPDATE

Suspect turned himself in.  Kyle Dubay (sic)  breaking...

Body found believed to be missing teen

GLENBURN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- State Police and the Penobscot County Sheriff's Office says a body was located Monday night and is likely the remains of fifteen year old Nichole Cable of Glenburn.

Positive identification will not take place until further examination by the State Medical Examiner's Office Tuesday. The remains were found about 9:30 p.m. by the Maine Warden Service at an undisclosed wooded location. The site has been secured for the night and the recovery of the remains will begin at daylight Tuesday morning. The parents of the girl w

Mark Redwine: Can Someone Read Analysis and Correct A Statement?

Can someone read analysis and write a statement out with analysis in mind?  Can someone see how they were previously caught and make a change to sound truthful?

Can someone, even with analysis before them, write out a statement and still get 'caught' in deception?

Here is a statement released by Mark Redwine, 6 months after his son was reported missing.  Statement Analysis has shown deception on his part.  Here is the statement released, and up next will be the statement with analysis:

"I would like to take the opportunity to address the disappearance of my son Dylan as we are now at 6 months. Our community like many across the country are still missing one of our children. I like the many who know him miss his happy personality, smile as well as his outgoing and giving nature. I know Dylan is loved and missed by all those who know him and we owe it to him to continue our search to find him. Over the last several months the focus in finding Dylan seems to have changed to blaming and disrespect. I will be the first to say "I will never give up" and I am honored to have Dylan as my son.

There are many aspects of Dylan's disappearance, I like many in our communities across the country struggle with each day. I am asking that we stop and evaluate the process as a community, to come up with a more productive approach in the search for Dylan and missing children across the country. I feel more should be done anytime a child goes missing. No child who is missing should have to wait for certain criteria to be met before the public is notified and an alert be sent out. I want to find my son and bring him home safe. I need the help of every single person out there to do this. Dylan could be anywhere out there so PLEASE look at his picture and the face of every child you see his age to see if it could be Dylan.

There have been many rumors started most of which are untrue and none that have been helpful in our search for Dylan. There are a few members of the community who continue to hamper the search efforts. It's not for me to judge these individuals nor do I believe Dylan would condone anyone else judging them. I thank the many individuals and businesses who have contributed in our search for Dylan. Although several attempts have been made, I would like to publicly invite Dylan's mother too mediation services being offered. I believe the more we all work together to bring Dylan home the more successful his safe return will be.

To Dylan: I know in my heart you are out there and can see all the things that are going on. "I want you to know I love you and will never give up to bring you home safe". Myself as well as many in our community and across the nation have you in our thoughts and prayers everyday. Each day many including me, search for the truth and the person or persons responsible for your disappearance. Speaking for myself, I will not rest until the truth comes out and justice has been served.

To Cory: Like Dylan I love you and will never give up on you. Regardless of the things you say or do I will always care. I feel the same pain, hurt and feeling of helplessness you and your mother feel. I can't make this any more clear, I don't have Dylan, I have never had Dylan and I absolutely do not know where Dylan is.

To whom it may concern: I want you to live each day as it were your last. You can't run far enough or hide under any rock that can't be turned over. Dylan is loved by all who know him. You may find his disappearance entertaining or even amusing. Regardless of who you are and why? All I want is Dylan returned safely. The truth always comes out and when it does may God have pity on your soul.

I love you Dylan,

PaPa"

Nichole Cable: Search Continues

From Bangor Daily News.  For those unfamiliar with Statement Analysis:   We sometimes use news articles, add italics to the quotes and then add Statement Analysis is bold type for readers. 

Nichole Cable

GLENBURN, Maine — Well over 500 people took to the roadsides, woods and bogs of the Glenburn area Sunday in the search for 15-year-old Nichole Cable, who last was seen a week ago.

“Thank you for coming to help find my baby girl. It means the world to me that the community is here for us,” Kristine Wiley, the missing teen’s mother, told searchers during a brief, emotion-filled appearance Sunday morning at the Glenburn Fire Station.

Note "my" is very personal.  "Baby girl" needs to be found, in context. 

“Our goal is to bring her home safe and I want to thank you for being here,” Wiley said as she stood flanked by family before a small sea of volunteers, the vast majority of them wearing orange vests and sturdy boots.

Note the expected "I" from the mother, from the plural "our", making it very strong. 

Besides more than a dozen law enforcement officials, Sunday’s massive search effort drew an estimated 100 trained volunteers from 17 search and rescue teams from throughout Maine.

It also involved more than 400 people from Glenburn and surrounding communities who merely wanted to help bring the Glenburn teenager home.

“It’s probably the most volunteers, civilian volunteers, we’ve had on a search in six or seven years, that I can remember,” Dave Martin, president of Orono-based Dirigo Search and Rescue, said. “I knew we were going to get a lot. I didn’t think we’d get this many. But it’s gotten a lot of publicity. You know, it’s a kid.”

The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department’s investigation into Cable’s disappearance began last Monday morning, when Cable’s parents, Jason and Kristine Wiley of Glenburn,reported her missing.

On their Facebook page, Bring Nichole Cable Home, the girl’s parents said they last saw Cable on Sunday night and that they believe their daughter was last known to be with a man using a fictitious name on a Facebook account.

Since then, fliers have been posted and shared over the Internet by family and friends throughout Penobscot County and well beyond and information about the case has spread around the world over the Internet.

While most of the searchers worked the roadsides, woods and boggy areas on foot, some looked for signs of the teenager on horseback or aboard off-road vehicles. Their area of focus was the land along Route 221, also known as Hudson Road, and Route 43 in Glenburn, Hudson and west Old Town.

To make sure every volunteer was accounted for by the end of the day, volunteers had to sign in and sign out.

Before sending them off to their designated search areas, Warden Rick LaFlamme outlined what was expected of the volunteers as he counted them off in groups of 10, each of which was assigned a team leader.

“No one goes rogue on him,” the warden said. “If you go run rogue and someone gets hurt and someone doesn’t know you’re gone, we’re gonna be searching for you tonight and one search is enough for this town, I think.

“We’re not looking for cigarette butts, we’re not looking for soda cans or water bottles at all. We’re looking for possibly a belt and possibly some jewelry or a cellphone. That’s it.”

While Sunday’s search was underway, the Maine State Police Major Crime Unit was at a residence on Maplewood Avenue in Orono with an evidence response team. It was not clear if that investigation was connected to Cable’s disappearance.

  Note that the search was in a specific geographical area. 

Penobscot County Chief Deputy Troy Morton could not be reached for comment late Sunday afternoon.

“I don’t have any information on that,” Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Sunday evening.

Besides the county sheriff’s office and warden service, the search effort through Sunday has involved personnel and expertise from the Maine State Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Center for Missing Children, Bangor Police Department and others.

Among the community members who turned up for Sunday’s search were Matt and Lynn McDonald and their three daughters, Kelsea, 14, Megan, 12, and Riliee, 9. Matt McDonald said the girls used to go to school with Cable in Alton before she moved to Glenburn.

“We’ve seen it on Facebook and stuff, they used to go to school with her and they’ve seen everything that’s going on, so we wanted to come out. We figured we could do our best to help out however they want to use us.”

“She was in our elementary school,” Kelsea McDonald said. “She was friends with everybody. She liked to, you know, talk and stuff. She was pretty normal, I guess.”

Matt McDonald said he hoped Cable would be found soon.

“It’s kind of scary, having three girls,” he said.

“It’s hitting close to home,” said Lynn McDonald, adding that Cable’s disappearance was a wake-up call for parents.

“Not knowing, just not knowing anything, so many questions,” Matt McDonald said.

The McDonalds said that only their oldest daughter currently is allowed to have a Facebook account.

“We get to check it at all times. Nothing gets deleted. Anything suspicious, we take care of it,” Lynn McDonald said.

“I think we’re going to keep doing what we’re doing,” her husband said. “I hope some parents, they pick the pace up. I think it’s been too relaxed. We’ve always been really strict.”

On the eve of Sunday’s search, members of the community prayed for Cable’s safe return. Though it was too windy for the planned candlelight vigil, Glenburn Covenant Church Pastor Jack Dowling and his wife, Becca, led about a dozen people in a nearly hourlong outdoor prayer session.

The pastor said Saturday that he and his wife spent time with Cable’s family earlier that day and pulled the prayer vigil together in a matter of three hours because the community wanted one “and because of an acknowledgement that prayer works and we’re a praying church.”

“The family wanted the people in attendance here tonight to know that they appreciated the prayers, they appreciate their support and that they as a family are convinced that Nichole is going to come home safe and sound,” Jack Dowling said.

“Nichole’s friends have been with them all day,” added Becca Dowling. “It’s good to know that her friends are around her family.”

“There’s a number of people supporting her family,” the pastor said.

“It’s really sad. I have a 15-year-old granddaughter, so I can’t even imagine. It would be horrifying,” church member Sharon Brigalli said. “But it’s just nice to see how the community has come together. Not just Glenburn, but all the local towns. Old Town, Hermon, they’re all doing what they can. The kids are out there doing what they can.

“It’s just great to see that people can come together in a crisis situation like this, and knowing as we watched the helicopters all day long flying all around and all the police and everything … that everybody’s out there doing what they can,” she said.

“I just care for the whole town and I feel for her,” added Larry Gallant, who helped build the Glenburn church in the 1940s.

In an update issued via email early Sunday evening, Morton thanked the public for its support of the search on behalf of Cable’s family and the many other agencies involved in the effort to find her.

“The search for Nichole Cable continues,” he said. “Today, the Maine Warden Service asked for the public’s help conducting ground searches in the Glenburn, Hudson and west Old Town area. The public responded when more than 350 family, friends and total strangers arrived at the Glenburn Fire Station at 9:30 a.m. for an instructional briefing.

“Several items were located and investigators will be reviewing these items along with the tips that continue to come in,” he said. “Up to this point the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office has received more than 200 tips and leads. Ground and air searches will continue tomorrow but at this time no volunteers are needed.

Statement Analysis: President Obama On Manhood

This portion of a speech was delivered to the graduates of Morehouse College on May 19, 2013 in which the President speaks about manhood, his wife and daughters.  He spoke to a black college of male only students.  He said he wanted to “transform the way we think about manhood,”

to "transform" is to change.  One would need to know the way "we think" about manhood(the subject's reference point)  in order to know what it is being changed.  Note that it is not what the subject thinks, but what "we" think. This indicates the subject includes his thinking with that of the audience at Morehouse College. 

Delivering a commencement address at the all-male private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Obama spoke in deeply personal terms about the “special obligation” he feels as a black man to help those left behind.

“There but for the grace of God, I might be in their shoes,” Obama said. “I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family — and that motivates me.”

Note the order:
1.  Prison
2.  Unemployed 
3.  Unable to support a family

Note that these three things motivate the President of the United States. 

The president also reflected on the absence of his father growing up, noting that he was raised by a “heroic single mother,” and urged the young graduates not to shrink from their family responsibilities.

“My whole life, I’ve tried to be for Michelle and my girls what my father wasn’t for my mother and me. I want to break that cycle — where a father’s not at home, where a father’s not helping to raise that son and daughter. I want to be a better father, a better husband, a better man.”

"My whole life" does not include any dating of time prior to marriage.  This skips over a great deal of time, from childhood until marriage.  This period of life skipped over is the formative years and have been controversial in the debates over the subject's biography.  He does not consider the two + decades preceding marriage as part of his "whole life."

Please note the use of the pronoun "I" as strong.
Note also that the word "tried" in the past tense is an indication of attempt and failure.  Does the context of this statement support this?

Note the verb, "want" is in the present tense, indicating that he has not been for Michelle and his girls what he intends to be.  
He "wants" to break the cycle, which he has not.  
Note "that" is distancing language.  He wants to break, present tense, "that" (distance) cycle. This is for the future. 

He wants to be a better:
a.  father
b.  husband
c.  man

Order indicates priority. 

Sidney Randall: Body Located; No ID as of Yet

LAWRENCE COUNTY, AR (KAIT) - Lawrence County Sheriff Jody Dotson confirmed the body of a young female was found in

the Black River near the Lawrence and Randolph County lines Saturday evening.

Sheriff Dotson says the body was found near Old Davidsonville State Park by a fisherman around 5:40 p.m. 

"We want to thank that fisherman for calling in. People were still out looking," Sheriff Dotson said. 

"Everybody that called in tips and everything during this entire search, we really appreciate it," Dotson said.

The body had been caught in a tree in the water about 1.5 miles south of a boat ramp.

Dotson says it appeared to have been underwater for some time.  

The family of missing 14-year-old Sidney Randall has been notified as a courtesy, according to police.

Randall was reported missing exactly 10 weeks ago. The 5'4", 85 lb. girl was last seen Saturday, March 9 wearing a brown Aeropostale jacket.

John Cornell, the primary suspect in Randall's disappearance was found dead near his truck Monday, March 11 from what appeared

to be a self inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department.

After Cornell's death, Arkansas State Police issued a level 2 Morgan Nick Amber Alert for the 14-year-old.

The unidentified body has been sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for positive identification.

Region 8 News will continue to track the details of this developing story