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people who had found their own eternal loves. Jodi wanted that more than anything.
    Darryl left his position as food and beverage manager and became a member of the
     wait staff. Finally, he was no longer her boss. The relationship was on.
    The pair traveled to the Bay Area where they went on sightseeing trips and attended
     football games to see their favorite team - the San Francisco 49ers. Jodi is a big
     49ers fan, and they had fun seeing Terrell Owens and their other favorite players
     in action. They talked about their future together, with Darryl warning that he wasn’t
     interested in marriage.
    The two fell in love.
    The sex was good, too. They experimented with anal _ another oddity that would emerge
     again and again throughout Jodi’s murder trial.
    Always the amateur photographer, Jodi took provocative pictures of Darryl in the
     nude and in the shower. She took pictures of Darryl shaving, when he slept, on all
     sorts of other occasions. She liked to take pictures of Travis, too.
    Jodi eventually left Ventana and went to work as a waitress and bartender in nearby
     Monterrey. The real estate boom that marked the 2000s was surging, and Jodi wanted
     to become an investor to capitalize on the soaring white-hot market. She says she
     took classes at Monterrey Peninsula College and learned about real estate.
    By the summer of 2005, she and Darryl were ready for a change of scenery, so they
     moved south to Palm Desert, Calif., a city known for its punishing summertime heat
     and more comfortable winter climate that draws thousands of snowbirds every year.
     Also, Darryl’s ex-wife was moving to the area at the same time, so it made sense to
     be in Palm Desert for when he visitation rights with his son.
    Jodi and Darryl bought a house together where little Jack would visit. Jodi and Jack
     grew closer, and she was a stepmother of sorts to the little boy. On one Father’s
     Day, Jodi put her art skills to use by giving her lover a drawn family picture as
     a gift.
    They bought a three-bedroom home with a swimming pool in June 2005, despite the fact
     that their finances were shaky, to say the least. Darryl didn’t have a job at the
     time, and Jodi was working at a local California Pizza Kitchen and later took on a
     second restaurant job. Jodi had more than $10,000 in savings earlier in her relationship
     with Darryl, but she burned through it by the end of their time together.
    She was paying half the mortgage, and had a new expense when she traveled to the
     San Diego area to get breast implants.
    Then little Jack’s mother suddenly decided to relocate to the Monterrey area - more
     than nine hours away - prompting them to re-evaluate their decision to move to southern
     California. Darryl began looking for work in Monterrey, and the relationship seemed
     to crumble day by day in the summer of 2006.
    Darryl started noticing changes in Jodi around this time. She quit paying household
     bills, her behavior became strange. She ran up credit card debt and had trouble paying
     her half of the mortgage, now $2,800 a month.
    She became more spiritual and started spending time with Mormon missionaries. Young
     Mormon men who were total strangers to Darryl were suddenly in his living room holding
     prayer sessions. Jodi scolded Darryl when he cursed.
    They quit having sex. Jodi was saving herself for her husband, she said. They broke
     up, Darryl moved away, and the house went into foreclosure.
    But it wasn’t all bleak for Jodi. She had three new things in her life that brought
     her excitement: the Mormon church, a company called Prepaid Legal, and a man named
     Travis Victor Alexander.

Chapter 4 'I'm Travis Alexander'

Chapter 4
“I’m Travis Alexander”
    “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
    The question was posed to Jodi from a 20-something co-worker at a California Pizza
     Kitchen.
    “Real estate,” Jodi replied. “What about you?”
    Retirement, he said. The co-worker had what he considered a