Jodi Arias Screws Over the Alexanders AGAIN

Jodi Arias-post sentencing Mugshot

Phoenix, Arizona: Just a few short hours ago, Maricopa County Superior Court judge, Sherry Stephens, announced that Jodi Arias must pay restitution to Travis Alexander's family in order of more than $30,000.

Arias, who is now serving the life sentence handed to her in April, was not at the hearing.

The restitution is to cover travel, lodging and other costs arising from having to attend two trials.

It is roughly one-third of the $100,000 restitution the Alexander family had asked for. And Arias' defence attorney, Jennifer Willmott, was quick to point that the reason for the discrepancy in the two figures, is "because they didn't turn in all the necessary receipts."

Willmott also explained that she arrived at the amount to be distributed to each family member using the receipts that were submitted to her. She also revealed, that she had asked the family to disclose the amount of money they received in donations from trial followers to "offset their expenses". They declined to reveal the amount.

Prosecutor, Juan Martinez, told the hearing that the Alexander family had been too traumatised by the two trials to come to the restitution hearing, so Judge Stephens awarded the amounts proposed by the defence.
The amounts break down as follows:
Travis' Sisters: Samantha, $15,530.73, Tanisha, $10,754.99, Hilary, $4,232.11.
Travis' Brothers: Stephen, $1,372, and Dennis, $225.60.

Even though $30,000 is nothing to be sneezed at, when you consider the trauma and lost this family has had to endure for six very long years, a lot of it in the public view, it's a pittance.

And of course, Willmott had to stick the boot in my reminding the world that Arias most likely won't ever be able to pay for it! 

"In the past, my experience has been that victims are unlikely to get the money when somebody has been sent to prison for so long because they don't have the ability to make it," Willmott said. "Eventually she'll be able to get a job making 10, 20 cents an hour so they can take money from that, but it's very small." 

Poor Jodi! :'( 

So it seems that yet again Jodi Arias is going to screw over the Alexanders. They probably never expected to get anything from her, and maybe this is just a formality to them.


Below you'll find two videos. Each is the same interview with Jennifer Willmott, just  set in two parts. It's unedited, and raw. So it's a rather interesting insight into her.