For six tumultuous weeks, jurors in Jodi Arias' first-degree murder trial have been treated to a colorful parade of witnesses, a string of harrowing allegations and numerous extraordinary sights that include explicit nude photos of the defendant.
Court watchers have often been left with their jaws hanging open as testimony is often punctuated by an inordinate amount of detailed sexcapades and bizarre testimony.
The 32-year-old photographer's guilt or innocence in the brutal slaying of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander remains in limbo, pending the completion of her trial -- something that could take at least six more weeks to complete. However, there is no mistaking at this point that the murder defendant -- a woman accused of stabbing her ex 27 times, shooting him in the head and slitting his throat from ear to ear -- has made some strange statements.
The Huffington Post has gone over Arias' police interrogations, testimony and evidence presented in the case and compiled 15 of Arias' more bizarre statements. There will likely be more to add later as the trial continues.
Read on to read Jodi Arias' most bizarre statements: (Readers are warned that some of the content is graphic)
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"Let's try to astral project and we can find each other while we are sleeping," Arias told Alexander in a 2008 recorded phone conversation played in court.
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"I was really naive and I kind of believed him," Arias testified, referring to an ex-boyfriend who "entertained the belief in vampires" and wanted to move to San Francisco to look for vampires.
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"He refused to kiss me because he said it was gross ... maybe because I had been performing oral sex, but he kissed me on the cheek and then left," Arias said in court about a September 2006 sexual liaison with Alexander.
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"I'm kind of like a one-guy-at-a-time kind of person … I didn't want to have anything overlapping," Arias testified about her relationship with Alexander.
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"To me sex is sex, they are just different ways to have sex. And it seemed like Travis was, kind of — I don't know how to put it, but it seemed like he had the Bill Clinton version, whereas over here it seemed like oral and anal were also sex to me. But not for him," Arias testified during her third day on the stand.
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"I probably would have let him continue, but it was too painful," Arias testified in reference to having anal sex with Alexander on Nov. 26, 2008 — the day he baptized Arias into the Mormon faith. She added, "[I felt like] a piece of toilet paper."
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"Oh my God that is so debasing, but I like it," Arias said in a 2008 recorded conversation with Alexander when he said he wanted to tie her to a tree and have anal sex with her.
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"I think there was a naive belief that I could pretend [Alexander's murder] didn't really happen," Arias said in a 2009 interview with "48 Hours."
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"That is one of the things I am scared of — guns and] public speaking. That was one of the things [Travis Alexander] was trying to get me to do — get out of my comfort zone," Arias told a Mesa, Ariz., police detective in June 2008.
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"No jury is going to convict me ... you can mark my words on that one — no jury will convict me," Arias told the TV show "Inside Edition" in 2008, after she was indicted for murdering Alexander.
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"If I killed Travis, I would beg for the death penalty," Arias commented to a police detective in July 2008.
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"There's a morbid curiosity ... I mean I am curious," Arias told police when asked if she wanted to view the crime scene photos.
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"If I was going to ever try to kill somebody, I would use gloves. I have plenty of them," Arias told a police detective in July 2008.
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"I'm all for the Ten Commandments — thou shall not kill," Arias told police.
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"I had issues with Travis [but] I had worse issues with other people and they're all still alive," Arias told police.