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Behind Jodi's Letter
May 14, 2015
Kim Anne Whittemore
Well, well... Guess what? I just checked the mail and a letter has arrived from summer camp... oh wait, I mean college... oh crap, our letter has the return address of Perryville Prison in Goodyear, Az. It must be from Jodi... let's open it and see what she has to say. She must be short on paper because the handwriting is SO small! Hmmm... well, let me help you all out and transcribe it...
Her letter tells us a lot about her inner terror (and there's no doubt in my mind that she wrote it -- content and handwriting obviously belong to her). The tiny, cramped writing is reflective of her new world. She even started the letter with miniature letters so that she could fit two sentences on every line. She's in perpetual preservation mode -- never enough of anything and not allowed to stockpile much beyond lotions and shampoo (and then, only as much as she can fit in her cell). She'd better get used to it. When she's finally dead, someone will drag of garbage bag of her worthless earthly belongings out to a family member's car and toss it in the trunk. That's as much as she will ever own.
The day she arrived, everyone was professional and efficient? What does that mean? Does she think the world believed that her jailer was Vlad the Impaler? Professional and efficient. Does that mean they did a strip search without laughing at the size of her...well, you know. Professional and efficient are code words for distant and unfriendly, and they're about the best qualities you can hope for in people who are chaining your hands and feet together after you've bent over, coughed, and showered in front of them. The warden has already told the media that the guards who will be interacting with Jodi Arias have been advised that she is a highly manipulative individual and they are to limit their communication with her -- in other words, no socializing or chit chat. I think this treatment (while frustrating because she has to socialize with them if she's going to manipulate them) was a relief to her. She probably thought it was going to be far worse (and maybe it was, but she doesn't want anyone to know). She's made a lot of noise meant to demean Sheriff Arpaio, and she broke many rules and complicated his life while she was in his custody. There is a sense of unity between correctional officers. They work in a terrible environment and they do not like problem inmates (and Arias was a problem inmate).
Her ramblings about her "DOC photo" (she won't allow herself to call it what the rest of the world calls it -- a mugshot) are so transparent. She claims she was told that her mugshot made her look "tired" and "sad". Really? I didn't hear such sympathetic terms used to describe the "photo", but still, she has to debunk them. While it would be perfectly natural for someone in her position (at that moment) to be tired and sad, she wasn't. If she was going to be honest about what she had heard about this well-circulated mugshot, she would admit that she was mocked when the world saw it. I have seen words like defeated, humiliated, broken, and terrified used to describe that picture. I've read, more times than I can count, "Where's the smirk we saw in her first mug shot?". As she continues sharing stupid details about being processed into prison, she invokes a particular name: Debbie Milke (Debbie -- not Debra, the name used by those who reported on her case). Why? Because Arias knows that when people read that name, they will think "wrongful conviction, corrupt detective, sentence overturned, defeated prosecutor, freed from prison". She wants everyone to think that's her story, and because her story will end the same way Milke's did, she's going to walk the same path as Debra Milke.
Deborah Milke = Mugshot looking tired/sad!
Her journey even begins the same way Milke's did -- with her eyes being blinded with halogen lights (where did she get access to Milke's booking photo, and why was she looking at it? I've never seen it). Then she writes that she was put under suicide watch -- but hey, it was fake suicide watch (because she's perfectly content with the idea of being permanently exiled from society and living with murderers). I think she wrote about this because she knows that the information will eventually get out to the public, so she's mounting a preemptive strike. She wasn't there for "mental health reasons" either (this is her way of telling everyone that her alleged mental illness is nothing more than a mitigator used at trial). While everyone else is on suicide watch, Arias is there for "security reasons -- whatever that means" (it's a prison, idiot -- what do you think it means?). She's implying that she's so popular, so high profile, and so important that she requires special security. She knows damn well that she was there because she was on suicide watch. Jodi Arias has talked about suicide more often than a counselor manning the phones at a suicide hotline. Besides, this is probably standard protocol for every inmate who has just been told that they are spending the rest of their life in a cage with no hope of leaving alive.
Arias then jumps on another opportunity to invoke Milke’s name — she thought she was going to be in “Debbie's” old cell, but alas, she wasn't. Why anyone would care is beyond me. Milke won’t be needing it, so put someone in it. Speaking of cells, Arias says that her cell is NOT blue (her way of saying, "Screw you people who thought I was going to be surrounded with that Travis blue color"). Instead, it's white -- which she says is more proof that you can't trust the media. Well, for those who have been following the reporting on this case, that cell WAS blue when the media showed it on television. It has been painted since that tour of her cage was televised (something confirmed by Shawna Forde -- Arias' "neighbor" who recently had her cell painted white). She describes it as though it were an apartment -- it even has "shelving". BTW, who uses the word "unfinished" to describe a concrete floor? Jodi Arias, that's who. To combat a report circulating on Facebook, the one that says Arias will be living in a place that smells like a filthy dog kennel, she writes that her cell is clean and smells like fresh paint.
Then we hear about a virtual Disney movie playing out in front of her eyes. Yes, the happy little birds and the adorable gophers are running around (birds fly). Arias, killer of Doggie Boy and abuser of cats, is communing with her animal friends just as Cinderella did before she was magically released from her life of drudgery. Never mind that note Shawna Forde released -- you know that one that complained of bird droppings on the unwashed food trays -- those birds are not a problem. They are heaven sent little friends dispatched to minister to the inmates in Perryville. And what's up with those horrible guards? The woman who butchered a man drew a judgmental little sad face in protest of the guards who are putting poison pellets in the homes of her little friends (the irony is astounding).
Oh, and isn't it interesting that the same woman who casually tosses out the word

to describe strip searches can't spell gopher and bologna (she writes gofer and balogna -- words that are mastered in the third grade). I wonder if she’ll ever mention the rats and the roaches.
Then we get to the culinary delights of Perryville. Don’t smile haters — she’s eating as well as you. In fact, that food isn’t just an improvement — it’s a MAJOR improvement over the food "at her last location" (i.e. — solitary confinement). What is it a major improvement over? Nothing terrible — just bland food. So there. If you thought that those Estrella inmates who were on a hunger strike were right, or if you really believed that the loaf of bread Nancy Grace smacked against a rock was as hard as cement, you've been deceived. Arias wasn't suffering. She was just concerned about the high sugar content in the food. (Ha!) This from the woman who wrote about her prison recipe for raspberry cheese cake, purchased hundreds of chocolate bars from the commissary, and even posed with one for a photo. But, hey...it's Arpaio's fault for allowing her to indulge in what she called "the diabetes inducing diet" -- it has nothing to do with her idiotic supporters who kept her flush with candy. Anyway, no worries. She's been studying nutrition (I guess she found time to do that while waiting to hear if she was going to get a lethal injection). Now she's on a balanced, well-rounded diet. I'm sure America's homeless veterans will be thrilled to hear that. It's something to comfort them the next time they go scrounging through the dumpster behind McDonalds.
Then we get to the important stuff -- the stuff that has transformed Arias from a media sensation to her new status of rank and file lifer. Just like them, she's innocent, the state targeted her, the jury was corrupt, the judge had no mercy (if the judge gave Arias any more special treatment, she might have been burned in effigy), blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
As you look at the letter, one word sticks out, and that's because she used more space than she should have by writing ELEVEN and then, for further emphasis, underlined it. That number represents the corrupt jurors in her case (she should have added the alternates if she wanted to be accurate -- they were ready to send her to death row as well). And isn't it wonderful that people are congratulating her on her LWOP sentence. Are we supposed to be upset by that? I thought living the rest of her life in one place was the worst thing she could think of -- isn't that why she wanted to die (for the 95th time)? Whatever.
It's nice that she's seen so many familiar faces (if she saw faces, it's only because she's been trying to catch a glimpse of Angela Simpson and her sisters), and while she admits she's still in segregation, she claims that everyone has been so kind, respectful, and warm. Does that mean they haven't thrown urine at her while she marches around the perimeter of her outside cage (for an hour a day)?
Does this mean they didn't whisper, "Hey bitch, I own your ass" while she was being processed? Maybe Judge Stephens did obey God after all. She handed Jodi such a wonderful life. Someone even said she has "lady balls". I'll bet that person was either the prison doctor or someone who's seen her nude shots.
Reading on...Blah, blah, blah... corrupt prosecutor... blah, blah, blah....lies and distortions from the TA camp... the judge is a speed reader.... and let me stick JUROR 17 in your face a few more times, etc. I'm so glad we know her legal team approved her speech. Willmott didn't know about it and Nurmi was not on speaking terms with her, so if she is referring to De la Rosa as her legal team, there may some truth to what she says. She was NOT appealing for leniency -- she only appeals for facials, ass poundings, and well deserved spankings.
She closes with promises of mini-notes being sent out to the members of her fan club who have written to their idol, and lets them know that they are to send her photos. SHE will decide which ones she keeps and which ones she tosses. So much bullshit, and so much like her book review of Sue Ellen Allen's, "A Slumber Party from Hell".
Yes, Sue Ellen actually spent seven years in Perryville (while Arias hadn't even seen the prison at the time she wrote her book review), but still, Arias says she disagrees with Allen on several points. She disagreed with this sentiment: "The worst day of freedom is better than the best day of prison".
No, says Arias, this is not true! Her worst day of freedom (any day leading up to her arrest) was far worst than being incarcerated. Additionally, Allen is "wrong" when she says being moved in prison doesn't bode well for the inmate. Despite the fact that moving, for Jodi Arias, ultimately meant being removed from the lazy days of hanging out in the common areas with the general population and being locked up in solitary for 23 hours a day, moving was always a positive thing for her.
Sue Ellen Allen is normal -- she finds strip searches degrading and one is left with the feeling that she never got used to them. Arias says they are par for the course and not a big deal. Booty Duty, I think she called it. She is incapable, truly incapable of expressing an ounce of humility. I've asked several publishers if they believe that Jodi Arias is a topic that will, in short order, fail to interest the general public. They've said (paraphrased), "The trial will always be of interest -- like the OJ trial, Anthony trial, or Manson trial. As for Jodi herself, she will find ways to remain in the media, and throughout the years we will hear about her antics. She knows no other way to be and she will not go quietly". I think they're right, but I really wish she'd just shut the hell up already.
- If you enjoyed this post, check out the series by Kim Anne Whittemore, Behind The Words. You can look her up on amazon, or get links to purchase the bestseller books at: http://www.KimAWhittemore.com
May 14, 2015
Kim Anne Whittemore
Well, well... Guess what? I just checked the mail and a letter has arrived from summer camp... oh wait, I mean college... oh crap, our letter has the return address of Perryville Prison in Goodyear, Az. It must be from Jodi... let's open it and see what she has to say. She must be short on paper because the handwriting is SO small! Hmmm... well, let me help you all out and transcribe it...
Her letter tells us a lot about her inner terror (and there's no doubt in my mind that she wrote it -- content and handwriting obviously belong to her). The tiny, cramped writing is reflective of her new world. She even started the letter with miniature letters so that she could fit two sentences on every line. She's in perpetual preservation mode -- never enough of anything and not allowed to stockpile much beyond lotions and shampoo (and then, only as much as she can fit in her cell). She'd better get used to it. When she's finally dead, someone will drag of garbage bag of her worthless earthly belongings out to a family member's car and toss it in the trunk. That's as much as she will ever own.
The day she arrived, everyone was professional and efficient? What does that mean? Does she think the world believed that her jailer was Vlad the Impaler? Professional and efficient. Does that mean they did a strip search without laughing at the size of her...well, you know. Professional and efficient are code words for distant and unfriendly, and they're about the best qualities you can hope for in people who are chaining your hands and feet together after you've bent over, coughed, and showered in front of them. The warden has already told the media that the guards who will be interacting with Jodi Arias have been advised that she is a highly manipulative individual and they are to limit their communication with her -- in other words, no socializing or chit chat. I think this treatment (while frustrating because she has to socialize with them if she's going to manipulate them) was a relief to her. She probably thought it was going to be far worse (and maybe it was, but she doesn't want anyone to know). She's made a lot of noise meant to demean Sheriff Arpaio, and she broke many rules and complicated his life while she was in his custody. There is a sense of unity between correctional officers. They work in a terrible environment and they do not like problem inmates (and Arias was a problem inmate).
Her ramblings about her "DOC photo" (she won't allow herself to call it what the rest of the world calls it -- a mugshot) are so transparent. She claims she was told that her mugshot made her look "tired" and "sad". Really? I didn't hear such sympathetic terms used to describe the "photo", but still, she has to debunk them. While it would be perfectly natural for someone in her position (at that moment) to be tired and sad, she wasn't. If she was going to be honest about what she had heard about this well-circulated mugshot, she would admit that she was mocked when the world saw it. I have seen words like defeated, humiliated, broken, and terrified used to describe that picture. I've read, more times than I can count, "Where's the smirk we saw in her first mug shot?". As she continues sharing stupid details about being processed into prison, she invokes a particular name: Debbie Milke (Debbie -- not Debra, the name used by those who reported on her case). Why? Because Arias knows that when people read that name, they will think "wrongful conviction, corrupt detective, sentence overturned, defeated prosecutor, freed from prison". She wants everyone to think that's her story, and because her story will end the same way Milke's did, she's going to walk the same path as Debra Milke.
Deborah Milke = Mugshot looking tired/sad!
Her journey even begins the same way Milke's did -- with her eyes being blinded with halogen lights (where did she get access to Milke's booking photo, and why was she looking at it? I've never seen it). Then she writes that she was put under suicide watch -- but hey, it was fake suicide watch (because she's perfectly content with the idea of being permanently exiled from society and living with murderers). I think she wrote about this because she knows that the information will eventually get out to the public, so she's mounting a preemptive strike. She wasn't there for "mental health reasons" either (this is her way of telling everyone that her alleged mental illness is nothing more than a mitigator used at trial). While everyone else is on suicide watch, Arias is there for "security reasons -- whatever that means" (it's a prison, idiot -- what do you think it means?). She's implying that she's so popular, so high profile, and so important that she requires special security. She knows damn well that she was there because she was on suicide watch. Jodi Arias has talked about suicide more often than a counselor manning the phones at a suicide hotline. Besides, this is probably standard protocol for every inmate who has just been told that they are spending the rest of their life in a cage with no hope of leaving alive.
Arias then jumps on another opportunity to invoke Milke’s name — she thought she was going to be in “Debbie's” old cell, but alas, she wasn't. Why anyone would care is beyond me. Milke won’t be needing it, so put someone in it. Speaking of cells, Arias says that her cell is NOT blue (her way of saying, "Screw you people who thought I was going to be surrounded with that Travis blue color"). Instead, it's white -- which she says is more proof that you can't trust the media. Well, for those who have been following the reporting on this case, that cell WAS blue when the media showed it on television. It has been painted since that tour of her cage was televised (something confirmed by Shawna Forde -- Arias' "neighbor" who recently had her cell painted white). She describes it as though it were an apartment -- it even has "shelving". BTW, who uses the word "unfinished" to describe a concrete floor? Jodi Arias, that's who. To combat a report circulating on Facebook, the one that says Arias will be living in a place that smells like a filthy dog kennel, she writes that her cell is clean and smells like fresh paint.
Then we hear about a virtual Disney movie playing out in front of her eyes. Yes, the happy little birds and the adorable gophers are running around (birds fly). Arias, killer of Doggie Boy and abuser of cats, is communing with her animal friends just as Cinderella did before she was magically released from her life of drudgery. Never mind that note Shawna Forde released -- you know that one that complained of bird droppings on the unwashed food trays -- those birds are not a problem. They are heaven sent little friends dispatched to minister to the inmates in Perryville. And what's up with those horrible guards? The woman who butchered a man drew a judgmental little sad face in protest of the guards who are putting poison pellets in the homes of her little friends (the irony is astounding).
Oh, and isn't it interesting that the same woman who casually tosses out the word

to describe strip searches can't spell gopher and bologna (she writes gofer and balogna -- words that are mastered in the third grade). I wonder if she’ll ever mention the rats and the roaches.
Then we get to the culinary delights of Perryville. Don’t smile haters — she’s eating as well as you. In fact, that food isn’t just an improvement — it’s a MAJOR improvement over the food "at her last location" (i.e. — solitary confinement). What is it a major improvement over? Nothing terrible — just bland food. So there. If you thought that those Estrella inmates who were on a hunger strike were right, or if you really believed that the loaf of bread Nancy Grace smacked against a rock was as hard as cement, you've been deceived. Arias wasn't suffering. She was just concerned about the high sugar content in the food. (Ha!) This from the woman who wrote about her prison recipe for raspberry cheese cake, purchased hundreds of chocolate bars from the commissary, and even posed with one for a photo. But, hey...it's Arpaio's fault for allowing her to indulge in what she called "the diabetes inducing diet" -- it has nothing to do with her idiotic supporters who kept her flush with candy. Anyway, no worries. She's been studying nutrition (I guess she found time to do that while waiting to hear if she was going to get a lethal injection). Now she's on a balanced, well-rounded diet. I'm sure America's homeless veterans will be thrilled to hear that. It's something to comfort them the next time they go scrounging through the dumpster behind McDonalds.
Then we get to the important stuff -- the stuff that has transformed Arias from a media sensation to her new status of rank and file lifer. Just like them, she's innocent, the state targeted her, the jury was corrupt, the judge had no mercy (if the judge gave Arias any more special treatment, she might have been burned in effigy), blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...
As you look at the letter, one word sticks out, and that's because she used more space than she should have by writing ELEVEN and then, for further emphasis, underlined it. That number represents the corrupt jurors in her case (she should have added the alternates if she wanted to be accurate -- they were ready to send her to death row as well). And isn't it wonderful that people are congratulating her on her LWOP sentence. Are we supposed to be upset by that? I thought living the rest of her life in one place was the worst thing she could think of -- isn't that why she wanted to die (for the 95th time)? Whatever.
It's nice that she's seen so many familiar faces (if she saw faces, it's only because she's been trying to catch a glimpse of Angela Simpson and her sisters), and while she admits she's still in segregation, she claims that everyone has been so kind, respectful, and warm. Does that mean they haven't thrown urine at her while she marches around the perimeter of her outside cage (for an hour a day)?
Does this mean they didn't whisper, "Hey bitch, I own your ass" while she was being processed? Maybe Judge Stephens did obey God after all. She handed Jodi such a wonderful life. Someone even said she has "lady balls". I'll bet that person was either the prison doctor or someone who's seen her nude shots.
Reading on...Blah, blah, blah... corrupt prosecutor... blah, blah, blah....lies and distortions from the TA camp... the judge is a speed reader.... and let me stick JUROR 17 in your face a few more times, etc. I'm so glad we know her legal team approved her speech. Willmott didn't know about it and Nurmi was not on speaking terms with her, so if she is referring to De la Rosa as her legal team, there may some truth to what she says. She was NOT appealing for leniency -- she only appeals for facials, ass poundings, and well deserved spankings.
She closes with promises of mini-notes being sent out to the members of her fan club who have written to their idol, and lets them know that they are to send her photos. SHE will decide which ones she keeps and which ones she tosses. So much bullshit, and so much like her book review of Sue Ellen Allen's, "A Slumber Party from Hell".
Yes, Sue Ellen actually spent seven years in Perryville (while Arias hadn't even seen the prison at the time she wrote her book review), but still, Arias says she disagrees with Allen on several points. She disagreed with this sentiment: "The worst day of freedom is better than the best day of prison".
No, says Arias, this is not true! Her worst day of freedom (any day leading up to her arrest) was far worst than being incarcerated. Additionally, Allen is "wrong" when she says being moved in prison doesn't bode well for the inmate. Despite the fact that moving, for Jodi Arias, ultimately meant being removed from the lazy days of hanging out in the common areas with the general population and being locked up in solitary for 23 hours a day, moving was always a positive thing for her.
Sue Ellen Allen is normal -- she finds strip searches degrading and one is left with the feeling that she never got used to them. Arias says they are par for the course and not a big deal. Booty Duty, I think she called it. She is incapable, truly incapable of expressing an ounce of humility. I've asked several publishers if they believe that Jodi Arias is a topic that will, in short order, fail to interest the general public. They've said (paraphrased), "The trial will always be of interest -- like the OJ trial, Anthony trial, or Manson trial. As for Jodi herself, she will find ways to remain in the media, and throughout the years we will hear about her antics. She knows no other way to be and she will not go quietly". I think they're right, but I really wish she'd just shut the hell up already.
- If you enjoyed this post, check out the series by Kim Anne Whittemore, Behind The Words. You can look her up on amazon, or get links to purchase the bestseller books at: http://www.KimAWhittemore.com