Graphic Autopsy Photos In Jodi Arias Death Row Trial Show Deep Gash Across Victim's Throat
Jan. 7 2013, Published 4:46 a.m. ET
Both the jury and the victim's family were visibly upset by the graphic autopsy photos revealed during the Jodi Arias murder trial on Tuesday, as Breaking Celebrity News can reveal from inside the courtroom.
Dr. Kevin Horn performed the autopsy on victim Travis Alexander on June 12, 2008, and told the Maricopa County court disturbing details of his death, along adding speculation to the order of his extensive injuries.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Jodi, now 32, is accused of shooting 30-year-old motivational speaker and former boyfriend in the face, stabbing him 27 times and slitting his throat from ear to ear in his Mesa, Arizona home.
She has admitted to the killing but is claiming it was in self defense.
Dr. Horn told prosecutor Juan Martinez that Alexander was most likely stabbed first and then shot, saying he believed Travis suffered defensive knife wounds on his hands and wrists "from a sharp-edged object. I believe he was alive."
The medical examiner went on to reveal the extensive injuries suffered by the 5'9" man at the hands of Arias, including injury to his shoulder, a stab wound under the chin that “penetrates a major vessel going into the heart," bruising on his shin possibly from blunt force trauma or being dragged before death, two deep incision wounds to the skull, and clusters of nine deep stab wounds to his back on and between the shoulder blades.
The graphic and