Arias' Mom Told Police During Tearful Interrogation, 'Jodi Has Mental Problems'

April 3 2013, Published 2:50 p.m. ET
For the past three months, murder defendant Jodi Arias' mother has sat quietly in the courtroom listening to horrific and often X-rated testimony without showing an ounce of emotion - but newly released video shows the nightmare that she has endured for years coping with what she termed, her daughter's "mental problems."
In the videotaped police interview with Sandra Arias in the weeks after Travis Alexander's body was found butchered at his Arizona home in June 2008, the heartbroken mom breaks down in floods of tears as she reveals details of how she feared Jodi was sp