Jodi Arias is an American woman who was convicted of the brutal 2008 first-degree murder of her ex-boyfriend. On June 4, 2008, Arias attacked her boyfriend in the shower at his home in Mesa, Arizona. She stabbed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat, and shot him in the head. Arias tried to clean the crime scene, hid or disposed of the evidence, and fled.