Jodi Arias Trial Live Stream, Watch Online: Mormon Elder Who Taught Arias Sex Laws Speaks [VIDEO]
The live court session for Jodi Arias' first-degree murder trial will return on Monday for the 2008 Arizona killing of Travis Alexander.
The trial can be watched via the free live stream below.
Arias testified last month that Alexander told her it was OK under the Mormon Law of Chastity to have premarital oral and anal sex, not vaginal sex, after she converted to the religion two months after meeting him in 2007.
HLNTV host Dr. Drew aired an interview with an unidentified Mormon elder who claimed he taught Arias about the church's chastity laws, so Arias knew she was not supposed to have sex with Alexander.
"When we teach the Law of Chastity as missionaries, we say these words, 'To live the Law of Chastity is to live a life completely abstinent of sexual relations outside a legal marriage,'" the elder told the psychologist on Dr. Drew On Call. "We didn't mention all the types of things that were off-limits. The words 'any sexual relations', you would think, would be pretty self-explanatory. [Arias] didn't ask us."
Watch Dr. Drew's interview with the Mormon elder here.
When the jury submitted over 200 questions for Arias when she sat on the witness stand last month, many of them inquired about the Mormon church's chastity laws. During her questioning by the jury, Arias was asked if she had read the Book of Mormon and if it mentioned the church's Law of Chastity. She answered that she read the Mormon book but it does not fully explain the Mormon's Law of Chastity, according to HLNTV.
Arias - who stabbed Alexander over 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the head - claimed during her three-month trial that she was emotionally and sexually abused by Alexander. She said he had several fetishes, including masturbating to photos of children. She also testified that he penetrated her vaginally for the first time while she slept in his bed.
Arias, 31, has been on trial since Jan. 4 for Alexander's murder. According to police, she lied twice at first about how he was killed and later admitted that she killed him in an act of self-defense. If she is convicted of the murder and the lies that she confessed to, she will likely face the death penalty and become the fourth woman in Arizona's history to die by lethal injection.
Watch Arias' murder trial live online when it resumes on Monday, April 8 at 12:30 p.m. EST.