Defense psychologist startling bombshell in grisly murder trial of JODI ARIAS who is accused to butchering and then shooting her former lover Travis Alexander.
Arias has repeatedly told the Maricopa County Court in Phoenix, Ariz. that she has “no memory” of killing during which she stabbed her Mormon lover 29 times, slit his throat and shot him, even going so far to claim that “June 4 is an anomaly for me.”
Dr. Richard Samuels, a psychologist testifying for the defense, explained how a certain type of memory loss can be triggered by intense stress as the fight or flight response shuts down the parts of the brain where memories are registered.
“The hippocampus is the seat of memory,” he told the court, saying that memories lost during a blackout can never be revived.