Is there a real possibility the infamous Jodi Arias case could be retried due to missing evidence and alleged misconduct?
For the first time in years, Jodi Arias is publicly addressing that question herself.
Arias was convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in 2008 after stabbing and shooting him in the shower. She is currently serving a life sentence. Now, more than a decade later, Arias has begun writing about her case again — and this time, her focus is not prison life, but the integrity of the investigation and prosecution that put her behind bars.
Why a Retrial in 2026 Is Unlikely But Possible
Through her attorneys, Arias has filed a post-conviction relief request. From inside Perryville Prison, she responded to investigative reporter Tammy Rose regarding the possibility of an interview related to that filing.
What New Evidence Could Change
Until now, Arias’ “Just Jodi” prison blog has largely avoided the details of her criminal case, focusing instead on daily life behind bars.
But a new post titled “Hello, 2026” marks a significant shift. In it, Arias makes serious allegations, claims misconduct, and states she is seeking new legal counsel to pursue them.
In the post, Arias accuses investigators and prosecutors of withholding, losing, or destroying exculpatory evidence. She specifically names former lead detective Steve Flores, now retired, and former prosecutor Juan Martinez.
“Important, exculpatory evidence in my case has been lost or destroyed,” Arias writes. “Where is my proof? I’m working on that.”
She also alleges her current legal representation has dismissed her concerns, claiming her attorneys minimize her claims while continuing to bill the county.
Adding to the controversy, both attorneys from Arias’ original trial were later disbarred. Former prosecutor Juan Martinez was disbarred for misconduct following the trial , and Arias’ defense attorney, Kirk Nurmi, was also disbarred after writing a book about his client while her case was still active — a move widely criticized as unethical.
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Court documents also reference requests for information regarding a book Martinez allegedly began writing during Arias’ first trial, raising additional concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
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What This Means for True Crime Watchers where should that go
So the question remains: do these claims — combined with documented misconduct surrounding key figures in the case— give Jodi Arias a legitimate path toward a new trial?
For now, the courts will decide whether her allegations warrant further review. But for the first time in years, Jodi Arias is no longer avoiding the case – she’s confronting it head-on.
Prosecutor Juan Martinez enters the courtroom with a key witness during the Jodi Arias trial. Photo by Tammy Rose.
Convicted murderer Jodi Arias may be closer than ever to a second shot at freedom — and her legal team believes former prosecutor Juan Martinez’s book could be the key.
Martinez allegedly began writing Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars while Arias was still on trial — long before it was published. Now, Arias’ attorneys are demanding business records from the literary agent Martinez originally hired, hoping those files will reveal whether he planned to profit from her case while prosecuting it.
If the records show ethical violations or conflicts of interest, her lawyers argue the trial itself may have been tainted — opening the door to post-conviction relief and a possible new path to freedom.Convicted murderer Jodi Arias may be closer than ever to a second shot at freedom — and her legal team believes former prosecutor Juan Martinez’s book could be the key. This isn’t the first controversy surrounding the Jodi Arias prosecution.
A judge has given Arias until September 2, 2026 to file her post-conviction petition. That deadline matters, because courts rarely reopen cases unless new evidence proves serious misconduct.
But Arias’ legal team believes these publishing records could do exactly that. If Martinez was negotiating a book deal while prosecuting Arias, it could violate ethical rules meant to prevent prosecutors from financially benefiting from active cases.
If proven, that conflict could be powerful enough to force the court to re-examine her conviction.
When Prosector Misconduct Changes Everything
History shows that misconduct can — and does — overturn even the most settled cases.
Curtis Flowers was tried six times for the same murders. Four convictions were thrown out after appeals courts found repeated prosecutorial misconduct and racial bias in jury selection. Eventually, all charges were dropped, and Flowers walked free.
James Alan Gell spent years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Prosecutors withheld evidence that could have cleared him. His conviction was overturned, he was acquitted in a new trial, and he was released.
These cases prove that when misconduct is exposed, even long-standing verdicts can collapse.
What This Means for True Crime Watchers
The Arias case has captivated millions for over a decade — but this development changes the story. This isn’t about whether people believe she is guilty. It’s about whether the person who prosecuted her played by the rules.
If Martinez was building a book deal while arguing for her conviction, it raises serious questions about fairness, motive, and integrity in one of the most watched trials in modern true-crime history.
Bottom Line
With the 2026 PCR deadline approaching, Arias’ attorneys are betting that what’s buried inside those publishing records could rewrite her fate — and possibly expose one of the most controversial prosecutorial conflicts the true-crime world has ever seen.
Court filings and evidence may soon tell the story that never made it into the courtroom. Click below to read the court documents.
Jodi Arias PCR filings remain delayed, and newly filed court records explain why the post-conviction relief process has stalled.
According to the court record, Arias’ attorneys requested that the court cancel scheduled oral arguments while they review business records connected to Folio Literary Management and author Steve Troha. Those records may relate to a 2016 book written by former prosecutor Juan Martinez and could impact arguments raised in Arias’ PCR case.
Until the review is complete, the court cannot move forward with the PCR process. Court documents also indicate the filing deadline has been pushed back, signaling that the case remains paused pending further review.
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It was a hot summer day in July of 1997 when a routine traffic report turned into breaking news for me. The Bell 47 I was flying in over the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin experienced a loss of engine power, forcing the pilot to make a hard, emergency landing near a local police station.
Our main helicopter was down for maintenance, and it was the first time I had flown in this particular aircraft — and it would be the last. The helicopter was heavily damaged, but everyone walked away safely.
Even so, the experience stayed with me. What could have ended my flying career instead became the moment that defined it. I wasn’t afraid to get back in the air, and I would go on to fly for another 30 years.
After that hard landing, I never flew without a reliable aviation headset again. This is the model I use today.
For as long as I can remember, I was told there was gold hidden beneath my great-grandparents’ home in the small town of Berlitt. The story was always the same — that during World War II, my family hid something valuable before the Russian army arrived.
No one knew exactly what was buried -but everyone knew it mattered.
As I grew older, I realized the whispers were not just about treasure. They were about fear, secrecy, and survival. Why would a simple farming family need to hide gold? And what were they afraid of being found?
Years later, those unanswered questions became impossible to ignore.
That is what led me back to Germany — to the house, to the people who lived there after my family, and to a past no one wanted to fully explain.
After writing several books, I decided to travel to Germany to make a documentary about my family in 2017.
What I discovered was disturbing.
My great-grandparents and my great-uncle were allegedly heavily involved in the Nazi Party and the SS, according to one of their elderly neighbors.
My research eventually led me to Günter Waschke, whose family received Richard and Helene Pein’s home after World War II.
Hans Rose with neighbors near our Berlitt, Germany home in 1991. Click on the link above to follow my ‘Buried Treasure’ journey.
Part Two —Shadows of the Past
While digging into the origins of a buried treasure legend, we uncover a family’s dark secret – a great-uncle once convicted of Nazi war crimes. History isn’t always comfortable — but it matters.
Richard & Helene Pein’s 25th Wedding Anniversary in 1935. (On the far right, Werner Pein’s photo is doctored. A swastika armband was removed from his left arm.) He would later be convicted of Nazi War crimes following WW II.
I sat down with a former owner of our Berlitt home, Günter Waschke in 2019.
My interview with Günter Waschke in 2019..
(Tammy Rose) “What can you tell me about my great-grandparents Richard & Helene Pein?
Richard PeinHelene Pein
(Günter Waschke) “I was 4 years old, so I do not remember much. Helene loved me as ‘little Günter’ because her son Günther was killed in the war.”
“From Richard, I have no remembering other than he was the Mayor of Berlitt and was regarded as a bad Nazi by the upcoming Communists. They forced him to move to Granzow on his second farm. Pein’s farm in Berlitt was expropriated and divided into small farms distributed to refugees from East Germany like my mother and me. The same process was conducted with the big farm of Earl/Graf Königsmark who had committed suicide before the Russians invaded. His castle was used as a school following the war and is located across the street from the Pein home near the Church of Berlitt.”
Earl/Graf Königsmark
Church of Berlitt
(Tammy Rose) “What else can you tell me about that time period and our old house?”
Helene & Richard Pein in front of their Berlitt Home just before the invasion.
(Günter Waschke) “My mother and I fled from our original home near Poznan, Poland in January 1945 by foot and took only what we could carry. I cried because I forgot my doll called Ria. We lived after the war in the right part of Pein’s house, seen from the street side, until 1950. Then my mother and I left Berlitt because my father who was a prisoner of war was set free and we moved to West Germany. Additionally, it was better to go to the West because Berlitt had become part of the communist German Democratic Republic under the goodwill of Stalin.”
This was the last family picture of the Peins taken at Christmas before their youngest son, Lt. Günther Pein was killed on October 18, 1944.
Part Three —Return to Berlitt and the Secrets Buried Below.
After years of unanswered questions, I travel to Berlitt, Germany, back to the small house where my family once lived-and where the gold was secretly buried long ago. Now under new ownership, the home stands as both a relic of my past and the key to everything I still don’t know. As I meet with the current homeowners, I hope to unearth more than just treasure; I’m searching for clarity, truth, and the missing pieces of a story that has followed me across decade and continents. What lies beneath the floorboards may be valuable, but the answers I’m after could change everything.
Liese-Lotte Pein & Hans RoseWilly & Hans Rose
Part Four —Shadows in the House.
I finally step inside the house where our gold may still be buried, and the walls seem to whisper secrets of the past. As I explore, shocking truths emerge: my great-grandparents were deeply involved in the Nazi regime, and the treasure I’ve been chasing may not be just family gold-it could be part of a darker, more sinister history. Every coin, every hidden corner now carries the weight of betrayal, war, and a legacy I never imagined. The hunt for answers has become a confrontation with history itself.
During my research, I located official French military court documents showing that my great-uncle, Werner Pein, was tried after World War II in connection with his service in the German occupation forces.
📜 Wartime Court Records
According to the archived judgement, the court record states:
French Military Tribunal — Paris (1950)
Case:Judgment against Walter Holz and others
Charges included:
– Murders and complicity in murders
– Assaults and injuries
– Illegal confinement
– Torture
Location of crimes: Pontivy, Morbihan, France
Date of crimes: July 1944
Defendant: Werner Pein (born Nov. 14, 1912, Berlin)
Sentence: 20 years hard labor (commuted to 7 years imprisonment)
Source: French Ministry of Defense — Military Justice Archives, Le Blanc, France
Part Five: Echoes of Innocence. As the story of my great-grandparents unfolds, I turn to my German relatives for answers. They dispute the claims of SS involvement, insisting that my ancestors were poor farmers, good neighbors, and hardworking members of their community. The treasure and its history remain tangled in uncertainty, and I must now navigate between family memories, historical records, and the uneasy truths buried in both.
Another one of my great-uncles, Günther Pein was killed on a bridge in Saint Pölten, Austria at the end of World War II. I often wonder how much he might of known about the Holocaust and to what extent he may have participated. My other grandfather, Howard Leo Thompson from Milton, WI also fought in WW II which makes things even more complicated. Did he encounter any of my German relatives?
The last picture taken of Günther Pein before he was killed on a bridge in Saint Pölten, Austria at the end of World War II.Howard Leo Thompson
Part Six: Meeting in Berlitt. I finally connect with the current homeowners of the house where the gold may be buried. After reading my books, ‘Lost Dreams’ & ‘Lost Treasures’, they reached out online, curious-and maybe cautious-about the story I’ve been chasing for years. Now, face-to-face, I try to learn whether they believe the treasure exists, and if they’ve ever attempted to dig it up. Every answer, every hesitation, adds a new layer to the mystery, and I realize that the truth about the buried coins may be closer-or more elusive-than I ever imagined.
Hans & Reinhard Rose on their Granzow farm.
Part Seven: Secrets Left Buried. After walking through the backyard where my great uncle described the treasure to my dad, I can feel it in my bones-the legend is real. Every detail he shared aligns perfectly with the property, even the parts I never included in my book. Yet, the current homeowners have no interest in digging, and I understand why. Some stories, some treasures, are meant to stay hidden. We part with a mutual respect for the past and the unspoken truth: certain secrets are better left buried.
War is more than borders and battles — It is the quiet endurance of ordinary people navigating impossible circumstances — families and strangers, victims and survivors, bound together by fate. Time moves forward, but the lessons of courage, sacrifice, and unexpected connection endure.
May we remember not only the events of history, but the people who lived them — their hopes, their heartbreaks, and their capacity to find shared humanity even in the darkest of days.
The Yarnell Hill Fire remains one of the deadliest wildfires in Arizona history, and this is a firsthand look back at the moments surrounding the 2013 tragedy.
▶️ Watch the video: See firsthand aerial coverage and reporting from the Yarnell Hill Fire as the tragedy unfolded in 2013.
More than a decade has passed since the Yarnell Hill Fire near Yarnell, Arizona.
Ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013, the fast-moving blaze became one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history.
Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots lost their lives.
Only one crew member survived after being assigned to a lookout position, away from the fire’s final path.
The tragedy remains the deadliest wildfire incident for firefighters since 9/11.
▶ Video reported, produced, and edited by Tammy Rose
More than a decade after the Jodi Arias murder trial, the case continues to captivate true-crime audiences.
From obsessive behavior to explosive courtroom moments, the trial exposed a disturbing mix of power, sex, and control. A secret witness and the tragic death of a police officer’s son added to the emotional weight of the proceedings.
Reported, produced, and edited by journalist Tammy Rose, this story takes viewers inside the courtroom for a firsthand look at one of the most notorious legal sagas in modern history.
Read more true crime and courtroom coverage at ChopperRose.com
Go behind the scenes of Obsessed Trial Watchers, a true crime documentary created by journalist and filmmaker Tammy Rose. In this exclusive look, I take you inside the investigation, production, and storytelling process behind the case that captured national attention.
How “Obsessed Trial Watchers” Was Researched and Filmed
Obsessed with Trials? Well, so am I. Go behind the scenes with me at the #JericeHunterTrial. This trial revolves around a Phoenix, AZ mother accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley in 2011. The state says Jerice Hunter locked her daughter in a closet, beat and starved her to death. Then, she concealed her body in a suitcase and threw it away like trash in a Tempe dumpster. While this isn’t a death penalty case, Hunter is facing first degree murder charges. The defense claims Jhessye was abducted and there is no proof that she is even dead.
▶ Watch Episode 14 above and go behind the scenes with our Top Gun crew as they keep our helicopter in service.
From a SWAT standoff to routine maintenance, our television news flight crew had another busy week in the air.
With the clock ticking on a required 3,000-hour inspection for our Bell 505, the pressure was on to stay mission-ready. That’s where our “Top Gun” crew stepped in—working around the clock to keep us flying by bringing another helicopter online.
Reported, produced, and edited by journalist Tammy Rose, Episode 14 of Back in Service takes you behind the scenes of the teamwork it takes to keep a news helicopter in the air.
🎥 Watch the full episode and go behind the scenes with SkyEye 13 below.
Some weeks are quiet in aviation maintenance. Others remind you just how quickly everything can change.
Episode 13 of Back in Service takes you behind the scenes with the SkyEye 13 flight crew during a week that started under the glow of a supermoon and quickly turned into nonstop breaking news coverage across Houston.
From aerial views of the supermoon lighting up the night sky to responding to multiple crash scenes, this episode shows what it really takes to keep a television news helicopter mission-ready. When the call comes in, there’s no pause button — the aircraft, crew, and maintenance team all have to be ready.
As someone who lives this world, I wanted to share more than just the beautiful shots. This episode highlights the long hours, fast decisions, and behind-the-scenes work viewers never see — the inspections, coordination, and teamwork that keep SkyEye 13 safely in the air.
Whether we’re capturing a rare moonrise or flying above active scenes to bring critical information to viewers, every flight tells a story. Episode 13 is about those moments — calm, chaos, and everything in between — all from the cockpit.
