by Sybil Hoffman

azfamily.com

Posted on March 5, 2015 at 8:04 PM

PHOENIX -- Sexuality, spirituality and plenty of secrets. For the first time since the jury reached a verdict in the retrial of Jodi Arias, we're hearing the testimony from one clinical psychologist who specializes in twisted sexual behavior.

Dr. L.C. Miccio-Fonseca didn't portray Travis Alexander as an evil person, but rather as someone conflicted and leading a double life. "Perhaps the one that took the lead, in the daytime, was the spiritual Mr. Alexander, was the man who really wanted to do right. And in the evening time, it was T-dog,"Miccio-Fonseca said.

Travis by day and T-Dog by night. Psychologist Miccio-Fonseca testified she believed Alexander bounced between being sexually deviant with Arias, yet when friends were around, he appeared committed to his religious convictions.

"The evidence is in text messages; in emails. As difficult as it is to realize that, to deal with that reality, he did, he had, like, a double life."

According to Miccio-Fonseca, Alexander's sexual deviancy included interest in minors, both boys and girls. Arias claimed not only did she walk in on him looking at an image of a young boy, but Alexander also compared Arias to a 12-year-old girl"

"It pauses me, I want to take a look at this and I want to see if there are other indicators because he's referencing a minor. Normally men don't make comments about, you sound like a pre-teen. He provides, according to her, some explanation about, that he was a victim of abuse, that having sex with women makes him more normal."

By the end of her testimony for the defense, the psychologist summed up the Arias and Alexander relationship as consensual but "explorative."

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