And I was focused on and responding to your statement about " a clear indication he was reading them."
No worries. Sounds like we're on the same page, so to speak. I know I can sound like a preachy school marm sometimes. It's a character flaw, never intended to be personal.
Her journal and what she wrote and didn't write in it became (rediculously enough) pretty central to her defense, as she no doubt knew they might be.
Which is why I have a strong opinion about whether or not he read them, much less instructed her what to write. My guess is that she played games like leaving her journal on his desk, open, when she wanted him to read a particular entry (a handful come right to mind).
I have a feeling he didn't rise to that bait. He was a private person who seemed to respect the privacy of others. How frustrating (and alien) that must have been for her.
What I notice in her journals is that she seemed to largely have given up on his reading her journal,if that was her intent. By December she seems to be writing and lying to herself, as much as that was possible, given there was never anybody home there to write to.
We share that trait. No worries!
I think I was working through my statement and thoughts as I was typing and kind of backed off the "clearly" part by the time I got finished with the post. You have no way of knowing that, I know. As I was thinking it out, I began taking into account that you can't believe Jodi. So sorry for that. I should read and edit when my thoughts evolve as I type.
I agree that she knew they were for her defense for the last journal and for the parts of the old ones where she crams new info, real or fake, in on some posts. Interesting side note, in the final journal, she felt the need to "back up" and tell us stuff that should naturally have been in older journals. for example, the password exchanging. it was like, "Oh, by the way, this is what we did months back."
I want to discuss these journals at length now that I've read them, but back to your point.
I agree she was probably leaving them around conveniently, but as bold as she is, I believe she probably asked him to read them, too. Like, for example, "We learned this in church or PPL. I don't understand it. Can you read this?" or anything that would cause them to have to be in her journals, so that he'd get that hint to want to read them. I bet she thinks it's a natural thing for everyone to want to snoop in private stuff and be tempted to do it, so she'd think he would want to. I don't know if he ever did, but I do believe she made it available.
When she got to Yreka, I noticed almost all PPL and Mormon writing ceased. The journal became flooded with Travis talk. May and June were so contrived, I had to laugh.
Her CYA writing about the murder was so much like the CYA mess about the tires in December. It made me think she wanted it there as proof that she was upset and clueless about the tires, proof that was date-stamped for Travis and or police.
What I'm interested in about her journals is this business of "now that I know he was with Lisa the whole time...."
I'm also interested in the fact that the journals were stamped December 2008 by the evidence clerk. When did her journals get confiscated, when did she know they would be confiscated, etc. I just want to know how much time she had with them in order to doctor them. I really believe she doctored them.
Also, I think the May 26th conversation was about facebook, John Dixon, and Abe A. She alludes to it in the final journal. I think she found a way to piss Travis off by making him think she'd been fooling around with guys while they were travelling and spending time together back in September through October, hence that "Now that I know he was seeing Lisa the whole time" comment.
She sounded to me like she really didn't know that, and maybe that's where the tire slashing and december depression came from -- finally and conclusively knowing Lisa was the girlfriend. I saw in the May 2007 journal that Lisa was at the house making cookies when Jodi was there. Or wa it June? Anyways, they broke up around that time, and she was pissed she didnt get a proposal on that New York trip. I'm thinking she really acted up about it and Travis was transitioning to Lisa at that time. Maybe she checked the phone and saw a different girl and was shocked and pushed over the edge to learn for a fact that it was Lisa. I don't know.
Your thoughts? any thoughts?
