Forgive me if you already know about this but I just thought I'd put this out there, I though it was interesting. As far as whether he knew she was coming, I was watching the 7/16/2008 police interrorgation youtube video w/Det Flores. That was the Ninja story video. I think Jodi mixes lies with the truth. We all know the Ninja story is BS but I do think the call to Travis while she was en route is the truth. You should watch it because she was telling D. Flores that she said she called Matt about her phone charger and that her phone was getting ready to die. She said it was around 9 p.m. (CA Time?) (8 p.m. AZ?) and then she said she called Travis and said.... At the 12:42 mark on the video......
JA: Travis, guess what?
TA: What?
JA: I'm coming to AZ.
JA said there was just silence on the phone...Then TA said, "Really?......What changed your mind?"
She tells Det. Flores that she said something like that 'she missed him' or something like that.
And then says when she got to Travis home he was on the computer, she was tired and was going to go to bed, Travis said, 'That's fine'. She remarked that Travis was happy to see her (hmmm, I wonder about that!). I think when Travis said, Really? he was really saying, Oh Sh___! But she was already on her way, so at that point, what could he do, turn her away? Wished he had! The thing that I don't understand, he just sent her that nasty e-mail reading her the riot act the week before, and now he is going to permit her to come into his home? The fact is, when she said there was just 'silence' when she said she was coming, I don't think he was too happy about it. GMO
I don't believe she ever called him.
The thing is - she went to great lengths to make this trip totally incognito so that NO ONE knew she was going to AZ.
IF she were to call Travis and tell him there would be a risk he'd tell a friend or roomie!
When a person goes to the lengths she did to hide that trip by not just stock piling gas but using a rental car that 'wouldn't stand out' to the Highway patrol and has a stolen gun from her GF's (no way was that gun TA) there is no way he was expecting her. None. Remember, she walked into his house every single day even when they were not GF/BF. she'd fallen asleep waiting there for him to come home from a date! Her own words!
I remember her testimony about standing at the doorway watching him at his PC after letting herself in. Supposedly it was 3 or 4 am when they'd all be asleep. (they had jobs after all)
She said the dog didn't even notice her for about a minute! I call BS on that story! I've had 3pugs and have a shih zu & a cocker. There is NO WAY any one is sneaking in and standing there watching him while he's got his back to her and that dog isn't going to bark to let his master know their territory had been breached!
That doggie gate was put up in front of those stairs for good reason. Either put there after she attacked him and got bitten on the ankles and feet or before cuz she knew the dog would alert a sleeping roommate of her arrival. Even if the dog knows the person they're going to alert the owner the minute they hear a door crack open!
The jury asked her if the dog was sensitive to loud noises. She said he only barked when someone knocked or the doorbell rang.
On the stand before that she said the dog would run out of the room when TA got 'angry' and yelled. BS on that also. That dog is not going to leave any room where their master is in any confrontation with another person known to him or not. Even a small dog will stand by and fight for their master above all others.
I know this through experience and no doubt there are at least some dog owners on that jury.
Remember her newest injuries on the ankle and feet? I believe done by his pup and that she put him downstairs and gated him so he couldn't get back upstairs while she was slaughtering her prey. Another thing that was noticed the bannister recently smooth and clean. She ran that dog downstairs to keep him off of her.
And who wears long sleeves and pants in June in AZ? Someone who has injuries to hide from doing something very wrong. As she puts it.
Also the other newest injury from that day she eludes to be from a body slam that never happened. The shoulder! Whoa! I couldn't believe that one. Of course your shoulder isn't going to be the same after plunging a knife through a mans back, head and heart not to mention almost cutting his head off.
That was just so blatantly obvious my jaw dropped when she said it.
No. I do not believe she told Travis she was on her way or even going anywhere near Mesa. With her plan and all that she did to ensure she couldn't be placed even on a gas station video, putting rental plates upside down and on and on and on she would not chance him alerting another soul that she was coming.
She knew how to get into that house even if doors locked having gone through the doggy door on one occasion!