Very Interesting post!! I noticed the marks on his back too. I think you could be right as to how it happened and what a horribly sad way to die. I would love to see the pupil enhanced photo. Any idea where I can find it?
But I could be mistaken. The post also used the words "camouflage" and "retina" which you won't find used much in this trial, so maybe that will help you find it.
Sorry I can't be of much help. I am tech-challenged and have trouble even finding replies to my own posts...thank goodness somebody posted about it recently!
You can see track mark patterns in the micro-bruising dots on his back. Wondering what could have caused it. Recently I saw a program about a crime which included pitachiae along the spine of a woman who had been murdered by her husband sitting on her chest while she was on a weight bench. He smothered her with the weight bar- a slow terrible death, which he seemed to enjoy.
Petechia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Note the cause listed as excessive pressure being applied to tissue. I am beginning to think that Travis was dragged by a rope on his foot. This theory is supported by the ME's findings that there is abrasion on the Achilles tendon area of the foot, and you can see clearly two distinct marks which look like rope burns in the autopsy photo of his most-damaged foot.
The photo of him being dragged where he is still able to lift his head shows her trying to pull him AWAY from the bathroom toward the bedroom, possibly by his left arm. She could be turning him around after having dragged him there by a foot. The foot could have already had a "noose" (her word) on it from her torture session on the bedroom carpet.
I think he was tortured on the carpet rather than the bed to keep blood off the bed. We know that there was old blood as well as new blood on the bedroom floor, according to the investigative report.
These are some of my ideas and it goes without saying that I have nobody to talk to about these because my whole family thinks I am nuts. Tell me what you think. I think the ridges of pitachiae could be from her sitting on his chest while stabbing him there in the bedroom, giving him "heartache." Petechia is also caused by asphyxiation, so he would have both causes present if she was sitting on his lungs. She may also have been throttling him while he struggled, which would produce the side to side bruising tracks we see in the shower photo. This would go with her tendency to symbolize - he tried to choke her (for real or in her imagination) and he would have to suffer the same. He would have to be immobilized somehow not to just throw her off, so I am thinking he was tied up and possibly raped before being stabbed. Easy enough to tie someone up when you have someone at gunpoint.