May 26 was a VERY BIG day. On this day, 2 days before the .25 pistol is reported missing from Jodi's residence, here's what happened between Jodi and Travis:
- On May 26, in various chat messages Travis called Jodi a bi---, worthless, shi*, *advertiser censored*, and "three hole wonder." According to Jodi, on May 26, Travis was angry about several things and there were many fights about many things throughout the day in chat, text messages, and over the phone.
- Among the things Travis was mad about, Jodi describes this:
- May 26 is also the day that Jodi "mistakenly" sent Travis a text message meant for Steve Carroll implying that Travis was hacking Jodi's gmail. In response, Travis sent Jodi the very angry text message -- confronts her about invading his privacy and likely ends the relationship for good.
(However, note Jodi's earlier testimony that Travis found text messages to Steve Carroll by getting in her gmail account in April 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZlO2tM2qT4k#t=841s -- which ultimately led Travis to say he was going to tell everyone about the psycho things Jodi had done, and Jodi said, "The only thing I'm going to be spitting out is the fact that you're a pedophile with a past")
Throughout this portion of Jodi's testimony, she is very clearly still extremely angry at Travis, and cannot maintain her sweet little victim demeanor; her hatred is oozing out of her. She throws out comments that he was sleeping with other people, and she throws out the comment about sodomizing a little girl and being a pedophile, among other things.
I can picture what happened on May 26. She could not control her anger at Travis because he was distancing himself and she could non longer control him -- she wanted to hurt him in retaliation for the hurt she felt. She lashed out on a passive-aggressive warpath. She kept accusing him of being a pedophile, and threatened to "expose" his secret; she "mistakenly" sent a text message meant for another guy, accusing him of things he didn't do, and implying that she is having a secret conversation that she wants to keep hidden from Travis. I can imagine that throughout this day she just relentlessly hounded him and threatened him and did whatever she could to hurt him in her warped attempt to sooth herself. It all came to a head on this day -- and I believe this is when she committed herself to murder him.