Most of that could be internal. A puncture-type wound 3-1/2" deep closes up fast if there is opportunity for blood to go elsewhere. There is a dark spot above the hands which could be blood which has been forced upward by the pressure he is putting on his chest with the two hands.
Poor Travis! He doesn't realize he is mortally injured and thinks she has left the building. He thinks he is safe. Another picture of him shows him standing with the same reddish lighting and he sees her snapping these photos without a flash. There is pure surprise and shock on his face with his mouth opens--he's horrified.
I think she always planned to knife him so that she could get satisfaction of him knowing she was murdering him. One of my sons, now deceased, was a violent person and once while visiting him in jail, he described very matter-of-factly that you wanted to see the persons face when they realized they would not survive--that this moment is the revenge, the whole point. She would not get that with a gun. MOO
Also, I believe she slit his throat in atonement for his crimes because in the old days Mormons believed that spilling your own blood was the only way to "pay" for certain sins and the person who killed was doing the victim a favor. These approved forms of death included throat slashing, heart stabbing and abdominal slashing and Jodi did--or tried to do-- all three.
I believe she told Det. Flores why she shot him. She said that after his throat was cut he was still alive. She said she could tell from his eyes that he was "still in there." I think she had to get close to his face to get him into the shower and she was creeped out by his eyes. So she covered his face and shot him in the head--the brain-- through the pillow (to muffle the sound) and make sure he couldn't be conscious and look at her while she washed his body. Washing the body is another ritual used in Mormon temples to remove the "blood and sins of this generation."
