For me that email and her voicemail are just dripping with manipulation. It's beyond just covering her tracks so to speak. She's painting a certain type of relationship I very much doubt they had.
Travis was well known to friends and family for his generosity. He'd open his home, fridge, and heart to anyone who needed help. So on a very superficial level Jodi's accounts would appear true. (Weaving her reality with THE reality to gain credibility.)
He did actually allow her to stay with him for a week while she was making plans to move back to Yreka if memory serves. So it would appear if one wasn't to look any closer that they were very close, very intimate friends and he trusted her entirely.
All of May Jodi was steadily losing control of Travis. I believe she'd moved back to California with the sole intent of making Travis realize how important she was to his life and when the opposite appeared to be happening - her incessant need for control upped the necessity to coerce and manipulate. She tried everything that month - from guilt inducing emails to recording their calls presumably to use against him. By the end of May she realizes he's beyond her control...
So after she murders him she is desperate to place herself in the position she feels entitled to. She manipulates email and voicemail messages, her accounts to Flores, sends the family the 18 page lie, Norma flowers, attends the memorial service, and goes on an online full assault mode to paint herself as much more important to Travis' life than she actually was...and therefore, because of her extreme loss and his extreme bond to her, she is the penultimate victim.
It not only feeds her sadistic pleasure and narcissistic ego...but how could anyone presume someone so close to Travis could brutalize him in such a manner?
MOO
