This is why I maintain that she killed him using the three methods that were described in the Mormon temple as being acceptable methods to allow yourself to be killed as expiation for your sin. "Blood atonement" means your blood spilling pays for your sins and allows you to go to the Celestial Kingdom. It is no coincidence, in my opinion. She prepared the shower to be the place where the copious amounts of blood would go down the drain. It was a planned execution.
Even though JA was not a real Mormon, she would know about the three forms of death as one of the "deep" teachings that Travis told her about. She would see him as deserving of death and herself as allowing him to pay for his sins of violating the law of chastity, telling what went on in the temple, etc. This information Travis may have given her during the conversations they had about religion and "spirituality." The use of the word "deep" is a tipoff. That's a Mormon-lingo word, the lower teachings also called "milk" and the higher ones "meat."
The three methods of death would be sending a message that Mormons would understand that Travis was a sinner.
I think JA shot him, then tried to shoot him again, the gun jams, she goes to get the knife and when she comes back he is standing at the sink coughing up blood. She goes wild and attacks his head and neck and he turns and comes at her low. An expert says that he may have been unconscious or at least immobile when the nine stab wounds were delivered to the one area of his back 5-6" square. I believe his head was in her stomach when she delivered those concentrated back wounds--he was pushing her down the hall, where she left the hand print.
I could be totally wrong but like many of you, this scene is playing in the background of my regular life and my subconscious has been trying to fit together all the pieces of the puzzle.
It was the photographer with a knife in the hall.
), we NEED an explanation. We want to make sense of it all. That's what a normal human brain craves. But obviously JA isn't normal, she doesn't have a normally functioning brain, so there is no way that we could ever possibly truly "get" it. And that irks us.
