Just wanted to make a few points backing BW0000's theory about the pics of 6/4/08: * please read, BW0000 & Sleuth5:
1. We all know Travis was human and Travis was weak: Which is why he continued to engage in the kinky sex with JA, long after he knew she was really not someone he wanted to be involved with.
2. And yet, as BW0000 points out, the email of May 26 had an air of finality about it. We know that it's said that stalkers often escalate to rage and violence when a final break is made - even though, ironically, you are indeed supposed to break with them.
3. Travis took Jodi's name off the Cancun trip, and replaced it with Mimi's. Mimi had said they should go only as friends due to Travis' admited status of being "temple unworthy".
4. We know such a status came from having come clean to Church elders. This is not a light matter: He has allowed those he serves and respects to know of his mistake with Jodi, and he is willing to publicly be on probation. Think about it: He was scared. He was finished. What else could the elders have told this much-cherished and much-honored youth but to "break with her completely." ???
4a. We see in his blog post of May 18 - 2 1/2 weeks before his murder - that he is longing for a wife, longing to be a good Mormon.
5. Was Travis SO weak that on June 4, given all of the above, he would indulge in lying around, using KY, posing for Calvin Klein like sultry shower pics, and taking graphic pics of a woman who had cost him Lisa, Mimi, and his standing in the church???? Think about it. Travis was done. Jodi knew this. Ergo, she had murder in her heart, and on her mind. He would sense this.
6. I believe she was never invited in and ambushed him. As per my other posts, I believe the shower pics and the sex pics were from a much earlier date.
Travis didn't lose Mimi because of jodi. She was just never that into him. And he had no idea about the dirt jodi had on him, IMO, like the taped phone sex so he didn't realize his standing in the church had been threatened, likely.
Yes, it happens. I'm not saying it's impossible. But ask the ER nurses how many head gunshot victims made it to the ER on their feet vs those who never made it or were out.
It would lower the angle compared to holding your arm with elbow bent inward. Try again.
Likely, really? Based on what, other than your presumption that she shot him at the shower?
This is just additional conjecture to make the gunfirst theory fit.
Well, I'm not "presuming" that she shot him in the shower. I am deducting that she did. Huge difference! I showed the reasons why I feel that theory is logical, in multiple posts, as did other posters who are more intelligent than I am.
If you are standing two feet away from someone who is sitting, the trajectory of a gun shot would be straighter than if you were standing over them with elbow bent, or just standing over them with arm outstretched. In fact, another poster tried to say that the trajectory in that position would be almost flat, which also defies physics, IMHO, but it shows that there is an awareness that the farther you are away from an object horizontally, the more flat the trajectory from you to that object will be.
I;m not sure what you mean by lowering the angle but if you're saying that a person standing two feet away pointing a gun with outstretched hands would create a more downward angle than someone standing above them with elbow cocked, I would seriously disagree. Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other about positioning?
Yes, my theory about her positioning while shooting is conjecture. So is everyone else's because there has been zero testimony about where she was sitting, standing or the angle of her arms, etc., except that the gun itself was at least two feet away from Travis, when the bullet entered his face.
How does anyone know exactly where she was standing in relation to him and what angle her arm or hand was in when she pulled the trigger?
My conjecture is based on evidence that I feel is pretty overwhelming to suggest he was shot first, in the shower.
I supposed that she was raising her shoulder and cocking her elbow because that would fit the trajectory and because she might have done that so he wouldn't easily see what she was doing, as opposed to pointing a gun right at his face, eye level.
But IMO, she could have been standing two feet away or more, horizontally, without cocking her elbow or raising her shoulder, and the bullet would still go downward, if he was sitting and could have followed the very path it did. Bullet trajectories are influenced by bone and cartilage, etc. They don't go in straight lines, generally, from what I have read and heard. :twocents:
ETA: jodi has testified about where she was standing when "the gun went off", but I discounted that!