Agree with you all points but one. I don't think he knew she was coming. Why take the risk to tell him she was coming when he could have mentioned it to one of the roommates or someone else? The roommates both denied seeing any strange car in the driveway. One of them ran into TA in the kitchen at 11:30am before leaving the house.
IMO It's a too chancy for her, why not park where she could see the roommates' cars leave and then go the door and wave the check the cops found in the office and then proceed to do what they normally did when they got together. She's gone to a lot of trouble to conceal her trip, I don't think she would have found it worth the risk. The calls could have just been the normal late night calls they often made and would let JA know he was there at the house and if the roommates were home.
I see your point, maybe that's what she did. Btw wasn't that part of her complaints, that he kept her a secret? His roommates said they didn't socialize with him at all, never had dinner together, sometimes never even knew he was going out of town on business. He'd just leave. So why would he tell them anything? Wouldn't she have known his habits to take that into account? She did apparently arrive in the middle of the night while the roomies were asleep.
JA testified TA told her he'd wait up for her, and that when she arrived he was on his computer. She had no way of knowing, did she, that the forensic detective said he had indeed been on his computer at that time?
Phone records show TA called JA twice around 2 and 3 am, once for something like 50 minutes, on the early morning of June 2, and then there were a few much briefer calls, lasting around two minutes on June 3 iirc.
Haven't heard this in a while, but wasn't the last activity on TA's cell phone at 12:13 pm to or from Chris Hughes, that TA supposedly sent a text to Hughes saying he'd been up all night in an effort to drive away evil spirits or something like that?
btw to clarify how many nude photos there were, the Probable Cause Statement in the Indictment lists 8 nude photos total, six of JA and two of TA. The first nude photo shows JA lying on TA's bed at 1:40 pm. Previously we only heard about six total, four of JA and two of TA. The nude photographs were the subject of two defense motions in June and July 2011.