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But, I have to disagree that TA would not have hurt her to save his own life. Wouldn't anyone, given a chance, want to save his own life at any cost? That is true self defense.
TA was surprised and badly disabled in the shower. His initial wounds (whether gun shot or stabbing) were grave. While in shock and horribly wounded, I believe he did try to crawl away from JA. At some point he had tried to defend himself, but to think that if he had needed to hurt JA, he would not have, does not make sense to me. He loved life and would not have died in order not to lay a hand on her in self defense.
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(Seasoned hunters whom I have known carry at least two weapons. They always have a knife along with a bow or firearm of choice.)
We do disagree, but probably in only a couple of major respects; i.e., timing of gunshot, and whether Travis attempted to physically harm JA while acting to defend himself. Her relatively minor wounds resulted from her own murderous actions. She cut herself. Travis did no harm to her whatsoever.
Some have said that the 'Calvin Klein-like' shower pictures were taken surreptitiously, up to the face picture. They were not. Travis posed for those pictures with the shower door open.
She used the photo shoot merely as a ruse to distract and mentally disarm him, which they did to great effect. She was clearly proud of this ploy as she eagerly boasted of it to Detective Flores.
Hunters do not hold a loaded firearm or bow on an animal, expecting it to remain still for them so they can slaughter and butcher it with a knife.
And Jodi didn't do this with Travis, either. She did not hold him at gunpoint and tell him to remain still so that she could butcher him. He was posing for pictures and she easily stabbed him in the chest those first two or three times before he even realized anything was wrong.
Yes, she had the gun, but this was going so well, she would have no need for it -- or so she thought in those first 20-30 seconds.
Just as Dr. Horn, veteran of thousands of autopsies, stated himself, the gunshot came
after the stabbing, slicing, cutting, and throat slitting. And it especially came
AFTER the defensive wounds.
Travis did not have it in him to physically harm her or anyone else, but he did attempt to fend off the knife, obviously. After she penetrated his superior vena cava -- probably the first or second wound she inflicted -- his feeble efforts to deflect the blade were far too little and too late.
But one whole minute was too long for her to wait. He was still moving, making sounds -- even for a few seconds after she finally slit his throat. She had to make him stop. That's when she muffled the gunshot to his forehead with a pillow or towel which later, in the midst of her Fognesia™, she burned in the desert. Then she shoved/wedged his lifeless and unspeakably bloody, mutilated, and disfigured corpse back into that shower where she had determined weeks before that he must die.
