Martinez was 100% convinced of the photo evidence. It's metadata was verified by his investigations and expert. IMO to suggest he glanced at a photo and "ran" with it is incorrect.
It is also misreading the evidence of TA's pattern of behavior to suggest that one chat out of 80,000 communications over 20 months would reveal how Travis would react when Jodi showed up. His pattern of behavior shows the opposite, IMO
1. The 80,000 number is the total of all TA's emails and texts, not the number he exchanged with JA. The number of texts he exchanged with her from Dec 07 through June 08 number in the hundreds, not even a thousand.
2. I am very much looking at his pattern of behavior, not a single chat or a single anything. It is precisely the change in his pattern of behaviour that is my point.
3. Every other time he got angry with her, he apologized, accepted responsibility, and there was no real break in their communication.
4. There was an absolute break in their communication from May 22 forward. Regan asked just before that how his confrontation with the "psycho" had gone. His reply was that the psycho had of course denied what she'd done (masquerading as Maria M, and as Maria trying to send him on a wild goose chase to meet up with him in Utah).
That he had told her he never wanted to see or hear from her again unless she told him the truth about what she'd done, but that he doubted it would be as easy as that (to make her either be truthful or to leave him alone).
3. Travis didn't back down. He told JA to tell the truth and put it in writing. He didn't respond to her attempts to engage him from the 22 through the 25.
4. He tried one last time to get her to tell the truth, on May 26, and when she didn't and lied about other stuff he knew to be lies, he let lose and tore her apart.
5. He did NOT apologize to her afterwards.
6. He did NOT contact her.
7. He did NOT respond to most of her attempts to engage him after the 27th, and when he did it was with one line dismissals.
8. The only time he spoke with her between May 26 and June 2 is on the morning of June 2 after she had tried incessantly for hours, and I suspect the only reason he did then was she said she had something she needed to tell him and he assumed it was related to whatever she was holding over his head.
Not one chat. A pattern broken. Conversations with friends who convinced him at last she was psycho, "mentally ill," " really disturbed."
She'd isolated him enough that it wasn't til early April he began reality testing with his friends. It took him forever to get to the point where he believed what they were saying about her, and knew he could believe his own gut.
That she had made him doubt his own sense of reality was the source of a great deal of his rage on May 26, IMO, as well as the fact he had lied to his friends, and especially painful, to Lisa, in order to cover up for her.
I can't say it any better than that. Don't need anyone to agree with about it either, but would prefer that the basis for what I'm saying be presented accurately. Pattern.