He never gave her the BMW. He lent it to her to go get the truck. Curious, isn't it, that she didn't use her own car to do that? She accidentally on purpose destroyed his BMW on the way back.
The money she wasn't paying him was for the huge repair bill. According to Chris Hughes, Travis had it towed to a garage. It was still at that garage when he was killed.
But her audacity didn't end at destroying his car. Again according to Chris, he was contacted by an attorney after Travis' death. The attorney was handling the disposal of Travis' assets. He called Chris to ask if it was true that the BWI belonged to JA; that JA had contacted him and said that Travis had given her the BWI and she wanted to claim possession.
Chris (after whatever initial reaction) told the attorney....NO. Not true. So the attorney asked JA to send him proof that Travis had given it to her. She DOCTORED an email exchange between Travis and herself and forwarded it to the attorney.
Chris said it took only a few minutes for the two of them to figure out JA had done it. She didn't get the car.
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Thought I'd add this to keep it all together - what she told Det. Flores:
DF: Yeah.
JA: and even when things were bad between us, he was always
he would give his last
He would give his last dollar
his last whatever. He um
He was selling me his BMW, and I was actually supposed to e-mail
DF: Yeah, you mentioned that. You kind of burned it out or something.
JA: Yeah. Well, you said
you found my check
in his house?
1:06:52
DF: A check
Oh yeah
the check that you gave him for a payment.
JA: Yeah. I made
Um
I guess like I
its just so dumb, like it seems so unimportant but I guess
I need to know if that check (giggles) is going to be deposited any time soon?
1:07:07
DF: No.
No. After his death it cant be deposited. So
JA:
Really
?
DF: Yeah.
1:07:12
JA: Okay. Well, then Ill just consider that
whatever and
Ill still owe him the full balance until they figure out what theyre going to do. Honestly, I trashed his car and he took it so well. Um
we were trying to figure out between my lawyers and his lawyers and Prepaid Legal and the insurance and U-Haul who was going to be held liable and, you know, it didnt matter who was held liable,
the fact was, that was a debt that I promised to pay and its just money and it isnt worth, you know anything so um
I mean as far as him getting any (?) tensions over so um
He would never
He never had any doubt that I would pay him back but he was trying to do what was difficult because he was trying to um
work with the insurance um
to hold U-Haul accountable over how it had all gone down. He said the engine just blew up
1:07:57
DF: Now the vehicle was still in his name, correct?
JA: Yeah. He still has the
He was going to hold the title until I paid it, the balance in full.
DF: Okay. Did you guys have a
written contract or anything?
JA: I had yeah
what I did is
I typed out an e-mail to him and I sent it and um
I just wrote back, Just reply, I agree if you agree with this, and he wrote back um
something about
you didnt say anything about youre on your own insurance and so
I said, Okay and amended that, I think, and then wrote back to him, and
so that was our agreement.
Our agreement was I pay him what I can each month until the balance is paid off, and I
I take care of general maintenance like oil changes and tires and things like that.
1:08:30
DF: I dont know whats going on with that, with his car or anything or if its still at the shop, but his family
JA: I think its sitting there collecting dust um
DF: Yeah, his family is dealing with that because its still considered one of his assets and it goes in
1:08:42
JA: Oh
DF: you know, so
1:08:45
JA: Yeah, and I was told, and I probably shouldnt have done this, but I didnt know who to get a hold of or who was doing what and I should have asked Dan first but
I e-mailed his sister, Tanisha, on MySpace, and I was like, just sent her my condolences and the next paragraph I was like you know, its really hard but
I owe Travis this amount of money and I know that at one point Ill need to settle this debt
you know that kind of thing, but if you need to be in contact with me, this is my phone number and she didnt get back to me and um
you know
1:09:14
DF: Well, you know when a death occurs like this everything has got to go to probate anyway
JA: Yeah, and I realize now but theres a Mike Chapman
the executor of his will and so
I did get in touch with him yesterday and he said um
just give me all the information you have on that matter and then well go from there and decide whats going to happen.
