Bravo sister Pocket! The guy in the video said he did this on Windows 7 and I understand it's been possible on at least XP if not OS' before that so I think it's perfectly possible she did that. And she had access to a 'free' Sony memory card (Zach's camera that ended up in the BMW) to be able to transfer March pics onto.
While reading through Hope's sequence of events above I was going to remark that I still had grave doubts about the nudes in part because of the short amount of time between her last shot (of her backside) at 1:44:00 and Travis lying on the bed apparently mostly asleep at 1:44:50 - that's just not likely that he could have taken that shot of her and then jumped into bed and sprawled out/relaxed/asleep and she's on the chair next to his bed (or on the other side of it) taking that pic of him (and then the pic of him throwing the KY bottle at her), time is way too short. But if she'd just changed the date/time stamps on the pics before transferring them to the Sony card she swiped....it makes much more sense of them.
The laptop Spybot file activating at 1:44:00 is another conflicting curiosity but you show the proof that changing all EXIF picture data is not only possible but easily accomplished, as well as getting the pics from one device onto the memory card, thanks so much.
I know all this has been discussed, repeatedly, but I guess what I'm stuck on is why the would do all that...towards what end?
A minor point---she didn't know before she left Mesa that TA was going to buy a new camera, much less what kind it would be (and she may or may not have been responsible for Zach's camera materializing in the BMW).
TA texted the about buying the Sony after she'd left Mesa, but he had already chosen what to buy, based on Zach's recommendation, not hers.
More major points: why, again? If she changed the dates on the sex photos but not on the shower photos, then tried to destroy the camera, her only possible purpose for doing so involved showing them at some point to a still alive Travis. Why?
And then they were deleted, whether taken before or that day.
The other point-- what do you think was the timeline for that day (what encounters, where was she, when might he have known she was there) before 5:20 pm, if they weren't occupied with sex at the time the photos indicate?
I'm totally open in theory to the possibility they didn't have sex that day, but I just can't imagine any scenario that makes sense to me why she'd fake the day and time of sex photos, unless it was to threaten Travis, which wouldn't have served her purpose that day- - she needed him to trust her, or at least for him to let his guard down.
We'll never know what Travis felt or thought on June 4 before he was murdered, including what he felt or thought about the surprising him in his own house.
I continue to think the was aware when she was planning the murder, though, that those first few moments after showing up were the most dangerous for her, given the depth of TA's anger and contempt for her he'd demonstrated on May 26, and the fact that unlike what she'd always counted on before, he never called or texted to apologize to her.
She had to find an opening just wide enough he didn't immediately run for the phone to call the police or a friend, and she needed to know she'd found that opening before she arrived.
As for Travis. I haven't changed my mind that he was really done with her, and on June 2, had no reason to think he'd ever have to deal with her again, certainly not in person. If she threw herself at his feet to confess and apologize on the phone, it wouldn't have cost him, as far as he could know (given who he was), to stay on the phone, to listen, and tell her OK, whatever.
Just a little opening, but enough. By not outright refusing to answer her calls and texts that night, the no doubt felt confident enough about being able to manipulate him when she arrived.
