natsound
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About why kill him 3x.....
Steve's answer - that she did so because she's psycho- is both apt and beautifully succinct.
My opinion (never succinct, but hopefully apt at least here & there):
Having a gun was clearly extremely important to her, since she went to the effort, however clumsy, stupid, & self-defeating, of staging a burglary to obtain one.
To have is not necessarily to use, though,and IMO (on most days) is that she didn't intend to actually shoot him with it. The plotted and planned his murder for a long time. She didn't just want to kill him, she wanted to torment him as much as she could , in every way she could, before she stabbed him in the shower. Her texts and journals make plain that she remembered every "slight" by Travis, and that she forgave him not at all for anything, ever.
I think she brought the gun to mock him with it in the shower (his near death experience when a gun was pointed at his head), which would also have had the benefit of having him focus so much on the gun that he'd be utterly off guard when she pulled out the knife and stabbed him.
I think she slashed his throat out of increased rage that he hadn't conveniently died in the shower, as she had imagined he would, that he had resisted her will all the way down the hall, that he had kept on trying to talk.
And, am least sure why she shot him after she slashed his throat, except to speculate perhaps she just hadn't gotten her fill of killing him yet.
About why leave the camera? For me, that's one of the biggest don't knows, and from JM 's post- book interviews, I think he really doesn't know either.
It's so strange to me that she would HAVE THE CAMERA AS SHE DRAGGED HIM DOWN THE HALLWAY, but leave it in the washing machine.
As far as the throat slashing, I think you're right that she was surprised he was still mobile after stabbing him in the chest and back, and she wanted to do him off. I imagine he was looking right into his eyes when she pulled that knife so deeply across his throat.
I can't imagine he would even still be slightly moving after she dragged him back to the bathroom. Maybe she heard gurgling sounds and felt she had to shoot him to make sure the job was done.
I try to imagine how she managed to stab him in the shower the first time. I imagine, after she took the picture with his eyes open, she told him to shut his eyes, and he did, then she plunged the knife in his chest.