Ok... re-reading JAs manifesto.
I keep seeing her talk about her singing the National anthem. TA was supposed to go and she seems very, very upset by that. Maybe that's what motivated her to plot her road trip?
Yup. She had to be oblivious to the reality that she would be the most likely suspect to everyone who knew her track record.
She may have thought she was "safe" by being 1,000 miles away, but detectives have heard that song and dance before. Or headstand, as it were.![]()
The more I read about this relationship, the less I understand why either of them bothered.
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4/16, he sent a "completion reminder. My book." She told him to remind himself because she mailed it two days ago. I guess he checks the mail because he said he got it. She was surprised it arrived so fast and asked for the post date. He said he'd already thrown it in the recycle bin. I'm guessing the envelope, but if she mailed it two days ago, I don't know why she needs him to read the postmark??? While she was asking that, he asked if she was still going to type it.
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Elle,
4/19 so random. Travis has a party but supposedly at 1am on 20th he's texting jodi that he's in a club. I have never heard of Travis being in a club through out all these texts. Mormons go to clubs? after ufc parties?
Elle,
Jodi is lying somewhere in this because in their April texts, she is supposed to mail him those pages. okay, so I think the timeline on this goes like this:
4/6--Jodi leaves finally after fake leaving for days. This is the "don't call me until you tell me who this fake Michelle is" day.
4/8--he's mad she left the drawing or whatever. Later, she asked "guess what I just found?" and Travis is happy.
4/11--he texts to see if she sent his stuff. She texts back how she's been trying to get in touch with him for days and she can't understand why he hasn't answered. it's 3amish. by 6pmish, she's requesting pics of him and he's obliging.
She texts him random things. one of which on the 14th was about someone calling her at 4am and not saying anything when she answered. Clearly one of her Antics like the mystery stalker she had.
Later that day, Travis asks her to mail naps' pics and shaving pics. She claims to be scrounging for change to mail. He asks her to just fax his book pages or scan them and email some pics. If she does, he says she will have gained a lot of ground.
4/16, he sent a "completion reminder. My book." She told him to remind himself because she mailed it two days ago. I guess he checks the mail because he said he got it. She was surprised it arrived so fast and asked for the post date. He said he'd already thrown it in the recycle bin. I'm guessing the envelope, but if she mailed it two days ago, I don't know why she needs him to read the postmark??? While she was asking that, he asked if she was still going to type it.
4/18, it sounds like he is sending her money. And then they have a text fight that day on her insulting his speech skills. He is mad at her because he spent two hours doing stuff for her, but she still hasn't made him those CD's.
4/19 so random. Travis has a party but supposedly at 1am on 20th he's texting jodi that he's in a club. I have never heard of Travis being in a club through out all these texts. Mormons go to clubs? after ufc parties?
anyways, that looks like it might be the last about his book pages, so Travis indicates he has them or he has whatever she mailed. I assume it's the handwritten book pages she mailed because he's still asking for the CD pics.
The more I read about this relationship, the less I understand why either of them bothered.
During this time, Travis is having all of these financial problems, but yet he buys an expensive ($1300?) camera. Weird.
It's mindboggling that she ever thought this would happen. He doesn't have any money, his business is in a hole, and he might lose his house. He told Jodi to get lost. He's gonna drive 2 days to Yreka and 2 days back just to hear Jodi sing the national anthem? I know she threw in a lot of "extras" like the Shakespeare festival and the Oregon coast.... News flash....It takes a whole day just to get to the Oregon coast from Yreka. Is she thinking he's gonna be there for a week? Where's he gonna stay, anyway? In her bedroom in her grandparents' house?
Does he even respond to this drivel in the texts?
I found a link to calculate gas costs between Point A and Point B: http://calculatemyroute.com/distance/Mesa-AZ/Yreka-CA.... Gas prices were over $4 per gallon in June 2008 . That's about $110 one way.
Flying into Yreka or Medford or Redding would have been prohibitive, since you'd have to take a puddle jumper (in the case of Yreka) or a not so gigantic plane (Medford) from a major airport; those flights are really expensive in the west because demand is higher than availability).
Considering Travis took Jodi to OKC just to reduce his gas costs....
I'm thinking Jodi might have planned on him having a car accident either on the coast or on the way there, or some other drive if they "didn't have time to go to the coast." All those roads lend themselves to driving off a cliff or being pushed off at a layby. A branch from a redwood tree could "accidentally" have fallen on him from 200 feet up (note: I have never seen a widowmaker on a redwood and there's not a whole lot of branch debris in a redwood grove, but this little piece of vital info most assuredly would have escaped Jodi's "brain"). He could have tripped while looking for whales. He could have got poisoned from eating clam chowder.... All 3 of those possibilities? That would be just like Jodi, too:"florid" with the details.
Also, Crater Lake might have been the real goal. She knows Crater Lake quite well because of her close ties with Bianca. Very easy to have the ground fall out from under you when a photo was being taken. She could have got this idea from their trip to the Grand Canyon, where there's a photo of Jodi play-pushing Travis off the edge.
For years, I had to do frequent business trips between the Oregon coast and the interior valleys, so my information is first-hand. Also, my memory was refreshed by a recent drive along the same Oregon route (which is the Oregon route Jodi would have had to take). There are frequent rock slides on this route, with rocks dropping from above on the sometimes one-and-a-half-lane-only highway..... The road drops crazily into a ferocious river.
The route from Yreka to the California coast (and then north into OR) is a crazy drive through a steep canyon, with no guard rails and a winding road hugging the side of the canyon. I took a piece of this recently.
Incidentally, Pelican Bay Prison is on both routes. I believe it's now closed for lack of funds, but it housed Charles Manson. It was the super maxiest prison in the country. To me, it looks as though it's half below ground. Too bad Jodi didn't get to experience the comforts of Pelican Bay as either a final resting place or en route to Perryville.....
Considering Travis took Jodi to OKC just to reduce his gas costs....
I'm thinking Jodi might have planned on him having a car accident either on the coast or on the way there, or some other drive if they "didn't have time to go to the coast." All those roads lend themselves to driving off a cliff or being pushed off at a layby. A branch from a redwood tree could "accidentally" have fallen on him from 200 feet up (note: I have never seen a widowmaker on a redwood and there's not a whole lot of branch debris in a redwood grove, but this little piece of vital info most assuredly would have escaped Jodi's "brain"). He could have tripped while looking for whales. He could have got poisoned from eating clam chowder.... All 3 of those possibilities? That would be just like Jodi, too:"florid" with the details.
Also, Crater Lake might have been the real goal. She knows Crater Lake quite well because of her close ties with Bianca. Very easy to have the ground fall out from under you when a photo was being taken. She could have got this idea from their trip to the Grand Canyon, where there's a photo of Jodi play-pushing Travis off the edge.
For years, I had to do frequent business trips between the Oregon coast and the interior valleys, so my information is first-hand. Also, my memory was refreshed by a recent drive along the same Oregon route (which is the Oregon route Jodi would have had to take). There are frequent rock slides on this route, with rocks dropping from above on the sometimes one-and-a-half-lane-only highway..... The road drops crazily into a ferocious river.
The route from Yreka to the California coast (and then north into OR) is a crazy drive through a steep canyon, with no guard rails and a winding road hugging the side of the canyon. I took a piece of this recently.
Aww thanks. :seeya:LOL! If there was a post of the month award, yours would win the Blue Ribbon, Hez.
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Margaret Hamilton will get Jodi for that gaffe. And her little DOG, tooooo!
I’m looking over the EF interrogation tapes…every time I look at these I notice new details, Tape 1:
2.Jodi can be astonishingly still; note the very beginning of the tape. Not a twitch, for how long? I certainly can’t do this. I find this extremely creepy.
7.I’m sure most anyone can look goofy in the interrogation room, but Jodi’s affect is like she’s totally in charge, and her sequence of thoughts is bizarre-o.
8.Jodi’s talk style is accretive: she makes a statement, then she gloms something onto it, and then she gloms something else on to that etc. etc. and the sentence never ends! You can practically see her mind jump to the next obliquely-related clause.
9.And she keeps heading off questions she hasn’t even heard yet. This is like a kid going “I didn’t do it!” when mom is approaching to tell him it’s time for bed.
10.Maybe I should describe Jodi’s talk style as Tweet-ish: she only has so many words before she’s done enough on that thought, on to the next.
14.Flores then stabs Jodi by saying Travis has a reputation for being a flirt and that is who he was. Jodi visibly flinches. She’d have turned whiter if she could. She has nowhere to go with this truth.
We know what TA's camera retailed for but do we know what he actually paid for it? Maybe he got some kind of special deal...it happens. Granted, even with a deal it was probably more than a person struggling financially should spend, but I wonder if he really paid retail.
Do we know for sure?
He was not into photography. I mean, everyone takes photos and he traveled so a camera is not an odd possession but he was not into photography as a hobby or special interest so a less costly camera would have served him just fine. I have always wondered why he had the one he had.
Ok... re-reading JAs manifesto.
I keep seeing her talk about her singing the National anthem. TA was supposed to go and she seems very, very upset by that. Maybe that's what motivated her to plot her road trip?