That sounds very reasonable, I have little doubt she had ongoing access to his texts, the pattern of her texting him in the middle of him texting with other women is quite stark, just a little too much 'there' there for it to have always been coincidental. Thanks so much for discovering how she managed it, not being a cell-phoner I'm not aware of the ins and outs of the devices (still vying for dino of the year award lol). Oh, do you have any thoughts of why she still had a Helio on her list of coveted items yet had 2 of them through Gus? That just struck me curious.
The Helio was #1 on her wish list written on
March 22, 2008, just over a week before she was due to leave Mesa.
I listened again to Gus S's testimony. I thought others had it mixed up when they've said she stayed with him on her way back to CA. Not really.
GS testified she told him in mid-late February 2008 that she was leaving Mesa. She called him on February 20 or so, telling him she and Travis had a bad argument and he invited her to Las Vegas. According to his testimony, he believed she was staying there on her way out of town.
When Nurmi asked about Gus giving her the Helio, Gus said he gave it to her because her other phone had been stolen. When JM asked again on cross, Gus said- well, I gave it to her because she needed one. We already know Gus lied about when he met with her in Pasadena, because she couldn't have arrived there on a weekday, and he couldn't have been picking up his kids from school on a weekend.
Also, Gus replied to JM's question of what were you doing in Pasadena with- I was going there to meet up with her. So- no kids (duh), and of more relevance-- they either made those arrangements to meet before she left Mesa or he dropped everything and raced to Pasadena when she told him her phone was stolen and pretty please, Gussy, what's a girl to do without one, especially one that can record conversations?
Since by his own testimony she called him at once a week or more, surely he would have recognized the number of her stolen or drowned or whatever lie phone?
Two other Gus-related points. She met him in Arizona after a presentation he did at a briefing in late 2007. In other words, she was in one of her most freaked-out periods and looking for prey. She introduced herself, of course, and asked for his help. Since she rarely to never bothered to actually try to sell PPL in late 2007 or early 2008, it would seem she was asking for some other kind of help.
Last, about those days worth of missing outgoing texts by Travis. Coincidence or not, they are precisely during the time not only when she was in Las Vegas, but during the time when she may have told Gus she was actually leaving Mesa. Maybe what's altogether missing and scrubbed in the texts is a time when he told her to get the hell out for a reason we haven't even heard about. And maybe she had a lot of doctoring of texts to do for that time to erase the evidence of what she'd done, which is why she archived a bunch of texts so that when she deleted his outgoing texts she didn't accidentally delete the sexual stuff she originally intended to use later.
(Or, Gus is a lying liar too and the DT solicited his lies to make it look like Travis called her while she was in Las Vegas, trying to leave Mesa, and he was abusive and persuasive and she was so abused and compliant she slunk on back. And if that's so, sorry, but Nurmi flat out suborned perjury, or Gus told the truth and the evidence of fight etc. was erased).
Just more speculation.....It was interesting, though, watching her this time while Gus was testifying. She did a little bit of her lizard lip licking- a tell for me of concern on her part, but mostly she was all head down and scribbling away and acting as if Gus was no importance to her whatsoever.
