May 10, 2008. (All info about texts comes from the Beth Karas subscription website. Thank you very much to the volunteer there who did all the work of making the texts accessible!)
The text argument the night before ended just before 11pm, with the killer giving TA one of her empty self-focused, self-pitying "apologies." She concludes by telling him she loves him. He says sorry, I love you too. Travis is allowed to go to sleep.
The most important thing to say about May 10 is that is 100% demonstrably IMPOSSIBLE for the sex tape to have been recorded on that day.
Here's the timeline:
10:48AM. TA texts that he will leave CA in 10 minutes.
2:00 Travis texts with Aaron for a bit around this time. He's likely home.
3:42. TA texts with Mimi about what movie to see on their date that night.
4:25 The killer texts T she has time on her hands, is sending pics. He tells her (curtly) he isn't receiving them,,doesn't reply to her when she says let her know when he does get them.
Shortly afterwards Michelle and TA text about reservations. Dillon is running late for their double date, she says let's meet there, reservations are for 9:45. She then changes the time to 8 and puts them in the name of "Alexander." Solo date with Mimi now?
At 8:19pm the killer texts to ask: "DID YOU MAKE IT BACK SAFELY?
(Doesn't make sense. Unless....the pics she was trying to send earlier were to phone?)
Travis does not text her back until 12:30AM, when he tells her (sarcastically?) that no, he crashed and died.
So, he's been on a date with Mimi (and will tell Taylor that he turned off his phone while on date, having forgotten T' s party), and doesn't answer the killer until 12:30AM (times are adjusted) which is technically May 11.
Even so. She texts him AGAIN about those pics of her that she insists he see. They exchange texts about the pics. These are NOT nudies or anything like that. They are supposedly for her frikking blog. Here are the times of the texts about those pics:
12:32, 12:35, 12:36, 12:50, 1:03, 1:05, 1:06, 1:08, 1:09, 1:11, 1:12, 1:13, 1:14, 1:16, 1:17, 1:18, 1:22, 1:23, 1:24, 1:32, 1:34, 1:37.
There is a 20 minute gap in texting, until 1:57AM. From the context of the texts before and after it is clear there were no phone conversations in between. (The sex tape in any case was supposedly over one hour long).
Texts - on same subject of pics, 1:59 and 2:00 AM.
At 2:01 AM Travis tells her he is falling asleep (remember he supposedly did so on the sex tape) and tells her good night.
She says good night to him at 2:03 and again at 2:06AM.
ETA. Does anyone remember whether or not she said the sex tape was supposedly made the night of SC fight, so May 10th as in the early morning hours of May 10th, after the fight?
That is theoretically possible, though entirely unbelievable. They would have had to get on the phone after a bitter text fight that lasted for hours, and after they had clearly finished with one another for the night.
Then, while on the phone, they would have had to discuss past encounters sentimentally, with no tension whatsoever, as well as travel plans, including hers, after he has just lit into her about just such plans. And, she would have had to bring up Abe and poke at Travis about her being in touch with him, right after she had just grandly announced a don't ask don't tell policy, and after just resolving a provoked fight about a (fictional) man.
Not.