firstly, may I say the psycho reference just made the hair on my arm stand up because that association has been in my head and I assumed it was just the common shower nude theme. Now I will have to watch that scene alongside the sequenced photos. Very interesting observation.
Your thoughts on her fascination with the photos and the autopsy photos, etc I think are dead on too.
Now to your first paragraph, I am one of the few who do not believe for an instant that JA left physically overpowering him to chance. That is why I am in teh minority in that I feel she shot him first, then stabbed after a gun mishap. Why else go to the trouble of stealing and taking a gun to a planned stabbing? I know, I know, the ME feels the shooting came last. I just have never been able to see it. I just don't see this reptilian thinker (wow, Dr. S and I DO agree on something) not shooting him first. I think the knife was the improvisation.
If you google it - you can find the sequence lined up. Just prepare to go "Oh my god". It's that similar.
I think the knife was used first only because psychologically "knife = sex". I had a study where offenders all had been involved in multiple homicides with knives, I was made to draw a conclusion as to what the knife represented and why they chose it. It's the act of penetration. They also indicated frenzied assaults and all were planned attacks aka personal.
I just see Jodi doing things like this:
1. shows up in AZ unannounced and begs to stay or sleep for a bit.
2. she gets one "last time" (I bet she even said it that way) in.
3. She sneaks in photos of him nude and he puts the camera up.
4. She takes her own nude photos. They do not look like she posed and he took the images. She's setting the stage because she's going to keep the images
5. She starts taking photos in the shower hours later (4 hours later).
I think she ambushed him after snooping around and finding out he was still going to Mexico. I believe 100% that was the catalyst. I'm wondering if he was going to propose on this trip and she found the ring? It was premeditated but as a BPD she's looking to get worked up and angered.
There is a strange 4 hour period that's unaccounted for.
When it's over she throws everything in the washer and the camera goes with it because now she doesn't want to get caught.
OR she throws everything in a wash in a hurry (she notices the time). But I just think she was far more calculated than that.