After some thought I think Jodi never waivered in her mission to murder Travis. Right after the May 25th marathon IM/text/call she decided to kill him. From then on it was plan...plan...plan until June. We all know the pre murder measures to not be detected she divised and carried out. Whether she called Travis to make sure he was going to be home or actually told him she was on her way really doesnt matter, in order for her plan to work he needed to be home.
Ive read where some do not understand why Travis would have sex with her or why she would have sex with Travis if her intention was to murder him or that she may have been trying to get him to change his mind about Cancun. I dont think there was ever a maybe if he changes his mind about Cancun she wont kill him plan. Plain and simple their whole relationship was based on sex. Travis wanted her for sex and had a hard time saying no (not unusual for men his age) and she knew how to control him by using sex. She needed this control for her plan to work. Does anyone really believe she was embarrassed by those photos - heck no and that is why having sex with him before the murder was of no significance to her it was just a means to an end. It put her in control. The nude photos before were just a way to get him to have those photos taken in the shower where she planned on the murder. A set up if you will.
Once in the shower her plan was always to kill by knife AND gun (she had both in the getaway car too)...a two person look alike murder to deflect away from her. The stabbings had to come first as why would they need to stab if the gun shot killed him first. (I also believe her final story of gunshot first, stabbing second was because she was led to believe thats what the coronor concluded and she needed to make a story based on the coronors report). I believe her plan was to stab Travis to death in the shower was to minimize the blood and minimize his ability to fight back and then shoot him in the head to make it look like 2 people killed him. Of course she didnt count on him being able to get up and out of the shower so thats where the over kill came in. It wasnt in her plan and so she panicked. She dragged him back to the shower and shot him in the head even tho he was dead to get back to her original plan.
The camera she had planned on all along and on deleting the photos. Her major flaw is that she really didnt know that photos could be recovered if you delete them. She bled on the camera and she knew she had to get the DNA off so she intentionally threw it in the bleach water along with the other stuff that had her DNA on it. She couldnt take the camera and nothing else, as that would seem very odd and since she considers herself to be a photographer the police may look at her if the camera was taken. She didnt think to take the memory card because she honestly didnt think she needed to since the photos were deleted.
OMG, I agree you are spot on!! I always felt like she had sex with him in order to take the sex pics that
he wanted, so she could
convince him to do what
she wanted - the shower Calvin Klein pics. The stabbing was so noone would suspect her, that a "girl" could have done that. Only gunshot would have made her look much more suspicious. I agree the camera, she
didn't know that the pics could be retrieved.
Also, with the camera I just watched the testimony where all the evidence recovered from the house was shown. I had not seen this part before, and I had heard that the camera was with the sheets, and so it could have been put in there "accidentally" when she was gathering up the sheets. However, after watching that testimony, it's
CLEAR that the camera was put in there on purpose - it was in the washer with only other things used in the murder, like clothes and towel. Also the weight of those items would not be that much so that the camera could have been swept up when she was gathering them. I could understand that
if it was with the sheets, but it wasn't.
I believe that after they had sex, she offered to put the sheets in the washer (which was part of her plan). Since she cleaned his house and generally wanted to please him, I can totally see her telling him "Hey honey, lemme take care of these sheets for ya, I'll just pop them into the washer so you don't have to do it later." So that took care of the sheets. She put them in the dryer before her killing began. Then after the killing, she gathered the clothes, towel, and camera and put them in the washer.
Can anyone clear these things up for me: why were there two sets of clothes in the washer...two shirts, one short, one pant...I was thinking she wore Travis' clothes but then remembered she was wearing her own pants in the pic of her dragging his body? So wouldn't there be only the one which he had taken off to take the shower? And what about why were there so many socks? Also, does anyone know what she did as far as shoes goes...I know there was one impression of her shoe...but why would she be wearing socks, and then put shoes on while she's just walking around in the blood in the bathroom, because she obviously would have had to take those shoes off again so she didn't track blood thru the house? And can anyone tell me if any of her fingerprints were found on any of the doorknobs in the house? If not, do you think she had put on gloves to do the after-murder things like clothes in washer and getting out of the house? I am confused as to these things, don't know if Det. Flores went into them but I didn't watch his testimony.
Thanks ahead for the help!
whispers: I was being facetious about the doorbell.)