TexMex
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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The evidence is showing that their final conversations were exchanges of threats-- not about Cancun.
You don't need to kill someone over a trip! What Travis was threatening to do was to ruin Arias' chances to move to the next man to the right, which is what she's always done.
The evidence shows she did not need to grieve Travis' death, but was able to clean blood off her hands and begin grinding immediately on someone else. This does not look like "he's the only one--I had to have him" jealous mentality to me. It looks more like, "up the ladder I go and I f*ckin' got rid of his *advertiser censored*--ruin me, will he...well look who ruined who!"
It was her future she was concerned about and willing to kill to preserve--a future of $$$ and prestige as a trophy wife, nothing to do with religion or love at all.
All about Jodi and her ability to continue to use her (perceived) assets to insure a way out of the ghetto.
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I think Jodi had enormous anger/angst/concern over finances. She seems to have gone from working two jobs, having money in savings and owning a home to barely employed part time living in a room in her grandparents modest home within five years. Her father said she had considered bankruptcy but didn't have the money to file.
I think she had gambled everything on marriage to Travis. She had basically quit working to travel with him, stalk him, pretend to sell PPL. That fell through. She has enormous anger. It's his fault. She knows she must move on. She sees PPL as her best bet. She is 27, wants marriage, financial stability, kids. She figures she can get this the fastest by hooking up with another Morman guy. They are family oriented, marriage minded and she had already converted! But as you say, Travis could prevent her plan from succeeding. He knew things. If he let on to her next prospect or his friends or family that would be it. In her mind, for her to "move on" Travis had to die. She felt justified! He hurt her by rejecting her, he was abandoning her. She had fulfilled his fantasies but she wasn't good enough to be his wife. He was the reason she left her job, her boyfriend Daryl and their house. He ruined all that, her career, her credit. It's his fault she's back in little Yreka. And now, unless she does something Travis was going to ruin her chance of a future. For Jodi to move on Travis had to go.