I'm bummed that so many folks on here think she surprised him in the shower
I think it's so much more premeditated that she had a plan to trap him in that shower. She had it figured out way beforehand, imho. She brought the weapons on purpose to that bathroom -- where there were no defensive weapons available -- and trapped him in that tiny shower, where he could only leave by one direction. I think she was able to convince him to sit down, even.
I don't think it's as strong evidence if she just surprised him. I think she planned exactly how to overpower him better than that.
The defense is already questioning why she didn't just shoot him sometime before. I seriously think she planned to sleep with him first and then kill him in the shower at the end instead of leaving nicely. The thought of her titillation about that as they were having sex blows my mind, but I think that's exactly what she did. Talk about murder-as-control! She had to feel wicked as hell during their intimacy. Pure evil.
She didn't happen to catch him in the shower (imho). No way.
Hello fellow sleuthers! I've never posted on TA's forum but in the past couple of weeks been following this case livestream and on other sites. Guess you could say I just crawled out from under a rock:blushing:. My dad was the one who brought this case to my attention a couple of weeks ago (I had not heard about it til recently). I'm in Canada and we don't seem to get much coverage here unless you watch the US news or NG.
I don't watch much TV period.
Anyhow I just thought I'd put my :twocents: worth in. I do agree with much of what Writer mentioned pertaining to him being surprised in the shower by JA. I believe she figured she could kill TA in the shower, have all the evidence/blood contained to the shower, wash it away and make a clean get away. Little did she figure there would be a struggle. She had a shower first cleaning herself up, got dressed, put her stuff in the car but left the knife and gun hidden possibly under the bathroom sink (in evidence pictures that cupboard is open and the detective said it was open when they arrived). She was ready to flee immediately after she murdered him. She may have been the one who suggested to take the pictures for him to lure him into the bathroom or she just showed up in the bathroom and started clicking away. At that point he would've just gone along with it or possible told her to stop. That one picture of him looking straight into the camera, he doesn't look like he's too impressed and some pictures look like the shower stall door was closed (not too clear and you can see the flash of the camera reflecting on the glass door). So to me and JMO, he wasn't expecting pictures to happen. Unfortunately for her, things got messier than she figured and that is why she threw the items in the washer with bleach. Could it have been she didn't realize the camera was amongst all the clothing she scooped up, and it got tossed in the washer also. In her haste to get the heck outta there, and unable to predict and plan the "what ifs" she was probably scared shatless and just went into autopilot by doing a load of laundry instead of bagging the clothing and dumping it somewhere. If it wasn't for her getting her fingers/hand cut, she probably would've just took off, leaving the bloody mess, but being her blood got on items she thought she'd clean up the mess, erasing all evidence by washing everything in bleach.
IMHO she's a psychotic, overbearing, narcissistic, wackyjob who couldn't take the fact that TA didn't want her in his life and when it came down to the crunch, knowing it was not her going away with him to Cancun, but another woman, she couldn't stand it. She knew at this point he was done with her, that he was moving on in his life without her. She wanted everything he had and she was so obsessed with him she figured if she couldn't have him, no one else would. It seems he tried to let her know so many times he was through with her in round about ways through text messages, but she refused to leave him alone. Too bad he kept responding to her.
It's totally ridiculous that she has been on the stand going into the eighth day. Shame on her defense for allowing her to blah, blah, blah on and on. They should be consulting her to keep it simple. I wouldn't be surprised if the jurors have already labeled her as a whackjob being as she rambles on so much. It's going to be hard now for her to keep her story straight hahaha. I can hardly wait for cross examination. Martinez is going to have a hay day with her. I don't know anything about Martinez but I like him so far. He seems very clever and a no nonsense type of lawyer. Maybe I'm wrong, but I do like his style. As for her team...is this their first case or what?! :floorlaugh:
Well that's just all MOO and I can absolutely see her being locked up for the rest of her life. I'm not too sure about the DP but either one would suit me just fine. Looking forward to hearing her explain how her grandparents stolen gun ended up in her hands...this will be good lol. Oh yes, it's not her grandparents handgun. :wink:
RIP Travis. They say only the good die young. How sad. He seemed to have such a bright future ahead of him.
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