Have a few questions:
1) Has the gun that was used to shoot TA been found? If so, I haven't seen a picture of it.
What kind of gun was allegedly stolen from the grandfather's house? Is it possibly to get a rough estimate of the firing pin of that gun and match it to the casing found at the crime scene?
2) Did TA have .25 ACP ammo in the house? There's back and forth the she brought the gun, and her allegedly using a gun that Travis owns. There is a picture in evidence of .22lr and .22 mag ammo, but where is that picture taken.
3) Does the grandfather have .25 ACP ammo in the house, and if so, does it match the casing found at the crime scene?
4) Do any of the knives found in the house match the profile of the wounds in TA? (In other words, did she bring her own knife? Was she planning on just using the gun?)
5) Are there any side view pictures of the casing? IMO, it would be preferable to shoot TA first as using a knife for the initial attack would be easier for the victim to defend. I understand the casing is on top of blood, but could have been displaced during the altercation. If it was displaced, there may be blood on the sides of the casing in which we can't see from an aerial view. The entry is also angled, right to left downward. Possibly shot when TA was sitting in the shower.
6) Why would there be pictures of him and then apx one minute later the camera is in the hallway during all of this? Did she have the camera in her hand the whole time while stabbing him?
7) There's tassel from a pillow on the staircase, and talk about a knife was used to cut rope. Where is that knife, any rope residue on the knife? and where is the rope?
1) The gun used to shoot Travis has not been found. He was a shot by a .25 caliber weapon. The gun that was stolen from the Arias grandparents' house that belonged to her grandfather and where Jodi was living at the time was also a .25 caliber weapon and was stolen days before the murder.
2) Travis did not own a gun nor any ammo. Jodi is the only person claiming that Travis owned a gun though in the recording of one of her telephone calls with Det. Flores he specifically asked her if Travis owned any kinds of guns and she said he did not and that he only had his "two fists".
3) Not sure about the ammo and other guns the grandfather owned. There is a photo taken of the area of the house where he stored his guns and ammo, but I wouldn't know if he had ammo for that gun. I don't even recall what all is depicted in the photo or if there was more than one photo taken in that area. Seeing as he did have various guns and ammo in his house I would imagine that he did have ammo for the .25 caliber gun that was stolen.
4) Unknown about the knife. The medical examiner could only identify the approximate length and width of the knife most due to extensive body decomposition, but he could identify that it was sharp on one side and dull on the other like a kitchen knife. There were many knives found in the kitchen and dishwasher of various sizes one or more of which could have been used to kill Travis, but they were all clean. I don't know if all knives were present and accounted for, but they have not identified the specific knife that killed him, do not know if she brought a knife with her to stab him and took it with her when she left, and there was no bloody knife found at the scene.
5) The shell casing landed in a puddle of blood in the bathroom when ejected from the gun. As the casing was pristine other than where it touched the blood puddle it could not have rolled into the puddle. Because of the margins of the blood puddle it was also found that the casing could not have rolled into the puddle nor pooled around the casing.
According to the medical examiner, the gun shot had to have come after the stabbing as Travis had defensive cuts on his hands and I think one arm as well, and that when he was shot there was already too little blood in his body to rush out of the wound or fill his sinus cavities. He also said that when the bullet entered his head it went into his brain, and though there was too much decomposition to track the exact pathway of the bullet through the brain, he was able to tell that it did enter his brain to lodge in the opposite cheekbone. He said that this gunshot would have immediately rendered him incopacited if not killed him outright - unable to stand, move, etc.
Both the testimony of the medical examiner and the cross-examination of him was on Day 3 of the trial and available on YouTube.
6) It is unknown how the camera came to be in the hallway. At some point she was deliberately taking photos of Travis in the shower, but when the attack occurred there were no more photos until the accidental ceiling photo in the bathroom and the accidental photos in the hallway. At some point while continuing to attack him with the knife as Travis tried to get away down the hallway, the camera was probably kicked or dragged along. One of the detectives demonstrated during trial that the unintentional photos were probably taken when the camera was bumped, kicked or stepped on. He showed that when the camera was upsidedown on the floor it took very little pressure on the bottom side of the camera for the photo taking button to be depressed against the floor thereby taking a photo.
7) There was no rope. The rope is part of Jodi's ficticious story in order to try to explain why there was a knife handy upstairs. No rope was found at the scene nor any evidence of any rope, and the only knives found in the house were the clean kitchen knives in the kitchen some in a butcher block knife holder and some in the dishwasher. The tassle is from one of Travis's throw pillows he had on a large chair next to his bed. How the tassle got into some of the blood is unknown. Det. Flores testified about the photo of the tassle in the blood that was in one of the crime scene photos. The crime scene photo of the tassle in the blood was just because they thought it could be of some significance at the time, but there doesn't appear to be any significance about it. It may have been torn off the pillow when Jodi stripped the bed to wash the linens or it may have been torn off at some other time and just happened to be lying on the floor when the attack occurred.
It is likely that Jodi took both weapons with her when she left so they could not be identified as the weapons used or fingerprints pulled from them tracing back to her. Her story at the time was that she was not at Travis's house that day nor even in Arizona. She had to change her story to the two intruder story and that she was there when Travis was killed by these fictitious two intruders when Det. Flores confronted her with some of the photos extracted from the camera that she thought she had destroyed in the washing machine.
