Accurate in whole or in part or not at all, here's a bottom line, simple scenario for what could have happened on June 4, one that accepts JM's trial evidence as is, but rejects most of what little the
claimed happened.
1. The
was desperate to reach TA before she left on June 2, and didn't stop trying until he gave in and called her back, because she absolutely needed to know if she'd be able to talk her way into his house, even if it was only to get one foot half way in the door. During that call, she said whatever she thought TA most wanted to hear, including, IMO, that she'd moved on to Ryan. She didn't tell him she was driving to Mesa, but she did tell him she was about to trek to Utah, which was a key element in explaining why she would show up at TA's house-- a detour, not a destination.
2. Did he forgive her after the call? Trust her? Want to see her? I'm very sure- -none of the above. She kept calling along the way, and he kept not answering her calls. She had to have been at least a little bit unsure how he would respond to her showing up.
3. In any case, she couldn't risk being seen or heard by his roommates, so a late night arrival was imperative. She hung out in Pasadena for hours to time that arrival PAST the time she knew TA usually went to bed (2-3AM was his typical late night bedtime, 3 being on the later end of that typical).
4. She arrived closer to 3 than to 4AM, but TA was still awake. She waited until she knew he'd gone upstairs, then snuck in through the side garage door, through the laundry room, into his study.
5. She backspaced to see what he'd been doing on the computer, then snooped his emails. If he had left his phone in the office, she snooped that as well; maybe she turned the volume off, maybe she even forwarded his calls to her phone so he didn't receive any calls (versus texts) at all. If not in the office, later, when she snuck upstairs.
6. She didn't know the schedules of roommates, and didn't even know who was there and where. She might have checked in rooms upstairs to know, and might have peeped Zach's rental car in the garage for clues. She knew from spying on TA for over an hour that he was alone-- neither car belonged to a friend staying late or for the night. She stayed in TA's study, maybe with the door slightly ajar, until she heard both Enrique then Zach leave. The coast was clear.
Even if TA was initially upset or angry when she ambushed him, no one would be there to hear whatever came next.
7. There are many hours to account for even before the sex photos were (allegedly) taken. From 8 or 9AM (at the latest, when Zach left) until 1:30 or so, and there's only one timed record we know of, a text reply to Chris at 12:10pm, over 1 and 1/2 hours after Chris had texted TA.
8. TA typically was up and about by 11-11:30 am, even after going to bed as late as 3 or 4am. He actually prided himself about not needing a lot of sleep, and that he made up for lost sleep with short "power naps."
Whether he woke up on his own, or she woke him up, I think he was up before noon.
9. I think she intercepted the text from Chris and replied to it so that Chris didn't keep texting until he got a reply. Chris would be one of the very few friends she could believe TA might tell that she had shown up, uninvited.
10. That the sex photos weren't taken until well past 1PM suggests to me that the
couldn't in fact get TA into bed very readily. IMO it took a fair amount of manipulation and time, a great deal more of both than she had planned on.
11. I think the
had also counted on using sex to make TA totally let down his guard, and that she could readily transition him from sex photos to having her take photos of him in the bathroom- the shaving redo- then on to shower photos.
But....TA didn't cooperate. He refused to allow her to take the shaving photos. She needed a plan B. It was already a bit after 2pm, they had already has sex, and she was supposed to be on her way.
12. They went downstairs. Travis ate oatmeal. He wanted her to go, she kept hanging around. He did a laundry of his sheets, etc., spent some time figuring out how to put the tile cleaner together, cleared off the floor, including putting dining room chairs on the sofa. She stood there as he worked, talking at him.
13. Zach returned approximately 45 minutes after the
and TA came downstairs. Because TA and his roommates seemed very unaware of one another's schedules and rarely communicated, IMO Travis wasn't expecting Zach to return, and the
could not of had any idea whatsoever of that happening.
Zach would have entered the house through the garage and laundry room, or possibly the front door, depending on where he parked his car. Neither the
or TA would have had much warning.
One or both of them were in TA's study before Zach arrived, and stayed there until after he left. Because I don't think it was possible for the
to have known Zach would be returning, I don't think she would have left the house while he was there. Not enough time to hear him return, to give TA even a quick excuse and goodbye, and to leave without crossing paths with Zach or making her exit known.
14. I also don't think Zach's sudden return gave her enough time to come up with a reason for darting upstairs, alone, and I don't think she would have hung out by herself up in TA's bedroom, letting TA out of her sight, before Zach returned.
Best guess: they were both in TA's study when Zach was there, and neither one of them was interested in announcing to Zach that the
was there, albeit fir very different reasons.
15. Zach left around 4pm. The
had planned for Travis to be dead and herself long gone by this hour. She'd been delayed by an untrusting Travis and Zach's unexpected return. Time was running out. Travis was also becoming increasingly impatient with her remaining there. He had work to do, a PPL call to prepare for, GFs to reply to....a life he wanted to get on with, all the more sweetened by knowing he'd finally be rid of the
.
16. The
still needed to get him into the shower. Wasn't happening. Her only excuse for remaining was to show him the CD's and hope that viewing their history made him feel sentimental, an easier touch. Didn't happen.
17. TA finally told her flat out that he needed to get ready for the call, that he was going upstairs to take a shower, thanks for stopping by, have a good time with Ryan. They said goodbye, TA thought she'd left, he went upstairs.
18. The
snuck back in, checked his email at 4:45.
Nor does a man who was utterly through with the lying wench yet drop his drawers the moment she walks through the door (or sneaks up on him while sleeping). Without Melendez' report, we don't know what he did with the camera and memory stick, unfortunately.
