Detouring to Gus Searcy. (All this is my last blast of transferring new info from BK site and pulling stuff together for context).
On April 26 CL tells Travis that Larry Smith has been named PPL regional manager. Travis isn't thrilled, she asks why. T tells her that he doesn't think Larry Smith likes him very much.
On April 27 , again texting with CL, he asks her if Smith had mentioned any changes to how AZ PPL would be run. (She's at a PPL event where Travis was supposed to be too, but he's sunburnt and missing at least days of it).
CL says Smith is going to (essentially) nix Super Saturdays. Travis responds- what an



, and tells CL the only reason for Smith's reorganizing is to benefit himself.
April 29. The killer texts Travis to ask him for Larry Smith's email. T asks her why she wants it. She says Gus Searcy asked her to get it for him. The killer then texts LS's email to Travis (yes, you read that right). Travis says yes and tells her he is actually with Smith at the moment.
She texts Travis -- tell Smith that Gus is aware his spelling is his Achilles heel and not to hold it against him.
She repeats herself... make sure you tell Larry Smith that for Gus. And tells Travis she's read the email Gus sent Smith herself, that if she were the recipient she'd hold the bad spelling and grammar against the sender, but "you know how I am" about that kind of thing.
T. Check. He's gonna get pulled. No 10th SS."
J: he knows.
T: what did the email say?
J: congratulations (etc.)
T: how dare you.
At another PPL event in early May (iirc), both Travis and Gus attend and are in the same room close enough to each other for Travis to see Gus texting like crazy. Travis texts the killer, tells her that about Gus, and asks her-- is he texting you by any chance?
She avoids the question, says something about helping Searcy hook up with some woman, then adds at the end...yes, Gus did just text me (providing a reason on the spot for why Gus is texting her, IMO).
Whatever else, fgs. Travis thinks he's rid of her and she is inserting herself into his work world too, and beyond that, is telling Travis her reach extends to his boss of sorts, Smith. Who doesn't like him. And she almost certainly has access to T's texts, in which he is bad mouthing the man...