I'm not sure it has been proven she displays these traits. It's not seen in any of the pages of her writing or anywhere in any conversation she has with him. It's all going the other way.
There's talk about slashing of tires, but we now know he was messing with 11 other women and had at least one named 'stalker' who is not Jodi--so it's not proven who did this.
Are there other things? I have heard the roommates interviewed--nothing.
IMO
I'm
convinced Jodi is a psychopath and after spending a decade with my own, surviving it, and going on to do years of therapy and research to make certain I'd never repeat the pattern - I very, very firmly believe
all psychopaths are to at least some extent, by nature alone, abusive.
Limiting it just to the scope of what's come in, so far: Jodi herself has admitted to stalking, obsessive, and intimidating behaviors in a past relationship. She's obviously admitted she lies. The tire slashing was brought in by the defense via Mimi Hall, day one, only to show Travis hadn't named his stalker. We know she knew his garage code and his atm pin #. We learned Jodi has been victimized in one way or another in almost every intimate relationship - from parent to partner. The beginning of an abusive relationship - as
she testified to - is really atypical with everything I am personally aware of. And there were no appropriate emotions displayed when recounting her own abuse - nor was there any sense of graduation from victim into survivor. She testified to abuse as though she'd only just left the relationship - still 'protecting' Travis, still loving him. (Victims grow stronger over time and metamorphosize into survivors - whose emotions, recounting, and attitudes often are vastly different to those still in victim mode.) We heard a 'sex tape' dripping with manipulation in which Travis is utterly knackered. A tape, might I add, that was miraculously recovered in time for trial. We also became privy to Jodi being a victim of
every abuse on the Power and Control Wheel in an incredibly short relationship - with no one independent ever bearing witness to it, apparently. I'm quite certain I'm missing a lot.
What we haven't heard. The stereotypical beginning of an abusive relationship. Travis didn't propose. He didn't move her in. He didn't plead and beg for her to move, even going to help her pack. (I'm rather discounting the testimony of a prolific liar, I will admit.) We haven't heard from the many friends whose name was on the tip of their tongues when discovering he was murdered. Or the friend who asked if he was afraid of her. Or the peeps he warned he might not see on Sunday should she kill him. Or about the email sent to Lisa. Or that Jodi was suspected of tire slashing and invading his personal online accounts. Or that several friends of his considered her obsessed, or odd in her behaviors. We haven't heard, or seen, how a week after Travis started a blog - Jodi mimicked it. We have yet to learn that her Myspace is eerily nearly identical to his. We haven't been enlightened as to a contact pattern by either of them - who was calling whom, when, and how often? And we probably won't ever know about the ten letters purportedly written by Travis, that
coincidentally back Jodi's every claim, but can't and won't be substantiated because Jodi has, from what I can glean, refused to supply the originals or even concede how she came about them. We don't know if she took his journals and no christmas trees have been mentioned yet either.
Personally, I'm pretty confident in my assessment that Jodi's a sadistic, abusive psychopath who, like many before her, is intent on the absolute destruction of someone who dared to reject her. And her request for a plea agreement 'or else' only lends more weight to that theory.
JMO
(by the way I do that...)
