I'm here. I've been pouting because I got a TO, but guess what? Real life came rushing back like a tsunami. All the things I put off, like dirty dishes, vacuuming, they are started crying out for attention.....So I've been lurking but I am very interested that the new evidence dribbling in is supporting some of the alternative theories, like the Torture First theory.
I believe the shower pics were taken so Arias could photograph him dying because she is a sadistic sociopath. They enjoy suffering so much they want to prolong the pleasure. This is why torturers make tapes of their victim's screams, so they can relive the moment.
He thinks she's gone and he sits down, perhaps starting to feel weak. He's exhausted and has been trying to get rid of this crazy woman all night. In the shower, he is asking God to help him, to forgive him. Remember the ME said there would be some time before the stab to the vena cava would kill him. You can see blood by the drain in the sitting photo, so he actively bleeding and has been bleeding the whole time in the shower. He has been crying also, you can see the snot from his left nostril streaming down his face. She leaves finally and he slumps to the floor of the shower, crying, hugging his legs, trying to summon the strength to get out.
And the monster comes back. Smiling, he can see her through the door, which is closed. He is wary, thinks he sees a knife. She takes the photo then opens the door and attacks him on the head again and again.
She has the knife in the right hand (different from my previous thought). He lunges at her in horrific pain, realizing for the first time that she is trying to kill him because she says, "F*cking kill you, *****!" He lunges at her like a linebacker and she continues to stab, stab, stab, inflicting the series of shallow stabs lined up along the right side of his back, which you can see in the autopsy photos. She can't swing her arm far because he's got her by the waist.
And you know the rest.
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