Those final questions from the jury have me thinking they aren't buying Stabby's it was The Fog story, she couldn't have been in The Fog if she was selective about WHAT she deleted from the camera![/QUOTE]
There's something that's been niggling at the back of my mind since I first heard some photos were still on the card, while the one's from that day were deleted. We've already heard it was a new camera. 90 photos is a lot for a camera that was first used the date of it's owner's murder. It's really making me wonder if the memory card had been around for a while.
Having a house full of kids has led to me having a few memory card deletion disasters of my own. Something that's happened a number of times, is that we buy a new camera & suddenly one of the kids say they HAVE to use the camera NOW. So they rush off & accidentally put in an old memory card, with photos from an old camera, into the new camera. It takes the photos fine & it's only when you start paging back through them that you realise there's older stuff on it. You don't realise because you can SEE the earlier photos. Each one of the older photos comes up as a black screen with an incompatibility message. You can't see the older photos, you CAN'T DELETE the older photos, unless you put the card back into the camera they were taken on. When you do that, you then can't see or delete the newer photos.
Someone mentioned earlier that it's a simple thing to delete the whole card with one click of the "delete all" button. That's true. We've lost a lot of photos that way & it's very easy to do unintentionally if you're rushing with a new camera. Sometimes the cards will be compatible across more than 1 camera, but only if they're the same make & even that's no guarantee. If you had an old memory card& you used it in a new camera, it's entirely possible you could hit delete all & only delete the pix taken on the new camera.
This is just a thought. Obviously if these 90 photos are viewable on Travis' camera, or an undamaged one identical to his, then this isn't what happened. But if those 90 photos won't come up on his camera or one like it? Then Jodi could've accidentally/intentionally deleted every photo taken that day with one press of a button - not the complicated drama described. & those 90 photos could've stayed on that card waiting for a compatible device before they could be seen. Who fucking knows though. You'd think our little "photographer" would be aware of this with all her experience??