Originally Posted by
nyx276
So on the subject of that shower pic that's of Travis looking into the camera, do you remember when Jodi commented to Flores that one was a great photo? It's got me thinking again about the chain of events before Jodi starts her biggest lie about what happened.
I think he was forced to sit at gunpoint when the pic was taken while she told him off, expressing her power over him. Remember her big complaint to Flores about jail was that she felt "powerless." I think she got Travis where she felt like she finally had the upper hand, after nothing else worked to make him fully be hers. That's why this picture was meaningful to her.
I think then she tried to shoot him but the gun jammed just like she claimed happened in her ninja story. I think he lunged up at her out of the shower and knocked the camera away as it took a pic of the ceiling. Probably knocked the gun away too. Then she got her knife from wherever, probably her pocket, andstabbed at him blindly at first while he used his hands to defend himself. She then hit him in the heart (I suspect she was aiming for it after the first few cuts, it would obviously incapacitate him and it is also symbolic of Jodi the eternal victim). After the heart stab he was swiftly weakened to the point of not being able to defend himself as strongly. He probably grabbed on to whatever was around he could steady himself on, the sink; he bled over it while she started stabbing him in the back, head, anywhere she could hit. She must have been in a rage-panic. Possible at this time: He fell and went down onto his back. She fell back herself in the process and hit the camera button with her foot, where it took the next pic of him on the floor. If this was the case, the blood shown in that photo is coming from stab wounds, not throat slashing.
With one last huge surge of strength to knock her aside, he gained a few seconds to pull himself up or crawl into the hall, falling against the sides of the walls and smearing them with blood as he got weaker with the exertion. With how low the blood smears are on the wall I think he was crawling or almost crawling. He collapsed at the end of the hall (or she knocked him to the ground; he was weak and she was all adrenaline). I think he fell face down and she pulled his head back and slashed his throat while she was crouched over him. But she could have rolled him over and slashed his neck that way (god, looking at his face while she did it..... cold murdering bitch). I think he died right there quickly. I hope fiercely that he was unconscious immediately and felt no pain.
She started to freak out over the blood everywhere (remember she said to Flores early on that she heard there was a lot of blood involved, implying it had an impact on her) and thought if she got him back into the shower she could clean things up. She took the sheet off the bed because it was easier and cleaner to wrap him up in something. Possible here instead: as she was starting to move his body, she stepped back and hit the camera, which had been kicked into the hall by one of them in the struggle. The camera took the pic of her standing over him and the blood was coming mainly from the throat slashing. I think this is more likely than the pic being taken in the bathroom, but I haven't looked at the timing of the photos to see. She wrapped him in the sheet and started to lift him, steps back AGAIN and hits the camera with her foot where it took the final picture of the hall baseboard. At some point in the hall sshe braced herself against the wall and left a palmprint. The hair found could have been ripped out at any point during the stabbing.
She got him into the bathroom and before she heaved him into the shower, she shot him in the head. Why? Did she feel after that horrendous struggle for his life that she needed to show she was powerful again (likely IMHO)? Did she mistakenly take post-death convulsions for signs of life (also likely IMHO)? Or was she thinking that she could stage it like a break-in, and then gave that idea up as she tried to clean the mess?
Regardless, she got him into the shower and probably also got into the shower (!!!) with his body to wash herself off. Then she dressed and tried to mop the blood up with towels, the sheets, and cups of water before realizing that it was fruitless and she needed to get out of there. She must have realized that the camera still had photos on it from earlier in the day, so she deleted them. I think she intended to take the camera with her along with the weapons, but accidentally scooped it up with the bloody sheets and threw it in the wash. Wasn't the bedroom torn up like someone looked for something in a hurry? She grabbed her stuff (including the KY!), made sure she had the weapons and her bloody clothes with her. Put up the dog gate just in case the dog started sniffing around, locked the door, and booked. I do think it is possible that the roommate came home while she was there, maybe just as she was ready to leave, and she may have snuck out. But she could have done the shoddy cleanup she did in a fast-paced half hour. She had to have parked down the street earlier in the day so as not to be seen.
I think she waited until she was well out of AZ and then burned the clothes somewhere in the desert. Tossed the gun and knife, maybe into a river. She didn't show up at the next guy's house until like 12 hours later so I suspect she had an adrenaline crash and was sleeping it off somewhere - the car? A cheap cash motel? Were the red stains in the car Kool-aid or blood? I imagine eventually she tossed the floor mats after realizing they had some incriminating substance on them.
Being that she's a narcissistic monster and probably let him have it verbally while he was at gunpoint in the shower, I think the expression on his poor face is questioningly fearful, maybe a little indignant or shocked. Maybe "I should have followed my instincts" or "I should have listened to what other people were saying" crossed his mind, or maybe he just thought she was fucking with him. With how much she loves to talk about herself, I cannot imagine that she just attacked him without telling him why first. It's all about her after all.
I think she planned to shoot him in the shower where things would stay tidy and end quickly ("humanely," as she said in her interrogation). I wonder about the knife. I feel like she had the knife so she could stab him in the heart like a symbolic act. Her stalking behavior after all was filled with symbolism, dates, power plays, etc. and that's only what we know so far. I'm not so sure she would have stabbed/slashed if the gun had worked. But I could be wrong.
TL:DR - JM's final argument is going to be awesome if he can finally put together all of the steps that happened that evening, because we're all probably almost right about what happened but don't quite have it all figured out. And I need to go to bed!
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Thank you for your assessment!!
