I won't be watching the live trial feed tomorrow because I have a load of medical appointments, so you won't be subject to my outbursts on this thread. However, I'm going to take some of your time to suggest you direct your thoughts to a more mundane issue that doesn't trigger the visceral responses we experience in trying to understand and explain to ourselves and others the pathological drives that gave rise to the tragedy of the murder of Travis Alexander. Things are usually not as complicated as we make them out to be. In fact, life has taught me, that if things are too complicated they are usually not true. Simply put!?
Question: What is the reason that Travis Alexander continued contact with Jodi Arias after she left Mesa?
Answer:
She owed him $6,000.00. I think we can accept as true that Travis was being pressed to meet his financial obligations. He had a mortgage to pay; he had just purchased a new Prius, (probably financed); and, admitted that he was struggling to 'save his house.' He further stated in some of his e-mails that knowing Jodi
'was the worst year of my life.' He had been overly generous in giving Jodi Arias his BMW on very easy terms that was worth at least $4,500.00 cash and she had promptly wrecked it and destroyed its value. He had allowed his business to run down while trying to maintain his normal social and business life and, at the same time, deal with Jodi Arias's relentless intrusions. I suppose he had enough hubris, (what young man doesn't?) that he thought he could handle everything but, at the end, when he told her to just leave him alone he was almost at the breaking point. However, Travis still hung onto that vain hope of getting the $6,000.00 Jodi owed him. So he continued to maintain contact with her, to find ways to be nice to her, (while holding his nose), and to put up with her craziness. That was all the opening she needed to stay in his life 'till she finally took it from him.
