She did try to move on from Travis but he refused to be blackmailed by her. She tried it with the sex tape.
"You tell what I did and I'll put this sex tape up on my new Youtube account--here let me show it to you on your computer. You'll be my first video up!"
He didn't go for it. He told her instead to stay away from him. She already had Ryan Burns lined up and he knew it because she had tried to make him jealous with faking communications from rivals, and that didn't work.
Now he was afraid of her and was using the information he had about the crime she committed as leverage to make her stop violating his privacy. The crime had something to do with PrePaid legal because he threatened to tell Chris Hughes, who was her upline. Travis said "you scammed me."
It appears that this was the last straw for him and he thought he had successfully backed Jodi Arias into a corner. She told him that she would no longer attend any PPL functions. (testimony) This was a test. He was supposed to say, "Oh don't be silly, this is just personal stuff between us. It's over and we can stay friends even though you scammed me. You keep my secrets and I'll keep yours."
This seemed imminently fair to Jodi. But Travis doesn't think like Jodi Arias. He wanted a clean, transparent life, not one hemmed with blackmail. He didn't want to continue to see her at PPL functions sucking whatever dick was handy and priming his friends for a scam on them. Travis doesn't want better for himself than for others, so he refused her blackmail offer just like the Alexander family refused her plea offer.
And with the same consequence--rage.
Once Travis did not argue that she could continue with PPL and her secret was safe, that sealed his death, IMO. I know a lot of people think she loved Travis, was full of jealousy, wanted to be the only one, blah,blah, but I have lived with a sociopath and I am telling you that love is not what they are able to feel. It is possession. It is ownership. She saw herself as someone that Travis "chose" since he approached her the night they met. She was the chosen one and intended to stay in the rare gold ring circle.
If Travis would not agree, she would kill him. It's his own damn fault after all, he didn't have to be so stubborn. She had to protect herself, all right, protect her ability to move among these naive Mormon men without fear of Travis or anyone telling her next mark that she is a predatory con-woman.
That's why he had to die. It's self preservation, self-defense you might say.
Now that Travis has gone, his family has stepped into the position of exposing her crimes. Court so far has been delicate and she has been able to look away and pretend she hasn't stared for hours at those crime scene photos. But that all ended yesterday.
Why should she walk into a courtroom and actually have to listen to people describing her as a monster and showing photos of "the incident about which she has no memory." The reason she has no memory is because she didn't want to tell what she did and now, now, the Great Day has arrived when that horrible Travis Alexander family is going to force her to be maligned and humiliated on national TV.
That cannot be allowed and she pulled the only stunt she could to get out of it. It's Plan B, the "snapped" defense. She snapped instead of going into the courtroom and because of it she will get a do-over on her psych evaluation. Low and behold! That LaViolette and Samuels were completely wrong! She will confess that she has always had mood swings, has always heard voices and has five of the seven criteria for schizophrenia.
She didn't want to tell anyone that God has called her to serve him as his mouthpiece on earth. He told her to write that letter and call the woman Travis was dating to repentence for her whoredoms. God dictated that letter, by the way, through an angel that appears in her cell every night.
This is a lot easier than you think. My youngest son needed detox but he couldn't get it because he had already been once. So he just went in with a desire to harm himself and said "I have a plan." He even had the thoughtfulness to call me ahead of time to tell me what he was doing because he didn't want me to worry. Boom. Three day hold and the detox treatment he needed.
(That was in March of this year. He is in rehab now and is doing really, really well. ) My point is that ALL psych evaluations are made based on client report and behavior/body language observations. Like a shark, Jodi Arias the sociopath can spot a person's vulnerability miles away and follow it. She can make an ally out of an evaluator-- AND THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS with years of experience. Put her in lockdown and give her a couple of burly guys to keep a watch on her.
She'll be out of her panties in 48 hours and one of the guards will be interviewed on HLN saying, "It was love at first sight...we just clicked..."