I think we should be careful when assigning any blame to Travis for his murder. The only side of the story we have is from Jodi's mouth, her faked diaries and her testimony.
Travis met a hot blonde in Las Vegas and was probably "in lust" with her as they stayed up talking all night, seemingly having many things in common. I'm sure he was thrilled that it was easy to get this girl as Jodi began only living for Travis. Travis kept his own life going--Jodi did not. That's HER FAULT, not Travis'.
It stroked Travis' male ego to have a blonde sex kitten who was so into him. As he gradually saw her true evil core, I'm sure he would have given anything to go back in time and NOT speak to her at the MGM. Too late he found out her true ugly, deformed stinking insides as she hacked him to death.
Do you guys also feel sorry for George Clooney's girlfriends because he never marries them? I don't--he's pretty open about not getting married. I see that he gets tired of women after 2 years or so & moves on. If one of his girlfriends slit his throat, stabbed him 27 times and shot him in the face, then dragged him like a sack of garbage to rot in his shower, I don't think we'd say things like "he was partly to blame."
Travis didn't take Jodi's virginity and then after promising to marry her, dumped her. She was NOT naive--she was very, very savvy. She was living with a man in a home she paid half of the mortgage on. She'd been living with men since dropping out of high school at 17.
Did Jodi not understand that it's not normal to sleep under Travis' Christmas tree after she was asked to leave? Really? That was even before they dated. Jodi inserted herself into Travis' life WITHOUT AN INVITATION.
And for all the people that think that by sleeping with Jodi Travis somehow OWED her something--that's absurd. A grown woman making decision to have a sexual relationship needs to take responsibility for it & that means that she understands that a purely sexual relationship doesn't usually lead to LOVE.
Jodi was sexually aggressive, sexual with no boundaries, and she has no shame. She "converted" to Mormonism almost immediately after meeting Travis--she holds nothing sacred. She decided that Travis was going to marry her even if she had to stalk him to get it done.
Stalkers do not deserve any pity--they are evil people who feel justified in robbing another person of their privacy and they feel justified in intruding into someone's life.
So if there is some new rule that states that if you have sex with a partner for X number of times, you are then bound to marry them, then Travis had every right to have consensual sex with an experienced, worldly Jodi and he also had the right NOT to marry a psycho stalker.