TRIAL, DAY 20. DIRECT EXAMINATION OF THE , ABOUT JUNE 4TH, BLOOD ON HER HANDS, HER REGRETS, AND NURMI CLEANING UP HER AD LIBBED TESTIMONY MESSES & HOLES IN HER LIES
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HER CAMERA
(Nurmi: Why use his camera?) “
I think my camera had been put away, I didn’t even take out my camera for that portion of the trip. (same sentence). I don’t recall specifically where my luggage was, but I think all my stuff was in the car at that point, except for maybe my purse. (No her camera, no video taken that day).
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IN THE SHOWER
We were checking out different poses, kinda laughing. We were checking out different poses. It was kind of weird because the background wasn’t that great, but the water was good, and we were deleting them, taking a few more, checking them, then deleting them.
At one point he was sitting, I was crouched probably a few feet away so that water didn’t get on the camera. I was showing him some of the photos at one point, and the camera slipped out of my hand…..
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IMMEDIATELY AFTER KILLING TRAVIS
I remember what I was thinking when I dropped the knife. That I couldn’t believe what had happened. That I couldn’t take it back, rewind the clock. I don’t know if I realized all that had happened. I just remember being kind of freaked and screaming.
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THE DRIVE TO THE DESERT
What I remember next—I thought I was driving west, because the sun was in my eyes. I didn’t know where I was going. I didn’t have my GPS. “ I hit a lot of stoplights, so I don’t know if I was on the freeway or not. Eventually I was in the desert, and it got dark.”
(NO part of any route she could have taken out of Arizona had “a lot of stoplights,” except for the approx. one mile on streets she drove from his house to a freeway).
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DISPOSING OF GUN AND ROPE
“I remember throwing the gun in the desert. The rope eventually went into a dumpster, behind a gas station, I think it was somewhere after St. George, I don’t remember. It was getting light out at that point. Wherever I was parked at that point.”
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BLOOD ON HER HANDS
When I finally came to, I saw blood on my hands. I didn’t have my shoes. I was in the middle of nowhere, so I pulled over. I got out of my car. I was really thirsty so I got out of my car and got some water, and rinsed my hands off as well. (Costco bottled water out of my trunk). Put my business shoes on.
(Did you clean yourself off before you disposed of the weapons? Or was it all one stop?)
“I don’t remember what happened to the knife. It wasn’t in the car with me.” The gun was when I stopped, the rope was another stop.
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KNOWING HE WAS “NOT ALIVE”
(Did you know what had happened?) I knew it was really bad. And that my life was probably done now.
(Did you believe he was alive?) I didn’t know, but I didn’t think he was…no, I thought he was not alive at that point.
Does a part of me wish it was different? Of course. “I wished it was just a nightmare I could wake up from, and to find out he was still the same way.” I still love him.
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PHONE CALLS, HOOVER DAM, LIES, AND LEAVING TRAVIS A VOICEMAIL
(After cleaning yourself up, getting rid of gun and rope, what did you do?)
“I started looking around for charger that I thought I had left… because Matt didn’t answer his phone, wasn’t there… I started cleaning out the car and found it under the passenger seat. “
I plugged it in. Turned on my phone. There wasn’t any reception. As I began to drive there was some reception, one little bar came on, then two, then one, then none. (Her phone would have been dead from not being charged for that long).
I had VM’s, I kept trying to check them, but the signal wasn’t strong enough to complete the call. I may have had texts, I don’t know.
(Nurmi: Why were you interested in your VM’s?)
I realized at that point that a lot of time had elapsed, and people were probably wondering where I was.
I realized it was irresponsible of me to go and just hang out with Travis, but when I was with him he was the priority, and everything else went to the backburner. I didn’t know what to tell Ryan and Leslie, and all these people were expecting me. I didn’t know what to tell them. Maybe I’d tell them I got lost. I don’t know. I was thinking all these things….
(….) So, I finally got to this sign that said Vegas is 100 miles away, and I kind of had an idea where I was at this point.
Then “I came across Hoover Dam. There was a checkpoint there. I had to stop. They let me go through it. On the other side I stopped again. At this point I knew I was in very deep trouble.”
I started to think of how to delay the inevitable…….I had messed up pretty badly. (…
I had lots of emotions. (….) I just wanted to die.
(Adds a bit later--I was actually very scared going through the checkpoint. I thought they would pull me over.. and that…this is it).
I knew my life was pretty much over, but (I didn’t want anyone to know I did it), I started covering it up to make it seem like I was never there.
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hen I pulled over at Hoover Dam, well, I called Ryan at that point. And Leslie, and Leslie told me they had called Travis looking for me. So I thought, oh sheet, they’re going to find a VM. So maybe I should leave a voicemail.
I didn’t know what to say. At this point I had already told Ryan and Leslie I’d gotten lost, so I thought I’d say that on the VM too. ( LONG lie to try to explain away spending 16 minutes in his VM system).
I kept driving towards Vegas after those calls. I knew I had to act like the happy go lucky person I always am. That I try to be.
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With Ryan, I just acted like I had gotten lost, which was believable to him because I can be ditzy.
(Her almost 3 hours of play acting remorse and disbelief she’d done such a thing and that she felt so bad about what she’d done that she just wanted to die is absurdly bad. I’d forgotten how much emphasis the DT had placed on selling the lie the was driven to the very brink of suicide by her regret and remorse. Bet that “strategy” came from the ).
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HER INJURIES
I had scrapes on my ankles. “I had cut myself downstairs the day before, well, I guess it would still have been June 4th, before we woke up, before we’d gone to bed, I was getting water in the kitchen and dropped one of his glasses in the kitchen. I cut myself on the broken glass. He didn’t get really mad, he just called my klutzy.”
When I pulled over to wash my hands it reopened and was bleeding a little bit. It wasn’t a very deep cut, just bleeding a little bit.
I had cut myself really badly a week before, at work. It was June 1st.
I remember that because the date was on the photo in (my film?). I told Ryan I cut myself at work.
(Did she take a photo of her June 4th knife injury and CHANGE THE DATE ON THE PHOTO TO JUNE 1? To “prove” she already had that injury? Hmm).