I have a feeling that she will get a life sentence, the deliberations have gone on for so long it seems evident that there is a real hesitation to give her the death penalty.
This is such an awful case, her diagnosis of a personality disorder (which I believe) make sentencing that much harder as she is not psychotic despite her disordered thought process. I think she and Travis were the "perfect storm" her attempts to keep him lead to his mistreatment and disrespect if her which exacerbated her illness. I know this may come across as victim blaming, I'm not at all- no one deserves to die the way he did, but if that was my sister being treated in the same manner I'd be quick to get him out if her life.
Travis didn't deserve to be murdered, period. He deserved to continue his life without JA in it and make the world a better place because he was in it. Travis had done so much good for others in the short years he was here. He should have been able to continue his hopes, dreams, and goals.
And if I had known all of the hideous things she had done, and if Travis had been my brother, I would have done everything in my power trying to protect him from this evildoer. I don't think their relationship made her any way other than what she has always been. She always tried to use sex as her tool of manipulation long before she even knew Travis. Unfortunately for Travis he became the targeted victim she would murder ruthlessly. Why? Imo, because Travis had much more potential than any of the other men even though she also tried to get them to go back with her. Travis was the one who could make JA appear in a better light for all to see and to JA everything is shallow and about appearance sake.
She was out of his life. She kept intruding into his personal space. She is the one calling, texting, emailing him constantly using her usual trap of offering kinky sex. She was a 1000 miles away from him. She was the one who called him to set up the sex tape that he had no idea she recorded. So she wasn't in his life. Travis told his friends he was very upset she moved to Mesa after their 'breakup' and was relieved to see her go back to Yreka. Travis had gone to CA just two weeks before his murder and he did not go to see the murderess and IMO he never had any intentions of going. Travis was moving on with his life without JA in it and he was fine with that and relieved she was a 1000 miles away, imo.
None of this is Travis' fault. Men have been lured by sexual demons all through history..many of them powerful men and leaders. That is all JA had to offer anyone. Travis tried his best to rid himself of this plague. He told her flat out to leave him alone. He had told her that many times and they would never be married. She knew the drill yet she persisted anyway by hacking into his private spaces, stalking him, and invading every possible avenue in his life.
Her BPD would not sway me to spare her life. Not for one second. It is a disorder that millions have. Most with BPD go through life without ever murdering someone so to give JA this excuse because she has it too is ridiculous imo. Although she has always been highly manipulative, using sex as a tool, and self centered she lived a rather mundane life before meeting Travis.
Why should I all of a sudden think that this disorder means something now when she has had it ever since her childhood?
That is why no one has anything good to say about JA. She was this manipulative destructive creature long before she tried to snare Travis into her web.
Travis was too good for his own good. He had patience with her at times I am sure no one else could have had. He forgave her for many of the terrible things she did to him over and over again. He tried to help her any way he could. But even Travis had finally come to realize how dangerous she was even though Travis was known to try to see the good in everyone.
Travis was a victim of domestic homicide. His story of domestic abuse done by JA is no different than the many other tragic stories we have read here. What abusers do is first start with pouring on the charm in order to snare their target and from there they totally consume the life of the victim. Then they begin to show obsessive traits such as stalking, unhealthy jealous rages, and so often, just like Travis, when the victim has finally had their fill of the abuse they tell their victimizer they want out of the relationship and to leave them the hell alone.
Once that has been said tragically it is the most dangerous time for a victim and so many times the abuser will murder the victim who has tried to get them out of their lives.
I have no doubt, Travis like most victims of DV... tried to appease JA because he feared what would happen if he did not.
