Remember who we are talking about here. The killer is someone who was so sure of her ability to manipulate people that she held to her ridiculous ninja story for years, who had to be convinced by her defense attorney using extraordinary tactics to drop that story.
And, according to her own attorney, this is a person who felt it more important to destroy TA's reputation than to try to save her own life while on trial.
It's impossible to attribute rationality to such an abberent mind/person, IMO.
As for Travis. I think we have very different opinions about who he was and how he felt. Was he a young man looking to please the ladies and looking for gratification? Yep, he was. Which makes him normal, IMO, no more, no less.
But was he looking to gratify himself with the killer, especially after May 26? No. I absolutely reject that possibility at this point. Not because it's uncomfortable, but because I don't think the evidence supports that conclusion.
I think it's easy to forget/overlook the extreme duress she inflicted upon him. Remember? Even the tiniest of perceived rejection by Travis elicited major drama from her, including threats of suicide. He didn't know how to make her go away. He tried every which way to convince her to move on.
May 26th IMO was his last ditch effort, his utter repudiation of her and everything she was. He wasn't telling her he was still susceptible to her "charms." He was telling her that he admitted defeat, that she had won, that all he wanted was for her to be truthful about wanting to destroy him.
All of that was leadup to the finale on May 26, after he had entreated her, begged her, explained to her, cajoled her, to simply tell the truth. AFTER that he dropped all pleasantries and attacked her without mercy, none deserved, and no indication on his part whatsoever that he forgave her or felt anything for her but utter contempt and hatred.
PS. He was precisely the kind of person who would pay someone to clean his house whether it needed it or not, in order to help someone out financially and let them save face.
Again, I hear you but what you're saying is personal interpretation without evidence. unsubjective evidence, like metadata or like the fact of when her phone came back on. Not just opinions of what Travis would or wouldn't do on a given day.
I saw May 26th totally differently. If I said he "forgave her," then that's not the phrase I meant. I meant he let her back in. This is the state I believe Travis was still in when she showed up. He tells us how conflicted he is about her in the g-chat.
" I thought I might break away this time but you knew I couldnt."
"you knew one call and you'd reel me in."
"because I am addicted. you are ruining my life but I'm addicted."
"I tried to stay away this time but you called. And you made sure I heard your voice. You knew that would be enough, not how many infractions. Its obvious by anyone's reason that I should have never have anything to do with you. you just kill me. every time. I keep taking you back. I have come to terms with it. I am in partial addicted to you."
He never says he "was" addicted. He never indicates it's over. In fact, he says, "let's drop the pretense. You win. I'm addicted."
This is 8 days before she showed up. I suspect this inner conflict was still there when he saw her face again for the first time in 2 months. She's addicted, too. She got herself pimped and waxed because she knew she was having sex with him when she got there. She knew it, just as he outlines above about how she knows her effect on him. If he felt that conflicted over a phone call, imagine the flood of emotions when she was there, in his presence, after two months.
I don't see any evidence that indicates that the day didn't go down very closely to what the evidence in trial lays out. I see no reason to throw Melendez's work out the window. There's no evidence contradicting the metadata.
I can't know that what was in Jodi's mind before the murder had anything to do with what was in her mind once she realized her plan to get away with it hadn't worked. We're talking about a person who went from thinking she controlled everything to realizing she controlled nothing.
If certain things didn't happen according to the evidence, I do know she has no problem saying something different. And that includes using the pictures as part of her own defense against premeditation. If Melendez couldn't figure out that all the information on the pics was wrong, Jodi would have pointed out that it was wrong. "You're wrong," she'd once said to Juan while on the stand. And I believe it was about the "shaving pics." And she wouldn't let it go because he was wrong. Her desire to be right at this point, I think, would drive her to correct them about the sex pics--especially if that correction is in her favor.
We can agree to disagree because I can't really debate a person's personal interpretation. If there is evidence that contradicts the evidence we know, that's different.
BTW, I don't know what you're doing by posting the transcripts of the interrogation. That's crazy--just as crazy as me, so thanks. I caused me to read stuff that might have just been murmurings that I ignored. What I want a transcript of are the calls between her and Flores.
