In Her Own Words

“I write right now that

I love Travis Victor Alexander

so completely

that I don`t know any other way to be.”

                                                    – Jodi Arias

 

 

“that Cancun trip, we had both known about it for over a year

never once was it discussed that I wouldn’t (would NOT) be going with him.”
48 Hours Interview

 

 

 

“you can just see expressions on people`s faces and emotional moments.

I love capturing that sort of thing” – Arias

 

 

I’ve been going back over the crime scene pics, and I’ve changed my mind on the 62 Seconds of Rage. Something someone said about Travis’s head being up in that picture of her foot made me take yet another look.

We have all assumed that Travis was dead in that foot picture (center).   According to the time stamped images, the blood trace and her statements, that image was taken after he came out of the shower and before he made it down the hall.

If Travis had stepped out of the shower, body slammed her, chased her, and gone at her in the Linebacker stance when she shot him, as she claimed on the witness stand, how could she be standing on the wrong side of the bathroom in the foot picture one minute and two seconds after she “dropped” the camera?  Her back is to the closet/shower door in the foot image.  Based on that fact, she had plenty of opportunity to run down the hall and escape out the bedroom door while Travis was down.

The bullet trajectory, and her statements during the Interrogations, before she settled on using “self defense” at her trial, indicate Travis was shot in the shower.  The evidence shows he was not dead in that foot image.  Travis could have survived the gunshot to the face.  

3D Rendering – Gray Hughes

“He was kneeling down in the shower, I don’t remember, I was taking pictures, and I don’t really know what happened after that exactly, except I think he was shot.”

      “to my knowledge there was no blood in that bathroom, before that gunshot went off.”

In the foot shot, Travis appears to be holding his face. The blood that we can see has to be from that head shot.  His throat could not have been slashed at that point.  He would have bled out within seconds.  There would not have been the puddles of blood by the linen closet door, the blood spray in the sink or the stabbing throw off spatter that goes from the sink, to the blinds, to the toilet wall, to the puddle by the toilet room door.  He would not have been able to leave the blood trail going up the hall.

 

The very next picture that is snapped after the foot picture is of his shoulder.  We all have assumed that the image of Travis’s shoulder was snapped as he lay on his back in the hallway.  The Bathroom wall where the Linen Closet is, is the same wall that runs down the hallway.  The shoulder picture was taken one minute and sixteen seconds after the foot picture.  It was obviously taken while they were still in the bathroom.

Based on the blood spatter evidence and Aria’s statements, Travis was able to get up on his knees.  Arias stated several times that he was “on his all fours”.  Between the time he was shot and the time he was able to get up on his knees, based on the photographs, she had at least two minutes and eighteen seconds to leave.  Instead of leaving, she begins to stab him.

One of the many questions is “Why would he stand there at the sink and allow her to stab him?“.

Based on the wound evidence, her testimony, and the time stamped images, Travis could have been still on his all fours at the Linen closet when she began stabbing him in the back.  The angle of the blade indicates he was facing away from her.  The cluster indicates he wasn’t moving until after she stabbed him in the back at least five and up to nine times.

The blood and spatter around the sink indicates that Travis was able to pull up to and spit into the sink.  The gunshot would have caused blood to gush down his throat as well as out of his nose.   Blood would also have seeped through the tube from his throat to his right ear, where the concussion of the gun ruptured his eardrum.  The gunshot to the face also caused the extreme swelling to his eyes, and may well have caused him to have double vision, or be unable to see at all.

From this point, all we have to go on is the blood trace and the wounds to his body.

I noticed that the spatter on the left side of the sink seems to have been blocked by something.  Being as Arias is left handed, and she is adamant about her makeup, it appears that her purse was sitting on the counter at some point.  Arias states that her purse was on the dresser and it ended up on the bathroom floor.  Travis was right handed, so it seems logical that he would have used the sink on the left. His shaving utensils are located by the sink on the left.  She had plenty of time, from the time Travis was on his back in front of the shower, to the time he got up on his knees, to go get her purse.  OR, it may have been sitting there the whole time, with the gun, and maybe even the knife, concealed inside it.

 Based on the wounds inflicted to Travis and the blood spatter, it appears that he moved away from her from the sink to his left, toward the blinds.  She continued stabbing him from behind, twice, once on each side of the back of his neck.

 

Based on cast off, Travis could have been bent over at this point giving her access to his head. 

 She repeatedly states she was beside the tub.  She could have easily stepped up in front of him, inflicting the three shallow stabs to his neck.  They are shallow because she cut her hand when it slid down the blade as she scored his skull.

There are only a few specks of blood on the tub indicating she was there blocking the blood from the tub.  A pool of blood is left in that area, possibly from the gunshot wound, possibly from his head, as Travis is leaning over.

 

Evidence presented indicated that the faucet in the sink was turned on and off at some point.  It could indicate that she stepped to the sink to rinse her hand and inspect her cuts.  This could be when Travis slips past her and heads down the hall.  She stated that she ran down the hall in the “Intruder” story, and knocked the intruder over, causing the intruder to “trip over” Travis.

There is really only one spot that indicates arterial spray that could have come from the neck wound.  On the wall where her palm print was found, there is a spray of blood approximately three feet long and about four feet off the floor.  Travis was 5’9.  Jodi is 5’6.  The wound on Travis’s throat was cut high up under his chin, not down low on his neck.  I believe she ran up behind him and slit his throat, leaving the arterial spray and her palm print on the wall, where she steadied herself after the cut.

Travis went down to his right, slid sideways along the wall leaving the blood trace and ended up on his back.

Throw off spatter, and the fact that all the wounds to Travis’s chest and abdomen are uniform and horizontal, indicate that Travis was on his back when those wounds were inflicted.   A partial hand print can be seen on the wall to the left of the electrical outlet on the bedroom side of the wall. This could indicate that she was steadying herself and she squatted down to be able to inflict the seven horizontal stabs to his chest and abdomen.

Throw off Spatter

 

 

 

Travis lay there bleeding out, his brain calling for oxygen, his lungs heaving trying to meet the call for air.  That sound is something like a pig being slaughtered.

 

Arias showered, got dressed, waiting to ensure Travis was dead, then she shoved him into the shower, as is evident by her shoe prints.

 

Shot in the face,

14 stab wounds to the back side of his body,

two on the back at the top of his head that scored the skull,

7 wounds to his front torso with one being almost 6 inches at his navel,

defense wounds on his hands, mostly his left as his dominant hand was on his face,

slit throat

 

 

 

 

 

Blood Spatter Throw Off Comparison – Both areas