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Found this on another site and just had to share it. I’ve always wondered more about the emails between the Hughes and Jodi, saying that Travis was abusive. I guess Chris Hughes was on Dr. Drew last night. Here’s what a poster said about the interview.

Did anyone see Chris Hughes on Dr Drew last night? He said that the famous emails between JA and Chris & Sky Hughes, and the “Travis was abusive to women” comment that ALV kept referring to, was taken completely out of context. He said that he even retracted that comment later in the same email, saying that Travis wasn’t abusive, but maybe “a little rough around the edges”. He was rightly pissed about how the defense was able to take that one little sentence or two, out of several lengthy emails, and use it to their advantage, painting Travis as abusive.

Chris said that a year before the murder, Jodi and Travis were staying overnight at the Hughes home. Chris and Sky wanted to speak with Travis in private, so they went into the master bedroom. They were trying to tell him to get away from Jodi, that she was bad news. Then he said Sky (who has a sixth sense about these things according the Chris) whispered to them, “Jodi’s listening to us. She’s out there”, meaning at the door. So they changed the topic for about 30 seconds, and then there was a knock on the door and it was guess who! Jodi wanted to know if everything was alright, and Travis said yes, and told her to go back to bed and he would be down in a little while to say goodnight.

So they continued talking, and after awhile, Sky Hughes AGAIN whispered that Jodi was listening to them outside the door, so this time Travis got up and flung the door open and caught her. Chris said that the look on Jodi’s face was so frightening, so full of rage and evil, that he’s never seen anything like it before or since. So they told Travis “look, you go and handle that” and they all went to bed, but Chris said he and his wife were actually afraid that they had this woman in their home. They wondered if they should be worried about their children! He said the next morning Sky kicked Jodi out of their home, telling her she was not welcome any more, and not to come back.

So of course, with Jodi being Jodi, she shows up at their house one day, crying the blues about how she loves Travis, and that she had “a VISION that they were supposed to be married”. They were telling her to just get out of the relationship. Travis had moved on, and if she wasn’t getting what she wanted out of the relationship, then she should do the same. So THAT’S why in the emails that went back and forth between Chris, Sky and Jodi, they were telling her to get out of the relationship.

I’m wondering why JM didn’t clarify this information when Chris Hughes was called as a defense witness. Did I miss something? I’ve been watching the trial since the beginning, but I didn’t hear any rebuttal when ALV was on the stand, regarding these points. I don’t know how many times I heard the defense use that phrase that “Chris Hughes said Travis had been abusive to women in the past” and that “they warned her to get out of the relationship.” Hell yes they warned her!! They were trying to scrape her off of Travis, because she just would NOT go away.

Sky Hughes will be on Dr Drew tonight. It should be interesting. A Look Inside An Arizona Jury Room During a Death Penalty Deliberation | Tamara Tattles