Anna Moriah Wilson was in Texas to race 150-mile Gravel Locas competition. She's bunking at the home of friend Caitlyn Cash. After an evening of swimming with fellow cyclist, Colin Strickland, Wilson returns to Cash's home for the evening. When Cash arrived however, she finds Wilson in a pool of blood in the bathroom. Wilson has been shot multiple times. Police find surveillance video of a black SUV seen outside near the time of Wilson's death. The SUV is tracked to Colin Strickland girlfriend, Kaitlyn Armstrong. Armstrong is convicted of murder. Now she tries to avoid paying the victim's family.
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The so called glam yoga teacher killer Caitlyn Armstrong has made an underhanded, sneaky move to avoid paying the family of her murder victim, world class cycling star Mariah Wilson, fifteen million dollars. Now the glam yoga teacher is hit with a new lawsuit. Who could forget the glam yoga teacher Kaitlyn Armstrong furious her boyfriend had a hamburger and went swimming with his former girlfriend, a world class dirt bike competitor, Moe Wilson.
So what did she do? She murdered Moe.
Shot her in cold blood after stalking her.
She was convicted at trial.
And oh yes, remember she went on the run, hiding out at a hostel in Costa Rica after getting a nose job, going under a different name. Yeah that one. Now another sneaky, underhanded move. Are you surprised? I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories, Thanks for being with us. The jealous yoga teacher who murdered her younger love rival with a bullet through the heart literally quietly transferred all her property to relatives. Why to avoid compensating her victims family. According to a new lawsuit, the thirty six year old yoga teacher was sent us to ninety years behind bars for gunning down a Texas cycling superstar, Anna Mariah Moe Wilson, just.
Twenty five, in a rage at Moe's.
Friendship with Armstrong's cyclist boyfriend, Colin Strickland. In the last days, a judge ordered Caitlin Armstrong to pay Wilson's parents fifteen million dollars after they sued her for the wrongful death of their daughter. But a brand new lawsuit from the couple from the parents claims that most, if not all, of Armstrong's assets have already been passed to Armstrong's mother and sister, so most family gets nothing. Again, are you surprised? How did the whole thing start?
Let's kick it off. Take a listen to our friends at Fox seven.
Police are investigating a suspicious death in East Austin. This happened on Maple Avenue near East seventeenth Street overnight. A woman called police saying she found her friend inside her house unresponsive and.
There was blood near her.
When officers arrived, they found the victim had gunshot wounds. It has provided life saving measures, but the woman later died from her injuries. Police do not know how long she was inside the home, but did call her death suspicious. It is unclear if a gun was found.
On see suspicious man.
They're saying pretty calm, multiple gunshot wounds. I would say, yeah, that's suspicious. I can go ahead and answer that for the cops. Take a listen now to our friend John crin Jack Fox seven tonight, we're.
Learning the victim of a deadly shooting in East Austin earlier this week was a well known cyclist who is supposed to take part in a mountain bike race in the Hill Country today. Anna Wilson, better known by her middle name Mariah, was pronounced dead on Wednesday night at home on Maple Avenue near Eighteenth Street.
Austin.
Police were called there after a friend of Wilson's returned home to find the twenty five year old unconscious with gunshot wounds. APD has not believed the shooting was random. They're urging anyone with information or video of what happened to give.
Them a call now.
According to the cycling magazine Vello, Wilson was in Texas ahead of today's Gravel Low Cost race in Hiko, where she was a favorite. Win Bellow published a statement from her family saying she was quote always pushing tirelessly to reach her goals. We knew she was pursuing that which she loved, the family adding, we know Mariah would want the event to carry on.
You know, when I hear the address Maple Avenue, that sounds straight out of a storybook. And from what I've learned, this is a pretty ritzy area there in Austin. Joining me an all star panel, But let me first go straight out to Tony Plahetski, longtime friend, colleague, investigative reporter with The Austin American Statesman and kV U E Twitter at t Plahetski. Tony, tell me about East Austin. I got the word gentrified from you. What do you mean by that? I mean Maple Avenue.
It sounds like it's out of a fable, a book. It sounds so peaceful and idyllic.
To have somebody the number one female grap cyclist in the world gunned down dead and apartment doesn't fit with Maple Avenue well.
So, over the years, this area of East Austin has truly been transformed.
Wait a minute, tony plohatsk. You just stop right there. Let me just call it like it is. It reminds me of when I moved to Atlanta and started prosecuting at Inner City Atlanta's Fulton District Attorney's office.
I lived in Midtown, and at that.
Time, every morning when I would come out of my apartment, I'd go to my car and there'd be gin bottles and pantyhose, syringes, rubbers, empty bottles of liquor, and pantyhose because hookers and attics would come up and down my alley where I lived to shoot up and conduct business.
Let me just say then it went gentrified.
People that wanted to live close to all the high rise skyscrapers and businesses downtown wanted to move there.
They pump their money into it, fixed it all up.
Everybody had laws and fancy apartments and fancy cars.
I had to move. I couldn't afford it anymore. Is that what you're saying.
That's exactly what I'm saying. It is a carbon copy of what you just described. And so this area where Mariah Wilson was murdered is now home to high ride apartments town homes that are very trendy. A lot of young people in our city live in this area who have moved to Austin from all over the country to work in tech, for example, and so it's really an area dominated increasingly by that population.
I know what you mean.
Gin bottles and pantyhose in the alley one day, then valet parking and high rises the next day.
I get it.
What I'm getting at is there's a very low crime rate on Maple Avenue. Take a listen to our friends Carissa Lemoukel on Fox seven Surprise Everybody.
East Austin resident Michael Harris is talking about what happened the night of May eleventh. Shocked to hear that a young prominent cyclist was shot and killed while staying in the house across the street.
Lived here almost two years and I've never maybe seen two police calls passed by.
This is where this neighborhood is.
Twenty five year old Mariah Wilson was in Texas to compete in an upcoming race, coming off a win at the Belgian Waffle Ride in California.
We all just marveled at, you know, just flit in a wonderful personality and a great athlete and an ambassador for our support, and then all of a sudden, how could this happen? And everyone's just sort of reeling from it.
In addition to reporter Carissa, you're also hearing from the director of the Belgian Waffle Ride in California, Michael Marx.
Everyone knew her and love her.
Now when I hear gravel cycling, it's hard enough to race in sand to get your bike to go through. So why are you looking at me like that, Jackie? Are you imagining trying to ride a bike through.
Sand much less gravel? Tell me about this. What is is, Tony Plahetsky.
It's an endurance sport. I mean it is where the yeah, I mean really really a very competitive sport across the country, really across the world. And Mariah Wilson, as you mentioned, was a star in that world. She had already a mass a certain amount of acclaim, but she was really on her way. Even her competitors, her most fierce competitors, admired her and her stamina, her just natural born athleticism, but also nancy her personality. I mean, when they talk about her, they actually don't lead with the fact that she was this amazing athlete they lead with talking about her kindness and her spirit.
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
Mariah Wilson cut down, murdered in the prime of her life, a world class cyclist. She had once dated Colin Strickland, but it was over. When she was in town to compete again, the two went swimming and had a.
Hamburger and she gets shot dead for that.
Mariah's parents, Eric and Karen sought one million dollars compensation for funeral expenses, loss of society, companionship, and the pain and suffering and anguish her daughter suffered at the time of her murder. So what does Caitlin Armstrong do? Secretly transfers all of her money, all of her assets, vehicles, everything to her mom and sister to avoid paying the victim's family.
I can't believe this woman. Back to the facts.
Joseph Scott Moregun the host of a hit new series Body Bags with Joseph Scott Moregun on iHeart Joe Scott just right off the bat. This woman, I can tell you she's in a single dwelling apartment, she's unarmed, and she's shot multiple times.
I don't like it.
We don't have any evidence of rape or burglary. So why is somebody coming into this apartment if there was in fact break in and gutting her down multiple times?
Yeah. One of the things that kind of interests me is that when she was found, she was not found in like the foyer. She wasn't found at the entrance. She was actually found in the bathroom, which gives me an indication that unless there is an obvious sign that someone kicked in the door or you know, pried open a window or maybe entered through a back door, even if there was a back door, that this may have been a location of retreat, you know, when people are being attacked.
Well, I didn't can I just ask you out of curiosity?
Everything you said, I'm down with that, But why don't you just say she was in the bathroom?
Makes me think she ran ran from her attacker and hid in the bathroom.
Well, because I.
Mean, does it ever dawn on you just talk like the rest of us.
No, Okay, go ahead, I respect that.
No, it just it just grassed me. You know, the moment that I read this and heard it. You know the fact that she was in the bathroom. You know, who feels comfortable with entering the bathroom with someone else. Maybe she's retreated to that point, maybe she was forced in there. You know, when you know one of the things like if you have bad weather, people tell you to retreat to the bathroom is generally the most secure area in the house, if you don't have a basement or something, and it could be an area where sound is muffled. For instance, because Nancy when they found her, her body is bloodsoaked and there are and this is very key, there are multiple spent shell casings laying about her body in this approximate area as well.
Okay, stop right there, she's in the bathroom. You think there's a very good chance she ran to the bathroom. I agree on multiple spent shell casings around her. That tells me this is not a pro because you would take the time to pick them up. Shell Nutt with me. Also James shell Nutt twenty seven years a Metro major case also swap now lawyer with a shell Nutt firm on Twitter at shell nut Law Firm. Right there, we know it's someone that's not a pro because the pro after the killing would pick up the shell casings because they, just like a bullet, can be matched back like a fingerprint to the weapon, because once you get, if you ever get the murder weapon, when the shell comes out, there is an ejector mark the shell. Although it may not hurl down, the barrel is ejected.
Think of an ejection seat in a plane.
The shell is ejected out and the force of leaving the weapon leaves a mark on the shell unlike any other marking from any other gun on a shell.
Agree, disagree, shall not agree?
One hundred and what that allows you to do is to go back and do further investigation to see if a person that you suspect being involved in a crime had access to a weapon that would leave that type of strike mark on the showcase.
Guys, take a listen to our cut fifteen, Our cut fifteen from crime Online.
Why is Mariah also known as Moe in Texas to race? Listen?
Anna Moe Wilson was in Texas to race the Gravel Locos competition was a one hundred and fifty mile race in a discipline that blends mountain biking and road cycling. It's a profession new to Wilson. She had recently quit her job with the mic company specialized to focus on cycling full time. Wilson had won ten off road races this year, including an eighty kilometer race at the Sea Otter Classic, a cycling festival in Monterey, California.
So she was there strictly for business. Back to you, Tony Plhetsky, where was she staying? Whose apartment?
Was this?
A friend, a longtime friend who who does live in Austin, And that friend had actually picked her up at the airport and given her a special code and access code to her apartment so that she could go and come as she pleased. And so that's what Mariah Wilson had done. I mean, there are other things that she had been doing out on the town while she had been here just a couple of days actually, by the time that she had been found in.
Just a couple of days in Austin. And now she's dead. With me, Tony Plhetski is joining as Tony with the Austin American Statesman. I'm glad you mentioned that code, that special access code. Take a listen to hour cut seventeen. Our friends at crime online dot Com.
At first, suspecting a robbery, police in cash check the home. The only thing missing was Anna Wilson's specialized s works bicycle. As officers checked the area, Wilson's bicycle was found around sixty eight feet south of Cash's home, hidden in thick bamboo. The investigation quickly turned from interrupted robbery to homicide as Cash explained that she has specialized electronic locks on her door that unlocked by using a unique code. Cash It provided Wilson with a new code, with Cash getting a phone notification when the door is either locked or unlocked. At eight thirty six pm, Wilson came home.
You know that's very very interesting. Let me go to another special guest joining us. It is Runya Mancarius CEO Crime Stoppers of Houston, author of the online world What You Think you Know and What You Don't. You can find her at ruanyamncurius dot com.
Runya, thank you for being with us so very.
Much and for all of your hard work with Crime Stoppers of Houston.
Runya. When I was writing.
Don't Be a Victim, I researched about how you, of course, should always change your code on everything You've got, your iPad, your cell phone, you're recording your home answering machine if you have one, your code in and out of your home, your gate code, everything.
Don't leave it on a factory set because you can look that up online, and.
Predators do look it up online to find out what the factory setting is. And most of the world, believe it or not, that has a code. If any type puts in one two three four or one one one one or two two two two, it's very very simple to crack that code. That's when I learned researching for Don't Be a victim, that you can have your code to get into your apartment like this friend had, and then you can give visitors their own code so you don't have to x out your code every time you have a visitor and they leave and come up with a new.
One, which I think is really really smart. When you have visitors, you sign them.
A different code that works with your system. That sounds like what happened here, Ronya, Yeah.
And I agreed, And that sounds like what Caitlin Cash did. She assigned Mariah her own unique code and has since said that she's erased that code and has changed her code. But she was doing everything she could to keep herself safe and to keep her guests faithe But that move, that very smart move, really is helping law enforcement in this case, and it's something we advise all people to do with. We embrace technology and we look to have smart homes and smart technology in our homes. We want people to utilize this in a way that keeps them safe.
So let's get right down to it to doctor Sherry Schwartz joining me, forensic psychologist specializing and capital mitigation. She's the author of Criminal Behavior and we're a law in psychology intersect.
Doctor Sherry Schwartz, thank.
You for joining us from Miami Beach today, Doctor Sherry.
That's when you feel at home.
You feel at home when you go into a secure apartment that you can only get in with a special code devised for you. Why am I saying this? Who would have had that code? Who could have figured out that code? Or could the perp have somehow gotten in behind her? Did she not lock the door when she went in? And following up on what Joe Scott Morgan said that it seems as if the victim, this world class, gorgeous twenty five year old cyclist, had retreated to the bathroom, or maybe she was just in the bathroom, but I know her defenses were down. Doctor Sherry she thought she was safe.
Correct she walked through the door.
I mean maybe she did forget to lock it or didn't maybe thought it was locked. It's a new environment for her. She's a guest at this location, so maybe she didn't think about how to lock the door, maybe thought it locked automatically behind her. But you're right, she probably felt very safe and secure headed to use the restroom, like many of us do when we first get home.
So this is nothing unusual.
And if I.
Feel safe and secure in a location, I'm not necessarily going to be hypervigilant looking for someone, especially if I'm at home looking for someone who's going to be coming in behind again.
Mo Mariah Wilson was a rising star in gravel and dirt cycling, and she dated Colin Strickland after he had broken up with Kitlin Armstrong, the yoga teacher, and their relationship continued as a friendship after he got back together with Armstrong. So that May, Wilson went to Austin for a race and she met up with Strickland for supper.
Kaitlin Armstrong followed.
Them to the restaurant and her black jeep was caught on surveillance videos circling.
Round and round the block. What more did the facts tell us?
You know what's interesting, Tony Plhetski joining me from the Austin American Statesman. Tony, it doesn't sound like there was a struggle. I wonder if the person had secret to themselves in the home, if they followed in behind her, if she didn't lock the door, if she didn't.
Use the code.
But I don't hear anything about a struggle ensuing any evidence of a struggle. It sounds like Mariah was just shot, stone cold dead.
That's exactly right, in a pool of blood on the floor. And so that is how her friend Caitlin found her, and that is how the police found her when they arrived.
Guys, take a listen to our cut sixteen, because I'm trying to figure out what happened. Where was this friend whose apartment she was using, staying there with the friend who was it and what happened in the hours leading up to this world class cyclist murder.
Fred Caitlyn Cash picked up Wilson at the airport. Wilson was to stay at Cash's home until the race. The next day, Cash received a text from Wilson saying that she was meeting a friend named Colin to go swimming that afternoon. Around five point thirty, as Cash left to go meet friends for dinner, she noticed Wilson's large bicycle travel bag outside the front door on the elevated port. Cashays she told Wilson to move the bag inside so it wouldn't be stolen. But when Cash came home from dinner, the large bicycle travel bag was at the bottom of the stairs, partially blocking the car port. As she went inside, the front door was unlocked and Wilson was lying on the bathroom floor covered in blood.
Okay, Tony Plahatski joining me, Austin American statesment, I just learned a lot. So this is a friend Caitlin Cash, that picks her up at the airport, offers her apartment up for her to stay, and she was going to stay there until the race. The next day. She was meeting somebody to go swimming. But listen to this part. She noticed the travel bag outside in the front door, on the front door, on an elevated porch. She told, now, first of all, to me, that rules out the friend who would be your first suspect, because she's already had a chance to kill her when she speak up from the airport.
Also, it's usually not the killer that calls nine one one. Okay, just let's start with that.
But she comes back, she tells her, move your big bag with all your gear inside so nobody steals it.
So that tells me.
While you're telling me this is a gentrified neighborhood, there still could be somebody that would.
Come along and burgle or steal. I learned that. I also learn that the door was unlocked. The front door was unlocked. No jimmy ing.
The door, no primarks, no forced entry, the door was unlocked, which leads me to think the victim, Mariah Wilson, in suspecting nothing and didn't lock the door.
Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that that is possible. The other possibility that we really haven't talked about here, though, Nancy, is whether or not Mariah Wilson may have known the person, maybe saw someone outside that she that was known to her. Let's go in and talk. Could that have happened here? Could someone have come to the door right behind her that she knew. I think that is an interesting possibility as well.
You're absolutely right, guys, take a listen. Now, we finally get a tiny break in the case. Our cut eighteen from Crime Online.
Detectives turned to video as they discover a surveillance camera mounted on the exterior of a home nearby. The camera face the driveway next to cash Is home. The footage showed a dark colored suv drive past at eight thirty seven pm, that's one minute after Wilson entered Cash's home. The suv slowed down a period to come to a stomp directly next to Cash's residence. The suv had a large bicycle rack mounted on the trailer gitch of the vehicle, a luggage rack mounted on the roof, and chrome around the windows. No other vehicles were seen on video surveillance until emergency vehicles arrived.
Okay, what did we ever do, James shell Knott before video surveillance, ring doorbells, the works.
So tell me the significance, because in my.
Mind it's going to be tough to explain that this black suv was on the scene one minute before.
Yeah, I mean it's pretty significant information. I mean, now you've got a potential suspect vehicle identified, and if you can tie that to someone who may have a reason to have hurt Mode then at that point you've got something, you're going to want to go back and look and say, okay, what are the usual suspects? You know, the usual suspects promotive in murder case is when you don't know who did it, you're always going to want to look at money, sex and revenge and can you tie that vehicle to someone who would have had one of those motives?
You know, I'm curious to Ronya man Carry is joining me with Crime Stoppers of Houston and author The art of identifying a vehicle is very, very sophisticated. Every year to two years, car manufacturers change subtle portions of the make and model. For instance, they may change the tail light. They may turn it from two tail light pains to three, or they may slant it, or they may change something about the bumper or the wheels. I mean it changes every couple of years. They don't keep the same exact model for a reason. So there are people and car car theft, stolen cars. Just like there's a homicide squad, there's car theft squad.
There's a burglary squad.
There is a crimes on children, a crime on women's squad. There's a white collar crime squad. So these guys and women in car theft, they know all of this, and if they can get a look at the make and model, they can tell you the year.
If they can even get a partial.
Tag, they can find out who that belongs to fairly quickly.
Would you agree, run ya?
Absolutely?
I agree, And then let's just see we kind of brushed over the fact that a local camera on an exterior of a neighbor's building really costs the video. That's critical because to your point, cars are changing constantly. People, you have eyewitnesses to the scene that will be able to say I think it was a black vehicle. I think it was a jeep that I'm not sure, but that video surveillance, even if it's just a tail light, gives law enforcement so much information, including potentially the tag, and that's what we had in this case, and that was what was absolutely critical in identifying the suspect moving forward.
Take a listen to our cut eleven. Our friends at CBS.
Although she wasn't from Austin, those right here in Central Texas have been shocked at her death.
I think it's a bad tragedy.
Michael Harris lives just across the street from where Anna Maria Wilson lost her life. Those who knew her best called her mob According to an AFFI, David, Wilson was staying with a friend while preparing for a bicycling race. She was lasting a live on surveillance video being dropped off at the home by a local professional cyclist, Colin Strickland, who never went inside.
It's really required over here. We never had this.
Happen before, APD says during the investigation, sir veillance video showed a black, deep grand Cherokee. He drove past the house just one minute after Wilson went inside.
Okay, right there, we're getting somebody else ruled out. We know that she had gone.
Swimming that day, earlier in the day with somebody named Colin Strickland. But did I hear this correctly, Tony Ploheitski that the surveillance video shows Strickland.
Bringing her home, never going in and leaving. Correct.
That is exactly right.
And Strickland was not driving a black suv.
He was not.
He was, as a matter of fact, on his motorcycle.
Oh okay, well that clears that up. So who is in the black suv? Take a listen to our cut nine our friends at Fox seven.
Armstrong's car was seen on surveillance video at Wilson's friend's home. Wilson's friend later came home to find Wilson with multiple gunshot wounds. We went to the home where the crime happened and the address listed for Armstrong and Strickland. No response. We tried calling Strickland as well.
Sorry, the person.
We're trying to reach has a BlueMail box but has not been set up yet.
All this leaving the cycling community in mourning.
It's so incredibly painful for such a tight knit community and people.
You've raced with, celebrated with, no like fridden so many.
Miles with to be faced with this.
Horrific tragedy, and really my reaction is just pain and heartbreaking.
Okay, so we've rolled out Colin Strickland, who dropped off on a motorcycle?
Who Tony Plahetski is Armstrong.
Armstrong is Colin Strickland's girlfriend of three years and they lived together here in Austin and actually operate a business together in the Austin area.
Caitlin Marie Armstrong, age thirty four, is the living girlfriend of Colin Strickland. Colin Strickland is who Mariah went swimming with.
Exactly right. Mariah and Colin Strickland had gone to a well known pool community pool in Austin called De Betty and went swimming together and then picked up a couple of burgers at a nearby popular spot and then as we know, he dropped her off back at the apartment on his motorcycles.
Okay, I'm trying to take in everything that you just said. Take a listen to our cut ten Angela Shan Fox seven.
The search is on for Kaitlin Armstrong. Officials are asking for the public's help and finding her. According to the core of paperwork, an anonymous caller had called police saying Armstrong said she wanted to kill Wilson after finding out she was involved with her boyfriend. Now the affidavit says the night of the murder, Wilson went for a swim with Colin Strickland, another cyclist. After that he dropped her off at her friend's house. Wilson was visiting from California and was in Austin ahead of a race in Hiko. The paperwork he says Strickland and Kaitlyn Armstrong were in a relationship before briefly ending it for a couple of weeks last year. At that time, he was involved with Wilson.
Crime stories with Nancy Grace and let's not forget this is evidence of guilt flight. Armstrong fled to Costa Rica using her sister's passport, a dye, her hair, had plastic surgery, a nose job, and a brow lift before she was found at a youth hostel teaching yoga surfing. Now, the lawsuit filed by the family was filed on the heels of a TV movie called Yoga Teacher Killer, The Caitlyn Armstrong Story at Aird on Lifetime, and the family lost their lawsuit against Armstrong out of fear that she would be cashing in on her notoriety. The family stated that the lawsuit was about getting a judgment, so if she gets a movie deal, a book deal, a TV deal, money's flowing into her account. The judgment would keep her from basically getting blood money. After the murder of their daughter, Mariah Listening, lawsuit claims Caitlin Armstrong already transferred her steak in three properties to her family to try to avoid paying for her crime. Two properties in Austin were reportedly transferred to her mother or sister before they were sold, while her steak in a third that she co owned with the boyfriend was transferred to her sister, Christine Armstrong, before being gifted back to Colin Strickland. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practiced too to see?
What more do we know?
I understand Mariah was not in a love relationship a sex relationship with Colin Strickland.
Explain this love triangle.
So Mariah and Colin Strickland did have a relationship months ago while he was apparently broken up with Kristen Armstrong. That is what he tells the police. Colin reports that he and Armstrong were broken up and that he did have a brief relationship with Mariah Wilson. However, since that time, according to him and what he told police, is that they had been friends.
Can you say relationship?
Are you talking about a love relationship a sex relationship?
I mean it was made, from my understanding, a romantic relationship. I mean that is the way that it has been described.
Okay, so let me understand this.
When Colin Strickland was broken up with Kaitlin Armstrong, he had a love relationship with Mariah Wilson, the cycling star, right, that's right, and then they called it off and he got back with Kaitlin Armstrong.
Is that right?
That is correct?
Okay, go from there.
And so over time, over the past several months, Mariah and Strickland did maintain contact and apparently their relationship transitioned more into platonic, more into friendship. But at the same time, Kaitlyn Armstrong discovered this relationship and was able to learn more vote from Colin Strickland himself and also apparently looking at a cell phone, learned more about his ongoing friendship with Mariah Wilson and did not like it. And so that is what he told police as part of a very lengthy interview.
Okay, wait, even though they were platonic, she still didn't like it.
That's exactly that exact is the understanding.
Yes, Oh my goodness, you know the first thing I would do, run ya man, carry us joining us from crime stoppers Houston.
I would get all of Caitlin.
Armstrong aged thirty four cell phone records and if she's got a landline.
And I would find out how.
Many times she had been checking her boyfriend's messages. And cell phone messages. I would want to find out how she hacked into his email everything I could prove digitally to see how long she had been doing a slow burn over her boyfriend, Colin Strickland's relationship now platonic with Mariah the cyclist Star.
Well, it looks like that's what they've been doing, and they've uncovered that Colin and Mariah had been exchanging text and phone calls, although he changed Mariah's name on his phone to not infuriate his girlfriend, but she discovered it and she started calling Mariah incessantly. Mariah blocked the number, started following her on Instagram and following her on what we understand to be Strava, a fitness app, to determine her whereabouts so we can see Caitlin's actions. That's going, Oh.
Wait, wait, Waite White, White, what did you say about an app?
It's called Strava or Strava, and it basically allows a cyclist to check in and show his or her followers, you know, the point of departure for a bike ride and then the point of return. And apparently you know, Wilson had had pinged her location to the home of Caitlin Cash as a start of the bike ride and as a point of where she returned. And that's where we believe our son learned.
Of Wilson's whereabouts.
So she would like chart her her bike courses online so her followers can know where she was riding.
And it's very common, you know, given technology today, a lot of us live our daily lives sharing our exact whereabouts in real time with this community and network of people who follow us. That's a big thing that I talk about in terms of how dangerous that that really is and really can be.
So dangerous, absolutely, and that is one of the things that so many people have commented upon. I mean, when you look at Armstrong, it is her public image and even her image among people who knew her fans and start contrast to what she is now accused of doing. She is described as successful, accomplished in her own right in the world of business. She was a yoga instructor for several years in Bali, and so.
People you mean Caitlyn Armstrong, and so people are so she was a yogi.
She was, and Bali no less, and so people are trying to reconcile that image of her based on what police are saying she did.
I'm looking at the video and there's no doubt about it. You see Armstrong's black suv going back and forth. It's a jeep Cherokee driving around outside the home.
She's just circling it like a vulture.
The cars again spotted that night after the I guess the love object. Collin Strickland drops off the victim twenty five year old, and Wilson and his yogi girlfriend just couldn't stand it. Yoga teacher Caitlin Armstrong could not stand it. Doctor Sherry Schwartz helped me a love triangle. I mean, if you got a guy that's cheating on you, who wants him anyway, I would send him straight to our house cod cash on delivery and don't send him back no returns.
Absolutely, I agree one hundred percent, Nancy. But clearly it seems that Caitlyn suffers from this obsessive, pathological, toxic jealousy that led to violence.
Again, jo Scott Morgan, how are they processing the scene? How are we going to prove that it is in fact the yoga loving girlfriend Caitlyn Armstrong.
Well, I'm glad you asked that question, because Austin the Austin PD actually served a warrant. Let's go back to where she was domsold with Strickland and this is what the found out. They actually recovered two pistols at that scene, one in which was a six hour nine millimeter. Guess who had access to it? Only Armstrong, that's it. And guess what else they did. They took this weapon and they test fired it. And when they test fired it, it came back. There is a high probability that those ejected shells that they found at the scene match this particular weapon. What kind of strikes me is baffling to me is that they actually this individual left this weapon where it could be recovered. I don't know what that actually says about this individual, but it tells me she didn't make any effort to try to take it and throw it in a river.
Tells me she was highly emotional at the time and not thinking correctly.
That is not insanity under the law.
The stalking, the leaving, the hiding out, the going on the run shows she knew what she did was wrong and for what.
And I can tell you another thing.
Asked if you're a boyfriend or a husband, is hiding somebody's name and their cell phone out.
There's a reason he's hiding it.
There is a reason I've checked my husband's cell phone so many times.
My eyes bled. It was so boring I quit.
Also, he lied, didn't he lie? Tony Platts give out where he was going that day? He's going to a big municipal pool. Anybody can see them the deep Eddy, It's not like a watering hole. It's a big municipal pool. Anybody could see him there. Why did he have to lie about it, Tony?
Or did he?
Well? He lied? According to his text messages to Armstrong, he lied to her about where he was. He described his battery dying, that he had delivered flowers to someone and then his old battery died.
I know Mariah's family is suing Caitlin Armstrong, but I don't care how many millions of dollars they may ever get. Didn't give it all away to have Mo back with them.
We wait as just as unfals. Goodbye friend,