278. The Killer Yogi
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Hey everyone, welcome back to our podcast. This is Murder With My Husband. I'm Peyton Moreland. And I'm Garrett Moreland. And he's the husband. I'm the husband. If we sound different, if we look different, it's because we are in a different studio right now. But hey, we're here, we're recording, and we're so excited for another episode. It's because we are different. Yeah, we're different. We're built different. Oh no. Thanks everyone. We are in a different studio, different place. We were traveling, kind of, right? Yeah. Whatever you want to call it.

Thanks for being here. Just a reminder, we have our Patreon and our Apple subscriptions if you want ad-free content and bonus episodes. We do two bonus episodes a month and all of the content is ad-free. Okay, wait. Before we jump into your 10 seconds, you need to address all the comments about the tipping that you talked about on last episode's 10 seconds because people, they were rallying for you. I feel like...

there's not really much to rally about it's pretty black and white yeah right yeah like you just hit people when you're at a restaurant and that's that i'm curious i'm waiting to see if i get any different opinions yet because so far there hasn't been really many yeah other opinions you know what i'm saying yeah i don't know okay what you got for this week so a couple of things a couple weeks ago i didn't even address this

Peyton and I were driving and I got pulled over. Remember that? I was going 40 in a 25. It looked like a normal road. Am I right? I wasn't crazy for doing that. And then we saw these lights and I went, alright, pulling over, pulled over. Didn't give me a ticket. I don't know. What do you think? He just didn't give me a ticket. It was surprising. Well, we told him we weren't from there. And that road doesn't look like it would be 25. No, not at all. And then...

We asked if we could take a picture for the podcast. That was after he didn't give us a ticket. Right. If he did, if he gave us a ticket, you still would have asked? I probably would have asked and held the ticket up. Yeah. I'm like, hey. But no, he was pretty cool. Didn't give us a ticket. I'm surprised he didn't give us a ticket. We do. Maybe he just felt the vibes. Yeah. Maybe the vibes were good. The next thing was...

If you saw on Instagram, if you didn't see on Instagram, you're just listening to audio here. I was waxing my nose the other night. I have a mustache now. It's not like super big, but I have one, right? Yeah. And I got wax stuck in my mustache.

Like a lot of wax just stuck and I didn't know what to do a whole glob. I was freaking out So I posted on Instagram right away. I said, what do I do? Everybody like Dozens and dozens of people were just like use oil use oil and it worked Thank you. Just pay and put some oil on my mustache rubbed it around and yeah, I know it came right out No hair no hair. So I was happy because I thought I was gonna have to go and shave my mustache which wouldn't have been the end of

Daisy's licking the table right now, which wouldn't have been the end of the world, but didn't have to do it. So recap, tip people at restaurants, don't put wax on your mustache, and...

Go the speed limit. Go the speed limit. That's what I got. All right. Let's get into the episode. Our sources for this episode are ABC's 2020, statesman.com, NBCnews.com, APnews.com, WCAX.com, grandfondoguide.com, fox7austin.com, cbc.california, the Austin American Statesman, the Mariah Wilson Foundation, theguardian.com, cyclingnews.com, cbsnews.com, cbsaustin.com, foxnews, and Wikipedia. If you're a fan of the show,

If Peyton, you can say, if Peyton and I, again, are a little off, voice sounds weird, we sound weird, maybe we're not vibing. We're just so used to being in our studio. And so it's so different when we're not. I know. And it's like the vibes, you guys. Like, I know you can't see unless you're watching on YouTube, but like Garrett and I record in the dark and the red light and it's very...

And moody. And like right now we're in like an all white studio with fluffy white pillows. And it's like now it's just weird. I don't like it. Talking about murder. Yeah. Okay. So in all the years of doing this podcast, we've seen a lot of different motives for committing murder. I would say the main ones have been like money, drugs, revenge. But one of the most timeless age old classics is that Shakespearean trope.

of killing out of jealousy, particularly when it comes to love. Now, love is a powerful weapon, something that's been causing even the most level-headed people to act irrationally for centuries.

But back when Shakespeare was writing or other stories about lust and betrayal, there was no social media. There was no tracking apps and there was no fleeing to Costa Rica to get facial reconstruction surgery. And those are all things that the antagonist in today's story used to commit her crime and then to try and escape it.

But it's clear that our villain didn't read Shakespeare because if she did, she might know that his stories typically don't end well. And I'll just say hers doesn't either. This is funny that we're doing a case on this because just yesterday we were in the car. This is going to sound so bad. I don't think I can say it. Say it. Just yesterday we were in the car and I was like,

I don't understand anyone killing anyone. Like, I don't. I don't get it. But this is a very, very minuscule, very small but. I could see why someone kills someone out of, like, jealousy. Or anger. Or anger. Like, I can't see it. But there's a very small but where I can see it. Well, because it's like... I don't know. I don't know. Maybe people in the podcast... This is going to come off so bad. I think I'm just trying to...

No, we're not justifying any murder and all murder is wrong. I'm just trying to understand like, okay. Putting yourself in their shoes. I guess so. I don't know. F me. I'm insane. I'm just, I was just kind of expressing my thoughts. Well, no. What got us on the conversation is that, and maybe people listening haven't felt this way.

But like, have you ever been so angry, like so angry to the point where you are being irrational? Like you are saying irrational things. You are doing irrational things because anger has just like consumed your body. Like to the point where it almost feels like your spirit kind of leaves and it's just like your brain on autopilot. At that point, we were talking about how like

I've felt that before. Garrett's felt that before. And then that's when he said, do you think that's what people who kill out of anger, like, do you think they get to that point? And then because they had the ability to kill, they just like did it. That was a lot better way to explain it. Yeah, exactly. The fact that when you're angry, you do irrational things and people who are that angry do something irrational, not excusing it, but

People do rational things when they're angry, and it's interesting. Now, I'm not saying when I'm angry or Garrett's angry, we would have the ability to kill someone or the capability. I don't feel like I want to kill someone. But...

It's almost like when you get that angry, you're like, if someone is kind of like this type of person where they don't care and they're kind of a bad person and they get this angry. That's a straw that's going to break the canvas. Right, right. I think that's why. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so our story today starts with a little girl named Anna Mariah Wilson or Moe as her friends called her and we will also be calling her Moe.

So born on May 18th, 1996, Mo grew up in Kirby, Vermont to a family of proficient athletes. And almost before she could walk as a baby, Mo was skiing and cycling. Growing up, Mo dreamed of competing in the Olympics one day as a ski racer. And with her father, a champion skier and coach, the goal actually did seem like very within reach.

Mo trained her butt off for most of her youth, even attending Burke Mountain Academy, which was a prep school in East Burke, Vermont, that specialized in alpine skiing. So she literally went to school basically to become an Olympian. But even with her drive, ambition, and focus, everyone who knew Mo said she was someone who always had a smile on her face, an insatiable hunger for life.

Mo knew when it was time to work and when it was time to play. And she managed to balance both of those things incredibly well. By her sophomore year at Burke Mountain Academy, Mo was ranked third for her age nationally. That's insane. But around that same time, Mo actually suffered an accident that would inevitably change the course of her life forever. And that year, she tore her ACL.

Like she's third in the nation. That's like the worst thing you could do, man. I know. She managed to bounce back and get back in the game, even getting into Dartmouth College in 2019. And there she fulfilled a childhood goal of hers, getting onto the Dartmouth Alpine ski team. But her dreams of one day competing in the Olympics

did fall short after she tore her ACL a second time while in college. So after several more months of rehab, Mo's skiing career, it just, you can't come back. Like it just wasn't the same, which is when she turned to another early athletic pursuit of hers. And that was mountain bike racing. So she was like, okay,

I can't do the skiing anymore. I'm going to move on. And soon she was finding her niche in the sport. It was a more nuanced kind of cycling called gravel racing. And it was in this that Mo realized her true calling. So after graduating college, she opted out of a full-time job to pursue cycling as her career. And she began competing nationally and won so many races that sponsors were actually flocking to her. She was making money doing this.

By 2022, the 25-year-old Anna Mo Wilson was at the height of her success. Those who followed the sport believed that she was about to enter her biggest year yet. She was even scheduled to compete in the migration gravel race in East Africa that summer of 2022.

But before she flew east, Mo had another big race in Texas where she was easily favored to win. So in May of 2022, Mo flies down to Austin to stay with her friend, Caitlin Cash, for a few nights before this big race. And keep in mind, Mo is my age. We were born in the same year. So she's around my age back in 2022. And Caitlin, her friend that she is going to stay with in Texas while she competes,

is a fellow cycler and she had met Mo during a race in 2021 and had gotten closer with her over the last year. And apparently Caitlin was pretty close with Mo's family as well. Like they met a year earlier and kind of just immediately clicked.

So on the afternoon of May 11th, Caitlin texted Mo's mom a picture of Mo staring at her bike with the message, your girl is in safe hands here in Texas. So like this 20-year-old Mo goes and visits her friend Caitlin and Caitlin actually snaps a picture of her and sends it to her and sends it to Mo's mom and says, hey.

hey, she got here, she arrived, like we're good to go. Yeah, it's not weird. It's normal. Yeah, competition is coming up. Yep. But little did Kaitlyn know that could not be further from the truth. At around 5.30 p.m. that day, Mo said she was going to meet up with another friend that she knew in the Austin area. And it was a guy named Colin. And it sounded like a date, like she was going to go on a date in Texas. So Kaitlyn made her own set of plans for that evening.

And then a few hours later at around 8:30 PM, Caitlin got a security alert on her phone that Mo had made it back to the house. I don't know if this was like ring doorbell or a camera or whatever, but she realized that Mo was done with her date and back home. So Caitlin just kept her night going. But around 10:00 PM when Caitlin got back to her place to meet up with Mo, she found her door was still unlocked. So she walked inside, she started calling Mo's name.

but no one was answering. So she made her way towards the bathroom and that's when she saw blood all over her bathroom floor. Oh, gosh. And Moe was lying there unresponsive with several gunshot wounds to her head and chest. Excuse my language. Well, and I think this is so confusing because this is Caitlin's house. Like, Moe is just a friend who's come to visit and now she's dead in Caitlin's bathroom? It also is insane how...

One second, everything's normal. Like she got there. Caitlin sent a picture to her mom. Five hours later, she's in the bathroom with several gunshot wounds. Yeah.

So Caitlin fumbled for her cell phone, shaking as she called 911. And she explained to the operator what happened. And the operator begins walking her through how to perform CPR. And Caitlin pulled it together and managed to follow the instructions, focusing everything she had on trying to get her friend to start breathing again. But less than 15 minutes later, first responders arrived at Caitlin's house where they pronounced 25-year-old Animo Wilson dead. Yeah. I mean, Sarah.

Several gunshot wounds. Right. Yeah. So at this point, Caitlin is beside herself, as you can imagine. Just hours ago, she was telling Mo's mother that her daughter was safe. And now she's going to have to call her mother and say, I don't know how, but like your daughter has been shot in my bathroom.

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So to investigators immediately, it's clear it's a homicide. There were shell casings on the floor, but there was no murder weapon left inside. And later her autopsy confirmed Mo was shot three times, twice in the head and once in the chest while she was already laying back down on the floor. So as she was on the floor, she was shot in the chest, which was what caused the police to say,

This didn't really feel like a robbery because like once Mo was already down, the person shot her again in the chest. It was definitely out of anger. So they're like, this seems personal, especially because there was only one object taken from this apartment and it was Mo's prized possession. It was an extension of her.

It was her bike, her racing bike. Okay. So next, police started knocking on the neighbor's door to see if they saw or heard anything. I think it's important to clarify it's in an apartment. So it would, like, neighbors technically should have heard the shots. You know what I mean? That's what I'm surprised. If she got shot multiple times. You would think. For sure somebody hears that. So 47-year-old David Harris, who lived next door to Caitlin, said he was home at the time, but he had heard nothing.

which made investigators wonder if the attacker had used a silencer. I was just going to ask that. But David says what he did hear was footsteps running downstairs around the time of the murder and what sounded like the spokes of a bicycle clicking through the back alleyway away from the apartment complex. But

But again, whoever came here and committed this crime didn't just come for the bicycle because later that night, the bike was found only 60 feet south of Caitlin's apartment. It had literally been ditched like near some bamboo fence.

So whoever took the bike from the apartment then just like ditched it 60 feet away and left it there. That doesn't make sense. So luckily investigators were able to get some security footage from the neighbor's camera and it provided them with one very useful clue. Only a few minutes after Mo walked back into the door a black jeep arrived and seemed to kind of be circling the apartment. Which

Which is weird, right? Like there's a black Jeep circling the apartment at the, around the same time that she was killed. So when police spoke with Caitlin that evening, she gave them the name of the last person to spend time with Moe. She's like, Hey, I mean, the reason I wasn't with Moe was because she was on a date. The guy she went on a date with was another professional cyclist and Austin resident, a man named Colin Strickland. Now, depending on who you asked,

Some said Colin was the first real big celebrity in the world of gravel racing. But by 2021, just as Mo was on the rise, Colin was kind of starting to phase out of the sport. He was winning fewer races. He was competing less and less. And Mo was like the up and comer. You know what I mean? This is so interesting because.

I'm sure anyone that knows mountain biking, like knows this, knows about this, but I've never, I mean, until you did the research, you probably have never heard of this. No, no, no. So when the 35 year old Colin met Mo at a race in Idaho the year prior, he saw himself in Mo, who was this like up and coming rising star in their community. And

And the two instantly clicked. So Colin's 35 and Mo is basically 25, 24 at the time. Around November or December of 2021, Colin and Mo actually did have a quick little fling, but the timing just didn't seem right for either of them. So Mo called it off and dedicated herself solely to her career.

But come May of 2022, she knew she was going to be visiting Colin's hometown. She was going to be in Texas. She figured, why not reach out? See if he wants to meet up, maybe for old time's sake. And turns out he did. So on the afternoon of the 11th, Colin swung by the apartment on his motorcycle and he picked Mo up. They went out for an afternoon swim at a public pool. They had some dinner. And then Colin dropped her back off at the apartment at around 8.30 p.m.,

And so hearing this, police knew they had to find and speak with Colin. And by the following morning, so May 12th, they were showing up at his house with a whole lot of questions. I mean, you're essentially the last person to see her alive at this point. So when they got there, Colin was actually already outside and they just walk up to him and they ask him flat out, do you know who Anna Mariah Wilson is? And strangely, Colin is like, no. Do you know Anna...

Mo. And then Mo. Yeah, everybody calls her Mo. Last name is Wilson. Rider, she's a gravel rider. No freaking way. Which is insane because you're a racer and she's a racer. You 100% know her even if you're trying to say you didn't have a fling. If you were the last person with her, they're going to find out. You can't hide that. Right.

So police are like, dude. That's insane. Like, dude, we already know the history of you guys. Like, we know that you are both racers, that you're big names in the community. Like, what? So this is a red flag. But that's because Colin doesn't call her Anna or Mariah. And most people don't. So he says it takes him a minute to realize they were talking about Mo. Okay. Which...

They say, do you know Anna Mariah Wilson? And he's sitting here going, I only know Mo Wilson. So that's why he says he didn't recognize it.

And so when they tell him, okay, well, Mo was found dead in her friend's apartment the night before, Colin does look genuinely shocked and devastated. There's another red flag. Remember that black Jeep that was like circling the apartment on the neighbor's camera? It's his, isn't it? It's literally sitting in the driveway. Okay. So the police ask him to come down to the station for questioning and he agrees. And then he spends the next six hours answering questions. Okay.

Colin tells them everything he did with Mo the day before, including the fact that he dropped her off at 8.30 p.m. on his motorcycle and that he never stepped foot inside the apartment and that he didn't see anyone else lingering around when he left. And so the police eventually called us out. If he dropped her off by motorcycle, why was his car circling around the apartment around the same time? That's true.

And that's when Colin drops a pretty big bomb on them. He's like, what? And they're like, your car, like it's on footage driving around her apartment around the same time. And he goes, wait, that's not my car. That Jeep in my driveway, it's not my car.

It's my girlfriend's car who lives with me. No freaking way. Okay, so maybe Colin is completely innocent here. Maybe he's just a little bit of a player. Or he was just going out with a friend. That's crazy. An old friend, an old acquaintance. Maybe they didn't even do anything. Maybe they didn't kiss. He really does live with his girlfriend. Could you imagine being in that moment and thinking...

What? Oh, wait. Like you're definitely putting two and two together. Of I dropped her off on my motorcycle and then minutes later, my girlfriend's car was circling her apartment and then she's going to end up dead. And she's dead. You're just like, oh, yeah, I know what happened. So his girlfriend who lives with him is named Caitlin Armstrong.

So just to clarify, this is a different Caitlin than the one that Mo was staying with. Remember, we have Caitlin Cash, who she's staying with. This is Caitlin, who is a yoga teacher and real estate agent who'd grown up in Michigan. People described her as quiet but smart, fun to be around, seemingly happy, especially when she finally moved in with her on-again, off-again boyfriend of two years, Colin Strickland.

Now, Colin and the 34-year-old Caitlin even started their own business together called The Wheelhouse, and they were just renovating old trailers. And Caitlin was also a part of the cycling world, although she was nowhere near the point of success that Mo and Colin had reached. But those who knew Caitlin and Colin said their status always seemed like a little murky. They were the couple that...

People weren't really sure. Were they together? Were they not? Are they just business partners? Are they roommates? Are they going to get married? Every day, the answer kind of seemed to be different. And apparently, back when Colin and Mo had their fling in 2022, remember, they met and then now they're having a little fling. It was actually an off period for the couple. So Caitlin and Colin had called it quits forever.

Colin starts dating Mo and then Mo breaks it off with Colin and Colin goes back to Caitlin and then they're on again. And this was part of the reason it actually never amounted to anything between the two because he was still on and off with Caitlin. So still, as we know, Mo and Colin stayed in touch even when he was back together with Caitlin in the following months. They remained friends forever.

And obviously because they're going to be seeing each other at races, like they're both big names in the industry. It makes sense that they're going to stay in touch. And I need to clarify for Mo, like even after she breaks it off with Colin, she's never really sure where him and Caitlin stand. Because I think Colin kind of left both of them in the dark. Yeah. Because he was kind of dating both around the same time. He wanted options. Yeah.

Yeah, and so he kind of left both of them in the dark about what was going on. Now, Colin says on the night of Moe's death, nothing happened between them. It was purely platonic, just two friends catching up. But he clearly knew it was wrong because he changed Moe's name in his phone to something different, hoping that Caitlin wouldn't find out that they had been talking and were going to go out and hang out.

But he offered up a few other details to the police. On the night of Mo's murder, Caitlin came home at around 9.30 p.m. in her Jeep. And a few months prior, Caitlin told him she had a pretty harrowing experience as a victim of road rage, and so he had bought her a gun.

So when, what he's telling police is, okay, yeah, here's the history. I was kind of dating both, like never cheating on one, but like kind of dating both. I lied to Caitlin. She had no idea that I was out with Mo that night. And yeah, that is Caitlin's Jeep. She came home at 9 30 PM that night. And I also did buy her a gun a couple months ago.

That's insane. I mean, I'm glad he's not trying to cover for her. Right. He's just like, no way. Like, F this. I'm telling you everything. Yeah, yeah. So after hearing this, police executed a search warrant for the house that Colin shared with Caitlin. And inside, they find the gun that Colin says he bought for Caitlin. And it's a nine millimeter and it's a perfect match for the shell casings found at the crime scene.

Now investigators have to be sure that Colin isn't just trying to deflect the blame onto Caitlin, right? And the best and maybe only real way to do that is to check his alibi. Colin says that he was still riding around on his motorcycle at the time that the shots were fired. And

And luckily for him, police found some video surveillance that confirmed he was telling the truth. Wow. So after this, they're like, hey, it's time to zero in on Caitlin Armstrong. After all, the woman had access to a gun that fit the murder weapon. And if she knew about Moe, then it means that she clearly has motive to.

So the police know they need to get her into the station to chat. And it turns out they have the upper hand because Caitlin already had a warrant out for her arrest at this time.

It was over something ridiculous, I want to add. The warrant was from 2018, but Caitlin had gone to a place called the Travis Country Spa for a Botox procedure. And when she went to check out, she handed them her MasterCard. It got declined and she said, oh, shoot, no problem. I have another one in my car. Let me go grab it. She walks out the front door and she never comes back.

So she just stole $650. She had a warrant out for that? Yes. That's kind of crazy. So she stole $650 worth of Botox. Which, I mean, don't steal. And the owners of the spa go to the police. They press charges, which like as they should. I mean, it's kind of crazy. I do the same thing. So the owners of... So it turns out four years later, that decision would come back to severely bite Caitlin on the butt basically because not only does it force her into a room with the detectives working Mo's case...

her interview and the behavior she expressed during it actually just nails at home for police that this is their prime suspect. So like in the interrogation room? Yes. Okay. So when Caitlin was questioned about her Jeep being pictured in the security footage outside the apartment, she didn't admit to being there, but she also doesn't deny it either. She just rolls her eyes. She gets really frustrated and she's just like upset that they're even asking her this. Like that's how she's acting. Yeah.

Plus, she was stiff as a board through most of the interview, which to investigators is a very giant red flag. And yet she sat there continuing to answer questions with just curt, few word answers. That was until there was a knock on the door outside. Another detective had come to let the officer know that there was a problem with the warrant they had for her. And it was that Caitlin's birthday was listed incorrectly, which means that technically she's free to go because that's not allowed. No way, that's how it works?

Yeah, it was a minor technicality that would change the entire course of this investigation. How do you mess that up, man? But not before police uncovered other wildly incriminating details about Caitlin in the weeks leading up to Mo's death. So this is kind of like when they start to learn. They let her go and then they start to learn. They keep investigating and this is what they learn.

So it turns out Caitlin had been keeping a close eye on Mo for a while. Like she kind of been stalking her. Apparently Colin had not outsmarted Caitlin after all changing Mo's name to something else. And his contacts did nothing because Caitlin was looking through his text messages on his laptop where her name wasn't changed.

And the text messages were not just platonic messages. They were extremely flirty. So she knew Mo was on the other end of those messages and that Colin was trying to hide it from her. So what did Caitlin do next? Probably what any suspicious girlfriend would do. She starts out by following Mo on Instagram. Oh. But one thing led to another and each move after got just increasingly dangerous. It's safe to say that Caitlin was slowly becoming obsessed with Mo. Soon,

Caitlin was calling Moe, threatening her to stay away from Colin. A friend even came forward to say one night she was out with Caitlin at a restaurant when Moe walked in and Caitlin became like enraged by her presence. And when this same friend asked Caitlin what she would do if Colin ever started dating someone else, Caitlin just straight up replied, I would kill her.

And this was in a way that made this friend think Caitlin just wasn't even using this as a figure of speech. But the thing that really set off alarm bells for investigators was this. After completing a forensic analysis of Caitlin's devices, they learned she'd been following Moe's every move. Did other people had to have known this? Like Colin had to have known? No, Colin doesn't know.

So Mo was the only one that knew that she was calling? Like had Mo ever said it to anybody else? I'm sure she had told people, but I don't think Mo knew it was to the extent that it was, which is what I'm about to tell you. You also don't think like, oh, this person's just jealous or mad. They're not going to kill me. Yeah. Like that step is so, it's not impossible. It's just so far above the others. You just think, oh, they're mad. I think Mo just thought, oh, I pissed her off. Yeah. Yeah.

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And it was thanks to a fitness app called Strava. Strava, man. Oh, is it Strava? I'm pretty sure it's Strava. Wait.

That's the running app, right? Who's right, Peyton or Garrett? I think it's Strava. I'm pretty sure it's Strava. So this app is kind of like a social media tool for athletes. It lets you track your workouts, your rides. Usually for those who run and bike. You can post photos. It even documents the routes you're taking, lets others see those routes if you don't turn your location settings off, which was exactly how Caitlin Armstrong knew where Mo was staying in Austin. So she knew exactly. She knew Mo was at the other Caitlin's house because of this app.

So the police figured, okay, we have enough to file for an arrest warrant at this point. But when they go looking for Caitlin, she is nowhere to be found. Her Instagram account has been deleted. Her phone has been deactivated. Colin hasn't seen her in days. And that's because Caitlin was already making her way out of the United States of America. That's insane. Oh. Yeah.

Okay. So right after that first meeting with police, Caitlin went home and she cooked up a plan to get the heck out of Dodge. She was like, I'm in trouble. I have done this and I need to get out. She sold her Jeep to like a CarMax type place for $12,000. She packed a bag. She grabbed her yoga mat and she took off for the airport. Police knew this because they spotted her on airport security a few days later. How is she not on the no-fly list? Well, because she's not even technically under arrest yet. Oh, okay. That's true. That's true.

That's true. So Caitlin on this security footage has her yoga mat over her shoulder. She has a COVID mask on. Her freaking yoga mat. She's blending in like with the other travelers. Oh, the mask too. Yeah. Because you have masks on, everyone blends in. Yeah. So they learned that her first stop was actually her sister Christine's place in upstate New York.

And after landing at LaGuardia in New York City, Caitlin hitched a ride to Livingston Manor about two hours away. There, Caitlin met with her sister Christine, who lived in a camper van on this giant property called Haven for Humanity. So the police follow her trail there. And when they get there, they found Christine's neighbor who said, oh, yeah, Caitlin was here, but she actually took off a few days ago. So now police are like, oh.

Like, okay, now where is she? Caitlin had taken her sister's passport and booked a flight under Christine's name from Newark International in New Jersey to San Jose, Costa Rica. Okay.

But that was all the police could really determine. Caitlyn could have gone anywhere in Costa Rica once she got off that flight. And if they were going to get their fugitive back, they were going to have to work with Costa Rican authorities to make that happen. This is just... This is why they say get out of the United States because it's so hard once you're gone. I feel like Mexico is a better place because it's bigger. There's so many more places you could hide. Yeah. It's Mexico, man. So...

Luckily for them, Caitlin had actually chosen a pretty small country to flee to, which is what you just said. And so she was pictured in that security footage in Costa Rica with her yoga mat.

She has the yoga mat. Hilarious. So after Caitlin arrived at the San Jose airport, she took a bus down to Hako Beach. And then a few days later, traveled to another Pacific coast town called Santa Teresa. And she starts settling in there. She goes by a new name, Ari Martin. She gets a room at a little spot on the beach called Don John's Lodge. What is happening? I mean, honestly, like if she hadn't killed anyone, it kind of feels to me like she's living the dream.

Like she just showed up, changed her name, changed her identity and was like, I'm here. Like I'm living in Costa Rica. She at this point for sure is like, I got away with this. Oh, for sure. She begins integrating herself amongst the other kind of, it's a place for yogis. So I think that she knew that like she was going to fit in there. It's also surfers. There's surfers in the area. And she starts working shifts at the lodge to pay for her room and board. I mean, like she's actually kind of being smart about this.

begins looking for a more permanent role as a yoga instructor in town. And she even starts dating a guy who lives there. I mean, have you seen Safe Haven? It's a Nicholas Sparks movie. Yes, where she escapes and goes to the small town, starts dating that guy. Then her crazy ex-boyfriend comes and tries to kill her. It's a little Safe Haven, but not in a good way. Yes, because that ends happy.

Well, and also she was running because there was domestic violence happening in her home. And on this one... Not because she murdered someone. She killed Moe, which is horrible. Yes. And while she's doing all of this in Costa Rica, Caitlin starts making subtle changes to her appearance over the course of the few weeks. Yes.

She has her hair cut short, it's dyed, and one afternoon she comes in with a bandage on her nose. She's telling everyone that she got clocked with the surfboard the other day, but the truth is Kaitlyn had done this to herself. She had spent $6,500 getting plastic surgery to change her appearance. She got a nose job, lip filler, more filler in her face.

Literally she does the works on her face. - I need to see a before and after picture. - I know, I think we will have one on Instagram and on the YouTube video. So meanwhile, authorities were starting to close in on Kaitlyn. So as she's doing all of this and thinking, wow, like I've done a good job, authorities are tracking her.

They find that she's created a new Gmail account. And one thing Gmail does is save your search history if you don't opt out of it. So they're able to see everything she's Googling, including what hotels and restaurants she's making reservations at, which leads them to the town that Caitlin's been staying in. This is how they track her down. So the U.S. Marshals fly down to Costa Rica. They begin going door to door, beach to beach, looking for her. They literally go to the small town and they just start

looking around but after a few days in the town they cannot find her so one of them gets this brilliant idea like dude she's always traveling with this yoga mat she's probably been searching for a yoga job so they go to a little yoga studio in this town they get them to cooperate and they say hey post that you have a job opening for a yoga instructor online that is so smart and who who applies

Ari Martin, a.k.a. Caitlin Armstrong. And through this, they also learn that she's currently working and staying at Don John's Lodge. How predictable. That's insane. Yeah. So an officer shows up there shortly after. It's June 29th, 2022, when he approaches the front desk to find a woman with a bandaged nose and swollen lips working behind the counter. Doesn't look like Caitlin Armstrong. But once he looks her in her eyes, he's like, I feel like this is the girl we're looking for.

And it is her. And while she's distracted, other officials go up and search her room. And there they find a receipt for the plastic surgery. They find Christine Armstrong, her sister's passport, along with Caitlin's passport. Okay. I was going to ask how do you confirm? Yeah. How do you confirm this? This is it. They have their girl. So after 43 days on the run, Caitlin Armstrong's arrested by authorities and deported back to Texas where she's formally charged with killing Anna Mo Wilson. Wow. Good. Good.

There, Caitlin's booked into the Travis County jail and held on a $3.5 million bond. But five months later, Caitlin's looking for new ways to dodge the charges. On October 11th, 2022, she's just two weeks out from the beginning of her trial. And that day she puts in a medical request saying she has an injured leg and she needs to get it looked at. So the deputies take her to a doctor's appointment that afternoon. It's offsite from the prison and Caitlin makes a run for it.

So while she runs, yes, she takes off in her black and white prison jumpsuit before freeing one of her friends.

one of her hands from the cuffs and stripping down to the plain clothes that she was hiding underneath. She jumps a fence. She makes it about a block away or so before she's recaptured by authorities. That's insane. And ironically, the name of the street that she's caught on is Caitlin is Wilson Street, which is the last name of the victim. But as I mentioned before, this wasn't a spur of the moment run for it. Caitlin had clearly been working on this plan. This is a detail officials uncovered when they looked back

on prison footage of caitlyn who'd been training rigorously she was running doing squats lifting in the weeks leading up to this she like started to be like i have to get in shape if i'm gonna make a run for it but she had failed obviously and two weeks later she found herself facing a jury on charges of homicide and i think at trial it's important to note that they like found dna on the bike that match there was a ton of evidence

And after an eight day trial, the jury agreed that the case was strong. Less than two hours after leaving to deliberate, they were back with a verdict. And Caitlin Armstrong was guilty of first degree murder. She was given a 90 year sentence and a $10,000 fine. And she won't be eligible for parole for another 30 years, which means she'll be in like her mid 60s. Good. Yeah. On May 6th.

2024, most parents filed a civil suit against Caitlin for wrongful death. And on June 17th, the judge ruled in their favor, ordering Caitlin to pay the family $15 million in damages. But she doesn't even have any money. So how does that work? They know that she doesn't have the assets. It will preclude her from profiting off of anything, which is a big reason why people do this. Okay, that makes sense. So she can't do like a tell-all, a book deal, anything like that.

And as for Colin Strickland, he was never charged with anything to do with Moe's murder. In fact, he actually released a public apology to the family saying, there's no way to adequately express the regret and torture I feel about my proximity to this horrible crime because if it wasn't for Colin...

The two girls would have never even been connected in the first place. And I'm sure he's living with that guilt of, you know, he says he's sorry. He cannot make sense of the tragedy. And since Mo's passing, her family has done a lot to honor her legacy. They've established a foundation in her name devoted to healthy living and community building. And in Kingdom Trails in northern Vermont, there's a hiking trail that has been dedicated to Mo, renamed as Mariah's Ascent Trail.

But while Mo's memory lives on through her charity and the cycling community, nothing can change the fact that her life was taken far too short. Proving no matter how much mankind evolves, lust continues to be a powerful motivator. And when yielded by the wrong person, it can be a dangerous weapon. And that is the case of Anna Maria Wilson. Devastating and also...

You just never expect that that's what someone's going to do, right? You're just like, oh, she's mad. She's upset. Duh. Hair explosion. Yada, yada, yada. It happens all the time. It's insane how much it happens. And it goes back to what we were talking about at the beginning. How that pushes people over the edge. And I mean, I think like you said, it's only a certain amount of people. Like you have to have certain characteristics and qualities and so on and so forth. You have to be that type of person. You have to be crazy. I don't know what else to say. Yeah. I don't know. I think for sure, like...

It's just insane how many times a love triangle creates murder. All right, you guys, that was our case. We will see you next week back in our original studio. Let's go. And I love it. And I hate it. Goodbye.