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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The verdict is in the
- 0:16Speaker 1: so called glam Yoga Teacher. Here's the verdict from the
- 0:20Speaker 1: jury in the murder of a beautiful twenty five year
- 0:24Speaker 1: old superstar in the dirt bike racing field.
- 0:29Speaker 2: We The jury found the defendant, Kitlyn Armstrong guilty of
- 0:33Speaker 2: the offensive murder.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, thank you for being with us here at
- 0:37Speaker 1: Crime Stories and Sirius XM one eleven. Kate Lynn Armstrong
- 0:42Speaker 1: found guilty guilty of murdering her alleged love rival, Mariah
- 0:48Speaker 1: Moe Wilson. A jury returns a guilty verdict after just
- 0:53Speaker 1: about two hours deliberating in Austin, Texas. The women were
- 0:58Speaker 1: reportedly involved in a love triangle, with Kaitlin Armstrong's boyfriend
- 1:04Speaker 1: Colin Strickland, stopping the afternoon of.
- 1:06Speaker 3: The murder for a Hamburger with Moe.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Evidence indicates that Kaylen Armstrong knew their every move, actually
- 1:14Speaker 1: following them before she sneaks into the home where Mariah
- 1:18Speaker 1: was staying and murdered her in cold blood.
- 1:23Speaker 3: The jury may have.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Been swayed by hearing Mariah screaming in the neighbor's surveillance
- 1:31Speaker 1: video footage and then immediately after the scream shots ringing out.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Take a listen to the prosecutor.
- 1:40Speaker 4: The last thing that Loe Wilson did on this herd
- 1:46Speaker 4: on May eleventh, two at nine to fifteen pm was
- 1:52Speaker 4: screamed and tarror.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Now, this is what the defense had to say.
- 2:11Speaker 5: One year, four months, and twelve days. That is how
- 2:16Speaker 5: long Caitlin Armstrong has asserted her innocence. And from day
- 2:22Speaker 5: one she asked for this trot. She asked for you
- 2:29Speaker 5: to hear this case.
- 2:32Speaker 3: But how did the whole thing start? Take a listen
- 2:34Speaker 3: to our friends at Fox seven.
- 2:36Speaker 6: Police are investigating a suspicious death in East Austin. This
- 2:40Speaker 6: happened on Maple Avenue near East seventeenth Street overnight. A
- 2:43Speaker 6: woman called police saying she found her friend inside her house,
- 2:46Speaker 6: unresponsive and there was blood near her. When officers arrived,
- 2:49Speaker 6: they found the victim had gunshot. Wos it US provided
- 2:52Speaker 6: life saving measures, but the woman later died from her injuries.
- 2:55Speaker 6: Police do not know how long she was inside the home,
- 2:58Speaker 6: but did call her death suspicious. It is unclear if
- 3:01Speaker 6: a gun was found on scene.
- 3:03Speaker 3: Suspicious.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Man, they're saying, pretty calm, multiple gunshot wounds, I would say, yeah,
- 3:09Speaker 1: that's suspicious. I can go ahead and answer that for
- 3:13Speaker 1: the cops. Take listen now to our friend John Krin
- 3:17Speaker 1: Jack Fox seven.
- 3:18Speaker 7: Tonight, we're learning the victim of a deadly shooting in
- 3:20Speaker 7: East Austin earlier this week was a well known cyclist
- 3:23Speaker 7: who is supposed to take part in a mountain bike
- 3:26Speaker 7: race in the Hill Country today. Anna Wilson, better known
- 3:29Speaker 7: by her middle name Mariah, was pronounced dead on Wednesday
- 3:32Speaker 7: night at home on Maple Avenue near Eighteenth Street. Austin
- 3:35Speaker 7: Police were called there after a friend of Wilson's returned
- 3:38Speaker 7: home to find the twenty five year old unconscious with
- 3:41Speaker 7: gunshot wounds. APD has not believed the shooting was random.
- 3:45Speaker 7: They're urging anyone with information or video of what happened
- 3:48Speaker 7: to give them a call now. According to the cycling
- 3:50Speaker 7: magazine Vello, Wilson was in Texas ahead of today's gravel
- 3:55Speaker 7: low cost race in Hiko, where she was a favorite
- 3:58Speaker 7: to win.
- 3:59Speaker 1: You know, when I hear year the address Maple Avenue,
- 4:04Speaker 1: that sounds straight out of a storybook. And from what
- 4:08Speaker 1: I've learned, this is a pretty richy area there in Austin.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Joining me an all star panel, But let me first,
- 4:13Speaker 1: go straight out to Tony Plahetski, longtime friend, colleague, investigative
- 4:19Speaker 1: reporter with The Austin American Statesman and kV U E
- 4:23Speaker 1: Twitter at t Plahetski. Tony, tell me about East Austin.
- 4:29Speaker 1: I got the word gentrified from you. What do you
- 4:33Speaker 1: mean by that? I mean Maple Avenue. It sounds like
- 4:38Speaker 1: it's out of a fable a book. It sounds so
- 4:41Speaker 1: peaceful and idyllic. To have somebody the number one female
- 4:44Speaker 1: gravel cyclist in the world gunned down dead and apartment
- 4:48Speaker 1: doesn't fit with Maple Avenue.
- 4:50Speaker 8: Well, so, over the years, this area of East Austin
- 4:54Speaker 8: has truly been transformed.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Tony Plohetsky, just stop right there. Let
- 4:59Speaker 1: me just call it like it is. It reminds me of
- 5:02Speaker 1: when I moved to Atlanta and started prosecuting at Inner
- 5:06Speaker 1: City Atlanta's Fulton District Attorney's office.
- 5:08Speaker 3: I lived in Midtown and at.
- 5:10Speaker 1: That time, every morning, when I would come out of
- 5:12Speaker 1: my apartment, I'd go to my car and there would
- 5:15Speaker 1: be gin bottles and pantyhose, syringes, rubbers, empty bottles of liquor,
- 5:22Speaker 1: and pantyhose. Because hookers and attics would come up and
- 5:27Speaker 1: down my alley where I lived to shoot up and
- 5:29Speaker 1: conduct business. Let me just say then it went gentrified.
- 5:34Speaker 1: People that wanted to live close to all the high
- 5:37Speaker 1: rise skyscrapers and businesses downtown wanted to move there.
- 5:42Speaker 3: They pump their money into it, fixed it all up.
- 5:46Speaker 1: Everybody had lawns and fancy apartments and fancy cars.
- 5:49Speaker 3: I had to move. I couldn't afford it anymore. Is
- 5:51Speaker 3: that what you're saying.
- 5:52Speaker 8: That's exactly what I'm saying. It is a carbon copy
- 5:55Speaker 8: of what you just described. And so this area where
- 5:58Speaker 8: Mariah Wilson was murdered is now home to high ride
- 6:03Speaker 8: apartments town home that are very trendy. A lot of
- 6:07Speaker 8: young people in our city live in this area who
- 6:10Speaker 8: have moved to Austin from all over the country to
- 6:13Speaker 8: work in tech, for example, And so it's really an
- 6:16Speaker 8: area dominated increasingly by that population.
- 6:20Speaker 3: I know what you mean.
- 6:22Speaker 1: Gin bottles and pantyhose in the alley one day, then
- 6:26Speaker 1: valet parking and high rises the next day.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I get it.
- 6:31Speaker 1: What I'm getting at is there's a very low crime
- 6:37Speaker 1: rate on Maple Avenue. Take a listen to our friends
- 6:43Speaker 1: Carissa Lemoukel on Fox.
- 6:46Speaker 3: Seven Surprise Everybody, East, Austin residence.
- 6:50Speaker 9: Michael Harris is talking about what happened the night of
- 6:53Speaker 9: May eleventh. Shocked to hear that a young prominent cyclist
- 6:57Speaker 9: was shot and killed while staying in the house across
- 7:01Speaker 9: the street.
- 7:01Speaker 10: I lived here almost two years and I've never maybe
- 7:05Speaker 10: seen two police calls passed by.
- 7:09Speaker 3: This is where this neighborhood is.
- 7:10Speaker 11: We all just marveled at, you know, just flut In,
- 7:13Speaker 11: a wonderful personality and a great athlete and an ambassador
- 7:18Speaker 11: for our support. And then all of a sudden, how
- 7:21Speaker 11: could this happen? And everyone's just sort of reeling from it.
- 7:25Speaker 1: In addition to reporter Carissa, you're also hearing from the
- 7:28Speaker 1: director of the Belgian Waffle Ride in California, Michael Marx.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Everyone knew her and loved her.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Now, when I hear gravel cycling, it's hard enough to
- 7:43Speaker 1: race in sand to get your bike to go through.
- 7:47Speaker 3: So why are you looking at me like that, Jackie?
- 7:49Speaker 1: Are you imagining trying to ride a bike through sand
- 7:52Speaker 1: much less gravel?
- 7:55Speaker 3: Tell me about this? What is is? Tony Plahetsky.
- 7:58Speaker 8: It's an endurance, I mean it is where the Yeah,
- 8:02Speaker 8: I mean really really a very competitive sport across the country,
- 8:08Speaker 8: really across the world, and Mariah Wilson, as you mentioned,
- 8:12Speaker 8: was a star in that world. She had already a mass,
- 8:17Speaker 8: a certain amount of acclaim, but she was really on
- 8:21Speaker 8: her way. Even her competitors, her most fierce competitors, admired
- 8:27Speaker 8: her and her stamina, her just natural born athleticism, but
- 8:33Speaker 8: also nancy her personality. I mean, when they talk about her,
- 8:37Speaker 8: they actually don't lead with the fact that she was
- 8:40Speaker 8: this amazing athlete. They lead with talking about her kindness
- 8:46Speaker 8: and her spirit and the happiness.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Moregun, host of a hit news series Body
- 8:53Speaker 1: Bags with Joseph Scott Moregun on iHeart jo Scott just
- 8:58Speaker 1: right off the bat.
- 9:00Speaker 3: This woman, I can tell you.
- 9:02Speaker 1: She's in a single dwelling apartment, she's unarmed, and she's
- 9:08Speaker 1: shot multiple times.
- 9:10Speaker 3: I don't like it.
- 9:11Speaker 1: We don't have any evidence of rape or burglary. So
- 9:16Speaker 1: why is somebody coming into this apartment if there was
- 9:19Speaker 1: in fact a break in and gutting her down multiple times?
- 9:23Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 9:23Speaker 12: And one of the things that kind of interests me
- 9:25Speaker 12: is that when she was found, she was not found
- 9:28Speaker 12: in like the foyer. She wasn't found at the entrance.
- 9:31Speaker 12: She was actually found in the bathroom, which gives me
- 9:34Speaker 12: an indication that unless there is an obvious sign that
- 9:38Speaker 12: someone kicked in the door or you know, pried open
- 9:41Speaker 12: a window or maybe entered through a back door, even
- 9:43Speaker 12: if there was a back door, that this may have
- 9:46Speaker 12: been a location of retreat, you know, when people are
- 9:49Speaker 12: being attacked. The moment that I read this and heard it,
- 9:52Speaker 12: you know, the fact that she was in the bathroom.
- 9:55Speaker 12: You know, who feels comfortable with entering the bathroom with
- 9:58Speaker 12: someone else. She's retreated to that point. Maybe she was
- 10:02Speaker 12: forced in there, you know, when you know one of
- 10:04Speaker 12: the things like if you have bad weather, people tell
- 10:06Speaker 12: you to retreat to. The bathroom is generally the most
- 10:08Speaker 12: secure area in the house if you don't have a
- 10:10Speaker 12: basement or something, and it could be an area where
- 10:14Speaker 12: sound is muffled. For instance, because Nancy, when they found her,
- 10:18Speaker 12: her body is bloodsoaked and there are and this is
- 10:22Speaker 12: very key, there are multiple spent shell casings laying about
- 10:27Speaker 12: her body in this approximate area.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace, the so called glam yoga
- 10:52Speaker 1: instructor guilty. According to an Austin, Texas jury. After hearing
- 10:58Speaker 1: the last sounds Morale Mayah ever made screaming before she
- 11:03Speaker 1: was gunned down dead. This according to a neighbor's video cam.
- 11:09Speaker 1: But it wasn't just the screen that they heard. It
- 11:12Speaker 1: was a mountain of evidence that piled up, bit by
- 11:16Speaker 1: bit to convict the so called glam yoga teacher of murder.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Exactly what do we know about what happened the day
- 11:26Speaker 1: of the murder? She's in the bathroom. You think it
- 11:29Speaker 1: was a very good chance she ran to the bathroom.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I agree on multiple spent shell casings around her. That
- 11:37Speaker 1: tells me this is not a pro because you would
- 11:40Speaker 1: take the time to pick them up. Shell Nutt with
- 11:43Speaker 1: me Also James shell Nutt twenty seven years a Metro
- 11:48Speaker 1: major case Also swap now lawyer with the shell Mutt
- 11:52Speaker 1: firm on Twitter at shell nut Law Firm. Right there,
- 11:59Speaker 1: we know it's someone that's not a pro because the
- 12:01Speaker 1: pro after the killing would pick up the shell casings
- 12:05Speaker 1: because they, just like a bullet, can be matched back
- 12:10Speaker 1: like a fingerprint to the weapon. Because once you get,
- 12:14Speaker 1: if you ever get the murder weapon, when the shell
- 12:19Speaker 1: comes out, there is an ejector mark the shell, although
- 12:25Speaker 1: it may not hurl down the barrel is ejected.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Think of an ejection seat in a plane.
- 12:33Speaker 1: The shell is ejected out and the force of leaving
- 12:39Speaker 1: the weapon leaves a mark on the shell, unlike any
- 12:44Speaker 1: other marking from any other gun on a shell.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Agree, disagree, shell not agree, one.
- 12:53Speaker 10: Hundred And what that allows you to do is to
- 12:55Speaker 10: go back and do further investigation to see if a
- 12:59Speaker 10: person that you suspect being involved in a crime had
- 13:02Speaker 10: access to a weapon that would leave that type of
- 13:05Speaker 10: strike mark on the showcase.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Expect to you, Tony Plhetski, Where was she staying? Whose apartment?
- 13:12Speaker 3: Was this?
- 13:13Speaker 8: A friend, a longtime friend who does live in Austin,
- 13:16Speaker 8: And that friend had actually picked her up at the
- 13:19Speaker 8: airport and given her a special code, an access code
- 13:24Speaker 8: to her apartment so that she could go and come
- 13:27Speaker 8: as she pleased. And so that's what Mariah Wilson had done.
- 13:31Speaker 8: I mean, there are other things that she had been
- 13:34Speaker 8: doing out on the town while she had been here
- 13:36Speaker 8: just a couple of days actually, by the time that
- 13:39Speaker 8: she had been been found.
- 13:40Speaker 1: In just a couple of days in Austin. And now
- 13:43Speaker 1: she's dead. With me, Tony Plahetski is joining as Tony
- 13:47Speaker 1: with the Austin American Statesman. I'm glad you mentioned that code,
- 13:51Speaker 1: that special access code. Take a listen to hour cut
- 13:54Speaker 1: seventeen our friends at crime online dot com.
- 13:57Speaker 13: At first, suspecting a robbery, police and can check the home.
- 14:01Speaker 13: The only thing missing was Anna Wilson's specialized s Works bicycle.
- 14:05Speaker 13: As officers checked the area, Wilson's bicycle was found around
- 14:09Speaker 13: sixty eight feet south of Cash's home, hidden in thick bamboo.
- 14:14Speaker 13: The investigation quickly turned from interrupted robbery to homicide as
- 14:18Speaker 13: Cash explained that she has specialized electronic locks on her
- 14:22Speaker 13: door that unlocked by using a unique code. Cash It
- 14:26Speaker 13: provided Wilson with a new code, with Cash getting a
- 14:29Speaker 13: phone notification when the door is either locked or unlocked.
- 14:33Speaker 13: At eight thirty six pm, Wilson came home.
- 14:36Speaker 1: You know that's very very interesting. Let me go to
- 14:40Speaker 1: another special guest joining us. It is Runya Mancarius, CEO
- 14:46Speaker 1: Crime Stoppers of Houston, author of the online world what
- 14:50Speaker 1: You Think you Know and What You Don't. You can
- 14:54Speaker 1: find her at Ranyamancarius dot com.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Runya, thank you for being with us.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Thanks so very much and for all of your hard
- 15:01Speaker 1: work with crime starers of Houston run you.
- 15:05Speaker 3: When I was writing Don't Be a.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Victim, I researched about how you, of course should always
- 15:14Speaker 1: change your code on everything you've got, your iPad, your
- 15:18Speaker 1: cell phone, you're recording, your home answering machine, if you
- 15:21Speaker 1: have one, your code in and out of your home,
- 15:25Speaker 1: your gatecode, everything. Don't leave it on factory set because
- 15:32Speaker 1: you can look that up online, and predators do look
- 15:36Speaker 1: it up online to find out what the factory setting is.
- 15:38Speaker 1: And most of the world, believe it or not, that
- 15:41Speaker 1: has a code. If any type puts in one two
- 15:43Speaker 1: three four or one one one one or two two
- 15:45Speaker 1: two two, it's very very simple to crack that code.
- 15:49Speaker 1: That's when I learned researching for Don't Be a Victim,
- 15:52Speaker 1: that you can have your code to get into your
- 15:55Speaker 1: apartment like this friend had, and then you can give
- 15:59Speaker 1: visitors their own code so you don't have to ex
- 16:03Speaker 1: out your code every time you have a visitor and
- 16:05Speaker 1: they leave and come up with a new one, which
- 16:08Speaker 1: I think is really really smart. When you have visitors,
- 16:13Speaker 1: you assign them a different code that works with your system.
- 16:17Speaker 3: That sounds like what happened here.
- 16:19Speaker 14: Ronya, Yeah, and I agreed, And that sounds like what
- 16:22Speaker 14: Caitlin Cash did. She assigned Mariah her own unique code
- 16:26Speaker 14: and has since said that she's erased that code and
- 16:29Speaker 14: has changed her code. But she was doing everything she
- 16:33Speaker 14: could to keep herself safe and to keep her guests faith.
- 16:36Speaker 14: But that move, that very smart move, really is helping
- 16:41Speaker 14: law enforcement in this case. And it's something we advise
- 16:45Speaker 14: all people to do, is we embrace technology, and we
- 16:48Speaker 14: look to have smart homes and smart technology in our homes.
- 16:51Speaker 14: We want people to utilize this in a way that
- 16:54Speaker 14: keeps them safe.
- 16:55Speaker 3: So let's get right down to it. To dactor Sherry
- 16:57Speaker 3: Schwartz joining me.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Forensic psychologist specializing in capital mitigation. She's the author of
- 17:05Speaker 1: Criminal Behavior and Where a Lawn Psychology Intersect. Doctor Sherry Schwartz,
- 17:09Speaker 1: thank you for joining us from Miami Beach today, Doctor Sherry.
- 17:13Speaker 3: That's when you feel at home.
- 17:15Speaker 1: You feel at home when you go into a secure
- 17:18Speaker 1: apartment that you can only get in with a special
- 17:20Speaker 1: code devised for you. Why am I saying this? Who
- 17:25Speaker 1: would have had that code? Who could have figured out
- 17:28Speaker 1: that code? Or could the perp have somehow gotten in
- 17:33Speaker 1: behind her? Did she not lock the door when she
- 17:36Speaker 1: went in, and following up on what Joe Scott Morgan
- 17:39Speaker 1: said that it seems as if the victim, this world class,
- 17:42Speaker 1: gorgeous twenty five year old cyclist, had retreated to the bathroom,
- 17:47Speaker 1: or maybe she was just in the bathroom. But I
- 17:49Speaker 1: know where defenses were down, doctor Sherry. She thought she
- 17:52Speaker 1: was safe, correct.
- 17:53Speaker 14: She walked through the door.
- 17:55Speaker 15: I mean, maybe she did forget to lock it or
- 17:58Speaker 15: didn't maybe thought it was locked. It's a new environment
- 18:01Speaker 15: for her. She's a guest at this location, so maybe
- 18:03Speaker 15: she didn't think about how to lock the door, maybe
- 18:07Speaker 15: thought it locked automatically behind her. But you're right, she
- 18:10Speaker 15: probably felt very safe and secure and headed to use
- 18:15Speaker 15: the restroom like many of us do when we first
- 18:18Speaker 15: get home.
- 18:19Speaker 8: So this is nothing unusual. And if I.
- 18:22Speaker 15: Feel safe and secure in a location, I'm not necessarily
- 18:25Speaker 15: going to be hyper vigilant looking for someone, especially if
- 18:28Speaker 15: I'm at home looking for someone who's going to be
- 18:31Speaker 15: coming in behind me.
- 18:32Speaker 3: You know, it was interesting.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Tony Polhetski joining me from the Austin American Statesman. Tony,
- 18:38Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like there was a struggle. I wonder
- 18:41Speaker 1: if the person had secret to themselves in the home,
- 18:44Speaker 1: if they followed in behind her, if she didn't lock
- 18:46Speaker 1: the door.
- 18:47Speaker 3: If she didn't use the code.
- 18:48Speaker 1: But I don't hear anything about a struggle, ensuing any
- 18:53Speaker 1: evidence of a struggle.
- 18:54Speaker 3: It sounds like Mariah. It was just shot, stone cold dead.
- 18:58Speaker 8: That's exactly right, in a pool of blood on the floor.
- 19:03Speaker 8: And so that is how her friend Caitlyn found her,
- 19:07Speaker 8: and that is how the police found her when they arrived.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Guys, take a listen to our cut sixteen, because I'm
- 19:15Speaker 1: trying to figure out what happened. Where was this friend
- 19:19Speaker 1: whose apartment she was using, staying there with the friend
- 19:23Speaker 1: who was it? And what happened in the hours leading
- 19:27Speaker 1: up to this world class cyclist murder.
- 19:30Speaker 13: Friend Caitlyn Cash picked up Wilson at the airport. Wilson
- 19:34Speaker 13: was to stay at Cash's home until the race. The
- 19:37Speaker 13: next day, Cash received a text from Wilson saying that
- 19:40Speaker 13: she was meeting a friend named Colin to go swimming
- 19:43Speaker 13: that afternoon. Around five point thirty, as Cash left to
- 19:45Speaker 13: go meet friends for dinner, she noticed Wilson's large bicycle
- 19:49Speaker 13: travel bag outside the front door on the elevated port.
- 19:53Speaker 13: Cash says she told Wilson to move the bag inside
- 19:56Speaker 13: so it wouldn't be stolen, but when Cash came home
- 19:59Speaker 13: from dinner, large bicycle travel bag was at the bottom
- 20:02Speaker 13: of the stairs, partially blocking the carport. As she went inside,
- 20:06Speaker 13: the front door was unlocked and Wilson was lying on
- 20:09Speaker 13: the bathroom floor covered in blood.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Kayler Armstrong guilty of murder. A beautiful young woman herself
- 20:18Speaker 1: that conserned with jealousy over her boyfriend Colin Strickland's relationship
- 20:23Speaker 1: with an ex girlfriend. A renowned, a world renown dirt bicyclist. Guys,
- 20:31Speaker 1: take a listen now we finally get a tiny break
- 20:35Speaker 1: in the case.
- 20:35Speaker 3: Our cut eighteen from Crime Online.
- 20:38Speaker 13: Detectives turned to video as they discover a surveillance camera
- 20:41Speaker 13: mounted on the exterior of a home nearby. The camera
- 20:45Speaker 13: face the driveway next to Cash's home. The footage showed
- 20:49Speaker 13: a dark colored suv drive past at eight thirty seven pm,
- 20:54Speaker 13: that's one minute after Wilson entered Cash's home. The suv
- 20:58Speaker 13: slowed down, appearing to come to was stomp directly next
- 21:01Speaker 13: to Cash's residence. The suv had a large bicycle rack
- 21:05Speaker 13: mounted on the trailer hitch of the vehicle. A luggage
- 21:08Speaker 13: rack mounted on the roof and chrome around the windows.
- 21:11Speaker 13: No other vehicles were seen on video surveillance until emergency
- 21:15Speaker 13: vehicles arrived.
- 21:17Speaker 1: Okay, what did we ever do, James shell Knott before
- 21:21Speaker 1: video surveillance, ring doorbells, the works. So tell me the
- 21:27Speaker 1: significance because in my mind it's going to be tough
- 21:31Speaker 1: to explain that this black suv was on the scene
- 21:36Speaker 1: one minute before.
- 21:38Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's pretty significant information. I mean, now
- 21:41Speaker 10: you've got a potential suspect vehicle identified, and if you
- 21:45Speaker 10: can tie that to someone who may have a reason
- 21:49Speaker 10: to have hurt mode, then at that point you've got
- 21:52Speaker 10: something you're going to want to go back and look
- 21:54Speaker 10: and say, Okay, what are the usual suspects? You know,
- 21:57Speaker 10: the usual suspects promotive in murder cases when you don't
- 22:00Speaker 10: know who did it, you're always going to want to
- 22:02Speaker 10: look at money, sex and revenge, and can you tie
- 22:04Speaker 10: that vehicle to someone who would have had one of
- 22:07Speaker 10: those motives?
- 22:07Speaker 1: You know, I'm curious to Ronya man carry is joining
- 22:11Speaker 1: me with Crime Stoppers of Houston and author the art
- 22:16Speaker 1: of identifying a vehicle is very, very sophisticated.
- 22:21Speaker 3: Every year to two years.
- 22:25Speaker 1: Car manufacturers change subtle portions of the make and model.
- 22:32Speaker 1: For instance, they may change the tail light, they may
- 22:36Speaker 1: turn it from two tail light pains to three, or
- 22:42Speaker 1: they may slant it, or they may change something about
- 22:47Speaker 1: the bumper or the wheels. I mean it changes every
- 22:52Speaker 1: couple of years. They don't keep the same exact model
- 22:59Speaker 1: for a reason. So there are people and car car theft,
- 23:05Speaker 1: stolen cars.
- 23:07Speaker 3: Just like there's a homicide squad, there's theft squad.
- 23:10Speaker 1: There's a burglary squad, there is crimes on children, a
- 23:14Speaker 1: crime on women's squad, there's a white collar crime squad.
- 23:18Speaker 1: So these guys and women in car theft, they know
- 23:25Speaker 1: all of this. And if they can get a look
- 23:28Speaker 1: at the make and model, they can tell you the year.
- 23:33Speaker 1: If they can even get a partial tag, they can
- 23:37Speaker 1: find out who that belongs to fairly quickly.
- 23:40Speaker 3: Would you agree, run ya absolutely?
- 23:43Speaker 14: I agree, And then let's just see we kind of
- 23:45Speaker 14: brushed over the fact that a local camera on an
- 23:49Speaker 14: exterior of a neighbor's building really.
- 23:51Speaker 3: Costs the video.
- 23:52Speaker 14: That's critical because to your point, cars are changing constantly.
- 23:56Speaker 14: People you have eyewitnesses to the scene that will be
- 23:59Speaker 14: able to say I think of the black people. I
- 24:00Speaker 14: think it was a jeep that I'm not sure, but
- 24:02Speaker 14: that video surveillance, even if it's just the tail light,
- 24:06Speaker 14: gives law enforcement so much information, including potentially the tag,
- 24:11Speaker 14: and that's what we had in this case, and that
- 24:13Speaker 14: was what was absolutely critical in identifying the.
- 24:16Speaker 3: Suspect moving forward.
- 24:18Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut eleven our friends at CBS.
- 24:22Speaker 16: She was lasting a live on Sir Vellance video being
- 24:25Speaker 16: dropped off at the home by a local professional cyclist,
- 24:28Speaker 16: Colin Strickland, who never went inside. APD says during the
- 24:31Speaker 16: investigations or villains video showed a black, deep grand Cherokee
- 24:35Speaker 16: drove past the house just one minute after Wilson went inside.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Okay, right there, we're getting somebody else ruled out. We
- 24:42Speaker 3: know that she had gone.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Swimming that day, earlier in the day with somebody named
- 24:47Speaker 1: Colin Strickland. But did I hear this correctly, Tony Ploheitski
- 24:51Speaker 1: that the surveillance video shows Strickland bringing her home, never
- 24:57Speaker 1: going in and leaving. Correct, That is exact right, And
- 25:00Speaker 1: Strickland was not driving a black suv.
- 25:03Speaker 8: He was not. He was, as a matter of fact,
- 25:05Speaker 8: on his motorcycle.
- 25:06Speaker 3: Oh Okay, well that clears that up.
- 25:09Speaker 1: So who is in the black suv? Take a listen
- 25:14Speaker 1: to our cut nine our friends at Fox seven.
- 25:17Speaker 17: Armstrong's car was seen on surveillance video at Wilson's friends home.
- 25:21Speaker 17: Wilson's friend later came home to find Wilson with multiple
- 25:24Speaker 17: gunshot wounds. We went to the home where the crime
- 25:27Speaker 17: happened and the address listed for Armstrong and Strickland. No response.
- 25:33Speaker 17: We tried calling Strickland as well.
- 25:36Speaker 6: Sorry, the person we were trying to reach has a
- 25:38Speaker 6: blue sail box but has not been sent up yet.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Okay, so we've rolled out Colin Strickland, who dropped off
- 25:43Speaker 1: on a motorcycle?
- 25:44Speaker 3: Who Tony Plahatski is Armstrong.
- 25:47Speaker 8: Armstrong is Colin Strickland's girlfriend of three years, and they
- 25:51Speaker 8: lived together here in Austin and actually operate a business
- 25:56Speaker 8: together in the Austin area.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Caitlin Marie Armstrong, age thirty four, is the living girlfriend
- 26:06Speaker 1: of Colin Strickland. Colin Strickland is who Mariah went swimming with.
- 26:11Speaker 8: That's exactly right. Mariah and Colin Strickland had gone to
- 26:16Speaker 8: a well known pool community pool here in Austin called
- 26:20Speaker 8: d Betty and went swimming together and then picked up
- 26:24Speaker 8: a couple of burgers at a nearby popular spot, and
- 26:28Speaker 8: then as we know, he dropped her off back at
- 26:31Speaker 8: the apartment on her motorflight.
- 26:33Speaker 3: Take a listen to our cut ten Angela Shan Fox seven.
- 26:36Speaker 17: The search is on for Kaitlin Armstrong. Officials are asking
- 26:39Speaker 17: for the public's help and finding her. According to the
- 26:42Speaker 17: Core of Paperwork, an anonymous caller had called police seeing
- 26:46Speaker 17: Armstrong said she wanted to kill Wilson after finding out
- 26:49Speaker 17: she was involved with her boyfriend. Now The affidavit says
- 26:52Speaker 17: the knight of the murder, Wilson went for a swim
- 26:55Speaker 17: with Colin Strickland, another cyclist. After that he dropped her
- 26:58Speaker 17: off at her friend's house. Wilson was visiting from California
- 27:02Speaker 17: and was in Austin ahead of a race in Hiko.
- 27:05Speaker 17: The PaperWorks as Strickland and Caitlyn Armstrong were in a
- 27:08Speaker 17: relationship before briefly ending it for a couple of weeks
- 27:11Speaker 17: last year. At that time he was involved with Wilson.
- 27:14Speaker 17: Armstrong's car was seen on surveillance video at Wilson's friend's home.
- 27:19Speaker 1: I understand Mariah was not in a love relationship as
- 27:24Speaker 1: sex relationship with Colin Strickland.
- 27:29Speaker 3: Explain this love triangle.
- 27:30Speaker 8: So Mariah and Colin Strickland did have a relationship months
- 27:37Speaker 8: ago while he was apparently broken up with Kristin Armstrong.
- 27:43Speaker 8: That is what he tells the police. They that they
- 27:46Speaker 8: had to.
- 27:46Speaker 3: Slow down and tell me the dates and everything else.
- 27:49Speaker 3: You know.
- 27:50Speaker 2: It was last fall in October when Colin reports almost
- 27:55Speaker 2: a year ago when when Colin reports that he and
- 27:59Speaker 2: arms Strong or broken up and that he did have
- 28:03Speaker 2: a brief relationship with Mariah Wilson. However, since that time,
- 28:10Speaker 2: according to him and what he told police is that
- 28:14Speaker 2: they had been friends.
- 28:16Speaker 3: Can you say relationship?
- 28:17Speaker 1: Are you talking about a love relationship, a sex relationship?
- 28:22Speaker 8: It was made, from my understanding, a romantic relationship. I
- 28:26Speaker 8: mean that that is the way that it has been described.
- 28:29Speaker 3: Okay, So let me understand this.
- 28:31Speaker 1: About a year ago, when Colin Strickland was broken up
- 28:35Speaker 1: with Caitlin Armstrong, he had a love relationship with Mariah Wilson,
- 28:42Speaker 1: the cycling star.
- 28:44Speaker 3: Right, that's right, and then.
- 28:46Speaker 1: They called it off and he got back with Kaitlin Armstrong.
- 28:50Speaker 3: Is that right?
- 28:50Speaker 8: That is correct?
- 28:52Speaker 3: Okay, go from there, and so over.
- 28:56Speaker 8: Time over the past several months, Mariah and Strickland did
- 29:01Speaker 8: maintain contact and apparently their relationship transitioned more into platonic,
- 29:09Speaker 8: more into friendship. But at the same time, Caitlin Armstrong
- 29:15Speaker 8: discovered this relationship and was able to learn more vote
- 29:23Speaker 8: from Hollin Strickland himself and also apparently looking at a
- 29:28Speaker 8: cell phone, learned more about his ongoing friendship with Mariah
- 29:35Speaker 8: Wilson and did not like it. And so that that
- 29:40Speaker 8: is what he told police as part of a very
- 29:43Speaker 8: lengthy interview.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Okay, wait, even though they were platonic, she still didn't
- 29:47Speaker 1: like it.
- 29:48Speaker 8: That's exactly. That exactly is the understanding.
- 30:05Speaker 3: Crime stories.
- 30:06Speaker 1: With Nancy Grace Moe Wilson in town for a competition,
- 30:12Speaker 1: she never made it back home, all thanks to the
- 30:16Speaker 1: jealous yoga guru Caitlyn Armstrong. Run Ya Man carry us
- 30:23Speaker 1: joining us from Crime Stoppers Houston. I would get all
- 30:28Speaker 1: of Caitlyn Armstrong aged thirty four cell phone records and
- 30:33Speaker 1: if she's got a landline, and I would find out
- 30:35Speaker 1: how many times she had been checking her boyfriend's messages
- 30:42Speaker 1: and cell phone messages. I would want to find out
- 30:45Speaker 1: how she hacked into his email. Everything I could prove
- 30:51Speaker 1: digitally to see how long she had been doing a
- 30:54Speaker 1: slow burn over her boyfriend Colin Strickland's relationship now platon
- 31:00Speaker 1: Nick with Mariah the cyclist Star.
- 31:02Speaker 14: Well, it looks like that's what they've been doing, and
- 31:05Speaker 14: they've uncovered that Colin and Mariah had been exchanging text
- 31:09Speaker 14: and phone calls, although he changed Mariah's name on his
- 31:13Speaker 14: phone to not infuriate his girlfriend, but she discovered it
- 31:19Speaker 14: and she started calling Mariah incessantly. Mariah blocked the number,
- 31:24Speaker 14: started following her on Instagram and and following her on
- 31:28Speaker 14: what we understand to be Strava, a fitness app, to
- 31:32Speaker 14: determine her whereabouts, so we can see Caitlin's actions.
- 31:36Speaker 3: That's going, Oh, white, white, white, white white. What did
- 31:39Speaker 3: you say about an app?
- 31:40Speaker 14: It's called Strava or Strava, and it basically allows a
- 31:44Speaker 14: cyclist to check in and show his or her followers,
- 31:48Speaker 14: you know, the point of departure for a bike ride,
- 31:51Speaker 14: and then the point of return.
- 31:53Speaker 8: And apparently, uh.
- 31:55Speaker 14: You know, Wilson had had pinged her location to the
- 31:59Speaker 14: home of Caitlin Cash as a start of the bike
- 32:03Speaker 14: ride and as a point of where she returned. And
- 32:05Speaker 14: that's where we believe our learned.
- 32:09Speaker 1: Of Wilson's whereabout, so she would like chart her her
- 32:14Speaker 1: bike courses online so her followers can know where she
- 32:18Speaker 1: was riding.
- 32:19Speaker 14: And it's very common, you know, given technology today, a
- 32:23Speaker 14: lot of us live our daily lives, sharing our exact
- 32:26Speaker 14: whereabouts in real time with this community and network of
- 32:30Speaker 14: people who follow us. That's a big thing that I
- 32:33Speaker 14: talk about in terms of how dangerous that really is
- 32:36Speaker 14: and really can.
- 32:37Speaker 3: Be so dangerous. A ridiculous love triangle.
- 32:40Speaker 8: Absolutely, and that is one of the things that so
- 32:45Speaker 8: many people have commented upon. I mean, when you look
- 32:47Speaker 8: at Armstrong, it is her public image and even her
- 32:54Speaker 8: image among people who knew her fans and start contrast
- 32:59Speaker 8: to what she is now accused of doing. She is
- 33:03Speaker 8: described as successful, accomplished in her own right in the
- 33:08Speaker 8: world of business. She was a yoga instructor for several
- 33:11Speaker 8: years in Bali, and so.
- 33:13Speaker 1: People you mean Caitlyn Armstrong, and so people are so
- 33:18Speaker 1: she was a yogi she was, and Bali.
- 33:21Speaker 8: No less, and so people are trying to reconcile that
- 33:26Speaker 8: image of her based on what police are saying she did.
- 33:30Speaker 1: I'm looking at the video and there's no doubt about it.
- 33:33Speaker 1: You see Armstrong's black suv going back and forth. It's
- 33:39Speaker 1: a jeep Cherokee driving around outside the home.
- 33:44Speaker 3: She's just circling it like a vulture.
- 33:47Speaker 1: The cars again spotted that night after the I guess
- 33:52Speaker 1: the love object, Collin Strickland drops off the victim. Twenty
- 33:57Speaker 1: five year old marine Wilson and his yogi girlfriend just
- 34:03Speaker 1: cut and stand at yoga teacher Caitlyn Armstrong, Joe Scott Morgan.
- 34:07Speaker 1: How are they processing the scene? How are we going
- 34:09Speaker 1: to prove that it is in fact the yoga loving
- 34:13Speaker 1: girlfriend Caitlyn Armstrong.
- 34:15Speaker 12: Well, I'm glad you asked that question because Austin Austin
- 34:18Speaker 12: PD actually served a warrant. Let's go back to where
- 34:21Speaker 12: she was domiciled with Strickland, and this is what they
- 34:24Speaker 12: found out. They actually recovered two pistols at that scene,
- 34:30Speaker 12: one in which was a six hour nine millimeter. Guess
- 34:33Speaker 12: who had access to it? Only Armstrong, that's it. And
- 34:37Speaker 12: guess what else they did. They took this weapon and
- 34:40Speaker 12: they test fired it, and when they test fired it,
- 34:42Speaker 12: it came back. There is a high probability that those
- 34:45Speaker 12: ejected shells that they found at the scene match this
- 34:49Speaker 12: particular weapon.
- 34:50Speaker 1: And I can tell you another thing is this Nobody
- 34:52Speaker 1: asked if your a boyfriend or a husband is hiding
- 34:55Speaker 1: somebody's name and their cell phone out.
- 35:00Speaker 3: There's a reason he's hiding it. There is a reason.
- 35:03Speaker 3: I've checked my husband's.
- 35:04Speaker 1: Cell phone so many times my eyes bled. It was
- 35:06Speaker 1: so boring I quit. Also, he lied, didn't he lie?
- 35:13Speaker 1: Tony plattsk caive out where he was going that day?
- 35:15Speaker 1: He's going to a big municipal pool. Anybody can see
- 35:18Speaker 1: them the deep Eddy.
- 35:20Speaker 3: It's not like a watering hole.
- 35:22Speaker 1: It's a big municipal pool. Anybody could see him there.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Why did he have to lie about it, Tony?
- 35:27Speaker 3: Or did he?
- 35:27Speaker 8: Well? He lied? According to his text messages to Armstrong,
- 35:31Speaker 8: he lied to her about where he was. He described
- 35:36Speaker 8: his battery dying, that he had delivered flowers to someone
- 35:40Speaker 8: and then his ohone battery died.
- 35:41Speaker 1: A jury finds Caitlin Armstrong, the Yogi, the Texas Yogi,
- 35:47Speaker 1: guilty of murder. Exactly what is the evidence that led
- 35:52Speaker 1: to her conviction? Take a listen to the prosecutor.
- 35:56Speaker 3: She stood over her.
- 35:58Speaker 18: She shot her in the head twice and put another
- 36:01Speaker 18: bullet right in her heart. You heard doctor DERUSI to
- 36:06Speaker 18: Emmy that third bullet was right in her heart.
- 36:11Speaker 4: I submit to you.
- 36:13Speaker 18: She was up against the floor, two to the head
- 36:17Speaker 18: and she was laying on the floor, probably already dead,
- 36:20Speaker 18: and for good measure, the defendant walked up to her
- 36:24Speaker 18: and put another bullet right in her heart.
- 36:27Speaker 4: Why I'm said, she's a friend. What I'm said, she's
- 36:28Speaker 4: the best friend.
- 36:30Speaker 18: She told Jacqueline Chastein about the gun a month of
- 36:34Speaker 18: his after it was purchased. And we know Caitlyn called
- 36:37Speaker 18: Moe Wilson to come from her about Kate.
- 36:41Speaker 19: We know that from the cell phone records, and we
- 36:45Speaker 19: don't know exactly what she said, so I'm not gonna
- 36:48Speaker 19: put that out there, but we know she called her,
- 36:51Speaker 19: and we know Colin text her and said WTF and
- 36:55Speaker 19: we all know what that means.
- 36:57Speaker 4: And what's even more chilling.
- 37:01Speaker 18: Is that when the defender's two best friend heard that
- 37:04Speaker 18: Moe Wilson was dead, they called the police unsolicited and
- 37:11Speaker 18: they said, better check her out.
- 37:15Speaker 4: Caitlyn Cash over them on the front row.
- 37:17Speaker 18: When I talked to her, call me cash.
- 37:23Speaker 4: Caitlyn killed my friend. That's why we call a cash.
- 37:28Speaker 18: Kaitlyn with a secret, poor things, don't even.
- 37:32Speaker 4: Like her own name anymore.
- 37:34Speaker 18: She pumped her friend's heart over one hundred times. You
- 37:39Speaker 18: heard it on the nine one one call for ten
- 37:43Speaker 18: minutes until the first responders got there, not knowing she's
- 37:48Speaker 18: probably been dead for forty five minutes. Then she runs
- 37:51Speaker 18: the Costa Rica have plastic surgery on the beach, teaching
- 37:56Speaker 18: yoga while the Wilsons are trying to pick up the pieces.
- 38:00Speaker 4: The state has met this burden of proof beyond a
- 38:04Speaker 4: reasonable doubt.
- 38:05Speaker 18: I think we climbed past her mountain and climb Mount Everest.
- 38:08Speaker 3: Now this is what the defense had to say.
- 38:11Speaker 5: So what is the evidence that Kitlyn Armstrong is a
- 38:15Speaker 5: jealous psycho? Colin was not honest with Caitlin about his
- 38:22Speaker 5: special friend in Colorado, and Caitlin allegedly sent him a
- 38:27Speaker 5: photograph of that friend, the implication being number one, perhaps
- 38:33Speaker 5: she had been looking at his phone, and number two,
- 38:36Speaker 5: that she's crazy and jealous because when he was seeking
- 38:40Speaker 5: off to Colorado to meet up with the person sending
- 38:43Speaker 5: him inappropriate photographs, she had the temerity to not like it.
- 38:50Speaker 5: Colin said, I saw her get out of the Black Chief.
- 38:57Speaker 5: But that's not what he said the first time. He
- 39:02Speaker 5: testified in front of you a few weeks ago. It
- 39:05Speaker 5: was a Friday.
- 39:06Speaker 20: He said that, That's why I believe he was real hesitanting,
- 39:09Speaker 20: He wasn't rock solid. How amazing that the one fact
- 39:15Speaker 20: that he seemed to remember with greater clarity over time
- 39:19Speaker 20: was the single fact that drew attention away from him
- 39:23Speaker 20: and pointed the finger at Caitlyn Armstrong.
- 39:27Speaker 5: Coasta refa, what are you an idiot?
- 39:30Speaker 3: Come on?
- 39:30Speaker 18: She ran?
- 39:32Speaker 10: She ran?
- 39:33Speaker 5: Only a guilty person would run. Are you a fool?
- 39:36Speaker 2: Rick Koefer?
- 39:38Speaker 5: And yet you heard testimony that Caitlin was told by
- 39:42Speaker 5: the Austin Police Department free to go, ma'am.
- 39:46Speaker 20: And when she went to New York.
- 39:48Speaker 21: Free as a bird, just like any of the fourteen
- 39:51Speaker 21: of you. There was no way in the world that
- 39:55Speaker 21: Caitlyn Armstrong could have had any awareness or knowledge in
- 40:00Speaker 21: any way whatsoever that there was a warrant for her arrest.
- 40:04Speaker 3: A couple of weeks ago. She ran away.
- 40:06Speaker 5: They took her to a medical appointment and she ran away.
- 40:09Speaker 10: Guilty.
- 40:09Speaker 5: Why are we even here? Terrified woman, fearful woman in jail,
- 40:20Speaker 5: views injured, someone who doesn't want what they do?
- 40:27Speaker 19: Has been no testimony about the things he's talking about now,
- 40:29Speaker 19: I'm moving on and has anybody who wants to, but
- 40:31Speaker 19: he can't try to add whoever it is.
- 40:33Speaker 1: I know there's a verdict, and I know that many people,
- 40:37Speaker 1: including myself, believe this is justice. But as a crime
- 40:40Speaker 1: victim myself, I know there's no such thing as closure
- 40:45Speaker 1: for Mariah's parents and there never will be. Our prayers
- 40:50Speaker 1: with Mariah's family. Goodbye friend,