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GLAM YOGA TEACHER WANTED FOR 'LOVE-MURDER' BUSTED IN COSTA RICA · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace cutting and dying her hair,
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Speaker 1: having plastic surgery to alter her nose, using a fake id,
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Speaker 1: living and a hostel up in a tree in Costa Rica.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like a lot to allude authorities, but it wasn't enough.
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Speaker 1: Glam yoga and schroer Taitlin Armstrong arrested. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: see Grace. This is crime Stories. Thank you for being
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Speaker 1: with us here at Fox Nation and Serious m eleven.
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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to our friends at
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Speaker 1: Fox seven A first look and accused murderer Caitlin Armstrong
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Speaker 1: and custody in Costa Rica after more than a month
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Speaker 1: on the run. Her long golden hair now shoulder length,
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Speaker 1: and she also died her hair to a darker brown color.
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Speaker 1: Early in the case, Fox reported a Utah based investigator
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Speaker 1: was looking at the possibility Armstrong was using the identity
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Speaker 1: of her brunette, New York based sister. Thirty four year
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Speaker 1: old Armstrong flew into New York on May fourteenth, two
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Speaker 1: days after being questioned about the murder of her romantic rival,
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Speaker 1: professional cyclist Anna Mariah Wilson. Armstrong flew to Costa Rica
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Speaker 1: from New Jersey four days after she landed in New
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Speaker 1: York using a fraudulent passport. Around that same time, Fox
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Speaker 1: reported her sister registered for a New York State driver's license.
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Speaker 1: At this time, Marshals are not confirming that Armstrong used
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Speaker 1: her sister's identity, only telling Fox seven Austin that fraudulent
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Speaker 1: passport was very particular her as far as physical descriptions
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Speaker 1: that very closely matched. I mean, a total maker ever
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Speaker 1: to make herself look more like her sister. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they can say what they want. Did I listen to them?
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Speaker 1: Or believe my own lion eyes? Again, thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nations series X one eleven,
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Speaker 1: with me and I'll star panel to make sense of
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Speaker 1: what we know right now. Matthew Mangino, high profile lawyer
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Speaker 1: and author of Executioner's Told Doctor Angela Arnold, renowned psychiatrists
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Speaker 1: out of the Atlanta Jurisdiction at Angela Arnold MD dot com,
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Speaker 1: Former US Marshals with the Service International Investigations Branch and
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Speaker 1: author of Flying Solo. Professor Forensics, jacksonvill State University, Joe
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Speaker 1: Scott Morgan at First to Crime Online dot com investigative
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Speaker 1: reporter Alexis terres Chuck Alexis Costa Rica, dye her hair,
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Speaker 1: cutting her hair, plastic surgery. I really don't even know
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Speaker 1: where to start, but let's start with where is Santa
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Speaker 1: Teresa in Costa Rica? I mean, is it close to Liberia?
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Speaker 1: Where the airport is? Is a near Tamarindo? Are in
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Speaker 1: all where the volcano is? Where can I find Santa Teresa?
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Speaker 1: It is a beach count It is not you not
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Speaker 1: near and all the volcano which hours away from there,
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Speaker 1: And it is a beach town and it is a
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Speaker 1: very while she was living in a kindy little hostel,
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Speaker 1: which is you know, where students stay, because very inexpensive
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Speaker 1: and you just stay like one or two nights while
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Speaker 1: you're traveling through town. This is also a very fancy
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Speaker 1: resort town because Tom Brady and Jazell Buncheon have a
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Speaker 1: home there and so they vacation there. So this is
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Speaker 1: not a small town that's not on anyone's radars. I
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Speaker 1: knew this somehow, you being in La you would work
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Speaker 1: in some stars. Okay, you know who the star of
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Speaker 1: this story is. Mo Mariah Wilson, a twenty five year
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Speaker 1: old young girl who spent years of hard work, grit, determination,
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Speaker 1: devotion to become one of the top mud and gravel
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Speaker 1: cyclists in the world twenty five years old. You know,
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Speaker 1: twenty five when you think nothing bad can happen to you,
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Speaker 1: when you're invincible, where you're pretty sure if you jumped
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Speaker 1: off the roof you could fly that twenty five. That's
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Speaker 1: the star of this not as even though I love
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Speaker 1: Tom and as you sell, I'm talking about Mariah Wilson
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Speaker 1: and what this cunning yet beautiful which did on impulse
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Speaker 1: to hunt down and murder a defenseless girl. I don't
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Speaker 1: care how glam she is or what yoga class she talked.
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Speaker 1: She can rotten hell as far as I'm concerned. So
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Speaker 1: let's forget about the stars. Alexis terres Chuck, you know,
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Speaker 1: just try to transplant yourself out of la and back
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Speaker 1: in to the regular people world for a minute. So
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Speaker 1: if it's not I get she's near Tom Brady's home.
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Speaker 1: But if Santa Theresa is not near RNL, it's not
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Speaker 1: near Liberia, a city in Costa Rica, it's not near Tamarindo,
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Speaker 1: then where is it. It is on the beach. It
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Speaker 1: is a very small beach town on the coast of
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Speaker 1: Costa Rica. Okay, well, you know, Costa Rica is in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the ocean. So where I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out I have a reason for this. Let me
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Speaker 1: go to a brand with me former US Marshal Service,
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Speaker 1: or I'm trying to figure out what airport in Costa
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Speaker 1: Rica let her slip through their fingers. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: had to get to the airport, right, So did she
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Speaker 1: use the main airport in Liberia, Costa Rica or what? Now?
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Speaker 1: I'm sure she flew into San Jose, Costa Rica then
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Speaker 1: took one of the shuttle buses. Why do you say
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Speaker 1: that the direct flights from the United States almost all
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Speaker 1: of them go directly into San Jose where you're coming
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Speaker 1: from Houston, Dallas. That's interesting because from Atlanta you fly
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Speaker 1: directly into Liberia if you want to. Well, there are
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Speaker 1: there are some, but it's not a lot. You're right,
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Speaker 1: So you say she flew into San Jose Coastrika. That's
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Speaker 1: why I'm asking Elesas to as chuck before I hear
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Speaker 1: any more about Tom Brady's mansion, which we can discuss
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Speaker 1: that another time. But how the heck did she do it?
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm getting at. But you know what alexis,
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Speaker 1: she went to great efforts to change her identification. Right,
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Speaker 1: But you said something really interesting to me, He says,
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Speaker 1: she was staying in a hostel. Tell me a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't know what a hostel is, but that's
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Speaker 1: a great place to hide out. Explain, and this was
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Speaker 1: like a treehouse hostel. It is so the beach town.
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Speaker 1: The hostel is where usually students stay when they travel
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Speaker 1: around the world. They're very inexpensive. It's not a hotel.
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Speaker 1: You don't have usually a private room or even a
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Speaker 1: private bathroom. You have more like a dormitory style room.
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Speaker 1: And you might have like a locker to put your
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Speaker 1: things in, but you certainly couldn't have your own room
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Speaker 1: in a hotel. And the hostel I have like coffee
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Speaker 1: and but nothing else. Is not a fancy hotel. They're
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Speaker 1: not gonna have room service. And if you're staying in
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Speaker 1: a hostel, I and Ie, you definitely wear flip flops
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Speaker 1: in the shower, okay, because it's all communal. And I
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Speaker 1: think in this case was Alexa Trusta. Didn't she share
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Speaker 1: her room with like eight other people in bunk beds.
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Speaker 1: She did, And the people that stayed in the hostel
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Speaker 1: that saw her would observe that she she really didn't
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Speaker 1: have a job when she got there, and so she
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Speaker 1: would go out. She'd leave the hostel late at night.
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Speaker 1: So I was very very very lated night. I wait
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Speaker 1: wait wait, wait, wait, wait, Alexa, slow down, tell me
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Speaker 1: that again. Now she was si people that were in
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Speaker 1: the hostel with her. So she gets to Costa Rica.
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Speaker 1: She stays in this little hostel which is only about
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Speaker 1: fifty dollars a night to so a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: but nothing not a five thousand dollars a night resort.
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Speaker 1: But she would go out late at night. She would
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Speaker 1: leave the hostel every most people don't hang out at
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Speaker 1: the hostel all day. There's not a big fancy swimming
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Speaker 1: pool often, and she would stay out very very very
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Speaker 1: late at night, and then she would come in and
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Speaker 1: she would sleep because she didn't have a job, she
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Speaker 1: didn't have anywhere to be. She wasn't apparently going out
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Speaker 1: and seeing the sights or anything. So she would just
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Speaker 1: sleep super super late in the hostel and then she
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Speaker 1: would wake up. People notice, and then she would just
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Speaker 1: drink a ton of coffee that so they were noticing
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Speaker 1: about her, and she would There were a lot of chairs,
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Speaker 1: you know, pretty view of the area, and she would
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Speaker 1: just sit in the chairs by herself and just drink
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Speaker 1: tons of coffee, and that was sort of her pattern.
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Speaker 1: I thought she got into yoga while she was there.
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Speaker 1: She did like surf yoga. What is that? I mean
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Speaker 1: I had to wrap my head around hot yoga, where
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Speaker 1: you do yoga and like a hundred degree temperatures inside
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Speaker 1: a studio. But that said, surf yoga, what's that? Surf yoga?
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Speaker 1: You surf and then you do you could there's lots
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Speaker 1: of things you can do yoga on the beach. You
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Speaker 1: can surf, and you could even do like paddleboard yoga,
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Speaker 1: which I have seen people do. What's paddleboard yoga? Do
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Speaker 1: you actually do the yoga poses while you're paddleboarding? Yes? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I just try to stay on the board.
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Speaker 1: I mean I'd be holding off for dear life much.
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Speaker 1: Let's trying to do a yoga pose or a downard
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Speaker 1: facing dog or whatever. So surf yoga, I mean, really
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Speaker 1: think about this, or Brandt and doctor Angie Arnold, Matthew Mangina,
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Speaker 1: just gott jump in. This is not High Tea at
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Speaker 1: High Grove. We're not at Bucketingham Palace with the queen,
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Speaker 1: So jump in or Brandt. Really, that would be like
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Speaker 1: me trying to go hide out and prosecuting felonies in
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Speaker 1: Costa Rica. That's not hiding out. She's doing surfing yoga.
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Speaker 1: She's trying to advance her trade. She's gonna start teaching
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Speaker 1: yoga again. It's like taking out a billboard on Third
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Speaker 1: Avenue going hey, here I am, come and get me.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the Marshall Service when they sent the lead
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Speaker 1: down to the Coastrea employees, the first thing they asked
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Speaker 1: was checked every yoga studio in the country. You're right,
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Speaker 1: wasn't very smart. She probably had her yoga map with
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Speaker 1: or wouldn't when she was arrests she did. Did you
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Speaker 1: see her in the airport? She had her yoga mat
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Speaker 1: on her back, carrying her yoga mat. It's like wearing
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Speaker 1: a neon sign saying here I am, I'm a killer.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what is wrong with her, doctor Angela Arnold
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Speaker 1: besides cold blooded killer? But she goes to all these efforts,
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Speaker 1: which I like to ione should jump into in a second,
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Speaker 1: dyeing her hair. She had the band aid on her
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Speaker 1: nose from nose surgery. I think to make herself look
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Speaker 1: more like her sister in that fake passport. But she
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Speaker 1: went to all these efforts to go on her an
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Speaker 1: assumed name and change her looks, but she was still
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Speaker 1: teaching yoga, still doing yoga classes. So Nancy, first of all,
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Speaker 1: we call that a very incongruent behavior. Okay, the one
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Speaker 1: versus the other. Okay, right there, that didn't make sense.
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Speaker 1: We call that, would you conguent? Oh? Okay, Wait, now
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Speaker 1: that I analyze what you're saying, in kongruent means it
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Speaker 1: doesn't fit together. It doesn't. So going through all that
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Speaker 1: effort to change her appearance and then teaching or taking
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Speaker 1: yoga classes to give her away doesn't fit together. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Now I had to think that format so incongruent. And
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Speaker 1: the next thing you were going to say is people
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Speaker 1: don't change their habits, Nancy, So she did. She did.
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Speaker 1: She performed certain things to get herself out of the
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Speaker 1: country and to hide, and then it appears she sort
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Speaker 1: of forgot about that and went right back into her
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Speaker 1: habits of normal life, assuming that people weren't going to
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Speaker 1: weren't going to pick up on the fact that she's
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Speaker 1: this big yoga person. So she only changed her appearance
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Speaker 1: and things like that to get out of the country.
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Speaker 1: Then once she was out of the country, she re
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Speaker 1: did her habits and that was her downfault time stories
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace, you know, Matthew Mangino with me, former prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, when you prosecute case
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Speaker 1: after case after case after case for years, you get
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Speaker 1: the knack of figuring out the criminal mind. Mangino, this woman,
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Speaker 1: she may be glamorous, she may be beautiful, but she
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Speaker 1: is just as evil and just as cunning as every
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Speaker 1: other premeditated killer. I am not swayed by what was
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Speaker 1: once her beautiful appearance, although she's tried to hide it.
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Speaker 1: But one thing you can count on, a criminal cannot
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Speaker 1: change their basic behavior, right And I think that that
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Speaker 1: you know, her can with regard to teaching yoga and stuff,
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Speaker 1: is indicative that this wasn't well planned out. You know,
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Speaker 1: certainly it's premeditated. You know, she went there with a weapon,
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Speaker 1: but she went there in response to her boyfriend having
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Speaker 1: gone swimming with Anna Wilson or Matthew Matthew place, you know,
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Speaker 1: having gone swimming. That may have been all they did
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Speaker 1: at that day, but I guarantee you that's not all
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Speaker 1: that the BF boyfriend had on his mind. Okay, because
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Speaker 1: he went so far as to hide her name under
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Speaker 1: a fake name in his cell phone lie to the
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Speaker 1: yoga instructor at kaitlin I was strong about where he
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Speaker 1: was going. He kept the lie up all day long,
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Speaker 1: even though armist I was falling him around town, watching him.
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Speaker 1: She knew what he was doing and getting us. Let
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Speaker 1: me just say stupid text, Hey, I'm delivering flowers, I'm
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Speaker 1: this and that. Oh it was just this so clichease
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Speaker 1: like back connection. Can't hear you? He's like, oh my battery, Jackie.
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Speaker 1: Didn't he say his battery? What did on a cell phone?
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Speaker 1: I mean really seriously, that's why they have phone chargers
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Speaker 1: for your car. It's just a liar. But she's watching
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Speaker 1: him as he's telling all these lies in his text.
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Speaker 1: That is premeditation. She's talking these two all day long.
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Speaker 1: I guarantee you he had more in his mind than
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Speaker 1: going for a dip in his swimsuit with mo. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that was enough that night to set her off to
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Speaker 1: go there with a gun to shoot her. And now
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Speaker 1: she has to make plans how she's going to conceal
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Speaker 1: what she did or change her. It's like a bad
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Speaker 1: classic film noir. She gets a passport, she she gets
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Speaker 1: plastic surgery. You know, she moves out of the country.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is classic indication of flight and you know,
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Speaker 1: a consciousness of guilt. Man, Yeah, Nancy, you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of dovetailing with Matt here. I got to tell you.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that was very interesting about the
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Speaker 1: scene and what we've heard coming out, is that they
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Speaker 1: apparently recovered a suppressed weapon, which means, you know common
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Speaker 1: parlance people use, you know, they'll say silencer. There is
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Speaker 1: no such thing as a silencer. It's a it's a suppressor,
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Speaker 1: and it's one thing to go out and buy a handgun.
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Speaker 1: But she apparently in her possession, had a handgun that
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Speaker 1: had a threaded external barrel, which means that you would
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Speaker 1: take the suppressor and place it on the end. You
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Speaker 1: have to screw it on right a minute, warp speed.
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Speaker 1: Do you ever watched Star Trek, Because you're talking like
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Speaker 1: cling on right now, You've got to break it down.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean a threaded what? Slow down? Man?
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Speaker 1: You got a thread at external barrel, which means that
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Speaker 1: there's threads on the outside of the barrel. At the
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Speaker 1: tip of it, and the suppressor, which you have to
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Speaker 1: go through all kinds of paperwork to purchase one of
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Speaker 1: these things, has to be screwed on or locked in
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Speaker 1: place on the end of this muzzle. And so what
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Speaker 1: that tells me, if you're looking at this from an
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Speaker 1: investigative standpoint, that not only was she prepared, but she
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Speaker 1: had prepared for some time or they had prepared because
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Speaker 1: these weapons were in the possession of their home. You know,
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Speaker 1: they were found there was evidence of the weapons in
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Speaker 1: the home that she felt the need that she needed
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Speaker 1: a suppressed weapon. Why why do you need a suppressed
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Speaker 1: weapon exactly? Why? I mean, I'm calling it a silencer
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Speaker 1: because that's the common vernacular to describe it. When you
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Speaker 1: say it's not a silencer, you're right. It still makes
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Speaker 1: a sound, but nothing compared to what it would make
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Speaker 1: if you did not have, as you say, a suppressor
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Speaker 1: on it. I'm just curious where did they find the
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Speaker 1: suppressor still attached to the gun or did they find
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Speaker 1: the gun with the threading on it minus the suppressor.
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Speaker 1: That's a great question because they haven't really released a lot.
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Speaker 1: You know, there was like whoa Jackie shaking her head
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Speaker 1: but they have not released any information on that they
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Speaker 1: could find a gun alone at the home. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: no suppressor, no silencer that we know of yet. So
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Speaker 1: why are you are you saying that, to your knowledge,
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Speaker 1: the gun was tricked out to facilitate a silencer. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's precisely what I'm saying. And they had alluded to
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Speaker 1: this in one of their previoit reports. How do you
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Speaker 1: know that, jo Scott? How do I know what that
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Speaker 1: the gun was tricked out for a silencer? Hello? How
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Speaker 1: do you know that? They stated in earlier reports that
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Speaker 1: a suppressed weapon was at her disposal. You're right, they
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Speaker 1: sure did, Joe Scott. You're right. You just don't go
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Speaker 1: out and buy a so called sub you know, if
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Speaker 1: you want to call it a silencer and screw it
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Speaker 1: onto a weapon, that's not how this works. You have
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Speaker 1: to have a weapon that will actually marry up with
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Speaker 1: a suppressor. I don't want to go too deep into it,
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Speaker 1: but it's like when people check out a car, you
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Speaker 1: can check out a gun. You can solve the barrel.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can make a soot off shotgun. You
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Speaker 1: can just all kind of things you can do to
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Speaker 1: a gun. But very simply put, Joe Scott Morgan, how
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Speaker 1: would you trick a gun to facilitate a silencer? Just
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Speaker 1: so that folks understand, you don't need to do this
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Speaker 1: at home, even though there are people that have that
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Speaker 1: expertise that are out there. You can purchase these directly.
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Speaker 1: You can purchase the external threaded weapon from a gun store.
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Speaker 1: They're out there. You can just walk down the aisle
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Speaker 1: and see them. And in a separate case, they will
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Speaker 1: have these suppress that are there, and so you purchase
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Speaker 1: that separately, and from the fed's perspective that has got
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Speaker 1: there's a separate route you have to go when you're
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Speaker 1: purchasing one of these suppressors. It's it's like a huge
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Speaker 1: paper trail that will lead back to whoever purchased this
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Speaker 1: thing and that she had access to it. At least
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Speaker 1: that's what the media has been saying. Is kind of
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Speaker 1: interesting to me, you know, why would this yoga instructor
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Speaker 1: need a suppress Guy so hearing Joe Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics,
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Speaker 1: Jacksonal State University and author of Blood Beneath My Feet
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Speaker 1: on Amazon, Guys, take a listen now to our friends
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Speaker 1: at Fox seventh. How did they track her down. Listen.
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Speaker 1: The murder happened May eleventh. Fast forward to this week.
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Speaker 1: Authorities are now confident that Armstrong is in Costa Rica
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Speaker 1: and had used someone else's passport to get there, and
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Speaker 1: because of that immigration violation, Costa Rican law enforcement got
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Speaker 1: on board helping with surveillance, tracking the former yoga teacher
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Speaker 1: from the plane to a bus to the town of
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Speaker 1: Santa Teresa on the country's northern peninsula. We knew she
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Speaker 1: was gonna be associated with some type of yoga studio.
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Speaker 1: When those foreign officials arrived at that yoga studio, they
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Speaker 1: did find a handwritten log in that was the same
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Speaker 1: alias that she was going by when she traveled to
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Speaker 1: Costa Rica. So once they developed that pattern, it really
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Speaker 1: opened up things and really quickly closed in tracking her
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Speaker 1: to a local hostel. She cut her hair, she dyed
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Speaker 1: her hair. She claimed she had some type of injury
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Speaker 1: from a surfboard, where she was finally taken into custody
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, claiming she had an injury from a surfboard.
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Speaker 1: Alexis Tereste described the band aid that Caitlin Armstrong had
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Speaker 1: over her nose. It was a like a bandage that
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Speaker 1: would go across your nose as if you had a
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Speaker 1: broken nose, right, so it would kind of hold your
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Speaker 1: nose together on your face. And she also had two
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Speaker 1: black eyes and they said they were bruising under the eye. Exactly, God,
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Speaker 1: And isn't that normal, doctor Angela. The band aid, to
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Speaker 1: my understanding, is up along the bridge of the nose,
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Speaker 1: shortly beneath the eyebrow level, not toward the tip of
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Speaker 1: your nose, and then you get bruising under the eyes
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Speaker 1: because blood from the surgery on the nose disseminate. Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Could you explain that briefly, Joe Scott, I'm using the
21:40
Speaker 1: word briefly with doctor angel Let's see if she can
21:43
Speaker 1: do it. Go ahead. So they've broken they've broken her
21:45
Speaker 1: nose to to re do her nose to make it
21:49
Speaker 1: look different, and there's going to be bleeding in that process,
21:53
Speaker 1: and the blood has to go somewhere, and the outward
21:57
Speaker 1: expression of that blood is the bruising under the eye
22:00
Speaker 1: and excuse me, under the ays. But the blood has
22:03
Speaker 1: pooled in her nasal sinuses and adds that and the
22:08
Speaker 1: blood will go away, the bruising will go away. But
22:11
Speaker 1: that's how it happens. Guys cycle Listen to our friends
22:14
Speaker 1: at Fox seven. This is Shannon Ryan. Armstrong used a passport.
22:18
Speaker 1: Now the real identity of the person who had that passport,
22:21
Speaker 1: we're told was somebody who closely physically resembled her. She
22:25
Speaker 1: continued using that alias well in Costa Rica, taking a
22:28
Speaker 1: bus going to yoga studios. This enabled authorities to establish
22:32
Speaker 1: a paper trail and eventually close in on her. After
22:36
Speaker 1: hiding out for more than a month, law enforcement found
22:39
Speaker 1: fugitive Caitlin Armstrong in a hostel on Costa Rica's Santa
22:43
Speaker 1: Teresa Beach, trying to build a new life. She was
22:46
Speaker 1: getting really ready to establish that next part of her career. Armstrong,
22:51
Speaker 1: a yoga instructor, wanted for murdering her romantic rival, professional
22:55
Speaker 1: cyclists Anna Mariah Wilson, in a fit of jealous rage,
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Speaker 1: went to yoga studios on the island, signing in by
23:03
Speaker 1: hand at at least one studio, using the same alias
23:06
Speaker 1: she used to travel to the country. This US Marshalls
23:10
Speaker 1: day was key. Once they developed that pattern, it really
23:14
Speaker 1: opened up things. So to IRV Brandt, a former US
23:17
Speaker 1: Marshal Service in the International Investigations Branch, I'm hung up
23:22
Speaker 1: on the theory of extradition here, when you bring somebody
23:26
Speaker 1: from wherever they are back to where they're going to
23:28
Speaker 1: be tried, in this case in Texas, because Costa Rica
23:32
Speaker 1: abolished the death penalty, and very often we see countries
23:36
Speaker 1: that don't have a death penalty refuse to extradite some
23:40
Speaker 1: money back to the US unless we waive the death penalty.
23:44
Speaker 1: That's correct, Nancy. The extradition treaty, the US government would
23:48
Speaker 1: have to give assurances that they wouldn't seek the death
23:51
Speaker 1: penalty in a formal extradition. But she wasn't extradited back
23:56
Speaker 1: to the United States. She was supported back to the
23:58
Speaker 1: United States. The deportation is an action by the Costa
24:03
Speaker 1: Rican government, not the US government. The US Marshall Service
24:08
Speaker 1: sent people down there to scort her back. They flew
24:11
Speaker 1: her straight into Houston's and since she was deported, that's
24:16
Speaker 1: why she had to be booked into the Harris County jail.
24:19
Speaker 1: Because you have to be taken into custody at the
24:23
Speaker 1: first US port. They couldn't take her all the way
24:27
Speaker 1: back to the charging jurisdiction like they would in the
24:30
Speaker 1: case of a formal extradition. So with a deportation, you're
24:34
Speaker 1: not necessarily taken to where you're going to be tried, correct,
24:37
Speaker 1: I mean she could have went into Dallas, she could
24:39
Speaker 1: have went into Houston, she could have went into Miami,
24:41
Speaker 1: wherever she landed in the United States. At the first
24:44
Speaker 1: port of entry, she would have had to have been
24:47
Speaker 1: arrested on that charge because she wasn't being formally extradited.
24:52
Speaker 1: The Marshal Service didn't have a surrender order on her.
24:55
Speaker 1: To bring her back into the country, the State Department
24:58
Speaker 1: would have issued what they call a travel document now
25:03
Speaker 1: was only good for one day, and it was just
25:07
Speaker 1: good enough to get her to the first port of entry. Well,
25:10
Speaker 1: I'm curious, why don't we always use that technique when
25:13
Speaker 1: we're trying to extradite someone back, Because it's, like I said,
25:17
Speaker 1: it's an action by the government of Costa Rica, not
25:21
Speaker 1: an action by the United States. Costa Rica could have
25:25
Speaker 1: decided that the United States had the formerly extraditeer. We
25:30
Speaker 1: have no say in that. But since she illegally entered
25:35
Speaker 1: the country with somebody else's passport, and she using a
25:39
Speaker 1: fake passport, or was she using another person's passport, a
25:43
Speaker 1: real person that existed, I don't have the details. They
25:46
Speaker 1: said fraudulent. And when they used the term fraudulent, that
25:51
Speaker 1: most likely means it was a valid passport. It just
25:55
Speaker 1: wasn't a passport that belonged to her. Gotcha, guys. Take
25:58
Speaker 1: a listen now to our cut seventy one. Our friends
26:00
Speaker 1: at k x A and Maggie Glenn. Photos just into
26:04
Speaker 1: our newsroom show her Harris County booking photos on the
26:07
Speaker 1: right there on your screen. As we've reported at the
26:10
Speaker 1: time of her arrest, she was described as having shoulder
26:13
Speaker 1: length hair that had been dyed dark brown, with bruising
26:16
Speaker 1: on her nose from what she says a reported surfboarding accident,
26:20
Speaker 1: which as you can see, is much different from her
26:22
Speaker 1: appearance just weeks ago. You can see that picture on
26:24
Speaker 1: the left. These new photos come after she arrived in
26:27
Speaker 1: Houston last night. Photos here show at least five guards
26:31
Speaker 1: escorting her through the airport from Costa Rica. She'll appear
26:34
Speaker 1: before a judge in Houston before she's transferred to Travis County,
26:37
Speaker 1: where she faces a three and a half million dollar bond. Wow,
26:41
Speaker 1: So Travis County is where she'll ultimately end up. And
26:47
Speaker 1: also take a listen to our cut sixty three. Our
26:49
Speaker 1: friends at Inside edition. This witness showed us a passport
26:53
Speaker 1: in Caitlin Armstrong's name that he says was left behind
26:57
Speaker 1: in a locker after her arrest. There was also this
27:01
Speaker 1: a second passport bearing the name of her lookalike sister Christine.
27:06
Speaker 1: And get this, a receipt for six thousand, three hundred
27:09
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars for cosmetic surgery she apparently got in
27:14
Speaker 1: Costa Rica under another name. It's just a bandage on
27:17
Speaker 1: the nose and like blood for the she had blood
27:20
Speaker 1: in their nostrils. Well, that's kind of a giveaway, Alexis Terrest, Like,
27:23
Speaker 1: who's gonna forget a woman learning surf yoga to further
27:31
Speaker 1: her trade with a big bloody bandage on her nose
27:35
Speaker 1: and blood in her nostrils. I wouldn't forget that, no,
27:38
Speaker 1: I mean it's a pretty clear sign. It looks like
27:40
Speaker 1: she had classic surgery and not an accident from surfing.
27:44
Speaker 1: It's especially there's a receipt, and then you know with
27:46
Speaker 1: this man who is speaking said they also found two
27:51
Speaker 1: passports in her locker. They found her own passport and
27:54
Speaker 1: they found the passport of her sister. Now, while the
27:57
Speaker 1: authorities haven't said who the passport belonged to the person
28:01
Speaker 1: running the hostel. Has said that in her blocker was
28:04
Speaker 1: her sister's password, so that maybe and her sister the
28:07
Speaker 1: image that they showed of her sister's password. Her sister
28:10
Speaker 1: has brown hair, and the new mug shots of Caitlin
28:15
Speaker 1: showed that her nose before it was sort of a pointier,
28:18
Speaker 1: upturned nose and now it's a much slimmer nose with
28:21
Speaker 1: a rounded tips. And they received for our sixty three
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Speaker 1: fifty six thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars for plastic surgery.
28:42
Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace. You know this took a
28:49
Speaker 1: lot of cunning. Matthew Mangino, she's using sister Christine, if
28:54
Speaker 1: you are to believe the employee at the hostel her
28:57
Speaker 1: sister Christine's passport. She also has her passport with her,
29:01
Speaker 1: and she gets plastic surgery under yet another name. She's
29:06
Speaker 1: trying her best to cover her tracks. I think she
29:09
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job. Well, you know, we know
29:11
Speaker 1: that before she took off for Costa Rica, that she
29:15
Speaker 1: visited her sister at a campsite in upstate New York.
29:20
Speaker 1: And you know, frankly, if her sister gave her her
29:23
Speaker 1: passport to use. You know, she could be subject to
29:28
Speaker 1: federal prosecution. Under Title eighteen, a person is specifically prohibited
29:34
Speaker 1: from letting another person use their passport, So she could
29:38
Speaker 1: be in some legal jeopardy right now as well. And
29:43
Speaker 1: of course you know that this is a classic case
29:45
Speaker 1: of trying to hide your identity. Obviously that she didn't
29:49
Speaker 1: do a great job at it because of her activities
29:54
Speaker 1: that she continued. But you know she was doing her
29:57
Speaker 1: best to try to flee from stories and change your identity. Man,
30:02
Speaker 1: she really did, and that's not all tachlasst our Cut
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Speaker 1: sixty five. Our friends at kp RC two investigators say
30:09
Speaker 1: the day after Armstrong was questioned in the murder case,
30:12
Speaker 1: she sold her car. That was May thirteenth, and received
30:15
Speaker 1: a twelve thousand dollars check. The next day, May fourteenth,
30:19
Speaker 1: she left the Austin Airports. On May seventeenth, Austin Police
30:23
Speaker 1: issued a homicide arrest warrants for Armstrong. May eighteenth, investigators
30:29
Speaker 1: spoke with sources who said Armstrong was taken to a
30:31
Speaker 1: New Jersey International Airports. On May twenty fifth, officials obtained
30:36
Speaker 1: an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Arrest warrants on Armstrong.
30:42
Speaker 1: The US Marshall said, raising Armstrong's investigation to quote major
30:46
Speaker 1: case status early in this investigation, which likely played a
30:50
Speaker 1: key role in her capture after a forty three day run.
30:54
Speaker 1: That was a key role in her capture. But she really,
31:00
Speaker 1: despite all of her planning and all of her scheming
31:03
Speaker 1: and all of her manipulating, she actually left a trail
31:07
Speaker 1: a mile wide. Take a listen our cut sixty four.
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Speaker 1: Our friend Lisa Guerrero. US marshals say Armstrong was trying
31:16
Speaker 1: to build a new life in the remote beach town.
31:19
Speaker 1: It looks that, you know, she retreated back to her
31:22
Speaker 1: you know, her hobby, her career being in the yoga practice.
31:26
Speaker 1: We believe that she was trying to learn some type
31:27
Speaker 1: of new yoga, possibly to instruct up these stairs. Here's
31:32
Speaker 1: the yoga deck where they do yoga here. What kinds
31:34
Speaker 1: of things did she do to her appearance. She cropped
31:38
Speaker 1: her hair about shoulderly, and she dyed a dark brown
31:41
Speaker 1: back to the yoga. You know, sometimes it's hard to
31:45
Speaker 1: teach an old dog a new trick, and here she
31:48
Speaker 1: went right back to her usual practices. What else do
31:54
Speaker 1: we know? Take a listen now to our cut sixty
31:57
Speaker 1: two Inside Edition, It's the end of the line for
32:00
Speaker 1: Caitlin Armstrong. Even from behind, the fugitive yoga instructor looks
32:05
Speaker 1: despondent after her apprehension in Costa Rica. This is the
32:09
Speaker 1: laid back spot where Armstrong was staying when she was busted.
32:13
Speaker 1: Don John's Surf and Yoga Lodge. It's in the town
32:16
Speaker 1: of Santa Teresa, population just three thousand. Giselle Buncheon and
32:21
Speaker 1: Tom Brady are often spotted nearby. Inside Edition was shown
32:25
Speaker 1: the room Armstrong lived in. She was at that beddrets
32:29
Speaker 1: on the bottom, the red one at the corner. Authorities
32:31
Speaker 1: tell me Armstrong was financing her new life in Costa
32:35
Speaker 1: Rica with twelve two hundred dollars she got from selling
32:39
Speaker 1: her jeep before she fled the US. They say she
32:42
Speaker 1: was staying in the inexpensive, hostile type accommodation to make
32:46
Speaker 1: her money go further. She was just asking about how
32:50
Speaker 1: to get around cheaper and then the police game. A
32:56
Speaker 1: remote surftown population three thousand, Santa Teresa in Costa Rica. Now,
33:03
Speaker 1: who would have thought should be going there on the run?
33:07
Speaker 1: But I mean, could it be any more obvious? Don
33:09
Speaker 1: John Surf and yoga lodge. What about it, Manino? Yeah, well,
33:16
Speaker 1: you know the you know, she thought she had a
33:19
Speaker 1: great plan, but she couldn't get away from the only
33:22
Speaker 1: thing she really knew how to do, and that was yoga.
33:25
Speaker 1: And she decided to fleet to change her identity, to
33:30
Speaker 1: change her looks, but she couldn't change her habits, and
33:34
Speaker 1: she couldn't change what she knew. And that was what
33:37
Speaker 1: gave her away, you know, to you Alexis Terrez Chuck
33:40
Speaker 1: joining us from crime online dot Com and joining us
33:42
Speaker 1: out of La Alexis, if you're really into yoga, it
33:47
Speaker 1: becomes not just an exercise. It's a way of life,
33:54
Speaker 1: it really is. And she could not change that. Well,
33:57
Speaker 1: and she also really I don't know if she speaks
34:01
Speaker 1: Spanish or not, but there's really not there. There's not
34:04
Speaker 1: a lot of jobs that you could probably get as
34:06
Speaker 1: a foreigner coming into a new country. I mean, she
34:09
Speaker 1: probably if she doesn't speak Spanish, she couldn't wait tables.
34:12
Speaker 1: She you know, it really limits what she could do.
34:15
Speaker 1: But for yoga, you can really explain it and people
34:18
Speaker 1: can watch you and you maybe can learn, you know,
34:21
Speaker 1: you can use the traditional words for yoga, and that
34:25
Speaker 1: so her employment opportunities were very limited. I don't know
34:29
Speaker 1: if she stole her jeep for twelve thousand dollars, but
34:31
Speaker 1: she spent over six thousand dollars on plus six sturders.
34:34
Speaker 1: Half her money is already gone. And then how did
34:37
Speaker 1: she pay for these flights that she has. She probably
34:39
Speaker 1: picked the only job that she could have done to
34:42
Speaker 1: also fly under the radar. That's not going to be
34:44
Speaker 1: working for, you know, a big corporation that's paying her
34:47
Speaker 1: money and taking texts out and submitting it to the government. Well, also,
34:50
Speaker 1: it's twelve thousand dollars that we knew of. We don't
34:54
Speaker 1: know how much else she took with her. One thing
34:57
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose sight of or Brant, which
35:02
Speaker 1: is so easy to do in a case, is in
35:04
Speaker 1: a case where you're on a manhunt, is lose sight
35:07
Speaker 1: of Mariah Wilson. This case is really about her and too,
35:12
Speaker 1: That's correct. I mean, you get caught up in all
35:15
Speaker 1: the other things, but you got to remember first and
35:18
Speaker 1: foremost who you're working for, and you're working for the victims,
35:24
Speaker 1: in the victim's family, and that's always got to stay
35:27
Speaker 1: in the front of your mind. I just keep having
35:30
Speaker 1: Mariah Mo Wilson's image in front of me, and the
35:33
Speaker 1: one that really sticks with me is of her kind
35:35
Speaker 1: of looking up at the camera. She's got mud on
35:38
Speaker 1: her face because she's been mud and gravel biking. She's
35:43
Speaker 1: got this big smile. She's love and life. All that ended,
35:49
Speaker 1: All that ended on an evil impulse by Caitlin Armstrong,
35:56
Speaker 1: who tracked Mariah down like a dog and shot her
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Speaker 1: dead multiple times. We wait as justice unfalls Fancy Grace
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Speaker 1: Crimes story, signing off Goodbye Friend,