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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grease, the so.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Called glam yoga teacher is in court the trial of
- 0:22Speaker 2: Kaylin Armstrong starting now, and I mean right now. Can
- 0:29Speaker 2: the yoga teacher now charged with murder of her love rival,
- 0:34Speaker 2: a world class, beautiful female biking star. But can Kaylen
- 0:42Speaker 2: Armstrong charm the jury the way she has charmed so
- 0:47Speaker 2: many others, including her own jailers. She tricked them into
- 0:53Speaker 2: taking her to a fake medical appointment, where she then escaped.
- 0:58Speaker 3: And it ain't the first time. Remember her hiding out.
- 1:02Speaker 2: In Costa Rica after she got in a makeover, including
- 1:05Speaker 2: a nose job, to somehow elude authorities.
- 1:08Speaker 3: Well, the US Marshals were onto that.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Finally in a court of law, and you know who's
- 1:14Speaker 2: getting lost in the sauce, Seemingly outshined.
- 1:18Speaker 3: By her glam moe.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Mariah, a young girl in her twenties, wants nothing more
- 1:27Speaker 2: than to ride her bike and get one trophy after
- 1:31Speaker 2: the next, after the next, after the next. Her parents
- 1:34Speaker 2: so proud this girl. Mariah Wilson, a world class dirt
- 1:40Speaker 2: bike champion, gunned down, chased through a house, cornered in
- 1:48Speaker 2: a bathroom, and shot multiple times. Why, According to prosecutors,
- 1:55Speaker 2: because she dared to have a meal with Kaitlin Armstrong's
- 2:00Speaker 2: cheating boyfriend.
- 2:02Speaker 3: I'm easy, Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories
- 2:07Speaker 2: and series six sem one eleven. Oh yes, there's twelve
- 2:11Speaker 2: in the box. That means the jury has been selected.
- 2:14Speaker 2: And I guarantee you that at this very minute they
- 2:17Speaker 2: are eyeballing the so called glam yoga instructor Caitlin Armstrong.
- 2:22Speaker 3: Take a listen to this. Detective Richard Spiller, Austin p D.
- 2:27Speaker 4: On May eleventh, twenty twenty two, at approximately nine to
- 2:30Speaker 4: fifty six pm, Austin Police officers responded to a check
- 2:33Speaker 4: welfare urgent call at seventeen oh eight Maple Avenue in Austin.
- 2:37Speaker 4: Upon their arrival, they found the resident of seventeen oh
- 2:41Speaker 4: eight Maple Avenue performing CPR on a female. That female
- 2:45Speaker 4: was Anna Wilson. Despite the life saving efforts, Anna Wilson
- 2:48Speaker 4: was pronounced de cease at ten ten pm. The preliminary
- 2:51Speaker 4: investigation revealed that Anna Wilson, a cyclist, was visiting Austin
- 2:55Speaker 4: and staying with her friend on her way to the
- 2:56Speaker 4: Dallas area.
- 2:57Speaker 2: For a race, just simply minding her own business with
- 3:01Speaker 2: me joining us live from the courthouse. Tony Plohetski, investigative
- 3:06Speaker 2: reporter with the Austin American Statesman and kV UE.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Tony is great to be talking to you. Tell me
- 3:14Speaker 3: the scuttle button the courthouse.
- 3:16Speaker 5: Well.
- 3:16Speaker 6: Opening statements, as you mentioned, begin any minute now, And Nancy,
- 3:20Speaker 6: the big question going into those opening statements is that
- 3:24Speaker 6: this could likely be the first time we hear any
- 3:27Speaker 6: kind of defense that is lodged by Caitlin Armstrong's defense attorneys.
- 3:31Speaker 6: What will they say, How will they defend her against
- 3:35Speaker 6: what police and prosecutors have described as this mountain of evidence.
- 3:40Speaker 6: So really, all ears and all eyes are going to
- 3:43Speaker 6: be on her voluminous, might I add defense team this morning?
- 3:47Speaker 2: You know, I've seen her and just recently, and she
- 3:51Speaker 2: does not look the same way she did at the time,
- 3:55Speaker 2: but she's still a beautiful woman. You know how hard
- 3:58Speaker 2: it is to get a conviction on a female in
- 4:02Speaker 2: this country, because when you see not me, but mini gars,
- 4:08Speaker 2: when they see a woman sitting at the council table
- 4:11Speaker 2: accused of the crime, they think, oh, she reminds me
- 4:14Speaker 2: of my mom.
- 4:15Speaker 3: My mom could never do anything like this.
- 4:17Speaker 2: So she reminds me of my little sister, or she
- 4:20Speaker 2: reminds me of my very first girlfriend in high school.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Alan Bennett joining me, a high profile lawyer now partner
- 4:27Speaker 2: at Gunter Bennett and Anthus.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Hey, Alan, thank you for being with us.
- 4:31Speaker 1: Right or wrong.
- 4:32Speaker 2: It's much harder to get a conviction, much less for
- 4:35Speaker 2: murder on a woman.
- 4:37Speaker 7: I think you're correct, miss Grace. In fact, I think
- 4:39Speaker 7: we have all been somewhat aware of that ever since
- 4:42Speaker 7: Lizzie Borden walked out of the courtroom a free woman
- 4:45Speaker 7: years and years ago.
- 4:46Speaker 3: That was before my time, I think.
- 4:47Speaker 7: But go ahead, mine too, but maybe not by a
- 4:51Speaker 7: whole lot.
- 4:52Speaker 2: Guys, he's talking about Lizzie Borden, took an ask, gave
- 4:55Speaker 2: her parents how many wax forty?
- 4:57Speaker 3: Thank you, Jackie the legal scholar over here in the corner.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, but you know, the Lizzie Bourdon escaping
- 5:04Speaker 2: justice kind of escaped from my mind.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Why is it so hard to get a conviction on
- 5:09Speaker 3: a woman?
- 5:09Speaker 2: I've gotten them, don't worry about that, but it is harder.
- 5:14Speaker 7: I think you're right, missus Grayson. Again, I'm not sure
- 5:16Speaker 7: that I quit myself understand the psychological or implications of
- 5:20Speaker 7: all that or what the mindset is of jurors.
- 5:23Speaker 5: But you are right.
- 5:24Speaker 7: I think women, and I hate to sound sexist, but
- 5:27Speaker 7: I think women and other members of society enjoy a
- 5:30Speaker 7: certain presumption of innocence, maybe in our minds, above and
- 5:34Speaker 7: beyond the standard presumption of innocence that we all enjoy.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Well, you're right, but just so you know, Alan Bennett,
- 5:40Speaker 2: when somebody says no offense, that means they're about to offend.
- 5:45Speaker 2: And when you say not to be sexist, that means
- 5:48Speaker 2: you are about to be sexist. But I'm sitting here
- 5:50Speaker 2: agreeing with you in the sense that it's harder to
- 5:53Speaker 2: get a conviction on a woman.
- 5:54Speaker 3: You got this one right here.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Caitlin Armstrong is so called Graham yo getting strung, also
- 6:00Speaker 2: called the killer yoga instructor. She's pretty and she can
- 6:04Speaker 2: be very, very charming and come across very meek and mild.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Okay, Doctor Bethany joining.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Me, Doctor Bethany Marshall, who was a renowned psycho analyst,
- 6:13Speaker 2: joining us out of Beverly Hills. Doctor Bethany, thank you
- 6:16Speaker 2: for making time between all of your clients that are
- 6:20Speaker 2: complaining of whining about the prices.
- 6:23Speaker 3: There on Rodeo drive.
- 6:24Speaker 2: You know that spells rodeo right, that said, go ahead
- 6:28Speaker 2: hit me.
- 6:29Speaker 8: You know, I think certain people are in a protected
- 6:31Speaker 8: class in our society. Women, especially beautiful women, White women
- 6:37Speaker 8: are in a protected class. Old white men are in
- 6:40Speaker 8: a protected class. Look that we look at politics, they're
- 6:44Speaker 8: older white men. I mean, we agree societally that some
- 6:48Speaker 8: people are special and privileged and that we're not going
- 6:51Speaker 8: to punish them for anything. And then there are other
- 6:53Speaker 8: people that are punished endlessly, people in lower socio economic.
- 7:01Speaker 5: Lives.
- 7:02Speaker 8: They are punished endlessly for crimed.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Can we get back to murder?
- 7:07Speaker 2: Can we get back to someone chasing Mariah Moe Wilson
- 7:12Speaker 2: just twenty five years old, that's not that much older
- 7:16Speaker 2: than my twins. They're about to turn sixteen, chasing her
- 7:21Speaker 2: through the house, cornering her in a bathroom where there's
- 7:24Speaker 2: no escape, and shooting her multiple times.
- 7:28Speaker 3: That's what we're talking about.
- 7:31Speaker 2: You know what, I've got a very old and endearing saying,
- 7:35Speaker 2: we never curse around the children ever, but we do
- 7:39Speaker 2: allow this one bit of wisdom. Screw her and the
- 7:44Speaker 2: horse she rode in on, chasing a twenty five year
- 7:48Speaker 2: old girl through the house, trapping her in the bathroom
- 7:51Speaker 2: and shooting her multiple times because she had what launch
- 7:55Speaker 2: with Kaylin Armstrong's cheating boyfriend, now cheating in the sense
- 8:00Speaker 2: that he went out.
- 8:01Speaker 3: To lunch with an old flame.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Nobody said they had sex, nobody said they slept together,
- 8:06Speaker 2: nothing like that. But he did lie to Caitlin arms
- 8:10Speaker 2: talking about where it was where he was, and she
- 8:12Speaker 2: found out. She didn't take it out on him.
- 8:15Speaker 3: She murdered mo Mariah Wilson.
- 8:19Speaker 2: How proud do you think her parents were of her?
- 8:24Speaker 2: Their baby girl was a world class dirt bike competitor.
- 8:31Speaker 2: She competed all around the world and she won. And
- 8:35Speaker 2: now this, okay, isn't it true? Joe Scott Morgan with me,
- 8:39Speaker 2: Joe Scott Morgan, professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University. And when
- 8:43Speaker 2: I say professor forensics, you ought to see their world
- 8:47Speaker 2: class criminal justice program they've got going on at Jacksonville
- 8:51Speaker 2: State University. Author of Blood Beneath My Feet, star of
- 8:54Speaker 2: a hit series Body Bags. Joe Scott hit me with
- 8:58Speaker 2: the evidence to hay all this. She's beautiful, She's going
- 9:01Speaker 2: to escape, just as she had a noose jobs she
- 9:03Speaker 2: bleaches her hair, don't care I don't care how beautiful
- 9:06Speaker 2: she is. I care about the bullet ridden body of Mote, twenty.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Five years old. What facts support my theory.
- 9:16Speaker 9: The fact that with Armstrong they found the weapon that
- 9:20Speaker 9: she actually owns. It's a six hour Nancy, nine millimeters pistol.
- 9:24Speaker 9: They actually found it in her home after she had
- 9:28Speaker 9: retreated from this event initially. But here's going to be
- 9:31Speaker 9: the biggest tell here. They did recover we know at least,
- 9:36Speaker 9: and this will probably be revealed at trial, but we
- 9:40Speaker 9: know that they recovered casings, the spent casings out of
- 9:44Speaker 9: the semi automatic weapon.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Hey emphasis on plural casings.
- 9:49Speaker 9: Yeah, casing. She shot multiple times. And this is the
- 9:52Speaker 9: thing about it. You kind of led into this just
- 9:54Speaker 9: a few moments ago, Nancy, This poor young lady was
- 9:57Speaker 9: actually cornered in a bathroom.
- 10:00Speaker 2: How does your son, he is twenty two, think about it,
- 10:04Speaker 2: getting chased through a house and your son cowering in
- 10:07Speaker 2: a bathroom. You know, the last place you try to
- 10:10Speaker 2: lock the door, but that doesn't protect you. She gets
- 10:13Speaker 2: in with a gun. Can you even imagine?
- 10:17Speaker 3: Go ahead?
- 10:18Speaker 9: She's trapped in this environment. There's nowhere to go. I mean,
- 10:21Speaker 9: all you got to do is look at your own
- 10:23Speaker 9: bathroom at home. If you do have a window's probably
- 10:25Speaker 9: not big enough to get out of. But you know,
- 10:28Speaker 9: when you've got somebody bearing down on you who you know,
- 10:31Speaker 9: by her own admission and action, she's an athlete as well.
- 10:34Speaker 9: Certainly not at the level of mode, but you know.
- 10:38Speaker 9: And then she comes armed, and at this point in time,
- 10:41Speaker 9: she's leaving behind these casings that eject out of this
- 10:44Speaker 9: weapon multiple and they'll be able to do kind of
- 10:48Speaker 9: a generalized match through ballistics. On the casings themselves, they
- 10:52Speaker 9: leave little marks. The housing of this weapon leaves little
- 10:55Speaker 9: marks on the side, that's all.
- 10:56Speaker 3: I mean, the extraction mark.
- 10:59Speaker 2: When you shoot a gun, the casing jumps out of
- 11:03Speaker 2: the gun, but it leaves a mark on it. And
- 11:07Speaker 2: that's how they got the Purp, the alleged purp in Delphi.
- 11:11Speaker 3: He cycled a bullet through the gun. He never fired it.
- 11:16Speaker 9: He racked the slide. Yeah, he racked the slide back
- 11:19Speaker 9: and ejected that live realm.
- 11:20Speaker 2: And that one ejection mark on the casing matches up
- 11:24Speaker 2: to his gun in his home.
- 11:26Speaker 3: Now, that's the Delfi case.
- 11:27Speaker 2: And what a lot of people don't know, ballistics are
- 11:30Speaker 2: like a fingerprint Joe Scott Morgan. As you well know,
- 11:34Speaker 2: I've done it myself. At the crime lab, you get
- 11:37Speaker 2: your known bullet, which would be the bullet out of
- 11:40Speaker 2: Mariah's body, or the bullet that went.
- 11:43Speaker 3: Through her body.
- 11:44Speaker 2: It's lying on the bathroom floor, maybe it's lodged in
- 11:46Speaker 2: the wall. Carefully, you get it out with plyers or tweezers.
- 11:51Speaker 2: You take it to the crime lab. You get what
- 11:53Speaker 2: you believe is your murder weapon. You put a bullet
- 11:55Speaker 2: in it. You shoot it into a tub of water
- 11:59Speaker 2: or you know, a bunch of pillows, whatever your crime
- 12:01Speaker 2: lab uses to absorb the bullet. You get that bullet out,
- 12:05Speaker 2: You put them aside each other under a microscope, and
- 12:09Speaker 2: it is as clear as a bell.
- 12:11Speaker 3: It's called striation marks.
- 12:13Speaker 2: As that bullet hurdles down the barrel of a gun,
- 12:17Speaker 2: the inside of that gun is like a fingerprint, the
- 12:20Speaker 2: way that the metal dried and cool down when the
- 12:25Speaker 2: gun was made. There's only one gun with those little
- 12:28Speaker 2: bubbles and markings inside, and those little irregularities.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Leave only one of a kind.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Striation or markings itched on the bullet as it hurtles
- 12:40Speaker 2: through so quickly, so you get the two bullets and
- 12:42Speaker 2: you turn them around and look and you'll see the
- 12:44Speaker 2: same wiggles and grooves on both bullets, and it bam
- 12:50Speaker 2: is a match and that's your murder weapon.
- 12:52Speaker 3: That's how they do it.
- 12:53Speaker 9: You're absolutely right, Nancy, And that weapon is going to
- 12:56Speaker 9: be unique to her in the sense that have been
- 13:01Speaker 9: five ten other weapons that were made exactly like that
- 13:04Speaker 9: on that particular day at that factory. But however she
- 13:08Speaker 9: has treated that weapon in life, how many times it's
- 13:10Speaker 9: been fired, What type of ammunition makes those markings unique
- 13:14Speaker 9: to that weapon. The one thing that we will not
- 13:16Speaker 9: have in this case is going to be any gunshot
- 13:20Speaker 9: residue on her. Remember there was a big lapse of
- 13:23Speaker 9: tom So that's that's kind of to their deficit. I think,
- 13:27Speaker 9: hold on, hold on.
- 13:28Speaker 2: We shoot a gun, a fine misted expels of gun
- 13:32Speaker 2: shot powder, and it's so fine you really don't even
- 13:36Speaker 2: see it. Like on the cartoon you see a puff
- 13:38Speaker 2: of smoke come up. You don't see it in real life.
- 13:40Speaker 2: But as many people compare, it's like taking a powder puffing,
- 13:45Speaker 2: going poof and the powder dissolves in the air. It's
- 13:49Speaker 2: just that fine or finer. And when a person's hand
- 13:53Speaker 2: that has just.
- 13:54Speaker 3: Fired a gun.
- 13:55Speaker 2: They don't even know it, but their hand about thirty
- 13:58Speaker 2: six inches of their arm, maybe even on their clothes
- 14:01Speaker 2: can have that very fine gunshot residue on them. And
- 14:06Speaker 2: what Joe Scott is saying and regular people talk is
- 14:09Speaker 2: that all you have to do is this and you
- 14:12Speaker 2: get rid of it, just like baby powder, wash your hands,
- 14:16Speaker 2: rub them on something.
- 14:17Speaker 3: It's gone.
- 14:18Speaker 9: And they didn't.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Caitlin Armstrong in time to do a sufficient
- 14:25Speaker 2: GSR gunshot residue test.
- 14:26Speaker 3: So yeah, we're screwed on that.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grease, I want.
- 14:49Speaker 2: To understand the facts that show that Mariah was chased
- 14:52Speaker 2: through the house. Hey, hey, Tony Plaheenski. The crime scene
- 14:56Speaker 2: is a friend's home. Mariah was staying at a friend's
- 15:00Speaker 2: home while she was there competing. Tell me about that neighborhood.
- 15:05Speaker 2: What do we know about that house?
- 15:07Speaker 6: Yeah, so's a house in East Austin, a well known
- 15:11Speaker 6: gentrified area of our city. Nancy is where many young
- 15:16Speaker 6: people live in our city. And I think one thing
- 15:19Speaker 6: that is also so signature to this case, in this
- 15:23Speaker 6: investigation is that Kitlyn Armstrong's Jeep SUV. In addition to
- 15:29Speaker 6: the ballistics testing and results that we've been talking about.
- 15:32Speaker 6: Police and prosecutors first got on to Caitlyn Armstrong as
- 15:36Speaker 6: a suspect because they saw her Jeep SUV stalking that
- 15:41Speaker 6: area around the exact same time.
- 15:43Speaker 3: You are so right, Tony Plahetski. You know, for a
- 15:48Speaker 3: lot of us, you see one cheap go by, You've
- 15:50Speaker 3: seen them all.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Take a listen to ourka d as in Delta from
- 15:55Speaker 2: crime Online.
- 15:56Speaker 10: As the Austin Police Department investigate, they reach out to
- 15:59Speaker 10: neighbors asking for surveillance video. A neighbor's camera pointed at
- 16:03Speaker 10: the driveway of the home where Wilson was staying, showed
- 16:05Speaker 10: a black Jeep Grand Cherokee drive past the house just
- 16:09Speaker 10: one minute after Wilson went inside. In the meantime, police
- 16:12Speaker 10: reach out to Colin Strickland, who agrees to an interview
- 16:15Speaker 10: at his home. When police arrive, they see a black
- 16:18Speaker 10: Jeep Grand Cherokee in the driveway, the same one seen
- 16:22Speaker 10: in the surveillance video.
- 16:23Speaker 2: M hmm, the same one in a surveillance libty O.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Now listen to our cup one fifty three B brother.
- 16:31Speaker 2: It's the Austin Police Department. Detective Richard Spiller.
- 16:35Speaker 4: Our investigation shows that before her death, Wilson was in
- 16:38Speaker 4: the company of Colin Strickland. The preliminary investigation revealed that
- 16:42Speaker 4: Colin dropped Wilson off at seventeen oh eight Maple Avenue
- 16:45Speaker 4: at approximately eight thirty six pm. Investigators obtained ring camera
- 16:49Speaker 4: video from the neighborhood that captured a vehicle at seventeen
- 16:52Speaker 4: oh eight Maple Avenue within two minutes of the time
- 16:55Speaker 4: Colin dropped off Wilson. It was later discovered that vehicle
- 16:58Speaker 4: was registered to Colin's girlfriend, Caitlin Armstrong.
- 17:01Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, I love the DMV. They're so
- 17:04Speaker 2: department motor vehicles.
- 17:05Speaker 3: They're so maligned, they're so mistreated, they always get a
- 17:10Speaker 3: bad rap. You know what.
- 17:13Speaker 2: DMV has helped me solve so in many cases. And
- 17:16Speaker 2: guess what, it also helped solve the Idaho for slight
- 17:20Speaker 2: because Brian Coburger was driving around in his white Elantra
- 17:25Speaker 2: and the moment white Elantra is put out there to campus,
- 17:29Speaker 2: cops start digging through all the white Elantras that are
- 17:34Speaker 2: registered to where he was going to school, and they
- 17:39Speaker 2: find his name, his apartment number they go by, they
- 17:44Speaker 2: see that tag number, they immediately log it back to
- 17:48Speaker 2: Brian Coburger. They find out everything they can about him,
- 17:51Speaker 2: and that's how the case really got cracked open at
- 17:54Speaker 2: the get go tell me about it, Tony Plahetski, what
- 17:57Speaker 2: does the surveillance video show? And then to Bethany Marsha
- 18:01Speaker 2: because I got a whopper for you. Go ahead, Tony,
- 18:03Speaker 2: tell me about the black vehicle circling the crime scene.
- 18:07Speaker 6: Yeah, so it was around that same time, around eight
- 18:11Speaker 6: thirty at night. And the way it happened is that
- 18:13Speaker 6: police as the.
- 18:15Speaker 3: Okay, wait a minute, eight thirty.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Mariah and the armstrong boyfriend, Colin Strickland, they were home
- 18:22Speaker 2: by eight thirty.
- 18:24Speaker 8: Yeah, it was.
- 18:24Speaker 6: It was an early and early night. I mean they
- 18:27Speaker 6: had gone swimming ad at a pool, a well known
- 18:31Speaker 6: municipal pool here in Austin called Deep Betty Nancy. From
- 18:34Speaker 6: that pool up the hill, there's a restaurant that they
- 18:37Speaker 6: went to. They grabbed a couple of burgers and then
- 18:40Speaker 6: and then they called it a night.
- 18:42Speaker 2: So there's no sleeping around, shacking up at a motel,
- 18:46Speaker 2: nothing like that, No clubbing, no drinking. They go swimming,
- 18:50Speaker 2: they get a burger and he drops her off and
- 18:53Speaker 2: she gets murdered over.
- 18:55Speaker 6: That we know through video and the use of of
- 19:00Speaker 6: DMV video. Police say that they were able to rule
- 19:03Speaker 6: out Colin Strickland as a suspect because he did exactly
- 19:07Speaker 6: what he told police he did. He dropped Mo Wilson off.
- 19:12Speaker 3: I don't even know.
- 19:13Speaker 2: If I would call this cheating, doctor bethank That's another
- 19:16Speaker 2: thing for me to ask you, because as I've always
- 19:19Speaker 2: said my whole life, I will have lunch or dance
- 19:23Speaker 2: with anybody, don't care. I would not classify this necessarily
- 19:28Speaker 2: as cheating, although he did lie to Caitlin Armstrong about it.
- 19:32Speaker 2: I don't even know if this rises to cheating. But
- 19:35Speaker 2: go ahead, Tony Plask. I've got to set the table
- 19:39Speaker 2: for doctor Bethany. And trust me, she only uses silver
- 19:43Speaker 2: and fine china. So give me all the facts.
- 19:45Speaker 6: So they pretty quickly dismissed Colin Strickland as a suspect,
- 19:52Speaker 6: and then they see the police within twenty four hours
- 19:55Speaker 6: are knocking on every neighbor's door and one of the says, hey,
- 20:01Speaker 6: I've got this green camera video. They are able to
- 20:04Speaker 6: distinguish some unique characteristics of this cheap suv, including by
- 20:09Speaker 6: the way, a bicycle rap on the back. And then
- 20:12Speaker 6: another neighbor suggests that he saw someone leaving the home
- 20:17Speaker 6: around the time of the murder and possibly pushing a bike,
- 20:22Speaker 6: and that bike was later found kind of hidden in
- 20:27Speaker 6: some bushes. So the police formed this theory that whoever
- 20:32Speaker 6: killed Mariah Wilson then meant to do something with the bike,
- 20:37Speaker 6: either either in an act of vengeance or to possibly
- 20:41Speaker 6: even make it look like some sort of of burglary.
- 20:43Speaker 3: Wow, that's a lot of information. Tony Plohetski.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Guys, Tonny Plahetski joining me at the courthouse right now.
- 20:50Speaker 2: Investigative reporter Austin American Statesman also with kV u E
- 20:55Speaker 2: and dare I suggest a longtime friend and colleague, Okay,
- 21:00Speaker 2: doctor Bethany and IRV Brandt renowned US Marshall traveled all
- 21:05Speaker 2: over the world catching criminals.
- 21:08Speaker 3: I'm getting to you.
- 21:10Speaker 2: You know where I'm going, Uh, Doctor Bethany, really Mariah
- 21:14Speaker 2: is dead over this well?
- 21:16Speaker 6: You know.
- 21:16Speaker 8: One of the criteria for borderline sociopathic personality, which.
- 21:20Speaker 3: Oh, here you go, is.
- 21:23Speaker 8: Rage in response to perceived slights and injuries.
- 21:28Speaker 3: Perceived slight injuries. I'm just writing this down.
- 21:31Speaker 5: Go ahead.
- 21:31Speaker 8: Perceived slights and injury. You see that all over the DSM,
- 21:36Speaker 8: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, that women,
- 21:41Speaker 8: especially with personality disorders, respond to perceived slights and injuries negatively,
- 21:48Speaker 8: and in this case, obviously she has pathological jealousy. It
- 21:53Speaker 8: reminds me of those chimps that are fawned over by
- 21:57Speaker 8: their owners and then one more person comes on of
- 21:59Speaker 8: the property and they get their face ripped off by
- 22:02Speaker 8: the chimp. It's a very primitive, primitive anger, and I
- 22:07Speaker 8: think that people who have borderline personality they bring everyone
- 22:12Speaker 8: down around them. We don't really know that her boyfriend
- 22:15Speaker 8: was a cheater, but now in the press everyone's calling
- 22:18Speaker 8: him a cheater. So this is what they do. It's
- 22:20Speaker 8: like a cancer that spreads outwards. I'm thinking about her
- 22:24Speaker 8: running through the house after Wilson, running away from the
- 22:29Speaker 8: security guards, jumping over a fence. This woman puts enormous
- 22:35Speaker 8: energy into herself into getting away, into committing crimes. She's very,
- 22:42Speaker 8: very active. And I also see this by patients who
- 22:45Speaker 8: are borderline. All they think about is revenge, jealousy. They
- 22:52Speaker 8: create a mess everywhere they go, and the particular type
- 22:56Speaker 8: of mess they create is like huge temper tantrums. They
- 23:00Speaker 8: groom people, They groom their neighbors and their friends by
- 23:04Speaker 8: being really sweet and lovely.
- 23:07Speaker 3: So what I'm afraid she's gonna do with the jury
- 23:09Speaker 3: so they will have good points.
- 23:12Speaker 2: They'll think there's no way this woman could have done that.
- 23:15Speaker 2: They may even think, Hey, maybe.
- 23:16Speaker 3: Mariah was the aggressor.
- 23:18Speaker 2: But that's not what the facts and evidence are going
- 23:20Speaker 2: to show, because there's hard evidence, forensic evidence, that Mariah
- 23:26Speaker 2: did not fight back, She couldn't fight back, she was unarmed.
- 23:30Speaker 2: I believe, and I'm not sure about this, that there
- 23:33Speaker 2: may have been a silencer involved because none of the
- 23:37Speaker 2: neighbors heard gunshots. But I want you to hear how
- 23:40Speaker 2: innocent it was.
- 23:42Speaker 3: On Mariah's part. Anyway. Take a listen to our cut e.
- 23:45Speaker 10: Anna Wilson is better known by her middle name Mariah.
- 23:48Speaker 10: In racing circles, It's mo. Wilson is an up and
- 23:52Speaker 10: coming gravel and mountain bike racer and she's in Austin
- 23:55Speaker 10: to tackle the Gravel Locos race and he go. As
- 23:58Speaker 10: luck would have it, Wilson had as friends in the area,
- 24:01Speaker 10: so instead of booking a hotel, she bunks down with
- 24:03Speaker 10: her friend. The friend already had plans for the evening,
- 24:06Speaker 10: but that's okay. Wilson has plans of her own. She
- 24:08Speaker 10: tells her friend that she's meeting up with a guy
- 24:10Speaker 10: she dated briefly for dinner and an evening of catching up.
- 24:14Speaker 2: But when the friend gets home, Mariah is not there
- 24:18Speaker 2: to open the door.
- 24:19Speaker 3: Listen our cup base.
- 24:20Speaker 10: When Moe Wilson's friend returns home from her dinner plans,
- 24:24Speaker 10: she finds Wilson unresponsive. Inside the home, there's blood everywhere,
- 24:29Speaker 10: and her friend is in the bathroom, lodged between the
- 24:31Speaker 10: toilet and the wall. Nine one one is called. Police
- 24:35Speaker 10: arrive to find Wilson has been shot multiple times with
- 24:38Speaker 10: a nine millimeter weapon and it doesn't appear the shooting
- 24:42Speaker 10: is random.
- 24:42Speaker 2: I want to talk about that issue because it's very
- 24:45Speaker 2: very significant to me. Joseph Scott Morgan, a professor Friensis
- 24:50Speaker 2: Jacksonville State University. It's significant to me that Mariah Moe
- 24:58Speaker 2: is lodged between the toilet and the wall, that little spot.
- 25:04Speaker 2: You know a lot of homes they put the commode
- 25:06Speaker 2: off so it doesn't take any extra room off by
- 25:10Speaker 2: the wall. Now, this is what I was asking earlier,
- 25:13Speaker 2: and I'm want to give you my hypothesis. Blood was
- 25:17Speaker 2: quote everywhere, blood everywhere, and.
- 25:21Speaker 3: Mariah was wedged down as far as.
- 25:24Speaker 2: She could get between the commode and the wall, which means,
- 25:29Speaker 2: because the blood is everywhere, she was shot and then
- 25:34Speaker 2: she kept trying to get away and finally wedged down.
- 25:39Speaker 3: Between that commode and the wall to protect herself, and
- 25:44Speaker 3: that's where she died.
- 25:45Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about, that she was chased because
- 25:51Speaker 2: all the blood isn't right there a pool of blood
- 25:53Speaker 2: where her body was.
- 25:55Speaker 3: It was elsewhere, which tells me a chase was on.
- 26:00Speaker 9: Yeah, you just followed the path that the blood leaves.
- 26:03Speaker 9: And here here's one other thing. I think a lot
- 26:04Speaker 9: of folks out there believe that if you're shot, you're
- 26:08Speaker 9: automatically going to go down, and of course that's anatomically dependent.
- 26:13Speaker 9: It depends on where you're injured, you know, the impact
- 26:17Speaker 9: of that injury. And here's another layer of fear that
- 26:21Speaker 9: kind of plays into what Moe's last moments were, Nancy,
- 26:25Speaker 9: is that if we go with this idea that she
- 26:28Speaker 9: was chased and she wound up, you know, wedged in
- 26:32Speaker 9: this tiny little environment, she's trying to go to that
- 26:34Speaker 9: last point of retreat which you can put distance between herself.
- 26:38Speaker 9: She would have had an awareness, oh my god, I'm
- 26:40Speaker 9: being shot. Adrenaline's pumping, she's pumping blood, and so when
- 26:44Speaker 9: she gets in there heightened fear and this individual literally
- 26:51Speaker 9: advances on her and executes her. In this environment, it's
- 26:55Speaker 9: not just one shot, two shot. And this is more
- 26:57Speaker 9: of a Bethany comment, but the fact that she shot
- 27:01Speaker 9: so many times, and we don't have the exact number
- 27:04Speaker 9: at this point in time, but the fact that she
- 27:07Speaker 9: shot so many times, this goes to either wanting to
- 27:11Speaker 9: finish the job at that moment, Tom or just like
- 27:15Speaker 9: when we see a stabbing where you've got overkill, Nancy,
- 27:17Speaker 9: you got a lot of hate, you got a lot
- 27:19Speaker 9: of anger going forward to this.
- 27:21Speaker 2: Hey, And I'm going to circle back hey to you
- 27:23Speaker 2: Alan Bennett, a high profile lawyer, former prosecutor with Gunter
- 27:28Speaker 2: Bennett and Anthos joining us from this jurisdiction. Alan Bennet,
- 27:33Speaker 2: I want to hear everything about this courthouse, everything you
- 27:35Speaker 2: know about the judge that you can repeat on air,
- 27:38Speaker 2: but I want to circle back to you about flight
- 27:41Speaker 2: and about the multiple gun.
- 27:43Speaker 3: Shots, because me and I would hammer that with this.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Jury a lot of people think, oh, kayln Armstrong was mad.
- 27:49Speaker 2: She was angry, so she pulled a gun and just shot.
- 27:53Speaker 2: Oh hgl n oh. Premeditation in that jurisdiction of Austin
- 27:59Speaker 2: can be formed in the blink of an eye, the
- 28:01Speaker 2: twinkling of a moment, the time it takes you to
- 28:04Speaker 2: pull a gun and raise it and.
- 28:06Speaker 3: Pull the trigger.
- 28:07Speaker 2: The fact that Mariah Wilson Moe was shot multiple times
- 28:13Speaker 2: is time enough, more than enough to form premeditation intent
- 28:19Speaker 2: to act under the law much less. If my theory
- 28:22Speaker 2: is true, where Mariah was actually chased to the house,
- 28:26Speaker 2: that's more time. You've got her circling the house, with
- 28:30Speaker 2: bringing a gun, with her showing intent all that time.
- 28:34Speaker 2: She could have just kept on driving, but no, she
- 28:36Speaker 2: went in and gunned down Mariah out of anger over
- 28:41Speaker 2: a hamburger. Really, they had a hamburger together. So she
- 28:47Speaker 2: gets the death penalty.
- 28:48Speaker 3: Uh huh. And I don't care how glamorous she is.
- 28:51Speaker 2: She can go straight to supper with Satan for all
- 28:55Speaker 2: eye care. So we're talking about what's gonna be hapen,
- 28:57Speaker 2: and it's happening right now, by the way, the opening
- 29:00Speaker 2: statements are happening.
- 29:02Speaker 3: Now, catch this. The police actually had.
- 29:07Speaker 2: Had Kaylin Armstrong in their grasp, they did not arrest
- 29:12Speaker 2: her or all suspicion of murder. They let her go
- 29:15Speaker 2: because of a technicality and a previous warrant where she
- 29:18Speaker 2: did not pay for botox and she got away. She
- 29:21Speaker 2: left without paying and there was a warrant on her
- 29:24Speaker 2: for that. They could have grabbed her right then on
- 29:27Speaker 2: that warrant, but no, they let her go and she
- 29:30Speaker 2: took off. But I want you to hear this. I
- 29:33Speaker 2: want you to hear I cut one five four. This
- 29:35Speaker 2: is a detective Richard Spiller from Austin p D.
- 29:38Speaker 4: The Austoin Police Department's tack Until unit located calling at
- 29:41Speaker 4: his residence and he agreed to an interview. Members of
- 29:44Speaker 4: the tack Until unit located Armstrong and she was arrested
- 29:47Speaker 4: for a misumeinor warrant issued out of Travis County. Armstrong
- 29:50Speaker 4: was transported to the main police station and interviewed. Armstrong
- 29:53Speaker 4: was questioned about her vehicle being in the area as
- 29:56Speaker 4: pictured on the ring camera. However, she would not confirm
- 29:59Speaker 4: or deny being in the area of the murder and
- 30:01Speaker 4: quickly terminated the interview.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Nothing raises my suspicion more than someone that can't say, oh, no,
- 30:07Speaker 2: that's not my car. It doesn't have a World Peace
- 30:12Speaker 2: sticker on the back, or it doesn't have a little
- 30:15Speaker 2: dent and the fender, or in my case, it doesn't
- 30:18Speaker 2: have a Halloween skeletons strap to the top. You should
- 30:21Speaker 2: be able to look at a car and say, oh,
- 30:23Speaker 2: that's not my car because it doesn't have whatever. But
- 30:26Speaker 2: she saw the video of that car, her car going
- 30:30Speaker 2: around and around the soon to be murder seen she
- 30:34Speaker 2: said huh what and left and they let her go,
- 30:39Speaker 2: even though she had a misdemeanor warrant on her for
- 30:43Speaker 2: failure to pay for of course botox treatments.
- 30:46Speaker 3: I love that part.
- 30:48Speaker 2: Police want to talk to her, but she is nowhere
- 30:51Speaker 2: to be found. And then we find out this take
- 30:55Speaker 2: a listener our cut f as in Frank.
- 30:57Speaker 10: Police want to talk to Armstrong again, but she's nowhere
- 31:00Speaker 10: to be found. Not only did she disappear, she deleted
- 31:04Speaker 10: all her social media accounts. Law enforcement is on the
- 31:07Speaker 10: lookout for Armstrong driving her black Jeep Grand Cherokee, but
- 31:11Speaker 10: three days later video is released of Armstrong in Austin's airport.
- 31:15Speaker 10: Investigators say she flew from Austin to Houston and then
- 31:18Speaker 10: onto New York. Surveillance footage shows Caitlin Armstrong flying into
- 31:22Speaker 10: New York Slaguardia Airport on May fourteenth. Then on May eighteenth,
- 31:26Speaker 10: the day after a murder warrant was issued for Armstrong,
- 31:30Speaker 10: someone dropped her off at New Jersey's Newark Airport. But
- 31:33Speaker 10: there's no record of her taking a flight.
- 31:36Speaker 2: And just like that, she slips through the fingers of
- 31:41Speaker 2: authorities and she is gone.
- 32:00Speaker 1: I'm stories with Nancy Grace.
- 32:07Speaker 3: Joining me right now.
- 32:09Speaker 2: IRV Brandt, Senior Inspector, US Marshall Service, International Investigations, Chief Inspector,
- 32:15Speaker 2: Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs, best selling author
- 32:19Speaker 2: of Solo's Shot, Curse of the Blue Stone and Flying
- 32:23Speaker 2: Solo Top of the World, both on Amazon, which I
- 32:27Speaker 2: believe he incorporated all of his world travels hunting down
- 32:31Speaker 2: criminals like Kaitlin Armstrong to create Solo.
- 32:37Speaker 3: Okay, Jack Solo. IRV. Brant thank you for being with us.
- 32:41Speaker 2: So there is a massive search for Kaitlin Armstrong. She
- 32:46Speaker 2: slips through their fingers. They got to be very embarrassed.
- 32:48Speaker 2: They should be. I mean, she's right there in the
- 32:51Speaker 2: police HQ. And because there's a different I think it
- 32:54Speaker 2: was a dob on the misdemeanor warrant. They're like, oh,
- 32:57Speaker 2: maybe that's not her. Anyway, she escapes. Tell me about
- 33:03Speaker 2: how they find her hiding out at a surf hostel
- 33:08Speaker 2: in Costa Rica, teaching trying to teach surf yoga, with
- 33:14Speaker 2: a nose job, changing her appearance.
- 33:17Speaker 5: Oops, that's correct, Nancy. She left the United States viaon
- 33:24Speaker 5: fraudulent passport and made her way to that surf resort.
- 33:30Speaker 2: You mean we think her sister's passport, didn't We find
- 33:33Speaker 2: out for sure it was, Yeah, the sister's passport.
- 33:36Speaker 3: They looked very similar.
- 33:37Speaker 5: Go ahead, that's correct. And since she was came in
- 33:42Speaker 5: under a different name, and she used multiple airliesses while
- 33:46Speaker 5: she was in Costa Rica, and she made her way
- 33:49Speaker 5: to the surfer resort where she changed her hair color,
- 33:54Speaker 5: she had cosmetic surgery. She was obviously hiding. She was
- 34:00Speaker 5: telling people that she'd met, She'd made up different stories
- 34:05Speaker 5: about her life. And when US Marshall Service along with
- 34:10Speaker 5: the Costa Rican Police tracked her down, you know, and
- 34:15Speaker 5: took her into custody, she waived her right to deportation
- 34:19Speaker 5: hearings and voluntarily he returned to the United States escorted
- 34:23Speaker 5: by the United States Marshall Service and was taken into
- 34:26Speaker 5: custody into Texas, where she was housed until time of trial.
- 34:32Speaker 2: Can We talked about her making up stories about her life,
- 34:37Speaker 2: traveling under a fake passport, getting as far away from
- 34:42Speaker 2: the US as she could, and a place where they
- 34:46Speaker 2: speak English. And of course Costa Rica is a very
- 34:51Speaker 2: unique place. You've got the beach at Tammerindo, you have
- 34:58Speaker 2: the mountains like matt Monteverde that you have the volcanic area,
- 35:05Speaker 2: which is a whole swath of land there at volcanoes,
- 35:10Speaker 2: so she could blend in in a very unique way.
- 35:16Speaker 3: There are tourists, so she could blend in in that way.
- 35:21Speaker 3: She picked a great place to go.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Still, there's plenty of people that speak English, and there
- 35:29Speaker 2: are areas of Costa Rica that are extremely remote.
- 35:33Speaker 3: For instance, I hiked there before.
- 35:37Speaker 2: If you go hiking in Costa Rica, say around orn
- 35:40Speaker 2: All or in the rainforest area, you can blend in
- 35:45Speaker 2: and never be found of Brent.
- 35:48Speaker 5: That's exactly right, Nancy, and that's the reason why she
- 35:51Speaker 5: picked it. There's a very large xpact community and what
- 35:55Speaker 5: i'man by that is Americans that reside in Costa Rica
- 36:00Speaker 5: and one of the allures of Costa Rica. If you
- 36:04Speaker 5: ask them, they'll tell you going off the grid. They
- 36:09Speaker 5: just absolutely want to disappear. They don't want to be found.
- 36:14Speaker 5: And I'm not talking about criminals, I'm just talking.
- 36:16Speaker 3: About people in general in general.
- 36:18Speaker 5: That's correct. And so it's a perfect hiding place for
- 36:22Speaker 5: someone who is being hunted by the law.
- 36:25Speaker 3: You know what else it is, It's a surfing mecca.
- 36:30Speaker 3: Surfers love Costa Rica.
- 36:32Speaker 2: They have awesome waves, so she would blend in perfectly
- 36:37Speaker 2: there in the surfing and yoga scene. She was hiding
- 36:40Speaker 2: out in this hostel and they are in the hostel
- 36:43Speaker 2: when she was finally found our receipts, there was indication
- 36:47Speaker 2: that she had had a nose job to change her appearance.
- 36:51Speaker 2: So let me go to Alan Bennett. Based on everything
- 36:53Speaker 2: you're hearing from Erv Brandt, Alan Bennett, former prosecutor now
- 36:58Speaker 2: civil attorney. Judges, Well, the law is in many jurisdictions
- 37:02Speaker 2: now that the judge cannot instruct the jury at the
- 37:07Speaker 2: end of the trial on flight as indicator of guilt.
- 37:12Speaker 2: In other words, when I see a cop pull up
- 37:15Speaker 2: behind me on the interstate. I may touch the brakes,
- 37:18Speaker 2: but I know Flora to one hundred and ten mphs.
- 37:21Speaker 3: Try to get away.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Why would I?
- 37:23Speaker 2: Because I don't have anything to hide right now anyway.
- 37:27Speaker 2: But flight, when you do take off at one hundred
- 37:30Speaker 2: and ten mph, why a jury can assume, if argued correctly,
- 37:37Speaker 2: that you take flight because you're guilty. Come on, she's
- 37:41Speaker 2: traveling under a fake name with her sister's passport, gets
- 37:45Speaker 2: a nose job, makes up a whole new life story,
- 37:49Speaker 2: on and on and on to distance herself from the shooting.
- 37:54Speaker 2: It's flight, and the state prosecutor can still argue that
- 37:59Speaker 2: to the jury. Why would she have gone to Costa
- 38:01Speaker 2: Rica and hide out in a hostel where she's sharing
- 38:05Speaker 2: a room with five other people in a butt bed
- 38:08Speaker 2: if she.
- 38:08Speaker 3: Didn't have to.
- 38:09Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am, I agree, and Texas does honor that doctrine.
- 38:14Speaker 7: It is what we refer to as evidence of guilt
- 38:17Speaker 7: or evidence of consciousness of guilt. And you're absolutely right.
- 38:20Speaker 7: Of course, you expect an innocent person to be jumping
- 38:23Speaker 7: up and down, demanding their day in court so as
- 38:26Speaker 7: to clear their good name. On the contrary, someone who
- 38:30Speaker 7: escapes attempts to escape flees the jurisdiction. Your intuition, your
- 38:36Speaker 7: common sense would dictate that that is someone who does
- 38:39Speaker 7: not want to go to gord, who does not want
- 38:41Speaker 7: to have their day, who does not want to have
- 38:43Speaker 7: their trial to clear their good name. And in fact,
- 38:46Speaker 7: here in Texas, that should be admissible before the jury
- 38:49Speaker 7: to show that Ms. Armstrong's conduct is conduct from which
- 38:55Speaker 7: a jury can infer guilt or certainly show her own
- 38:58Speaker 7: consciousness of guilt. Saying would also apply to her subsequent
- 39:02Speaker 7: attempt to escape custody just a month or so ago.
- 39:05Speaker 2: You know, I'm just going to bring that up, IRV Brandt.
- 39:09Speaker 2: Alan Bennett is right. I can't wait to hear what
- 39:12Speaker 2: doctor Bethany has to say about this.
- 39:14Speaker 3: IRV Brandt.
- 39:15Speaker 2: You know, in the past couple of weeks, she faked
- 39:18Speaker 2: up an illness to get an appointment away from the
- 39:20Speaker 2: jail in a doctor's appointment, and they take her to
- 39:25Speaker 2: the appointment offsite, and of course she makes a run
- 39:30Speaker 2: for it, and the jailers were in no physical shape
- 39:34Speaker 2: to give chase.
- 39:34Speaker 3: I can just say that right.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Now, she manages, even in handcuffs, she didn't have a
- 39:40Speaker 2: leg restraints. She manages to scale a wall a big wall. Look, Jackie,
- 39:44Speaker 2: what would you say five feet tall? At least she
- 39:47Speaker 2: scales the wall, even in handcuffs. They finally get her.
- 39:51Speaker 3: So RV Brandt, this woman is intent on escaping.
- 39:54Speaker 2: Why then because it was time for her trial and
- 39:58Speaker 2: she thinks she's going to be found guilty.
- 40:00Speaker 5: You're correct, and I'm sorry, but this is not a
- 40:03Speaker 5: funny subject. I don't mean to make light of it.
- 40:06Speaker 3: Mariah's parents aren't listening to you or Brant snickering.
- 40:09Speaker 5: I watched the video of her that went viral, of
- 40:14Speaker 5: her just torching and a race those deputies while she's
- 40:22Speaker 5: in a waiste chain and handcuffed to her waist, and she's.
- 40:27Speaker 2: Still They need to go to dance duty right now, Nancy.
- 40:32Speaker 5: I'm not going to make fun of them because it
- 40:36Speaker 5: happens in thirty In my thirty years of law enforcement,
- 40:40Speaker 5: I have had suspects who are in coughs break away
- 40:47Speaker 5: from me and I had to chase them down.
- 40:49Speaker 3: Hey, I don't know that I could catch her, but
- 40:51Speaker 3: I'm not wearing.
- 40:52Speaker 2: A deputy outfit and a gun on my hip, sworn
- 40:55Speaker 2: to protect the person.
- 40:56Speaker 5: I'm telling you, she's stashed. She's stassed like a cheetah.
- 41:00Speaker 5: But they got her. Yeah, and so I'm not going
- 41:04Speaker 5: to make fun of them.
- 41:04Speaker 3: Because nobody asks you to. I'm asking you about what
- 41:07Speaker 3: that means to you.
- 41:09Speaker 5: Well, that shows a consciousness of guilt, and she wants
- 41:13Speaker 5: to get away. She doesn't want to go to trial.
- 41:15Speaker 5: But what happens now down intended consequences of this is
- 41:20Speaker 5: she's designated as an escape risk. And that's just not
- 41:24Speaker 5: for the right now. This is going to follow her forever.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Can when we talk about what it means in the
- 41:30Speaker 2: here and now, it means this jury can hear about it.
- 41:34Speaker 2: Evidence indicating guilt Doctor Bethany Marshall jump in throw her
- 41:40Speaker 2: brant a life raff for Pete's sake.
- 41:43Speaker 8: It indicates something else. It indicates her ability to plan ahead.
- 41:47Speaker 8: Remember in jail she exercised vigorously. She turned a pen
- 41:53Speaker 8: into an object that she could use to loosen the handcuff.
- 41:57Speaker 8: This woman plants and plans in an oceanic kind of way.
- 42:02Speaker 8: So when it comes to the killing of Wilson, it
- 42:06Speaker 8: was not just in the spur of the moment. This
- 42:09Speaker 8: woman Armstrong thought about it and thought about it and
- 42:12Speaker 8: thought about it. There's a lot of careful planning that
- 42:14Speaker 8: goes into this. Maybe if I saw her in my office,
- 42:17Speaker 8: I would see her persepating, obsessing, rageful, in a paranoid state.
- 42:24Speaker 8: And you know this, this going to Costa Rica is
- 42:26Speaker 8: also interesting because she had this twelve thousand dollars jeep
- 42:29Speaker 8: she sold, and twelve thousand dollars goes a long way
- 42:33Speaker 8: in Costa Rica. It doesn't go a long way in
- 42:35Speaker 8: the United States. If you want to get a nosed
- 42:37Speaker 8: job and you want to live on the lamb. And
- 42:39Speaker 8: I think so fascinating thing to me. You know how criminals,
- 42:43Speaker 8: men in jail always become ministers, so they you know,
- 42:46Speaker 8: they accept the Lord Jesus Christ into their heart. And
- 42:49Speaker 8: I'm not making fun of that because I'm a Christian.
- 42:50Speaker 3: Do not crank up about Christ.
- 42:54Speaker 8: Okay, okay, But women do the equivalent version. By the
- 43:00Speaker 8: huming yoga instructors and mystics and spiritual leaders, they all
- 43:05Speaker 8: feel in some grandiose way, like they've come to see
- 43:09Speaker 8: the light and they believe it, Nancy, they believe they
- 43:12Speaker 8: have a unique and special connection to God.
- 43:15Speaker 3: I do not know what that has to do with
- 43:18Speaker 3: her taking off and.
- 43:20Speaker 2: Arm restraints grandiosity, but somehow you did it Dr Bethany.
- 43:25Speaker 3: Somehow you cobble those two together. I can tell you right.
- 43:28Speaker 2: Now that jury is hearing how many times twenty five
- 43:34Speaker 2: year old Mariah Wilson was shot, shot dead till she
- 43:40Speaker 2: bled out on the bathroom floor. We'll bring you the latest.
- 43:45Speaker 3: Goodbye friend,