Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Convicted Killer of Star Cyclist Tries to Avoid Paying Judgement: Victim's Family

Episode Date: August 3, 2024

Anna Moriah Wilson was in Texas to race 150-mile Gravel Locas competition. She's bunking at the home of friend Caitlyn Cash. After an evening of swimming with fellow  cyclist, Colin Strickland, Wilson returns to Cash's home for the evening. When Cash arrived however, she finds Wilson in a pool of blood in the bathroom. Wilson has been shot multiple times.  Police find surveillance video of a black SUV seen outside near the time of Wilson's death. The SUV is tracked to Colin Strickland girlfriend, Kaitlyn Armstrong. Armstrong is convicted of murder. Now she tries to avoid paying the victim's family.  Joining Nancy Grace today:  Rania Mankarious - CEO, Crime Stoppers of Houston, Author: "The Online World, What You Think You Know and What You Don’t: 4 Critical Tools for Navigating the Digital Age", Crime-Stoppers.org, RaniaMankarious.com, Instagram/Twitter: @TheRaniaReport  James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective, Former S.W.A.T. officer, Attorney, The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C., www.ShelnuttLawFirm.com, Twitter: @ShelnuttLawFirm Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy), www.panthermitigation.com, Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology"  Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan" Tony Plohetski - Investigative Reporter, Austin American-Statesman and KVUE (Austin, TX), Twitter: @tplohetski  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The so-called glam yoga teacher killer, Caitlin Armstrong, has made an underhanded sneaky move to avoid paying the family of her murder victim, world-class cycling star Mariah Wilson, $15 million. Now, the glam yoga teacher is hit with a new lawsuit. Who could forget the glam yoga teacher, Caitlin Armstrong, furious. Her boyfriend had a hamburger and went swimming with his former girlfriend, a world-class dirt bike competitor, Mo Wilson. So what did she do? She murdered Mo, shot her in cold blood after stalking her. She was convicted at trial and oh yes, remember, she went

on the run hiding out at a hostel in Costa Rica after getting a nose job, going under a different name. Yeah, that one. Now, another sneaky underhanded move. Are you surprised? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us. The jealous yoga teacher who murdered her younger love rival with a bullet through the heart, literally, quietly transferred all her property to relatives. Why? To avoid compensating her victim's family, according to a new lawsuit. The 36-year-old yoga teacher was sentenced to 90 years behind bars for gunning down a Texas cycling superstar, Anna Mariah Moe Wilson, just 25, in a rage at Moe's friendship with Armstrong's cyclist boyfriend, Colin Strickland. In the last days, a judge ordered Caitlin Armstrong to pay Wilson's parents $15 million after they sued her for the wrongful

death of their daughter. But a brand new lawsuit from the couple, from the parents claims that most, if not all, of Armstrong's assets have already been passed to Armstrong's mother and sister. So Mo's family gets nothing. Again, are you surprised? How did the whole thing start? Let's kick it off. Take a listen to our friends at Fox 7. Police are investigating a suspicious death in East Austin. This happened on Maple Avenue near East 17th Street overnight. A woman called police saying she found her friend inside her house unresponsive and there was blood near her. When officers arrived, they found the victim had gunshot wounds. AMS provided life-saving measures, but the woman later died from her injuries.

Police do not know how long she was inside the home, but did call her death suspicious. It is unclear if a gun was found on scene. Suspicious? Man, they're staying pretty calm. Multiple gunshot wounds? I would say, yeah, that's suspicious. I can go ahead and answer that for the cops. Take a listen now to our friend, John Krenjack, Fox 7. Tonight, we're learning the victim of a deadly shooting in East Austin earlier this week was a well-known cyclist who was supposed to take part in a mountain bike race in the hill country today. Anna Wilson, better known by her middle name Mariah, was pronounced dead on Wednesday night at home on Maple Avenue near 18th Street. Austin police were called there after a friend of Wilson's returned home to find the 25 year old unconscious with gunshot wounds. A pd has not believed the shooting was random. They're urging anyone with information or video of what happened to give them a call. Now, according to the cycling magazine Velo, Wilson was in Texas ahead of today's gravel low coast race in Heiko, where she was a favorite to win. Velo published a statement from her family saying she was, quote, always pushing tirelessly to reach her goals.

We knew she was pursuing that, which she loved. The family adding, we know Mariah would want the event to carry on. You know, when I hear the address Maple Avenue, that sounds straight out of a storybook. And from what I've learned, this is a pretty ritzy area there in Austin. Joining me, an all-star panel, but let me first go straight out to Tony Plahetsky, longtime friend, colleague, investigative reporter with the Austin American Statesman and KVUE, Twitter at T. Pllohetsky. Tony, tell me about East Austin. I got the word gentrified from you.

What do you mean by that? I mean, Maple Avenue. It sounds like it's out of a fable, a book. It sounds so peaceful and idyllic. To have somebody, the number one female gravel cyclist in the world, gunned down dead in an apartment, doesn't fit with Maple Avenue. Well, so over the years, this area of East Austin has truly been transformed. Wait a minute, Tony Plohetsky, just stop right there. Let me just call it like it is. It reminds me of when I moved to Atlanta and started prosecuting

in inner city Atlanta's Fulton district attorney's office. I lived in Midtown. And at that time, every morning when I would come out of my apartment, I'd go to my car and there'd be gin bottles and pantyhose syringes, rubbers, empty bottles of liquor and pantyhose because hookers and addicts would come up and down my alley where I live to shoot up and conduct business. Let me just say, then it went gentrified people that wanted to live close to all the high rise skyscrapers and businesses downtown wanted to move there. They pumped their money into it, fixed it all up. Everybody had lawns and fancy apartments and fancy cars. I had to move. I couldn't afford it anymore. Is that what

you're saying? That's exactly what I'm saying. It is a carbon copy of what you just described. And so this area where Mariah Wilson was murdered is now home to high-rise apartments, townhomes that are very trendy. A lot of young people in our city live in this area who have moved to Austin from all over the country to work in tech, for example. And so it's really an area dominated increasingly by that population. I know what you mean. Gin bottles and pantyhose in the alley one day, then valet parking and high rises the next day. I get it. What I'm getting at is there's a very low crime rate on Maple Avenue.

Take a listen to our friends. Carissa Lemu Cole on Fox seven surprise everybody. East Austin residents. Michael Harris is talking about what happened the night of May 11th. Shocked to hear that a young prominent cyclist was shot and

killed while staying in the house across the street. I lived here almost two years and I've never maybe seen two police cars passed by. There's just where this neighborhood is. 25 year old Mariah Wilson was in Texas to compete in an upcoming race coming off a win at the Belgian waffle ride in California. We

all just marvel that you know, just what a wonderful personality and a great athlete and an ambassador for our sport. And then all of a sudden, how could this happen? And everyone's just sort of reeling from it. In addition to reporter Carissa, you're also hearing from the director of the Belgian Waffle Ride in California, Michael Marks. Everyone knew her and loved her. Now when I hear gravel cycling it's hard enough to race in sand to get your bike to go through. So why are you looking at me like

that Jackie? Are you imagining trying to ride a bike through sand much less gravel. Tell me about this. What is this, Tony Plohetsky? It's an endurance sport. I mean, it is where the, yeah, I mean, really, really a very competitive sport across the country, really across the world. And Mariah Wilson, as you mentioned, was a star in that world. She had already amassed a certain amount of acclaim, but she was really on her way. Even her competitors, her most fierce competitors, admired her and her stamina, her just natural born athleticism, but also also Nancy, her personality. I mean, when they talk about her, they actually don't lead with the fact that she was this amazing athlete.

They lead with talking about her kindness and her spirit. crime stories with nancy grace mariah wilson cut down murdered in the prime of her life a world-class cyclist she had once dated colin strickland but it was over when she was in town to compete again, the two went swimming and had a hamburger. And she gets shot dead for that? Mariah's parents, Eric and Karen, sought $1 million compensation for funeral expenses, loss of society, companionship, and the pain and suffering and anguish their daughter suffered at the time of her murder. So what does Caitlin Armstrong do? Secretly transfers all of her money, all of her

assets, vehicles, everything to her mom and sister to avoid paying the victim's family. I can't believe this woman. Back to the facts. Joseph Scott Morgan, the host of a hit new series, Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart. Joe Scott, just right off the bat, this woman, I can tell you, she's in a single dwelling apartment. She's unarmed and she's shot multiple times. I don't like it. We don't have any evidence of rape or burglary. So why is somebody coming into this apartment, if there was in fact a break-in,

and gunning her down multiple times? Yeah, and one of the things that kind of interests me is that when she was found, she was not found in like the foyer. She wasn't found at the entrance. She was actually found in the bathroom, which gives me an indication that unless there is an obvious sign that someone kicked in the door or, you know, pried open a window or maybe entered through a back door, even if there was a back door, that this may have been a location of retreat, you know, when people are being attacked. Why didn't, can I just ask you out of curiosity, everything you said, I'm down with that,

but why don't you just say she was in the bathroom, makes me think she ran from her attacker and hid in the bathroom. Well, because I. I mean, does it ever dawn on you to talk like the rest of us? No. Okay, go ahead. It just I respect that. No, it just it just grasped me, you know, the moment that I read this and heard it, you know, the fact that she was in the bathroom, you know, who feels comfortable with entering the bathroom with someone else? Maybe she's retreated to that point. Maybe she was forced in there. You know, when, you know, one of the things like if you have bad weather, people tell you to retreat to the bathroom. It's generally the most secure area in the house if you don't have a basement or something. And it could be an area where sound is muffled, for instance, because Nancy, when they found her, her body is blood soaked. And there there are and this is very key there are multiple spent

shell casings laying about her body in this approximate area as well okay stop right there she's in the bathroom you think there's a very good chance she ran to the bathroom i agree um multiple spent shell casings around her that tells me this is not a pro because you would take the time to pick them up. Shell nut with me also James Shell nut, 27 years and Metro major case also swap now lawyer with the Shell nut firm on Twitter at Shell nut law firm right there. We know it's someone that's not a pro because the pro after the killing would pick up the shell casings because they just like a bullet can be matched back like a fingerprint to the weapon. Because once you get, if you ever get the murder weapon, when the shell comes out, there is an ejector mark. The shell, although it may not hurl down the barrel, is ejected. Think of an ejection seat

in a plane. The shell is ejected out and the force of leaving the weapon leaves a mark on the shell unlike any other marking from any other gun on a shell agree disagree shell nut agree 100 and what that allows you to do is to go back and do further investigation to see if a person that you suspect being involved in a crime had access to a weapon that would leave that type of strike mark on the shell case. Guys, take a listen to our cut 15, our cut 15 from Crime Online. Why is Mariah, also known as Mo, in Texas to race? Listen. Anna Mo Wilson was in Texas to race. The Gravel Locos competition was a 150-mile race in a discipline that blends mountain biking and road cycling.

It's a profession new to Wilson. She had recently quit her job with the bike company Specialized to focus on cycling full-time. Wilson had won 10 off-road races this year, including an 80-kilometer race at the Sea Otter Classic, a cycling festival in Monterey, California. So she was there strictly for business. Back to you, Tony Plohetsky. Where was she staying? Whose apartment was this? A friend, a longtime friend who does live in Austin. And that friend had actually picked her up at the airport and given her a special code, an access code to her apartment so that she could go and come as she pleased. And so that's what Mariah Wilson had done. I mean, there are other things that she had been doing out on the town while she had been here

just a couple of days, actually, by the time that she had been found dead. Just a couple of days in Austin, and now she's dead. With me, Tony Plohetsky is joining us. Tony, with the Austin American Statesman. I'm glad you mentioned that code, that special access code. Take a listen to Hour Cut 17, our friends at CrimeOnline.com. At first, suspecting a robbery, police in Cash checked the home. The only thing missing was Anna Wilson's specialized S-Works bicycle. As officers checked the area, Wilson's bicycle was found around 68 feet south of Cash's home, hidden in thick bamboo. The investigation quickly turned from interrupted robbery to homicide, as Cash explained that she has specialized electronic locks on her door that unlock by using a unique code. Cash had provided Wilson with a new code,

with Cash getting a phone notification when the door is either locked or unlocked. At 8.36 p.m., Wilson came home. You know, that's very, very interesting. Let me go to another special guest joining us. It is Rania Mankarius, CEO, Crime Stoppers of Houston, author of The Online World, What You Think You Know and What You Don't. You can find her at RaniaMancarius.com. Rania, thank you for being with us so very much and for all of your hard work with Crime Stoppers of Houston. Rania, when I was writing Don't Be a Victim, I researched about how you of course should always change your code on everything you've got your iPad your cell phone your recording your home

answering machine if you have one your code in and out of your home your gate code everything don't leave it on factory set because you can look that up online and predators do look it up online to find out what the factory setting is and most of the world believe it or not that has a code of any type puts in one two three four or one one one one or two two two two it's very very simple to crack that code that's when I learned researching for don't be a victim that you can have your code to get into your apartment like this friend had and then you can give visitors their own code.

So you don't have to X out your code every time you have a visitor and they leave and come up with a new one, which I think is really, really smart. When you have visitors, you assign them a different code that works with your system. That sounds like what happened here, Rania. Yeah, and I agreed. And that sounds like what Caitlin Cash did. She assigned Mariah her own unique code and has since said that she's, you know, erased that code and has changed her code. But she was doing everything she could to keep herself safe and to keep her guests safe. But that move, that very smart move, really it's helping law enforcement in this case. And it's something we advise all people to do as we embrace technology and we look

to have smart homes and smart technology in our homes. We want people to utilize this in a way that keeps them safe. So let's get right down to it. To Dr. Sherry Schwartz, joining me, a forensic psychologist specializing in capital mitigation. She's the author of Criminal Behavior and Where Law and Psychology Intersect. Dr. Sherry Schwartz, thank you for joining us from Miami Beach today. Dr. Sherry, that's when you feel at home. You feel at home when you go into a secure apartment that you can only get in with a special code devised for you. Why am I saying this? Who would have had that code? Who could have figured out that code?

Or could the perp have somehow gotten in behind her? Did she not lock the door when she went in? I'm following up on what Joe Scott Morgan said, that it seems as if the victim, this world-class, gorgeous, 25-year-old cyclist, had retreated to the bathroom. Or maybe she was just in the bathroom. But I know her defenses were down, Dr. Sherry. She thought she was safe. Correct. She walked through the door.

I mean, maybe she did forget to lock it or didn't maybe thought it was locked. It's a new environment for her. She's a guest at this location. So maybe she didn't think about how to lock the door, maybe thought it locked automatically behind her. But you're right. She probably felt very safe and secure and headed to use the restroom like many of us do when we first get home. So this is nothing unusual. And if I feel safe and secure in a location, I'm not necessarily going to be hypervigilant looking for someone, especially

if I'm at home, looking for someone who's going to be coming in behind. Again, Mo, Mariah Wilson, was a rising star in gravel and dirt cycling. And she dated Colin Strickland after he had broken up with Caitlin Armstrong, the yoga teacher. And their relationship continued as a friendship after he got back together with Armstrong. So that May, Wilson went to Austin for a race, and she met up with Strickland for supper. Caitlin Armstrong followed them to the restaurant, and her black Jeep was caught on surveillance video circling round and round the block.

What more do the facts tell us? You know what's interesting? Tony Plohetsky joining me from the Austin American Statesman. Tony, it doesn't sound like there was a struggle. I wonder if the person had secreted themselves in the home, if they followed in behind her, if she didn't lock the door, if she didn't use the code. But I don't hear anything about a struggle ensuing, any evidence of a struggle. It sounds like Mariah was just shot stone cold dead. That's exactly right.

In a pool of blood on the floor. And so that is how her friend, Caitlin, found her. And that is how the police found her when they arrived. Guys, take a listen to our cut 16, because I'm trying to figure out what happened. Where was this friend whose apartment she was using, staying there with the friend? Who was it and what happened in the hours leading up to this world-class cyclist murder? Friend Caitlin Cash picked up Wilson at the airport. Wilson was to stay at Cash's home until the race. The next day, Cash received a text from Wilson saying that she was meeting a friend named Colin to go swimming. That afternoon, around 5 30, as Cash left to go

meet friends for dinner, she noticed Wilson's large bicycle travel bag outside the front door on the elevated porch. Cash says she told Wilson to move the bag inside so it wouldn't be stolen. But when Cash came home from dinner, the large bicycle travel bag was at the bottom of the stairs, partially blocking the carport. As she went inside, the front door was unlocked, and Wilson was lying on the bathroom floor covered in blood. Okay, Tony Plohetsky joining me, Austin American-Statesman.

I just learned a lot. So this is a friend, Caitlin Cash, that picks her up at the airport, offers her apartment up for her to stay, and she was going to stay there until the race. The next day she was meeting somebody to go swimming, but listen to go swimming. But listen to this part. She noticed the travel bag outside in the front door on the front door on an elevated porch.

She told. Now, first of all, to me, that rules out the friend who would be your first suspect because she's already had a chance to kill her when she picked up from the airport. Also, it's usually not the killer that calls 9-1-1. Okay so let's start with that but she comes back she tells her move your big bag with all your gear inside so nobody steals it. So that tells me while you're telling me this is a gentrified neighborhood there still could be somebody that would come along and burgle or steal. I learned that. I also learned that the door was unlocked. The front door was unlocked. No jimmying the door, no primarchs, no forced entry. The door was unlocked, which leads me to think the victim, Mariah Wilson,

walked in suspecting nothing and didn't lock the door. Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that that is possible. The other possibility that we really haven't talked about here, though, Nancy, is whether or not Mariah Wilson may have known the person, maybe saw someone outside that was known to her. Let's go in and talk. Could that have happened um here could someone have come to the door right behind her that she knew that is an interesting possibility as well you're absolutely right guys take a listen now we finally

get a tiny break in the case our cut 18 from crime online. Detectives turned to video as they discover a surveillance camera mounted on the exterior of a home nearby. The camera faced the driveway next to Cash's home. The footage showed a dark colored SUV drive past at 8 37 p.m. That's one minute after Wilson entered Cash's home. The SUV slowed down appearing to come to a stop directly next to Cash's residence. The SUV had a large bicycle rack mounted on the trailer hitch of the vehicle, a luggage rack mounted on the roof, and chrome around the windows. No other vehicles were seen on video surveillance until emergency vehicles arrived. Okay, what did we ever do, James Shelnut, before video surveillance? Ring doorbells,

the works. So tell me the significance because in my mind it's going to be tough to explain that this black SUV was on the scene one minute before. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty significant information. I mean, now you've got a potential suspect vehicle identified and if you can tie that to someone who may have a reason to have hurt Mo, then at that point you've got something. You're gonna wanna go back and look and say, okay, what are the usual suspects?

You know, the usual suspects for motive in murder cases, when you don't know who did it, you're always going to want to look at money, sex, and revenge. And can you tie that vehicle to someone who would have had one of those motives? You know, I'm curious, too. Rania Mankarius joining me with Crime Stoppers of Houston and author. The art of identifying a vehicle is very, very sophisticated. Every year to two years, car manufacturers change subtle portions of the make and model. For instance, they may change the taillight. They may turn it from two ta light panes to three, or they may slant it,

or they may change something about the bumper or the wheels. I mean, it changes every couple of years. They don't keep the same exact model for a reason. So there are people in car, car theft, stolen cars, just like there's a homicide squad, there's a car theft squad, there's a burglary squad, there is a crimes on children, a crime on women's squad, there's a white collar crime squad. So these guys and women in car theft, they know all of this. If they can get a look at the make and model, they can tell you the year. If they can even get a partial tag, they can find out who that belongs to fairly quickly. Would you agree, Rania? Absolutely, I agree. And then let's just say we kind of brushed over the fact that a local camera on an exterior of a neighbor's building really caught the video. That's critical because to

your point, cars are changing constantly. People, you have eyewitnesses to the scene that will be able to say, I think it was a black vehicle. I think it was a Jeep, but I'm not sure. But that video surveillance, even if it's just a taillight, gives law enforcement so much information, including potentially the tag. And that's what we had in this case. And that was what was absolutely critical in identifying the suspect. Moving forward, take a listen to our Cut 11, our friends at CBS. Although she wasn't from Austin, those right here in Central Texas have been shocked at her death. I think it's a bad tragedy. Michael Harris lives just across the street from where Anna Maria Wilson lost her life.

Those who knew her best called her Mo. According to an affidavit, Wilson was staying with a friend while preparing for a bicycling race. She was last seen alive on surveillance video being dropped off at the home by a local professional cyclist, Colin Strickland, who never went inside. This is really quiet over here.

We never had this happen before. APD says during the investigation, surveillance video showed a black deep Grand Cherokee drove past the house just one minute after Wilson went inside. Okay, right there, we're getting somebody else ruled out. We know that she had gone swimming that day earlier in the day with somebody named Collins Strickland. But did I hear this correctly, Tony Plohetsky, that the surveillance video shows Strickland bringing her home, never going in and leaving, correct? That is exactly right. And Strickland was not driving a black SUV. He was not. He was

as a matter of fact on his motorcycle. Oh, okay. Well that clears that up. So who is in the black SUV? Take a listen to our cut nine our friends at Fox 7 Armstrong's car was seen on surveillance video at Wilson's friend's home Wilson's friend later came home to find Wilson with multiple gunshot wounds we went to the home where the crime happened and the address listed for Armstrong and Strickland no response we tried calling Strickland as well. Sorry, the person we're trying to reach has a blow-sail box that has not been set up yet. All this leaving the cycling community in mourning. It's so incredibly painful for such a tight-knit community and people you've raced with, celebrated with,

like ridden so many miles with to be faced with this horrific tragedy. And really, my reaction is just pain and heartbreaking. Okay, so we've ruled out Colin Strickland, who dropped off on a motorcycle. Who, Tony Plohetsky, is Armstrong? Armstrong is Colin Strickland's girlfriend of three years, and they live together here in Austin and actually operate a business together in the Austin area. Caitlin Marie Armstrong, age 34, is the living girlfriend of Colin Strickland. Colin Strickland is who Mariah went swimming with? That's exactly right. Mariah and Colin Strickland had gone to a well-known pool, a community pool here in Austin called Deep Eddy, and went swimming together and then picked up a couple of burgers at a nearby popular spot. And then, as we know, he dropped her off back at the apartment on his motorcycle.

OK, I'm trying to take in everything that you just said. Take a listen to our cut 10. Angela Shen, Fox 7. The search is on for Caitlin Armstrong. Officials are asking for the public's help in finding her. According to the court paperwork, an anonymous caller had called police, saying Armstrong said she wanted to kill Wilson after finding out she was involved with her boyfriend. Now, the affidavit says the night of the murder, Wilson went for a swim with Colin Strickland, another cyclist. After that, he dropped her off at her friend's house. Wilson was visiting from California and was in Austin ahead of a race in Heiko. The paperwork says Strickland and

Kaitlyn Armstrong were in a relationship before briefly ending it for a couple of weeks last year. At that time, he was involved with Wilson. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. And let's not forget, this is evidence of guilt. Flight. Armstrong fled to Costa Rica using her sister's passport, dyed her hair, had plastic surgery, a nose job and a brow lift before she was found at a youth hostel teaching yoga surfing. Now, the lawsuit filed by the family was filed on the heels of a TV movie called Yoga Teacher Killer, the Caitlin Armstrong story. It aired on Lifetime, and the family launched their lawsuit against Armstrong out of fear that she would be cashing in on her notoriety. The family stated that the lawsuit was about getting a judgment.

So if she gets a movie deal, a book deal, a TV deal, money's flowing into her account, the judgment would keep her from basically getting blood money after the murder of their daughter, Mariah. This new lawsuit claims Caitlin Armstrong already transferred her stake in three properties to her family to try to avoid paying for her crime. Two properties in Austin were reportedly transferred to her mother or sister before they were sold, while her stake in a third that she co-owned with the boyfriend was transferred to her sister, Christine Armstrong, before being gifted back to Colin Strickland. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. What more do we know? I understand Mariah was not in a love relationship, a sex relationship with Colin Strickland.

Explain this love triangle. Mariah and Colin Strickland did have a relationship months ago while he was apparently broken up with Kristen Armstrong. That is what he tells the police. Colin reports that he and Armstrong were broken up and that he did have a brief relationship with Mariah Wilson. However, since that time, according to him and what he told police is that they had been friends. When you say relationship, are you talking about a love relationship, a sex relationship? What was it?

I believe it was, based on my understanding, a romantic relationship. I mean, that is the way that it has been described. Okay. So let me understand this. When Colin Strickland was broken up with Caitlin Armstrong, he had a love relationship with Mariah Wilson, the cycling star, right? That's right. And then they called it off and he got back with Caitlin Armstrong. Is that right? That is correct. OK, go from there. And so over time, over the past several months, Mariah and Strickland did maintain contact and apparently their relationship transitioned more into platonic, more into friendship. Colin Strickland himself and also apparently looking at his cell phone, learned more about

his ongoing friendship with Mariah Wilson and did not like it. And so that is what he told police as part of a very lengthy interview. Okay, wait, even though they were platonic, she still didn't like it? That's exactly, that is the understanding, yes. Oh, my goodness. You know, the first thing I would do, Runya Mankarius, joining us from Crime Stoppers Houston, I would get all of Caitlin Armstrong, age 34, cell phone records, and if she's got a landline. And I would find out how many times she had been checking her boyfriend's messages and cell phone messages. I would want to find out how she hacked into his email. Everything I could prove digitally to see how long she had been doing a slow burn over her boyfriend, Colin Strickland's relationship, now platonic, with Mariah, the cyclist star. Well, and it looks like that's what they've been doing.

And they've uncovered that Colin and Mariah had been exchanging texts and phone calls, although he changed Mariah's name on his phone to not infuriate his girlfriend. But she discovered it and she started calling Mariah incessantly. Mariah blocked the number, started following her on Instagram and following her on what we understand to be Strava, a fitness app to determine her whereabouts. So we can see Caitlin's actions. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What did you say about an app? It's called Strava or Strava, and it basically allows a cyclist to check in and show his or her followers, you know, the point of departure for a bike ride and then the point of return. And apparently, you know, Wilson had had pinged her location to the home of Caitlin Cash as a as a start of the bike ride and at the point of where she returned. And that's where we believe Armstrong learned of Wilson's whereabouts. So she would like chart her, her bike courses online so her followers

could know where she was riding. And it's very common, you know, given technology today, a lot of us live our daily lives, sharing our exact whereabouts in real time with this community and network of people who follow us. Uh, that's a big thing that I talk about in terms of how dangerous that really is and really can be. So dangerous. Absolutely. And that is one of the things that so many people have commented upon. I mean, when you look at Armstrong, it is her public image and even her image among people who knew her stands in stark contrast to what she is now accused of doing. She is described as successful, accomplished in her own right in the world of business.

She was a yoga instructor for several years in Bali. You mean Caitlin Armstrong? Yes. And so people are... So she was a yogi? She was in Bali, no less. And so people are trying to reconcile that image of her based on what police are saying she did. I'm looking at the video and there's no doubt about it. You see Armstrong's black SUV going back and forth. It's a Jeep Cherokee driving around outside the home. She's just circling it like a vulture. The car is again spotted that night after the, I guess, the love object, Colin Strickland drops off the victim, 25 year old Wilson and his yogi girlfriend just couldn't stand it. Yoga teacher, Caitlin Armstrong could not stand it. Dr. Sherry Schwartz, help me. A love triangle. I mean, if you got a guy that's cheating on you who wants him anyway i would send him straight to her house cod

cash on delivery and don't send him back no returns absolutely i agree a hundred percent nancy but clearly it seems that caitlin suffers from this obsessive pathological toxic jealousy that led to violence against Joe Scott Morgan how are they processing the thing how are we going to prove that it is in fact the yoga loving girlfriend Caitlin Armstrong well I'm glad you asked that question because Austin the Austin PD actually served a warrant let's go back to where she was domiciled with Strickland. And this is what they found out. They actually recovered two pistols at that scene, one in which was a Sig Sauer 9mm.

Guess who had access to it? Only Armstrong. That's it. And guess what else they did? They took this weapon and they test fired it. And when they test fired it, it came back. There's a high probability that those ejected shells that they found at the scene match this particular weapon. What kind of strikes me

is baffling to me is that they actually, this individual left this weapon where it could be recovered. I don't know what that actually says about this individual, but it tells me she didn't make any effort to try to take it and throw it in a river tells me she was highly emotional at the time and not thinking correctly that is not insanity under the law the stalking the leaving the hiding out the going on the run shows she knew what she did was wrong and for what and i can tell you another thing since nobody asked, if your boyfriend or husband is hiding somebody's name and their cell phone out, there's a reason he's hiding it. There is a reason. I've checked my husband's cell phone so many times, my eyes bled. It was so

boring. I quit. Also, he lied. Didn't he lie, Tony Plasky, about where he was going that day? He's going to a big municipal pool. Anybody can see them. The deep eddy? Uh-uh. It's not like a watering hole. It's a big municipal pool. Anybody could see him there. Why did he have to lie about it, Tony? Or did he? Well, he lied according to his text messages to Armstrong, he lied to her about where he was. He described his battery dying, that he had delivered flowers to someone, and then his phone battery died. I know Mariah's family is suing Caitlin Armstrong, but I don't care how many millions of dollars they may ever get, they'd give it all away to have Mo back with them. We wait as justice unfolds. Goodbye, friend.