Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Glam Yoga Instructor GUILTY in Murder of 'Mo' Wilson

Episode Date: November 18, 2023

Anna Moriah Wilson was in Texas to race at a 150-mile Gravel Locas competition. She's bunking at the home of her friend, Caitlyn Cash. After an evening of swimming with fellow cyclist Colin Strickland, Wilson returns to Cash's home for the evening. When Cash arrives, 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's girlfriend, Kaitlyn Armstrong.   Murder suspect Kaitlin Armstrong, on the run for a month, is busted in Costa Rica. U.S. Marshals say Armstrong was staying at a Santa Teresa beachside hostel, an area where yoga enthusiasts and surfers frequent. Armstrong also reportedly had a receipt on her for plastic surgery. Armstrong had also cut and dyed her hair.  Now after a two-week trial, a jury renders a guilty verdict in just a couple of hours.  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 – Attorney – The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C.; 27-year Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective and Former S.W.A.T. Officer; Twitter: @ShelnuttLawFirm Dr. Shari Schwartz– Forensic Psychologist (Specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy); Author: “Criminal Behavior” and “Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology;” Twitter: @TrialDoc JJoe Scott Morgan – Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, “Blood Beneath My Feet,” and Host: “Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;” Twitter: @JoScottForensic 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 verdict is in. The so-called glam yoga teacher hears the verdict from the jury in the murder of a beautiful 25-year-old superstar in the dirt bike racing field. We, the jury, found the defendant, Caitlin Armstrong, guilty of the offense of murder. I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and Sirius XM 111. Caitlin Armstrong found guilty, guilty of murdering her alleged love rival, Mariah Moe Wilson. A jury returns a guilty verdict after just about two hours deliberating in Austin, Texas. The women were reportedly involved in a love triangle with Caitlin Armstrong's

boyfriend, Colin Strickland, stopping the afternoon of the murder for a hamburger with Mo. Evidence indicates that Caitlin Armstrong knew their every move, actually following them before she sneaks into the home where Mariah was staying and murdered her in cold blood. The jury may have been swayed by hearing Mariah screaming in a neighbor's surveillance video footage and then immediately after the scream, shots ringing out. Take a listen to the prosecutor. The last thing that Mo Wilson did on this earth on May 11, 2022 at 9 15 p.m. was scream in terror. Now, this is what the defense had to say. One year, four months, and 12 days.

That is how long Caitlin Armstrong has asserted her innocence. And from day one, she asked for this trial. She asked for you to hear this case. But how did the whole thing start? 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 amos 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. APD 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 Hiko, where she was a favorite to win. 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 Plohetsky, longtime friend, colleague, investigative reporter with the Austin American Statesman and KVUE. Twitter at Tplahetsky. 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 at Intercity 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 Lamuco on Fox 7. It surprised everybody.

East Austin resident 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've lived here almost two years and I've never maybe seen two police cars pass by. That's just the way this neighborhood is. We all just marveled at, 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 plehetsky it's an endurance sport i mean it is where the yeah i mean really really uh 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, 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 and the happiness. Joseph Scott Morgan, host of a hit new series, Body Bags, with Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart. My heart just got just right off the bat. This woman, I can tell you she's in a single dwelling apartment. She's unarmed and she 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. 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, 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 are, and this is very key, there are multiple spent shell casings laying about her body in this approximate area. crime stories with nancy grace the so-called glam yoga instructor guilty according to an austin texas jury after hearing the last sounds Mariah ever made, screaming before she was gunned down dead. This, according to a neighbor's video cam. But it wasn't just the scream that they heard.

It was a mountain of evidence that piled up bit by bit to convict the so-called glam yoga teacher of murder. Exactly what do we know about what happened the day of the murder? She's in the bathroom. You think there's a very good chance she ran to the bathroom. I agree. Multiple spent shell casings around her. That tells me this is not a pro because you would take the time to

pick them up. Shelnut with me also James Shelnut 27 years a Metro major case also swap now lawyer with the Shelnut firm on Twitter at Shelnut 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 mark on the shell, unlike any other marking from any other gun on a shell. Agree, disagree, shell nut. Agree 100 percent. 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. 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.

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 and 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 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 RaniaMankarius.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 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 not, that has a code of any type puts in 1234 or 1111 or 2222. 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, Runya. 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 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 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 me. 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. Caitlin Armstrong, guilty of murder. A beautiful young woman herself, but consumed with jealousy over her boyfriend, Colin Strickland's relationship with an ex-girlfriend. A renowned, a world-renowned dirt bicyclist. Guys, take a listen now. We finally get a tiny break in the case. Hour cut 18 from Crime Online. Detectives turn 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 going to want to go back and look and say, OK, 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 to 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, 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 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 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. 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. APD says during the investigation, surveillance video showed a black Jeep 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 Colin 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 Hour Cut 9, 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 you were trying to reach has a blowtail box that has not been set up yet. So we've ruled out Colin Strickland, who dropped off on a motorcycle.

Who, Tony Plahetsky, 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. Take a listen to our cut 10, Angela Shen, Fox 7. The search is on for Kaitlyn 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 Caitlin Armstrong were in a relationship before briefly ending it for a couple of weeks last year. At that time, he was involved with Wilson. Armstrong's car was seen on surveillance video at Wilson's friend's home. I understand Mariah was not in a love relationship, a sex relationship with Colin Strickland.

Explain this love triangle. So 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 that they that they had. Can you slow down and tell me the dates and everything else you know? Yeah, it was last fall and in October when Colin reports. It's almost a year ago. When when 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 have 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. About a year ago 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 okay 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. But at the same time, Caitlin Armstrong discovered this relationship and was able to learn more, both from 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. OK, wait, even though they were platonic, she still didn't like it. That's exactly that exact is the understanding. crime stories with nancy grace mo wilson in town for a competition she never made it back home all thanks to the jealous yoga guru, Caitlin Armstrong. 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 had 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 start of the bike ride and as a point of where she returned. And that's where we believe Armstrong learned of Wilson's whereabouts. So she would chart 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. That's a big thing that I talk about in terms of how dangerous that that really is and really can be. So dangerous. A ridiculous love triangle. 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. And so people... 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.

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 Maold Maureen Wilson, and his yogi girlfriend just couldn't stand it. Yoga teacher Caitlin Armstrong. Joe Scott Morgan, how are they processing the scene? 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 is a high probability that those ejected shells that they found at the scene match this particular weapon. 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 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 own battery died. A jury finds Kaitlyn Armstrong, the yogi, the Texas yogi, guilty of murder. Exactly what is the evidence that led to her conviction? Take a listen to the prosecutor. She stood over her after she shot her in the head twice and put another bullet right in her heart. You heard Dr. DeRusso, the M.E. That third bullet was right in her heart. I submit to you, she was up against the floor.

Two to the head and she was laying on the floor, probably already dead. And for good measure, the defendant walked up to her and put another bullet right in her heart. One of them said she's a friend, one of them said she's a best friend. She told Jacqueline Chastain about the gun a month after it was purchased. And we know Caitlin called Mo Wilson to confront her about Caitlin. We know that from the cell phone records. Now we don't know exactly what she said. So I'm not going to put that out there.

But we know she called her. And we know Colin texted her and said WTF. And we all know what that means. And what's even more chilling is that when the defendant's two best friends heard that Mo Wilson was dead, they called the police unsolicited and they said, you better check her out. Caitlin Cash over there on the front row. When I talked to her, call me cash. Caitlin killed

my friend. That's why we call her cash. Caitlin would have seen this. Poor thing don't even like her own name anymore. She pumped her friend's heart over a hundred times. You heard it on the 911 call. For 10 minutes until the first responders got there. Not knowing she'd probably been dead for 45 minutes. Then she runs to Costa Rica, have plastic surgery, on the beach teaching yoga,

while the Wilsons are trying to pick up the pieces. The state has met its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. I think we climbed past that mountain and climbed Mount Everest. Now, this is what the defense had to say. So what is the evidence that Caitlin Armstrong is a jealous psycho? Colin was not honest with Caitlin about his special friend in Colorado and Caitlin allegedly sent him a photograph of that friend. The implication being number one perhaps she had been looking at his phone and number

two that she's crazy and jealous because when he was sneaking off to Colorado to meet up with the person sending him inappropriate photographs, she had the temerity to not like it. Colin said, I saw her get out of the black Jeep. But that's not what he said. The first time he testified in front of you, a few weeks ago, it was a Friday. But that's not what he said. The first time he testified in front of you, a few weeks ago, it was a Friday. He said that, that's what I believe.

He was real hesitant. He wasn't rock solid. How amazing that the one fact that he seemed to remember with greater clarity over time was the single fact that drew attention away from him and pointed the finger at Kaitlyn Armstrong. Coaster refill. What are you, an idiot? Come on. She ran. She ran. Only a guilty person would run. Are you a fool, Rick Cofer? And yet you heard testimony that Caitlin was told by the Austin Police Department free to go ma'am and when she went to New York free as a bird just like any of the 14 of you there was no way in the world that

Caitlin Armstrong could have had any awareness or knowledge in any way whatsoever that there was a warrant for her arrest. A couple of weeks ago she ran away. They took her to a medical appointment and she ran away. Guilty. Why are we even here? Terrified woman, fearful woman, in jail. Abused. Injured. Someone who doesn't know what they're doing. There's been no testimony about the things he's talking about now. I'm moving on.

He can twist the evidence any way he wants to, but he can't try to add new evidence. I know there's a verdict. And I know that many people, including myself, believe this is justice. But as a crime victim myself, I know there's no such thing as closure for Mariah's parents, and there never will be. Our prayers with Mariah's family. Goodbye, friend. This is an iHeart Podcast.