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The red one.

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Now it's recording. Hi.

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-Hi.
-Look.

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Okay, now you can…
you can move in and out.

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Okay, and then this right here
is the focus.

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And we have…

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And I'm cooking the breakfast.

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…Karen cooking the breakfast.

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And here's our little baby, Moriah.

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Moriah is eight weeks old right now.

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Moriah was born
during a thunder and lightning storm.

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Flashing, thundering.

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All this energy all around her.

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And her lungs were like thunder.

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Probably one of the reasons
why she was a good athlete,

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because she exercised
those lungs like crazy.

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So many precious moments to cherish.

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-Yes, so many.
-Yeah.

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It was amazing seeing her being born.

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Seeing her take her first breath.

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She's sitting up.
That's her sitting up for the…

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Pretty much for the first time.

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She's starting to learn.

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And that light of her
was twinkling already.

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Oh, I see you.

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There we go.

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Show us how you can ride.

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It was as if I always had known her.

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It was, like, so familiar.

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Yeah. Still happy, though.

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Hi.

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And then within days of her being born,

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I was sitting on the couch
listening to a Shawn Colvin song.

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And the song made me think
that she's gonna leave me someday.

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First time Moriah on skis.

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I've seen love go by my door
It's never been this close before

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Well, we got two of them coming.

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It's never been so easy or so slow…

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Here comes Moriah.

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How you doing?

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-Good.
-Good. You having fun?

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-Yeah.
-All right.

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You're gonna make me lonesome
When you go

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It is interesting that, looking back,
somehow her body or her soul

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in some way knew
that she had less time than most people.

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And that's why she was…

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Maybe had that sense of anxiety,

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that sense of urgency
underlying everything she did.

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Five, four, three, two, one!

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Nice job, Mo.

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Not even looking like she's slowing down.

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An incredible ride as Moriah Wilson
knows exactly where to go.

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She looks so comfortable.

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I know she trains hard.
I know she trains long.

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She is no stranger
to these sort of conditions.

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This is Moriah Wilson,

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the winner of round one
of the 2022 Life Time Grand Prix.

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-Go, go, go!
-Come on, Mo.

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She was an absolute diamond in the rough.

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She was a once-in-a-generation athlete.

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She knew she was coming into her own.

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And emotionally,

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it was filled with just raw possibility.

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Austin 911.

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Um, my friend
is staying with me, and I just walked in,

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and she's laying on the bathroom floor
and there's blood everywhere.

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It's hard kind of reliving it.

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-What's your name?
-My name is Caitlin.

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-Caitlin, are you with her?
-Yes, I'm with her now.

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-Is she awake?
-She's not awake.

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There's blood all over her face
and all on the back of her head.

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Is she breathing?

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She's…

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No.

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I'm getting help started right now,

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and then I'm gonna tell you
exactly what to do, okay?

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Okay.

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Lay her flat on her back on the floor.

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Place the heel of your hand
on the breastbone

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and put your other hand
on top of that hand.

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Yeah.

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Then pump the chest
hard and fast at least twice per second

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and two inches deep.

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Count out loud so I can count with you.

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One, two, three,

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four, five, six…

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Good. Keep going.

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There's a lot of help
coming as fast as they can. Keep going.

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…13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

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Keep going. There might be
a police officer coming in soon.

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That's okay.
Don't leave her alone and don't stop.

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I won't. Two, three… I hear them.

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Okay, that's good. Keep going.
Don't leave her. They'll come to you.

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It's the back house.
They have to come in the back alley.

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26, 27, 28, 29, come in.

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Keep going. Don't stop.
Keep going. You're doing good.

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Keep going.

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Uh, do I stop? I don't know what happened!

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You're not…

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-Is that the police with you?
-Yeah.

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Yeah, that's the police officers.

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She doesn't live here.

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She was with our friend Colin.

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-What's Colin's last name?
-Colin Strickland.

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I could not understand

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why they weren't bringing her down
to take her to the hospital.

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What's her name?

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Her name is Moriah.

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Moriah is her middle name.
Her first name is Anna.

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And so finally, I asked
the officer questioning me. I said…

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"Why is it taking them so long
to get her into the ambulance?"

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"Like, she needs help."

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His words were something
along the lines of,

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"Your friend didn't make it."

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Two years ago today,

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on May 12th…

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…2022…

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I was out here
laying down pieces of cardboard

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to kill off the grass

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because I wanted
to make our garden a little bit bigger,

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because Moriah was gonna move home.

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And then I looked
down there at the driveway,

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and I saw state--

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The state police.

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And he asked me if I…

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knew--

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"Do you know Anna? Anna Wilson?"

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And I said,
"Yeah, it's my daughter. Is she okay?"

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And he said, "No, she's… she's gone."

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And, like,

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it just didn't make sense.

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It didn't make sense. It still doesn't…

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It still doesn't make sense.

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…make sense, really. We just…

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Some things we just…

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aren't gonna understand and figure out.

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There's really no good explanation.

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I was at home.
And all of a sudden, my phone rings.

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It was the on-call sergeant.

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He gave me just the small details
of, "Hey, there's been a murder."

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"Um, one person has been shot,
and there's no suspect information."

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Can you have a seat right here
on this white chair right here?

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The, uh, detective's gonna come
and talk to you.

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This was my first homicide
investigation as a lead detective.

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I was definitely nervous.

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You know,
I-- I didn't know what to expect.

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Whenever she got here,

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did she say that she had
already spoken to anybody else?

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Or any plans that she may have mentioned

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of saying,
"Hey, I've talked to so-and-so?"

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-Only Colin.
-Okay.

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Yeah. She doesn't know any people here.
She's not…

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-Okay.
-She hasn't spent a long time here.

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-Okay.
-This is only her second time to Austin.

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My colleague had already
kind of described the scene to me.

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Uh, he had mentioned that there was
no forced entry into the residence.

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Nothing was damaged.

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It didn't look as though
anything was thrown around,

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which indicated to me
that there was no disturbance.

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We're just gonna have them
swab your hands for gunshot residue.

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Okay.

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I realized that I was being questioned

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as a potential suspect.

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So a buccal swab.

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What that is
is basically just a small little DNA swab.

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Just goes on the inside of your mouth.

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Well, we took, you know, DNA samples,
and they swabbed my hands,

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took my photos,

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and eventually let me wash my hands.

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When I'm washing my hands
in the police station bathroom,

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I'm seeing…

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all of her,

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you know, blood go down the…
go down the sink,

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and I have a very…

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I have a very distinct memory of…

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wanting… wanting it back.

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Did they take her from my house?

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So our crime scene unit,
they're still there right now.

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They're processing everything. Um…

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She's just still laying there?

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So right now, she is.

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Um, because we want to make sure
that we do everything right.

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No, I understand,
but she's just by herself.

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I know.

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-I know.
-Okay.

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But they're not gonna leave her?

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No. No.

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Like, she'll never be,
like, actually alone?

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No. No. Not at all.

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Um…

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Before we get into everything else,

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I want to hear
about how you met the Wilson family,

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and who did you meet first?

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-Mm-hmm.
-Because you met them before you met Mo.

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Yes. Yeah.

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I was…

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Let's see, let me start that again.

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Let me think through this.

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Yeah.

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Right after the pandemic,
I moved up to Vermont for the summer.

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I was a part business owner

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of a small bed and breakfast
in East Burke.

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I didn't have any friends in Vermont,

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and so I sign up
for all of these women's gravel clinics,

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mountain biking clinics, things like that.

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And found this really wonderful community,

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and was asked to do the social media
for a race called Rooted Vermont.

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The only time we ever saw
Moriah race was at the Rooted race.

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We were on the road cheering her on,
and we ran into this girl.

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And I was like,
"Who are you here supporting?"

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They're like, "Our daughter Moriah."
I was like, "There is no way."

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"There is no way. She's my favorite."

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"And I can't say that because I have
to be impartial about everything."

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Moriah Wilson coming in.

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Third place, women.

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Cash tells us that she's part owner
of an inn down here in East Burke.

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Just was such a kind of
one of those moments where it's like,

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"Wow, this is really meant to be.
I'm supposed to be here in Vermont."

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"I'm supposed to be meeting this family.
I'm supposed to be seeing this."

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Moriah hears about Cash through us,

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and they eventually meet later that fall.

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She was racing
a bike race called Big Sugar.

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It's a 110-mile course.

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And I was riding the 50-mile course.

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And I finished my race.

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And I swear, ten minutes later,

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they're like,
"First place, Moriah Wilson."

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And she had done double the distance
that I had done in the same time.

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Hooray, hooray

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I'm your silver lining

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Hooray, hooray…

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They became like sisters, just like that.

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They just bonded, you know, immediately,
and were just instant friends.

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And I was your silver lining…

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Just was really a special thing to have,
to have a friend in a new community.

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Here's Mo Wilson doing laps around me.

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She's got her 14th lap. She's come back.

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It was really inspiring
to see her succeed.

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She had the racing down.

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She had the athleticism.
She had the drive.

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Now I'm gold

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Starting from a young age,

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Moriah had
the natural inclination to be athletic.

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She was very determined.

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If she didn't do well, she'd be so upset.
So she would just work harder.

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We would spend a lot of time
downhill skiing.

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Hey!

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-How's it going, sweetie?
-Good.

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I remember when she first
went to her first ski race,

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she studied the people on the podium.

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She had this look in her eye
like, "I want to be up there."

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She writes quite a bit
about that in her journal.

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"So inspired by the Olympics."

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"I want to be an Olympian so badly."

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"One day, I will. One day, I will."

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Moriah, free skiing.

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Burke Mountain Academy started in 1970.

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They had the first program in the country

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that really was focused
around skiing half a day

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and going to school half a day.

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One of the main requirements
for going here

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is that you aspire
to be an Olympic-level athlete.

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She had that dream from the beginning,

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a lot inspired by our father

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who was on that track
and missed the Olympics by one spot.

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Moriah, first run still.

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Oh. Oh, no.

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Injuries were a big part
of why she didn't reach her goals.

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She tore her ACL in high school,

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and then she tore it again after that.

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She still loved skiing and I think
it was hard for her to let go of that.

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But she knew that it was over.
Her skiing career was over.

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I had spent a lot of time
riding bikes growing up with my family,

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and then I discovered
that gravel cycling was a thing

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and, like, ended up buying a gravel bike.

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She was determined
to be a professional cyclist,

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and I really encouraged her
to go for it, that she could do it.

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Let's go, Mo!

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Hang in there, Mo!
You got it, Mo! You got it!

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Let's go, Mo!

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Let's go, Mo!

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The thing about a bike race
is that there's only one winner.

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And if 3,000 people start at the line,

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you have a 1-in-3,000 chance to win.

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A hundred miles an hour in my head…

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Nice job, Mo!

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The probability of winning
in a bike race is really, really low.

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So for Mo to always be on the podium,

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that was extraordinary.

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Here is our women's champion,
Moriah Wilson!

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Give it up for Mo!

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I was talking with a friend.

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He was like,
"Man, have you heard about Moriah Wilson?"

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"You need to know this name."

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"She's gonna be dominating pro bike racing
moving forward for a long time."

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In the span of two years,
she won, like, six or seven races.

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And not by minutes, not by--
I mean, she won things by hours.

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The champ is in the house!

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This is Moriah Wilson!

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Go, Mo!

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-Wilson, just untouchable.
-What an impressive result.

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My heart does beat
Like a Cherokee drum…

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In early 2022, we were talking.

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She was like, "I'm coming to Austin."
I was like, "When are you coming?"

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She's like, "Two days from now."
I was like, "What?"

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She ended up coming to live with me
at my house for a couple of weeks

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while she was in town.

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So we were co-working together.
We were eating all of our meals together.

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And it was
this incredibly beautiful unfolding

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of this friendship.

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…in the fast lane

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100 miles an hour till I'm done

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When this case
came in, I didn't know anything

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other than it was a young woman
who had been murdered

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and that she, uh, had some kind
of relationship to the cycling community.

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I certainly had really no idea
who Moriah was at the time.

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Guillermo's very intense. Very intense.

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And because we tried these types of cases,

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it's a lot of pressure if you're the kind
of person that feel the pressure.

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And I think he does feel the pressure.

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-Do you?
-No.

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This was the big case
everyone was working on.

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And it was shocking
because nobody could figure out

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a reason why somebody
would want to kill this person.

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-74 to 17.
-Is there a bike? See a bike?

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She said she'd put it by the door.

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-No, no bike.
-No bike.

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It certainly seemed
that it could have been a home invasion,

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robbery event.

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But, uh, the more
we started digging into it,

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it became more and more likely
that something else was going on.

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I needed more, and I started immediately

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trying to pick out things
that needed to be followed up on.

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Most people's houses have cameras on them.

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Uh, you know, everybody has a phone.

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The amount of digital evidence
is just overwhelming.

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The only other person she knows
is Colin Strickland,

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who she was supposed
to be meeting tonight.

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Does he-- He still lives here in Austin?

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-Yeah, he lives in Austin.
-Okay.

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Colin Strickland was the last person
to see Moriah alive.

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So I wanted to talk to Colin
and find out, you know, what happened.

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Myself and the other detective,
we approached and introduced ourselves.

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Hey, I'm looking for Mr. Strickland.

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-That's me.
-Hey.

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-So Colin, is that your first name?
-Yes.

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Hey. So, um, do you know Anna?

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Um… Mo?

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-Anna Mo?
-Yeah.

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-Everybody calls her Mo. Um…
-No.

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Mon-- Monique-- Monic… uh…

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Last name is Wilson.

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-Rider, she's a gravel rider.
-Oh, yes.

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-Yes, I do.
-Okay, so…

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Um… there's really no easy way
to say this, sir.

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So, apparently last night she passed away.

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How did that happen?

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She-- Right now,
it's an open investigation,

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but it is being investigated
as a homicide.

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Wow. Okay.

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-Are you okay?
-Yeah. I'm good.

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Um…

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My first thought is,

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"Wow, like, you just went out
on a date with her the night before."

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"You killed my victim.
You killed Moriah Wilson."

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I didn't meet Mo until 2017.

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I was up in Burke, Vermont,
with a good friend of mine,

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going mountain biking.

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George said, "Mo's gonna join us."

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And I said, "Great, can she keep up?"

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And George goes,
"That's not gonna be a problem."

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It's not often that you meet
another person who can keep up.

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You know, I really liked
that she was a strong athlete,

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but not in an egotistical way.

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Just in a, you know,
"I'm here, I'm strong,

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and I'm not afraid
to show you my strength."

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I was her first real boyfriend.

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I liked that she was
a quiet and reserved person,

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because I'm not.

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She was a little bit
of a consummate introvert,

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always thinking, but not always expressing
or telling you what she was thinking.

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We both grew up in Vermont.
We both went to Dartmouth.

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And so there's tons of overlap
and similarities there.

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Gunnar and Moriah
started dating her sophomore year.

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He was out of college at that point.

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I was in a transitionary period,
having graduated a couple years ago.

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Trying to get a job in California.

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Even though we would end up having to date
for almost two years long-distance,

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I was very sure
about things at that point, so…

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Aah.

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Mm…

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In October of 2020,

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we moved to Mill Valley,
which is close to San Francisco.

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It was a ton
of excitement at that point of,

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"Can't wait to live
in the same city together."

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We're doing this journey together,
and it felt right.

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She was just so focused on bike racing

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and being fast and fit,

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that we just lost a lot of the spark
and romance in our relationship.

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And it was a hard thing for both of us.

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I remember her saying,
"I am more in love with biking,

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and I find all the emotion and feedback

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and pleasure in my life
from riding my bike."

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And yeah, that said
kind of all I needed to hear.

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I met Moriah at Dartmouth.

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We were very close throughout school.

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I moved out to San Francisco
after my boyfriend and I had broken up,

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and I was really looking
for kind of a change of pace.

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-Cheers!
-Cheers.

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Happy Valentine's Day.

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And so we moved in together
in January 2022.

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She understood what I was going through,

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and I understood
what she was going through.

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We had to learn how to do
some things on our own

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and figure out exactly
what it was that we were looking for.

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One of the things that she told me was,

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"I've got to date other guys.
I've never dated other guys."

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And she gravitated to people
who were successful.

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She liked to learn from them.

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Do you just want to take a seat in here?

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So yesterday, run me through,
like, your day and stuff yesterday.

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Um, Mo had said that Cash had
some event that night with some friends.

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So that's why I proposed
going to the pool.

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'Cause, I mean, she's in town,

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and… she's kind of a loner person,
so I wanted, you know…

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Yeah.

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I wanted to catch up with her
and do something fun.

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Yeah.

25:38.578 --> 25:41.748
Colin and I knew each other
through the cycling community in Austin.

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I'm a journalist,

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writing and covering outdoor recreation,

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sports, things like that.

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And I have done stories
with him professionally.

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We are here in Austin, Texas,
outside the garage

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of 2019 Dirty Kanza winner
Colin Strickland.

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-Hey, Colin.
-Hey, Ian.

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-How you doing, man?
-How are you?

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-Doing good?
-Welcome to my garage.

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Yeah, this is, uh…

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-You got a lot of stuff, man.
-I do have a lot of stuff.

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Where do we start?

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Colin Strickland really dedicated himself

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to gravel racing and being
the best gravel racer in the world.

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He was really sort of at the forefront
of realizing how he could accrue sponsors

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and make a living
by kind of building up his personal brand

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and social media presence.

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I can take you through
some of the stuff I did on this ABLE.

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-So this was my most recent build.
-Yeah.

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Up shift, down shift.

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I remember Moriah telling me,

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"I went on a training ride
with Colin Strickland."

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She said it in a way that, like,
I should have known who Colin was.

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You're a Texas state champion.

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Yeah. Yes, I am. Yes.

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I knew that he had a history
of manipulating women in relationships.

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And I was aware of past things.

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I had met Moriah
at Rebecca's Private Idaho.

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She just smashed the race.

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We just kind of chatted briefly
during the event.

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And then at the end of the event,
I invited her out to get a beer.

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I had a girlfriend.

27:22.515 --> 27:24.768
We didn't have
any romantic conversations at all.

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We just talked about her future career.

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And I told her, like,
"You are going to win so many events."

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Definitely was attracted to her,
but also just wanted to be helpful.

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And at that point,
it was totally inappropriate to be dating.

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He didn't go to bike races
and act like he had a girlfriend.

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He wouldn't talk about her
or bring her around.

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It was sort of like a joke.

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"Who is Kaitlin?"

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Oh, she was the woman

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standing right next to Colin
that he didn't introduce you to.

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I remember hearing about Colin

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because Moriah had come back
from that race and was like,

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"I met Colin Strickland, and he's going
to help me with potential sponsors."

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Male cyclists historically have gotten
more attention and sponsorship dollars,

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and, motives aside,
will help female cyclists.

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Mo wanted to go to a gravel race in Texas.

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That was, like, at the end of 2021.

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I had signed up for it,
and then it got canceled.

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She was like, "Do you still want to go?"
I was like, "No."

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She said that
she was excited to see Colin in Texas,

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that there might be something more there
than just a friendship.

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Moriah and I had
no romantic anything at this point.

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I was driving home
with my girlfriend, Kaitlin,

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all the way back from Bentonville,
and we essentially had a breakup drive.

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I just told her, like, "I don't feel it.
I can't do this anymore."

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We didn't really fight at all.

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And we were partners
in so many different things.

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A few days later,
I get a message from Moriah saying,

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"Hey, I'm visiting a friend
in Austin for a week."

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"I'm just gonna work remotely."

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Kaitlin moved into a separate room,

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and we had had, like,
a very clear breakup.

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We were not together.

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I needed, personally,
to close the door on the relationship.

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That's kind of what I felt.
Like, no turning back.

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Make her angry at me.

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And I effectively
started dating Moriah for a week

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when she was in Austin.

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Colin was "on a break" with Kaitlin,

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even though she was still living
in the same house in a separate room.

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And Moriah and Colin started hanging out

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and were romantic or intimate
during that time period.

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I definitely warned her about Colin,
but not in the--

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Like, you could never think, like,
"He would hurt her."

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Do you know if Mo or Cash owned
any, like, firearms or anything like that?

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-I would highly doubt it.
-Okay.

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Do you own any firearms?
Would they ever come and talk to you…?

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I own a-- I actually bought a--

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I bought a pistol last fall,

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and I have actually never shot it.

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What type of gun was that?

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Um, it's a 9mm.

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He indicated that he does own
his 9mm handgun.

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The cartridge cases that were
recovered on scene were 9mm cartridges.

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I have it in a case,
and I've never shot it.

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-Haven't made the time.
-Okay.

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She sent me a photo of her on the bike.

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-Is that Mo?
-That's Mo.

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-This is more complexity.
-What time was that at?

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I have it saved
as a different name just because.

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Why was it that you had
to change the name from Mo?

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Because in the past,
Kaitlin has looked at my phone,

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and I just didn't want to…

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I just didn't want to surface…

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-That would always start fights.
-Exactly.

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Kaitlin had all of my passwords.
She managed all of my bank accounts.

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She went into my phone
and read everything.

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She had blocked
a bunch of contacts in my phone.

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I knew that she could find information
if she wanted to.

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There were questions that she had
in terms of her footing with Colin.

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He had kind of disappeared
and really pulled back,

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both, you know, friendship-wise,
relationship-wise,

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and, um, wasn't very communicative.

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A lot of times, we weren't able
to connect over the phone.

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And so if there was something
that she really needed a quick opinion on,

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I'm like, "Leave me a voice memo
and I'll get back to you."

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Hey.

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Got to Arkansas yesterday.

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Kind of just been hanging out by myself.

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I have not heard from Colin at all.

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Total radio silence.

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Uh, have you seen him in Austin at all?

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There just hasn't been
any communication from either of us

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until I texted him today,

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at which point my text didn't go through.

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Maybe he thinks
that I'm not interested or something.

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Not quite sure.

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Okay, last night.

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I went to the Meteor
for happy hour and who do I see?

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Colin and Kaitlin and a couple other guys.

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Eventually, Colin comes over
and we hug each other.

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Don't really say that much.
Just are like, "Oh, great to see you."

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Like, I don't know. Super, kind of, weird.

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And yeah, I haven't seen him
or heard from him since.

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I need some sort of closure.

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I don't know how to get it.

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I'm probably gonna see him tonight
because there's this party.

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But if Kaitlin's there, like,
he's probably not going to talk to me.

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Very uncomfy.

33:50.987 --> 33:55.324
Mo's going to be taken
to the medical examiner's office, um…

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Full autopsy, you know, is gonna be done,
everything on her.

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Um…

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That being said, are you sure,
at any point in time,

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did y'all have sex?

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We had not.
We had no physical intercourse.

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-Okay.
-Didn't… We didn't even kiss.

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Okay.

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I-- I just want to check
because with the autopsy,

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they're gonna check everything.

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-I know.
-So…

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I understand that.

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Nope, nothing.

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Okay.

34:29.734 --> 34:32.403
Colin was really struggling
with whether he was gonna be

34:32.487 --> 34:34.072
in a committed relationship or not.

34:34.155 --> 34:39.869
But he'd saw that Kaitlin
was a compassionate, caring person.

34:39.952 --> 34:43.414
I think the biggest thing for him, too,
is she was incredibly helpful.

34:44.749 --> 34:48.544
Colin was trying to build
the Spartan Trailer business.

34:49.545 --> 34:53.466
Kaitlin was definitely
very knowledgeable in finance

34:53.549 --> 34:55.802
and was obviously,
like, smart about money.

34:55.885 --> 34:59.347
She did a lot of the managerial stuff
for the business,

34:59.430 --> 35:02.558
which allowed Colin
to focus on other elements

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of his cycling career and whatever else.

35:08.356 --> 35:11.901
Moriah and I had reset
our relationship in my mind.

35:12.610 --> 35:16.197
I was kind of on the end of the scene
and kind of burned out.

35:16.280 --> 35:18.533
And she was needing to get, like, momentum

35:18.616 --> 35:20.993
and she was enthusiastic with it,
and that's great.

35:21.077 --> 35:24.330
But I just saw it as
I wasn't gonna be a great match for her.

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She was gonna be the most
dominant racer in the US by far.

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And I would just get in the way of that.

35:30.753 --> 35:34.632
Kaitlin didn't want to separate.
She liked being a part of my life.

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And now, there she is!

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-Yeah, Mo!
-Yeah, Mo!

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-Mo Wilson!
-Yeah!

36:16.591 --> 36:20.720
The women's champion
leaves no doubt about it.

36:20.803 --> 36:24.807
Mo Wilson absolutely crushes
the Belgian Waffle Ride.

36:24.891 --> 36:26.225
Congrats, girl.

36:26.309 --> 36:28.728
-Another dominant performance.
-Thank you.

36:28.811 --> 36:31.397
What's next for you?
What are you winning next?

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Um…

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The next gravel race
that I do will be Gravel Locos.

36:38.154 --> 36:42.742
Moriah was going down to Austin
to race in the Gravel Locos race.

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Mo came a couple of days before the race.

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And I am just so excited that she's there.

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I made some coffee.

37:04.847 --> 37:06.766
We were just hanging out.

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So I take a video,
and I send this text message to Karen.

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All right, wave to the camera.

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Welcome to the Texas heat!

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Wow!

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-Okay, be safe. Ride fast.
-Thanks.

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-Bye.
-Bye.

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Oh, yeah, that text.

37:31.707 --> 37:36.462
It was of Moriah getting ready
to go out for a training ride on her own.

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And Cash sent it to me and said,

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"Your girl's here, safe with me."

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I feel a lot of guilt
about sending that text message.

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Like, I can't believe that I told her mom
she was okay and in good hands when, um…

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I couldn't protect her.

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Mo texted me later and she said,

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"Just FYI, I'm going to go swim
and eat dinner with Colin tonight."

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I had contacted Mo, like,
"Hey, you want to go swimming?"

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"Yeah, sounds good."

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Picked her up, drove to Deep Eddy.

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Went to Pool Burger,
grabbed two drinks and a burger,

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and we just chatted, essentially,
about her career, my career,

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and the relevance
of what does it mean to be a bike racer?

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What's the point of it all?

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And then Kaitlin called me
while I was at Pool Burger,

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and I didn't answer it.

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Yeah, dropped off Moriah
at the base of the steps.

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Said, "All right, cool, see you tomorrow
at this Gravel Locos pre-dinner."

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That was the last I saw her.

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Karen called me,
and I was really afraid to talk to her.

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Karen said, "Cash, I love you so much."

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And I needed to hear that because I felt

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so inadequate and so guilty.

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I'm like,
"If only I would have come home sooner,

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if only I would have not gone to dinner,

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if only I'd have
forced her to come with me."

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There was a million "what if" questions

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that I was endlessly
playing in a loop in my head.

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What could I have done
differently to help?

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I remember seeing
two missed calls from my dad,

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a text from my dad, "Call me ASAP,"

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and… I think a call from Karen too,

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before my dad had called me.

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That was bad. I knew that was bad.

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Something had happened.

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I was in, uh, Hawaii with my family.

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Um, I got a phone call and it was Gunnar.

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I will never forget him saying, uh…

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…"Moriah died today."

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My husband had put our daughter to bed,

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and I just collapsed on the ground,
and I'm sobbing. I'm so--

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Like, I have never cried like this before.

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And my husband's like,
"Oh, my God, are you okay?"

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And I was like, "No, I'm not okay."

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Like, "Moriah's been shot."

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"She was left alone to die."

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It feels a lot like her death came

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right as she was starting
to open up to the world,

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and that she was starting to learn
what was important to her, and…

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…learn that it was safe
to open up to people.

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I was working my regular shift,

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and I found out
that there was a murder the night before.

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Typically, when we have a murder,
it's all hands on deck.

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Detective Spitler was there.

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He was already
interviewing Colin Strickland.

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We have a conference room,
and in that conference room we have a TV

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that we're able to actually watch
the interview while it's taking place.

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I'm able to see
what's being said and verify his story.

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One of the detectives found a video clip

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from a motion-activated camera

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in an alleyway
that's directly next to Cash's apartment.

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The video shows
a black SUV with chrome windows,

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a luggage rack on the roof,

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and a bicycle rack
that was mounted onto the trailer hitch.

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And at 8:37 p.m.
the brake lights illuminate,

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indicating that it's slowing down
or even stopping,

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right where the stairs lead up
to the front door of the apartment.

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One of the other detectives realized,

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"Hey, that's a vehicle that looks just
like a vehicle that was in their driveway

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when detectives had gone
out there to speak with Colin."

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That was something
we relayed to Detective Spitler,

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and so he starts
bringing that up in the interview.

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Colin had mentioned
that he took Moriah on his motorcycle

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that was parked in the driveway.

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So I asked him about the Jeep.
"Who is it that owns that black Jeep?"

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He said, "That's my girlfriend
Kaitlin Armstrong's car."

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When Kaitlin got back home,
did she tell you anything?

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Like where she was, what she was doing?

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I didn't ask.
I was working on stuff in the garage.

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Getting my bicycles ready for this race.

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The police served a search warrant

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on the home of Colin Strickland.

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While there,
they found a couple of pistols.

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Are there
any other firearms that are inside?

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There's two pistols.

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-Two pistols?
-Two pistols.

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Where is the other pistol?

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That I don't know

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because that would be Kaitlin's pistol.

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So Kaitlin has a pistol?

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Kaitlin has a pistol
that I purchased for her.

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I do remember saying to the officer…

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"…I bet it was Colin's girlfriend."

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Wait, what?

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I said the only person
I could think of that didn't like her was…

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this guy's girlfriend.

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I know for a fact,

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through our investigation,

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that her vehicle was at that apartment.

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I don't know what to say to that.

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Mm.

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All right, so I'm Detective Conner.

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And, um, so, my partner is actually
talking, uh, to Colin right now.

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It sounds like you may
have some information,

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may have witnessed something,
so I just wanted to chat about some stuff.

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Um…

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Can you give me any information
on what you're talking about?

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Did you hear about what's happened
over the past 24 hours?

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Colin walked in the house

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and said one of the women
in the cycling community passed away.

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Yes. Yeah.

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Um, while Colin was talking to us,
your name came up.

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And it sounds like there's
a lot of stuff that's going on,

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and it sounds like, you know,

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Colin's been maybe
talking to this girl for a little bit

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and kind of threw your name in there.

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I think he might be saying some stuff,
and I want to get your side of it, okay?

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I feel like I should have
an attorney present.

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So that's totally your choice.

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Um, so you-- So at this point,
you are free to leave at any point.

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So this is going to be consensual
because you're not under arrest, okay?

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So…

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We were really good friends,

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and I always thought she was just
this really sweet, kind individual.

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She wasn't getting what she wanted,

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and Colin wasn't…

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Right, didn't want to give it

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or couldn't give it,
or didn't have it to give.

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They'd break up, they'd get back together,
they'd break up, they'd get back together.

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It sounds like maybe he went out
with this girl the other day,

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and maybe it sounds like,
from what he's saying,

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that you were a little upset about it.

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And so that's why
I wanted to get your side of it

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because that's not fair
if he's just saying one thing

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and trying to-- to go down a route.

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I… That is not accurate.

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Yeah, and that's why I wanted
to chat with you because…

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It's a guy. He's gonna say stuff.

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And so we want to make sure
that we get both sides of the story

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and clear it up.

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So what… What were you doing yesterday?

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I would like to leave, I think.

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That's-- That's completely your choice,
but understand if you do,

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then we only have
one side of the story to go on.

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Well, I just am uncertain

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as to even what you mean
or what he could have said

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because I didn't have any idea
that he spoke, he saw,

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or went out with this girl.

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-Okay, yeah.
-Like, recently. I--

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Had he been, like,
talking to her on the side?

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I would like to leave.
I don't actually know.

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And I would like to leave.

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Um, but again, that limits us to where
we only have one side of the story.

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And your vehicle
was seen next to her house,

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um, and we needed
to talk about that, okay?

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I remember being in our apartment,

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and Moriah came into my room and said,

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"You'll never believe
what happened today."

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She looked down at her phone,
and she saw an unknown number calling her,

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but because it was a Texas number

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and she had a sponsorship in Austin,
she thought she should answer it.

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So she picked up the phone,
and someone just said, "Hi, Mo."

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And Moriah said,
"Hello," you know, "who is this?"

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And she said, "It's Kaitlin."

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Moriah just said that Kaitlin mentioned,

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"Hey, Colin and I
are still seeing each other,

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so it would probably just be better

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if you, you know,
didn't involve yourself in that anymore."

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It sounds like there are
some issues between you and this girl,

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and I think that there's
probably a lot more to it

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that you could help explain.

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Maybe you were upset
and you were just in the area.

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Like, I don't know,
because I don't have your story.

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And all I see is
that your vehicle's over there.

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That kind of makes it
look not too good, right?

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Okay? And then when we're talking
to Colin and we're hearing, like,

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"Yeah, there was
some jealousy stuff going on."

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Like, that doesn't sound very good.

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Um, so that's why I really want
to get your side of the story,

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because maybe there's a lot more going on.

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I would like to leave
if I am free to leave.

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Okay.

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They let her go.

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They concluded that they didn't quite have
enough information to hold her on.

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I don't even think at the time
they had enough information to say

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Colin wasn't driving the Jeep,

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he couldn't have parked the motorcycle
and doubled back.

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You know in your heart what took place.

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I don't know what took place.

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You're asking me to tell you
that I think Kaitlin did this.

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-Is that what you're asking?
-I'm asking what you think.

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-Is she capable of doing that?
-I don't believe she--

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I wouldn't be living with a fucking person
who I think is capable of doing this.

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So the answer is no, I don't believe it.

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I was there when we were
all sitting outside the Meteor.

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I'm the one who asked her, I was like,

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"What would you do
if you saw Colin with another person?"

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And, you know, she blankly
and coldly said, "I'd kill them."

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And we thought she was joking.

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No. No.

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No, no, no, no.

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No.

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The police had come
and really turned their house upside down.

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Kaitlin was worried the house was bugged
or that the police were listening,

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so she wanted to go somewhere else.

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So the next morning
they walked to a coffee shop.

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And Colin was basically like,

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"Look, from a criminal standpoint,

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we just need to account for where we were
every minute of the day yesterday."

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The police took
Kaitlin and Colin's phones.

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And so Kaitlin was like,
"What should we do?"

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"Where should we get phones?"

51:19.826 --> 51:21.787
They were walking back
from the coffee shop.

51:21.870 --> 51:25.332
Colin was like, "Why don't you just
go over to Walmart or something

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and get a new phone?"

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A few days after the murder,
I returned back to the neighborhood.

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I want to see who has cameras,
who may have captured this black SUV.

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Maybe I can see who the driver is.

51:39.596 --> 51:41.890
I was contacted by one of the neighbors,

51:41.973 --> 51:45.811
and he provided me with two hours
of video from a doorbell camera.

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But what was significant
about this doorbell camera

51:48.188 --> 51:50.190
was that it constantly recorded.

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It wasn't motion-activated.

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And so it had video,
but it also had audio.

51:54.903 --> 51:58.949
I would be typing my report or anything
that I needed to do with the case,

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and I had this video
playing in the background.

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If I heard a vehicle passing,
I would stop what I was doing,

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see if this is the black SUV
that I was looking for.

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At 9:15 p.m. on the video,

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all of a sudden
I start hearing a female scream,

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and I hear two gunshots.

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The screaming stops,
and there's a six-second pause,

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and then there's a third gunshot.

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So I knew exactly
when this murder happened.

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The first thing we tried to do
was not put her in the Jeep,

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but take Colin out of the Jeep.

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Look at him so close

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where he could not have been
the person driving the Jeep.

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As soon as he dropped Moriah off,

52:42.993 --> 52:45.871
Colin's motorcycle is seen leaving.

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We were able to trace his path back home.

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He receives a phone call,
um, while he's at home.

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His phone was shown to be at his residence

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at the time
that the gunshots could be heard.

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Now it becomes
very difficult for you to say,

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"Well, Colin was driving the Jeep."

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So that only leaves her with access to it.

53:11.104 --> 53:15.108
Later on that day, I'd received
information from our ballistics unit

53:15.192 --> 53:17.736
that had said that the gun recovered

53:17.819 --> 53:19.863
during the search warrant
at Colin's residence

53:19.946 --> 53:24.034
was the gun that was used
during the commission of this murder.

53:24.117 --> 53:28.663
It was the same type of cartridges
that were located inside the apartment.

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There were only two people that actually
had access to this firearm at that time.

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Colin and Kaitlin.

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And because I knew
where Colin was the entire time,

53:37.964 --> 53:39.633
but I didn't know where Kaitlin was,

53:39.716 --> 53:42.135
I believed that there was
enough probable cause

53:42.219 --> 53:46.640
that indicated that Kaitlin was the person
responsible for this murder.

53:46.723 --> 53:50.727
So on May 17th, I issued
a warrant out for Kaitlin's arrest.

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The only problem was, Kaitlin was gone.

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Police, U.S. Marshals,
and the FBI are all on the hunt

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for the killer of a 25-year-old cyclist.

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Law officials are now asking
for the public's help to find her.

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A municipal court judge issued a warrant

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for Armstrong's arrest
for the offense of murder.

54:11.581 --> 54:14.584
The United States Marshal Service
and Lone Star Fugitive Task Force

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are leading the fugitive investigation.

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Do you think that she would go back home
to Detroit to be with family?

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I think that's very possible.

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A manhunt underway for a Texas woman
accused of murdering an elite cyclist.

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The 34-year-old woman has disappeared

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since her interview with police.

54:30.267 --> 54:32.602
They do believe
the realtor and yoga teacher

54:32.686 --> 54:35.063
is likely still in the Austin area.

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Their biggest clue right now is her car.

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They're looking
for a black Jeep Grand Cherokee.

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Detectives were able to find
that she had sold her Jeep to CarMax.

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The CarMax video, she's actually
setting up one of her new iPhones.

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We start looking at flights.
We start looking at buses.

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Any capabilities of leaving.

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She flew from Austin to Houston

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and from Houston to New York.

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We found out that she went to see
her sister in Upstate New York.

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We were able to confirm
that Kaitlin Armstrong was dropped off

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at that airport in Newark, New Jersey.

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The marshals in New York locate
a video that showed Kaitlin

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walking through the airport.

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And she had changed her hairstyle.

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She was trying to make herself
appear more like her sister.

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We have not been able
to confirm or identify any flight

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in the name of Kaitlin Armstrong
that was outbound from the Newark airport.

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There was no record of Kaitlin's passport

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ever actually leaving the US.

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So I had asked the marshals in New York
to just check for her sister's passport.

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They discovered that her sister's passport

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had been used to fly
from New York to Costa Rica.

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She knows she looks
similar enough to her sister,

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takes that passport,
and flees the country.

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We were able
to actually have factual information

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that Kaitlin Armstrong boarded
United Airlines headed towards Costa Rica.

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When she escaped, we just were like…

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We were just blown away that she could
actually get out of the country.

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I don't see… I don't know
how that could happen.

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U.S. Marshals retracing
the steps of Kaitlin Armstrong

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have a new lead.

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Now everyone is just on this full hunt
trying to track her down.

56:35.975 --> 56:39.521
And we were starting
to get worried she would escape.

56:48.488 --> 56:52.325
During this time, we are trying
to strengthen our case

56:52.408 --> 56:54.994
and make it clear
that there would be no reasonable doubt

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that Kaitlin Armstrong was the killer.

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It was clear early on
that Kaitlin Armstrong

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had either turned off
or put her phone into airplane mode.

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And so the phone records
that a lot of times are helpful

57:08.258 --> 57:10.343
to show someone's
at the scene of the crime

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weren't actually going to be
very effective in this case.

57:13.388 --> 57:15.890
And so we were trying to look
for any other way

57:15.974 --> 57:19.644
we could show her presence
or her whereabouts

57:19.727 --> 57:21.896
at the time of the murder.

57:24.149 --> 57:28.069
During the search warrant,
we also searched Kaitlin's Jeep.

57:28.153 --> 57:32.031
I noticed that it had
an infotainment system installed in it.

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I checked with our digital forensics unit

57:34.868 --> 57:40.081
and asked them, "What type of information
would this infotainment system collect?"

57:40.748 --> 57:43.877
One of the things that they said
that it collected was track logs,

57:44.586 --> 57:46.171
your GPS data.

57:46.254 --> 57:50.091
We knew that the Jeep
was actually sold at CarMax.

57:50.175 --> 57:53.178
I went to CarMax and located the Jeep.

57:54.387 --> 57:58.892
I researched on how
you pulled this device out

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from various videos,

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and submitted it
to our digital forensics unit

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for them to process it

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and see if there was
any data that was still on the device.

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Kaitlin had a pretty promising career.

58:11.821 --> 58:15.033
Colin actually described her
as being a financial guru,

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that she was in charge of all
of the financial aspects of their company.

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Colin had told me that he did provide
Kaitlin $40,000 to invest in the company.

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So we knew that Kaitlin was on the run

58:28.213 --> 58:31.424
with a significant amount of cash
available to her.

58:33.384 --> 58:36.137
Kaitlin's one of those types of people

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that she gets an idea in her head
and she makes it happen.

58:43.520 --> 58:45.939
The U.S. Marshals were close to giving up

58:46.022 --> 58:47.941
because they couldn't find her.

58:48.024 --> 58:49.651
That was a scary thought to me.

58:53.196 --> 58:56.783
Based on her strong interest in yoga,

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they put out an ad in the town
where they thought she might be,

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seeking a yoga instructor.

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Amazingly,

59:10.421 --> 59:12.423
there was a response.

59:14.342 --> 59:15.969
They went to that location,

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and they saw her.

59:20.890 --> 59:24.269
Someone asked her
if she was Kaitlin Armstrong…

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and she said yes.

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I'm here to announce
that Kaitlin Armstrong

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was captured on June 29th

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by foreign officials
in the Republic of Costa Rica

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following a 43-day fugitive investigation.

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After she was arrested,

59:49.127 --> 59:53.298
we find out that she actually
went through plastic surgery,

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trying to make herself
look more like her sister.

59:56.676 --> 01:00:00.013
I think she just thought
she was smarter than everybody else

01:00:00.096 --> 01:00:01.764
and that she could get away with it.

01:00:06.269 --> 01:00:10.189
Armstrong is now in custody
at the Travis County Jail.

01:00:10.273 --> 01:00:14.902
She's currently being held
under a $3.5 million bond.

01:00:16.029 --> 01:00:18.489
Unfortunately, a lot of the information

01:00:18.573 --> 01:00:22.660
that's been presented so far in the media
is simply not accurate.

01:00:22.744 --> 01:00:26.414
The police have a vested interest
in painting a picture

01:00:26.497 --> 01:00:29.584
that supports
their initial assumptions and actions.

01:00:29.667 --> 01:00:33.087
We look forward
to this legal process ahead

01:00:33.171 --> 01:00:36.299
and these issues being heard
in a court of law.

01:00:39.636 --> 01:00:42.013
18, 19 days before trial,

01:00:42.096 --> 01:00:45.183
someone from the sheriff's office
called me and said,

01:00:45.266 --> 01:00:47.477
"Put your coffee down,
you won't believe this."

01:00:47.560 --> 01:00:50.605
Kaitlin Armstrong escaped

01:00:51.189 --> 01:00:53.399
from the Travis County Jail.

01:00:53.983 --> 01:00:56.319
Two deputies escorted Kaitlin Armstrong

01:00:56.402 --> 01:00:58.404
to a doctor's appointment
Wednesday morning.

01:00:58.488 --> 01:01:02.992
She had this injury
that she could not have leg restraints on

01:01:03.076 --> 01:01:05.328
that required her
to go see an outside doctor.

01:01:05.411 --> 01:01:07.622
And so they allowed her to.

01:01:07.705 --> 01:01:10.416
The minute she left that doctor's office,
she booked it.

01:01:11.667 --> 01:01:14.837
Deputy chasing an inmate in the area.

01:01:16.756 --> 01:01:18.216
We were hearing

01:01:18.299 --> 01:01:21.969
that she did start working out
excessively leading up to that,

01:01:22.053 --> 01:01:24.055
so there was definitely
some thought process

01:01:24.138 --> 01:01:25.473
that went into this escape.

01:01:26.307 --> 01:01:32.480
She ran, and they apprehended her
about a mile down the road.

01:01:33.815 --> 01:01:36.067
It was just even more evidence

01:01:36.150 --> 01:01:40.363
that Kaitlin Armstrong really thought
she could get away with this.

01:01:40.446 --> 01:01:43.324
And that she wasn't going
to have to answer for what she did

01:01:43.408 --> 01:01:45.785
like anyone else might have to.

01:01:56.254 --> 01:01:57.505
Oh, my gosh.

01:02:05.763 --> 01:02:08.975
When I open drawers in her room,

01:02:09.058 --> 01:02:11.310
I love picking things up

01:02:11.394 --> 01:02:14.147
and just sticking them
in my face and smelling them.

01:02:14.230 --> 01:02:17.233
And sometimes that makes me feel good,
and sometimes that makes me,

01:02:17.900 --> 01:02:19.444
you know, feel sad too.

01:02:22.739 --> 01:02:26.868
The more that I can be thankful
for the fact that…

01:02:28.411 --> 01:02:32.081
…that I, you know, that we had
Moriah here for 25 years…

01:02:33.207 --> 01:02:35.585
…the more I can give thanks for that

01:02:35.668 --> 01:02:38.963
and, um, and not focus on the loss.

01:02:39.547 --> 01:02:40.756
And, um…

01:02:41.716 --> 01:02:47.305
You know, it's not easy, though, because
I still want her to be here and, um…

01:02:48.389 --> 01:02:50.308
…and I miss her.

01:03:00.943 --> 01:03:01.944
Moriah?

01:03:02.028 --> 01:03:04.363
Okay? Okay, Mommy?

01:03:04.447 --> 01:03:06.532
-Love you.
-Love you.

01:03:06.616 --> 01:03:07.617
Mm.

01:03:09.035 --> 01:03:11.120
Aw, that's a nice picture.

01:03:12.705 --> 01:03:14.081
Hi, everybody.

01:03:14.165 --> 01:03:16.042
Hi!

01:03:37.396 --> 01:03:39.690
Grief is like a big mud puddle.

01:03:40.983 --> 01:03:44.320
You can walk around it and around it.

01:03:45.279 --> 01:03:48.157
Just be circling it
for the rest of your life.

01:03:49.408 --> 01:03:52.328
Or you can walk right through it

01:03:52.828 --> 01:03:54.705
and out the other end.

01:04:02.797 --> 01:04:06.634
A highly anticipated
murder trial gets underway here in Austin.

01:04:07.218 --> 01:04:11.806
It's a case that has received
international media attention.

01:04:11.889 --> 01:04:15.101
There's a large contingency
of news reporters.

01:04:15.184 --> 01:04:20.898
There's spectators, people tweeting live
the proceedings in the courtroom.

01:04:20.982 --> 01:04:24.193
Did Kaitlin Armstrong
shoot and kill Moriah Wilson?

01:04:24.277 --> 01:04:27.113
That is a question
that a jury will answer.

01:04:27.697 --> 01:04:30.241
Sometimes when there's
no direct evidence, no eyewitness,

01:04:30.324 --> 01:04:31.701
no video of the murder,

01:04:31.784 --> 01:04:34.912
it's enough for a jury to hang
their hat on and acquit somebody.

01:04:42.336 --> 01:04:45.256
Evidence will come out
that Kaitlin Armstrong

01:04:45.965 --> 01:04:50.344
was nowhere near the scene
of Miss Wilson's murder.

01:04:50.428 --> 01:04:53.431
To the allegations
in paragraph one of the indictment,

01:04:53.514 --> 01:04:54.557
how do you plead?

01:04:54.640 --> 01:04:55.641
Not guilty.

01:04:55.725 --> 01:04:58.436
To the allegations
to paragraph two of the indictment,

01:04:58.519 --> 01:04:59.478
how do you plead?

01:04:59.562 --> 01:05:00.396
Not guilty.

01:05:00.479 --> 01:05:01.939
You may be seated.

01:05:04.984 --> 01:05:11.866
We're going to start by giving you
information about three key players.

01:05:14.368 --> 01:05:16.454
Number one will be Mo Wilson.

01:05:18.456 --> 01:05:21.626
Second key player is Colin Strickland.

01:05:22.251 --> 01:05:26.005
The third player is Kaitlin Armstrong,
the defendant,

01:05:26.505 --> 01:05:27.965
who lived with Colin

01:05:28.049 --> 01:05:31.677
in an on-again, off-again
romantic relationship.

01:05:32.553 --> 01:05:34.805
Kaitlin Armstrong was not happy

01:05:34.889 --> 01:05:37.308
with Colin still communicating

01:05:38.809 --> 01:05:41.729
with Mo Wilson
after their romantic relationship ended.

01:05:41.812 --> 01:05:47.193
What a wonderful and easy way
to paint a woman and to tell a story.

01:05:47.860 --> 01:05:49.987
The woman scorned.

01:05:50.946 --> 01:05:54.158
She had to be portrayed

01:05:54.241 --> 01:05:57.953
as a jealous psycho to create the motive.

01:05:59.497 --> 01:06:02.667
Mo was so young,
had so much life ahead of her.

01:06:02.750 --> 01:06:06.003
My main thing was to hold
Kaitlin Armstrong accountable.

01:06:07.004 --> 01:06:09.465
I was the second to take the stand.

01:06:09.548 --> 01:06:12.343
All of a sudden, it's like,
"Get up, we're going in."

01:06:12.426 --> 01:06:14.637
"We're swearing you in. It's starting."

01:06:15.429 --> 01:06:19.392
There's no way to actually prepare you
for going into a situation like that,

01:06:19.475 --> 01:06:20.768
where you're on the stand

01:06:20.851 --> 01:06:23.646
facing Kaitlin Armstrong,
right there looking at you.

01:06:25.481 --> 01:06:28.359
I just became hyper-focused.

01:06:28.442 --> 01:06:31.737
I went into this, like, zone of,

01:06:31.821 --> 01:06:35.533
"This is the most important thing
I could possibly do in my life."

01:06:35.616 --> 01:06:37.660
"I want to see justice served,

01:06:37.743 --> 01:06:42.665
and I want to do
my absolute best for my friend."

01:06:43.666 --> 01:06:47.420
I fought for Mo
with everything I had that night.

01:06:48.671 --> 01:06:53.384
From the moment that I got home,
I started doing chest compressions,

01:06:53.467 --> 01:06:56.470
which was the longest ten minutes
of my entire life.

01:06:57.972 --> 01:07:00.433
When I stepped down from the stand,

01:07:00.516 --> 01:07:04.145
I looked Kaitlin Armstrong in the eyes,

01:07:04.812 --> 01:07:06.522
and she showed nothing.

01:07:07.273 --> 01:07:09.316
Absolutely nothing.

01:07:12.278 --> 01:07:13.863
Hey, come here.

01:07:17.908 --> 01:07:20.661
Somebody might be in here.
This might be the bike, okay?

01:07:20.745 --> 01:07:21.829
Like-- Oh, look.

01:07:21.912 --> 01:07:26.000
We had evidence
Kaitlin Armstrong drags Mo's bike

01:07:26.083 --> 01:07:27.793
and throws it in the weeds.

01:07:27.877 --> 01:07:29.295
Over there.

01:07:30.296 --> 01:07:31.464
Okay, um…

01:07:31.547 --> 01:07:33.716
432, I located the bike.

01:07:36.135 --> 01:07:39.722
I don't know if she did that
just to thumb her nose at her,

01:07:40.389 --> 01:07:42.767
or she was trying
to make it look like a robbery.

01:07:44.435 --> 01:07:48.147
One of the hardest things
was when they rolled her bike in.

01:07:48.230 --> 01:07:51.817
That… That kind of hit me,
seeing her bike.

01:07:52.651 --> 01:07:54.195
Yeah, I remember it.

01:07:55.696 --> 01:07:57.281
It was in the bag.

01:07:59.450 --> 01:08:01.243
Oh…

01:08:04.246 --> 01:08:05.915
That was her bike.

01:08:06.415 --> 01:08:09.210
That was what she cared about.
That's what gave her joy.

01:08:11.629 --> 01:08:13.547
When they recovered the bicycle,

01:08:13.631 --> 01:08:17.384
they had processed it
for DNA and fingerprints.

01:08:17.468 --> 01:08:21.472
I asked them to process
a couple other spots or items on the bike,

01:08:21.555 --> 01:08:23.057
just to be sure.

01:08:23.140 --> 01:08:26.227
We compared it with the DNA
that we collected from Kaitlin.

01:08:26.310 --> 01:08:29.939
That comparison showed that Kaitlin's DNA

01:08:30.022 --> 01:08:32.024
was actually on the bicycle.

01:08:32.108 --> 01:08:37.154
The simplest, logical,
most reasonable explanation

01:08:37.238 --> 01:08:40.157
for the defendant's DNA
to be on this bike?

01:08:40.241 --> 01:08:43.285
The defendant touched the bike
after she exited.

01:08:43.369 --> 01:08:46.205
She took the bike out,
and she threw it outside.

01:08:46.997 --> 01:08:52.711
Every person that handled this bike
handled it in the same way.

01:08:55.965 --> 01:09:02.263
I was very upset about the way
that Attorney Cofer handled the bike.

01:09:02.763 --> 01:09:05.850
I didn't think that showed much respect.

01:09:05.933 --> 01:09:08.853
And what's astounding, right here.

01:09:09.478 --> 01:09:14.483
This was the area not swabbed for DNA.

01:09:14.567 --> 01:09:19.446
What if it had shown
yet another unknown profile?

01:09:27.454 --> 01:09:31.041
I mean, it's hard for all of us
to be in that room with Armstrong.

01:09:31.125 --> 01:09:34.753
-And I think it's especially…
-Yeah.

01:09:34.837 --> 01:09:37.590
I mean, it's hard for all of us, for sure.

01:09:37.673 --> 01:09:41.093
-It feels cold in there. It's like…
-Yeah, it can be still.

01:09:41.176 --> 01:09:44.096
I don't even feel that much
because I'm just like,

01:09:44.179 --> 01:09:46.682
this just doesn't feel like a space

01:09:46.765 --> 01:09:50.019
where I'm being encouraged
to feel anything.

01:09:50.102 --> 01:09:53.981
Seeing her not show any emotion at all,

01:09:54.064 --> 01:09:55.816
all I see is a stone.

01:09:55.900 --> 01:09:57.818
When I look at her,
she looks like a stone.

01:09:58.611 --> 01:10:02.489
Every once in a while,
I look and I just think, "Is there any…"

01:10:03.407 --> 01:10:07.411
"Is there any softness
in that heart anywhere?"

01:10:07.494 --> 01:10:10.915
"Is there any flesh in that heart,
or is it all stone?"

01:10:11.415 --> 01:10:12.541
I don't know.

01:10:15.753 --> 01:10:19.006
Testimony on day three
of the Kaitlin Armstrong murder trial

01:10:19.089 --> 01:10:23.010
with Colin Strickland,
Armstrong's then on-and-off boyfriend.

01:10:24.261 --> 01:10:28.807
It was hard to watch Colin
on the witness stand.

01:10:30.017 --> 01:10:36.232
He did not look like the same person
in trial that he was before Moriah died.

01:10:38.734 --> 01:10:42.279
It was hard to see Colin face-to-face.

01:10:42.363 --> 01:10:45.115
Particularly because I placed
so much blame on him

01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:49.828
for… his manipulation
of both Moriah and Kaitlin.

01:10:49.912 --> 01:10:53.874
Colin Strickland gave many
noncommittal answers to attorneys today,

01:10:53.958 --> 01:10:57.336
and also sat with his body
angled away and his hand up

01:10:57.419 --> 01:11:00.047
in what may have been
an attempt to block out Armstrong.

01:11:00.965 --> 01:11:02.383
His demeanor was,

01:11:03.467 --> 01:11:05.010
"I do not want to be here."

01:11:05.094 --> 01:11:06.387
He looked away.

01:11:06.470 --> 01:11:08.180
He had his head down often.

01:11:08.264 --> 01:11:10.516
He was slumped over the microphone.

01:11:10.599 --> 01:11:13.018
He would put his hand
on his head like this.

01:11:13.102 --> 01:11:14.937
His eyes were often closed,

01:11:15.020 --> 01:11:18.440
and rarely would he look at the person
who was questioning him,

01:11:18.524 --> 01:11:20.359
whether it was us or the other side.

01:11:21.443 --> 01:11:25.030
When Colin was asked
in his cross-examinations

01:11:25.114 --> 01:11:27.324
if he knew the defendant,

01:11:27.408 --> 01:11:29.535
he actually came out and said, like, "No."

01:11:30.911 --> 01:11:35.624
And I think it was a statement of,
"I thought I knew her, but I don't."

01:11:36.291 --> 01:11:38.961
He had very pertinent information

01:11:39.461 --> 01:11:42.923
to help us put this case together
to get justice for Mo.

01:11:43.007 --> 01:11:44.842
And I didn't like the fact that…

01:11:46.552 --> 01:11:49.013
he came off as being
very reluctant at times.

01:11:49.096 --> 01:11:52.349
And I wanted to tell him, "Come on, dude."

01:11:53.434 --> 01:11:56.520
"Do it like this
and make it easy on yourself."

01:11:58.397 --> 01:12:01.025
The state pulled up texts
between Strickland and Armstrong

01:12:01.108 --> 01:12:02.192
from October 2021.

01:12:02.276 --> 01:12:05.779
That was a time when Wilson
and Strickland met up in Austin.

01:12:05.863 --> 01:12:09.575
The message that's seemingly
from Armstrong to Strickland,

01:12:09.658 --> 01:12:13.037
"I know you better than to show up
at Meteor with that girl."

01:12:13.120 --> 01:12:16.665
Strickland says "that girl"
is a reference to Wilson.

01:12:17.333 --> 01:12:19.626
Jurors were shown
a text message sent to Strickland

01:12:19.710 --> 01:12:24.048
containing a video at some kind
of firing range, shooting a gun.

01:12:24.715 --> 01:12:26.216
The person's face isn't shown,

01:12:26.300 --> 01:12:29.762
but Strickland testified
he believed it's Armstrong.

01:12:30.596 --> 01:12:34.641
Colin ended up in the middle
of some very unfortunate events.

01:12:35.309 --> 01:12:38.353
I don't think that he ever anticipated

01:12:38.437 --> 01:12:42.274
or intended for things
to happen the way that they did.

01:12:42.358 --> 01:12:45.986
But I also don't think
that we can look at what happened

01:12:46.070 --> 01:12:48.906
without acknowledging his involvement.

01:12:51.158 --> 01:12:53.827
It bothers me that him lying

01:12:53.911 --> 01:12:58.415
created the situation
and the scenario that led to Mo's death.

01:12:58.499 --> 01:13:01.418
But on the other hand,
he didn't pull the trigger.

01:13:01.502 --> 01:13:02.878
He didn't kill her.

01:13:03.712 --> 01:13:07.966
And there's nothing
about Kaitlin Armstrong, in my opinion,

01:13:08.050 --> 01:13:09.718
that suggested to Colin,

01:13:09.802 --> 01:13:12.763
"I'd better be careful.
This girl could kill someone."

01:13:12.846 --> 01:13:14.973
I don't think he saw it coming.

01:13:15.474 --> 01:13:18.185
And if he did, maybe he'd have done
something different.

01:13:23.982 --> 01:13:26.985
We wanted Pam Mazak
to be our final witness

01:13:27.486 --> 01:13:30.739
to summarize the whole case, all the data,

01:13:30.823 --> 01:13:34.159
and following it
in a chronological timeline.

01:13:37.121 --> 01:13:38.539
From Colin's phone,

01:13:38.622 --> 01:13:43.252
we realized he had Moriah
in his phone as Christine Wall.

01:13:43.836 --> 01:13:47.464
Around 4:45, Colin's asking Moriah

01:13:47.548 --> 01:13:51.135
if she'd like him to come
pick her up on the motorcycle.

01:13:51.218 --> 01:13:55.597
Kaitlin did have access
to a lot of his information,

01:13:55.681 --> 01:13:57.182
and there was an iPad at home,

01:13:57.266 --> 01:14:01.437
and she more than likely would be able
to see all of this texting

01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:03.856
between Colin and Moriah.

01:14:06.608 --> 01:14:08.152
At around 4:49,

01:14:08.235 --> 01:14:12.656
Moriah sends Colin
the address of where she's staying.

01:14:13.157 --> 01:14:15.117
Now, it is under Christine Wall,

01:14:16.076 --> 01:14:20.789
but Moriah sends a picture from her ride.

01:14:21.790 --> 01:14:26.545
So, Kaitlin knows absolutely
that's who he's making plans with.

01:14:29.214 --> 01:14:31.425
Kaitlin leaves the house,

01:14:31.508 --> 01:14:34.595
and we believe she's got the gun with her.

01:14:35.596 --> 01:14:39.766
She is heading up Lamar
towards the downtown area.

01:14:40.976 --> 01:14:46.940
Then she takes a left
onto West 6th and heads west,

01:14:47.524 --> 01:14:51.987
which would take you
to Deep Eddy, or that area.

01:14:52.070 --> 01:14:57.034
But then, she turns around
and she starts heading east, onto 5th.

01:14:57.784 --> 01:15:01.705
Then, her car takes a turn
around another block.

01:15:01.788 --> 01:15:04.666
It's like she's trying
to figure out what to do.

01:15:04.750 --> 01:15:09.338
And she pulls over into a parking lot area
and sits there for about a minute.

01:15:10.047 --> 01:15:13.300
I don't know if initially
she was just going to go confront them.

01:15:13.383 --> 01:15:17.429
A jealous person might, you know,
yell, scream, you know, slap, pull hair.

01:15:17.513 --> 01:15:19.556
But that's not what happened.

01:15:20.724 --> 01:15:25.479
She sits there for a minute and then makes
the decision to turn her phone off.

01:15:26.897 --> 01:15:30.317
And then her Jeep starts heading east

01:15:30.400 --> 01:15:33.111
and goes straight to Cash's neighborhood.

01:15:35.322 --> 01:15:40.494
Kaitlin's Jeep locations match exactly
with all the surveillance video.

01:15:42.788 --> 01:15:45.040
She's circling that neighborhood,

01:15:45.123 --> 01:15:50.003
and she's sitting in her car and waiting
at about three different spots, at least.

01:15:52.089 --> 01:15:56.009
We see Moriah and Colin heading back over.

01:15:56.093 --> 01:15:58.470
Kaitlin's circling the block

01:15:59.805 --> 01:16:02.391
until she sees them come home.

01:16:08.981 --> 01:16:11.441
They're within a block of each other.

01:16:12.276 --> 01:16:14.236
She's waiting for Colin to leave.

01:16:17.864 --> 01:16:22.411
I know how it ends, and it's still
just really hard to watch this unfold.

01:16:23.829 --> 01:16:26.331
One of the most horrific
things that we learned

01:16:26.415 --> 01:16:31.628
was just how long
she had circled Cash's house.

01:16:31.712 --> 01:16:33.589
Just how intentional it was.

01:16:36.717 --> 01:16:39.636
She basically stalked her.

01:16:41.597 --> 01:16:43.390
It was mind-blowing

01:16:43.473 --> 01:16:46.268
just that we were able
to put all of that together

01:16:46.351 --> 01:16:49.396
and that, really,
that-- that digital evidence

01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:52.024
almost became
another witness in the trial.

01:16:53.191 --> 01:16:57.571
You can't really accuse data of lying.

01:16:58.947 --> 01:17:00.574
8:35, he drops her off.

01:17:01.658 --> 01:17:02.909
Then Colin goes home.

01:17:05.120 --> 01:17:07.748
He does stop at 8:38 on MLK,

01:17:07.831 --> 01:17:09.041
a few blocks

01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.044
from dropping Mo off.

01:17:12.127 --> 01:17:15.589
Then he texts Kaitlin
about the errand he was running.

01:17:15.672 --> 01:17:16.965
Said, "Finished."

01:17:17.466 --> 01:17:19.134
"Want to get something to eat?"

01:17:19.217 --> 01:17:20.469
She doesn't respond.

01:17:23.930 --> 01:17:27.476
As soon as he leaves,
she circles that alley.

01:17:27.559 --> 01:17:29.728
She parks her Jeep.

01:17:29.811 --> 01:17:32.564
And then she sits
in the Jeep for a little while.

01:17:33.982 --> 01:17:35.525
Moriah unlocks the door.

01:17:35.609 --> 01:17:37.027
She gets in.

01:17:37.110 --> 01:17:43.450
And then she's, uh, texting
a podcaster around 9:13.

01:17:43.533 --> 01:17:44.993
A few minutes later,

01:17:45.077 --> 01:17:48.997
the… the screams
and the gunshots are heard.

01:17:49.081 --> 01:17:51.583
Pow! Pow!

01:17:52.709 --> 01:17:53.960
Two gunshots.

01:17:55.295 --> 01:17:57.005
One to the front of the head.

01:17:58.090 --> 01:17:59.966
One to the side of the head

01:18:00.050 --> 01:18:03.345
that hits the index finger as it passes.

01:18:04.888 --> 01:18:07.891
After four or five seconds of silence,

01:18:08.642 --> 01:18:10.185
Kaitlin Armstrong

01:18:10.852 --> 01:18:12.312
stood over Mo Wilson

01:18:13.021 --> 01:18:14.564
and put a third shot

01:18:15.107 --> 01:18:16.733
right in Mo Wilson's heart.

01:18:18.777 --> 01:18:21.405
Hearing those screams, you know, they…

01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:23.323
still bother me.

01:18:23.407 --> 01:18:27.452
I try not to listen
to that one. It's-- It's very difficult.

01:18:45.137 --> 01:18:47.222
I was coming to terms with,

01:18:47.305 --> 01:18:49.224
"What if she's not put away?"

01:18:50.058 --> 01:18:53.145
What does that mean for the Wilsons?
What does that mean for me?

01:18:56.857 --> 01:19:00.944
I felt tense, nervous.

01:19:02.696 --> 01:19:04.823
It's up to these 12 people.

01:19:06.408 --> 01:19:11.788
Everything we do
all comes down to the jury.

01:19:11.872 --> 01:19:13.999
If they didn't like it,
or they didn't buy it,

01:19:14.082 --> 01:19:16.710
or even one of them didn't like it
or didn't buy it,

01:19:17.294 --> 01:19:18.336
you're done.

01:19:29.473 --> 01:19:31.349
The defendant will please rise.

01:19:34.895 --> 01:19:39.691
In cause number D1DC22301129,

01:19:39.775 --> 01:19:42.819
verdict of the jury
for the offense of murder,

01:19:42.903 --> 01:19:46.072
we, the jury, having found
the defendant, Kaitlin Armstrong,

01:19:46.156 --> 01:19:47.824
guilty of the offense of murder.

01:19:47.908 --> 01:19:51.745
This court hereby
sentences you to 90 years

01:19:51.828 --> 01:19:53.789
in the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice

01:19:53.872 --> 01:19:57.667
and a $10,000 fine as imposed by the jury.

01:19:57.751 --> 01:19:58.668
You may be seated.

01:20:01.296 --> 01:20:03.715
Is there any allocution to be done?

01:20:03.799 --> 01:20:05.008
Yes, Your Honor.

01:20:16.770 --> 01:20:18.813
Kaitlin Armstrong.

01:20:21.733 --> 01:20:25.237
I'm not sure if my words
can penetrate your heart,

01:20:25.320 --> 01:20:26.738
but I'm gonna try.

01:20:28.406 --> 01:20:31.034
I hate what you did
to my beautiful daughter.

01:20:32.869 --> 01:20:35.622
It was very selfish and cowardly,

01:20:36.331 --> 01:20:38.792
that violent act on May 11th.

01:20:39.543 --> 01:20:41.253
It was cowardly

01:20:42.045 --> 01:20:43.672
because you never chose

01:20:43.755 --> 01:20:48.385
to face her woman to woman
in a civil conversation.

01:20:49.094 --> 01:20:50.846
She would have listened.

01:20:51.388 --> 01:20:53.682
She was an amazing listener.

01:20:54.349 --> 01:20:56.935
She would have cared about your feelings.

01:20:57.435 --> 01:21:00.230
She was a caring, empathetic person.

01:21:00.939 --> 01:21:04.317
If you allowed yourself
to actually know her,

01:21:04.401 --> 01:21:08.446
you never, ever would have
wanted to hurt her.

01:21:09.739 --> 01:21:12.117
When you shot Moriah in the heart,

01:21:12.200 --> 01:21:15.245
you shot me in my heart.

01:21:16.288 --> 01:21:20.250
You shot Eric and Matt in their hearts.

01:21:26.882 --> 01:21:31.845
I don't know why God let this happen,
but He let it happen.

01:21:33.471 --> 01:21:36.391
We trust that there's going
to be good come from it.

01:21:40.478 --> 01:21:44.274
Maybe it'll help somebody,
you know, down the road…

01:21:46.526 --> 01:21:48.695
so something like this doesn't happen.

01:22:03.251 --> 01:22:05.170
There really are no winners here.

01:22:06.212 --> 01:22:08.924
This is not a time for celebration,

01:22:09.007 --> 01:22:10.592
but a time for prayer.

01:22:11.801 --> 01:22:13.678
A time to pray for our family,

01:22:14.346 --> 01:22:17.557
our friends, the Armstrong family,

01:22:17.641 --> 01:22:18.642
and their friends.

01:22:19.476 --> 01:22:21.811
This sad story is a perfect example

01:22:21.895 --> 01:22:27.359
of why integrity and honesty are crucial
in our personal relationships.

01:22:28.485 --> 01:22:32.989
And how dishonesty can often lead
to unintended consequences.

01:22:33.907 --> 01:22:39.704
Selfish manipulation, jealousy, and hatred
never lead to positive outcomes.

01:22:40.789 --> 01:22:42.832
Violence is never a good way.

01:22:43.416 --> 01:22:45.335
It only leads to more suffering.

01:22:47.128 --> 01:22:49.130
Our lives are changed forever,

01:22:50.131 --> 01:22:53.218
but with this challenging ordeal
now behind us,

01:22:53.802 --> 01:22:58.014
we are ready to move forward
and continue our healing.

01:22:59.349 --> 01:23:04.521
And we will do this
with Moriah's strong, determined,

01:23:04.604 --> 01:23:06.940
gentle and kind spirit,

01:23:07.607 --> 01:23:10.443
for we know
this is what she would want us to do.

01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:29.295
This is someone
that I'm sure most people in her life

01:23:29.379 --> 01:23:32.007
couldn't have imagined her
doing something like this.

01:23:32.090 --> 01:23:34.551
So it raises all these questions of, like,

01:23:35.218 --> 01:23:37.178
"Do you ever really know anyone?"

01:23:37.262 --> 01:23:39.431
"Am I capable
of doing something like that?"

01:23:39.514 --> 01:23:41.683
"Is everyone capable
of doing something like that?"

01:23:43.518 --> 01:23:48.273
This just is still so incomprehensible.

01:23:49.232 --> 01:23:51.776
And when I do get angry,

01:23:51.860 --> 01:23:53.153
all I can think of is,

01:23:53.236 --> 01:23:57.282
"You stupid girl,
Kaitlin Armstrong, you stupid girl."

01:23:57.991 --> 01:23:59.784
"Look what you did."

01:24:17.927 --> 01:24:22.098
Kaitlin Armstrong took
so many things away from my sister.

01:24:22.182 --> 01:24:23.975
She took away her life.

01:24:24.476 --> 01:24:25.810
Her freedom.

01:24:26.853 --> 01:24:29.814
Her ability to experience this world.

01:24:30.315 --> 01:24:33.568
Her ability to feel joy.

01:24:34.527 --> 01:24:38.281
The only just consequence for that

01:24:38.364 --> 01:24:42.869
is that she should no longer be able
to have any of those experiences either,

01:24:43.953 --> 01:24:45.455
for the rest of her life.

01:25:09.979 --> 01:25:12.107
In my belief system,

01:25:12.190 --> 01:25:16.861
whenever we make choices
and they have negative consequences,

01:25:16.945 --> 01:25:19.447
we can't just walk away.

01:25:20.740 --> 01:25:23.409
It's about what's right and wrong.

01:25:25.286 --> 01:25:27.413
And being held accountable.

01:25:32.252 --> 01:25:34.629
It was just such a senseless crime.

01:26:05.410 --> 01:26:07.745
This is pretty much my life these days.

01:26:07.829 --> 01:26:10.206
Just… time alone in the shop.

01:26:12.709 --> 01:26:15.670
Part of that's just,
things are just outside of my control.

01:26:15.753 --> 01:26:18.548
So I shrunk my world massively

01:26:18.631 --> 01:26:21.134
so that it could feel
some kind of control.

01:26:21.217 --> 01:26:24.304
Things are spinning out of…
out of control.

01:26:32.228 --> 01:26:35.231
I regret everything.
I'm ashamed of everything I've done.

01:26:37.275 --> 01:26:40.278
I would have never
fucking started bike racing.

01:26:41.404 --> 01:26:43.364
Not ever met Kaitlin.

01:26:44.324 --> 01:26:46.075
Not ever met Moriah.

01:26:47.285 --> 01:26:50.872
Not ever… spoken with Moriah in private.

01:26:52.498 --> 01:26:53.666
Every single thing.

01:26:54.918 --> 01:26:56.544
Because it all led to this.

01:27:10.266 --> 01:27:12.101
This is what I found in a thrift store

01:27:12.185 --> 01:27:13.728
when I was trying to decide

01:27:13.811 --> 01:27:18.066
whether or not I was going to be capable
of moving back into this space or not.

01:27:18.149 --> 01:27:21.986
And I pulled it
out of a wall of 300 frames.

01:27:22.070 --> 01:27:24.322
And it has a little bike
going out of the frame,

01:27:24.405 --> 01:27:27.700
which feels really appropriate
for what was happening at the moment.

01:27:27.784 --> 01:27:30.411
It's got a bloom over here,
so there's some hope going on.

01:27:30.495 --> 01:27:33.289
Um, and then it says,
"With you all the way."

01:27:33.373 --> 01:27:39.337
And I just kind of, um,
was totally overcome when I saw this.

01:27:42.465 --> 01:27:43.549
When I moved back in,

01:27:43.633 --> 01:27:47.679
I wanted this space
to feel joyful and bright.

01:27:47.762 --> 01:27:50.598
And so I wanted there to be
a lot of color on the walls.

01:27:50.682 --> 01:27:53.726
I wanted every single thing
I brought back into this home

01:27:53.810 --> 01:27:55.979
to be intentional and to be joyful.

01:27:57.689 --> 01:28:02.860
Everyone assumed that I would not
move back into my house.

01:28:02.944 --> 01:28:07.198
My landlord, my dad, kept asking

01:28:07.282 --> 01:28:09.826
if we needed to start moving my stuff out.

01:28:09.909 --> 01:28:12.704
And I just was really reluctant.

01:28:13.288 --> 01:28:15.456
I somehow felt

01:28:16.499 --> 01:28:19.460
a strong connection there
and a strong pull.

01:28:21.587 --> 01:28:23.214
When I look back at it,

01:28:23.298 --> 01:28:25.842
the last day of her life
was really beautiful.

01:28:25.925 --> 01:28:28.678
We laughed a lot together.

01:28:28.761 --> 01:28:30.805
We made breakfast and coffee.

01:28:30.888 --> 01:28:32.890
She went on a bike ride.

01:28:32.974 --> 01:28:37.103
We talked about life and boys and family.

01:28:37.186 --> 01:28:42.317
And it was a really beautiful last day.

01:28:42.400 --> 01:28:44.485
And that feels sacred to me.

01:28:45.570 --> 01:28:48.448
I want to safeguard that.

01:28:49.949 --> 01:28:51.492
I feel her there.

01:28:51.576 --> 01:28:54.620
I feel her joy there.

01:28:55.413 --> 01:29:00.084
And I'm able to take that and harness it.

01:29:00.793 --> 01:29:04.339
And I think she would be proud.
She'd be proud that I didn't just give up.

01:29:12.555 --> 01:29:14.599
Growing up, going to Burke with Moriah,

01:29:14.682 --> 01:29:16.017
and now coaching.

01:29:16.601 --> 01:29:18.144
Alright, line up on the red line.

01:29:19.228 --> 01:29:21.564
Being around the kids in this community

01:29:22.482 --> 01:29:25.193
has been really healthy in a lot of ways.

01:29:25.276 --> 01:29:28.112
Millie's to Trillium, to Magill,

01:29:28.196 --> 01:29:30.490
to Moose Deuce, to Moriah's Ascent.

01:29:31.908 --> 01:29:34.660
I do think
about what Mo would say quite often.

01:29:36.287 --> 01:29:40.124
To get yourself
a little bit out of that hole,

01:29:40.208 --> 01:29:43.586
she would tell me to get on my bike.

01:29:45.463 --> 01:29:48.591
Just try to get
a little bit of momentum there.

01:29:50.176 --> 01:29:53.137
And take it one step at a time.

01:31:26.022 --> 01:31:29.066
Come on, Mo! Come on! Get up there!

01:31:29.609 --> 01:31:31.068
Yeah, Mo!

01:31:35.698 --> 01:31:38.201
Mo! Let's go, Mo!

01:31:38.284 --> 01:31:41.287
Get up the hill! Dig it, Mo!

01:31:41.913 --> 01:31:44.499
Go, go, go, go, go!

01:32:43.099 --> 01:32:45.768
If my senses fail

01:32:47.019 --> 01:32:50.731
Meet me on the other side of paradise

01:32:50.815 --> 01:32:53.943
Free from complications

01:32:54.694 --> 01:32:57.405
Of our sense of time

01:32:58.531 --> 01:33:01.450
Fill my windless sail

01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:05.913
With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life

01:33:05.997 --> 01:33:09.125
Whispered conversations

01:33:10.042 --> 01:33:13.754
Twisted faces in the clouds

01:33:20.177 --> 01:33:24.432
I've been hot-winged and hoodwinked
And dead on my feet

01:33:26.976 --> 01:33:31.063
The sound and the fury remain over me

01:33:33.733 --> 01:33:37.570
And all of the footprints
That fall in a line

01:33:37.653 --> 01:33:43.326
Were our common ancestors
Wandering hills in the night

01:33:46.287 --> 01:33:49.874
If my senses fail

01:33:50.374 --> 01:33:54.128
Meet me on the other side of paradise

01:33:54.211 --> 01:33:57.506
Free from complications

01:33:58.049 --> 01:34:00.968
Of our sense of time

01:34:01.761 --> 01:34:04.847
Fill my windless sail

01:34:05.514 --> 01:34:09.352
With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life

01:34:09.435 --> 01:34:12.605
Whispered conversations

01:34:13.356 --> 01:34:17.193
Twisted faces in the clouds

01:34:23.783 --> 01:34:27.787
Let unanswered question marks
Fall where they will

01:34:30.373 --> 01:34:34.585
The thoughts that imprison me
Walk with me still

01:34:37.088 --> 01:34:41.008
And seconds that fly by
Like days of my life

01:34:41.092 --> 01:34:46.180
Were hours spent wasted
On chasing the words of the wise

01:34:49.725 --> 01:34:52.561
If my senses fail

01:34:53.521 --> 01:34:57.316
Meet me on the other side of paradise

01:34:57.400 --> 01:35:00.528
Free from complications

01:35:01.195 --> 01:35:04.281
Of our sense of time

01:35:05.199 --> 01:35:08.077
Fill my windless sail

01:35:09.036 --> 01:35:12.706
With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life

01:35:12.790 --> 01:35:16.085
Whispered conversations

01:35:16.669 --> 01:35:18.671
Twisted faces…
tions