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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.

00:14:48.304 --> 00:14:49.972 align:center
"So inspired by the Olympics."

00:14:50.055 --> 00:14:53.225 align:center
"I want to be an Olympian so badly."

00:14:53.726 --> 00:14:56.645 align:center
"One day, I will. One day, I will."

00:14:57.354 --> 00:14:59.064 align:center
Moriah, free skiing.

00:15:12.077 --> 00:15:15.664 align:center
Burke Mountain Academy started in 1970.

00:15:15.748 --> 00:15:18.167 align:center
They had the first program in the country

00:15:18.250 --> 00:15:21.503 align:center
that really was focused
around skiing half a day

00:15:21.587 --> 00:15:23.088 align:center
and going to school half a day.

00:15:24.590 --> 00:15:27.092 align:center
One of the main requirements
for going here

00:15:27.176 --> 00:15:30.763 align:center
is that you aspire
to be an Olympic-level athlete.

00:15:30.846 --> 00:15:32.640 align:center
She had that dream from the beginning,

00:15:32.723 --> 00:15:35.100 align:center
a lot inspired by our father

00:15:35.184 --> 00:15:40.856 align:center
who was on that track
and missed the Olympics by one spot.

00:15:40.939 --> 00:15:43.734 align:center
Moriah, first run still.

00:15:53.869 --> 00:15:55.871 align:center
Oh. Oh, no.

00:15:56.789 --> 00:16:00.542 align:center
Injuries were a big part
of why she didn't reach her goals.

00:16:01.251 --> 00:16:03.587 align:center
She tore her ACL in high school,

00:16:03.671 --> 00:16:06.131 align:center
and then she tore it again after that.

00:16:07.383 --> 00:16:11.470 align:center
She still loved skiing and I think
it was hard for her to let go of that.

00:16:11.553 --> 00:16:15.307 align:center
But she knew that it was over.
Her skiing career was over.

00:16:16.517 --> 00:16:21.230 align:center
I had spent a lot of time
riding bikes growing up with my family,

00:16:21.313 --> 00:16:25.818 align:center
and then I discovered
that gravel cycling was a thing

00:16:25.901 --> 00:16:28.237 align:center
and, like, ended up buying a gravel bike.

00:16:29.530 --> 00:16:32.908 align:center
She was determined
to be a professional cyclist,

00:16:32.992 --> 00:16:35.953 align:center
and I really encouraged her
to go for it, that she could do it.

00:16:37.121 --> 00:16:38.580 align:center
Let's go, Mo!

00:16:38.664 --> 00:16:41.208 align:center
Hang in there, Mo!
You got it, Mo! You got it!

00:16:42.793 --> 00:16:44.753 align:center
Let's go, Mo!

00:16:44.837 --> 00:16:46.005 align:center
Let's go, Mo!

00:16:46.547 --> 00:16:49.550 align:center
The thing about a bike race
is that there's only one winner.

00:16:49.633 --> 00:16:53.637 align:center
And if 3,000 people start at the line,

00:16:53.721 --> 00:16:56.223 align:center
you have a 1-in-3,000 chance to win.

00:16:58.058 --> 00:17:00.019 align:center
A hundred miles an hour in my head…

00:17:00.102 --> 00:17:01.353 align:center
Nice job, Mo!

00:17:02.688 --> 00:17:06.275 align:center
The probability of winning
in a bike race is really, really low.

00:17:06.358 --> 00:17:10.195 align:center
So for Mo to always be on the podium,

00:17:10.863 --> 00:17:12.656 align:center
that was extraordinary.

00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:16.452 align:center
Here is our women's champion,
Moriah Wilson!

00:17:16.535 --> 00:17:17.953 align:center
Give it up for Mo!

00:17:18.037 --> 00:17:19.747 align:center
I was talking with a friend.

00:17:19.830 --> 00:17:22.541 align:center
He was like,
"Man, have you heard about Moriah Wilson?"

00:17:22.624 --> 00:17:24.126 align:center
"You need to know this name."

00:17:24.209 --> 00:17:28.839 align:center
"She's gonna be dominating pro bike racing
moving forward for a long time."

00:17:28.922 --> 00:17:33.802 align:center
In the span of two years,
she won, like, six or seven races.

00:17:33.886 --> 00:17:36.972 align:center
And not by minutes, not by--
I mean, she won things by hours.

00:17:37.056 --> 00:17:38.974 align:center
The champ is in the house!

00:17:39.058 --> 00:17:42.269 align:center
This is Moriah Wilson!

00:17:42.352 --> 00:17:44.313 align:center
Go, Mo!

00:17:44.396 --> 00:17:48.150 align:center
-Wilson, just untouchable.
-What an impressive result.

00:17:48.233 --> 00:17:50.986 align:center
My heart does beat
Like a Cherokee drum…

00:17:51.070 --> 00:17:53.989 align:center
In early 2022, we were talking.

00:17:54.072 --> 00:17:56.825 align:center
She was like, "I'm coming to Austin."
I was like, "When are you coming?"

00:17:56.909 --> 00:17:59.161 align:center
She's like, "Two days from now."
I was like, "What?"

00:17:59.244 --> 00:18:03.415 align:center
She ended up coming to live with me
at my house for a couple of weeks

00:18:03.499 --> 00:18:04.875 align:center
while she was in town.

00:18:04.958 --> 00:18:08.921 align:center
So we were co-working together.
We were eating all of our meals together.

00:18:09.004 --> 00:18:12.841 align:center
And it was
this incredibly beautiful unfolding

00:18:12.925 --> 00:18:14.593 align:center
of this friendship.

00:18:14.676 --> 00:18:16.261 align:center
…in the fast lane

00:18:18.097 --> 00:18:20.099 align:center
100 miles an hour till I'm done

00:18:30.067 --> 00:18:32.736 align:center
When this case
came in, I didn't know anything

00:18:32.820 --> 00:18:36.615 align:center
other than it was a young woman
who had been murdered

00:18:36.698 --> 00:18:43.664 align:center
and that she, uh, had some kind
of relationship to the cycling community.

00:18:43.747 --> 00:18:48.710 align:center
I certainly had really no idea
who Moriah was at the time.

00:18:50.629 --> 00:18:54.299 align:center
Guillermo's very intense. Very intense.

00:18:54.383 --> 00:18:57.636 align:center
And because we tried these types of cases,

00:18:57.719 --> 00:19:01.807 align:center
it's a lot of pressure if you're the kind
of person that feel the pressure.

00:19:01.890 --> 00:19:03.392 align:center
And I think he does feel the pressure.

00:19:04.101 --> 00:19:05.727 align:center
-Do you?
-No.

00:19:06.687 --> 00:19:09.982 align:center
This was the big case
everyone was working on.

00:19:10.065 --> 00:19:12.818 align:center
And it was shocking
because nobody could figure out

00:19:12.901 --> 00:19:15.487 align:center
a reason why somebody
would want to kill this person.

00:19:15.571 --> 00:19:18.615 align:center
-74 to 17.
-Is there a bike? See a bike?

00:19:19.199 --> 00:19:21.159 align:center
She said she'd put it by the door.

00:19:21.243 --> 00:19:23.453 align:center
-No, no bike.
-No bike.

00:19:23.537 --> 00:19:27.666 align:center
It certainly seemed
that it could have been a home invasion,

00:19:27.749 --> 00:19:29.042 align:center
robbery event.

00:19:29.126 --> 00:19:32.004 align:center
But, uh, the more
we started digging into it,

00:19:32.087 --> 00:19:36.717 align:center
it became more and more likely
that something else was going on.

00:19:37.676 --> 00:19:40.846 align:center
I needed more, and I started immediately

00:19:40.929 --> 00:19:44.057 align:center
trying to pick out things
that needed to be followed up on.

00:19:45.726 --> 00:19:48.061 align:center
Most people's houses have cameras on them.

00:19:48.145 --> 00:19:50.564 align:center
Uh, you know, everybody has a phone.

00:19:50.647 --> 00:19:54.568 align:center
The amount of digital evidence
is just overwhelming.

00:19:55.152 --> 00:19:59.281 align:center
The only other person she knows
is Colin Strickland,

00:19:59.364 --> 00:20:02.451 align:center
who she was supposed
to be meeting tonight.

00:20:02.534 --> 00:20:04.912 align:center
Does he-- He still lives here in Austin?

00:20:04.995 --> 00:20:07.247 align:center
-Yeah, he lives in Austin.
-Okay.

00:20:07.331 --> 00:20:10.918 align:center
Colin Strickland was the last person
to see Moriah alive.

00:20:11.001 --> 00:20:15.672 align:center
So I wanted to talk to Colin
and find out, you know, what happened.

00:20:17.424 --> 00:20:21.261 align:center
Myself and the other detective,
we approached and introduced ourselves.

00:20:22.054 --> 00:20:24.431 align:center
Hey, I'm looking for Mr. Strickland.

00:20:24.514 --> 00:20:25.682 align:center
-That's me.
-Hey.

00:20:25.766 --> 00:20:28.602 align:center
-So Colin, is that your first name?
-Yes.

00:20:28.685 --> 00:20:32.940 align:center
Hey. So, um, do you know Anna?

00:20:34.024 --> 00:20:35.651 align:center
Um… Mo?

00:20:36.652 --> 00:20:38.362 align:center
-Anna Mo?
-Yeah.

00:20:38.445 --> 00:20:41.448 align:center
-Everybody calls her Mo. Um…
-No.

00:20:43.325 --> 00:20:46.495 align:center
Mon-- Monique-- Monic… uh…

00:20:46.578 --> 00:20:47.871 align:center
Last name is Wilson.

00:20:47.955 --> 00:20:51.333 align:center
-Rider, she's a gravel rider.
-Oh, yes.

00:20:51.416 --> 00:20:53.710 align:center
-Yes, I do.
-Okay, so…

00:20:54.628 --> 00:20:58.173 align:center
Um… there's really no easy way
to say this, sir.

00:20:58.256 --> 00:21:01.468 align:center
So, apparently last night she passed away.

00:21:06.181 --> 00:21:07.641 align:center
How did that happen?

00:21:08.183 --> 00:21:11.645 align:center
She-- Right now,
it's an open investigation,

00:21:11.728 --> 00:21:15.565 align:center
but it is being investigated
as a homicide.

00:21:16.900 --> 00:21:19.152 align:center
Wow. Okay.

00:21:25.325 --> 00:21:27.995 align:center
-Are you okay?
-Yeah. I'm good.

00:21:30.414 --> 00:21:31.581 align:center
Um…

00:21:35.752 --> 00:21:37.212 align:center
My first thought is,

00:21:37.296 --> 00:21:42.426 align:center
"Wow, like, you just went out
on a date with her the night before."

00:21:42.509 --> 00:21:46.430 align:center
"You killed my victim.
You killed Moriah Wilson."

00:21:49.766 --> 00:21:53.520 align:center
I didn't meet Mo until 2017.

00:21:53.603 --> 00:21:56.148 align:center
I was up in Burke, Vermont,
with a good friend of mine,

00:21:56.231 --> 00:21:57.649 align:center
going mountain biking.

00:21:57.733 --> 00:21:59.735 align:center
George said, "Mo's gonna join us."

00:21:59.818 --> 00:22:01.695 align:center
And I said, "Great, can she keep up?"

00:22:01.778 --> 00:22:04.114 align:center
And George goes,
"That's not gonna be a problem."

00:22:09.077 --> 00:22:13.749 align:center
It's not often that you meet
another person who can keep up.

00:22:16.460 --> 00:22:20.464 align:center
You know, I really liked
that she was a strong athlete,

00:22:20.547 --> 00:22:23.133 align:center
but not in an egotistical way.

00:22:23.216 --> 00:22:25.344 align:center
Just in a, you know,
"I'm here, I'm strong,

00:22:25.427 --> 00:22:28.805 align:center
and I'm not afraid
to show you my strength."

00:22:30.265 --> 00:22:33.268 align:center
I was her first real boyfriend.

00:22:35.103 --> 00:22:39.900 align:center
I liked that she was
a quiet and reserved person,

00:22:39.983 --> 00:22:41.610 align:center
because I'm not.

00:22:41.693 --> 00:22:45.572 align:center
She was a little bit
of a consummate introvert,

00:22:45.655 --> 00:22:50.702 align:center
always thinking, but not always expressing
or telling you what she was thinking.

00:22:52.287 --> 00:22:54.915 align:center
We both grew up in Vermont.
We both went to Dartmouth.

00:22:54.998 --> 00:22:58.126 align:center
And so there's tons of overlap
and similarities there.

00:22:59.419 --> 00:23:03.131 align:center
Gunnar and Moriah
started dating her sophomore year.

00:23:03.215 --> 00:23:05.342 align:center
He was out of college at that point.

00:23:05.842 --> 00:23:10.889 align:center
I was in a transitionary period,
having graduated a couple years ago.

00:23:11.431 --> 00:23:13.767 align:center
Trying to get a job in California.

00:23:13.850 --> 00:23:18.480 align:center
Even though we would end up having to date
for almost two years long-distance,

00:23:18.563 --> 00:23:22.109 align:center
I was very sure
about things at that point, so…

00:23:22.192 --> 00:23:24.319 align:center
Aah.

00:23:24.403 --> 00:23:25.946 align:center
Mm…

00:23:27.489 --> 00:23:29.449 align:center
In October of 2020,

00:23:29.533 --> 00:23:34.496 align:center
we moved to Mill Valley,
which is close to San Francisco.

00:23:34.579 --> 00:23:38.417 align:center
It was a ton
of excitement at that point of,

00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:41.419 align:center
"Can't wait to live
in the same city together."

00:23:43.630 --> 00:23:47.592 align:center
We're doing this journey together,
and it felt right.

00:23:50.554 --> 00:23:54.850 align:center
She was just so focused on bike racing

00:23:54.933 --> 00:23:57.978 align:center
and being fast and fit,

00:23:58.061 --> 00:24:03.942 align:center
that we just lost a lot of the spark
and romance in our relationship.

00:24:05.026 --> 00:24:09.114 align:center
And it was a hard thing for both of us.

00:24:09.865 --> 00:24:13.743 align:center
I remember her saying,
"I am more in love with biking,

00:24:13.827 --> 00:24:18.874 align:center
and I find all the emotion and feedback

00:24:18.957 --> 00:24:22.502 align:center
and pleasure in my life
from riding my bike."

00:24:22.586 --> 00:24:26.965 align:center
And yeah, that said
kind of all I needed to hear.

00:24:30.135 --> 00:24:33.430 align:center
I met Moriah at Dartmouth.

00:24:33.513 --> 00:24:35.724 align:center
We were very close throughout school.

00:24:36.349 --> 00:24:40.479 align:center
I moved out to San Francisco
after my boyfriend and I had broken up,

00:24:40.562 --> 00:24:43.482 align:center
and I was really looking
for kind of a change of pace.

00:24:43.565 --> 00:24:45.984 align:center
-Cheers!
-Cheers.

00:24:46.067 --> 00:24:47.903 align:center
Happy Valentine's Day.

00:24:47.986 --> 00:24:51.114 align:center
And so we moved in together
in January 2022.

00:24:51.865 --> 00:24:54.284 align:center
She understood what I was going through,

00:24:54.367 --> 00:24:56.536 align:center
and I understood
what she was going through.

00:24:57.037 --> 00:25:00.081 align:center
We had to learn how to do
some things on our own

00:25:00.165 --> 00:25:03.668 align:center
and figure out exactly
what it was that we were looking for.

00:25:04.753 --> 00:25:06.588 align:center
One of the things that she told me was,

00:25:06.671 --> 00:25:09.299 align:center
"I've got to date other guys.
I've never dated other guys."

00:25:09.382 --> 00:25:11.801 align:center
And she gravitated to people
who were successful.

00:25:11.885 --> 00:25:13.303 align:center
She liked to learn from them.

00:25:14.346 --> 00:25:16.640 align:center
Do you just want to take a seat in here?

00:25:16.723 --> 00:25:21.436 align:center
So yesterday, run me through,
like, your day and stuff yesterday.

00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:25.899 align:center
Um, Mo had said that Cash had
some event that night with some friends.

00:25:25.982 --> 00:25:28.026 align:center
So that's why I proposed
going to the pool.

00:25:28.109 --> 00:25:29.486 align:center
'Cause, I mean, she's in town,

00:25:29.569 --> 00:25:33.698 align:center
and… she's kind of a loner person,
so I wanted, you know…

00:25:33.782 --> 00:25:34.783 align:center
Yeah.

00:25:34.866 --> 00:25:37.410 align:center
I wanted to catch up with her
and do something fun.

00:25:37.494 --> 00:25:38.495 align:center
Yeah.

00:25:38.578 --> 00:25:41.748 align:center
Colin and I knew each other
through the cycling community in Austin.

00:25:41.831 --> 00:25:42.916 align:center
I'm a journalist,

00:25:42.999 --> 00:25:46.127 align:center
writing and covering outdoor recreation,

00:25:46.211 --> 00:25:47.879 align:center
sports, things like that.

00:25:47.963 --> 00:25:51.675 align:center
And I have done stories
with him professionally.

00:25:51.758 --> 00:25:54.553 align:center
We are here in Austin, Texas,
outside the garage

00:25:54.636 --> 00:25:58.348 align:center
of 2019 Dirty Kanza winner
Colin Strickland.

00:26:06.564 --> 00:26:07.899 align:center
-Hey, Colin.
-Hey, Ian.

00:26:07.983 --> 00:26:09.568 align:center
-How you doing, man?
-How are you?

00:26:09.651 --> 00:26:11.486 align:center
-Doing good?
-Welcome to my garage.

00:26:11.570 --> 00:26:13.738 align:center
Yeah, this is, uh…

00:26:13.822 --> 00:26:16.866 align:center
-You got a lot of stuff, man.
-I do have a lot of stuff.

00:26:16.950 --> 00:26:18.410 align:center
Where do we start?

00:26:18.493 --> 00:26:22.163 align:center
Colin Strickland really dedicated himself

00:26:22.247 --> 00:26:26.835 align:center
to gravel racing and being
the best gravel racer in the world.

00:26:26.918 --> 00:26:32.173 align:center
He was really sort of at the forefront
of realizing how he could accrue sponsors

00:26:32.257 --> 00:26:35.844 align:center
and make a living
by kind of building up his personal brand

00:26:35.927 --> 00:26:37.262 align:center
and social media presence.

00:26:37.345 --> 00:26:40.056 align:center
I can take you through
some of the stuff I did on this ABLE.

00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:41.808 align:center
-So this was my most recent build.
-Yeah.

00:26:42.475 --> 00:26:44.352 align:center
Up shift, down shift.

00:26:44.436 --> 00:26:46.187 align:center
I remember Moriah telling me,

00:26:46.271 --> 00:26:48.940 align:center
"I went on a training ride
with Colin Strickland."

00:26:49.024 --> 00:26:52.902 align:center
She said it in a way that, like,
I should have known who Colin was.

00:26:52.986 --> 00:26:54.821 align:center
You're a Texas state champion.

00:26:54.904 --> 00:26:57.574 align:center
Yeah. Yes, I am. Yes.

00:26:57.657 --> 00:27:03.330 align:center
I knew that he had a history
of manipulating women in relationships.

00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:08.293 align:center
And I was aware of past things.

00:27:10.670 --> 00:27:13.590 align:center
I had met Moriah
at Rebecca's Private Idaho.

00:27:13.673 --> 00:27:15.342 align:center
She just smashed the race.

00:27:15.425 --> 00:27:17.636 align:center
We just kind of chatted briefly
during the event.

00:27:17.719 --> 00:27:21.306 align:center
And then at the end of the event,
I invited her out to get a beer.

00:27:21.389 --> 00:27:22.432 align:center
I had a girlfriend.

00:27:22.515 --> 00:27:24.768 align:center
We didn't have
any romantic conversations at all.

00:27:24.851 --> 00:27:27.020 align:center
We just talked about her future career.

00:27:27.103 --> 00:27:30.357 align:center
And I told her, like,
"You are going to win so many events."

00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.318 align:center
Definitely was attracted to her,
but also just wanted to be helpful.

00:27:33.401 --> 00:27:36.363 align:center
And at that point,
it was totally inappropriate to be dating.

00:27:36.863 --> 00:27:40.241 align:center
He didn't go to bike races
and act like he had a girlfriend.

00:27:40.325 --> 00:27:44.829 align:center
He wouldn't talk about her
or bring her around.

00:27:45.497 --> 00:27:48.083 align:center
It was sort of like a joke.

00:27:48.166 --> 00:27:49.626 align:center
"Who is Kaitlin?"

00:27:49.709 --> 00:27:52.337 align:center
Oh, she was the woman

00:27:52.420 --> 00:27:55.173 align:center
standing right next to Colin
that he didn't introduce you to.

00:27:57.050 --> 00:27:58.551 align:center
I remember hearing about Colin

00:27:58.635 --> 00:28:02.806 align:center
because Moriah had come back
from that race and was like,

00:28:02.889 --> 00:28:08.436 align:center
"I met Colin Strickland, and he's going
to help me with potential sponsors."

00:28:09.354 --> 00:28:14.067 align:center
Male cyclists historically have gotten
more attention and sponsorship dollars,

00:28:14.150 --> 00:28:17.904 align:center
and, motives aside,
will help female cyclists.

00:28:19.614 --> 00:28:22.826 align:center
Mo wanted to go to a gravel race in Texas.

00:28:22.909 --> 00:28:26.496 align:center
That was, like, at the end of 2021.

00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:29.040 align:center
I had signed up for it,
and then it got canceled.

00:28:29.124 --> 00:28:32.043 align:center
She was like, "Do you still want to go?"
I was like, "No."

00:28:32.961 --> 00:28:36.506 align:center
She said that
she was excited to see Colin in Texas,

00:28:36.589 --> 00:28:40.552 align:center
that there might be something more there
than just a friendship.

00:28:42.929 --> 00:28:46.599 align:center
Moriah and I had
no romantic anything at this point.

00:28:48.101 --> 00:28:50.186 align:center
I was driving home
with my girlfriend, Kaitlin,

00:28:50.270 --> 00:28:53.523 align:center
all the way back from Bentonville,
and we essentially had a breakup drive.

00:28:53.606 --> 00:28:57.026 align:center
I just told her, like, "I don't feel it.
I can't do this anymore."

00:28:57.110 --> 00:28:59.070 align:center
We didn't really fight at all.

00:28:59.571 --> 00:29:02.907 align:center
And we were partners
in so many different things.

00:29:05.744 --> 00:29:08.204 align:center
A few days later,
I get a message from Moriah saying,

00:29:08.288 --> 00:29:10.665 align:center
"Hey, I'm visiting a friend
in Austin for a week."

00:29:10.749 --> 00:29:12.208 align:center
"I'm just gonna work remotely."

00:29:12.292 --> 00:29:14.711 align:center
Kaitlin moved into a separate room,

00:29:14.794 --> 00:29:17.672 align:center
and we had had, like,
a very clear breakup.

00:29:17.755 --> 00:29:19.632 align:center
We were not together.

00:29:19.716 --> 00:29:23.052 align:center
I needed, personally,
to close the door on the relationship.

00:29:23.136 --> 00:29:25.513 align:center
That's kind of what I felt.
Like, no turning back.

00:29:25.597 --> 00:29:27.265 align:center
Make her angry at me.

00:29:27.849 --> 00:29:30.435 align:center
And I effectively
started dating Moriah for a week

00:29:30.518 --> 00:29:32.145 align:center
when she was in Austin.

00:29:32.896 --> 00:29:36.441 align:center
Colin was "on a break" with Kaitlin,

00:29:36.524 --> 00:29:39.694 align:center
even though she was still living
in the same house in a separate room.

00:29:39.778 --> 00:29:43.490 align:center
And Moriah and Colin started hanging out

00:29:43.573 --> 00:29:47.410 align:center
and were romantic or intimate
during that time period.

00:29:47.494 --> 00:29:51.080 align:center
I definitely warned her about Colin,
but not in the--

00:29:51.164 --> 00:29:55.251 align:center
Like, you could never think, like,
"He would hurt her."

00:29:56.961 --> 00:30:01.966 align:center
Do you know if Mo or Cash owned
any, like, firearms or anything like that?

00:30:02.050 --> 00:30:04.511 align:center
-I would highly doubt it.
-Okay.

00:30:04.594 --> 00:30:07.388 align:center
Do you own any firearms?
Would they ever come and talk to you…?

00:30:07.472 --> 00:30:09.307 align:center
I own a-- I actually bought a--

00:30:09.390 --> 00:30:12.602 align:center
I bought a pistol last fall,

00:30:12.685 --> 00:30:14.562 align:center
and I have actually never shot it.

00:30:14.646 --> 00:30:16.564 align:center
What type of gun was that?

00:30:16.648 --> 00:30:18.525 align:center
Um, it's a 9mm.

00:30:20.735 --> 00:30:23.822 align:center
He indicated that he does own
his 9mm handgun.

00:30:23.905 --> 00:30:28.493 align:center
The cartridge cases that were
recovered on scene were 9mm cartridges.

00:30:28.576 --> 00:30:31.663 align:center
I have it in a case,
and I've never shot it.

00:30:31.746 --> 00:30:33.790 align:center
-Haven't made the time.
-Okay.

00:30:34.832 --> 00:30:38.419 align:center
She sent me a photo of her on the bike.

00:30:38.503 --> 00:30:40.421 align:center
-Is that Mo?
-That's Mo.

00:30:40.505 --> 00:30:42.924 align:center
-This is more complexity.
-What time was that at?

00:30:43.007 --> 00:30:45.802 align:center
I have it saved
as a different name just because.

00:30:46.386 --> 00:30:49.556 align:center
Why was it that you had
to change the name from Mo?

00:30:49.639 --> 00:30:52.809 align:center
Because in the past,
Kaitlin has looked at my phone,

00:30:52.892 --> 00:30:54.644 align:center
and I just didn't want to…

00:30:55.603 --> 00:30:58.523 align:center
I just didn't want to surface…

00:30:58.606 --> 00:31:01.860 align:center
-That would always start fights.
-Exactly.

00:31:03.027 --> 00:31:06.781 align:center
Kaitlin had all of my passwords.
She managed all of my bank accounts.

00:31:06.865 --> 00:31:10.326 align:center
She went into my phone
and read everything.

00:31:10.827 --> 00:31:14.080 align:center
She had blocked
a bunch of contacts in my phone.

00:31:14.163 --> 00:31:17.125 align:center
I knew that she could find information
if she wanted to.

00:31:47.572 --> 00:31:53.244 align:center
There were questions that she had
in terms of her footing with Colin.

00:31:53.328 --> 00:31:56.956 align:center
He had kind of disappeared
and really pulled back,

00:31:57.040 --> 00:32:00.126 align:center
both, you know, friendship-wise,
relationship-wise,

00:32:00.209 --> 00:32:03.838 align:center
and, um, wasn't very communicative.

00:32:16.017 --> 00:32:21.356 align:center
A lot of times, we weren't able
to connect over the phone.

00:32:21.439 --> 00:32:25.860 align:center
And so if there was something
that she really needed a quick opinion on,

00:32:25.944 --> 00:32:28.571 align:center
I'm like, "Leave me a voice memo
and I'll get back to you."

00:32:29.322 --> 00:32:30.698 align:center
Hey.

00:32:30.782 --> 00:32:33.368 align:center
Got to Arkansas yesterday.

00:32:33.451 --> 00:32:36.371 align:center
Kind of just been hanging out by myself.

00:32:36.996 --> 00:32:40.166 align:center
I have not heard from Colin at all.

00:32:40.249 --> 00:32:41.709 align:center
Total radio silence.

00:32:41.793 --> 00:32:44.545 align:center
Uh, have you seen him in Austin at all?

00:32:46.047 --> 00:32:49.175 align:center
There just hasn't been
any communication from either of us

00:32:49.258 --> 00:32:51.260 align:center
until I texted him today,

00:32:51.344 --> 00:32:54.889 align:center
at which point my text didn't go through.

00:32:54.973 --> 00:33:00.019 align:center
Maybe he thinks
that I'm not interested or something.

00:33:00.103 --> 00:33:01.437 align:center
Not quite sure.

00:33:03.022 --> 00:33:05.024 align:center
Okay, last night.

00:33:05.108 --> 00:33:09.737 align:center
I went to the Meteor
for happy hour and who do I see?

00:33:09.821 --> 00:33:13.950 align:center
Colin and Kaitlin and a couple other guys.

00:33:14.033 --> 00:33:17.954 align:center
Eventually, Colin comes over
and we hug each other.

00:33:18.037 --> 00:33:21.582 align:center
Don't really say that much.
Just are like, "Oh, great to see you."

00:33:21.666 --> 00:33:25.628 align:center
Like, I don't know. Super, kind of, weird.

00:33:25.712 --> 00:33:29.257 align:center
And yeah, I haven't seen him
or heard from him since.

00:33:29.966 --> 00:33:32.677 align:center
I need some sort of closure.

00:33:32.760 --> 00:33:34.137 align:center
I don't know how to get it.

00:33:34.220 --> 00:33:37.098 align:center
I'm probably gonna see him tonight
because there's this party.

00:33:37.181 --> 00:33:42.061 align:center
But if Kaitlin's there, like,
he's probably not going to talk to me.

00:33:43.187 --> 00:33:45.356 align:center
Very uncomfy.

00:33:50.987 --> 00:33:55.324 align:center
Mo's going to be taken
to the medical examiner's office, um…

00:33:55.408 --> 00:33:59.495 align:center
Full autopsy, you know, is gonna be done,
everything on her.

00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:00.621 align:center
Um…

00:34:02.832 --> 00:34:07.128 align:center
That being said, are you sure,
at any point in time,

00:34:08.212 --> 00:34:09.505 align:center
did y'all have sex?

00:34:09.589 --> 00:34:12.467 align:center
We had not.
We had no physical intercourse.

00:34:12.550 --> 00:34:15.762 align:center
-Okay.
-Didn't… We didn't even kiss.

00:34:15.845 --> 00:34:16.763 align:center
Okay.

00:34:16.846 --> 00:34:20.641 align:center
I-- I just want to check
because with the autopsy,

00:34:20.725 --> 00:34:22.393 align:center
they're gonna check everything.

00:34:22.477 --> 00:34:24.103 align:center
-I know.
-So…

00:34:24.187 --> 00:34:25.897 align:center
I understand that.

00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:27.565 align:center
Nope, nothing.

00:34:27.648 --> 00:34:28.608 align:center
Okay.

00:34:29.734 --> 00:34:32.403 align:center
Colin was really struggling
with whether he was gonna be

00:34:32.487 --> 00:34:34.072 align:center
in a committed relationship or not.

00:34:34.155 --> 00:34:39.869 align:center
But he'd saw that Kaitlin
was a compassionate, caring person.

00:34:39.952 --> 00:34:43.414 align:center
I think the biggest thing for him, too,
is she was incredibly helpful.

00:34:44.749 --> 00:34:48.544 align:center
Colin was trying to build
the Spartan Trailer business.

00:34:49.545 --> 00:34:53.466 align:center
Kaitlin was definitely
very knowledgeable in finance

00:34:53.549 --> 00:34:55.802 align:center
and was obviously,
like, smart about money.

00:34:55.885 --> 00:34:59.347 align:center
She did a lot of the managerial stuff
for the business,

00:34:59.430 --> 00:35:02.558 align:center
which allowed Colin
to focus on other elements

00:35:02.642 --> 00:35:06.312 align:center
of his cycling career and whatever else.

00:35:08.356 --> 00:35:11.901 align:center
Moriah and I had reset
our relationship in my mind.

00:35:12.610 --> 00:35:16.197 align:center
I was kind of on the end of the scene
and kind of burned out.

00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.533 align:center
And she was needing to get, like, momentum

00:35:18.616 --> 00:35:20.993 align:center
and she was enthusiastic with it,
and that's great.

00:35:21.077 --> 00:35:24.330 align:center
But I just saw it as
I wasn't gonna be a great match for her.

00:35:24.413 --> 00:35:27.166 align:center
She was gonna be the most
dominant racer in the US by far.

00:35:27.250 --> 00:35:29.418 align:center
And I would just get in the way of that.

00:35:30.753 --> 00:35:34.632 align:center
Kaitlin didn't want to separate.
She liked being a part of my life.

00:36:05.204 --> 00:36:07.790 align:center
And now, there she is!

00:36:07.874 --> 00:36:10.126 align:center
-Yeah, Mo!
-Yeah, Mo!

00:36:10.209 --> 00:36:16.507 align:center
-Mo Wilson!
-Yeah!

00:36:16.591 --> 00:36:20.720 align:center
The women's champion
leaves no doubt about it.

00:36:20.803 --> 00:36:24.807 align:center
Mo Wilson absolutely crushes
the Belgian Waffle Ride.

00:36:24.891 --> 00:36:26.225 align:center
Congrats, girl.

00:36:26.309 --> 00:36:28.728 align:center
-Another dominant performance.
-Thank you.

00:36:28.811 --> 00:36:31.397 align:center
What's next for you?
What are you winning next?

00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:32.773 align:center
Um…

00:36:33.357 --> 00:36:37.570 align:center
The next gravel race
that I do will be Gravel Locos.

00:36:38.154 --> 00:36:42.742 align:center
Moriah was going down to Austin
to race in the Gravel Locos race.

00:36:50.124 --> 00:36:53.961 align:center
Mo came a couple of days before the race.

00:36:54.545 --> 00:36:57.506 align:center
And I am just so excited that she's there.

00:37:01.886 --> 00:37:04.764 align:center
I made some coffee.

00:37:04.847 --> 00:37:06.766 align:center
We were just hanging out.

00:37:07.266 --> 00:37:13.731 align:center
So I take a video,
and I send this text message to Karen.

00:37:15.191 --> 00:37:16.984 align:center
All right, wave to the camera.

00:37:19.195 --> 00:37:21.572 align:center
Welcome to the Texas heat!

00:37:21.656 --> 00:37:22.865 align:center
Wow!

00:37:22.949 --> 00:37:24.951 align:center
-Okay, be safe. Ride fast.
-Thanks.

00:37:25.034 --> 00:37:26.744 align:center
-Bye.
-Bye.

00:37:29.247 --> 00:37:31.123 align:center
Oh, yeah, that text.

00:37:31.707 --> 00:37:36.462 align:center
It was of Moriah getting ready
to go out for a training ride on her own.

00:37:36.545 --> 00:37:39.715 align:center
And Cash sent it to me and said,

00:37:40.341 --> 00:37:42.551 align:center
"Your girl's here, safe with me."

00:37:43.678 --> 00:37:47.348 align:center
I feel a lot of guilt
about sending that text message.

00:37:48.266 --> 00:37:54.313 align:center
Like, I can't believe that I told her mom
she was okay and in good hands when, um…

00:37:54.981 --> 00:37:56.941 align:center
I couldn't protect her.

00:38:04.198 --> 00:38:06.742 align:center
Mo texted me later and she said,

00:38:06.826 --> 00:38:11.163 align:center
"Just FYI, I'm going to go swim
and eat dinner with Colin tonight."

00:38:16.252 --> 00:38:18.963 align:center
I had contacted Mo, like,
"Hey, you want to go swimming?"

00:38:19.046 --> 00:38:20.631 align:center
"Yeah, sounds good."

00:38:21.132 --> 00:38:23.718 align:center
Picked her up, drove to Deep Eddy.

00:38:24.218 --> 00:38:27.305 align:center
Went to Pool Burger,
grabbed two drinks and a burger,

00:38:27.388 --> 00:38:30.182 align:center
and we just chatted, essentially,
about her career, my career,

00:38:30.266 --> 00:38:33.477 align:center
and the relevance
of what does it mean to be a bike racer?

00:38:33.561 --> 00:38:35.521 align:center
What's the point of it all?

00:38:37.898 --> 00:38:41.027 align:center
And then Kaitlin called me
while I was at Pool Burger,

00:38:41.110 --> 00:38:43.070 align:center
and I didn't answer it.

00:38:46.866 --> 00:38:49.660 align:center
Yeah, dropped off Moriah
at the base of the steps.

00:38:50.369 --> 00:38:54.749 align:center
Said, "All right, cool, see you tomorrow
at this Gravel Locos pre-dinner."

00:38:57.543 --> 00:39:00.379 align:center
That was the last I saw her.

00:40:00.356 --> 00:40:04.819 align:center
Karen called me,
and I was really afraid to talk to her.

00:40:05.778 --> 00:40:09.406 align:center
Karen said, "Cash, I love you so much."

00:40:14.954 --> 00:40:17.415 align:center
And I needed to hear that because I felt

00:40:18.207 --> 00:40:22.711 align:center
so inadequate and so guilty.

00:40:22.795 --> 00:40:26.507 align:center
I'm like,
"If only I would have come home sooner,

00:40:26.590 --> 00:40:28.926 align:center
if only I would have not gone to dinner,

00:40:29.009 --> 00:40:31.387 align:center
if only I'd have
forced her to come with me."

00:40:31.470 --> 00:40:35.141 align:center
There was a million "what if" questions

00:40:35.224 --> 00:40:39.270 align:center
that I was endlessly
playing in a loop in my head.

00:40:39.353 --> 00:40:43.691 align:center
What could I have done
differently to help?

00:40:45.151 --> 00:40:47.611 align:center
I remember seeing
two missed calls from my dad,

00:40:47.695 --> 00:40:49.989 align:center
a text from my dad, "Call me ASAP,"

00:40:50.072 --> 00:40:53.993 align:center
and… I think a call from Karen too,

00:40:54.076 --> 00:40:56.287 align:center
before my dad had called me.

00:40:58.789 --> 00:41:02.334 align:center
That was bad. I knew that was bad.

00:41:02.418 --> 00:41:03.961 align:center
Something had happened.

00:41:05.462 --> 00:41:08.257 align:center
I was in, uh, Hawaii with my family.

00:41:09.008 --> 00:41:12.678 align:center
Um, I got a phone call and it was Gunnar.

00:41:13.471 --> 00:41:17.683 align:center
I will never forget him saying, uh…

00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:20.769 align:center
…"Moriah died today."

00:41:22.146 --> 00:41:23.981 align:center
My husband had put our daughter to bed,

00:41:24.064 --> 00:41:27.860 align:center
and I just collapsed on the ground,
and I'm sobbing. I'm so--

00:41:27.943 --> 00:41:30.279 align:center
Like, I have never cried like this before.

00:41:30.362 --> 00:41:33.741 align:center
And my husband's like,
"Oh, my God, are you okay?"

00:41:33.824 --> 00:41:37.328 align:center
And I was like, "No, I'm not okay."

00:41:37.828 --> 00:41:39.830 align:center
Like, "Moriah's been shot."

00:41:42.166 --> 00:41:44.502 align:center
"She was left alone to die."

00:41:46.295 --> 00:41:48.422 align:center
It feels a lot like her death came

00:41:48.506 --> 00:41:51.425 align:center
right as she was starting
to open up to the world,

00:41:51.509 --> 00:41:55.930 align:center
and that she was starting to learn
what was important to her, and…

00:41:56.931 --> 00:42:01.101 align:center
…learn that it was safe
to open up to people.

00:42:15.157 --> 00:42:17.117 align:center
I was working my regular shift,

00:42:17.201 --> 00:42:20.246 align:center
and I found out
that there was a murder the night before.

00:42:20.329 --> 00:42:22.623 align:center
Typically, when we have a murder,
it's all hands on deck.

00:42:24.625 --> 00:42:26.168 align:center
Detective Spitler was there.

00:42:26.252 --> 00:42:28.337 align:center
He was already
interviewing Colin Strickland.

00:42:29.672 --> 00:42:32.675 align:center
We have a conference room,
and in that conference room we have a TV

00:42:32.758 --> 00:42:36.262 align:center
that we're able to actually watch
the interview while it's taking place.

00:42:36.345 --> 00:42:40.015 align:center
I'm able to see
what's being said and verify his story.

00:42:42.101 --> 00:42:45.354 align:center
One of the detectives found a video clip

00:42:45.437 --> 00:42:47.231 align:center
from a motion-activated camera

00:42:47.314 --> 00:42:50.901 align:center
in an alleyway
that's directly next to Cash's apartment.

00:42:51.694 --> 00:42:55.072 align:center
The video shows
a black SUV with chrome windows,

00:42:55.155 --> 00:42:56.991 align:center
a luggage rack on the roof,

00:42:57.074 --> 00:43:01.120 align:center
and a bicycle rack
that was mounted onto the trailer hitch.

00:43:01.996 --> 00:43:06.375 align:center
And at 8:37 p.m.
the brake lights illuminate,

00:43:06.458 --> 00:43:09.169 align:center
indicating that it's slowing down
or even stopping,

00:43:09.253 --> 00:43:12.589 align:center
right where the stairs lead up
to the front door of the apartment.

00:43:13.591 --> 00:43:15.718 align:center
One of the other detectives realized,

00:43:15.801 --> 00:43:20.014 align:center
"Hey, that's a vehicle that looks just
like a vehicle that was in their driveway

00:43:20.097 --> 00:43:23.309 align:center
when detectives had gone
out there to speak with Colin."

00:43:24.184 --> 00:43:26.770 align:center
That was something
we relayed to Detective Spitler,

00:43:26.854 --> 00:43:29.815 align:center
and so he starts
bringing that up in the interview.

00:43:30.441 --> 00:43:35.279 align:center
Colin had mentioned
that he took Moriah on his motorcycle

00:43:35.362 --> 00:43:37.114 align:center
that was parked in the driveway.

00:43:37.197 --> 00:43:40.743 align:center
So I asked him about the Jeep.
"Who is it that owns that black Jeep?"

00:43:40.826 --> 00:43:43.537 align:center
He said, "That's my girlfriend
Kaitlin Armstrong's car."

00:43:43.621 --> 00:43:46.957 align:center
When Kaitlin got back home,
did she tell you anything?

00:43:47.041 --> 00:43:49.168 align:center
Like where she was, what she was doing?

00:43:49.251 --> 00:43:52.338 align:center
I didn't ask.
I was working on stuff in the garage.

00:43:52.421 --> 00:43:55.174 align:center
Getting my bicycles ready for this race.

00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:58.677 align:center
The police served a search warrant

00:43:58.761 --> 00:44:00.929 align:center
on the home of Colin Strickland.

00:44:01.013 --> 00:44:03.349 align:center
While there,
they found a couple of pistols.

00:44:04.016 --> 00:44:07.227 align:center
Are there
any other firearms that are inside?

00:44:07.311 --> 00:44:08.729 align:center
There's two pistols.

00:44:08.812 --> 00:44:10.939 align:center
-Two pistols?
-Two pistols.

00:44:11.523 --> 00:44:13.609 align:center
Where is the other pistol?

00:44:13.692 --> 00:44:15.402 align:center
That I don't know

00:44:15.486 --> 00:44:17.946 align:center
because that would be Kaitlin's pistol.

00:44:18.030 --> 00:44:19.573 align:center
So Kaitlin has a pistol?

00:44:19.656 --> 00:44:21.909 align:center
Kaitlin has a pistol
that I purchased for her.

00:44:23.202 --> 00:44:26.288 align:center
I do remember saying to the officer…

00:44:27.956 --> 00:44:30.626 align:center
"…I bet it was Colin's girlfriend."

00:44:32.211 --> 00:44:33.629 align:center
Wait, what?

00:44:35.589 --> 00:44:38.509 align:center
I said the only person
I could think of that didn't like her was…

00:44:40.094 --> 00:44:41.470 align:center
this guy's girlfriend.

00:44:43.013 --> 00:44:45.641 align:center
I know for a fact,

00:44:45.724 --> 00:44:47.851 align:center
through our investigation,

00:44:47.935 --> 00:44:51.980 align:center
that her vehicle was at that apartment.

00:45:00.781 --> 00:45:02.825 align:center
I don't know what to say to that.

00:45:17.923 --> 00:45:19.174 align:center
Mm.

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:32.604 align:center
All right, so I'm Detective Conner.

00:45:33.188 --> 00:45:38.277 align:center
And, um, so, my partner is actually
talking, uh, to Colin right now.

00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:40.529 align:center
It sounds like you may
have some information,

00:45:40.612 --> 00:45:44.074 align:center
may have witnessed something,
so I just wanted to chat about some stuff.

00:45:44.158 --> 00:45:44.992 align:center
Um…

00:45:45.075 --> 00:45:47.661 align:center
Can you give me any information
on what you're talking about?

00:45:47.745 --> 00:45:51.373 align:center
Did you hear about what's happened
over the past 24 hours?

00:45:51.457 --> 00:45:52.499 align:center
Colin walked in the house

00:45:52.583 --> 00:45:55.043 align:center
and said one of the women
in the cycling community passed away.

00:45:55.127 --> 00:45:56.503 align:center
Yes. Yeah.

00:45:56.587 --> 00:45:59.965 align:center
Um, while Colin was talking to us,
your name came up.

00:46:00.048 --> 00:46:04.052 align:center
And it sounds like there's
a lot of stuff that's going on,

00:46:04.136 --> 00:46:06.054 align:center
and it sounds like, you know,

00:46:06.138 --> 00:46:09.266 align:center
Colin's been maybe
talking to this girl for a little bit

00:46:09.349 --> 00:46:11.268 align:center
and kind of threw your name in there.

00:46:11.351 --> 00:46:16.190 align:center
I think he might be saying some stuff,
and I want to get your side of it, okay?

00:46:16.273 --> 00:46:18.650 align:center
I feel like I should have
an attorney present.

00:46:18.734 --> 00:46:20.068 align:center
So that's totally your choice.

00:46:20.152 --> 00:46:24.323 align:center
Um, so you-- So at this point,
you are free to leave at any point.

00:46:24.406 --> 00:46:27.826 align:center
So this is going to be consensual
because you're not under arrest, okay?

00:46:27.910 --> 00:46:29.077 align:center
So…

00:46:29.161 --> 00:46:30.704 align:center
We were really good friends,

00:46:30.788 --> 00:46:35.959 align:center
and I always thought she was just
this really sweet, kind individual.

00:46:36.543 --> 00:46:39.588 align:center
She wasn't getting what she wanted,

00:46:39.671 --> 00:46:41.340 align:center
and Colin wasn't…

00:46:41.423 --> 00:46:42.966 align:center
Right, didn't want to give it

00:46:43.050 --> 00:46:46.303 align:center
or couldn't give it,
or didn't have it to give.

00:46:47.262 --> 00:46:51.225 align:center
They'd break up, they'd get back together,
they'd break up, they'd get back together.

00:46:51.308 --> 00:46:54.520 align:center
It sounds like maybe he went out
with this girl the other day,

00:46:54.603 --> 00:46:57.648 align:center
and maybe it sounds like,
from what he's saying,

00:46:57.731 --> 00:46:59.483 align:center
that you were a little upset about it.

00:46:59.566 --> 00:47:01.902 align:center
And so that's why
I wanted to get your side of it

00:47:01.985 --> 00:47:04.530 align:center
because that's not fair
if he's just saying one thing

00:47:04.613 --> 00:47:07.199 align:center
and trying to-- to go down a route.

00:47:07.282 --> 00:47:10.661 align:center
I… That is not accurate.

00:47:10.744 --> 00:47:13.497 align:center
Yeah, and that's why I wanted
to chat with you because…

00:47:13.580 --> 00:47:15.415 align:center
It's a guy. He's gonna say stuff.

00:47:15.499 --> 00:47:18.669 align:center
And so we want to make sure
that we get both sides of the story

00:47:18.752 --> 00:47:19.837 align:center
and clear it up.

00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:22.839 align:center
So what… What were you doing yesterday?

00:47:22.923 --> 00:47:24.591 align:center
I would like to leave, I think.

00:47:24.675 --> 00:47:27.761 align:center
That's-- That's completely your choice,
but understand if you do,

00:47:27.845 --> 00:47:30.222 align:center
then we only have
one side of the story to go on.

00:47:30.806 --> 00:47:33.183 align:center
Well, I just am uncertain

00:47:33.267 --> 00:47:36.186 align:center
as to even what you mean
or what he could have said

00:47:36.270 --> 00:47:39.982 align:center
because I didn't have any idea
that he spoke, he saw,

00:47:40.065 --> 00:47:41.650 align:center
or went out with this girl.

00:47:41.733 --> 00:47:43.318 align:center
-Okay, yeah.
-Like, recently. I--

00:47:43.402 --> 00:47:45.571 align:center
Had he been, like,
talking to her on the side?

00:47:45.654 --> 00:47:48.574 align:center
I would like to leave.
I don't actually know.

00:47:48.657 --> 00:47:50.200 align:center
And I would like to leave.

00:47:50.284 --> 00:47:54.037 align:center
Um, but again, that limits us to where
we only have one side of the story.

00:47:54.121 --> 00:47:58.083 align:center
And your vehicle
was seen next to her house,

00:47:58.166 --> 00:48:02.546 align:center
um, and we needed
to talk about that, okay?

00:48:03.088 --> 00:48:06.008 align:center
I remember being in our apartment,

00:48:06.091 --> 00:48:08.385 align:center
and Moriah came into my room and said,

00:48:08.468 --> 00:48:10.637 align:center
"You'll never believe
what happened today."

00:48:10.721 --> 00:48:15.642 align:center
She looked down at her phone,
and she saw an unknown number calling her,

00:48:15.726 --> 00:48:17.811 align:center
but because it was a Texas number

00:48:17.895 --> 00:48:21.773 align:center
and she had a sponsorship in Austin,
she thought she should answer it.

00:48:21.857 --> 00:48:25.652 align:center
So she picked up the phone,
and someone just said, "Hi, Mo."

00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:28.655 align:center
And Moriah said,
"Hello," you know, "who is this?"

00:48:28.739 --> 00:48:30.741 align:center
And she said, "It's Kaitlin."

00:48:30.824 --> 00:48:33.243 align:center
Moriah just said that Kaitlin mentioned,

00:48:33.327 --> 00:48:35.621 align:center
"Hey, Colin and I
are still seeing each other,

00:48:35.704 --> 00:48:37.664 align:center
so it would probably just be better

00:48:37.748 --> 00:48:41.084 align:center
if you, you know,
didn't involve yourself in that anymore."

00:48:41.919 --> 00:48:46.632 align:center
It sounds like there are
some issues between you and this girl,

00:48:46.715 --> 00:48:50.093 align:center
and I think that there's
probably a lot more to it

00:48:50.177 --> 00:48:51.929 align:center
that you could help explain.

00:48:52.012 --> 00:48:54.556 align:center
Maybe you were upset
and you were just in the area.

00:48:54.640 --> 00:48:57.601 align:center
Like, I don't know,
because I don't have your story.

00:48:57.684 --> 00:49:00.479 align:center
And all I see is
that your vehicle's over there.

00:49:00.562 --> 00:49:04.441 align:center
That kind of makes it
look not too good, right?

00:49:04.524 --> 00:49:08.362 align:center
Okay? And then when we're talking
to Colin and we're hearing, like,

00:49:08.445 --> 00:49:11.156 align:center
"Yeah, there was
some jealousy stuff going on."

00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:13.659 align:center
Like, that doesn't sound very good.

00:49:13.742 --> 00:49:16.912 align:center
Um, so that's why I really want
to get your side of the story,

00:49:16.995 --> 00:49:19.498 align:center
because maybe there's a lot more going on.

00:49:21.375 --> 00:49:23.335 align:center
I would like to leave
if I am free to leave.

00:49:23.418 --> 00:49:24.252 align:center
Okay.

00:49:27.214 --> 00:49:28.423 align:center
They let her go.

00:49:28.507 --> 00:49:32.427 align:center
They concluded that they didn't quite have
enough information to hold her on.

00:49:32.511 --> 00:49:35.639 align:center
I don't even think at the time
they had enough information to say

00:49:35.722 --> 00:49:37.307 align:center
Colin wasn't driving the Jeep,

00:49:37.391 --> 00:49:39.518 align:center
he couldn't have parked the motorcycle
and doubled back.

00:49:39.601 --> 00:49:42.062 align:center
You know in your heart what took place.

00:49:42.145 --> 00:49:43.897 align:center
I don't know what took place.

00:49:43.981 --> 00:49:47.693 align:center
You're asking me to tell you
that I think Kaitlin did this.

00:49:47.776 --> 00:49:50.195 align:center
-Is that what you're asking?
-I'm asking what you think.

00:49:50.278 --> 00:49:52.280 align:center
-Is she capable of doing that?
-I don't believe she--

00:49:52.364 --> 00:49:56.576 align:center
I wouldn't be living with a fucking person
who I think is capable of doing this.

00:49:56.660 --> 00:49:59.454 align:center
So the answer is no, I don't believe it.

00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.296 align:center
I was there when we were
all sitting outside the Meteor.

00:50:08.380 --> 00:50:10.215 align:center
I'm the one who asked her, I was like,

00:50:10.298 --> 00:50:13.009 align:center
"What would you do
if you saw Colin with another person?"

00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:17.764 align:center
And, you know, she blankly
and coldly said, "I'd kill them."

00:50:18.640 --> 00:50:20.684 align:center
And we thought she was joking.

00:50:29.401 --> 00:50:31.820 align:center
No. No.

00:50:32.946 --> 00:50:36.992 align:center
No, no, no, no.

00:50:37.743 --> 00:50:39.119 align:center
No.

00:50:43.749 --> 00:50:48.420 align:center
The police had come
and really turned their house upside down.

00:50:48.503 --> 00:50:52.966 align:center
Kaitlin was worried the house was bugged
or that the police were listening,

00:50:53.049 --> 00:50:54.801 align:center
so she wanted to go somewhere else.

00:50:54.885 --> 00:50:59.056 align:center
So the next morning
they walked to a coffee shop.

00:50:59.139 --> 00:51:01.349 align:center
And Colin was basically like,

00:51:01.433 --> 00:51:03.226 align:center
"Look, from a criminal standpoint,

00:51:03.852 --> 00:51:10.400 align:center
we just need to account for where we were
every minute of the day yesterday."

00:51:12.778 --> 00:51:15.697 align:center
The police took
Kaitlin and Colin's phones.

00:51:15.781 --> 00:51:18.241 align:center
And so Kaitlin was like,
"What should we do?"

00:51:18.325 --> 00:51:19.743 align:center
"Where should we get phones?"

00:51:19.826 --> 00:51:21.787 align:center
They were walking back
from the coffee shop.

00:51:21.870 --> 00:51:25.332 align:center
Colin was like, "Why don't you just
go over to Walmart or something

00:51:25.415 --> 00:51:26.500 align:center
and get a new phone?"

00:51:29.377 --> 00:51:32.964 align:center
A few days after the murder,
I returned back to the neighborhood.

00:51:33.048 --> 00:51:37.928 align:center
I want to see who has cameras,
who may have captured this black SUV.

00:51:38.011 --> 00:51:39.513 align:center
Maybe I can see who the driver is.

00:51:39.596 --> 00:51:41.890 align:center
I was contacted by one of the neighbors,

00:51:41.973 --> 00:51:45.811 align:center
and he provided me with two hours
of video from a doorbell camera.

00:51:45.894 --> 00:51:48.105 align:center
But what was significant
about this doorbell camera

00:51:48.188 --> 00:51:50.190 align:center
was that it constantly recorded.

00:51:50.273 --> 00:51:51.900 align:center
It wasn't motion-activated.

00:51:51.983 --> 00:51:54.319 align:center
And so it had video,
but it also had audio.

00:51:54.903 --> 00:51:58.949 align:center
I would be typing my report or anything
that I needed to do with the case,

00:51:59.032 --> 00:52:01.451 align:center
and I had this video
playing in the background.

00:52:01.535 --> 00:52:05.038 align:center
If I heard a vehicle passing,
I would stop what I was doing,

00:52:05.122 --> 00:52:08.333 align:center
see if this is the black SUV
that I was looking for.

00:52:08.834 --> 00:52:12.170 align:center
At 9:15 p.m. on the video,

00:52:12.254 --> 00:52:15.382 align:center
all of a sudden
I start hearing a female scream,

00:52:16.133 --> 00:52:17.968 align:center
and I hear two gunshots.

00:52:18.468 --> 00:52:21.429 align:center
The screaming stops,
and there's a six-second pause,

00:52:21.513 --> 00:52:23.265 align:center
and then there's a third gunshot.

00:52:24.349 --> 00:52:27.811 align:center
So I knew exactly
when this murder happened.

00:52:27.894 --> 00:52:31.439 align:center
The first thing we tried to do
was not put her in the Jeep,

00:52:31.523 --> 00:52:33.900 align:center
but take Colin out of the Jeep.

00:52:34.401 --> 00:52:36.403 align:center
Look at him so close

00:52:36.486 --> 00:52:39.197 align:center
where he could not have been
the person driving the Jeep.

00:52:39.990 --> 00:52:42.909 align:center
As soon as he dropped Moriah off,

00:52:42.993 --> 00:52:45.871 align:center
Colin's motorcycle is seen leaving.

00:52:47.831 --> 00:52:50.625 align:center
We were able to trace his path back home.

00:52:51.418 --> 00:52:54.504 align:center
He receives a phone call,
um, while he's at home.

00:52:55.130 --> 00:52:57.632 align:center
His phone was shown to be at his residence

00:52:57.716 --> 00:53:00.427 align:center
at the time
that the gunshots could be heard.

00:53:00.510 --> 00:53:03.805 align:center
Now it becomes
very difficult for you to say,

00:53:03.889 --> 00:53:05.640 align:center
"Well, Colin was driving the Jeep."

00:53:06.141 --> 00:53:08.185 align:center
So that only leaves her with access to it.

00:53:11.104 --> 00:53:15.108 align:center
Later on that day, I'd received
information from our ballistics unit

00:53:15.192 --> 00:53:17.736 align:center
that had said that the gun recovered

00:53:17.819 --> 00:53:19.863 align:center
during the search warrant
at Colin's residence

00:53:19.946 --> 00:53:24.034 align:center
was the gun that was used
during the commission of this murder.

00:53:24.117 --> 00:53:28.663 align:center
It was the same type of cartridges
that were located inside the apartment.

00:53:29.581 --> 00:53:33.793 align:center
There were only two people that actually
had access to this firearm at that time.

00:53:33.877 --> 00:53:35.378 align:center
Colin and Kaitlin.

00:53:35.462 --> 00:53:37.881 align:center
And because I knew
where Colin was the entire time,

00:53:37.964 --> 00:53:39.633 align:center
but I didn't know where Kaitlin was,

00:53:39.716 --> 00:53:42.135 align:center
I believed that there was
enough probable cause

00:53:42.219 --> 00:53:46.640 align:center
that indicated that Kaitlin was the person
responsible for this murder.

00:53:46.723 --> 00:53:50.727 align:center
So on May 17th, I issued
a warrant out for Kaitlin's arrest.

00:53:50.810 --> 00:53:53.772 align:center
The only problem was, Kaitlin was gone.

00:53:57.025 --> 00:54:00.403 align:center
Police, U.S. Marshals,
and the FBI are all on the hunt

00:54:00.487 --> 00:54:03.657 align:center
for the killer of a 25-year-old cyclist.

00:54:03.740 --> 00:54:07.452 align:center
Law officials are now asking
for the public's help to find her.

00:54:07.535 --> 00:54:09.204 align:center
A municipal court judge issued a warrant

00:54:09.287 --> 00:54:11.498 align:center
for Armstrong's arrest
for the offense of murder.

00:54:11.581 --> 00:54:14.584 align:center
The United States Marshal Service
and Lone Star Fugitive Task Force

00:54:14.668 --> 00:54:16.628 align:center
are leading the fugitive investigation.

00:54:16.711 --> 00:54:20.340 align:center
Do you think that she would go back home
to Detroit to be with family?

00:54:20.423 --> 00:54:21.800 align:center
I think that's very possible.

00:54:22.509 --> 00:54:25.971 align:center
A manhunt underway for a Texas woman
accused of murdering an elite cyclist.

00:54:26.054 --> 00:54:28.473 align:center
The 34-year-old woman has disappeared

00:54:28.556 --> 00:54:30.183 align:center
since her interview with police.

00:54:30.267 --> 00:54:32.602 align:center
They do believe
the realtor and yoga teacher

00:54:32.686 --> 00:54:35.063 align:center
is likely still in the Austin area.

00:54:35.146 --> 00:54:37.607 align:center
Their biggest clue right now is her car.

00:54:37.691 --> 00:54:40.110 align:center
They're looking
for a black Jeep Grand Cherokee.

00:54:40.193 --> 00:54:45.782 align:center
Detectives were able to find
that she had sold her Jeep to CarMax.

00:54:45.865 --> 00:54:49.911 align:center
The CarMax video, she's actually
setting up one of her new iPhones.

00:54:50.495 --> 00:54:53.873 align:center
We start looking at flights.
We start looking at buses.

00:54:53.957 --> 00:54:56.626 align:center
Any capabilities of leaving.

00:54:56.710 --> 00:54:59.379 align:center
She flew from Austin to Houston

00:54:59.462 --> 00:55:01.381 align:center
and from Houston to New York.

00:55:01.464 --> 00:55:06.052 align:center
We found out that she went to see
her sister in Upstate New York.

00:55:06.136 --> 00:55:09.556 align:center
We were able to confirm
that Kaitlin Armstrong was dropped off

00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:12.517 align:center
at that airport in Newark, New Jersey.

00:55:13.268 --> 00:55:16.855 align:center
The marshals in New York locate
a video that showed Kaitlin

00:55:17.439 --> 00:55:19.107 align:center
walking through the airport.

00:55:19.190 --> 00:55:21.234 align:center
And she had changed her hairstyle.

00:55:21.317 --> 00:55:25.947 align:center
She was trying to make herself
appear more like her sister.

00:55:26.031 --> 00:55:30.160 align:center
We have not been able
to confirm or identify any flight

00:55:30.243 --> 00:55:34.622 align:center
in the name of Kaitlin Armstrong
that was outbound from the Newark airport.

00:55:34.706 --> 00:55:36.833 align:center
There was no record of Kaitlin's passport

00:55:36.916 --> 00:55:38.626 align:center
ever actually leaving the US.

00:55:38.710 --> 00:55:44.382 align:center
So I had asked the marshals in New York
to just check for her sister's passport.

00:55:44.466 --> 00:55:47.135 align:center
They discovered that her sister's passport

00:55:47.218 --> 00:55:50.805 align:center
had been used to fly
from New York to Costa Rica.

00:55:52.182 --> 00:55:55.226 align:center
She knows she looks
similar enough to her sister,

00:55:55.310 --> 00:55:58.938 align:center
takes that passport,
and flees the country.

00:55:59.647 --> 00:56:03.359 align:center
We were able
to actually have factual information

00:56:03.443 --> 00:56:08.073 align:center
that Kaitlin Armstrong boarded
United Airlines headed towards Costa Rica.

00:56:08.865 --> 00:56:11.368 align:center
When she escaped, we just were like…

00:56:12.744 --> 00:56:15.663 align:center
We were just blown away that she could
actually get out of the country.

00:56:15.747 --> 00:56:18.416 align:center
I don't see… I don't know
how that could happen.

00:56:19.084 --> 00:56:22.879 align:center
U.S. Marshals retracing
the steps of Kaitlin Armstrong

00:56:22.962 --> 00:56:24.381 align:center
have a new lead.

00:56:31.846 --> 00:56:35.892 align:center
Now everyone is just on this full hunt
trying to track her down.

00:56:35.975 --> 00:56:39.521 align:center
And we were starting
to get worried she would escape.

00:56:48.488 --> 00:56:52.325 align:center
During this time, we are trying
to strengthen our case

00:56:52.408 --> 00:56:54.994 align:center
and make it clear
that there would be no reasonable doubt

00:56:55.078 --> 00:56:56.704 align:center
that Kaitlin Armstrong was the killer.

00:56:58.331 --> 00:57:00.875 align:center
It was clear early on
that Kaitlin Armstrong

00:57:00.959 --> 00:57:04.921 align:center
had either turned off
or put her phone into airplane mode.

00:57:05.004 --> 00:57:08.174 align:center
And so the phone records
that a lot of times are helpful

00:57:08.258 --> 00:57:10.343 align:center
to show someone's
at the scene of the crime

00:57:10.426 --> 00:57:13.304 align:center
weren't actually going to be
very effective in this case.

00:57:13.388 --> 00:57:15.890 align:center
And so we were trying to look
for any other way

00:57:15.974 --> 00:57:19.644 align:center
we could show her presence
or her whereabouts

00:57:19.727 --> 00:57:21.896 align:center
at the time of the murder.

00:57:24.149 --> 00:57:28.069 align:center
During the search warrant,
we also searched Kaitlin's Jeep.

00:57:28.153 --> 00:57:32.031 align:center
I noticed that it had
an infotainment system installed in it.

00:57:32.866 --> 00:57:34.784 align:center
I checked with our digital forensics unit

00:57:34.868 --> 00:57:40.081 align:center
and asked them, "What type of information
would this infotainment system collect?"

00:57:40.748 --> 00:57:43.877 align:center
One of the things that they said
that it collected was track logs,

00:57:44.586 --> 00:57:46.171 align:center
your GPS data.

00:57:46.254 --> 00:57:50.091 align:center
We knew that the Jeep
was actually sold at CarMax.

00:57:50.175 --> 00:57:53.178 align:center
I went to CarMax and located the Jeep.

00:57:54.387 --> 00:57:58.892 align:center
I researched on how
you pulled this device out

00:57:58.975 --> 00:58:01.019 align:center
from various videos,

00:58:01.102 --> 00:58:03.021 align:center
and submitted it
to our digital forensics unit

00:58:03.104 --> 00:58:04.230 align:center
for them to process it

00:58:04.314 --> 00:58:07.525 align:center
and see if there was
any data that was still on the device.

00:58:08.776 --> 00:58:11.738 align:center
Kaitlin had a pretty promising career.

00:58:11.821 --> 00:58:15.033 align:center
Colin actually described her
as being a financial guru,

00:58:15.116 --> 00:58:19.495 align:center
that she was in charge of all
of the financial aspects of their company.

00:58:19.996 --> 00:58:25.793 align:center
Colin had told me that he did provide
Kaitlin $40,000 to invest in the company.

00:58:25.877 --> 00:58:28.129 align:center
So we knew that Kaitlin was on the run

00:58:28.213 --> 00:58:31.424 align:center
with a significant amount of cash
available to her.

00:58:33.384 --> 00:58:36.137 align:center
Kaitlin's one of those types of people

00:58:36.221 --> 00:58:40.433 align:center
that she gets an idea in her head
and she makes it happen.

00:58:43.520 --> 00:58:45.939 align:center
The U.S. Marshals were close to giving up

00:58:46.022 --> 00:58:47.941 align:center
because they couldn't find her.

00:58:48.024 --> 00:58:49.651 align:center
That was a scary thought to me.

00:58:53.196 --> 00:58:56.783 align:center
Based on her strong interest in yoga,

00:58:56.866 --> 00:59:01.246 align:center
they put out an ad in the town
where they thought she might be,

00:59:01.329 --> 00:59:03.665 align:center
seeking a yoga instructor.

00:59:08.169 --> 00:59:09.254 align:center
Amazingly,

00:59:10.421 --> 00:59:12.423 align:center
there was a response.

00:59:14.342 --> 00:59:15.969 align:center
They went to that location,

00:59:17.512 --> 00:59:18.513 align:center
and they saw her.

00:59:20.890 --> 00:59:24.269 align:center
Someone asked her
if she was Kaitlin Armstrong…

00:59:25.979 --> 00:59:27.605 align:center
and she said yes.

00:59:32.527 --> 00:59:35.113 align:center
I'm here to announce
that Kaitlin Armstrong

00:59:35.196 --> 00:59:37.532 align:center
was captured on June 29th

00:59:37.615 --> 00:59:40.577 align:center
by foreign officials
in the Republic of Costa Rica

00:59:40.660 --> 00:59:44.163 align:center
following a 43-day fugitive investigation.

00:59:47.041 --> 00:59:48.626 align:center
After she was arrested,

00:59:49.127 --> 00:59:53.298 align:center
we find out that she actually
went through plastic surgery,

00:59:53.798 --> 00:59:56.593 align:center
trying to make herself
look more like her sister.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:02:41.716 --> 01:02:47.305 align:center
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 align:center
…and I miss her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:07:59.450 --> 01:08:01.243 align:center
Oh…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:11:30.911 --> 01:11:35.624 align:center
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 align:center
He had very pertinent information

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:26:21.217 --> 01:26:24.304 align:center
Things are spinning out of…
out of control.

01:26:32.228 --> 01:26:35.231 align:center
I regret everything.
I'm ashamed of everything I've done.

01:26:37.275 --> 01:26:40.278 align:center
I would have never
fucking started bike racing.

01:26:41.404 --> 01:26:43.364 align:center
Not ever met Kaitlin.

01:26:44.324 --> 01:26:46.075 align:center
Not ever met Moriah.

01:26:47.285 --> 01:26:50.872 align:center
Not ever… spoken with Moriah in private.

01:26:52.498 --> 01:26:53.666 align:center
Every single thing.

01:26:54.918 --> 01:26:56.544 align:center
Because it all led to this.

01:27:10.266 --> 01:27:12.101 align:center
This is what I found in a thrift store

01:27:12.185 --> 01:27:13.728 align:center
when I was trying to decide

01:27:13.811 --> 01:27:18.066 align:center
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 align:center
And I pulled it
out of a wall of 300 frames.

01:27:22.070 --> 01:27:24.322 align:center
And it has a little bike
going out of the frame,

01:27:24.405 --> 01:27:27.700 align:center
which feels really appropriate
for what was happening at the moment.

01:27:27.784 --> 01:27:30.411 align:center
It's got a bloom over here,
so there's some hope going on.

01:27:30.495 --> 01:27:33.289 align:center
Um, and then it says,
"With you all the way."

01:27:33.373 --> 01:27:39.337 align:center
And I just kind of, um,
was totally overcome when I saw this.

01:27:42.465 --> 01:27:43.549 align:center
When I moved back in,

01:27:43.633 --> 01:27:47.679 align:center
I wanted this space
to feel joyful and bright.

01:27:47.762 --> 01:27:50.598 align:center
And so I wanted there to be
a lot of color on the walls.

01:27:50.682 --> 01:27:53.726 align:center
I wanted every single thing
I brought back into this home

01:27:53.810 --> 01:27:55.979 align:center
to be intentional and to be joyful.

01:27:57.689 --> 01:28:02.860 align:center
Everyone assumed that I would not
move back into my house.

01:28:02.944 --> 01:28:07.198 align:center
My landlord, my dad, kept asking

01:28:07.282 --> 01:28:09.826 align:center
if we needed to start moving my stuff out.

01:28:09.909 --> 01:28:12.704 align:center
And I just was really reluctant.

01:28:13.288 --> 01:28:15.456 align:center
I somehow felt

01:28:16.499 --> 01:28:19.460 align:center
a strong connection there
and a strong pull.

01:28:21.587 --> 01:28:23.214 align:center
When I look back at it,

01:28:23.298 --> 01:28:25.842 align:center
the last day of her life
was really beautiful.

01:28:25.925 --> 01:28:28.678 align:center
We laughed a lot together.

01:28:28.761 --> 01:28:30.805 align:center
We made breakfast and coffee.

01:28:30.888 --> 01:28:32.890 align:center
She went on a bike ride.

01:28:32.974 --> 01:28:37.103 align:center
We talked about life and boys and family.

01:28:37.186 --> 01:28:42.317 align:center
And it was a really beautiful last day.

01:28:42.400 --> 01:28:44.485 align:center
And that feels sacred to me.

01:28:45.570 --> 01:28:48.448 align:center
I want to safeguard that.

01:28:49.949 --> 01:28:51.492 align:center
I feel her there.

01:28:51.576 --> 01:28:54.620 align:center
I feel her joy there.

01:28:55.413 --> 01:29:00.084 align:center
And I'm able to take that and harness it.

01:29:00.793 --> 01:29:04.339 align:center
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 align:center
Growing up, going to Burke with Moriah,

01:29:14.682 --> 01:29:16.017 align:center
and now coaching.

01:29:16.601 --> 01:29:18.144 align:center
Alright, line up on the red line.

01:29:19.228 --> 01:29:21.564 align:center
Being around the kids in this community

01:29:22.482 --> 01:29:25.193 align:center
has been really healthy in a lot of ways.

01:29:25.276 --> 01:29:28.112 align:center
Millie's to Trillium, to Magill,

01:29:28.196 --> 01:29:30.490 align:center
to Moose Deuce, to Moriah's Ascent.

01:29:31.908 --> 01:29:34.660 align:center
I do think
about what Mo would say quite often.

01:29:36.287 --> 01:29:40.124 align:center
To get yourself
a little bit out of that hole,

01:29:40.208 --> 01:29:43.586 align:center
she would tell me to get on my bike.

01:29:45.463 --> 01:29:48.591 align:center
Just try to get
a little bit of momentum there.

01:29:50.176 --> 01:29:53.137 align:center
And take it one step at a time.

01:31:26.022 --> 01:31:29.066 align:center
Come on, Mo! Come on! Get up there!

01:31:29.609 --> 01:31:31.068 align:center
Yeah, Mo!

01:31:35.698 --> 01:31:38.201 align:center
Mo! Let's go, Mo!

01:31:38.284 --> 01:31:41.287 align:center
Get up the hill! Dig it, Mo!

01:31:41.913 --> 01:31:44.499 align:center
Go, go, go, go, go!

01:32:43.099 --> 01:32:45.768 align:center
If my senses fail

01:32:47.019 --> 01:32:50.731 align:center
Meet me on the other side of paradise

01:32:50.815 --> 01:32:53.943 align:center
Free from complications

01:32:54.694 --> 01:32:57.405 align:center
Of our sense of time

01:32:58.531 --> 01:33:01.450 align:center
Fill my windless sail

01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:05.913 align:center
With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life

01:33:05.997 --> 01:33:09.125 align:center
Whispered conversations

01:33:10.042 --> 01:33:13.754 align:center
Twisted faces in the clouds

01:33:20.177 --> 01:33:24.432 align:center
I've been hot-winged and hoodwinked
And dead on my feet

01:33:26.976 --> 01:33:31.063 align:center
The sound and the fury remain over me

01:33:33.733 --> 01:33:37.570 align:center
And all of the footprints
That fall in a line

01:33:37.653 --> 01:33:43.326 align:center
Were our common ancestors
Wandering hills in the night

01:33:46.287 --> 01:33:49.874 align:center
If my senses fail

01:33:50.374 --> 01:33:54.128 align:center
Meet me on the other side of paradise

01:33:54.211 --> 01:33:57.506 align:center
Free from complications

01:33:58.049 --> 01:34:00.968 align:center
Of our sense of time

01:34:01.761 --> 01:34:04.847 align:center
Fill my windless sail

01:34:05.514 --> 01:34:09.352 align:center
With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life

01:34:09.435 --> 01:34:12.605 align:center
Whispered conversations

01:34:13.356 --> 01:34:17.193 align:center
Twisted faces in the clouds

01:34:23.783 --> 01:34:27.787 align:center
Let unanswered question marks
Fall where they will

01:34:30.373 --> 01:34:34.585 align:center
The thoughts that imprison me
Walk with me still

01:34:37.088 --> 01:34:41.008 align:center
And seconds that fly by
Like days of my life

01:34:41.092 --> 01:34:46.180 align:center
Were hours spent wasted
On chasing the words of the wise

01:34:49.725 --> 01:34:52.561 align:center
If my senses fail

01:34:53.521 --> 01:34:57.316 align:center
Meet me on the other side of paradise

01:34:57.400 --> 01:35:00.528 align:center
Free from complications

01:35:01.195 --> 01:35:04.281 align:center
Of our sense of time

01:35:05.199 --> 01:35:08.077 align:center
Fill my windless sail

01:35:09.036 --> 01:35:12.706 align:center
With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life

01:35:12.790 --> 01:35:16.085 align:center
Whispered conversations

01:35:16.669 --> 01:35:18.671 align:center
Twisted faces…
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