The red one.
Now it's recording. Hi.
-Hi. -Look.
Okay, now you can… you can move in and out.
Okay, and then this right here is the focus.
And we have…
And I'm cooking the breakfast.
…Karen cooking the breakfast.
And here's our little baby, Moriah.
Moriah is eight weeks old right now.
Moriah was born during a thunder and lightning storm.
Flashing, thundering.
All this energy all around her.
And her lungs were like thunder.
Probably one of the reasons why she was a good athlete,
because she exercised those lungs like crazy.
So many precious moments to cherish.
-Yes, so many. -Yeah.
It was amazing seeing her being born.
Seeing her take her first breath.
She's sitting up. That's her sitting up for the…
Pretty much for the first time.
She's starting to learn.
And that light of her was twinkling already.
Oh, I see you.
There we go.
Show us how you can ride.
It was as if I always had known her.
It was, like, so familiar.
Yeah. Still happy, though.
Hi.
And then within days of her being born,
I was sitting on the couch listening to a Shawn Colvin song.
And the song made me think that she's gonna leave me someday.
First time Moriah on skis.
I've seen love go by my door It's never been this close before
Well, we got two of them coming.
It's never been so easy or so slow…
Here comes Moriah.
How you doing?
-Good. -Good. You having fun?
-Yeah. -All right.
You're gonna make me lonesome When you go
It is interesting that, looking back, somehow her body or her soul
in some way knew that she had less time than most people.
And that's why she was…
Maybe had that sense of anxiety,
that sense of urgency underlying everything she did.
Five, four, three, two, one!
Nice job, Mo.
Not even looking like she's slowing down.
An incredible ride as Moriah Wilson knows exactly where to go.
She looks so comfortable.
I know she trains hard. I know she trains long.
She is no stranger to these sort of conditions.
This is Moriah Wilson,
the winner of round one of the 2022 Life Time Grand Prix.
-Go, go, go! -Come on, Mo.
She was an absolute diamond in the rough.
She was a once-in-a-generation athlete.
She knew she was coming into her own.
And emotionally,
it was filled with just raw possibility.
Austin 911.
Um, my friend is staying with me, and I just walked in,
and she's laying on the bathroom floor and there's blood everywhere.
It's hard kind of reliving it.
-What's your name? -My name is Caitlin.
-Caitlin, are you with her? -Yes, I'm with her now.
-Is she awake? -She's not awake.
There's blood all over her face and all on the back of her head.
Is she breathing?
She's…
No.
I'm getting help started right now,
and then I'm gonna tell you exactly what to do, okay?
Okay.
Lay her flat on her back on the floor.
Place the heel of your hand on the breastbone
and put your other hand on top of that hand.
Yeah.
Then pump the chest hard and fast at least twice per second
and two inches deep.
Count out loud so I can count with you.
One, two, three,
four, five, six…
Good. Keep going.
There's a lot of help coming as fast as they can. Keep going.
…13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Keep going. There might be a police officer coming in soon.
That's okay. Don't leave her alone and don't stop.
I won't. Two, three… I hear them.
Okay, that's good. Keep going. Don't leave her. They'll come to you.
It's the back house. They have to come in the back alley.
26, 27, 28, 29, come in.
Keep going. Don't stop. Keep going. You're doing good.
Keep going.
Uh, do I stop? I don't know what happened!
You're not…
-Is that the police with you? -Yeah.
Yeah, that's the police officers.
She doesn't live here.
She was with our friend Colin.
-What's Colin's last name? -Colin Strickland.
I could not understand
why they weren't bringing her down to take her to the hospital.
What's her name?
Her name is Moriah.
Moriah is her middle name. Her first name is Anna.
And so finally, I asked the officer questioning me. I said…
"Why is it taking them so long to get her into the ambulance?"
"Like, she needs help."
His words were something along the lines of,
"Your friend didn't make it."
Two years ago today,
on May 12th…
…2022…
I was out here laying down pieces of cardboard
to kill off the grass
because I wanted to make our garden a little bit bigger,
because Moriah was gonna move home.
And then I looked down there at the driveway,
and I saw state--
The state police.
And he asked me if I…
knew--
"Do you know Anna? Anna Wilson?"
And I said, "Yeah, it's my daughter. Is she okay?"
And he said, "No, she's… she's gone."
And, like,
it just didn't make sense.
It didn't make sense. It still doesn't…
It still doesn't make sense.
…make sense, really. We just…
Some things we just…
aren't gonna understand and figure out.
There's really no good explanation.
I was at home. And all of a sudden, my phone rings.
It was the on-call sergeant.
He gave me just the small details of, "Hey, there's been a murder."
"Um, one person has been shot, and there's no suspect information."
Can you have a seat right here on this white chair right here?
The, uh, detective's gonna come and talk to you.
This was my first homicide investigation as a lead detective.
I was definitely nervous.
You know, I-- I didn't know what to expect.
Whenever she got here,
did she say that she had already spoken to anybody else?
Or any plans that she may have mentioned
of saying, "Hey, I've talked to so-and-so?"
-Only Colin. -Okay.
Yeah. She doesn't know any people here. She's not…
-Okay. -She hasn't spent a long time here.
-Okay. -This is only her second time to Austin.
My colleague had already kind of described the scene to me.
Uh, he had mentioned that there was no forced entry into the residence.
Nothing was damaged.
It didn't look as though anything was thrown around,
which indicated to me that there was no disturbance.
We're just gonna have them swab your hands for gunshot residue.
Okay.
I realized that I was being questioned
as a potential suspect.
So a buccal swab.
What that is is basically just a small little DNA swab.
Just goes on the inside of your mouth.
Well, we took, you know, DNA samples, and they swabbed my hands,
took my photos,
and eventually let me wash my hands.
When I'm washing my hands in the police station bathroom,
I'm seeing…
all of her,
you know, blood go down the… go down the sink,
and I have a very…
I have a very distinct memory of…
wanting… wanting it back.
Did they take her from my house?
So our crime scene unit, they're still there right now.
They're processing everything. Um…
She's just still laying there?
So right now, she is.
Um, because we want to make sure that we do everything right.
No, I understand, but she's just by herself.
I know.
-I know. -Okay.
But they're not gonna leave her?
No. No.
Like, she'll never be, like, actually alone?
No. No. Not at all.
Um…
Before we get into everything else,
I want to hear about how you met the Wilson family,
and who did you meet first?
-Mm-hmm. -Because you met them before you met Mo.
Yes. Yeah.
I was…
Let's see, let me start that again.
Let me think through this.
Yeah.
Right after the pandemic, I moved up to Vermont for the summer.
I was a part business owner
of a small bed and breakfast in East Burke.
I didn't have any friends in Vermont,
and so I sign up for all of these women's gravel clinics,
mountain biking clinics, things like that.
And found this really wonderful community,
and was asked to do the social media for a race called Rooted Vermont.
The only time we ever saw Moriah race was at the Rooted race.
We were on the road cheering her on, and we ran into this girl.
And I was like, "Who are you here supporting?"
They're like, "Our daughter Moriah." I was like, "There is no way."
"There is no way. She's my favorite."
"And I can't say that because I have to be impartial about everything."
Moriah Wilson coming in.
Third place, women.
Cash tells us that she's part owner of an inn down here in East Burke.
Just was such a kind of one of those moments where it's like,
"Wow, this is really meant to be. I'm supposed to be here in Vermont."
"I'm supposed to be meeting this family. I'm supposed to be seeing this."
Moriah hears about Cash through us,
and they eventually meet later that fall.
She was racing a bike race called Big Sugar.
It's a 110-mile course.
And I was riding the 50-mile course.
And I finished my race.
And I swear, ten minutes later,
they're like, "First place, Moriah Wilson."
And she had done double the distance that I had done in the same time.
Hooray, hooray
I'm your silver lining
Hooray, hooray…
They became like sisters, just like that.
They just bonded, you know, immediately, and were just instant friends.
And I was your silver lining…
Just was really a special thing to have, to have a friend in a new community.
Here's Mo Wilson doing laps around me.
She's got her 14th lap. She's come back.
It was really inspiring to see her succeed.
She had the racing down.
She had the athleticism. She had the drive.
Now I'm gold
Starting from a young age,
Moriah had the natural inclination to be athletic.
She was very determined.
If she didn't do well, she'd be so upset. So she would just work harder.
We would spend a lot of time downhill skiing.
Hey!
-How's it going, sweetie? -Good.
I remember when she first went to her first ski race,
she studied the people on the podium.
She had this look in her eye like, "I want to be up there."
She writes quite a bit about that in her journal.
"So inspired by the Olympics."
"I want to be an Olympian so badly."
"One day, I will. One day, I will."
Moriah, free skiing.
Burke Mountain Academy started in 1970.
They had the first program in the country
that really was focused around skiing half a day
and going to school half a day.
One of the main requirements for going here
is that you aspire to be an Olympic-level athlete.
She had that dream from the beginning,
a lot inspired by our father
who was on that track and missed the Olympics by one spot.
Moriah, first run still.
Oh. Oh, no.
Injuries were a big part of why she didn't reach her goals.
She tore her ACL in high school,
and then she tore it again after that.
She still loved skiing and I think it was hard for her to let go of that.
But she knew that it was over. Her skiing career was over.
I had spent a lot of time riding bikes growing up with my family,
and then I discovered that gravel cycling was a thing
and, like, ended up buying a gravel bike.
She was determined to be a professional cyclist,
and I really encouraged her to go for it, that she could do it.
Let's go, Mo!
Hang in there, Mo! You got it, Mo! You got it!
Let's go, Mo!
The thing about a bike race is that there's only one winner.
And if 3,000 people start at the line,
you have a 1-in-3,000 chance to win.
A hundred miles an hour in my head…
Nice job, Mo!
The probability of winning in a bike race is really, really low.
So for Mo to always be on the podium,
that was extraordinary.
Here is our women's champion, Moriah Wilson!
Give it up for Mo!
I was talking with a friend.
He was like, "Man, have you heard about Moriah Wilson?"
"You need to know this name."
"She's gonna be dominating pro bike racing moving forward for a long time."
In the span of two years, she won, like, six or seven races.
And not by minutes, not by-- I mean, she won things by hours.
The champ is in the house!
This is Moriah Wilson!
Go, Mo!
-Wilson, just untouchable. -What an impressive result.
My heart does beat Like a Cherokee drum…
In early 2022, we were talking.
She was like, "I'm coming to Austin." I was like, "When are you coming?"
She's like, "Two days from now." I was like, "What?"
She ended up coming to live with me at my house for a couple of weeks
while she was in town.
So we were co-working together. We were eating all of our meals together.
And it was this incredibly beautiful unfolding
of this friendship.
…in the fast lane
100 miles an hour till I'm done
When this case came in, I didn't know anything
other than it was a young woman who had been murdered
and that she, uh, had some kind of relationship to the cycling community.
I certainly had really no idea who Moriah was at the time.
Guillermo's very intense. Very intense.
And because we tried these types of cases,
it's a lot of pressure if you're the kind of person that feel the pressure.
And I think he does feel the pressure.
-Do you? -No.
This was the big case everyone was working on.
And it was shocking because nobody could figure out
a reason why somebody would want to kill this person.
-74 to 17. -Is there a bike? See a bike?
She said she'd put it by the door.
-No, no bike. -No bike.
It certainly seemed that it could have been a home invasion,
robbery event.
But, uh, the more we started digging into it,
it became more and more likely that something else was going on.
I needed more, and I started immediately
trying to pick out things that needed to be followed up on.
Most people's houses have cameras on them.
Uh, you know, everybody has a phone.
The amount of digital evidence is just overwhelming.
The only other person she knows is Colin Strickland,
who she was supposed to be meeting tonight.
Does he-- He still lives here in Austin?
-Yeah, he lives in Austin. -Okay.
Colin Strickland was the last person to see Moriah alive.
So I wanted to talk to Colin and find out, you know, what happened.
Myself and the other detective, we approached and introduced ourselves.
Hey, I'm looking for Mr. Strickland.
-That's me. -Hey.
-So Colin, is that your first name? -Yes.
Hey. So, um, do you know Anna?
Um… Mo?
-Anna Mo? -Yeah.
-Everybody calls her Mo. Um… -No.
Mon-- Monique-- Monic… uh…
Last name is Wilson.
-Rider, she's a gravel rider. -Oh, yes.
-Yes, I do. -Okay, so…
Um… there's really no easy way to say this, sir.
So, apparently last night she passed away.
How did that happen?
She-- Right now, it's an open investigation,
but it is being investigated as a homicide.
Wow. Okay.
-Are you okay? -Yeah. I'm good.
Um…
My first thought is,
"Wow, like, you just went out on a date with her the night before."
"You killed my victim. You killed Moriah Wilson."
I didn't meet Mo until 2017.
I was up in Burke, Vermont, with a good friend of mine,
going mountain biking.
George said, "Mo's gonna join us."
And I said, "Great, can she keep up?"
And George goes, "That's not gonna be a problem."
It's not often that you meet another person who can keep up.
You know, I really liked that she was a strong athlete,
but not in an egotistical way.
Just in a, you know, "I'm here, I'm strong,
and I'm not afraid to show you my strength."
I was her first real boyfriend.
I liked that she was a quiet and reserved person,
because I'm not.
She was a little bit of a consummate introvert,
always thinking, but not always expressing or telling you what she was thinking.
We both grew up in Vermont. We both went to Dartmouth.
And so there's tons of overlap and similarities there.
Gunnar and Moriah started dating her sophomore year.
He was out of college at that point.
I was in a transitionary period, having graduated a couple years ago.
Trying to get a job in California.
Even though we would end up having to date for almost two years long-distance,
I was very sure about things at that point, so…
Aah.
Mm…
In October of 2020,
we moved to Mill Valley, which is close to San Francisco.
It was a ton of excitement at that point of,
"Can't wait to live in the same city together."
We're doing this journey together, and it felt right.
She was just so focused on bike racing
and being fast and fit,
that we just lost a lot of the spark and romance in our relationship.
And it was a hard thing for both of us.
I remember her saying, "I am more in love with biking,
and I find all the emotion and feedback
and pleasure in my life from riding my bike."
And yeah, that said kind of all I needed to hear.
I met Moriah at Dartmouth.
We were very close throughout school.
I moved out to San Francisco after my boyfriend and I had broken up,
and I was really looking for kind of a change of pace.
-Cheers! -Cheers.
Happy Valentine's Day.
And so we moved in together in January 2022.
She understood what I was going through,
and I understood what she was going through.
We had to learn how to do some things on our own
and figure out exactly what it was that we were looking for.
One of the things that she told me was,
"I've got to date other guys. I've never dated other guys."
And she gravitated to people who were successful.
She liked to learn from them.
Do you just want to take a seat in here?
So yesterday, run me through, like, your day and stuff yesterday.
Um, Mo had said that Cash had some event that night with some friends.
So that's why I proposed going to the pool.
'Cause, I mean, she's in town,
and… she's kind of a loner person, so I wanted, you know…
Yeah.
I wanted to catch up with her and do something fun.
Yeah.
Colin and I knew each other through the cycling community in Austin.
I'm a journalist,
writing and covering outdoor recreation,
sports, things like that.
And I have done stories with him professionally.
We are here in Austin, Texas, outside the garage
of 2019 Dirty Kanza winner Colin Strickland.
-Hey, Colin. -Hey, Ian.
-How you doing, man? -How are you?
-Doing good? -Welcome to my garage.
Yeah, this is, uh…
-You got a lot of stuff, man. -I do have a lot of stuff.
Where do we start?
Colin Strickland really dedicated himself
to gravel racing and being the best gravel racer in the world.
He was really sort of at the forefront of realizing how he could accrue sponsors
and make a living by kind of building up his personal brand
and social media presence.
I can take you through some of the stuff I did on this ABLE.
-So this was my most recent build. -Yeah.
Up shift, down shift.
I remember Moriah telling me,
"I went on a training ride with Colin Strickland."
She said it in a way that, like, I should have known who Colin was.
You're a Texas state champion.
Yeah. Yes, I am. Yes.
I knew that he had a history of manipulating women in relationships.
And I was aware of past things.
I had met Moriah at Rebecca's Private Idaho.
She just smashed the race.
We just kind of chatted briefly during the event.
And then at the end of the event, I invited her out to get a beer.
I had a girlfriend.
We didn't have any romantic conversations at all.
We just talked about her future career.
And I told her, like, "You are going to win so many events."
Definitely was attracted to her, but also just wanted to be helpful.
And at that point, it was totally inappropriate to be dating.
He didn't go to bike races and act like he had a girlfriend.
He wouldn't talk about her or bring her around.
It was sort of like a joke.
"Who is Kaitlin?"
Oh, she was the woman
standing right next to Colin that he didn't introduce you to.
I remember hearing about Colin
because Moriah had come back from that race and was like,
"I met Colin Strickland, and he's going to help me with potential sponsors."
Male cyclists historically have gotten more attention and sponsorship dollars,
and, motives aside, will help female cyclists.
Mo wanted to go to a gravel race in Texas.
That was, like, at the end of 2021.
I had signed up for it, and then it got canceled.
She was like, "Do you still want to go?" I was like, "No."
She said that she was excited to see Colin in Texas,
that there might be something more there than just a friendship.
Moriah and I had no romantic anything at this point.
I was driving home with my girlfriend, Kaitlin,
all the way back from Bentonville, and we essentially had a breakup drive.
I just told her, like, "I don't feel it. I can't do this anymore."
We didn't really fight at all.
And we were partners in so many different things.
A few days later, I get a message from Moriah saying,
"Hey, I'm visiting a friend in Austin for a week."
"I'm just gonna work remotely."
Kaitlin moved into a separate room,
and we had had, like, a very clear breakup.
We were not together.
I needed, personally, to close the door on the relationship.
That's kind of what I felt. Like, no turning back.
Make her angry at me.
And I effectively started dating Moriah for a week
when she was in Austin.
Colin was "on a break" with Kaitlin,
even though she was still living in the same house in a separate room.
And Moriah and Colin started hanging out
and were romantic or intimate during that time period.
I definitely warned her about Colin, but not in the--
Like, you could never think, like, "He would hurt her."
Do you know if Mo or Cash owned any, like, firearms or anything like that?
-I would highly doubt it. -Okay.
Do you own any firearms? Would they ever come and talk to you…?
I own a-- I actually bought a--
I bought a pistol last fall,
and I have actually never shot it.
What type of gun was that?
Um, it's a 9mm.
He indicated that he does own his 9mm handgun.
The cartridge cases that were recovered on scene were 9mm cartridges.
I have it in a case, and I've never shot it.
-Haven't made the time. -Okay.
She sent me a photo of her on the bike.
-Is that Mo? -That's Mo.
-This is more complexity. -What time was that at?
I have it saved as a different name just because.
Why was it that you had to change the name from Mo?
Because in the past, Kaitlin has looked at my phone,
and I just didn't want to…
I just didn't want to surface…
-That would always start fights. -Exactly.
Kaitlin had all of my passwords. She managed all of my bank accounts.
She went into my phone and read everything.
She had blocked a bunch of contacts in my phone.
I knew that she could find information if she wanted to.
There were questions that she had in terms of her footing with Colin.
He had kind of disappeared and really pulled back,
both, you know, friendship-wise, relationship-wise,
and, um, wasn't very communicative.
A lot of times, we weren't able to connect over the phone.
And so if there was something that she really needed a quick opinion on,
I'm like, "Leave me a voice memo and I'll get back to you."
Hey.
Got to Arkansas yesterday.
Kind of just been hanging out by myself.
I have not heard from Colin at all.
Total radio silence.
Uh, have you seen him in Austin at all?
There just hasn't been any communication from either of us
until I texted him today,
at which point my text didn't go through.
Maybe he thinks that I'm not interested or something.
Not quite sure.
Okay, last night.
I went to the Meteor for happy hour and who do I see?
Colin and Kaitlin and a couple other guys.
Eventually, Colin comes over and we hug each other.
Don't really say that much. Just are like, "Oh, great to see you."
Like, I don't know. Super, kind of, weird.
And yeah, I haven't seen him or heard from him since.
I need some sort of closure.
I don't know how to get it.
I'm probably gonna see him tonight because there's this party.
But if Kaitlin's there, like, he's probably not going to talk to me.
Very uncomfy.
Mo's going to be taken to the medical examiner's office, um…
Full autopsy, you know, is gonna be done, everything on her.
Um…
That being said, are you sure, at any point in time,
did y'all have sex?
We had not. We had no physical intercourse.
-Okay. -Didn't… We didn't even kiss.
Okay.
I-- I just want to check because with the autopsy,
they're gonna check everything.
-I know. -So…
I understand that.
Nope, nothing.
Okay.
Colin was really struggling with whether he was gonna be
in a committed relationship or not.
But he'd saw that Kaitlin was a compassionate, caring person.
I think the biggest thing for him, too, is she was incredibly helpful.
Colin was trying to build the Spartan Trailer business.
Kaitlin was definitely very knowledgeable in finance
and was obviously, like, smart about money.
She did a lot of the managerial stuff for the business,
which allowed Colin to focus on other elements
of his cycling career and whatever else.
Moriah and I had reset our relationship in my mind.
I was kind of on the end of the scene and kind of burned out.
And she was needing to get, like, momentum
and she was enthusiastic with it, and that's great.
But I just saw it as I wasn't gonna be a great match for her.
She was gonna be the most dominant racer in the US by far.
And I would just get in the way of that.
Kaitlin didn't want to separate. She liked being a part of my life.
And now, there she is!
-Yeah, Mo! -Yeah, Mo!
-Mo Wilson! -Yeah!
The women's champion leaves no doubt about it.
Mo Wilson absolutely crushes the Belgian Waffle Ride.
Congrats, girl.
-Another dominant performance. -Thank you.
What's next for you? What are you winning next?
Um…
The next gravel race that I do will be Gravel Locos.
Moriah was going down to Austin to race in the Gravel Locos race.
Mo came a couple of days before the race.
And I am just so excited that she's there.
I made some coffee.
We were just hanging out.
So I take a video, and I send this text message to Karen.
All right, wave to the camera.
Welcome to the Texas heat!
Wow!
-Okay, be safe. Ride fast. -Thanks.
-Bye. -Bye.
Oh, yeah, that text.
It was of Moriah getting ready to go out for a training ride on her own.
And Cash sent it to me and said,
"Your girl's here, safe with me."
I feel a lot of guilt about sending that text message.
Like, I can't believe that I told her mom she was okay and in good hands when, um…
I couldn't protect her.
Mo texted me later and she said,
"Just FYI, I'm going to go swim and eat dinner with Colin tonight."
I had contacted Mo, like, "Hey, you want to go swimming?"
"Yeah, sounds good."
Picked her up, drove to Deep Eddy.
Went to Pool Burger, grabbed two drinks and a burger,
and we just chatted, essentially, about her career, my career,
and the relevance of what does it mean to be a bike racer?
What's the point of it all?
And then Kaitlin called me while I was at Pool Burger,
and I didn't answer it.
Yeah, dropped off Moriah at the base of the steps.
Said, "All right, cool, see you tomorrow at this Gravel Locos pre-dinner."
That was the last I saw her.
Karen called me, and I was really afraid to talk to her.
Karen said, "Cash, I love you so much."
And I needed to hear that because I felt
so inadequate and so guilty.
I'm like, "If only I would have come home sooner,
if only I would have not gone to dinner,
if only I'd have forced her to come with me."
There was a million "what if" questions
that I was endlessly playing in a loop in my head.
What could I have done differently to help?
I remember seeing two missed calls from my dad,
a text from my dad, "Call me ASAP,"
and… I think a call from Karen too,
before my dad had called me.
That was bad. I knew that was bad.
Something had happened.
I was in, uh, Hawaii with my family.
Um, I got a phone call and it was Gunnar.
I will never forget him saying, uh…
…"Moriah died today."
My husband had put our daughter to bed,
and I just collapsed on the ground, and I'm sobbing. I'm so--
Like, I have never cried like this before.
And my husband's like, "Oh, my God, are you okay?"
And I was like, "No, I'm not okay."
Like, "Moriah's been shot."
"She was left alone to die."
It feels a lot like her death came
right as she was starting to open up to the world,
and that she was starting to learn what was important to her, and…
…learn that it was safe to open up to people.
I was working my regular shift,
and I found out that there was a murder the night before.
Typically, when we have a murder, it's all hands on deck.
Detective Spitler was there.
He was already interviewing Colin Strickland.
We have a conference room, and in that conference room we have a TV
that we're able to actually watch the interview while it's taking place.
I'm able to see what's being said and verify his story.
One of the detectives found a video clip
from a motion-activated camera
in an alleyway that's directly next to Cash's apartment.
The video shows a black SUV with chrome windows,
a luggage rack on the roof,
and a bicycle rack that was mounted onto the trailer hitch.
And at 8:37 p.m. the brake lights illuminate,
indicating that it's slowing down or even stopping,
right where the stairs lead up to the front door of the apartment.
One of the other detectives realized,
"Hey, that's a vehicle that looks just like a vehicle that was in their driveway
when detectives had gone out there to speak with Colin."
That was something we relayed to Detective Spitler,
and so he starts bringing that up in the interview.
Colin had mentioned that he took Moriah on his motorcycle
that was parked in the driveway.
So I asked him about the Jeep. "Who is it that owns that black Jeep?"
He said, "That's my girlfriend Kaitlin Armstrong's car."
When Kaitlin got back home, did she tell you anything?
Like where she was, what she was doing?
I didn't ask. I was working on stuff in the garage.
Getting my bicycles ready for this race.
The police served a search warrant
on the home of Colin Strickland.
While there, they found a couple of pistols.
Are there any other firearms that are inside?
There's two pistols.
-Two pistols? -Two pistols.
Where is the other pistol?
That I don't know
because that would be Kaitlin's pistol.
So Kaitlin has a pistol?
Kaitlin has a pistol that I purchased for her.
I do remember saying to the officer…
"…I bet it was Colin's girlfriend."
Wait, what?
I said the only person I could think of that didn't like her was…
this guy's girlfriend.
I know for a fact,
through our investigation,
that her vehicle was at that apartment.
I don't know what to say to that.
Mm.
All right, so I'm Detective Conner.
And, um, so, my partner is actually talking, uh, to Colin right now.
It sounds like you may have some information,
may have witnessed something, so I just wanted to chat about some stuff.
Um…
Can you give me any information on what you're talking about?
Did you hear about what's happened over the past 24 hours?
Colin walked in the house
and said one of the women in the cycling community passed away.
Yes. Yeah.
Um, while Colin was talking to us, your name came up.
And it sounds like there's a lot of stuff that's going on,
and it sounds like, you know,
Colin's been maybe talking to this girl for a little bit
and kind of threw your name in there.
I think he might be saying some stuff, and I want to get your side of it, okay?
I feel like I should have an attorney present.
So that's totally your choice.
Um, so you-- So at this point, you are free to leave at any point.
So this is going to be consensual because you're not under arrest, okay?
So…
We were really good friends,
and I always thought she was just this really sweet, kind individual.
She wasn't getting what she wanted,
and Colin wasn't…
Right, didn't want to give it
or couldn't give it, or didn't have it to give.
They'd break up, they'd get back together, they'd break up, they'd get back together.
It sounds like maybe he went out with this girl the other day,
and maybe it sounds like, from what he's saying,
that you were a little upset about it.
And so that's why I wanted to get your side of it
because that's not fair if he's just saying one thing
and trying to-- to go down a route.
I… That is not accurate.
Yeah, and that's why I wanted to chat with you because…
It's a guy. He's gonna say stuff.
And so we want to make sure that we get both sides of the story
and clear it up.
So what… What were you doing yesterday?
I would like to leave, I think.
That's-- That's completely your choice, but understand if you do,
then we only have one side of the story to go on.
Well, I just am uncertain
as to even what you mean or what he could have said
because I didn't have any idea that he spoke, he saw,
or went out with this girl.
-Okay, yeah. -Like, recently. I--
Had he been, like, talking to her on the side?
I would like to leave. I don't actually know.
And I would like to leave.
Um, but again, that limits us to where we only have one side of the story.
And your vehicle was seen next to her house,
um, and we needed to talk about that, okay?
I remember being in our apartment,
and Moriah came into my room and said,
"You'll never believe what happened today."
She looked down at her phone, and she saw an unknown number calling her,
but because it was a Texas number
and she had a sponsorship in Austin, she thought she should answer it.
So she picked up the phone, and someone just said, "Hi, Mo."
And Moriah said, "Hello," you know, "who is this?"
And she said, "It's Kaitlin."
Moriah just said that Kaitlin mentioned,
"Hey, Colin and I are still seeing each other,
so it would probably just be better
if you, you know, didn't involve yourself in that anymore."
It sounds like there are some issues between you and this girl,
and I think that there's probably a lot more to it
that you could help explain.
Maybe you were upset and you were just in the area.
Like, I don't know, because I don't have your story.
And all I see is that your vehicle's over there.
That kind of makes it look not too good, right?
Okay? And then when we're talking to Colin and we're hearing, like,
"Yeah, there was some jealousy stuff going on."
Like, that doesn't sound very good.
Um, so that's why I really want to get your side of the story,
because maybe there's a lot more going on.
I would like to leave if I am free to leave.
Okay.
They let her go.
They concluded that they didn't quite have enough information to hold her on.
I don't even think at the time they had enough information to say
Colin wasn't driving the Jeep,
he couldn't have parked the motorcycle and doubled back.
You know in your heart what took place.
I don't know what took place.
You're asking me to tell you that I think Kaitlin did this.
-Is that what you're asking? -I'm asking what you think.
-Is she capable of doing that? -I don't believe she--
I wouldn't be living with a fucking person who I think is capable of doing this.
So the answer is no, I don't believe it.
I was there when we were all sitting outside the Meteor.
I'm the one who asked her, I was like,
"What would you do if you saw Colin with another person?"
And, you know, she blankly and coldly said, "I'd kill them."
And we thought she was joking.
No. No.
No, no, no, no.
No.
The police had come and really turned their house upside down.
Kaitlin was worried the house was bugged or that the police were listening,
so she wanted to go somewhere else.
So the next morning they walked to a coffee shop.
And Colin was basically like,
"Look, from a criminal standpoint,
we just need to account for where we were every minute of the day yesterday."
The police took Kaitlin and Colin's phones.
And so Kaitlin was like, "What should we do?"
"Where should we get phones?"
They were walking back from the coffee shop.
Colin was like, "Why don't you just go over to Walmart or something
and get a new phone?"
A few days after the murder, I returned back to the neighborhood.
I want to see who has cameras, who may have captured this black SUV.
Maybe I can see who the driver is.
I was contacted by one of the neighbors,
and he provided me with two hours of video from a doorbell camera.
But what was significant about this doorbell camera
was that it constantly recorded.
It wasn't motion-activated.
And so it had video, but it also had audio.
I would be typing my report or anything that I needed to do with the case,
and I had this video playing in the background.
If I heard a vehicle passing, I would stop what I was doing,
see if this is the black SUV that I was looking for.
At 9:15 p.m. on the video,
all of a sudden I start hearing a female scream,
and I hear two gunshots.
The screaming stops, and there's a six-second pause,
and then there's a third gunshot.
So I knew exactly when this murder happened.
The first thing we tried to do was not put her in the Jeep,
but take Colin out of the Jeep.
Look at him so close
where he could not have been the person driving the Jeep.
As soon as he dropped Moriah off,
Colin's motorcycle is seen leaving.
We were able to trace his path back home.
He receives a phone call, um, while he's at home.
His phone was shown to be at his residence
at the time that the gunshots could be heard.
Now it becomes very difficult for you to say,
"Well, Colin was driving the Jeep."
So that only leaves her with access to it.
Later on that day, I'd received information from our ballistics unit
that had said that the gun recovered
during the search warrant at Colin's residence
was the gun that was used during the commission of this murder.
It was the same type of cartridges that were located inside the apartment.
There were only two people that actually had access to this firearm at that time.
Colin and Kaitlin.
And because I knew where Colin was the entire time,
but I didn't know where Kaitlin was,
I believed that there was enough probable cause
that indicated that Kaitlin was the person responsible for this murder.
So on May 17th, I issued a warrant out for Kaitlin's arrest.
The only problem was, Kaitlin was gone.
Police, U.S. Marshals, and the FBI are all on the hunt
for the killer of a 25-year-old cyclist.
Law officials are now asking for the public's help to find her.
A municipal court judge issued a warrant
for Armstrong's arrest for the offense of murder.
The United States Marshal Service and Lone Star Fugitive Task Force
are leading the fugitive investigation.
Do you think that she would go back home to Detroit to be with family?
I think that's very possible.
A manhunt underway for a Texas woman accused of murdering an elite cyclist.
The 34-year-old woman has disappeared
since her interview with police.
They do believe the realtor and yoga teacher
is likely still in the Austin area.
Their biggest clue right now is her car.
They're looking for a black Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Detectives were able to find that she had sold her Jeep to CarMax.
The CarMax video, she's actually setting up one of her new iPhones.
We start looking at flights. We start looking at buses.
Any capabilities of leaving.
She flew from Austin to Houston
and from Houston to New York.
We found out that she went to see her sister in Upstate New York.
We were able to confirm that Kaitlin Armstrong was dropped off
at that airport in Newark, New Jersey.
The marshals in New York locate a video that showed Kaitlin
walking through the airport.
And she had changed her hairstyle.
She was trying to make herself appear more like her sister.
We have not been able to confirm or identify any flight
in the name of Kaitlin Armstrong that was outbound from the Newark airport.
There was no record of Kaitlin's passport
ever actually leaving the US.
So I had asked the marshals in New York to just check for her sister's passport.
They discovered that her sister's passport
had been used to fly from New York to Costa Rica.
She knows she looks similar enough to her sister,
takes that passport, and flees the country.
We were able to actually have factual information
that Kaitlin Armstrong boarded United Airlines headed towards Costa Rica.
When she escaped, we just were like…
We were just blown away that she could actually get out of the country.
I don't see… I don't know how that could happen.
U.S. Marshals retracing the steps of Kaitlin Armstrong
have a new lead.
Now everyone is just on this full hunt trying to track her down.
And we were starting to get worried she would escape.
During this time, we are trying to strengthen our case
and make it clear that there would be no reasonable doubt
that Kaitlin Armstrong was the killer.
It was clear early on that Kaitlin Armstrong
had either turned off or put her phone into airplane mode.
And so the phone records that a lot of times are helpful
to show someone's at the scene of the crime
weren't actually going to be very effective in this case.
And so we were trying to look for any other way
we could show her presence or her whereabouts
at the time of the murder.
During the search warrant, we also searched Kaitlin's Jeep.
I noticed that it had an infotainment system installed in it.
I checked with our digital forensics unit
and asked them, "What type of information would this infotainment system collect?"
One of the things that they said that it collected was track logs,
your GPS data.
We knew that the Jeep was actually sold at CarMax.
I went to CarMax and located the Jeep.
I researched on how you pulled this device out
from various videos,
and submitted it to our digital forensics unit
for them to process it
and see if there was any data that was still on the device.
Kaitlin had a pretty promising career.
Colin actually described her as being a financial guru,
that she was in charge of all of the financial aspects of their company.
Colin had told me that he did provide Kaitlin $40,000 to invest in the company.
So we knew that Kaitlin was on the run
with a significant amount of cash available to her.
Kaitlin's one of those types of people
that she gets an idea in her head and she makes it happen.
The U.S. Marshals were close to giving up
because they couldn't find her.
That was a scary thought to me.
Based on her strong interest in yoga,
they put out an ad in the town where they thought she might be,
seeking a yoga instructor.
Amazingly,
there was a response.
They went to that location,
and they saw her.
Someone asked her if she was Kaitlin Armstrong…
and she said yes.
I'm here to announce that Kaitlin Armstrong
was captured on June 29th
by foreign officials in the Republic of Costa Rica
following a 43-day fugitive investigation.
After she was arrested,
we find out that she actually went through plastic surgery,
trying to make herself look more like her sister.
I think she just thought she was smarter than everybody else
and that she could get away with it.
Armstrong is now in custody at the Travis County Jail.
She's currently being held under a $3.5 million bond.
Unfortunately, a lot of the information
that's been presented so far in the media is simply not accurate.
The police have a vested interest in painting a picture
that supports their initial assumptions and actions.
We look forward to this legal process ahead
and these issues being heard in a court of law.
18, 19 days before trial,
someone from the sheriff's office called me and said,
"Put your coffee down, you won't believe this."
Kaitlin Armstrong escaped
from the Travis County Jail.
Two deputies escorted Kaitlin Armstrong
to a doctor's appointment Wednesday morning.
She had this injury that she could not have leg restraints on
that required her to go see an outside doctor.
And so they allowed her to.
The minute she left that doctor's office, she booked it.
Deputy chasing an inmate in the area.
We were hearing
that she did start working out excessively leading up to that,
so there was definitely some thought process
that went into this escape.
She ran, and they apprehended her about a mile down the road.
It was just even more evidence
that Kaitlin Armstrong really thought she could get away with this.
And that she wasn't going to have to answer for what she did
like anyone else might have to.
Oh, my gosh.
When I open drawers in her room,
I love picking things up
and just sticking them in my face and smelling them.
And sometimes that makes me feel good, and sometimes that makes me,
you know, feel sad too.
The more that I can be thankful for the fact that…
…that I, you know, that we had Moriah here for 25 years…
…the more I can give thanks for that
and, um, and not focus on the loss.
And, um…
You know, it's not easy, though, because I still want her to be here and, um…
…and I miss her.
Moriah?
Okay? Okay, Mommy?
-Love you. -Love you.
Mm.
Aw, that's a nice picture.
Hi, everybody.
Hi!
Grief is like a big mud puddle.
You can walk around it and around it.
Just be circling it for the rest of your life.
Or you can walk right through it
and out the other end.
A highly anticipated murder trial gets underway here in Austin.
It's a case that has received international media attention.
There's a large contingency of news reporters.
There's spectators, people tweeting live the proceedings in the courtroom.
Did Kaitlin Armstrong shoot and kill Moriah Wilson?
That is a question that a jury will answer.
Sometimes when there's no direct evidence, no eyewitness,
no video of the murder,
it's enough for a jury to hang their hat on and acquit somebody.
Evidence will come out that Kaitlin Armstrong
was nowhere near the scene of Miss Wilson's murder.
To the allegations in paragraph one of the indictment,
how do you plead?
Not guilty.
To the allegations to paragraph two of the indictment,
how do you plead?
Not guilty.
You may be seated.
We're going to start by giving you information about three key players.
Number one will be Mo Wilson.
Second key player is Colin Strickland.
The third player is Kaitlin Armstrong, the defendant,
who lived with Colin
in an on-again, off-again romantic relationship.
Kaitlin Armstrong was not happy
with Colin still communicating
with Mo Wilson after their romantic relationship ended.
What a wonderful and easy way to paint a woman and to tell a story.
The woman scorned.
She had to be portrayed
as a jealous psycho to create the motive.
Mo was so young, had so much life ahead of her.
My main thing was to hold Kaitlin Armstrong accountable.
I was the second to take the stand.
All of a sudden, it's like, "Get up, we're going in."
"We're swearing you in. It's starting."
There's no way to actually prepare you for going into a situation like that,
where you're on the stand
facing Kaitlin Armstrong, right there looking at you.
I just became hyper-focused.
I went into this, like, zone of,
"This is the most important thing I could possibly do in my life."
"I want to see justice served,
and I want to do my absolute best for my friend."
I fought for Mo with everything I had that night.
From the moment that I got home, I started doing chest compressions,
which was the longest ten minutes of my entire life.
When I stepped down from the stand,
I looked Kaitlin Armstrong in the eyes,
and she showed nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Hey, come here.
Somebody might be in here. This might be the bike, okay?
Like-- Oh, look.
We had evidence Kaitlin Armstrong drags Mo's bike
and throws it in the weeds.
Over there.
Okay, um…
432, I located the bike.
I don't know if she did that just to thumb her nose at her,
or she was trying to make it look like a robbery.
One of the hardest things was when they rolled her bike in.
That… That kind of hit me, seeing her bike.
Yeah, I remember it.
It was in the bag.
Oh…
That was her bike.
That was what she cared about. That's what gave her joy.
When they recovered the bicycle,
they had processed it for DNA and fingerprints.
I asked them to process a couple other spots or items on the bike,
just to be sure.
We compared it with the DNA that we collected from Kaitlin.
That comparison showed that Kaitlin's DNA
was actually on the bicycle.
The simplest, logical, most reasonable explanation
for the defendant's DNA to be on this bike?
The defendant touched the bike after she exited.
She took the bike out, and she threw it outside.
Every person that handled this bike handled it in the same way.
I was very upset about the way that Attorney Cofer handled the bike.
I didn't think that showed much respect.
And what's astounding, right here.
This was the area not swabbed for DNA.
What if it had shown yet another unknown profile?
I mean, it's hard for all of us to be in that room with Armstrong.
-And I think it's especially… -Yeah.
I mean, it's hard for all of us, for sure.
-It feels cold in there. It's like… -Yeah, it can be still.
I don't even feel that much because I'm just like,
this just doesn't feel like a space
where I'm being encouraged to feel anything.
Seeing her not show any emotion at all,
all I see is a stone.
When I look at her, she looks like a stone.
Every once in a while, I look and I just think, "Is there any…"
"Is there any softness in that heart anywhere?"
"Is there any flesh in that heart, or is it all stone?"
I don't know.
Testimony on day three of the Kaitlin Armstrong murder trial
with Colin Strickland, Armstrong's then on-and-off boyfriend.
It was hard to watch Colin on the witness stand.
He did not look like the same person in trial that he was before Moriah died.
It was hard to see Colin face-to-face.
Particularly because I placed so much blame on him
for… his manipulation of both Moriah and Kaitlin.
Colin Strickland gave many noncommittal answers to attorneys today,
and also sat with his body angled away and his hand up
in what may have been an attempt to block out Armstrong.
His demeanor was,
"I do not want to be here."
He looked away.
He had his head down often.
He was slumped over the microphone.
He would put his hand on his head like this.
His eyes were often closed,
and rarely would he look at the person who was questioning him,
whether it was us or the other side.
When Colin was asked in his cross-examinations
if he knew the defendant,
he actually came out and said, like, "No."
And I think it was a statement of, "I thought I knew her, but I don't."
He had very pertinent information
to help us put this case together to get justice for Mo.
And I didn't like the fact that…
he came off as being very reluctant at times.
And I wanted to tell him, "Come on, dude."
"Do it like this and make it easy on yourself."
The state pulled up texts between Strickland and Armstrong
from October 2021.
That was a time when Wilson and Strickland met up in Austin.
The message that's seemingly from Armstrong to Strickland,
"I know you better than to show up at Meteor with that girl."
Strickland says "that girl" is a reference to Wilson.
Jurors were shown a text message sent to Strickland
containing a video at some kind of firing range, shooting a gun.
The person's face isn't shown,
but Strickland testified he believed it's Armstrong.
Colin ended up in the middle of some very unfortunate events.
I don't think that he ever anticipated
or intended for things to happen the way that they did.
But I also don't think that we can look at what happened
without acknowledging his involvement.
It bothers me that him lying
created the situation and the scenario that led to Mo's death.
But on the other hand, he didn't pull the trigger.
He didn't kill her.
And there's nothing about Kaitlin Armstrong, in my opinion,
that suggested to Colin,
"I'd better be careful. This girl could kill someone."
I don't think he saw it coming.
And if he did, maybe he'd have done something different.
We wanted Pam Mazak to be our final witness
to summarize the whole case, all the data,
and following it in a chronological timeline.
From Colin's phone,
we realized he had Moriah in his phone as Christine Wall.
Around 4:45, Colin's asking Moriah
if she'd like him to come pick her up on the motorcycle.
Kaitlin did have access to a lot of his information,
and there was an iPad at home,
and she more than likely would be able to see all of this texting
between Colin and Moriah.
At around 4:49,
Moriah sends Colin the address of where she's staying.
Now, it is under Christine Wall,
but Moriah sends a picture from her ride.
So, Kaitlin knows absolutely that's who he's making plans with.
Kaitlin leaves the house,
and we believe she's got the gun with her.
She is heading up Lamar towards the downtown area.
Then she takes a left onto West 6th and heads west,
which would take you to Deep Eddy, or that area.
But then, she turns around and she starts heading east, onto 5th.
Then, her car takes a turn around another block.
It's like she's trying to figure out what to do.
And she pulls over into a parking lot area and sits there for about a minute.
I don't know if initially she was just going to go confront them.
A jealous person might, you know, yell, scream, you know, slap, pull hair.
But that's not what happened.
She sits there for a minute and then makes the decision to turn her phone off.
And then her Jeep starts heading east
and goes straight to Cash's neighborhood.
Kaitlin's Jeep locations match exactly with all the surveillance video.
She's circling that neighborhood,
and she's sitting in her car and waiting at about three different spots, at least.
We see Moriah and Colin heading back over.
Kaitlin's circling the block
until she sees them come home.
They're within a block of each other.
She's waiting for Colin to leave.
I know how it ends, and it's still just really hard to watch this unfold.
One of the most horrific things that we learned
was just how long she had circled Cash's house.
Just how intentional it was.
She basically stalked her.
It was mind-blowing
just that we were able to put all of that together
and that, really, that-- that digital evidence
almost became another witness in the trial.
You can't really accuse data of lying.
8:35, he drops her off.
Then Colin goes home.
He does stop at 8:38 on MLK,
a few blocks
from dropping Mo off.
Then he texts Kaitlin about the errand he was running.
Said, "Finished."
"Want to get something to eat?"
She doesn't respond.
As soon as he leaves, she circles that alley.
She parks her Jeep.
And then she sits in the Jeep for a little while.
Moriah unlocks the door.
She gets in.
And then she's, uh, texting a podcaster around 9:13.
A few minutes later,
the… the screams and the gunshots are heard.
Pow! Pow!
Two gunshots.
One to the front of the head.
One to the side of the head
that hits the index finger as it passes.
After four or five seconds of silence,
Kaitlin Armstrong
stood over Mo Wilson
and put a third shot
right in Mo Wilson's heart.
Hearing those screams, you know, they…
still bother me.
I try not to listen to that one. It's-- It's very difficult.
I was coming to terms with,
"What if she's not put away?"
What does that mean for the Wilsons? What does that mean for me?
I felt tense, nervous.
It's up to these 12 people.
Everything we do all comes down to the jury.
If they didn't like it, or they didn't buy it,
or even one of them didn't like it or didn't buy it,
you're done.
The defendant will please rise.
In cause number D1DC22301129,
verdict of the jury for the offense of murder,
we, the jury, having found the defendant, Kaitlin Armstrong,
guilty of the offense of murder.
This court hereby sentences you to 90 years
in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
and a $10,000 fine as imposed by the jury.
You may be seated.
Is there any allocution to be done?
Yes, Your Honor.
Kaitlin Armstrong.
I'm not sure if my words can penetrate your heart,
but I'm gonna try.
I hate what you did to my beautiful daughter.
It was very selfish and cowardly,
that violent act on May 11th.
It was cowardly
because you never chose
to face her woman to woman in a civil conversation.
She would have listened.
She was an amazing listener.
She would have cared about your feelings.
She was a caring, empathetic person.
If you allowed yourself to actually know her,
you never, ever would have wanted to hurt her.
When you shot Moriah in the heart,
you shot me in my heart.
You shot Eric and Matt in their hearts.
I don't know why God let this happen, but He let it happen.
We trust that there's going to be good come from it.
Maybe it'll help somebody, you know, down the road…
so something like this doesn't happen.
There really are no winners here.
This is not a time for celebration,
but a time for prayer.
A time to pray for our family,
our friends, the Armstrong family,
and their friends.
This sad story is a perfect example
of why integrity and honesty are crucial in our personal relationships.
And how dishonesty can often lead to unintended consequences.
Selfish manipulation, jealousy, and hatred never lead to positive outcomes.
Violence is never a good way.
It only leads to more suffering.
Our lives are changed forever,
but with this challenging ordeal now behind us,
we are ready to move forward and continue our healing.
And we will do this with Moriah's strong, determined,
gentle and kind spirit,
for we know this is what she would want us to do.
This is someone that I'm sure most people in her life
couldn't have imagined her doing something like this.
So it raises all these questions of, like,
"Do you ever really know anyone?"
"Am I capable of doing something like that?"
"Is everyone capable of doing something like that?"
This just is still so incomprehensible.
And when I do get angry,
all I can think of is,
"You stupid girl, Kaitlin Armstrong, you stupid girl."
"Look what you did."
Kaitlin Armstrong took so many things away from my sister.
She took away her life.
Her freedom.
Her ability to experience this world.
Her ability to feel joy.
The only just consequence for that
is that she should no longer be able to have any of those experiences either,
for the rest of her life.
In my belief system,
whenever we make choices and they have negative consequences,
we can't just walk away.
It's about what's right and wrong.
And being held accountable.
It was just such a senseless crime.
This is pretty much my life these days.
Just… time alone in the shop.
Part of that's just, things are just outside of my control.
So I shrunk my world massively
so that it could feel some kind of control.
Things are spinning out of… out of control.
I regret everything. I'm ashamed of everything I've done.
I would have never fucking started bike racing.
Not ever met Kaitlin.
Not ever met Moriah.
Not ever… spoken with Moriah in private.
Every single thing.
Because it all led to this.
This is what I found in a thrift store
when I was trying to decide
whether or not I was going to be capable of moving back into this space or not.
And I pulled it out of a wall of 300 frames.
And it has a little bike going out of the frame,
which feels really appropriate for what was happening at the moment.
It's got a bloom over here, so there's some hope going on.
Um, and then it says, "With you all the way."
And I just kind of, um, was totally overcome when I saw this.
When I moved back in,
I wanted this space to feel joyful and bright.
And so I wanted there to be a lot of color on the walls.
I wanted every single thing I brought back into this home
to be intentional and to be joyful.
Everyone assumed that I would not move back into my house.
My landlord, my dad, kept asking
if we needed to start moving my stuff out.
And I just was really reluctant.
I somehow felt
a strong connection there and a strong pull.
When I look back at it,
the last day of her life was really beautiful.
We laughed a lot together.
We made breakfast and coffee.
She went on a bike ride.
We talked about life and boys and family.
And it was a really beautiful last day.
And that feels sacred to me.
I want to safeguard that.
I feel her there.
I feel her joy there.
And I'm able to take that and harness it.
And I think she would be proud. She'd be proud that I didn't just give up.
Growing up, going to Burke with Moriah,
and now coaching.
Alright, line up on the red line.
Being around the kids in this community
has been really healthy in a lot of ways.
Millie's to Trillium, to Magill,
to Moose Deuce, to Moriah's Ascent.
I do think about what Mo would say quite often.
To get yourself a little bit out of that hole,
she would tell me to get on my bike.
Just try to get a little bit of momentum there.
And take it one step at a time.
Come on, Mo! Come on! Get up there!
Yeah, Mo!
Mo! Let's go, Mo!
Get up the hill! Dig it, Mo!
Go, go, go, go, go!
If my senses fail
Meet me on the other side of paradise
Free from complications
Of our sense of time
Fill my windless sail
With broken echoes Of a never-ending life
Whispered conversations
Twisted faces in the clouds
I've been hot-winged and hoodwinked And dead on my feet
The sound and the fury remain over me
And all of the footprints That fall in a line
Were our common ancestors Wandering hills in the night
If my senses fail
Meet me on the other side of paradise
Free from complications
Of our sense of time
Fill my windless sail
With broken echoes Of a never-ending life
Whispered conversations
Twisted faces in the clouds
Let unanswered question marks Fall where they will
The thoughts that imprison me Walk with me still
And seconds that fly by Like days of my life
Were hours spent wasted On chasing the words of the wise
If my senses fail
Meet me on the other side of paradise
Free from complications
Of our sense of time
Fill my windless sail
With broken echoes Of a never-ending life
Whispered conversations
Twisted faces… tions