The Murder of Moriah Wilson

Summary

Podcast Summary: "The Murder of Moriah Wilson"

Podcast: Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present
Host: iHeartPodcasts
Episode Date: April 14, 2026
Featured Hosts: Emily Simpson & Shane
Topic: In-depth discussion and breakdown of the high-profile murder of professional cyclist Moriah “Mo” Wilson, the resulting investigation, trial, and its recent Netflix documentary adaptation.

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Episode Overview

This episode centers around the 2022 murder of rising cycling star Moriah Wilson, the investigation and pursuit of her killer Caitlyn Armstrong, and the subsequent legal aftermath. The hosts, Emily and Shane, walk through the case in detail, inspired by the newly released Netflix documentary The Truth and Tragedy of Mariah Wilson. The discussion blends legal insights, reflections on the documentary, and an exploration of jealousy, evidence, and the wider cultural aftermath of the case.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introduction and Background

• The conversation opens with Emily’s excitement over the new Netflix documentary and a quick aside about Meghan Markle, then moves into the main topic: the murder case (02:11).
• Who was Moriah Wilson?
  • Born in 1996 in Littleton, NH; raised in Vermont.
  • Comes from an athletic family; attended elite ski academy and Dartmouth (engineering).
  • Transitioned from skiing to professional gravel and mountain bike racing after injuries. Won events like the Sea Otter Classic and Belgian Waffle Ride (04:19–05:47).
  • Described by Emily as “supremely athletic.”

2. The Love Triangle Dynamics

• Moriah had a brief 2021 relationship with fellow cyclist Colin Strickland.
• Colin lived with girlfriend Caitlyn Armstrong, a yoga instructor/realtor, who became jealous of Moriah. Armstrong expressed violent sentiments about infidelity, telling a friend she would “kill them” if Colin cheated (07:03–09:37).
• Colin hid his contact with Moriah from Caitlyn, even changing her name in his phone (07:34).

3. Timeline and The Murder

• May 11, 2022: Moriah was in Austin, Texas, staying with her friend Cash.
  • Met with Colin earlier; went swimming and had dinner (09:37–10:54).
  • Colin dropped Moriah off at Cash’s house around 8:45 pm. Moriah was shot around 9:15 pm—twice in the head, once in the chest.
  • Surveillance footage and neighborhood security audio captured Caitlyn’s car circling Cash’s house and recorded the gunshots/screams (11:41–12:03, 20:00).

4. Investigation & Evidence

• Police immediately questioned Colin (15:10); Caitlyn was brought in but asked to leave and wasn’t held due to lack of immediate evidence (15:21–15:38).
• Surveillance and GPS data tied Caitlyn’s black Jeep Cherokee to the crime scene, showing her circling the block repeatedly before the shooting.
• Gun ballistics matched Caitlyn’s registered firearm to the shell casings at the scene (24:13–24:28).

Notable Quote:

“She just walks in the front door, walks to the bathroom, shoots the girl three times, leaves the shell casings behind, gets in the car that she drove around a million times that she got on surveillance and then has the whole GPS tracking system show like [waves] into the ring camera: Hello.”
—Emily (24:31)

5. Escape and Manhunt

• Caitlyn fled after a murder warrant was issued (May 17, 2022), using her sister’s passport to travel through several states and then to Costa Rica (25:30–26:12).
• Plastic surgery in Costa Rica to alter her appearance (brow lift, rhinoplasty, lip fillers): “She undergoes plastic surgery... to alter her appearance and look more like her sister... including lip fillers, rhinoplasty, and a brow lift.” —Emily (27:19–28:18)
• On the run for 43 days, apprehended by U.S. Marshals after responding to a fake yoga instructor job ad in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica (29:22–33:11).

6. Prosecution & Trial

• Extradited back to Texas, Caitlyn pled not guilty (July 21, 2022). Trial began October 30, 2023 (34:42).
• Prosecution focused on GPS, surveillance, and ballistic evidence; defense attempted to suppress some evidence, claimed gaps in the prosecution’s timeline/guilt, but offered no alternate suspect.
• The jury deliberated only a few hours before convicting Caitlyn of first degree (premeditated) murder (40:46).
• Sentenced to 90 years in prison with parole eligibility after 30 (43:10).

Notable Quote:

“You could you tell me that you’re the kind of person that can’t deal with some jealousy. That that’s how you take matters into your own hand. You can’t deal…with jealousy, you murder someone, right?”
—Emily (43:04)

7. Aftermath & Reflections

• Wilson’s family won a $15 million wrongful death judgment (44:10).
• Founded the Mariah Wilson Foundation to support cycling/youth sports (45:20).
• Documentary highlights Colin Strickland’s guilt and withdrawal from cycling and public life.

Memorable Moment:
Colin’s brief and somber appearance in the documentary, expressing regret:

“If he could go back in time, he would have never cycled, he would have never…There were so many things that he would have never done.” (46:58)

8. Reflections on Motive & Justice

• Extended discussion on jealousy as a motive; debate over why Armstrong killed Moriah and not Colin (23:12–23:38).
• Emily and Shane express frustration at parole eligibility for Armstrong, feeling the sentence should be even harsher.
• Observations that Armstrong’s plan was poorly executed: “Her whole plan was, I don’t need to do anything to try to cover up my crime because I’m just gonna go to Costa Rica.” —Emily (38:18–38:24)

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• "Supremely athletic. I didn't know exactly what gravel biking meant, and I meant to look it up, but I assume it just means not mountain biking. It means road gravel."
  —Emily (05:19)

• "According to law enforcement, Caitlyn expressed violent sentiments about Mariah beforehand, telling her friend that if she ever found out Colin was talking to another girl, she'd 'kill them.'"
  —Emily (07:54)

• "Do you think she preplanned to go to Costa Rica before she pulled the trigger?"
  —Shane (41:47)
  "No, I think she pulled the trigger because she hated this girl so much and she couldn't think about anything else."
  —Emily (41:52)

• "Friends, law enforcement officials, forensic experts, and cycling community members provided testimony about Mariah Wilson's life, her relationship with Colin Strickland, and Caitlyn Armstrong's behavior before and after the shooting."
  —Emily (38:24)

• "They did bring her bicycle into court, which I think was, I think it was very emotional for her friends and family to see her bike."
  —Emily (39:12)

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Timeline of Critical Events

| Timestamp | Event or Insight | |-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:11 | Episode subject introduced: murder of Moriah Wilson and Netflix documentary | | 04:19 | Moriah’s athletic & academic background | | 07:03 | Relationship details: Colin, Moriah, and Caitlyn; emergence of jealousy | | 09:37 | Caitlyn’s prior threats and attitude | | 10:54 | Murder details: timeline of the crime | | 15:10 | Police investigation, Colin and Caitlyn questioned | | 16:39 | Surveillance and GPS evidence tying Caitlyn to the crime scene | | 24:13 | Ballistics evidence and Caitlyn’s poor criminal planning | | 25:30 | Flight to Costa Rica using false identity | | 27:19 | Undergoing plastic surgery in Costa Rica | | 29:22 | Capture in Costa Rica via fake yoga instructor ad | | 33:11 | Extradition and trial back in Texas | | 39:12 | Emotional evidence: Moriah’s bike in courtroom | | 40:46 | Jury deliberation and guilty verdict | | 43:10 | Sentencing: 90 years, parole in 30 | | 44:10 | Family’s wrongful death suit and foundation formation | | 46:58 | Colin Strickland’s regret and post-trial life |

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Episode Tone & Style

• Conversational, occasionally humorous (“Her whole plan was, I don’t need to do anything to try to cover up my crime because I’m just gonna go to Costa Rica.” —Emily)
• Empathetic but opinionated, especially regarding justice, sentencing, and the emotional toll on the victim’s family
• Candid, with the hosts sharing personal reactions and broader thoughts about relationships, criminal justice, and notoriety

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Final Thoughts

Emily and Shane deliver an in-depth and accessible rundown of the Moriah Wilson case, emphasizing the human side of the tragedy while also critiquing flaws in both Armstrong’s actions and aspects of the justice process. From the unraveling of the love triangle to the global manhunt, the episode provides context for Netflix’s documentary and insight into the swirling aftermath of a murder that shocked the cycling world and beyond.

Transcript

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[Emily Simpson]

Hi, guys. Welcome to an episode of Legally Brunette. I will be your host today, Emily Simpson, with my co host, Shane. Shane. Okay, before we get started on this episode, which, by the way, we are going to talk about the murder of Mariah Wilson. I don't know if you guys have seen it. It is new on Netflix. I couldn't wait for it to come out. I actually, you know how on Netflix you can do, like, the reminders? Because I kept seeing it advertised on Netflix and I wanted to watch it, so I had to do a reminder. So I watched it, like, as soon as it came out. So interesting and intriguing. Can't wait to talk about it. But before we get into it, I just wanted to ask you, has Meghan Markle done anything recently that has angered you?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, I have not read any headlines yet. For me.

[Emily Simpson]

Okay. And I would have to say that my, my, the, the majority of DMS I get now are people agreeing with how much they dislike along. I know, yes. So anyway, if you have any other

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

updates, I'll keep an eye out.

[Emily Simpson]

Okay. All right, so let's go into this. Anna Mariah, she goes by Mo to her close friends and family. Wilson was a 25 year old professional cyclist who was fatally shot on May 11th of 2022 at a friend's home in Austin, Texas. Investigators determined that Caitlyn Armstrong, who is a yoga instructor and realtor, followed Wilson home and shot her three times. Her motives were rooted in jealousy over Mariah's romantic involvement with Caitlyn's boyfriend and fellow cyclist, Colin Strickland. The case drew widespread attention considering Mariah's promising career in cycling and the circumstances of her death. Netflix released a documentary about her case. It was just released, I think it was just a couple days ago in 2026, titled the Truth and Tragedy of Mariah Wilson. Had you heard about this case before?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, not until you mentioned it to me.

[Emily Simpson]

All right, so we're gonna get into it. We're gonna go through a little bit of a timeline, go back in time. So let's go back to the 90s, which, by the way, is my favorite decade. Do you have a favorite decade of

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

all of your five decades?

[Emily Simpson]

My five decades? The 90s.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That's the number one.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes, I would like to go back. So Anna Mariah, goes by Mo, was born on May 18th of 1996 in Littleton, New Hampshire, and she grew up in C.R. kirby, Vermont. She was born into a very athletic family. Her dad was one spot away from competing in the Olympics for skiing when he was younger. And Mariah attended Burke Mountain Academy, which was a specialized school for skiers, and later Dartmouth College, graduating with an engineering degree in 2019. I do know originally she wanted to become a professional skier. I think that's why most of those kids go to this, like, elite ski school. But she had several injuries, I believe, and even had some torn ACL or something like that. So ended up giving up on a skiing career. But she ends up becoming a professional gravel and mountain bike racer.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Now that's so funny when it's like, oh, I'll just have to set aside a Potential skiing career. And I'll just be a pro biker.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, that just means she's just.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I know she's athletic. I know.

[Emily Simpson]

Supremely athletic. I didn't know exactly what gravel biking meant, and I meant to look it up, but I assume it just means not mountain biking. It means road gravel.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, probably. Or not asphalt.

[Emily Simpson]

She gained national recognition and won major events such as the Sea Otter Classic and Belgian Waffle Ride. That sounds. That sounds very.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

It's not what you think.

[Emily Simpson]

It sounds very delicious.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

The Belgium Waffle.

[Emily Simpson]

The Belgian Waffle ride. Yes. And the Sea Otter Classic. She had a brief romantic relationship in late 2021 with another professional cyclist. His name was Colin Strickland. And he also. He's a part of this Netflix documentary. But I don't know if he's like, wants to be a part of it because he is in it, but reluctant. Well, I just think based upon everything that happens, which we'll get into, I think he. He emotionally, Psychology, psychologically has a lot of issues with his role in all of this. And so they show him in it, but he's. He seems aloof and distant, but we'll get into that. So she ends up having this on again, off again relationship. Not with him. He. She has a brief romantic relationship with Colin in late 2021. I guess they meet at some kind of race and she's very well known. She's been winning a lot of things lately. So I think he's on her radar. I think he asked her to go to lunch or something. And he says, like, the first time they meet up, it's very platonic. They just talk about her career and things like that. But he has a girlfriend at home named Caitlyn Armstrong. And I think they have kind of.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Did she know they were gonna meet?

[Emily Simpson]

I doubt she had any idea about it. But they end up. They meet. He says when they initially meet, they're just talking about, you know, Mariah's career and where she wants to go and all these things and how he can help her. But he does have a girlfriend at home. So Colin Strickland and Caitlin Armstrong, they let her later reconcile, but Caitlyn allegedly became very, very jealous of Mariah worrying about her friendship with Colin. So Colin even changed Mariah's name in his phone in case Caitlyn ever looked through it.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Have you changed what he changed it to? To, like, don't ask me if I've changed.

[Emily Simpson]

Have you changed any names in your phone?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, no, no.

[Emily Simpson]

So you don't have, like, like code words John Smith. But it's really some, some girl.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

No, it's so easy to do that. Like you could just change someone's name to just a male name.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

You know, the kids were watching Darman the other day. Yeah. It's like those YouTube videos are like kind of produced videos. Names have a good moral. Like.

[Emily Simpson]

Right. I like Darman to be Learned.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah. Like 15 minute videos with actors. Because it's 15 minutes they get straight to the point. Right. And yeah, it's kind of cheesy. Right.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, they're targeting kids so they have to keep it at 15 minutes. Right?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah, yeah. And so just because, anyway, so this guy cheating on his wife and he, he gets, she picks up his phone because it beeps when he gets home from work or whatever.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And she looks at it and had all these hearts and it was like, hi my love. You know, lunch was so romantic or whatever. But it was the name, the of the contact was the office. Yeah, it was the office. She's like, why is the office sending you hearts? Like that was the best he could come up with. Yeah. Office.

[Emily Simpson]

The office. I like that one. Do you have any contacts called the Office?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, I don't.

[Emily Simpson]

All right. According to law enforcement, Caitlyn expressed violent sent sentiments about Mariah beforehand telling one of her friends that if she ever found out Colin was talking to another girl, she'd quote, kill them. You know, I don't know. I, I, they interview a friend of Caitlyn and Caitlyn's friend in this documentary says that she had a conversation with Caitlyn at some point where Caitlyn had made reference to Colin. If Colin ever cheated on her, she would kill them or whatever. I don't know, I don't know if that predetermines that you would actually do that because I feel like that's something that women would say. Like if someone said to you what would you do if you found out Shane was cheating on you? I'd say I'd kill him. But that doesn't mean that I would

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

actually against you in court, I guess.

[Emily Simpson]

But I mean, I don't know what woman wouldn't say something like that if they found out that their spouse or boyfriend was cheating on them. All right, let's get to May of 2022. So Mariah is in Austin, Texas preparing for an upcoming ra. She has a close friend named Cash who is also in the documentary and she, she's actually a large part of it because she was very integrated into this whole scenario. So, so Mariah goes and stays at Cash's house. She meets Colin earlier that same day, and they swim together and have dinner. There's actually they show. In the documentary, they show footage, security footage of them together at a restaurant, you know, an outdoor restaurant. They're sharing a meal. I guess they went swimming earlier in the day. Then Mariah goes back to Cash's house afterwards. That's where she's staying. Police later determine that Mariah is shot three times, twice in the head and once in the chest, and dies from her wounds at Cash's home.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Do we know what number encountering this was? They met once.

[Emily Simpson]

I think they only met maybe twice. And I think maybe there were some text messages between the two of them. It wasn't what I would call a relationship.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

But this was a date.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I would say it was. I would say they went on a date, but Colin was living with Caitlyn at the time and did not tell Caitlyn. He lied to Caitlyn and said that he was going out to run errands, but he ended up meeting up with Mariah, having lunch, going swimming together, and then he's the one that dropped Mariah back off at. At Cash's house. So he drops Mariah off at Cash's house. I think it was like around 8:45pm or something like that. I don't remember the exact time, but by. I think it was like 9:15pm Is when she was shot. And they know exactly when she was shot because. Because the house next door has a security system on it that picks up the gunshots and her screams, so you can actually hear.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Did they play that in the documentary? The audio?

[Emily Simpson]

No. They showed video of Caitlyn's car circling Cash's house because she. She looped many, many, many times.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

So they caught her car on surveillance, like over and over, repeatedly. They could actually, you know, track it. Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

She had no business being there.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

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[Emily Simpson]

So the police know that Colin Strickland was the last person to see or hear from Mariah before her death. So obviously they're going to go to him and start questioning him because, right,

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

they catch it with her.

[Emily Simpson]

He had dinner with her Right. And they went swimming. So they have that on surveillance video. They know he was the last person to her. He's also the one that drops her off right before she is murdered. All right. They bring Caitlyn into the police station for questioning, but she asked to leave, and they do not have enough evidence to hold her there.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Wait, how were they. Quickly. How did they. What made them. I know Caitlyn circled and everything. The house. So how did they connect her? Like, what was the first connection they had to. To reach out to her because they

[Emily Simpson]

knew Colin was with. With Mariah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Oh. And they lived there.

[Emily Simpson]

Then they know that Colin dates Caitlyn. They know that at Colin's house, Caitlyn lives there, and she drives, like, this black suv. I think it's like an old. Like a Jeep Cherokee or something.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay.

[Emily Simpson]

They pull the surveillance video of Cash's house, and they find that there's a black suv.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

You know how quickly they pulled her in for questioning after the murder?

[Emily Simpson]

I think it was within days. Like, they put this. They. They put this all together pretty quickly.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay.

[Emily Simpson]

So they see that when they go talk to Colin, they see. I think they bring Colin in, but they think they also go to his house. And when they go to his house, they see that there's a black Jeep Cherokee or something there.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay.

[Emily Simpson]

Then they can. He says that's his girlfriend's car. Then they have all this. They pull all the surveillance video of the neighborhood, and they see that car circling around Cash's house.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

But he's still not. At this point. I'm sure he's not ruled out as a suspect because he could have taken her car purposefully.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

To go kill his.

[Emily Simpson]

But they bring Caitlyn into the police station. I think it's interesting because they show. They actually show the. The video of bringing Caitlyn into the interrogation room. This is where I was actually bothered by the police officer because she starts asking her questions, and Caitlyn sits there and says nothing. She doesn't answer. She doesn't say a word. Then she keeps asking her more questions. She's like, you just have to give us our side of the story. And they did that whole it wasn't bad cop, good cop, but it was like, bad guy, good guy, where they're like, we're talking to Colin right now over here thing.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I hate them the absolute most that cops say, because I think it's. I think it's actually dumb for them to say, but is when they say, I'm just trying to figure out what's going on here? Yeah. Because I'd be like, well, I don't give a crap. Go figure it out on your own. Like, I'm not here to help you with your puzzled thoughts.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, well, this is.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

They say that it drives me nuts. Yes, they should say there's allegations against you. And unless you want to say your side of the story, we're just going to go with the allegations.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, that's basically what she says. So she basically tells Caitlin, hey, we have Colin and he's in another room and he's telling us one story, so you should talk because you need to tell us your side of the story.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

It's a little bit better.

[Emily Simpson]

But she says nothing. Then she says, I need an attorney or something. I don't know the exact verbiage. I wish I went back and actually wrote it down.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Let me. I think I remember seeing some of the scenes when you were watching. She did not say, like, I wanna. I want an attorney. And that's typically what you need to say. I want my attorney. I want a attorney.

[Emily Simpson]

She said something to the effect of like, I think I need an attorney, or I should talk to an attorney.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Questioning it. Like, should I call an attorney? I know, but just go. I don't know. Do you have anything to hide?

[Emily Simpson]

The thing is, though, I'm just trying

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

to figure out what's going on here.

[Emily Simpson]

I know, but then the police officer continues questioning her after she says that. And in my mind I'm thinking, if you have a really good defense attorney and she says anything after that, you can argue that she unequivocally asked for an attorney. And then everything that she says beyond that point could be dismissed. So it wasn't smart for the police

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

officer to continue to leave because I waited. The police officer didn't respond to her, like, throwing out the idea of an attorney. They shouldn't say, like, well, I don't know. Do you need one? Well, I don't know. Do you want to call one? Well, you know, the. Shouldn't say anything. She just went into a question after that. Like, she almost didn't know what to say. And that's different because now you're not even addressing it now you're, like, giving them the impression that they can't get one because you're not even responding to one.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I just kept thinking, inquiry. Probably not smart to continue questioning because if she answers anything, that defense attorney is going to get the video of this and then they're going to try to have it all thrown out anyway. So she Ends up leaving, basically not answering any questions. She does allude to needing an attorney. She gets up, she walks out. So they get nothing from Caitlyn. Surveillance footage from a neighbor's house identified Caitlyn's black Jeep circling the house before coming to a stop. You can hear yelling coming from inside the house. And finally you hear the three gunshots are heard. So you can hear Mariah scream, but

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

you don't know what's being said, right?

[Emily Simpson]

No. And I believe she was shot in. In a bathro in the back of the house, like in a bathroom.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So Caitlyn opposed to the front door.

[Emily Simpson]

So, yeah, so she was. She had been in the home for like 20, 30 minutes. So she was probably doing her nighttime. Yeah, she came home.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Oh, Mariah had. Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

So Mariah came home from the date, was in the house. She was in the bathroom. She was probably getting ready for bed or something, I'm assuming, because it doesn't look like there was any kind of break in, that the door was probably on.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, that was my next question. So. So she just. But she just got in herself.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So she got lucky if the door was open. I mean, that obviously she didn't plan on that. So you're saying it seems like she walked in herself, Caitlyn, and then went all the way to where Mariah was in the bathroom?

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah. I mean, there's no video of what actually happened.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay. Initially, I thought maybe it was like she chased her into the bathroom after answering the door.

[Emily Simpson]

I. I don't think so, because I don't think you can hear any of that. I think you just hear the three shots and scream. So I think she just walked into the house until she found her front

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

door in the evening. Like you come home and, you know, routine thing.

[Emily Simpson]

I. I don't know because I grew up in Ohio and I'm telling you, we never locked our doors.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah, but you were also a kid. I'm talking like an adult.

[Emily Simpson]

No, my mom never locked our doors. Our house was never.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That's your mom I'm talking about. I'm talking about middle America.

[Emily Simpson]

I don't know. This is Texas. I don't know. Maybe she just came home and. I don't know, maybe it's not her house, so maybe it wasn't her normal routine to lock the door. I don't know.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

People don't lock their doors. I get it. I'm just saying, like it. To me, that seems like a normal thing. You would lock your door, especially if you live alone.

[Emily Simpson]

So Police analyze phone records and the GPS timeline data. This is on Caitlyn's car. So I guess, I don't know a lot, but I guess you, with, with cars that have gps, you can actually pull where the mapping of where the

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

car has gone, probably.

[Emily Simpson]

So really, if you're going to commit crimes you shouldn't, you, you need to use an old car, you need a burner car. Right. You don't need one of these high tech cars with GPS systems and all this black box info that can say like how fast you were going when you break emergency. Exactly. You need a burner car. So the police, they analyze the gps. They actually in, in the trial, it shows for the jury, they draw like a map and it shows how many

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

times like she's hunting, she's just like going around, around, around.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, it's, it, they basically refer to her as like stalking her because like

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

she just drove down this way and then went to 7 11, then go back. It's like she wasn't going around, around, around.

[Emily Simpson]

Circled the home numerous times until she finally parked like I think in an alley or something back behind the house. So it showed, the whole GPS tracking showed, you know, on a map all the circles that she made around the house. They noticed that she essentially stalked Mariah and Colin. Circling Mariah's neighborhood multiple times until he dropped her off. Police recovered firearms from Caitlyn and Colin

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

circling before she got home, too. Like she was waiting.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, like lying in wait. Like she knew where she was coming home to. She knew he was going to drop her off there eventually. She was circling.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay, you're a female. Answer this question.

[Emily Simpson]

What?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

You're a female. Okay, this question. Why would she kill her and not him?

[Emily Simpson]

Because she's obsessed with him to keep him. They live together. They had a, as far as I can tell, it seemed like they kind of had a volatile relationship with a lot of breakups and get back together type of situations, but they had a business together, together. And he refurbished trailers and she did all the financial work.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

They were kind of tied together that way.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes. And he actually gave her $40,000 to invest into that business, which we'll get to later. But so I think, and I mean, she's, she's obviously obsessed with him. A person to go into business, it's

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

not a person to go into business with. So you should have done a background check on her.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, but nothing would have come up. She hadn't murdered anybody before. What's going to come up on a background?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That's the Question. Would you kill someone if you found them cheating?

[Emily Simpson]

So police recovered firearms from Caitlyn and Colin's home. Caitlyn had a 9 millimeter handguns. Then it significantly matched the spent casing found at the crime scene. So there's another thing. She was not, she, she did not plan very well because she didn't at

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

this point she's not a suspect. She didn't even did it.

[Emily Simpson]

She didn't even pick up the shell casings. She just walks in the front door, walks to the bathroom, shoots the girl three times, leaves the, the shell casings behind, gets in the car that she drove around a million times that she got on surveillance and then has the whole GPS tracking system show like wave

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

into the ring camera.

[Emily Simpson]

Hello. On May 17th of 2022, a first degree murder warrant is officially issued for Caitlyn Armstrong in connection with Mo Wilson's killing. All right, so after the warrant is issued, authorities are unable to locate Caitlyn. This is when this story gets really interesting. So they issue a warrant out for her arrest, but they later realize that they can't find her. She has disappeared.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So I now remember this.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, they do realize that she flew to Newark, New Jersey, which is where her sister lives. So they think that she flies there to find her sister or to hang out with her sister to be with her.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Documented as flying to her sister's hometown.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes. But then she's not there and they can't find her anywhere else. So what she's done is she used her sister's passport to fly out of the country. And though I guess she flies through multiple states before finally flying on to Costa Rica. So I guess they track her sister's passport to finally figure out that she, that she traveled.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So, so they're like there was documentation of her flying to her sister's hometown or state.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And then there's documentation of her sister leaving the state. Yeah, going. So they're putting that together. So like, okay, we can't see her, but we see her sister.

[Emily Simpson]

So I guess the sister was not charged with anything because she claimed that she did not know that her sister was going to take the passport and leave the country. But I wish they would have talked more about the sister in the documentary. I felt like that was a large, well, missing piece of information.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Whether she's involved or not, of course she's going to say I'm not involved.

[Emily Simpson]

No, I know, and I get that, but I wish they would have, I just wish they would have gone into a little bit more detail about the Sister and her role. And if she wasn't charged, why she wasn't.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah, no, I hear you. I'm just saying the fact that they didn't. That's not enough for me. The questions are still there. Was she involved? I mean, yeah, I get it. She said she wasn't, but.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Come on.

[Emily Simpson]

So Caitlyn spends 43 days on the run, primarily in Costa Rica, using false identities. I thought it was interesting that they. So they send like a task force to Costa Rica. They know she's in Costa Rica.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

But they can't find her.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Probably had a lot of volunteers. They're like, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go.

[Emily Simpson]

So there's people. So there's this whole force in Costa Rica looking for her, and they almost give up. They cannot find her in Costa Rica.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

They just walk up and down the streets. Have you seen this woman?

[Emily Simpson]

They. I don't know. I would think so. But while she is in Costa Rica, I thought this was really interesting. She undergoes plastic surgery in Costa Rica to alter her appearance and look more like her sister. And I guess that's why maybe, in

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

other words, more like her passport.

[Emily Simpson]

More like her passport. Her new passport. Right. So I don't understand why she undergoes surgery to look more like her sister. Because I'm sure she knows at this point that they know she stole her sister's passport.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No. How would she think that?

[Emily Simpson]

Because she's hiding in Costa Rica. I'm sure that she knows that. They're probably angry.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, she thought she outsmarted them.

[Emily Simpson]

So you don't think she has any idea that there's anybody in Costa Rica looking for her?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No.

[Emily Simpson]

All right, well, why would she? Because she's hiding there. It's not like she's openly walking around Costa Rica. I mean, she. They. They're in Costa Rica.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I mean, because they couldn't find her. You think she was hiding even further?

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, I think it's hard. It was land in a country, and they're supposed to walk around saying, have you seen this woman?

[Emily Simpson]

Her surgeon is Dr. Jorge Badilla, and he actually was on an episode of Dateline, and he said that Caitlyn underwent an estimated $6,000 worth of plastic surgery, including lip fillers, rhinoplasty, and a brow lift.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So her sister has bigger lips and a smaller nose?

[Emily Simpson]

Yes. Okay, first of all, $6,000 worth of surgery is not a lot. I. I feel like that's a very minimal amount of money to do.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Like, that's a lot.

[Emily Simpson]

Plastic surgery on Your face.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

L. Just. Lip filler. Right? Like this. Inject it.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And then.

[Emily Simpson]

But a. But a brow lift.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

The brow lift was the surgery and

[Emily Simpson]

a nose job for $6,000. That's a deal. Yeah, that's a deal. But I don't know. I don't know. I. Anyway, I don't know if she. The lip filler kills me, though. That's the funny part. She's like, I want to look like my sister cuz I have to elude the police, but please make sure my. You fill my lips. U.S. marshals are finally able to locate Caitlyn after placing an undercover ad seeking a yoga instructor. I thought that was hilar.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That's part like, wait, how long is she in Costa Rica?

[Emily Simpson]

She's there for, like, 43 days, and they can't find her. But she's has this background as a yoga instructor, so they make a false advertisement at a yoga studio into yoga. I guess they. So they make a false ad at a yoga studio that says, looking for a yoga instructor, and she comes and applies for the job, and that's how they catch her. I mean, this woman's been hiding.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That's one heck of a task force.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, that's the part where I'm like, okay, so she eluded the police. She ends up in Costa Rica. She has plastic surgery. No one catches her while she has plastic surgery.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No.

[Emily Simpson]

And. But then she shows up for a yoga instructor job and they. They nab her. So that's how they find her.

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[Emily Simpson]

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Was this before he wrote his stories? It must have been.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

What?

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What?

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[Emily Simpson]

On June 29th of 2022, Caitlyn is arrested at a hostel in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, and later extradited back to Texas. Then we get to July 21st of 2022.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So she was gonna work in Costa Rica?

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I guess she was just gonna

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

be like, she was gonna just stay there as a resident and be a yoga instructor. Then why look like her sister?

[Emily Simpson]

Because then she doesn't look like herself. I don't know.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

She says in Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

I, I don't know what her long term goal is here.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Do we know that she was trying to look like her sister or she just wanted Lip filler. I don't know.

[Emily Simpson]

I don't know.

[Liberty Mutual Spokesperson (Doug)]

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[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No, I'm serious. So you don't know she used her passport in order to leave the country and it worked. Yes, but do you know. We don't know. That she was trying to look like her sister and come back.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, not come back. I think maybe she was just trying to look like her sister. So she doesn't look like herself.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Oh, I guess. Well, she's also like. So she goes down to Costa Rica, and she's like, I changed my looks.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And I might as well get some lip filler while I'm at it.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And then she's like, and I might as well look like this passport that I have here.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Because otherwise I have no identity.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay, so it wasn't like. So, yeah, she was trying to look like her sister.

[Emily Simpson]

I don't. I guess. But again, do. So she used the $6,000, but the $6,000 came from the $40,000 that Colin had given her to invest in the business that they had together.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

So I believe. I think she took all the 40, 000. And that's when she. She ran. So she had that access to that money.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah. And she spent 66,000 of it.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

On plastic surgery.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes. So she's arraigned. This is in July 21st of 2022. She is arraigned in Travis County, Texas, on a charge of first degree murder and pleads not guilty. Her trial begins October 30th of 2023. So prosecutors argue that jealousy over Mariah's connection with Colin Strickland is her motive. Caitlyn's defense team focused on challenging the prosecution's evidence and narrative, though they did not present an alternate suspect.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Wait a minute. So if she's gonna live in Costa

[Emily Simpson]

Rica, you're still in. We are back in Texas.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

She's gonna live in Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

Okay.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I mean, was she not going to be with her boyfriend? Like, what was the plan there with that relationship?

[Emily Simpson]

No, I think she took the 40, 000 and left. I mean, she just murdered someone Earlier.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I asked, why'd she kill her instead of her boyfriend? Right. I mean, she shouldn't kill anyone anyway. But why she. You'd think if she's mad and she doesn't like this affair, she'd kill the boyfriend and then go to Costa Rica. Because maybe she says she killed the girl, lets the boy live, and then she flees to Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes, because I. Because she can have plastic surgery, teach yoga for a while, and then she can reach out to him and ask him to join her in Costa Rica, and they can live happily ever after. That's. I don't know.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah. And, you know, I know why she left the three casings behind.

[Emily Simpson]

Why?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Because she's like, I'm going to Costa Rica. I don't need to pick those up.

[Emily Simpson]

I'm gonna get lip filler.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Exactly.

[Emily Simpson]

They'll never catch me.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Dr. Jorge is next week.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes. So the prosecution's key evidence and arguments. They presented evidence linking Armstrong's registered firearm to the same shell casings from the scene, and ballistic matches supported the conclusion. Yeah. And I think Colin bought it for her, and I. I don't know how long they had it. I think he had a gun and she had a gun. Because I do remember in the documentary, he says that there they have two guns.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, it was Texas.

[Emily Simpson]

It is Texas. Digital evidence. The GPS and phone data were used to track Armstrong's movements on the day of the killing. There was also the surveillance video. We talked about that. The footage placing Armstrong's vehicle near the crime scene around the time of the shooting was shown to the jury, and then the audio and the crime scene reconstruction was shown to the jury. I'm in some court.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Did she make any effort other than go to Costa Rica? She probably thought she had this foolproof plan.

[Emily Simpson]

Just her. Her.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I'm gonna go to Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, yeah. And be a yoga instructor.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

The movie Fletch.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Chevy Chase. Remember that?

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

He. He. Well, he's hired to kill.

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Yes.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

But anyways. But the guy that says, I want you to kill me because I have cancer and I'm dying.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh, yeah.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

He really is A plan where. No, actually, when you come and come at night to kill me, I'm gonna kill you, Fletch. And burn your body and take your passport and flee the country.

[Emily Simpson]

Oh. And he was gonna take his identity,

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

so he found someone that had a similar build to him. Oh, yeah. Well, so maybe she watched that episode.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, maybe. Yeah. I don't know where Costa Rica comes in in the lip filler, but.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, because she took someone's passport, and she was going to be like, I'm gonna be this person.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That guy took Fletch's passport and said, I'm going to be this person.

[Emily Simpson]

Right. In some courtroom presentations, prosecutors played audio from surveillance that included the sound of the gunshots and evidence about the sequence and proximity of the shots. I mean, basically, you could just do a whole reconstruction for the jury. You put all the timeline together of where she's on surveillance with Colin at lunch. Lunch and swimming. And then that shows him drop her off. At this time, it shows Caitlyn circling the house.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Her whole plan was, I don't need to do anything to try to cover up my crime because I'm just gonna go to Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

Right. Friends, law enforcement officials, forensic experts, and cycling community members provided testimony about Mariah Wilson's life, her relationship with Colin Strickland, and Caitlyn Armstrong's behavior before and after the shooting. The defense attempted to suppress certain evidence, including statements made by police, by arguing they were obtained without proper Miranda warnings. These motions were rejected, and the defense questioned the interpretation of the evidence and suggested there were gaps in the case. But no compelling alternate theory of the crime was effectively offered to the jury.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

They couldn't even come up with them.

[Emily Simpson]

I know, I feel like she should have just, like, tried.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Her defense train is probably insulted. They're like, did you even try? I know, Seriously, they're like, how do we even. Give me something to work with, you know?

[Emily Simpson]

They did bring her, her bicycle into court, which I think was, I think it was very emotional for her friends and family to see her bike just

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

bring some element of.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, it's because it was part of the evidence that was, that was presented, because I guess after Caitlyn shot her, she grabbed her bike, took it out of the house and threw it in some bushes. Oh, yeah, I, I think it was just.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I, I think that was a personal thing then.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I think, yeah. I think she just hate so much and was like, so bothered that she had anything to do with her man, that she killed her and then grabbed the thing that she loves the most in life, her bike, and threw it into the bushes. So basically they extracted DNA from the bike and it had her, Her DNA on the bike, but they brought the bike into the courtroom as evidence. And then I remember the defense attorney was arguing that, like, there was no DNA from his client found on, like, the center of the bike where you would have picked it up. I mean, that was the best argument he could come up with.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So after the TNA was in the wrong spot.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah. It wasn't where someone would normally pick up the bike. So I, I was like, wow, why did she take a plea deal or something? I don't, like, I don't know, I mean, try to, you know, to go from first degree down to, I don't know, manslaughter or something. But it, instead she went to trial. After hearing the evidence and arguments, the 12 person jury deliberated for Only a few hours before reaching a verdict. They probably just sat around for a few hours because they were like, we

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

can't, we can't just, like we order some food.

[Emily Simpson]

We can't just go back out. So let's just like, let's just hang out here for a little bit. A jury finds Caitlyn Armstrong guilty of first degree murder after deliberating for several hours. You know, the first degree murder, it's, which is premeditated. It's so easy to look at the premeditation. There was the gun, it was the driving around. I mean, it was, it was planned. You know, there were multiple times where she could have.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, I bet you scheduled that plastic surgery before she even killed this lady.

[Emily Simpson]

You think?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

You think she called a doctor in, in Costa Rica and scheduled the plastic surgery before she shot her?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

What do you think? You think it was a walk in? Yeah. Just went to Costa Rica and then walked into a plastic surgeon.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, she was there for 40 something days.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

She could have had, she have the surgery.

[Emily Simpson]

I don't know what day she had a consultation. I don't know what day she had the surgery. But, but I'm just saying she, I doubt that she pre planned the surgery that much.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Oh, you're gonna, okay, you're gonna give her credit?

[Emily Simpson]

Well, that just seems like she, I don't know.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So you think, okay, do you think she pre planned to go to Costa Rica before she pulled the trigger?

[Emily Simpson]

No, I think she pulled the trigger because she hated this girl so much and she couldn't think about anything else.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

So then she thought, oh crap, I better go to Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

No, she thought, oh crap, I better leave the country.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

But you don't think, you're saying that you believe she thought of leaving the country after she committed the crime?

[Emily Simpson]

Yes, because I don't think she thought she would get caught. I don't think she understood how easy it would be to catch her. So I think after they brought her

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

in and questioned her so soon, so

[Emily Simpson]

within a couple days, and she said, I think I need an attorney or I want an attorney or whatever, and she left. That's when she had to hatch a plan to leave the country.

[Girlfriends Podcast Host]

Right.

[Emily Simpson]

Caitlyn Armstrong.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

None of this matters, by the way.

[Emily Simpson]

No, but we're just curious. All right. Caitlyn Armstrong is sentenced to 90 years in prison, eligible for parole after 30 years. I don't even think she should be eligible for parole. I'm sorry, when you can't deal.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Premeditated she was convicted of.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes, but she's eligible for parole after 30 years, which I disagree with. She just. She needs to be in prison for life.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

Because you. You could you tell me that you're the kind of person that can't deal with some jealousy. That that's how. That's how you take matters into your own hand. You can't deal.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

With jealousy. You murder someone, right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And then premeditated.

[Eating While Broke Podcast Host]

At.

[Emily Simpson]

Premeditated murder. And then you leave the country and you elude police for as long as possible to live a different life. And then you should be eligible for parole in 30 years. I disagree with that.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I strongly disagree with that. They should premeditate her. Her, you know, death.

[Emily Simpson]

What?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Put her to. Put her down.

[Emily Simpson]

Put her down? Yeah. Is she a dog?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

You don't think so? You don't think she should get the death penalty?

[Emily Simpson]

No.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

She's a candidate for that.

[Emily Simpson]

I said she should either get the death penalty or life without parole.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Right?

[Emily Simpson]

Any. That's what I'm saying. Anyone who cannot deal with jealousy in a relationship and stalk someone and so easily and circles their house and then walks into their home and fires a gun three times at their face. Well, twice in her head and once in her chest. And then calmly walks out and goes

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

home, the bike out and tosses the

[Emily Simpson]

bike in the bushes and then goes into the police station and sits there and doesn't say a word.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Flees to Costa Rica, hatches a plan, put it down like a dog.

[Emily Simpson]

In 2024, Mariah's family files a wrongful death lawsuit against Caitlyn Armstrong. A judge awards them 15 million in damages to cover emotional distress and to prevent Armstrong from profiting off of her crime. You know, I don't. I understand why you would want to file a wrongful death lawsuit just because you are hurt and angry. But when you get a judgment for 15 million in damages, you're not. How are you going to get $15 million from this girl? I mean, that's never going to happen.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I don't know.

[Emily Simpson]

And she was already sentenced.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I don't think homicide's covered under a homeowner owner's insurance policy.

[Emily Simpson]

I. There's no money.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

No.

[Emily Simpson]

I mean, she had 40,000. She spent six.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

You know why? Because surgery. There might be personal reasons, too. Just maybe principal. And because you can. It's probably such an easy win, right? Because you already have a criminal conviction. So to go. Go get a civil conviction or a civil judgment is pretty easily done. And maybe if there's rights or things later down the road or should she buy a lottery ticket or something or inherit something.

[Emily Simpson]

I guess she can't ever sell their way, her story or do interviews.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I don't know if you can. Anyway, you can't profit off crying, but I don't know how that works. But no.

[Emily Simpson]

The family also forms the Mariah Wilson foundation to support cycling and youth sports causes. You know, her, her mom, in the trial, it showed her mom, I guess it was probably at the sentencing phase where her mom went up, you know, because you could do a victim impact statement. Her mom spoke. It was, it's, it's so emotional to see family members and how they're affected. It's so sad when a young life is taken. So, I mean, this girl was just riding her bike. She was such a nice person. It really, they'd really just talk about how kind she was and she was just so into sports and she was athletic and all she did was go to lunch with this guy. I think there were some text messages and I'm sure she was maybe interested in him. But, you know, In April of 2026, the documentary, which is what we've been talking about, the truth and tragedy of Mariah Wilson, it premiered on Netflix, exploring her life, career and the events surrounding her murder. The case remains one of the most widely discussed murders in recent years, given its connection to the cycling community and the dramatic manhunt that followed. You know, also at the end of the documentary, they do show Colin Strickland. He doesn't talk much, but he does. They show him kind of tinkering around in his garage and he does. He doesn't cycle anymore. He abandoned that. And he says something related to this. Yeah, absolutely. You can tell he's not emotionally or mentally. Oh, that was another thing I was going to talk about. He did testify in court and he, you could tell he did not want to be there. He, like, his head was low, he didn't want to talk. He. It was, I think it was hard for him to answer questions, but I think it was just because from my perspective, it seemed like the internal guilt that he had over though whole situation was eating him alive. Because he says at the end of this documentary, he doesn't say a lot, but he does say something to the effect of if he could go back in time, he would have never cycled, he would have never. Like, he. There were so many things that he would have never done because probably going

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

on a date while he's with his lady, living with.

[Emily Simpson]

Right. Well, right. I mean, I think he holds so much guilt within himself.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Right.

[Emily Simpson]

Because even though he didn't pull the trigger. And I mean. Yeah. Was he being.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

It's like survivor's guilt. It's like you didn't do anything wrong, but you certainly don't. Well, arguably.

[Emily Simpson]

I mean, he was kind of.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

It wasn't. He certainly had no reason to foresee murder.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Other than the fact that his live in girlfriend said she would kill if she ever cheated.

[Emily Simpson]

She was crazy and they had a volatile relationship, but I don't know if it was ever.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

She's a yoga instructor.

[Emily Simpson]

Well, I don't know if it was ever to the extreme that he actually, I don't think he was ever on any kind of notice.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

That's what I was getting.

[Emily Simpson]

Would do what she did.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Right.

[Emily Simpson]

He obviously knew she was jealous because he was changing the name in his phone and he was lying to her. So he was.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, no, no, no. Yeah, he was. No, not because she was jealous. A guy would do that because he's being secretive and cheating. Well, yeah. It's not a matter of, like, my girlfriend's cool with me hanging out with other girls, so I don't need to change the name of my phone.

[Emily Simpson]

I'm not saying.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

I'm just saying that's on him. That's on him.

[Emily Simpson]

Yes.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

He was doing something wrong.

[Emily Simpson]

I'm saying he's a douchebag, but he's only guilty of it. Being a douchebag, not a murderer. Not a murderer. But anyway, at the end of the documentary, he basically, like, he just. He, it seems like he pulled away from life. Like, it didn't seem like he was very social. I don't think he had a lot of friends. He doesn't cycle anymore.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Well, because he has some moral character. Unlike Caitlyn.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I think he was.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

He had. He feels awful for the tragedy.

[Emily Simpson]

Exactly.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Okay, I looked it up quickly.

[Emily Simpson]

Okay.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

What date was Mariah murdered? Do we remember the date?

[Emily Simpson]

We'll have to go back and look at the time.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Actually, it's May 11th. I have it right here in front of me. All right, just quizzing you. It says that she it very quickly after the murder. She sold her vehicle and she withdrew money and she used cash only and she obtained obviously her. The passport, then flew to Cordo. Rich Corduroy Rico. Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

Costa Rica?

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah. So it was believed that she. Whether she planted her head, I don't know. But she definitely took all the steps necessary after the murder to flee to Costa Rica.

[Emily Simpson]

Right.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And buy like a passport or a ticket beforehand.

[Emily Simpson]

No, that's what I'm saying. I don't think she thought she was going to be caught. Yeah, because I'm telling you, I think she was such. She had. She was such a narcissist and had such an ego.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Zoned in on the murder instead of anything else.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah, I think.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

And then when they pull her in it couple days, and they probably pressed her pretty hard, she's like, I want an attorney. Yeah, she probably went to an attorney.

[Emily Simpson]

I doubt it. I think. No, I think her plan. I think once they pulled her into that interrogation room and she was a

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

suspect, she began to run.

[Emily Simpson]

I think she. And she said, I'm not answering any questions and I need an attorney, or whatever it was that she said. And she left. I think the minute she left is when her head was spinning and she was like, how do I got to. I got to get money and I got to get out of the country.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Right.

[Emily Simpson]

And how am I going to do that? And that's what she did.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Yeah.

[Emily Simpson]

Yeah. All right, guys, thank you so much for listening to Legally Brunette. We appreciate it, as always. I love it when you guys send DMS to me on my Instagram so that you can tell me what cases you would love for us to talk about. And also, I love your feedback. And please be sure to follow Legally Brunette wherever you listen to podcasts. And we appreciate you listening. Thanks so much.

[Shane (Co-host with Emily Simpson)]

Thank you.

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