Caitlin Armstrong, 36, murdered professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson on May 11, 2022. Trying to escape the consequences, the Austin woman fled to Costa Rica, where she got a new nose, changed her hair, and launched her short-lived career. As a yoga instructor.
American authorities were eventually able to track her down and drag her back to stand trial. Following her failed escape, a Texas jury convicted Armstrong of first-degree murder, fined her $10,000 and sentenced her to 90 years in prison.
Once again, the 36-year-old murderer appears to want to avoid responsibility for his ruthless crime.
Armstrong is now seeking a new trial in the hope that a new victim's story and questionable claims that she became pregnant after the murder will prompt a more sympathetic response from the jury.
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Blaze News previously reported that Wilson, 25, a world-class cyclist from Vermont, was in Austin on May 11, 2022, to compete in a bike race. Hours before her murder, she went out for a bike ride and a meal with fellow cyclist and her ex-boyfriend Colin Strickland.
Strickland was also Armstrong's boyfriend, with whom they also broke up.
strickland Said The Austin-American politician said he had a brief romantic relationship with Wilson that lasted about a week in late October to early November 2021, while Wilson was visiting Austin. , she and I had both recently ended relationships. She's back.” After about a month of returning to her home in California, Caitlin Armstrong and I reconciled and resumed our relationship. ”
Strickland said his subsequent encounter with Wilson was “platonic and professional.”
Prosecutors revealed during the trial that Armstrong had access to Strickland's text messages and also used a location app to track Wilson.In addition to obsessed She took notes of the victim's social media profiles in the days leading up to the trigger, as well as Wilson's address.
Authorities later learned that Armstrong had obtained a firearm before the murder and expressed outrage after learning that Strickland had been romantically involved with Wilson.
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On the night of the murder, surveillance camera footage showed Armstrong in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee pulling up to the residence where Wilson was staying — platonic. Strickland had just finished a gathering and dropped off a man on a bicycle.
Prosecutor Ricky Jones told the jury: “The last thing Mo did on this earth was scream in terror.”
Surveillance camera footage captured the victim screaming, “Then there were two gunshots, pow! pow!'', one in the front of the head and one in the side of the head. “Sometimes it hit my index finger. I couldn't hear anything.' Then there was more screaming,” Jones said.
Wilson's friend Caitlin Cash, whose apartment turned into a crime scene, returned home to find Wilson unresponsive and bleeding on the bathroom floor.she reportedly Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was performed, but it was ineffective.
Police later said Wilson died at the scene, three days before he was scheduled to compete in the 157-mile Gravel Locos bicycle race.
After killing Wilson, Armstrong soldered his Jeep for $12,200. according to to the U.S. Marshals Service. It looks like she now has enough cash to escape.
Armstrong remained on the run for 43 days. During this time, she changed her appearance, studied news reports about murder investigations, and researched ways to burn out her fingerprints.
U.S. and Costa Rican authorities eventually tracked her to a hostel in Santa Teresa Beach, Puntarenas, and arrested her on June 29, 2022.
The killer tried to avoid consequences again on October 11, 2023, feigning an injury and going to seek medical attention outside the prison, before fleeing from prison officials. Her deputies were able to catch up with her before she fled to another destination in Latin America.
Armstrong was found guilty of murder on November 16, and was selected by a jury to decide his sentence, which found him to be sentenced to 90 years in prison.
Another attempt to avoid responsibility
On December 15, the killer's attorney filed a motion for a new trial in the District Court of Travis County, Texas.
In the tax return obtained According to the Daily Mail, Armstrong's lawyers argued that if the jury had known she was pregnant, they could have handed down a lighter sentence, but this argument was not discussed during her trial. It never happened before, and some people find it hard to believe it now.
“There are a number of problems with this theory,” Austin attorney Adam Lowy told the Daily Mail.
First, Armstrong underwent a nose job, eyebrow job, and filler injections while fleeing justice in Costa Rica. Such surgeries require medical professionals to ask questions about a woman's health, including whether she is pregnant. According to testimony heard in court, Ms Armstrong was cleared to operate on her after providing the necessary laboratory work to the surgeon, with the obvious omission that she was carrying a child. was.
“The reality is she's just trying to get her conviction overturned or some kind of desperate move by her new lawyer,” Lowy said. “You try everything in a situation like this and hope that the Court of Appeals will work something out.”
The filing also seeks to portray the cold-blooded killer as a victim whose father abandoned her and her alcoholic mother.
Armstrong's attorney argued that her family's struggles during her childhood reminded Caitlin that her childhood friends had also been the victims of multiple sexual assaults (actual or attempted).
Based on the pregnancy and victimization claims, the submission states that “this mitigating evidence would have resulted in a more lenient sentence, given that the sentence here is 90 years in prison and a maximum fine.'' There is no question that he is deaf.”
Armstrong's long sentence appears to be due to her own fault, not just because she is guilty.
Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, backed by George Soros, released serial sex offender reportedly Prior to his trial, Armstrong was offered a plea deal that would have resulted in a prison term less than half of what he would ultimately receive.
A legal source told the Daily Mail: “Against the advice of her lawyers, she rejected the plea deal.”
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