1 00:00:16,416 --> 00:00:17,150 ï ¿Ã NBC DATELINE 09/16/22 2 00:00:17,150 --> 00:00:19,052 >>> TONIGHT ON THE SEASON PREMIER OF "DATELINE" -- 3 00:00:19,052 --> 00:00:21,688 >> MY NAME IS COLIN STRICKLAND I'M A BICYCLE RACER IN AUSTIN, 4 00:00:21,688 --> 00:00:24,357 TEXAS. >> COLIN AND KAITLIN DATED FOR 5 00:00:24,357 --> 00:00:27,527 ABOUT THREE YEARS. >> THEY SEEMED VERY HAPPY 6 00:00:27,527 --> 00:00:30,697 TOGETHER >> I'M MORIAH WILSON 7 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:35,435 UM, I ALSO GO BY MO. >> SHE WAS THIS RISING STAR 8 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:39,105 CRUSHING THESE RACES >> COLIN DROPS HER OFF 9 00:00:39,105 --> 00:00:42,308 AN INTRUDER SHOOTS AND KILLS HER. 10 00:00:42,308 --> 00:00:44,944 >> THIS PRETTY DISTINCT JEEP CHEROKEE WAS IN THE AREA 11 00:00:44,944 --> 00:00:47,580 >> Reporter: SO THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO'S WATCHING 12 00:00:47,580 --> 00:00:51,818 >> ABSOLUTELY. THIS VERY EXPENSIVE BICYCLE WAS 13 00:00:51,818 --> 00:00:57,090 MISSING. COLIN IS BEING LOOKED AT 14 00:00:57,090 --> 00:01:00,760 >> ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE SUSPECTED KILLER IS GONE 15 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,396 >> IT'S A REALLY GOOD PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO HIDE OUT 16 00:01:03,396 --> 00:01:06,599 THE LAND OF THE UNWANTED AND THE WANTED 17 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:09,769 >> Reporter: YOU CAN GET RID OF YOUR PHONE, GET RID OF YOUR 18 00:01:09,769 --> 00:01:13,973 IDENTITY YOU CAN'T ESCAPE 19 00:01:13,973 --> 00:01:19,279 >> IT'S A SMALL WORLD. >> LIFE'S KIND OF A MOVIE ITSELF 20 00:01:19,279 --> 00:01:21,881 TALK ABOUT A STORY >> SO WHY WAS A CHAMPION CYCLIST 21 00:01:21,881 --> 00:01:25,085 MURDERED AND WHERE DID HER SUSPECTED 22 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:35,095 KILLER GO? I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS 23 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:35,261 I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS "DATELINE. 24 00:01:51,177 --> 00:01:53,947 LAST RIDE. >> Reporter: JUST LOOK AT HER, 25 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:56,416 THIS BRIGHT, YOUNG STAR. >> MO HAS BRIDGED THAT GAP 26 00:01:56,416 --> 00:01:59,119 >> Reporter: RIGHT HERE, CAPTURED ON VIDEO, IS THAT 27 00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:06,493 RAREST OF THINGS, THE THRILLING, APPARENTLY UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF A 28 00:02:06,493 --> 00:02:09,129 VIRTUAL UNKNOWN -- >> MO WILSON COMING THROUGH. 29 00:02:09,129 --> 00:02:11,197 >> Reporter: -- TO THE TOP OF ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE AND 30 00:02:11,197 --> 00:02:14,868 PUNISHING ENDURANCE SPORTS THERE IS -- GRAVEL RACING, A 31 00:02:14,868 --> 00:02:20,573 HIGH-MILEAGE MASHUP OF MOUNTAIN BIKING AND ROAD RACING 32 00:02:20,573 --> 00:02:31,084 >> THIS IS MORIAH WILSON, THE WINNER OF ROUND 1 OF THE 33 00:02:31,084 --> 00:02:33,353 2022 LIFETIME GRAND PRIX >> Reporter: WHICH MAKES WHAT 34 00:02:33,353 --> 00:02:35,989 HAPPENED THIS YEAR, A YEAR THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE HIGHLIGHT 35 00:02:35,989 --> 00:02:40,193 OF HER YOUNG LIFE, A TRAGEDY INSTEAD, AND AN INTERNATIONAL 36 00:02:40,193 --> 00:02:44,264 MURDER MYSTERY ONE THAT MILLIONS FOLLOWED AS 37 00:02:44,264 --> 00:02:48,101 EVENTS UNFOLDED IN REAL TIME >> NBC'S MORGAN CHESKY IS IN 38 00:02:48,101 --> 00:02:51,271 AUSTIN WITH THE VERY LATEST. >> Reporter: A MYSTERY THAT TOOK 39 00:02:51,271 --> 00:02:54,441 US FROM THE DUSTY FIELDS OF TEXAS TO THE BIRCH WOODS OF 40 00:02:54,441 --> 00:02:58,678 UPSTATE NEW YORK TO THE CURLING SURF OF CENTRAL AMERICA, WHERE 41 00:02:58,678 --> 00:03:04,484 U.S. MARSHALS WENT LOOKING FOR A SUDDENLY FAMOUS FUGITIVE AND 42 00:03:04,484 --> 00:03:14,060 ENCOUNTERED A GAGGLE OF UNSUSPECTING CHARACTERS CAUGHT 43 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:16,096 QUITE OFF GUARD. >> AFTERWARDS MY BRAIN JUST 44 00:03:16,096 --> 00:03:17,697 WENT, "WHOA. AND I WAS LIKE, "WHOA, THAT 45 00:03:17,697 --> 00:03:19,299 WOULD EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THAT'S WHY IT WAS ALL LIKE 46 00:03:19,299 --> 00:03:21,935 THAT." >> Reporter: TONIGHT WE'LL TELL 47 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:23,136 YOU THE WHOLE STORY, BEGINNING IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, ON THE NIGHT 48 00:03:23,136 --> 00:03:26,539 OF MAY 11th WITH A VOLLEY OF GUNSHOTS 49 00:03:26,539 --> 00:03:28,208 >> A DEVELOPING STORY TONIGHT: 25-YEAR-OLD MORIAH WILSON 50 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:30,844 RECENTLY BURST ONTO THE COMPETITIVE CYCLING SCENE. 51 00:03:30,844 --> 00:03:33,480 LAST WEEK, SHE WENT TO AUSTIN, TEXAS, FOR A RACE. 52 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,150 BUT SHE WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE HOME WHERE SHE WAS STAYING 53 00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:41,888 >> Reporter: AND UNTIL THAT VERY MOMENT, IT HAD ALL SEEMED SO 54 00:03:41,888 --> 00:03:45,125 FULL OF PROMISE. >> REALLY IMPRESSIVE RIDE BY 55 00:03:45,125 --> 00:03:48,828 MORIAH WILSON. >> SHE CAME SEEMINGLY OUT OF 56 00:03:48,828 --> 00:03:50,964 NOWHERE, VERY LITTLE BACKGROUND IN THE SPORT OF CYCLING. 57 00:03:50,964 --> 00:03:53,566 >> Reporter: CYCLING JOURNALISTS BEN DELANEY. 58 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:57,303 >> SHE WAS SHOWING UP AND BEATING ALL THE WOMEN AND MOST 59 00:03:57,303 --> 00:04:00,507 THE MEN. >> Reporter: AND BETSY WELCH 60 00:04:00,507 --> 00:04:05,111 >> IT WAS A REALLY FAST AND FURIOUS RISE TO THE TOP. 61 00:04:05,111 --> 00:04:09,649 SHE REALLY WAS DOMINATING EARLY THIS SEASON AND HAD A BEAUTIFUL 62 00:04:09,649 --> 00:04:11,051 AIR ABOUT HER, WAS A GREAT RACER. 63 00:04:11,051 --> 00:04:13,620 WAS FRIENDLY AND KIND. AND SO I THINK PEOPLE WERE 64 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:16,289 REALLY SORT OF LIKE, "WOW, WHO IS SHE?" 65 00:04:16,289 --> 00:04:21,528 AND, "WOW, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO WATCH HER." 66 00:04:21,528 --> 00:04:25,265 >> I'M MORIAH WILSON UM, I ALSO GO BY MO. 67 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:30,070 >> Reporter: HERE SHE WAS IN A ZOOM INTERVIEW FOR FLOSPORTS 68 00:04:30,070 --> 00:04:33,707 >> I REALLY ENJOY THAT LAID-BACK FEELING THAT OFTEN ACCOMPANIES 69 00:04:33,707 --> 00:04:39,512 THE REALLY SERIOUS RACING THAT WE'VE ALSO HAD TO DEVELOP. 70 00:04:39,512 --> 00:04:43,216 >> Reporter: CHARMING, UNASSUMING MORIAH COULD TALK FOR 71 00:04:43,216 --> 00:04:48,488 HOURS ABOUT EQUIPMENT, ABOUT STRATEGY, HER UNUSUAL GOD-GIVEN 72 00:04:48,488 --> 00:04:51,091 ENDURANCE, AND HER HAPPY YOUNG LIFE AS HERE, IN A YET TO BE 73 00:04:51,091 --> 00:04:55,829 RELEASED PODCAST RECORDED A MONTH BEFORE HER DEATH 74 00:04:55,829 --> 00:04:58,965 >> WELL, I GREW UP IN VERMONT. A BIG PART OF MY UPBRINGING WAS 75 00:04:58,965 --> 00:05:04,771 JUST, LIKE, I WAS ON SKIS BEFORE I COULD BASICALLY WALK 76 00:05:04,771 --> 00:05:07,440 AND THEN WHEN I WAS, LIKE, 7 OR SOMETHING, I THINK MY DAD ASKED 77 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,043 ME AND MY BROTHER IF WE WANTED TO RACE. 78 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:12,712 AND WE WERE LIKE, "YEAH, OF COURSE." 79 00:05:12,712 --> 00:05:17,050 LIKE, WE LOVE SKIING LIKE, IT JUST SEEMED SO NATURAL. 80 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:23,823 SO WE STARTED RACING WHEN I GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE IN 81 00:05:23,823 --> 00:05:25,925 2019, I BOUGHT A GRAVEL BIKE AND THAT SUMMER -- AND MOVED TO 82 00:05:25,925 --> 00:05:28,595 SAN FRANCISCO. AND JUST, LIKE, IMMEDIATELY 83 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:31,765 STARTED TO FALL IN LOVE WITH RACING, THE TRANSITION FROM 84 00:05:31,765 --> 00:05:38,104 SKIING TO RACING BIKES JUST FELT REALLY NATURAL 85 00:05:38,104 --> 00:05:41,775 >> Reporter: ON THAT MAY NIGHT IN AUSTIN, MORIAH WAS LOOKING 86 00:05:41,775 --> 00:05:46,513 FORWARD TO HER BIGGEST CHALLENGE YET -- THE PREMIERE RACING EVENT 87 00:05:46,513 --> 00:05:49,115 OF THE YEAR, UNBOUND GRAVEL, A BRUTAL 200-MILE CONTEST. 88 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:51,785 >> IT'S THE SUPER BOWL OF GRAVEL 89 00:05:51,785 --> 00:05:56,556 >> Reporter: IT WAS TO BE MORIAH'S BREAKOUT MOMENT, THIS 90 00:05:56,556 --> 00:06:01,695 REMARKABLE 25-YEAR-OLD >> SHE WAS A ONE OF A KIND 91 00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:05,098 TALENT SHE WAS THE ONE, THE ONE TO 92 00:06:05,098 --> 00:06:10,837 WATCH, THE ONE TO BEAT >> Reporter: WAS TO BE 93 00:06:10,837 --> 00:06:15,075 ON MAY 10th, 2022, MORIAH WILSON TRAVELED FROM HER HOME IN 94 00:06:15,075 --> 00:06:17,744 SAN FRANCISCO TO AUSTIN FOR A TO SAVE MONEY, SHE BUNKED AT A 95 00:06:17,744 --> 00:06:20,914 FRIEND'S TINY APARTMENT. THIS ONE 96 00:06:20,914 --> 00:06:25,685 IT'S ABOVE A GARAGE ON A BACK ALLEY. 97 00:06:25,685 --> 00:06:29,222 THE FOLLOWING DAY, MAY 11th, REPORTER BETSY WELCH PUBLISHED 98 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:33,560 THIS GLOWING PROFILE IN "VELO NEWS." 99 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,230 LATE THAT AFTERNOON, MORIAH'S FRIEND WENT OUT FOR THE EVENING, 100 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:41,468 LEAVING MORIAH ON HER OWN. AND A FEW HOURS LATER, WHEN THE 101 00:06:41,468 --> 00:06:44,104 FRIEND CAME HOME - >> SHE SEES WILSON LYING ON THE 102 00:06:44,104 --> 00:06:47,807 BATHROOM FLOOR, COVERED IN BLOOD. 103 00:06:47,807 --> 00:06:50,977 >> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENED WE ASKED VETERAN HOMICIDE 104 00:06:50,977 --> 00:06:54,681 INVESTIGATOR LIZ THOMSON TO REVIEW THE CASE FOR US 105 00:06:54,681 --> 00:06:58,885 >> THIS PERSON ISN'T BREATHING THERE'S A LOT OF BLOOD 106 00:06:58,885 --> 00:07:01,021 IT'S GONNA BE VERY, VERY CONFUSING TO THE FRIEND WHO 107 00:07:01,021 --> 00:07:04,691 FOUND -- >> Reporter: SURE. 108 00:07:04,691 --> 00:07:10,030 >> -- MORIAH AND DOING THE BEST THAT SHE KNOWS HOW TO SAVE HER 109 00:07:10,030 --> 00:07:12,565 IN DOING CPR >> Reporter: SHE KEPT HER WITS 110 00:07:12,565 --> 00:07:14,701 ABOUT HER AND CALLED 911 >> THEY'RE IN THE APARTMENT 111 00:07:14,701 --> 00:07:16,269 ABOVE THE GARAGE GO TO THE ALLEY. 112 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:18,371 >> Reporter: BUT BY THE TIME PARAMEDICS ARRIVED, IT WAS TOO 113 00:07:18,371 --> 00:07:22,075 LATE MORIAH WILSON WAS PRONOUNCED 114 00:07:22,075 --> 00:07:25,745 DEAD AND SHOCK ON TOP OF SHOCK, BY 115 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:30,517 THEN THE CAUSE OF HER DEATH WAS ALL TOO OBVIOUS. 116 00:07:30,517 --> 00:07:34,754 MORIAH HAD BEEN SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES, RIGHT THERE IN THE 117 00:07:34,754 --> 00:07:39,059 BATHROOM OF THAT TINY APARTMENT. IT WAS MURDER. 118 00:07:39,059 --> 00:07:41,661 >> CAN YOU CHECK, UH, ANY CALLS AROUND THE AREA FOR POTENTIAL 119 00:07:41,661 --> 00:07:44,831 SHOTS FIRED OR LOUD NOISE? >> Reporter: BUT WHY 120 00:07:44,831 --> 00:07:49,569 WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO KILL MORIAH 121 00:07:49,569 --> 00:07:54,307 OH, THERE WAS A CLUE, BIG AND IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS 122 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:59,546 IT WAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT MORIAH WILSON 123 00:07:59,546 --> 00:08:04,818 OWNED. >> THIS AMAZING, VERY 124 00:08:04,818 --> 00:08:10,056 SPECIALIZED, VERY EXPENSE BICYCLE WAS MISSING, WAS GONE. 125 00:08:10,056 --> 00:08:12,158 >> Reporter: THEY'VE GOT TO BE THINKING THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN -- 126 00:08:12,158 --> 00:08:14,127 >> UH-HUH. >> Reporter: -- THE REASON THIS 127 00:08:14,127 --> 00:08:18,498 HAPPENED >> ABSOLUTELY. 128 00:08:18,498 --> 00:08:19,833 ABSOLUTELY >> Reporter: BUT IN FACT, THE 129 00:08:19,833 --> 00:08:24,304 TERRIBLE CHAIN OF EVENTS WAS JUST BEGINNING 130 00:08:24,304 --> 00:08:27,640 >>> WHEN WE COME BACK, AN EAR-WITNESS. 131 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,143 DID HE HEAR THE KILLER ESCAPE? >> HE SAID HE WAS IN THE GARAGE 132 00:08:30,143 --> 00:08:33,313 AND OPENED THE DOOR JUST PARTIALLY. 133 00:08:33,313 --> 00:08:37,050 AND THEN HE HEARD SOMEONE RUNNING DOWN THE STAIRS. 134 00:08:37,050 --> 00:08:39,853 >> HE ALSO SAID HE MAY HAVE SEEN A BIKE DISAPPEARING DOWN THE 135 00:08:39,853 --> 00:08:43,857 ALLEY. >> THE PART OF THAT PLAN THAT 136 00:08:43,857 --> 00:08:46,459 DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE IS WHY GO INSIDE THE HOUSE AND SHOOT THEM 137 00:08:46,459 --> 00:09:12,519 IN HE BATHROOM TO GET THE >>> THERE WERE 89 HOMICIDES IN 138 00:09:12,519 --> 00:09:15,689 AUSTIN LAST YEAR--MORE THAN THE PREVIOUS TWO YEARS COMBINED. 139 00:09:15,689 --> 00:09:17,257 AND THIS YEAR IS ON THE SAME BLOODY PACE. 140 00:09:17,257 --> 00:09:19,926 SO THE MURDER OF MORIAH WILSON DID NOT MAKE THE NEWS THAT NIGHT 141 00:09:19,926 --> 00:09:23,630 OR EVEN THE NEXT ACCORDING TO AUSTIN AMERICAN 142 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:27,300 STATESMAN REPORTER RYAN AUTULLO. >> I DON'T THINK ANYBODY PAID A 143 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:31,037 LOT OF ATTENTION TO IT >> Reporter: UNTIL TWO DAYS 144 00:09:31,037 --> 00:09:35,241 AFTER THE MURDER >> WHEN YOU FIND OUT THAT THE 145 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:40,513 VICTIM IS A WOMAN IN FROM CALIFORNIA FOR A CYCLING RACE. 146 00:09:40,513 --> 00:09:45,785 OH MY GOD, SHE'S A REALLY GOOD CYCLIST, AND SHE WAS JUST KILLED 147 00:09:45,785 --> 00:09:48,054 IN COLD BLOOD INSIDE OF A HOUSE THAT SHE WAS STAYING IN IN -- IN 148 00:09:48,054 --> 00:09:52,092 A RELATIVELY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD IN AUSTIN, I THINK IT SHOOK 149 00:09:52,092 --> 00:09:55,261 EVERYONE >> THAT'S WHEN NEWS OF MORIAH'S 150 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:58,431 MURDER MADE ITS WAY TO BETSY WELCH. 151 00:09:58,431 --> 00:10:02,669 HOW DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED >> WORD TRAVELED UP TO ME 152 00:10:02,669 --> 00:10:05,839 SOMEHOW FROM SOMEONE IN THE CYCLING INDUSTRY 153 00:10:05,839 --> 00:10:09,542 I WAS ON A BIKE RIDE AND I-- YEAH 154 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:12,012 LIKE, SORT OF LOST FEELING IN MY BODY 155 00:10:12,012 --> 00:10:15,382 >> Reporter: JUST SEEMED LIKE A RANDOM THING 156 00:10:15,382 --> 00:10:18,518 NOBODY KNEW. >> I MEAN, NO. 157 00:10:18,518 --> 00:10:21,721 NOBODY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. I MEAN, THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO 158 00:10:21,721 --> 00:10:24,357 DESCRIBE IT THAN DISBELIEF AND SHOCK. 159 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:27,994 >> Reporter: UH-HUH. >> AND I KNOW THAT THOSE WORDS 160 00:10:27,994 --> 00:10:37,370 DON'T CARRY WEIGHT BECAUSE THEY'RE 161 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:38,505 -THEY'RE - >> Reporter: OVERUSED. 162 00:10:38,505 --> 00:10:40,640 >> DESCRIBING SOMETHING THAT'S SO INEXPLICABLE. 163 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,342 BUT THAT'S WHAT IT WAS WHAT DO YOU DO 164 00:10:42,342 --> 00:10:55,922 HOW CAN THIS BE REAL ARE WE -- IS THIS REALLY REAL? 165 00:10:55,922 --> 00:10:57,490 >> Reporter: INTELLIGENT HARD-WORKING 166 00:10:57,490 --> 00:10:59,592 A GRACIOUS COMPETITOR. NO KNOWN ENEMIES 167 00:10:59,592 --> 00:11:01,761 SHOT DEAD IN THE BATHROOM OF AN AUSTIN APARTMENT JUST WEEKS 168 00:11:01,761 --> 00:11:03,797 BEFORE AN IMPORTANT RACE AND THERE WAS ALMOST, BUT NOT 169 00:11:03,797 --> 00:11:05,398 QUITE, A WITNESS THE LANDLORD WHO LIVED IN A 170 00:11:05,398 --> 00:11:07,500 SEPARATE HOUSE ON THE PROPERTY HAPPENED TO BE IN THE GARAGE 171 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,069 DIRECTLY BELOW THE APARTMENT TINKERING WITH HIS CARS. 172 00:11:09,069 --> 00:11:11,304 HIS CONVERSATION WITH POLICE WAS RECOUNTED IN AN AFFIDAVIT LATER 173 00:11:11,304 --> 00:11:13,807 FILED IN COURT >> HE SAID HE WAS IN THE GARAGE 174 00:11:13,807 --> 00:11:15,909 BETWEEN 8:30 AND 9:30 P.M. AND OPENED THE DOOR JUST 175 00:11:15,909 --> 00:11:19,612 PARTIALLY. AND THEN HE HEARD SOMEONE 176 00:11:19,612 --> 00:11:23,650 RUNNING DOWN THE STAIRS. >> Reporter: BUT -- AND THIS IS 177 00:11:23,650 --> 00:11:25,985 THE STRANGE THING. THE LANDLORD TOLD POLICE HE 178 00:11:25,985 --> 00:11:28,121 HEARD SOMEONE RUN DOWN THESE STEPS. 179 00:11:28,121 --> 00:11:30,190 THERE'S NO INDICATION HE MENTIONED HEARING GUNSHOTS 180 00:11:30,190 --> 00:11:33,360 BUT A GUN WAS FIRED IN THE APARTMENT. 181 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,995 NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT. 9mm SHELL CASINGS SCATTERED ON 182 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:38,832 THE FLOOR. PROOF A PISTOL HAD BEEN FIRED 183 00:11:38,832 --> 00:11:42,702 MULTIPLE TIMES >> Reporter: A SEMIAUTOMATIC 184 00:11:42,702 --> 00:11:43,903 WEAPON OF THAT SORT, DOES IT MAKE A LOT OF NOISE? 185 00:11:43,903 --> 00:11:47,607 >> IT CAN. IT CAN 186 00:11:47,607 --> 00:11:51,811 >> Reporter: 160 DECIBELS WORTH. LOUDER THAN A JET ENGINE AT TAKE 187 00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:54,414 OFF. IF A 9mm PISTOL WAS FIRED IN THE 188 00:11:54,414 --> 00:11:56,549 ROOM RIGHT ABOVE HIS HEAD, IT'S LIKELY THE LANDLORD WOULD HAVE 189 00:11:56,549 --> 00:12:00,787 HEARD IT IF HE DIDN'T 190 00:12:00,787 --> 00:12:04,491 WELL, SAID THOMSON, MAYBE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED BEFORE THE 191 00:12:04,491 --> 00:12:07,660 LANDLORD OPENED THE GARAGE DOOR, WHICH COULD HAVE STARTLED 192 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:11,364 MORIAH'S KILLER. >> AND THE EXIT DOWN THE STAIRS 193 00:12:11,364 --> 00:12:13,233 MAY HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN PROMPTED BY THE SOUND OF THE GARAGE DOOR 194 00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:16,102 OPENING. >> Reporter: QUITE POSSIBLY? 195 00:12:16,102 --> 00:12:18,738 >> MHM >> Reporter: THE LANDLORD TOLD 196 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:21,374 POLICE SOMETHING ELSE, TOO HE WASN'T SURE, BUT HE MAY HAVE 197 00:12:21,374 --> 00:12:25,578 SEEN A BIKE WHIZZING DOWN THE ALLEY. 198 00:12:25,578 --> 00:12:30,850 SO WAS MORIAH KILLED FOR HER RACING BIKE? 199 00:12:30,850 --> 00:12:33,987 >> BUT THE PART OF THAT PLAN THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE IS 200 00:12:33,987 --> 00:12:37,691 WHY DID YOU GO INSIDE THE HOUSE AND SHOOT THEM IN THE BATHROOM 201 00:12:37,691 --> 00:12:40,326 TO GET THE BICYCLE >> Reporter: SOMETHING ELSE THAT 202 00:12:40,326 --> 00:12:44,564 DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. DURING THEIR SEARCH OF THE 203 00:12:44,564 --> 00:12:49,869 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT NIGHT, POLICE FOUND MORIAH'S BIKE. 204 00:12:49,869 --> 00:12:53,840 HERE, HIDDEN IN THE BACK ALLEY LESS THAN 70 FEET FROM THE 205 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,209 APARTMENT WHERE SHE WAS SHOT >> THEY FOUND THE BICYCLE 206 00:12:56,209 --> 00:12:58,645 BASICALLY IN A CLUSTER OF BAMBOO 207 00:12:58,645 --> 00:13:00,480 >> Reporter: WHAT WOULD THAT BE ALL ABOUT? 208 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,719 >> THAT IS A REALLY GOOD QUESTION 209 00:13:05,719 --> 00:13:09,356 IT COULD BE THAT PART OF THE PLAN WAS TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A 210 00:13:09,356 --> 00:13:14,160 ROBBERY FOR THE BIKE IT COULD BE SYMBOLIC 211 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,730 TAKING THE BICYCLE AND DUMPING IT IN THE BUSHES, WHICH SEEMS A 212 00:13:16,730 --> 00:13:20,967 LITTLE ODD >> Reporter: IF IT WASN'T A 213 00:13:20,967 --> 00:13:26,239 ROBBERY GONE WRONG, THEN THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION - 214 00:13:26,239 --> 00:13:27,841 MORIAH WILSON WAS THE TARGET >> NICE JOB, MO. 215 00:13:27,841 --> 00:13:31,177 WAY TO DO IT AT THE END ON DOUBLE PEAK. 216 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:34,180 >> OH, MY GOD .. >> Reporter: WHICH MEANT THE 217 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:36,282 LAST KNOWN PERSON TO HAVE SEEN HER ALIVE THAT EVENING WAS 218 00:13:36,282 --> 00:13:40,520 CLEARLY GOING TO BE A PERSON OF INTEREST 219 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:46,126 MORIAH'S FRIEND TOLD THEM MORIAH SPENT THE EARLY EVENING WITH A 220 00:13:46,126 --> 00:13:48,962 MAN, A FELLOW GRAVEL RACER BUT THAT PRESENTED ITS OWN SET 221 00:13:48,962 --> 00:13:53,133 OF COMPLICATIONS BECAUSE THAT OTHER RIDER WAS A 222 00:13:53,133 --> 00:13:55,735 LOCAL CELEBRITY. >> MY NAME IS COLIN STRICKLAND 223 00:13:55,735 --> 00:14:02,075 I'M A BICYCLE RACER BASED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. 224 00:14:02,075 --> 00:14:05,245 >>> COMING UP. >> IF YOU WERE TO DRAW THE IDEAL 225 00:14:05,245 --> 00:14:09,649 CYCLIST, I THINK HE LOOKS LIKE COLIN STRICKLAND 226 00:14:09,649 --> 00:14:29,202 AND MAYBE SHE WAS HIS MATCH. >> IT'S GREAT. 227 00:14:29,202 --> 00:14:32,372 >> Reporter: AUSTIN, TEXAS WAS ONCE HOME TO AMERICA'S MOST 228 00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:36,076 FAMOUS CYCLIST EVER, LANCE ARMSTRONG, WHO HELPED 229 00:14:36,076 --> 00:14:40,847 CREATE A PASSION FOR ANYTHING CYCLING IN THIS TOWN 230 00:14:40,847 --> 00:14:43,483 IN 2012, ARMSTRONG WAS STRIPPED OF HIS SEVEN TOUR DE FRANCE 231 00:14:43,483 --> 00:14:47,220 TITLES AFTER ADMITTING HE USED PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS. 232 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:50,323 >> COLIN'S OUT THERE'S YOUR TOP FIVE LEADERS 233 00:14:50,323 --> 00:14:52,959 BACK OUT ON THE ROAD >> Reporter: BUT IN RECENT 234 00:14:52,959 --> 00:14:58,765 YEARS, A NEW HOMETOWN HERO EMERGED -- 235 00:14:58,765 --> 00:15:02,435 35-YEAR-OLD COLIN STRICKLAND COLIN IS ONE OF THE TOP GRAVEL 236 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:06,706 RACERS IN THE COUNTRY. HE WAS ALSO THE LAST PERSON 237 00:15:06,706 --> 00:15:12,545 KNOWN TO HAVE SEEN MORIAH WILSON ALIVE. 238 00:15:12,545 --> 00:15:15,148 NOW POLICE WANTED TO LEARN EVERYTHING THEY COULD ABOUT HIM. 239 00:15:15,148 --> 00:15:18,318 >> THIS IS THE ALL-ROAD. IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SWISS ARMY 240 00:15:18,318 --> 00:15:21,087 KNIFE OF BIKES >> IF YOU WERE TO DRAW THE IDEAL 241 00:15:21,087 --> 00:15:29,462 CYCLIST, I THINK HE LOOKS LIKE COLIN STRICKLAND 242 00:15:29,462 --> 00:15:33,166 6'2", SKINNY BUT POWERFUL. >> Reporter: COLIN WAS SO WIDELY 243 00:15:33,166 --> 00:15:34,768 ADMIRED, SO CHARISMATIC -- SAID REPORTER RYAN AUTULLO -- HE 244 00:15:34,768 --> 00:15:36,836 SEEMED TO CREATE HIS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL 245 00:15:36,836 --> 00:15:41,608 >> HE'S FROM THE AUSTIN AREA, BORN AND RAISED. 246 00:15:41,608 --> 00:15:43,243 WENT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. AND PEOPLE WANTED TO RACE WITH 247 00:15:43,243 --> 00:15:47,914 HIM, TRAIN WITH HIM, BE AROUND HIM. 248 00:15:47,914 --> 00:15:52,152 HE WAS A FRIENDLY GUY AND JUST BELOVED IN THE AUSTIN CYCLING 249 00:15:52,152 --> 00:15:54,821 COMMUNITY. >> Reporter: COLIN CAME OUT OF 250 00:15:54,821 --> 00:15:59,092 NOWHERE IN 2019 WHEN HE WON GRAVEL RACING'S PREMIER EVENT -- 251 00:15:59,092 --> 00:16:01,695 UNBOUND GRAVEL THE SAME 200-MILE RACE THAT WAS 252 00:16:01,695 --> 00:16:04,297 SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN MORIAH WILSON'S COMING-OUT 253 00:16:04,297 --> 00:16:06,433 PARTY. >> GUYS, YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD 254 00:16:06,433 --> 00:16:09,602 >> Reporter: HE WAS PICKED UP BY A HOST OF SPONSORS 255 00:16:09,602 --> 00:16:12,238 ONE OF THEM, RED BULL, WAS SO HAPPY TO SIGN COLIN THEY 256 00:16:12,238 --> 00:16:15,442 PRODUCED THIS HIGH-END VIDEO TO SHOWCASE HIM 257 00:16:15,442 --> 00:16:18,044 >> SOME OF THE BEST ATHLETES IN THE WORLD ARE RED BULL ATHLETES. 258 00:16:18,044 --> 00:16:21,648 >> Reporter: JOURNALIST, GRAVEL-CYCLER, AND FRIEND OF 259 00:16:21,648 --> 00:16:23,316 COLIN'S, JAMES STOUT, HELPED OUT ON THE PRODUCTION. 260 00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:28,054 >> TELL US WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO GET READY. 261 00:16:28,054 --> 00:16:30,190 >> HE WENT TO RED BULL TO DO LOADS OF TESTING, RIGHT? 262 00:16:30,190 --> 00:16:32,292 AND THEY HAVE THIS ATHLETE PERFORMANCE CENTER UP IN 263 00:16:32,292 --> 00:16:34,894 SANTA MONICA AND THEY REALLY HAVE A BATTERY 264 00:16:34,894 --> 00:16:39,132 OF PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP YOU BE THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BE 265 00:16:39,132 --> 00:16:42,268 >> COLIN WAS PART OF THAT --- THAT CREW OF, SORT OF, ELITE 266 00:16:42,268 --> 00:16:44,404 GUYS WE CALL IT THE POINTY END OF THE 267 00:16:44,404 --> 00:16:46,639 RACE SO THAT'S -- THAT'S THE PRO END. 268 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:50,777 AND FOR THOSE PEOPLE, IT'S VERY COMPETITIVE. 269 00:16:50,777 --> 00:16:52,846 >> Reporter: BUT AS COLIN TOLD FLOSPORTS, HIS LIFE WAS MORE 270 00:16:52,846 --> 00:16:56,583 THAN JUST GRAVEL RACING. HE WAS TRAINED AS AN 271 00:16:56,583 --> 00:17:00,720 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST. AND HE WAS A TINKERER. 272 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:07,093 HE TOOK PRIDE IN AN OLD TRAVEL TRAILER HE RESTORED HIMSELF. 273 00:17:07,093 --> 00:17:09,195 >> THESE ARE ANTIQUE STYLE PUSH KNOBS WITH DIMMERS FOR THE LED 274 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:12,899 LIGHTING >> IN CYCLING, YOU SEE A NUMBER 275 00:17:12,899 --> 00:17:17,637 OF TOP CYCLISTS AS ONE DIMENSIONAL. 276 00:17:17,637 --> 00:17:19,773 THEY WAKE UP, THEY TRAIN, THEY EAT HEALTHY, THEY LIFT WEIGHTS, 277 00:17:19,773 --> 00:17:21,875 THEY GO TO SLEEP, THEY DO IT AGAIN. 278 00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:24,044 THAT DIDN'T REALLY FIT COLIN STRICKLAND IN HIS 279 00:17:24,044 --> 00:17:33,053 TRAINING I MEAN HE WAS DEDICATED. 280 00:17:33,053 --> 00:17:34,554 HE ENJOYED THE SPORT, BUT HE ENJOYED MANY OTHER THINGS. 281 00:17:34,554 --> 00:17:36,690 AND I THINK THAT WAS PART OF HIS CHARM. 282 00:17:36,690 --> 00:17:38,758 >> THE WEATHER LOOKS PERFECT IN MY BOOK. 283 00:17:38,758 --> 00:17:40,860 IT'S BREEZY AND WARM >> Reporter: IN JULY OF 2021, 284 00:17:40,860 --> 00:17:44,564 COLIN WAS RACING AT THE BELGIAN WAFFLE RIDE IN SAN DIEGO 285 00:17:44,564 --> 00:17:49,302 AND ONE OF THE OTHER RIDERS THERE WAS THE RISING STAR 286 00:17:49,302 --> 00:17:53,573 MORIAH WILSON. >> YEAH, IT'S GREAT. 287 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:58,812 I'M STOKED TO BE HERE. >> Reporter: AND IT WAS NO 288 00:17:58,812 --> 00:18:00,914 SURPRISE -- SAID COLIN'S FRIEND JAMES STOUT -- THAT MORIAH AND 289 00:18:00,914 --> 00:18:03,049 COLIN MET. AND HIT IT OFF 290 00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:04,617 >> IT'S LIKE A TRAVELING CIRCUS IN A WAY, RIGHT? 291 00:18:04,617 --> 00:18:10,924 YOU SEE THESE PEOPLE EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS THROUGHOUT THE 292 00:18:10,924 --> 00:18:13,059 SUMMER, RIGHT? YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE THERE. 293 00:18:13,059 --> 00:18:14,627 YOU DO THE RACE. YOU'RE IN THESE NICE BARS WITH 294 00:18:14,627 --> 00:18:16,196 WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO'LL BUY YOU A BUNCH OF BEERS 295 00:18:16,196 --> 00:18:18,331 'CAUSE OFTEN, ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING VERY WELL END UP 296 00:18:18,331 --> 00:18:19,866 AT THE SAME PARTY AFTERWARDS >> Reporter: A FEW MONTHS LATER. 297 00:18:19,866 --> 00:18:22,502 OCTOBER, 2021. MORIAH WAS IN AUSTIN, STAYING 298 00:18:22,502 --> 00:18:26,039 WITH HER FEMALE FRIEND AT THIS VERY SAME GARAGE APARTMENT 299 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:28,875 AND THAT'S WHEN THE FLING HAPPENED -- COLIN AND MORIAH 300 00:18:28,875 --> 00:18:33,079 BUT WHAT ISN'T CLEAR IS WHAT COLIN TOLD MORIAH, IF ANYTHING, 301 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:38,351 ABOUT THE STATE OF HIS LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER 302 00:18:38,351 --> 00:18:41,054 WOMAN -- A WOMAN NAMED KAITLIN THREE MONTHS LATER, WHEN MORIAH 303 00:18:41,054 --> 00:18:46,292 RAN INTO COLIN AT THE UCI CYCLO- CROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 304 00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:49,429 FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, KAITLIN WAS RIGHT THERE WITH HIM 305 00:18:49,429 --> 00:18:53,667 MORIAH, CLEARLY CAUGHT OFF GUARD, TEXTED COLIN. 306 00:18:53,667 --> 00:18:57,337 "HEY, SO, I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU AT SOME POINT 307 00:18:57,337 --> 00:19:00,473 THIS WEEKEND WAS STRANGE FOR ME AND I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S 308 00:19:00,473 --> 00:19:03,610 GOING ON IF YOU JUST WANT TO BE FRIENDS, 309 00:19:03,610 --> 00:19:06,279 SEEMS TO BE THE CASE, THEN THAT'S COOL. 310 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:08,515 BUT I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT, 'CAUSE HONESTLY MY MIND HAS BEEN 311 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:13,687 GOING IN CIRCLES AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK." 312 00:19:13,687 --> 00:19:18,458 >> SHE'S CONFUSED. SHE SEES THE TWO OF THEM AT AN 313 00:19:18,458 --> 00:19:22,095 EVENT, AND SHE'S CONFUSED. >> ARE WE TOGETHER OR NOT? 314 00:19:22,095 --> 00:19:24,731 >> YES >> Reporter: COLIN TEXTED MORIAH 315 00:19:24,731 --> 00:19:31,071 THE FOLLOWING DAY. "HEY, MO, I FEEL VERY S----- FOR 316 00:19:31,071 --> 00:19:33,206 PUTTING YOU IN A POSITION WHERE YOU DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE 317 00:19:33,206 --> 00:19:34,874 KAITLIN CAME ALONG TO A MEETING ABOUT THE SPRINTER/SPARTAN HOTEL 318 00:19:34,874 --> 00:19:38,511 PROJECT. IN HINDSIGHT, THIS WAS NOT A 319 00:19:38,511 --> 00:19:42,682 GOOD IDEA. >> IT'S THIS SORT OF VAGUE, NOT 320 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,318 REALLY AN EXPLANATION. AND HE DEFINITELY DOES NOT 321 00:19:45,318 --> 00:19:49,055 ANSWER HER QUESTION ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP 322 00:19:49,055 --> 00:19:52,459 >> UNH-UH. >> SO RIGHT OFF THE BAT, I'M 323 00:19:52,459 --> 00:19:57,964 SEEING THIS VERY POOR COMMUNICATION. 324 00:19:57,964 --> 00:20:04,337 THIS IS NOT MATTER OF FACT IT'S NOT UP FRONT, YOU KNOW? 325 00:20:04,337 --> 00:20:06,406 HE'S DECEITFUL HE'S DECEITFUL TO HER. 326 00:20:06,406 --> 00:20:09,075 HE'S CLEARLY DECEITFUL TO KAITLIN. 327 00:20:09,075 --> 00:20:12,245 >> Reporter: WHAT COLIN DIDN'T REVEAL IN HIS TEXT TO MORIAH, 328 00:20:12,245 --> 00:20:17,784 WAS THAT HE AND KAITLIN WERE VERY MUCH TOGETHER -- A COUPLE 329 00:20:17,784 --> 00:20:21,221 WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH CONTACT COLIN HAD OR DIDN'T HAVE WITH 330 00:20:21,221 --> 00:20:25,992 MORIAH AFTER THIS UNCOMFORTABLE JANUARY RUN-IN 331 00:20:25,992 --> 00:20:30,230 BUT FOUR MONTHS LATER, JUST A DAY AFTER RETURNING TO AUSTIN 332 00:20:30,230 --> 00:20:37,070 FOR A RACE, MORIAH WAS MURDERED. THAT FRIEND MORIAH HAD BEEN 333 00:20:37,070 --> 00:20:39,673 STAYING WITH TOLD POLICE MORIAH TEXTED HER AROUND 5:30 P.M. TO 334 00:20:39,673 --> 00:20:41,808 SAY THAT SHE AND COLIN HAD PLANS TO GO SWIMMING 335 00:20:41,808 --> 00:20:46,012 THE POLICE AFFIDAVIT RECOUNTS WHAT MORIAH'S FRIEND DID WHEN 336 00:20:46,012 --> 00:20:49,215 SHE HEARD THAT NEWS. >> SHE WENT BACK HOME TO TALK TO 337 00:20:49,215 --> 00:20:52,419 MORIAH ABOUT THAT. >> BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY 338 00:20:52,419 --> 00:20:57,123 SAID TO EACH OTHER. >> NO, BUT I THINK IT'S NOT TOO 339 00:20:57,123 --> 00:21:01,394 MUCH OF A LEAP TO THINK IF YOUR FRIEND TELLS YOU THEY'RE GONNA 340 00:21:01,394 --> 00:21:04,564 GO SWIMMING WITH A FRIEND, WHY WOULD YOU COME HOME TO TALK 341 00:21:04,564 --> 00:21:08,268 ABOUT THAT UNLESS YOU HAD SOME CONCERNS 342 00:21:08,268 --> 00:21:10,904 >> Reporter: CONCERNS ABOUT SEEING COLIN 343 00:21:10,904 --> 00:21:15,141 AND YET THEY DID GO OUT TOGETHER 344 00:21:15,141 --> 00:21:20,880 MEANING COLIN STRICKLAND WAS THE LAST PERSON KNOWN TO HAVE SEEN 345 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,551 MORIAH WILSON ALIVE. >> COMING UP - 346 00:21:24,551 --> 00:21:28,788 >> COLIN IS BEING LOOKED AT. HE'S THE LAST PERSON TO SEE HER. 347 00:21:28,788 --> 00:21:35,795 >> AND DETECTIVES UNCOVER THEIR FIRST MAJOR CLUE 348 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:38,865 >> THEY WERE ABLE TO CAPTURE THIS PRETTY DISTINCT JEEP 349 00:21:38,865 --> 00:21:59,552 CHEROKEE THAT WAS IN THE AREA. IT HAD THIS REALLY LARGE, 350 00:21:59,552 --> 00:22:01,221 >> Reporter: EARLY IN THE MORNING AFTER MORIAH WILSON WAS 351 00:22:01,221 --> 00:22:07,761 MURDERED, DETECTIVES SHOWED UP AT THE DOOR OF LOCAL CYCLING 352 00:22:07,761 --> 00:22:14,834 HERO COLIN STRICKLAND. >> COLIN IS BEING LOOKED AT. 353 00:22:14,834 --> 00:22:16,936 "OKAY, HE'S THE LAST PERSON TO SEE HER SO, YOU KNOW, WE -- WE 354 00:22:16,936 --> 00:22:19,072 NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT HE ISN'T THE SUSPECT. 355 00:22:19,072 --> 00:22:22,742 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO THE POLICE AFFIDAVIT, COLIN WENT 356 00:22:22,742 --> 00:22:25,378 DOWN TO THE STATION AND WILLINGLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS FOR 357 00:22:25,378 --> 00:22:28,548 HOURS, GIVING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF WHAT HE AND MORIAH DID ON THE 358 00:22:28,548 --> 00:22:33,420 NIGHT SHE DIED >> THEY HAVE IMMEDIATELY A 359 00:22:33,420 --> 00:22:45,865 TIMELINE AND AS - 360 00:22:45,865 --> 00:22:47,467 >> Reporter: A VERY PRECISE TIMELINE 361 00:22:47,467 --> 00:22:49,102 MY GOODNESS. >> PRECISE 362 00:22:49,102 --> 00:22:51,171 TO THE MINUTE. AND THIS BECOMES EXTREMELY 363 00:22:51,171 --> 00:22:53,306 CRUCIAL. >> Reporter: POLICE DIDN'T JUST 364 00:22:53,306 --> 00:22:54,874 TAKE COLIN'S WORD FOR IT THEY FOUND SILENT WITNESSES, 365 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:57,477 IMPECCABLY HONEST ONES THE ELECTRONICS. 366 00:22:57,477 --> 00:23:03,316 >> EVERYTHING IN THIS CASE RIDES ON AND RESTS ON ELECTRONIC DATA. 367 00:23:03,316 --> 00:23:04,884 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS LEARNED THE EXACT MINUTE MORIAH 368 00:23:04,884 --> 00:23:08,955 LEFT THE APARTMENT THAT EARLY EVENING. 369 00:23:08,955 --> 00:23:11,224 HOW? SHE TRIGGERED HER OWN UNIQUE 370 00:23:11,224 --> 00:23:14,394 CODE TO THIS HIGH TECH ELECTRONIC LOCK ON THE DOOR. 371 00:23:14,394 --> 00:23:16,229 NOT ONLY A DOOR THAT COULD RECORD WHEN IT WAS LOCKED AND 372 00:23:16,229 --> 00:23:19,132 UNLOCKED, BUT IT HAD VERY SPECIFIC - 373 00:23:19,132 --> 00:23:20,734 >> YES >> Reporter: ONLY A CERTAIN 374 00:23:20,734 --> 00:23:22,335 PERSON COULD DO IT AND IT WOULD - 375 00:23:22,335 --> 00:23:23,903 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: -- RECORD WHEN THAT 376 00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:27,607 CERTAIN PERSON DID IT. >> YES 377 00:23:27,607 --> 00:23:31,277 THE DOOR LOCK CODE SHOWED AT 5:55 P.M. IS WHEN MORIAH LEFT 378 00:23:31,277 --> 00:23:40,253 THE FRIEND'S AND LOCKED THE DOOR 379 00:23:40,253 --> 00:23:41,955 >> Reporter: SO POLICE COULD COMPARE THAT TO WHAT COLIN TOLD 380 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:43,923 THEM HE SAID HE PICKED UP MORIAH ON 381 00:23:43,923 --> 00:23:46,092 HIS MOTORCYCLE AND THEY WENT FOR AN EARLY EVENING SWIM AT A LOCAL 382 00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:49,229 POOL, AND THEN FOR A BURGER. AND THERE WAS SECURITY VIDEO 383 00:23:49,229 --> 00:23:53,967 THAT CONFIRMED THAT. >> AT 8:16 P.M. IS WHEN 384 00:23:53,967 --> 00:23:59,305 STRICKLAND AND MORIAH ARE SEEN LEAVING THE PARKING LOT OF THE 385 00:23:59,305 --> 00:24:02,942 BURGER PLACE ON THE MOTORCYCLE >> Reporter: 19 MINUTES LATER, 386 00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:06,646 AT 8:35 P.M., ANOTHER SECURITY CAMERA CAUGHT COLIN, NOW RIDING 387 00:24:06,646 --> 00:24:10,850 ALONE AND HEADING AWAY FROM THE GARAGE APARTMENT, APPARENTLY 388 00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:13,486 AFTER DROPPING OFF MORIAH. AND ONE MINUTE AFTER THAT, 389 00:24:13,486 --> 00:24:21,394 MORIAH WAS AT THE APARTMENT'S FRONT DOOR 390 00:24:21,394 --> 00:24:25,632 >> AT 8:36, THE DOOR LOCK CODE INDICATES THAT MORIAH UNLOCKED 391 00:24:25,632 --> 00:24:30,370 THE DOOR AND ENTERED THE PROPERTY 392 00:24:30,370 --> 00:24:34,574 >> Reporter: 12 MINUTES LATER, 8:48 P.M., ANOTHER SECURITY CAM 393 00:24:34,574 --> 00:24:37,711 PICKED UP COLIN RIDING HIS MOTORCYCLE 8 MILES AWAY FROM THE 394 00:24:37,711 --> 00:24:40,880 APARTMENT. FROM THE AMOUNT OF TIME IN THESE 395 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,084 RECORDS, DOES IT SHOW THAT HE COULD HAVE GONE UPSTAIRS WITH 396 00:24:44,084 --> 00:24:48,221 HER AND, YOU KNOW, SPENT SOME TIME WITH HER THERE? 397 00:24:48,221 --> 00:24:53,593 OR DID HE JUST DROP HER OFF AND LEAVE? 398 00:24:53,593 --> 00:24:58,098 >> SO THERE'S NO LAG OF HIM STOPPING 399 00:24:58,098 --> 00:25:03,103 IT IS SEEING HIM IN THE ALLEY AND THEN IMMEDIATELY SEEING HIM 400 00:25:03,103 --> 00:25:04,671 CONTINUE ON. >> Reporter: THE DATA COULDN'T 401 00:25:04,671 --> 00:25:06,806 LIE. AND APPARENTLY COLIN DIDN'T. 402 00:25:06,806 --> 00:25:08,475 THERE JUST WASN'T ENOUGH TIME FOR HIM TO KILL MORIAH, STEAL 403 00:25:08,475 --> 00:25:12,612 HER BIKE, STASH IT, AND GET SO FAR AWAY 404 00:25:12,612 --> 00:25:16,383 BUT THE DATA ALSO SHOWED SOMETHING ELSE FROM THE SAME 405 00:25:16,383 --> 00:25:19,486 ELECTRONIC DOOR LOCK THAT RECORDED MORIAH'S ARRIVAL. 406 00:25:19,486 --> 00:25:22,655 >> IT DID NOT SHOW IT WAS AGAIN LOCKED 407 00:25:22,655 --> 00:25:25,258 >> Reporter: WHICH MEANT THE DOOR WAS OPEN FOR THE KILLER TO 408 00:25:25,258 --> 00:25:28,962 WALK RIGHT IN. BUT WHO WAS THAT 409 00:25:28,962 --> 00:25:34,234 DETECTIVES SCOURED THE NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKING FOR MORE 410 00:25:34,234 --> 00:25:37,437 WITNESSES, HUMAN OR ELECTRONIC AND HERE'S WHERE POLICE GOT 411 00:25:37,437 --> 00:25:41,141 THEIR FIRST MAJOR CLUE VIDEO FROM A NEARBY RING 412 00:25:41,141 --> 00:25:44,811 SECURITY CAMERA. IT SHOWED A BLACK SUV TRAVELING 413 00:25:44,811 --> 00:25:59,092 ON A STREET JUST NORTH OF THE APARTMENT TEN MINUTES BEFORE 414 00:25:59,092 --> 00:26:01,161 MORIAH AND COLIN ARRIVED >> SO THEY WERE ABLE TO CAPTURE 415 00:26:01,161 --> 00:26:04,898 THIS PRETTY DISTINCT JEEP CHEROKEE THAT WAS IN THE AREA. 416 00:26:04,898 --> 00:26:06,366 IT HAD THIS LUGGAGE RACK, AND IT HAD THIS REALLY LARGE, 417 00:26:06,366 --> 00:26:08,535 COMPLICATED BIKE RACK ON IT. >> Reporter: 11 MINUTES LATER, 418 00:26:08,535 --> 00:26:10,136 ANOTHER RING CAM SHOWED THIS IN THE BACK ALLEY 419 00:26:10,136 --> 00:26:12,238 IT WAS DARK BY THEN. BUT LOOK 420 00:26:12,238 --> 00:26:15,375 THE SAME BLACK JEEP DRIVING UP THE ALLEY JUST A FEW FEET BEHIND 421 00:26:15,375 --> 00:26:19,112 THE APARTMENT. WATCH CAREFULLY AS IT GOES OUT 422 00:26:19,112 --> 00:26:22,816 OF FRAME, AND THEN THE BRAKE LIGHTS COME ON AND THE JEEP 423 00:26:22,816 --> 00:26:28,121 APPEARS TO STOP. THE TIME WAS 8:37 P.M., 1 MINUTE 424 00:26:28,121 --> 00:26:29,723 AFTER MORIAH UNLOCKED THE DOOR SO THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO'S 425 00:26:29,723 --> 00:26:37,097 WATCHING >> ABSOLUTELY. 426 00:26:37,097 --> 00:26:41,868 ONE MINUTE IS NO COINCIDENCE >> Reporter: NO. 427 00:26:41,868 --> 00:26:43,970 SO WAS THE DRIVER OF THE JEEP FOLLOWING COLIN AND MORIAH 428 00:26:43,970 --> 00:26:46,306 LIZ THOMSON DOESN'T THINK SO AT LEAST NOT TAILING THEM. 429 00:26:46,306 --> 00:26:49,743 >> COLIN HAD PICKED UP MORIAH ON HIS MOTORCYCLE 430 00:26:49,743 --> 00:26:56,082 WELL, I HAVE TRAINING IN TRAILING PEOPLE. 431 00:26:56,082 --> 00:26:58,685 AND TRAILING A MOTORCYCLE IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT 432 00:26:58,685 --> 00:27:02,889 >> Reporter: ESPECIALLY AVOIDING THEM SEEING YOU -- 433 00:27:02,889 --> 00:27:06,059 >> EXACTLY >> Reporter: INSTEAD, SHE SAID, 434 00:27:06,059 --> 00:27:09,863 WHOEVER WAS IN THE JEEP MAY HAVE BEEN USING SOME SORT OF TRACKING 435 00:27:09,863 --> 00:27:16,136 APP AND HAD BEEN USING IT ALL EVENING. 436 00:27:16,136 --> 00:27:18,238 THAT WAY THEY'D KNOW WHERE COLIN PICKED UP MORIAH AND COULD BE 437 00:27:18,238 --> 00:27:22,475 THERE LYING IN WAIT WHEN THE TWO RETURNED 438 00:27:22,475 --> 00:27:25,145 ALL JUST SPECULATION, MIND YOU BUT FOR POLICE, THE JEEP WAS A 439 00:27:25,145 --> 00:27:29,349 MAJOR LEAD, ITS DRIVER AN OBVIOUS PERSON OF INTEREST 440 00:27:29,349 --> 00:27:32,052 WHICH IS WHY THIS DETAIL FROM THE POLICE AFFIDAVIT BECAME 441 00:27:32,052 --> 00:27:35,155 EXTREMELY INTERESTING. WHEN DETECTIVES WENT TO COLIN'S 442 00:27:35,155 --> 00:27:38,825 HOUSE THAT MORNING AFTER THE MURDER, THEY SAW THREE VEHICLES 443 00:27:38,825 --> 00:27:43,596 THERE. HIS BMW MOTORCYCLE, AN OLD 444 00:27:43,596 --> 00:27:49,436 MERCEDES-BENZ, AND A BLACK JEEP CHEROKEE WITH A VERY ELABORATE 445 00:27:49,436 --> 00:27:53,073 BIKE RACK. >>> COMING UP -- 446 00:27:53,073 --> 00:27:56,810 WHOSE JEEP WAS IT? SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO COLIN. 447 00:27:56,810 --> 00:27:59,512 >> SHE STRUCK ME AS THE SORT OF PERSON WHO WOULD WANT SOMETHING 448 00:27:59,512 --> 00:28:17,564 AND GO GET IT. >> Reporter: IT WAS POTENTIALLY 449 00:28:17,564 --> 00:28:19,532 A HUGE BREAK IN THE INVESTIGATION. 450 00:28:19,532 --> 00:28:22,736 RIGHT HERE ON RING VIDEO RECORDED NEAR THE APARTMENT 451 00:28:22,736 --> 00:28:28,541 WHERE MORIAH WILSON WAS MURDERED, A BLACK SUV MUCH LIKE 452 00:28:28,541 --> 00:28:36,416 THE ONE DETECTIVES SAW IN COLIN STRICKLAND'S DRIVEWAY. 453 00:28:36,416 --> 00:28:37,951 >> THIS VERY, VERY, VERY SIMILAR VEHICLE IS PARKED THERE. 454 00:28:37,951 --> 00:28:41,554 >> Reporter: HAD TO BE THE SAME SUV. 455 00:28:41,554 --> 00:28:42,856 SO THEY ASKED COLIN ABOUT IT AND HE TOLD THEM THE JEEP WASN'T 456 00:28:42,856 --> 00:28:46,960 HIS. ACCORDING TO COLIN, IT BELONGED 457 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,164 TO HIS LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND HER NAME, AS YOU'VE ALREADY 458 00:28:51,164 --> 00:28:54,868 HEARD, WAS KAITLIN -- KAITLIN ARMSTRONG, AGE 34. 459 00:28:54,868 --> 00:28:59,639 >> SHE'S INTELLIGENT, SPEAKS MULTIPLE LANGUAGES 460 00:28:59,639 --> 00:29:02,275 FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, LICENSED REALTOR, TAUGHT YOGA 461 00:29:02,275 --> 00:29:05,378 >> Reporter: SO NOW THE DETECTIVES NEEDED TO KNOW 462 00:29:05,378 --> 00:29:08,581 EVERYTHING THEY COULD ABOUT THIS KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. 463 00:29:08,581 --> 00:29:11,217 WAS KAITLIN ARMSTRONG RELATED AT ALL TO THE FAMOUS ARMSTRONG, 464 00:29:11,217 --> 00:29:14,387 LANCE? >> NO RELATION 465 00:29:14,387 --> 00:29:16,489 >> Reporter: WAS SHE A SERIOUS CYCLIST? 466 00:29:16,489 --> 00:29:19,125 >> KAITLIN IS PROBABLY WHAT YOU -- YOU WOULD CALL A HOBBY 467 00:29:19,125 --> 00:29:24,898 CYCLIST. ABOVE AVERAGE. 468 00:29:24,898 --> 00:29:28,101 JUST NOT AT THE LEVEL OF COLIN AND MORIAH WHICH, YOU KNOW, 469 00:29:28,101 --> 00:29:34,274 NOBODY WAS >> KAITLIN WAS A FUN LOVING, 470 00:29:34,274 --> 00:29:36,576 ADVENTUROUS PERSON AND VERY SMART AS WELL TOO 471 00:29:36,576 --> 00:29:39,679 SHE WAS FANTASTIC AT MATH. I REMEMBER THAT. 472 00:29:39,679 --> 00:29:42,415 >> Reporter: KRISTEN MOSTROM KNEW KAITLIN FROM CHILDHOOD. 473 00:29:42,415 --> 00:29:47,687 THEY BOTH GREW UP IN LIVONIA, MICHIGAN, A SUBURB OF DETROIT. 474 00:29:47,687 --> 00:29:50,323 >> HER FAMILY LIVED TWO BLOCKS FROM US, AND IT WAS HER SINGLE 475 00:29:50,323 --> 00:29:52,959 MOM. SO THE MOM WAS RAISING THESE 476 00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:55,895 THREE KIDS >> Reporter: KAITLIN WAS THE 477 00:29:55,895 --> 00:29:59,833 MIDDLE CHILD WITH AN OLDER BROTHER AND YOUNGER SISTER 478 00:29:59,833 --> 00:30:03,003 >> CHRISTINE WAS HER YOUNGER SISTER, AND SHE WAS ALWAYS -- 479 00:30:03,003 --> 00:30:07,207 ALMOST LIKE A MOTHERLY FIGURE TO HER, A GOOD, NURTURING SISTER TO 480 00:30:07,207 --> 00:30:10,377 CHRISTINE. >> Reporter: AFTER COLLEGE, 481 00:30:10,377 --> 00:30:15,281 KAITLIN TRAVELED THE WORLD FOR YOGA TRAINING, MOSTLY BALI, 482 00:30:15,281 --> 00:30:17,784 ICELAND, MEXICO. EVENTUALLY SHE ENDED UP IN 483 00:30:17,784 --> 00:30:26,760 AUSTIN, AND THAT'S WHERE SHE CROSSED PATHS WITH 484 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,995 COLIN STRICKLAND >> I THINK THEY'D OBVIOUSLY HAD 485 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:32,065 THEIR UPS AND DOWNS IN THE PAST. BUT AT THAT TIME, THEY WERE VERY 486 00:30:32,065 --> 00:30:34,300 HAPPY TOGETHER >> Reporter: JAMES STOUT MET 487 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,769 KAITLIN A YEAR AGO, ONE NIGHT OVER DINNER. 488 00:30:35,769 --> 00:30:37,871 >> COLIN HAD INTRODUCED US, AND SHE STRUCK ME AS THE SORT OF 489 00:30:37,871 --> 00:30:39,973 PERSON WHO WOULD WANT SOMETHING AND GO GET IT. 490 00:30:39,973 --> 00:30:44,177 COLIN'S A VERY DETERMINED PERSON, AND SHE'S A VERY 491 00:30:44,177 --> 00:30:45,779 DETERMINED PERSON. AND I WAS LIKE, "HOLY -- 492 00:30:45,779 --> 00:30:47,347 THEY'RE, LIKE -- LIKE, THE POWER RANGERS," YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY, 493 00:30:47,347 --> 00:30:49,482 LIKE, COME TOGETHER AND MAKE A BIG POWER RANGER 494 00:30:49,482 --> 00:30:54,220 >> Reporter: AND SO IT WAS OR SEEMED TO BE. 495 00:30:54,220 --> 00:31:00,393 REMEMBER THE OLD TRAVEL TRAILER COLIN LOVED SO MUCH? 496 00:31:00,393 --> 00:31:01,695 >> I'M BUILDING A TINY HOUSE INSIDE A LIGHT WEIGHT MOBILE 497 00:31:01,695 --> 00:31:03,763 SHELL. >> Reporter: HE STARTED A 498 00:31:03,763 --> 00:31:05,331 BUSINESS COLLECTING VINTAGE TRAILERS AND REFURBISHING THEM 499 00:31:05,331 --> 00:31:07,967 WITH HIGH-END INTERIORS. KAITLIN WAS HIS BUSINESS 500 00:31:07,967 --> 00:31:12,439 PARTNER. >> I THINK MECHANICALLY, HE WAS 501 00:31:12,439 --> 00:31:17,977 INSIDE OF THESE TRAILERS FIXING THEM UP, RETROFITTING THEM 502 00:31:17,977 --> 00:31:20,613 I THINK FINANCIALLY, SHE HELPED HIM. 503 00:31:20,613 --> 00:31:26,920 >> Reporter: EVEN AS SHE BUILT HER OWN CAREER IN REAL ESTATE. 504 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,090 >> SHE HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL CAREER SELLING -- FLIPPING 505 00:31:30,090 --> 00:31:32,759 HOUSES >> Reporter: AND SHE WAS AN AVID 506 00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:36,996 YOGA PRACTITIONER. >> I THINK SHE HAD A LOT OF GOOD 507 00:31:36,996 --> 00:31:39,132 THINGS GOING FOR HER >> Reporter: BUT NOW IT SEEMED 508 00:31:39,132 --> 00:31:41,234 VERY LIKELY THAT HER JEEP WAS AT THE MURDER SCENE 509 00:31:41,234 --> 00:31:43,370 AND ANOTHER THING. COLIN TOLD THE POLICE A FEW 510 00:31:43,370 --> 00:31:46,006 MONTHS EARLIER HE HAD PURCHASED TWO GUNS, ONE FOR HIMSELF AND 511 00:31:46,006 --> 00:31:49,709 ONE FOR KAITLIN. 9 MILLIMETER HANDGUNS, THE SAME 512 00:31:49,709 --> 00:31:53,380 TYPE OF WEAPON USED TO KILL MORIAH 513 00:31:53,380 --> 00:31:56,116 IT WAS TIME TO BRING KAITLIN IN FOR QUESTIONING. 514 00:31:56,116 --> 00:32:00,253 AND IT JUST SO HAPPENED SHE WAS WANTED ON A MISDEMEANOR CHARGE 515 00:32:00,253 --> 00:32:04,457 FOR AN UNPAID MEDICAL BILL -- $650 FOR BOTOX TREATMENT 516 00:32:04,457 --> 00:32:07,761 >> THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD THIS VALID WARRANT 517 00:32:07,761 --> 00:32:11,364 >> Reporter: SO THEY PUT HER IN HANDCUFFS AND BROUGHT HER TO THE 518 00:32:11,364 --> 00:32:15,568 AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THAT 519 00:32:15,568 --> 00:32:17,671 FIRST CONVERSATION WITH KAITLIN? >> THEY HAD HER CAR ON THE 520 00:32:17,671 --> 00:32:19,806 VIDEO. IT HAD TO BE HER 521 00:32:19,806 --> 00:32:23,843 WHO ELSE COULD IT BE COLIN WAS ON THE MOTORCYCLE. 522 00:32:23,843 --> 00:32:28,782 >> THEY HAVE WHAT LOOKS LIKE HER VEHICLE. 523 00:32:28,782 --> 00:32:32,986 BUT THEY DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE VIDEO OF HER GETTING OUT OF THE 524 00:32:32,986 --> 00:32:35,588 VEHICLE. >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO THE 525 00:32:35,588 --> 00:32:39,092 AFFIDAVIT, WHEN DETECTIVES CONFRONTED KAITLIN ABOUT THE 526 00:32:39,092 --> 00:32:42,095 VIDEO THEY DID HAVE OF A JEEP THAT LOOKED LIKE HERS AT THE 527 00:32:42,095 --> 00:32:47,233 SCENE OF THE CRIME AROUND THE TIME MORIAH WAS KILLED, KAITLIN 528 00:32:47,233 --> 00:32:51,504 SEEMED TO NOD HER HEAD BUT SAID NOT A WORD 529 00:32:51,504 --> 00:32:54,741 >> AND SHE WASN'T GIVING A LOT OF INFORMATION 530 00:32:54,741 --> 00:32:56,242 >> Reporter: SHE'S NODDING LIKE I'M NODDING NOW OR SOMETHING 531 00:32:56,242 --> 00:32:59,379 LIKE THAT. >> YES 532 00:32:59,379 --> 00:33:04,684 WHICH IS A GREAT CAUSE OF CONCERN FOR A SKILLED 533 00:33:04,684 --> 00:33:06,786 INVESTIGATOR >> Reporter: AND ABOUT THEN, THE 534 00:33:06,786 --> 00:33:08,888 POLICE DISCOVERED WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A PROBLEM WITH THAT 535 00:33:08,888 --> 00:33:13,626 WARRANT THEY'D USED TO ARREST HER. 536 00:33:13,626 --> 00:33:17,330 >> IT WASN'T SO MUCH THAT THE WARRANT WASN'T VALID 537 00:33:17,330 --> 00:33:21,067 IT JUST HAD A MISTAKE, SO THEY COULDN'T SAY AT THAT MOMENT THAT 538 00:33:21,067 --> 00:33:23,069 THAT WAS EXACTLY HER I THINK THERE WAS A DIGIT WRONG 539 00:33:23,069 --> 00:33:24,270 IN THE - >> Reporter: IT'S LIKE A TYPO OR 540 00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:25,438 SOMETHING. >> DATE OF BIRTH 541 00:33:25,438 --> 00:33:37,083 EXACTLY. IT WAS A TYPO. 542 00:33:37,083 --> 00:33:38,351 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO LET HER GO WHILE 543 00:33:38,351 --> 00:33:39,953 THEY DUG A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THE STORY OF KAITLIN ARMSTRONG 544 00:33:39,953 --> 00:33:42,088 >>> COMING UP -- KAITLIN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH 545 00:33:42,088 --> 00:33:45,258 COLIN. >> MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT 546 00:33:45,258 --> 00:33:49,462 EMOTIONALLY, MAYBE SOMETHING WAS LACKING THERE. 547 00:33:49,462 --> 00:33:53,166 >> AND HER CONTACTS WITH MORIAH. >> KAITLIN STARTED TO FOLLOW HER 548 00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:56,336 ON INSTAGRAM CONTACTED HER BY PHONE AND SAID, 549 00:33:56,336 --> 00:33:58,271 "COLIN IS MY -- MY BOYFRIEND," AND, "BACK OFF." 550 00:34:18,525 --> 00:34:21,161 >> Reporter: KAITLIN ARMSTRONG WAS A PUZZLEMENT 551 00:34:21,161 --> 00:34:23,263 A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A MURDER WHO SEEMED ANYTHING BUT 552 00:34:23,263 --> 00:34:28,568 HOMICIDAL. >> SHE'S LEADING THIS SEEMINGLY 553 00:34:28,568 --> 00:34:38,611 SORT OF NORMAL, MILLENNIAL LIFE IF YOU WILL. 554 00:34:38,611 --> 00:34:40,747 YOGA TEACHER AND - >> Reporter: ZEN YOGA. 555 00:34:40,747 --> 00:34:42,349 I MEAN, SOMEBODY WHO SHOULD BE SO CALM, AND RELAXED, AND -- 556 00:34:42,349 --> 00:34:44,451 >> EXACTLY WHERE ARE THE RED FLAGS? 557 00:34:44,451 --> 00:34:51,825 WHERE ARE THE INDICATORS OF VIOLENCE 558 00:34:51,825 --> 00:34:53,993 >> Reporter: STILL, DETECTIVES WERE TAKING A HARD LOOK AT 559 00:34:53,993 --> 00:34:55,095 KAITLIN AND HER RELATIONSHIP WITH COLIN STRICKLAND. 560 00:34:55,095 --> 00:34:57,130 BUSINESS PARTNERS AND LIFE PARTNERS 561 00:34:57,130 --> 00:35:00,300 BUT, AFTER THREE YEARS TOGETHER, PERHAPS SPARKS WEREN'T FLYING 562 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:05,038 QUITE SO FREQUENTLY ANYMORE. >> MY UNDERSTANDING IN SPEAKING 563 00:35:05,038 --> 00:35:09,275 WITH SOME PEOPLE AROUND THEM WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, EMOTIONALLY, 564 00:35:09,275 --> 00:35:13,480 MAYBE SOMETHING WAS LACKING THERE. 565 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,649 THAT THIS RELATIONSHIP WAS CONVENIENT FOR BOTH OF THEM 566 00:35:16,649 --> 00:35:21,388 BECAUSE THEY WERE BUSINESS PARTNERS 567 00:35:21,388 --> 00:35:26,626 >> Reporter: IF THEIR BUSINESS WAS THE GLUE HOLDING COLIN AND 568 00:35:26,626 --> 00:35:30,430 KAITLIN TOGETHER, BY DECEMBER OF 2021, THAT TOO WAS UNDER STRESS. 569 00:35:30,430 --> 00:35:36,202 >> THEY'RE TRYING TO DO THIS COMPLICATED REAL ESTATE 570 00:35:36,202 --> 00:35:42,075 TRANSACTION, WHICH GOES BADLY. SO HE FILES A LAWSUIT. 571 00:35:42,075 --> 00:35:48,782 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS, AFTER A LAND DEAL HE 572 00:35:48,782 --> 00:35:51,685 AND KAITLIN WERE PURSUING WENT SOUTH, COLIN SUED HIS REALTOR 573 00:35:51,685 --> 00:35:53,653 AND HIS CONTRACTOR, AMONG OTHERS, FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT 574 00:35:53,653 --> 00:35:56,289 HE WAS SEEKING MORE THAN $1 MILLION IN DAMAGES. 575 00:35:56,289 --> 00:35:59,459 SO TURMOIL ON THE BUSINESS SIDE. AND ON THE PERSONAL SIDE, AS WE 576 00:35:59,459 --> 00:36:04,197 KNOW COLIN'S FLING WITH MORIAH DURING 577 00:36:04,197 --> 00:36:09,502 THE FALL OF 2021 >> AND THEN THAT WAS BRIEF AND 578 00:36:09,502 --> 00:36:15,809 HE GETS BACK WITH KAITLIN. SO IT ALMOST SEEMED TO ME MIDDLE 579 00:36:15,809 --> 00:36:17,944 SCHOOL-ISH >> Reporter: IT STRIKES ME AS 580 00:36:17,944 --> 00:36:19,546 MAYBE SOME PEOPLE WHO JUST WEREN'T TOO SURE WHAT THEY 581 00:36:19,546 --> 00:36:21,281 WANTED TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES YET. 582 00:36:21,281 --> 00:36:24,517 THEIR ROMANTIC LIVES AT LEAST. >> I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A 583 00:36:24,517 --> 00:36:27,087 GOOD CHARACTERIZATION. >> Reporter: BUT HOW DID IT LOOK 584 00:36:27,087 --> 00:36:29,089 TO KAITLIN MORIAH WILSON WAS NINE YEARS 585 00:36:29,089 --> 00:36:33,259 YOUNGER, AND A RISING-STAR IN COLIN'S SPORT. 586 00:36:33,259 --> 00:36:37,530 IT WAS STIFF COMPETITION >> THE BRASS RING WAS SLIPPIN' 587 00:36:37,530 --> 00:36:40,133 AWAY >> Reporter: IN HIS INTERVIEW 588 00:36:40,133 --> 00:36:43,303 WITH POLICE, COLIN ADMITTED HE HAD LIED TO KAITLIN ABOUT HIS 589 00:36:43,303 --> 00:36:46,973 LAST ENCOUNTER WITH MORIAH THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER. 590 00:36:46,973 --> 00:37:00,153 IMMEDIATELY AFTER DROPPING MORIAH OFF, HE TEXTED KAITLIN. 591 00:37:00,153 --> 00:37:18,104 >> HEY ARE YOU OUT I WENT TO DROP SOME FLOWERS FOR 592 00:37:18,104 --> 00:37:36,823 ALISON AT HER SON'S HOUSE UP NORTH AND MY PHONE 593 00:37:36,823 --> 00:37:38,191 NORTH AND MY PHONE DIED. >> Reporter: HE SAID HE HAD 594 00:37:38,191 --> 00:37:40,827 TO KEEP HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH MORIAH A SECRET FROM KAITLIN 595 00:37:40,827 --> 00:37:42,429 HE ACTUALLY CHANGED MORIAH'S NAME IN HIS PHONE CONTACT LIST 596 00:37:42,429 --> 00:37:44,564 AND DELETED THEIR TEXT MESSAGES SO KAITLIN COULDN'T FIND THEM. 597 00:37:44,564 --> 00:37:46,132 WHY ALL THE DECEPTION? MAYBE BECAUSE DURING THE FLING, 598 00:37:46,132 --> 00:37:47,701 AS COLIN WOULD TELL POLICE, KAITLIN PHONED MORIAH -- 599 00:37:47,701 --> 00:37:50,337 PROBABLY STAYING AT THE SAME APARTMENT WHERE SHE WAS LATER 600 00:37:50,337 --> 00:37:59,446 SHOT TO DEATH -- AND SAID, â HEY, DO YOU KNOW THAT I 601 00:37:59,446 --> 00:38:11,358 PRETTY MUCH LIVE AT COLIN'S HOUSE AND AFTER THE MURDER, 602 00:38:11,358 --> 00:38:24,070 POLICE FOUND A WITNESS WHO TOLD THEM THAT WASN'T THE ONLY CALL 603 00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:26,139 KAITLIN MADE TO MORIAH >> THE DETECTIVES GOT AHOLD OF A 604 00:38:26,139 --> 00:38:28,241 FRIEND OF MORIAH'S AFTER THE MURDER, A FEW DAYS LATER 605 00:38:28,241 --> 00:38:29,876 AND THAT FRIEND IS IN THE REPORT UNDER A PSEUDONYM, JANE. 606 00:38:29,876 --> 00:38:31,945 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO THE AFFIDAVIT, JANE ASKED TO REMAIN 607 00:38:31,945 --> 00:38:33,046 ANONYMOUS, FEARING SHE WOULD BE TARGETED BY KAITLIN. 608 00:38:33,046 --> 00:38:35,115 SHE TOLD POLICE MORIAH AND COLIN'S LIAISON DIDN'T END WITH 609 00:38:35,115 --> 00:38:37,250 THE FLING. JANE SAID THE TWO HAD CONTINUED 610 00:38:37,250 --> 00:38:38,918 TO SEE EACH OTHER IN WHAT SHE CALLED AN "ON AGAIN-OFF AGAIN" 611 00:38:38,918 --> 00:38:40,754 RELATIONSHIP JANE ALSO SAID MORIAH HAD 612 00:38:40,754 --> 00:38:42,489 RECEIVED NUMEROUS CALLS FROM KAITLIN IN THE FALL OF 613 00:38:42,489 --> 00:38:44,624 2021 TELLING HER TO STAY AWAY FROM COLIN 614 00:38:44,624 --> 00:38:46,159 SO MANY CALLS, SHE SAID, THAT MORIAH BLOCKED KAITLIN'S PHONE 615 00:38:46,159 --> 00:38:47,761 NUMBER >> AND JANE TALKED ABOUT HOW 616 00:38:47,761 --> 00:38:48,962 MORIAH REPORTED TO HER THAT KAITLIN STARTED TO FOLLOW HER ON 617 00:38:48,962 --> 00:38:50,497 INSTAGRAM. >> Reporter: THAT SCARED HER A 618 00:38:50,497 --> 00:38:53,099 BIT. >> YEAH, IT BOTHERED HER, 619 00:38:53,099 --> 00:38:54,300 BECAUSE THIS IS A WOMAN WHO'D ALREADY CONTACTED HER BY PHONE 620 00:38:54,300 --> 00:39:00,740 AND SAID, "I --" YOU KNOW, BASICALLY, "COLIN IS MY 621 00:39:00,740 --> 00:39:07,113 BOYFRIEND," OR, "MINE. AND BACK OFF 622 00:39:07,113 --> 00:39:15,455 >> Reporter: THE DAY AFTER THEY INTERVIEWED JANE, POLICE HEARD 623 00:39:15,455 --> 00:39:22,028 FROM A SECOND ANONYMOUS TIPSTER WHO SAID SHE WITNESSED KAITLIN'S 624 00:39:22,028 --> 00:39:29,903 REACTION WHEN SHE REALIZED COLLIN AND MORIAH HAD CONTINUED 625 00:39:29,903 --> 00:39:31,304 TO SEE EACH OTHER. >> AND AT THAT POINT, ACCORDING 626 00:39:31,304 --> 00:39:32,806 TO THE TIPSTER, KAITLIN ARMSTRONG BECAME 627 00:39:32,806 --> 00:39:34,107 ENRAGED. SHE WAS FURIOUS. 628 00:39:34,107 --> 00:39:38,645 >> Reporter: THE TIPSTER TOLD POLICE, IN HER FIT OF ANGER, 629 00:39:38,645 --> 00:39:44,384 KAITLIN SAID - >> SHE SAID, "I AM GOING TO KILL 630 00:39:44,384 --> 00:39:47,053 THAT WOMAN." >> Reporter: WELL, YEAH. 631 00:39:47,053 --> 00:39:48,588 PROBABLY NOT A WISE THING TO SAY ABOUT ANYBODY, BUT WHEN THAT 632 00:39:48,588 --> 00:39:50,223 WOMAN WINDS UP DEAD, IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD. 633 00:39:50,223 --> 00:39:51,358 >> IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD. >> Reporter: FOR THOSE WHO KNEW 634 00:39:51,358 --> 00:39:53,360 CALM, PERSONABLE KAITLIN, NONE OF THIS MADE ANY SENSE 635 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,928 >> I DIDN'T PERCEIVE ANY OF THAT 636 00:39:54,928 --> 00:39:56,496 NO SORT OF JEALOUSY, NO SORT OF CONTROLLING RELATIONSHIP 637 00:39:56,496 --> 00:39:58,665 BEHAVIOR IT'S SO EASY TO FALL INTO THIS 638 00:39:58,665 --> 00:40:00,233 GENDERED STEREOTYPES OF, LIKE, CRAZY, JEALOUS GIRLFRIEND. 639 00:40:00,233 --> 00:40:01,768 AND, LIKE, I DIDN'T SEE THAT >> Reporter: SIX DAYS AFTER THE 640 00:40:01,768 --> 00:40:03,837 MURDER, DETECTIVES ASKED COLIN TO COME BACK TO THE STATION FOR 641 00:40:03,837 --> 00:40:06,006 A SECOND INTERVIEW, THIS ONE FOCUSED ON KAITLIN 642 00:40:06,006 --> 00:40:07,607 WE OBTAINED THE TRANSCRIPT AND HERE IS THE GIST OF WHAT HE 643 00:40:07,607 --> 00:40:09,242 SAID AS, HOUR AFTER HOUR, THEY ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS GIRLFRIEND 644 00:40:09,242 --> 00:40:11,311 >> DO I THINK KAITLIN COULD KILL SOMEBODY 645 00:40:11,311 --> 00:40:13,413 NO, I DON'T. >> SHE'S AN INCREDIBLY KIND, 646 00:40:13,413 --> 00:40:15,515 CARING, SWEET PERSON WHO HAS HELPED ME TAKE CARE OF MY AGING 647 00:40:15,515 --> 00:40:17,650 MOTHER >> Reporter: WAS SHE JEALOUS 648 00:40:17,650 --> 00:40:20,820 NO, SAID COLIN >> SHE'S BY FAR ONE OF THE LEAST 649 00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:25,525 VOLATILE WOMEN I HAVE DATED IN TERMS OF ANGER AND JEALOUS AND 650 00:40:25,525 --> 00:40:26,693 EMOTION. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING THAT 651 00:40:26,693 --> 00:40:29,229 WAS ALARMING >> Reporter: WHY WAS THAT JEEP 652 00:40:29,229 --> 00:40:31,331 NEAR THE CRIME SCENE >> I THINK IT COULD BE THAT SHE 653 00:40:31,331 --> 00:40:34,467 WENT TO SEE, LIKE, A SPIRITUAL -- LIKE AN ENERGY 654 00:40:34,467 --> 00:40:36,569 WORKER THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE IN THAT AREA 655 00:40:36,569 --> 00:40:42,909 >> Reporter: WHY DID SHE HAVE A GUN? 656 00:40:42,909 --> 00:40:45,078 BECAUSE, COLIN REMINDED POLICE, HE BOUGHT HER ONE. 657 00:40:45,078 --> 00:40:48,181 FOR PROTECTION >> KAITLIN HAD A SKETCHY 658 00:40:48,181 --> 00:40:52,952 EXPERIENCE IN A PARKING LOT, SOME GUY ROAD RAGING AT HER. 659 00:40:52,952 --> 00:40:56,589 AND SHE WAS PHYSICALLY SHAKING >> Reporter: IT WAS ALL AN 660 00:40:56,589 --> 00:40:59,292 UNQUALIFIED DEFENSE OF KAITLIN, BUT DETECTIVES WEREN'T 661 00:40:59,292 --> 00:41:04,597 NECESSARILY BUYING IT. THEY WANTED TO BRING KAITLIN IN 662 00:41:04,597 --> 00:41:07,734 AGAIN FOR QUESTIONING. EXCEPT KAITLIN WAS NOWHERE TO BE 663 00:41:07,734 --> 00:41:11,938 FOUND. >>> COMING UP. 664 00:41:11,938 --> 00:41:14,674 A MISSING MURDER SUSPECT LEAVING HER LOVER IN CRISIS. 665 00:41:14,674 --> 00:41:39,299 >> HE SAID SOMETHING LIKE, "I >> I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH HER 666 00:41:39,299 --> 00:41:41,968 PARENTS REGARDING THE RACE AND REGARDING THE STRUGGLE THAT A 667 00:41:41,968 --> 00:41:45,638 LOT OF US ARE HAVING WITH THIS >> Reporter: ON MAY 14th, 2022, 668 00:41:45,638 --> 00:41:49,342 JUST THREE DAYS AFTER MORIAH WAS MURDERED, GRAVEL LOCOS -- THE 669 00:41:49,342 --> 00:41:51,945 RACE SHE HAD COME TO TOWN TO COMPETE IN -- WENT ON WITHOUT 670 00:41:51,945 --> 00:41:55,615 HER. >> THEY BASICALLY SAID, WE WANT 671 00:41:55,615 --> 00:42:00,353 YOU ALL TO DO WHAT MO WANTS YOU ALL TO DO. 672 00:42:00,353 --> 00:42:06,192 SHE WANTS YOU TO RACE. >> Reporter: SO THE RACERS 673 00:42:06,192 --> 00:42:07,761 STRUGGLED THROUGH IT MANY OF THEM STILL GRIEVING THE 674 00:42:07,761 --> 00:42:10,397 LOSS OF MORIAH AND WONDERING WHY COLIN WASN'T 675 00:42:10,397 --> 00:42:15,135 RACING EITHER. >> YOU HAVE CYCLISTS WANTING TO 676 00:42:15,135 --> 00:42:20,373 KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED, WHERE TWO OF THE STARS OF OUR SPORT 677 00:42:20,373 --> 00:42:25,645 ARE INVOLVED, ENTANGLED IN THIS REALLY HORRIFIC SHOOTING 678 00:42:25,645 --> 00:42:27,847 >> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS THOUGHT THEY HAD A GOOD IDEA 679 00:42:27,847 --> 00:42:33,620 WHAT HAPPENED TO MORIAH, BUT THEY NEEDED PROOF. 680 00:42:33,620 --> 00:42:35,889 ON MAY 17th, SIX DAYS AFTER THE MURDER, LAB RESULTS CAME BACK ON 681 00:42:35,889 --> 00:42:40,994 THOSE SHELL CASINGS FOUND NEAR MORIAH'S BODY. 682 00:42:40,994 --> 00:42:45,231 >> THE FIREARM THAT WAS USED, SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARM. 683 00:42:45,231 --> 00:42:50,503 LEAVES CASINGS BEHIND. SO WE NOW HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO 684 00:42:50,503 --> 00:42:55,275 BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THOSE CASINGS THAT WILL HAVE UNIQUE MARKS ON 685 00:42:55,275 --> 00:42:58,678 THEM, SORT OF LIKE THE FIREARM LEAVES BEHIND A FINGERPRINT. 686 00:42:58,678 --> 00:43:03,116 >> Reporter: POLICE HAD SEIZED BOTH COLIN AND KAITLIN'S GUNS. 687 00:43:03,116 --> 00:43:06,286 WHEN THEY TESTED KAITLIN'S, THE LAB SAID IT FOUND "SIGNIFICANT 688 00:43:06,286 --> 00:43:11,057 POTENTIAL" HER GUN WAS THE MURDER WEAPON. 689 00:43:11,057 --> 00:43:23,236 >> IT'S VERY STRONG EVIDENCE >> Reporter: TWO DAYS LATER. 690 00:43:23,236 --> 00:43:25,805 EVERYONE COULD SEE WHAT INVESTIGATORS THOUGHT WHEN THAT 691 00:43:25,805 --> 00:43:29,509 POLICE AFFIDAVIT BECAME PUBLIC >> THIS AFFIDAVIT COMES OUT. 692 00:43:29,509 --> 00:43:31,745 THEY THINK KAITLIN ARMSTRONG KILLED MORIAH WILSON 693 00:43:31,745 --> 00:43:33,213 >> Reporter: POLICE ASKED A JUDGE FOR AN ARREST WARRANT. 694 00:43:33,213 --> 00:43:35,281 THE CHARGE -- FIRST DEGREE MURDER 695 00:43:35,281 --> 00:43:38,218 >> IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY GET 696 00:43:38,218 --> 00:43:40,086 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG INTO CUSTODY AND DAYS PASS, SHE'S NOT IN 697 00:43:40,086 --> 00:43:46,926 CUSTODY. >> Reporter: KAITLIN WASN'T IN 698 00:43:46,926 --> 00:43:49,562 CUSTODY BECAUSE SHE WAS GONE WHEN THEY BROUGHT COLIN IN FOR 699 00:43:49,562 --> 00:43:52,165 THAT SECOND INTERVIEW, THEY ASKED HIM WHERE SHE WAS. 700 00:43:52,165 --> 00:43:55,335 NO IDEA, SAID COLIN. IF FACT, HE SAID, HE HADN'T SEEN 701 00:43:55,335 --> 00:43:59,572 KAITLIN SINCE MAY 13th -- TWO DAYS AFTER THE MURDER. 702 00:43:59,572 --> 00:44:03,276 AND WHEN HE TRIED TEXTING HER, HE SAID, SHE DID NOT RESPOND 703 00:44:03,276 --> 00:44:05,045 >> A MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE ISSUED A WARRANT FOR ARMSTRONG'S 704 00:44:05,045 --> 00:44:07,480 ARREST FOR THE OFFENSE OF MURDER 705 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,316 >> Reporter: IF THEY COULD FIND HER. 706 00:44:10,316 --> 00:44:15,388 SO THE NEXT CALL WAS TO THE U.S. MARSHALS. 707 00:44:15,388 --> 00:44:18,558 >> ON MAY 18, THE AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REQUESTED THE 708 00:44:18,558 --> 00:44:23,296 ASSISTANCE FROM THE LONE STAR FUGITIVE TASK FORCE TO LOCATE 709 00:44:23,296 --> 00:44:25,965 AND APPREHEND KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. >> Reporter: WITH A FUGITIVE 710 00:44:25,965 --> 00:44:28,301 TASK FORCE NOW ON KAITLIN'S TRAIL, HER FATHER WENT ON 711 00:44:28,301 --> 00:44:31,171 NATIONAL TELEVISION TO DEFEND HIS DAUGHTER 712 00:44:31,171 --> 00:44:35,709 >> WE LOVE YOU, KAITIE, AND WE ARE GOING TO FIGURE THIS OUT 713 00:44:35,709 --> 00:44:39,612 I KNOW HOW SHE THINKS AND I KNOW WHAT SHE BELIEVES AND I KNOW 714 00:44:39,612 --> 00:44:44,884 THAT SHE JUST WOULD NOT DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 715 00:44:44,884 --> 00:44:48,555 I KNOW HER >> I SAW HER FATHER INTERVIEWED 716 00:44:48,555 --> 00:44:52,292 AND THAT'S -- THAT'S REALLY DIFFICULT FOR A FAMILY 717 00:44:52,292 --> 00:44:57,497 >> OF COURSE >> ON ONE HAND, YOU DON'T WANT 718 00:44:57,497 --> 00:45:03,036 TO BELIEVE THAT YOUR CHILD, ESPECIALLY, DID SOMETHING SO 719 00:45:03,036 --> 00:45:06,039 HEINOUS AND SO PLANNED OUT BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, IT'S A 720 00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:07,907 MURDER I HAVE SEEN FAMILIES STRUGGLE 721 00:45:07,907 --> 00:45:12,879 WITH THIS. WHAT DO WE DO? 722 00:45:12,879 --> 00:45:15,048 >> Reporter: THE SAME DAY KAITLIN WAS NAMED A FUGITIVE, 723 00:45:15,048 --> 00:45:20,220 COLIN RELEASED HIS FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENT SINCE MORIAH'S MURDER. 724 00:45:20,220 --> 00:45:23,056 IT READ IN PART, "I AM REELING FROM GRIEVING MO WILSON'S DEATH 725 00:45:23,056 --> 00:45:25,692 AND FROM THE FACTS THAT HAVE EMERGED DURING THE 726 00:45:25,692 --> 00:45:29,829 INVESTIGATION. THERE IS NO WAY TO ADEQUATELY 727 00:45:29,829 --> 00:45:35,568 EXPRESS THE REGRET AND TORTURE I FEEL ABOUT MY PROXIMITY TO THIS 728 00:45:35,568 --> 00:45:38,071 HORRIBLE CRIME >> Reporter: CONSEQUENCES. 729 00:45:38,071 --> 00:45:40,407 IN A MATTER OF DAYS, COLIN'S CAREFULLY CURATED LIFE FELL 730 00:45:40,407 --> 00:45:43,476 APART. HE DROPPED THAT MILLION DOLLAR 731 00:45:43,476 --> 00:45:46,646 LAWSUIT. AND ONE BY ONE, HIS SPONSORS 732 00:45:46,646 --> 00:45:52,452 DROPPED HIM. ALLIED CYCLE, SPECIALIZED, 733 00:45:52,452 --> 00:45:54,654 RAPHA, ENVEE COMPOSITES. >> I WAS REALLY WORRIED THAT I 734 00:45:54,654 --> 00:45:56,156 SAW THE SPONSORS LEAVING AND STUFF. 735 00:45:56,156 --> 00:45:57,724 I WAS, LIKE, OH, THIS ISN'T GOOD FOR HIM. 736 00:45:57,724 --> 00:46:00,326 LIKE, I HOPE HE'S NOT IN A DARK PLACE. 737 00:46:00,326 --> 00:46:03,496 >> Reporter: JAMES STOUT DECIDED TO REACH OUT TO COLIN. 738 00:46:03,496 --> 00:46:06,099 >> IF HE'S MADE A RELATIONSHIP ERROR, THEN SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE 739 00:46:06,099 --> 00:46:08,268 THAT AND HOPEFULLY, HE CAN LEARN FROM 740 00:46:08,268 --> 00:46:10,937 THAT AND BECOME A BETTER PERSON. BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO FEEL 741 00:46:10,937 --> 00:46:13,340 ALONE AND, LIKE, DO SOMETHING TERRIBLE 742 00:46:13,340 --> 00:46:14,674 I THINK HE SAID SOMETHING LIKE, "I FEEL LIKE A BOMB'S GONE OFF 743 00:46:14,674 --> 00:46:17,844 IN MY HANDS. >> Reporter: COLIN PULLED 744 00:46:17,844 --> 00:46:21,081 HIMSELF OFF THE RACE CIRCUIT AND TURNED HIS ONCE PUBLIC SOCIAL 745 00:46:21,081 --> 00:46:25,185 MEDIA ACCOUNTS PRIVATE FOR WEEKS AFTER MORIAH'S MURDER, 746 00:46:25,185 --> 00:46:28,355 HIS INSTAGRAM BIO READ "I USED TO RIDE BIKES. 747 00:46:28,355 --> 00:46:31,057 >> SO WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION. 748 00:46:31,057 --> 00:46:33,660 IF HE CHEATED ON HER AND SHE DIDN'T KNOW AND THEY WEREN'T ON 749 00:46:33,660 --> 00:46:35,729 A BREAK, THAT IS WRONG, RIGHT? HE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT, AND 750 00:46:35,729 --> 00:46:38,331 IT WAS STUPID. BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE CAN 751 00:46:38,331 --> 00:46:42,535 REASONABLY EXPECT THAT TO END IN THE OTHER PERSON'S DEATH 752 00:46:42,535 --> 00:46:45,171 >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, THE U.S. MARSHALS REVVED UP THEIR 753 00:46:45,171 --> 00:46:47,907 SEARCH, WITH AGENTS WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TRYING TO TRACK 754 00:46:47,907 --> 00:46:50,510 DOWN KAITLIN THEIR WORKING THEORY -- SHE WAS 755 00:46:50,510 --> 00:46:54,848 STILL HIDING OUT IN AUSTIN SOMEWHERE. 756 00:46:54,848 --> 00:46:59,519 BUT THERE WAS NO SIGN OF HER, OR HER BLACK JEEP CHEROKEE. 757 00:46:59,519 --> 00:47:03,690 THAT IS, UNTIL MAY 25th -- 14 DAYS AFTER THE MURDER -- WHEN 758 00:47:03,690 --> 00:47:07,894 INVESTIGATORS RELEASED THIS. RECORDED ON A SECURITY CAMERA AT 759 00:47:07,894 --> 00:47:13,700 AUSTIN'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT A SLENDER, FAIR-HAIRED WOMAN 760 00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:18,038 ABOUT TO BOARD A PLANE WITH A YOGA MAT 761 00:47:18,038 --> 00:47:20,507 >> IT WAS EVIDENT ON VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND BOARDING PASSES 762 00:47:20,507 --> 00:47:26,880 THAT ARMSTRONG HAD FLED THE AUSTIN AREA. 763 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:31,051 >> COMING UP - >> ATTENTION SHIFTS FROM THIS 764 00:47:31,051 --> 00:47:36,322 HORRIFIC CRIME TO, OH, MY GOSH, THE SUSPECTED KILLER IS GONE 765 00:47:36,322 --> 00:47:40,060 >> A VERY ZEN SUSPECTED KILLER >> WHENEVER SHE'S GOIN', SHE 766 00:47:40,060 --> 00:47:43,063 PLANS TO DO YOGA, TEACH YOGA THAT'S A BIG CLUE. 767 00:48:08,488 --> 00:48:10,590 >> Reporter: DAY AFTER DAY THE MYSTERY GREW 768 00:48:10,590 --> 00:48:11,725 CONFOUNDING SEASONED INVESTIGATORS, AND EVEN THE 769 00:48:11,725 --> 00:48:13,226 U.S. MARSHALS SEEMED TO BE STUMPED. 770 00:48:13,226 --> 00:48:14,794 >> THIS MORNING U.S. MARSHALS ARE ACTIVELY SEARCHING FOR 771 00:48:14,794 --> 00:48:16,463 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. >> A WOMAN IN TEXAS ACCUSED OF 772 00:48:16,463 --> 00:48:18,031 SHOOTING AND KILLING AN UP-AND-COMING CYCLIST FROM THE 773 00:48:18,031 --> 00:48:21,101 BAY AREA >> POLICE SAY ARMSTRONG HAS NOT 774 00:48:21,101 --> 00:48:23,203 BEEN SEEN IN NEARLY TWO WEEKS. >> Reporter: RESPONSIBLE, THEY 775 00:48:23,203 --> 00:48:26,373 BELIEVED, FOR THE COLD-BLOODED KILLING OF MORIAH WILSON, THAT 776 00:48:26,373 --> 00:48:29,042 INNOCENT YOUNG WOMAN NOW BEING PORTRAYED, ACCURATELY OR NOT, AS 777 00:48:29,042 --> 00:48:34,280 KAITLIN'S UNWITTING ROMANTIC RIVAL. 778 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,518 AND SOMEHOW THE AWFUL LOSS OF MORIAH SEEMED SHOVED INTO 779 00:48:38,518 --> 00:48:44,324 PARAGRAPH TWO. >> AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, 780 00:48:44,324 --> 00:48:51,698 ATTENTION SHIFTS FROM THIS HORRIFIC CRIME TO, OH MY GOSH, 781 00:48:51,698 --> 00:48:53,900 THE SUSPECTED KILLER IS GONE >> Reporter: THE ONLY TRACE OF 782 00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:57,537 HER, THIS VIDEO FROM THE AUSTIN AIRPORT. 783 00:48:57,537 --> 00:49:04,444 >> NOTHING SEEMS OUTTA THE ORDINARY, EXCEPT SHE HAS A YOGA 784 00:49:04,444 --> 00:49:07,047 MAT WITH HER SO WHEREVER SHE'S GOIN', SHE 785 00:49:07,047 --> 00:49:10,383 PLANS TO DO YOGA, TEACH YOGA, WHATEVER IT IS 786 00:49:10,383 --> 00:49:12,852 THAT'S A BIG CLUE. >> Reporter: BUT KAITLIN HAD A 787 00:49:12,852 --> 00:49:16,589 BIG HEAD START THE AIRPORT VIDEO HAD BEEN 788 00:49:16,589 --> 00:49:18,925 RECORDED JUST THREE DAYS AFTER THE MURDER, BUT IT WAS 11 MORE 789 00:49:18,925 --> 00:49:21,828 DAYS BEFORE INVESTIGATORS FOUND IT 790 00:49:21,828 --> 00:49:26,066 WHERE WAS SHE GOING? THEY DUG UP THE FLIGHT RECORDS 791 00:49:26,066 --> 00:49:33,473 AND DISCOVERED THAT KAITLIN HAD FLOWN FROM AUSTIN TO HOUSTON TO 792 00:49:33,473 --> 00:49:38,244 LAGUARDIA AIRPORT IN NEW YORK. LENNY DEPAUL IS A RETIRED U-S 793 00:49:38,244 --> 00:49:41,047 MARSHAL WHO'S FOLLOWED THE CASE. >> THEN IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WELL, 794 00:49:41,047 --> 00:50:00,066 WHO PICKED HER UP? WHERE DID SHE GO 795 00:50:00,066 --> 00:50:02,002 THEY WERE TALKIN' TO INVESTIGATORS ON THE GROUND IN 796 00:50:02,002 --> 00:50:03,603 NEW YORK THE NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY REGIONAL 797 00:50:03,603 --> 00:50:05,205 FUGITIVE TASK FORCE OF THE U.S. MARSHALS, THEY CAME INTO 798 00:50:05,205 --> 00:50:06,706 PLAY >> Reporter: BUT THEY FOUND 799 00:50:06,706 --> 00:50:08,808 NOTHING. MAY TURNED TO JUNE 800 00:50:08,808 --> 00:50:10,410 NO SIGN OF KAITLIN INTERNALLY THE MARSHALS UPGRADED 801 00:50:10,410 --> 00:50:12,379 THE CASE TO MAJOR STATUS, MEANING MORE MANPOWER AND MORE 802 00:50:12,379 --> 00:50:13,680 FUNDING. AND THEY ASKED THE PUBLIC FOR 803 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,715 HELP >> THE MARSHAL SERVICE POSTED A 804 00:50:15,715 --> 00:50:17,317 CASH REWARD LISTED AT $5,000 FOR TIPS LEADING TO THE ARREST OF 805 00:50:17,317 --> 00:50:19,786 ARMSTRONG. >> REWARD MONEY WAS IMPORTANT. 806 00:50:19,786 --> 00:50:22,022 WE ALL KNOW THE STREETS TALK >> Reporter: AND TALK THEY DID 807 00:50:22,022 --> 00:50:24,958 IN EARLY JUNE, THE MARSHALS RECEIVED A CREDIBLE TIP -- 808 00:50:24,958 --> 00:50:28,395 SOMEBODY HAD SEEN KAITLIN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK A FEW DAYS 809 00:50:28,395 --> 00:50:32,699 AFTER SHE LANDED IN LAGUARDIA. >> ENDS UP ONE OF HER SISTERS, 810 00:50:32,699 --> 00:50:35,168 CHRISTINE, LIVED IN NEW YORK SHE WAS NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY 811 00:50:35,168 --> 00:50:37,303 SO THEY TOOK A LOOK AT HER SHE APPARENTLY WORKED AT A 812 00:50:37,303 --> 00:50:39,439 CAMPSITE THEY SENT SOME INVESTIGATORS UP 813 00:50:39,439 --> 00:50:42,575 THERE. >> Reporter: HERE IS THE PLACE, 814 00:50:42,575 --> 00:50:45,278 CAMP HAVEN WHERE KAITLIN'S SISTER WORKED. 815 00:50:45,278 --> 00:50:47,847 KAITLIN WAS KNOWN TO BE CLOSE TO CHRISTINE. 816 00:50:47,847 --> 00:50:51,051 SO MAYBE KAITLIN WENT TO HER FOR HELP 817 00:50:51,051 --> 00:50:54,220 BUT BY THE TIME AGENTS ARRIVED, KAITLIN, ONCE AGAIN, HAD 818 00:50:54,220 --> 00:50:57,357 VANISHED AND AS THE MARSHALS LATER 819 00:50:57,357 --> 00:51:00,527 REVEALED - >> IT WAS LEARNED THROUGH A 820 00:51:00,527 --> 00:51:05,832 CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE THAT ARMSTRONG WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE 821 00:51:05,832 --> 00:51:07,934 NEWARK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN NEW JERSEY, AND AT THAT TIME, 822 00:51:07,934 --> 00:51:10,070 THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL WAS UNKNOWN. 823 00:51:10,070 --> 00:51:13,206 >> Reporter: IT WAS A GAME OF CATCH-UP 824 00:51:13,206 --> 00:51:16,910 KAITLIN WAS STILL WAY AHEAD. SHE'D BEEN DROPPED OFF AT NEWARK 825 00:51:16,910 --> 00:51:19,179 AIRPORT ON MAY 18. BUT MARSHALS DIDN'T GET THAT TIP 826 00:51:19,179 --> 00:51:23,249 ABOUT IT UNTIL ALMOST A MONTH LATER. 827 00:51:23,249 --> 00:51:26,453 STILL, THEY CHECKED ALL FLIGHTS OUT OF NEWARK ON THE 18TH. 828 00:51:26,453 --> 00:51:30,123 AND NOBODY NAMED KAITLIN ARMSTRONG WAS ON ANY PASSENGER 829 00:51:30,123 --> 00:51:33,293 MANIFEST SO DID SHE FLY SOMEWHERE 830 00:51:33,293 --> 00:51:36,930 OR WAS THE TIP A CLEVER BIT OF MISDIRECTION 831 00:51:36,930 --> 00:51:40,100 WHERE DID KAITLIN GO AND WHAT WAS SHE DOING FOR 832 00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:42,769 MONEY? >> SHE PROBABLY KNEW THAT THEY 833 00:51:42,769 --> 00:51:46,439 WERE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT ALL OF HER BANK ACCOUNTS TO KNOW 834 00:51:46,439 --> 00:51:50,343 EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS UP TO AND SHE NEEDED NOT JUST MONEY, 835 00:51:50,343 --> 00:51:54,314 BUT ACTUAL CASH THAT SHE COULD USE. 836 00:51:54,314 --> 00:51:57,517 >> Reporter: IT WAS NOT TILL JUNE 23rd WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT 837 00:51:57,517 --> 00:52:01,187 HOW SHE GOT SOME OF THAT THAT'S WHEN INVESTIGATORS FOUND 838 00:52:01,187 --> 00:52:08,061 KAITLIN'S JEEP SITTING IN THIS CARMAX LOT BACK IN AUSTIN. 839 00:52:08,061 --> 00:52:10,163 SHE'D SOLD IT ON MAY 13TH. THE DAY AFTER POLICE QUESTIONED 840 00:52:10,163 --> 00:52:15,769 HER ABOUT THE MURDER OF MORIAH WILSON. 841 00:52:15,769 --> 00:52:18,672 >> SO THAT SAME VEHICLE THAT POLICE SAID PULLED UP TO THE 842 00:52:18,672 --> 00:52:23,176 HOUSE WHERE MORIAH WAS KILLED, KAITLIN TAKES THAT VEHICLE TO A 843 00:52:23,176 --> 00:52:28,682 DEALERSHIP, UNLOADS IT, SELLS IT FOR A LITTLE OVER $12,000. 844 00:52:28,682 --> 00:52:31,851 >> Reporter: THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER, AFTER SHE'S BEEN IN 845 00:52:31,851 --> 00:52:36,623 TALKIN' TO THE COPS? >> YES 846 00:52:36,623 --> 00:52:49,269 >> WE BELIEVE NOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE HAS $12,200 POSSIBLY 847 00:52:49,269 --> 00:52:51,504 IN CASH AND THAT IS WHAT IS HELPING HER STAY UNDER THE RADAR 848 00:52:51,504 --> 00:52:53,206 FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS >> THERE'S LOTS OF EVIDENCE OF 849 00:52:53,206 --> 00:52:55,108 LOTS OF REALLY COMPLICATED THINKING 850 00:52:55,108 --> 00:52:56,643 AND -- >> PLOTTING, PLANNING? 851 00:52:56,643 --> 00:53:00,814 THAT KIND OF THINKING? >> PLOTTING, PLANNING. 852 00:53:00,814 --> 00:53:04,417 UM, PROBLEM SOLVING, IF YOU WILL 853 00:53:04,417 --> 00:53:08,822 THINK ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT AIRLINE TRAVEL IS THESE DAYS 854 00:53:08,822 --> 00:53:17,230 BUT YET SHE DID THAT SEEMINGLY VERY QUICKLY 855 00:53:17,230 --> 00:53:19,666 SELLING YOUR VEHICLE ON A NORMAL DAY IS JUST NOT SOMETHIN' YOU DO 856 00:53:19,666 --> 00:53:22,502 ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT AND QUICKLY. 857 00:53:22,502 --> 00:53:26,206 THINGS LIKE THAT IT JUST -- IT JUST AMAZES ME 858 00:53:26,206 --> 00:53:30,443 THAT IN WHAT SEEMED LIKE A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, SHE 859 00:53:30,443 --> 00:53:35,181 CARRIED OUT SOME VERY COMPLEX THINGS 860 00:53:35,181 --> 00:53:38,818 >> Reporter: THE U.S. MARSHALS WERE ALSO AMAZED THAT KAITLIN, 861 00:53:38,818 --> 00:53:42,522 WITH LITTLE TIME TO THINK OR PLAN AN ESCAPE, HAD MANAGED TO 862 00:53:42,522 --> 00:53:44,691 REMAIN SO ELUSIVE. >> YEAH, THIS IS A VERY 863 00:53:44,691 --> 00:53:46,793 CHALLENGING FUGITIVE INVESTIGATION. 864 00:53:46,793 --> 00:53:49,963 YOU KNOW, WITH THE MARSHAL SERVICE, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS 865 00:53:49,963 --> 00:53:52,599 ADOPT, YOU KNOW, THE WORST OF THE WORST IN VIOLENT CASES AND 866 00:53:52,599 --> 00:53:55,802 SOME FUGITIVES, YOU KNOW, ARE CAUGHT WITHIN, YOU KNOW, A DAY 867 00:53:55,802 --> 00:54:05,812 OR A WEEK OR MONTH >> NOT KAITLIN 868 00:54:05,812 --> 00:54:07,380 SHE COULD BE LITERALLY ANYWHERE. BUT SHE WAS CARRYING THAT YOGA 869 00:54:07,380 --> 00:54:14,554 MAT, REMEMBER. AND THAT JUST HAD TO BE A CLUE 870 00:54:14,554 --> 00:54:18,892 >>> COMING UP. >> HER STORY WAS I JUST MOVED 871 00:54:18,892 --> 00:54:23,863 HERE I TEACH YOGA 872 00:54:23,863 --> 00:54:47,854 >>> IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN SANTA TERESA, COSTA RICA, YOU 873 00:54:47,854 --> 00:55:01,201 MUST REALLY HAVE WANTED TO BE HERE 874 00:55:01,201 --> 00:55:03,370 IT'S NOT AN EASY PLACE TO FIND OR GET TO. 875 00:55:03,370 --> 00:55:04,938 TEAL AKERSON IS A TRUE LOCAL, BORN IN SANTA TERESA TO AMERICAN 876 00:55:04,938 --> 00:55:07,040 PARENTS. HE GREW UP HERE LONG BEFORE THE 877 00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,575 TOURISTS ARRIVED >> WELL, WHEN I WAS A KID, THERE 878 00:55:08,575 --> 00:55:10,677 WASN'T A ROAD HERE AND THE PEOPLE CAME BY BOATS 879 00:55:10,677 --> 00:55:12,812 AND THERE WAS A CATTLE TRAIL AND YOU COULD COME WITH A 880 00:55:12,812 --> 00:55:14,347 BICYCLE OR A HORSE OR A MOTORBIKE SOMETIMES. 881 00:55:14,347 --> 00:55:16,483 AND THEN THEY OPENED THE ROAD AND UP -- AND THEN THEY -- 882 00:55:16,483 --> 00:55:18,051 EVERYONE WANTED A SLICE OF PARADISE 883 00:55:18,051 --> 00:55:21,221 >> Reporter: SINCE THE ROAD WENT IN, THIS LITTLE HAMLET IN 884 00:55:21,221 --> 00:55:25,925 CENTRAL AMERICA HAS BECOME A MECCA FOR ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE. 885 00:55:25,925 --> 00:55:32,298 >> THERE'S NATURE AND THE OCEAN, AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR 886 00:55:32,298 --> 00:55:35,435 SILENCE AND NATURE, PRISTINE BEACHES. 887 00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:38,605 PEOPLE ALSO WANT TO COME HERE AND THEY KIND OF GET, LIKE, TWO 888 00:55:38,605 --> 00:55:42,842 BIRDS, ONE STONE, WHERE THEY GET TO COME TO COSTA RICA AND SURF 889 00:55:42,842 --> 00:55:45,945 AND DO -- THEY BE IN A JUNGLE AND THEN ALSO GET TO DO THEIR 890 00:55:45,945 --> 00:55:49,149 YOGA >> Reporter: SOME VISITORS WANT 891 00:55:49,149 --> 00:55:52,852 TO DO YOGA, SURE OTHERS JUST WANT TO GET LOST 892 00:55:52,852 --> 00:55:55,455 >> IT'S A REALLY GOOD PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO HIDE OUT 893 00:55:55,455 --> 00:56:00,427 YOU CAN REALLY HIDE OUT IN THE MOUNTAINS. 894 00:56:00,427 --> 00:56:03,363 AND TONS OF PEOPLE DO. >> Reporter: WITH A WHOLE WORLD 895 00:56:03,363 --> 00:56:06,032 OUT THERE TO SEARCH, WHO WOULD THINK OF LOOKING IN THIS SPECK 896 00:56:06,032 --> 00:56:10,737 ON A MAP MAYBE THAT'S WHY, BACK BEFORE 897 00:56:10,737 --> 00:56:16,609 THEY PUT IN A ROAD, SANTA TERESA WAS KNOWN BY A LESS SAINTLY 898 00:56:16,609 --> 00:56:21,881 NAME -- MAL PAIS, THE BADLANDS >> AND THEY SAY, LIKE, IT'S LIKE 899 00:56:21,881 --> 00:56:27,687 MAL PAIS IS THE LAND OF UNWANTED AND THE WANTED 900 00:56:27,687 --> 00:56:30,857 SOMETIMES YOU'RE BOTH. >> Reporter: AND SO IT HAPPENED 901 00:56:30,857 --> 00:56:34,060 ON A SUNNY DAY IN THE LATTER PART OF MAY, AS THE 902 00:56:34,060 --> 00:56:37,197 U.S. MARSHALS WERE CASTING A DOMESTIC NET FROM AUSTIN TEXAS 903 00:56:37,197 --> 00:56:41,434 ALL THE WAY TO UPSTATE NEW YORK, SEARCHING FOR KAITLIN ARMSTRONG, 904 00:56:41,434 --> 00:56:52,545 A SANDY HAIRED YOGA INSTRUCTOR TURNED UP IN SANTA TERESA AND 905 00:56:52,545 --> 00:56:54,314 MADE HER WAY HERE, TO DON JON'S, A HOSTEL OF SORTS WHERE, AMONGST 906 00:56:54,314 --> 00:56:57,283 OTHER ACTIVITIES, THERE IS YOGA THREE TIMES A DAY. 907 00:56:57,283 --> 00:57:01,454 THE NEWCOMER QUICKLY WENT FROM A GUEST AT DON JON'S TO AN 908 00:57:01,454 --> 00:57:05,358 EMPLOYEE, FIRST WORKING THE FRONT DESK, AND THEN EVENTUALLY 909 00:57:05,358 --> 00:57:12,065 REALIZING HER TRUE GOAL -- TEACHING YOGA. 910 00:57:12,065 --> 00:57:14,701 SHE ALSO BECAME A FIXTURE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SANTA TERESA, THE 911 00:57:14,701 --> 00:57:22,075 ONE THAT COMES OUT AFTER THE SUN GOES DOWN. 912 00:57:22,075 --> 00:57:33,720 FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE NIGHT LIFE OF SANTA TERESA BETTER THAN 913 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,689 GREG HABER ONCE A RESPECTABLE TAX LAWYER 914 00:57:35,689 --> 00:57:37,424 FROM LONG ISLAND, NOW, MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF HIS MOTHER, HE 915 00:57:37,424 --> 00:57:39,559 TOLD US, HE SPENDS HIS DAYS SURFING AND MAKES HIS LIVING AS 916 00:57:39,559 --> 00:57:43,630 A SELF-AVOWED BEACH ENTREPRENEUR, OWNER OF THE ONLY 917 00:57:43,630 --> 00:57:48,501 BAR IN TOWN. IN HIS NEW LINE OF WORK, GREG 918 00:57:48,501 --> 00:58:07,520 MEETS ALL KINDS, INCLUDING THE PRETTY NEW YOGA INSTRUCTOR 919 00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,622 >> TUESDAY NIGHTS ARE BIG NIGHTS, HIP HOP NIGHT, BIG 920 00:58:09,622 --> 00:58:11,224 PARTY. AND SHE WAS JUST HERE WITH A 921 00:58:11,224 --> 00:58:12,726 COUPLE OF FRIENDS, INTRODUCED HERSELF. 922 00:58:12,726 --> 00:58:14,394 SHE CALLED HERSELF ARI >> Reporter: THE MORE GREG GOT 923 00:58:14,394 --> 00:58:16,029 TO KNOW THIS ARI, THE MORE SHE SEEMED LIKE THE KIND OF PERSON 924 00:58:16,029 --> 00:58:17,564 HE HAD SEEN MANY TIMES BEFORE. >> HER STORY WAS, "I JUST MOVED 925 00:58:17,564 --> 00:58:19,666 HERE I TEACH YOGA." 926 00:58:19,666 --> 00:58:21,267 PRETTY MUCH HALF THE TOWN HAS THE EXACT SAME STORY 927 00:58:21,267 --> 00:58:22,769 "I JUST MOVED HERE I TEACH YOGA." 928 00:58:22,769 --> 00:58:24,371 A LOT OF THEM LEAVE AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS 929 00:58:24,371 --> 00:58:26,506 I DON'T REALLY THINK ANYTHING OF IT 930 00:58:26,506 --> 00:58:28,842 >> Reporter: BUT THE DRINKS TASTE GOOD AND GO DOWN EASY IN 931 00:58:28,842 --> 00:58:30,110 SANTA TERESA, AND THE NEXT SCENE THAT PLAYED OUT IN GREG'S BAR -- 932 00:58:30,110 --> 00:58:33,847 WELL, THAT WAS A FAMILIAR ONE AS WELL 933 00:58:33,847 --> 00:58:36,049 >> SHE WAS HERE MAYBE TWO, THREE TIMES A WEEK, NEVER BY HERSELF, 934 00:58:36,049 --> 00:58:38,118 ALWAYS WITH OTHER FRIENDS OF MINE 935 00:58:38,118 --> 00:58:39,753 YOU KNOW, USUALLY, IF A NEW GIRL MOVES TO TOWN, A BUNCH OF GUYS 936 00:58:39,753 --> 00:58:41,721 ARE GOING TO BE ASKING HER TO HANG OUT 937 00:58:41,721 --> 00:58:44,257 THEY'RE USUALLY GOING TO BRING THEM HERE. 938 00:58:44,257 --> 00:58:46,059 >> Reporter: AND SURE ENOUGH, THE NIGHTS ARI WAS IN GREG'S 939 00:58:46,059 --> 00:58:51,297 BAR, THE GUYS BEHAVED PREDICTABLY. 940 00:58:51,297 --> 00:58:54,434 MOTHS TO A LIGHT BUT ONE SURFER DUDE SEEMED TO 941 00:58:54,434 --> 00:58:57,070 MAKE A REAL CONNECTION AND YOU'VE ALREADY MET HIM 942 00:58:57,070 --> 00:58:59,372 >> ARI I KNEW ABOUT ARI 943 00:58:59,372 --> 00:59:02,375 YES, I GUESS WE RAN INTO EACH OTHER. 944 00:59:02,375 --> 00:59:06,579 WE'RE BOTH A LITTLE WEIRD, I GUESS, IN DIFFERENT WAYS 945 00:59:06,579 --> 00:59:10,784 BUT SHE DID YOGA I DID YOGA 946 00:59:10,784 --> 00:59:12,919 WE END UP TALKING, AND SHE HAD JUST GONE THROUGH A HEAVY 947 00:59:12,919 --> 00:59:18,224 BREAKUP, SHE TOLD ME AND THEN I HAD GONE THROUGH A 948 00:59:18,224 --> 00:59:20,360 BREAKUP, AND WE WERE BOTH KIND OF GETTING ALONG AND TALKING AND 949 00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:34,040 SHARING. >> Reporter: TALKING AND 950 00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:35,642 SHARING, ACTIVITIES THAT CAN SOMETIMES LEAD TO MUCH MORE. 951 00:59:35,642 --> 00:59:37,210 BUT NOT FOR TEAL AND ARI >> WE WENT ON PROBABLY, LIKE, 952 00:59:37,210 --> 00:59:38,211 ABOUT FOUR DATES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 953 00:59:38,211 --> 00:59:40,347 WE NEVER KISSED OR NEVER HOOKED UP 954 00:59:40,347 --> 00:59:42,482 IT WASN'T LIKE THAT. SHE WAS -- SHE MADE IT CLEAR 955 00:59:42,482 --> 00:59:44,551 THAT SHE HAD BEEN TRAUMATIZED, AND I WAS OKAY WITH JUST BEING A 956 00:59:44,551 --> 00:59:50,357 FRIEND AND HANGING OUT AND I COULD UNDERSTAND 957 00:59:50,357 --> 00:59:52,959 BUT SHE DIDN'T SAY MUCH. AND SHE KIND OF DID THAT 958 00:59:52,959 --> 00:59:58,665 TRICK -- YOU ANSWER WITH A QUESTION 959 00:59:58,665 --> 01:00:00,433 SO SHE ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERED A LOT OF TIMES WITH 960 01:00:00,433 --> 01:00:03,603 QUESTIONS. SHE WOULD KIND OF LEAVE THE 961 01:00:03,603 --> 01:00:11,011 CONVERSATION >> Reporter: ARI SEEMED EAGER TO 962 01:00:11,011 --> 01:00:13,146 BLEND IN HERE BUT NOT EAGER TO REVEAL TOO MUCH ABOUT HERSELF. 963 01:00:13,146 --> 01:00:15,281 HER NEW FRIENDS IN THIS LITTLE SLICE OF PARADISE DIDN'T KNOW 964 01:00:15,281 --> 01:00:19,486 WHY. BUT THEY WERE ABOUT TO FIND OUT. 965 01:00:19,486 --> 01:00:22,122 >>> COMING UP -- THERE ARE CERTAIN RULES TO 966 01:00:22,122 --> 01:00:27,394 HIDING OUT ARI FORGOT SOME. 967 01:00:27,394 --> 01:00:31,598 >> SHE DID SOME THINGS PRETTY WELL TO AVOID CAPTURE, BUT SHE 968 01:00:31,598 --> 01:00:57,857 WAS STILL GOING TO HAVE FUN AND LIVE IT UP AT THE BEACH IN HER 969 01:00:57,857 --> 01:01:01,661 >>> THIS MORNING U.S. MARSHALS LEADING A COAST-TO-COAST SEARCH 970 01:01:01,661 --> 01:01:03,229 FOR A MURDER SUSPECT KAITLIN ARMSTRONG IS ACCUSED OF 971 01:01:03,229 --> 01:01:05,198 FATALLY SHOOTING - >> Reporter: THIS TINY SURF 972 01:01:05,198 --> 01:01:06,800 VILLAGE SEEMS A WORLD AWAY FROM, WELL JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING 973 01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:09,436 AND IT SEEMS TO HAVE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING A VISITOR WOULD NEED 974 01:01:09,436 --> 01:01:16,843 TO RELAX -- SUN, SURF, YOGA, AND SUNSETS. 975 01:01:16,843 --> 01:01:21,247 ARI, THE NEW YOGA INSTRUCTOR, SEEMED TO LIKE IT HERE 976 01:01:21,247 --> 01:01:24,217 BUT DID NOT ALWAYS SEEM RELAXED. HER NEW FRIENDS NOTICED. 977 01:01:24,217 --> 01:01:25,819 SHE TENDED TO AVOID OTHER NEW ARRIVALS IN TOWN 978 01:01:25,819 --> 01:01:27,887 >> SHE WAS ALWAYS HERE WITH LOCALS 979 01:01:27,887 --> 01:01:31,091 I NEVER SAW HER HERE WITH PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T LIVE HERE 980 01:01:31,091 --> 01:01:34,761 >> Reporter: GREG THE BAR OWNER ALSO COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE 981 01:01:34,761 --> 01:01:37,897 THAT SOON AFTER ARI ARRIVED IN SANTA TERESA, SHE DARKENED HER 982 01:01:37,897 --> 01:02:01,454 FLOWING HAIR AND CHOPPED IT QUITE A BIT SHORTER. 983 01:02:01,454 --> 01:02:03,323 AND THEN THERE WAS THE REQUEST ARI MADE OF HER 984 01:02:03,323 --> 01:02:05,392 NOT-QUITE-BOYFRIEND. >> SHE ALWAYS WANTED A LOT OF 985 01:02:05,392 --> 01:02:07,694 FAVORS, WANTED A LOT OF INFORMATION. 986 01:02:07,694 --> 01:02:09,129 SHE WANTED ME TO GIVE HER A RIDE ON MY MOTORBIKE TO GET THE 987 01:02:09,129 --> 01:02:12,298 FERRY, BECAUSE SHE NEEDED TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL. 988 01:02:12,298 --> 01:02:13,867 >> Reporter: THE HOSPITAL? ARI DIDN'T SEEM SICK 989 01:02:13,867 --> 01:02:15,969 AND THE FERRY WAS A LONG WAY OFF. 990 01:02:15,969 --> 01:02:18,071 >> AND THAT'S LIKE A -- IT'S ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF 991 01:02:18,071 --> 01:02:20,140 AND THEN IT'S AN HOUR AND HALF BACK 992 01:02:20,140 --> 01:02:22,075 I DON'T USUALLY DO THAT. >> Reporter: TEAL SAID NO. 993 01:02:22,075 --> 01:02:23,309 BUT HE ALSO GOT TO WONDERING ABOUT THE REASON ARI GAVE FOR 994 01:02:23,309 --> 01:02:25,412 WANTING A RIDE >> SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT COPS 995 01:02:25,412 --> 01:02:27,480 AND ROADBLOCKS, BECAUSE SHE SAID HER PAPERWORK WASN'T UP TO DATE 996 01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:28,615 AND SHE DIDN'T WANT TO GET STOPPED. 997 01:02:28,615 --> 01:02:30,417 >> Reporter: BUT SHE DID GO ON HER OWN. 998 01:02:30,417 --> 01:02:32,852 ARI MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE CAPITAL, SAN JOSE. 999 01:02:32,852 --> 01:02:37,624 AND TO THIS CLINIC -- A.V.A. SURGICAL CENTER. 1000 01:02:37,624 --> 01:02:41,294 WE RE-TRACED HER STEPS AND SPOKE WITH AN EMPLOYEE HERE WHO 1001 01:02:41,294 --> 01:02:43,930 RECOGNIZED ARI, BUT SAID SHE CHECKED IN UNDER A DIFFERENT 1002 01:02:43,930 --> 01:02:49,202 NAME AND HER REASON FOR COMING HERE 1003 01:02:49,202 --> 01:02:54,974 COSMETIC SURGERY TO ALTER THE APPEARANCE OF HER NOSE 1004 01:02:54,974 --> 01:03:09,823 ARI DIDN'T TELL TEAL THAT. SHE GOT IT AROUND THAT SHE'D HAD 1005 01:03:09,823 --> 01:03:12,459 SOME SORT OF SURFING ACCIDENT. TEAL DIDN'T PRY, BUT HE TOLD US 1006 01:03:12,459 --> 01:03:14,060 HE GOT THE SENSE SHE WAS TROUBLED, SOMEHOW. 1007 01:03:14,060 --> 01:03:15,662 >> THE PERSON I MET WAS TRYING TO BE A COOL PERSON. 1008 01:03:15,662 --> 01:03:17,764 AND YOU COULD TELL SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED IN HER LIFE THAT REALLY 1009 01:03:17,764 --> 01:03:18,898 HAD BROKE HER. >> Reporter: BUT OF COURSE, HE 1010 01:03:18,898 --> 01:03:20,934 HAD NO IDEA ARI WASN'T REALLY ARI. 1011 01:03:20,934 --> 01:03:25,138 OR THAT SHE WAS A WANTED WOMAN DIDN'T KNOW THAT BACK IN THE 1012 01:03:25,138 --> 01:03:27,240 UNITED STATES, U.S. MARSHALS SEARCHING FOR KAITLIN ARMSTRONG 1013 01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,410 WERE HOMING IN ON THE MOST VISIBLE CLUE FROM THAT AIRPORT 1014 01:03:30,410 --> 01:03:33,546 SECURITY VIDEO -- THE YOGA MAT THEY STARTED CONTACTING THEIR 1015 01:03:33,546 --> 01:03:39,853 COUNTERPARTS IN YOGA DESTINATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. 1016 01:03:39,853 --> 01:03:41,955 AND BEFORE LONG -- >> I RECEIVED A CALL FROM 1017 01:03:41,955 --> 01:03:43,890 SECURITY PERSONNEL AT THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN 1018 01:03:43,890 --> 01:03:46,192 COSTA RICA >> Reporter: CAPTAIN 1019 01:03:46,192 --> 01:03:49,362 FULVIO FERNANDEZ ARIAS HEADS A SPECIAL TOURISM UNIT OF THE 1020 01:03:49,362 --> 01:03:53,600 COSTA RICAN POLICE THE EMBASSY PEOPLE ASKED HIM 1021 01:03:53,600 --> 01:04:02,042 ABOUT ANY NEW VISITORS WHO WERE ALSO YOGA INSTRUCTORS. 1022 01:04:02,042 --> 01:04:04,044 >> WE STARTED TO CONTACT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO WE KNOW TO 1023 01:04:04,044 --> 01:04:05,745 BE INVOLVED IN THAT ACTIVITY >> Reporter: SOON ENOUGH, 1024 01:04:05,745 --> 01:04:21,561 CAPTAIN FERNANDEZ HEARD ABOUT THE NEW YOGI IN SANTA TERESA 1025 01:04:21,561 --> 01:04:23,163 >> WE VISITED COMMERCIAL HOSPITALITY ESTABLISHMENTS 1026 01:04:23,163 --> 01:04:24,831 OFFERING THESE TYPES OF ACTIVITIES, AND THAT'S HOW WE 1027 01:04:24,831 --> 01:04:26,833 WERE ABLE TO VERIFY MS. ARMSTRONG'S IDENTITY 1028 01:04:26,833 --> 01:04:28,568 >> Reporter: SIX WEEKS AFTER KAITLIN ARMSTRONG WENT ON THE 1029 01:04:28,568 --> 01:04:30,503 RUN, GOOD OLD FASHIONED "GUM-SHOE" POLICING BY THE 1030 01:04:30,503 --> 01:04:32,072 COSTA RICAN AUTHORITIES AND THE U.S. MARSHALS HAD THEM ON THE 1031 01:04:32,072 --> 01:04:36,276 VERGE OF CAPTURING THIS INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE 1032 01:04:36,276 --> 01:04:39,479 AND KAITLIN? IT WAS STRANGE, PERHAPS. 1033 01:04:39,479 --> 01:04:45,285 AS THE LOCALS TELL IT, SHE BEGAN TO ACT LESS SKITTISH 1034 01:04:45,285 --> 01:04:46,920 DIDN'T SEEM TO BE TRYING SO HARD TO HIDE IN THE DAYS AND NIGHTS 1035 01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:50,557 THAT WOULD BE HER LAST FREE ONES 1036 01:04:50,557 --> 01:04:54,260 MAYBE SHE GOT COMFORTABLE -- TOO COMFORTABLE. 1037 01:04:54,260 --> 01:05:04,771 THE BREEZE BLOWING IN OFF THE PACIFIC OCEAN CAN HAVE THAT 1038 01:05:04,771 --> 01:05:06,906 AFFECT >> ON ONE HAND, YOU HAVE A 1039 01:05:06,906 --> 01:05:08,541 FUGITIVE WHO CHANGES HER APPEARANCE, CHANGES HER NAME, 1040 01:05:08,541 --> 01:05:12,145 CHANGES HER BACKSTORY. SHE HAS A NEW EXISTENCE. 1041 01:05:12,145 --> 01:05:18,118 ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU HAVE THIS SAME PERSON WHO IS GOING TO 1042 01:05:18,118 --> 01:05:23,757 RESTAURANTS, TO BARS, GOING ON DATES, PRACTICING YOGA, LIVING 1043 01:05:23,757 --> 01:05:29,062 AT A HOSTEL IN A ROOM WITH SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE 1044 01:05:29,062 --> 01:05:31,131 >> IT'S AN ODD THING TO DO IF YOU'RE TRYIN' TO HIDE. 1045 01:05:31,131 --> 01:05:33,299 >> YEAH, I THINK SHE LACKED THE DISCIPLINE, FRANKLY, TO NOT GET 1046 01:05:33,299 --> 01:05:39,606 CAUGHT I MEAN, SHE DID SOME THINGS 1047 01:05:39,606 --> 01:05:43,843 PRETTY WELL TO AVOID CAPTURE, BUT WANTED THE BEST OF BOTH 1048 01:05:43,843 --> 01:05:45,979 WORLDS SHE WAS STILL GOING TO HAVE FUN 1049 01:05:45,979 --> 01:05:50,216 AND LIVE IT UP AT THE BEACH IN HER NEW LIFE 1050 01:05:50,216 --> 01:05:53,353 >> Reporter: THERE ARE MANY SUNNY DAYS IN SANTA TERESA, 1051 01:05:53,353 --> 01:05:56,489 COSTA RICA AND JUST LIKE THE WAVES THAT 1052 01:05:56,489 --> 01:06:03,363 ROLL IN, NO TWO ARE EXACTLY ALIKE. 1053 01:06:03,363 --> 01:06:07,033 IT WAS A MEMORABLE SUNNY DAY IN LATE JUNE, THE AUTHORITIES MADE 1054 01:06:07,033 --> 01:06:11,771 THEIR MOVE >> COMING UP - 1055 01:06:11,771 --> 01:06:14,941 KAITLIN'S LIFE ON THE RUN CRASHES INTO REALITY, OPENING A 1056 01:06:14,941 --> 01:06:17,043 FEW EYES >> AFTERWARDS MY BRAIN JUST WENT 1057 01:06:17,043 --> 01:06:19,245 WHOA AND I WAS LIKE, WHOA, THAT WAS 1058 01:06:19,245 --> 01:07:06,593 WHY EVERYTHING -- THAT'S WHY IT WAS ALL LIKE THAT. 1059 01:07:06,593 --> 01:07:08,261 Ã ACT 11 >> Reporter: IT WAS JUNE 29th, 1060 01:07:08,261 --> 01:07:10,330 JUST ANOTHER PERFECT DAY IN SANTA TERESA, COSTA RICA, WHEN 1061 01:07:10,330 --> 01:07:11,898 TWO EXPATS GOT TO TALKING AT DON JON'S HOSTEL 1062 01:07:11,898 --> 01:07:13,500 ONE WAS THE POPULAR YOGA TEACHER ARI. 1063 01:07:13,500 --> 01:07:15,168 THE OTHER WAS A MAN NAMED ZACH POULSEN, WHO ASKED US NOT 1064 01:07:15,168 --> 01:07:16,670 TO SHOW HIS FACE ON CAMERA NOT AFTER WHAT HE SAW HAPPEN 1065 01:07:16,670 --> 01:07:18,204 IT ALL STARTED INNOCENTLY ENOUGH, SAID ZACH. 1066 01:07:18,204 --> 01:07:20,340 >> AND I GOT HER LAUGHING. SHE WAS, LIKE -- REALLY, LIKE, 1067 01:07:20,340 --> 01:07:22,442 OPENING UP TO ME I WAS MAKING HER LAUGH 1068 01:07:22,442 --> 01:07:25,612 THAT'S ALL MY GOAL IS, JUST MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH AND HAVE FUN. 1069 01:07:25,612 --> 01:07:30,350 BUT, UH, UM, YEAH, WE WERE JUST HANGING OUT. 1070 01:07:30,350 --> 01:07:31,951 >> Reporter: JUST HANGING OUT, AS SO MANY MEN SEEMED TO WANT TO 1071 01:07:31,951 --> 01:07:33,520 DO WITH ARI. >> ONE THING I DO REMEMBER IS 1072 01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:35,121 SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT JON'S PLACE. 1073 01:07:35,121 --> 01:07:37,223 AND SHE WAS SAYING HOW SHE REALLY LIKES IT BECAUSE IT'S 1074 01:07:37,223 --> 01:07:38,925 LIKE SECLUDED IN THERE IT'S, LIKE, WALLED OFF AND, UH, 1075 01:07:38,925 --> 01:07:40,927 EVERYONE'S COOL THAT'S THERE AND I WAS LIKE, "YEAH, THAT'S 1076 01:07:40,927 --> 01:07:43,530 WHY I HANG OUT -- I COME HERE. >> Reporter: BUT JUST THEN, JUST 1077 01:07:43,530 --> 01:07:45,098 AT THAT MOMENT, WAS THERE A CHANGE IN THE AIR, A WHIFF OF 1078 01:07:45,098 --> 01:07:49,302 SOMETHING ABOUT TO HAPPEN? IF THERE WAS, ZACH DIDN'T NOTICE 1079 01:07:49,302 --> 01:07:54,074 AT FIRST >> AND THEN I -- I REMEMBER A 1080 01:07:54,074 --> 01:07:55,642 GUY CAME IN, A MEXICAN HE SAID HE WAS FROM MEXICO 1081 01:07:55,642 --> 01:07:57,344 AND HE -- REALLY ODD, HE'S ASKING FOR A ROOM, WENT RIGHT TO 1082 01:07:57,344 --> 01:07:59,346 HER. AND SHE SAID THERE THERE SHOULD 1083 01:07:59,346 --> 01:08:02,015 BE A ROOM AVAILABLE. THEN HE SAID, "OKAY, I'M GOING 1084 01:08:02,015 --> 01:08:05,719 TO GO EAT AND I'LL BE BACK." HE LEFT. 1085 01:08:05,719 --> 01:08:07,520 AND THEN, BOOM, ALL OF A SUDDEN THREE COPS WALKED IN 1086 01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,022 AND I'M JUST LIKE, "OH," AND I STILL WAS MAKING JOKES AS THEY 1087 01:08:09,022 --> 01:08:10,623 WERE YELLING AT OR NOT YELLING AT HER 1088 01:08:10,623 --> 01:08:12,058 THEY WERE ASKING FOR HER DOCUMENTS. 1089 01:08:12,058 --> 01:08:13,626 "GIVE ME -- WE NEED YOUR DOCUMENTS. 1090 01:08:13,626 --> 01:08:14,728 AND SHE'S LIKE, "I DON'T HAVE ANY. 1091 01:08:14,728 --> 01:08:17,330 SHE JUST KEPT GIVING WEIRD ANSWERS. 1092 01:08:17,330 --> 01:08:24,671 AND I WAS EVEN LIKE, "WHOA, THIS GIRL'S OBVIOUSLY LYING AND 1093 01:08:24,671 --> 01:08:26,806 HIDING SOMETHING." IT WAS CRAZY 1094 01:08:26,806 --> 01:08:28,408 THOSE COPS WERE NOT -- AROUND. THEY WERE THERE TO GET HER 1095 01:08:28,408 --> 01:08:30,510 >> Reporter: "GET HER" THEY DID. >> THEY JUST PUT HER IN THERE 1096 01:08:30,510 --> 01:08:32,512 AND PUT HER IN THE BACK SEAT BETWEEN TWO COPS 1097 01:08:32,512 --> 01:08:34,247 AND THERE'S FOUR OF THEM TOTAL, DROVE OFF, AND I JUST -- AND WE 1098 01:08:34,247 --> 01:09:00,707 JUST DID A LITTLE WAVE >> Reporter: AND AS THEY WERE 1099 01:09:00,707 --> 01:09:02,776 LEAVING -- >> THE POLICE SAID I'LL NEVER 1100 01:09:02,776 --> 01:09:04,344 SEE ARI AGAIN. >> Reporter: WHICH TURNED OUT TO 1101 01:09:04,344 --> 01:09:05,879 BE NOT QUITE TRUE. >> I'LL NEVER SEE ARI AGAIN. 1102 01:09:05,879 --> 01:09:07,447 BUT NOW I GET TO SEE KAITLIN ON THE NEWS 1103 01:09:07,447 --> 01:09:09,549 >> DEVELOPING -- THE WOMAN CHARGED IN THE DEATH OF A 1104 01:09:09,549 --> 01:09:11,151 WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST IN AUSTIN LAST MONTH HAS BEEN EXTRADITED 1105 01:09:11,151 --> 01:09:12,786 TO THE U.S." >> Reporter: KAITLIN ARMSTRONG'S 1106 01:09:12,786 --> 01:09:14,354 ARREST AFTER 43 DAYS ON THE LAM MADE HEADLINES ACROSS THE U.S. 1107 01:09:14,354 --> 01:09:16,456 AND NONE BIGGER THAN IN THE TOWN WHERE SHE WAS WANTED FOR MURDER. 1108 01:09:16,456 --> 01:09:19,092 RYAN AUTULLO COVERED THE STORY FOR "THE AUSTIN 1109 01:09:19,092 --> 01:09:51,324 AMERICAN-STATESMAN." WERE YOU SURPRISED THEY FOUND 1110 01:09:51,324 --> 01:09:53,426 HER? >> I WAS SURPRISED THAT THEY 1111 01:09:53,426 --> 01:09:57,130 FOUND HER. I THOUGHT THAT THE LONGER SHE 1112 01:09:57,130 --> 01:09:59,299 LASTED, THE LESS LIKELY THEY WOULD FIND HER 1113 01:09:59,299 --> 01:10:02,402 SO WHEN I HEARD THAT SHE WAS CAPTURED, AGAIN, SURPRISED 1114 01:10:02,402 --> 01:10:16,349 ANOTHER SHOCKER IN THIS CASE THAT JUST KEPT SHOCKING ME 1115 01:10:16,349 --> 01:10:18,651 IT'S A TRAGIC STORY FOR EVERYBODY. 1116 01:10:18,651 --> 01:10:23,189 I MEAN, THE GIRL THAT GOT KILLED AND THE FAMILY AND ALL HER 1117 01:10:23,189 --> 01:10:32,265 FRIENDS. AND THEN ARI OR KATE, KAITLIN, 1118 01:10:32,265 --> 01:10:36,069 ALL HER FRIENDS AND FAMILIES IN THEIR LIVES, TOO 1119 01:10:36,069 --> 01:10:57,424 PEOPLE GET CAUGHT UP IN EMOTION AND LOST IN TURMOIL. 1120 01:10:57,424 --> 01:11:00,326 >> Reporter: AND JUST BECAUSE HIND SIGHT IS 20/20, IT DIDN'T 1121 01:11:00,326 --> 01:11:01,528 MAKE SEEING THE TRUTH ANY EASIER 1122 01:11:01,528 --> 01:11:06,966 AFTER ALL, KAITLIN HAD BEEN HIS REBOUND AFTER A BAD BREAKUP. 1123 01:11:06,966 --> 01:11:10,637 >> I GUESS SHE DIDN'T KNOW IT, BUT I FELT LIKE I HAD NO MOJO, 1124 01:11:10,637 --> 01:11:14,874 NO, LIKE, SPIRIT AFTER I HAD GOTTEN DUMPED. 1125 01:11:14,874 --> 01:11:16,976 AND THEN IT JUST SO HAPPENED THAT IT WAS -- THAT WAS, LIKE, 1126 01:11:16,976 --> 01:11:18,545 THE ONE GIRL I STARTED HANGING OUT WITH AFTER 2 1/2 YEARS WITH 1127 01:11:18,545 --> 01:11:20,580 MY GIRL IS ON THE RUN AND SHE'S LYING TO ME ABOUT HER -- HER 1128 01:11:20,580 --> 01:11:23,283 EVERYTHING AND HER NAME. AND I DON'T KNOW 1129 01:11:23,283 --> 01:11:25,985 IT'S JUST MY LUCK. >> Reporter: AFTER THE ARREST, 1130 01:11:25,985 --> 01:11:29,189 ZACH SAID HE MADE A RATHER SURPRISING DISCOVERY 1131 01:11:29,189 --> 01:11:31,458 >> AND IT'S SO FUNNY I ENDED UP FINDING THE DOCUMENTS 1132 01:11:31,458 --> 01:11:33,960 BEFORE THE POLICE. >> Reporter: HE TURNED THEM OVER 1133 01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,529 TO THE POLICE. BUT NOT BEFORE HE TOOK SOME 1134 01:11:36,529 --> 01:11:59,719 PICTURES THESE DOCUMENTS SEEMED TO HOLD 1135 01:11:59,719 --> 01:12:01,287 TANTALIZING CLUES. >> I WAS SHOCKED 1136 01:12:01,287 --> 01:12:02,956 I WAS LIKE, "HOLY -- THAT'S HER SISTER'S PASSPORT. 1137 01:12:02,956 --> 01:12:04,391 THAT'S HER PASSPORT. THAT'S HER CREDIT CARD 1138 01:12:04,391 --> 01:12:06,493 THAT'S HER SOCIAL SECURITY CARD. THAT'S HER COVID CARD. 1139 01:12:06,493 --> 01:12:08,094 I -- I HAD MORE OF HER DOCUMENTS THAN I DO OF MY OWN. 1140 01:12:08,094 --> 01:12:09,696 >> Reporter: REMEMBER, THE U.S. MARSHALS COULD NOT FIND ANY 1141 01:12:09,696 --> 01:12:11,464 RECORD OF KAITLIN LEAVING THE UNITED STATES. 1142 01:12:11,464 --> 01:12:13,933 SO DID HER SISTER'S PASSPORT EXPLAIN THAT 1143 01:12:13,933 --> 01:12:15,502 THE CACHE OF DOCUMENTS ALSO INCLUDED THIS, A RECEIPT FOR 1144 01:12:15,502 --> 01:12:17,604 PLASTIC SURGERY, MORE THAN $6,000 WORTH, ABOUT HALF THE SUM 1145 01:12:17,604 --> 01:12:19,172 KAITLIN GOT WHEN SHE SOLD HER JEEP 1146 01:12:19,172 --> 01:12:20,774 BUT THE PATIENT'S NAME WAS RECORDED AS ALLISSON PAIGE 1147 01:12:20,774 --> 01:12:22,342 SO SOME OTHER ALIAS? OR SOMEONE ELSE ALTOGETHER 1148 01:12:22,342 --> 01:12:23,943 TO FORMER DETECTIVE LIZ THOMSON, IT ALL LOOKED LIKE PART OF A 1149 01:12:23,943 --> 01:12:25,445 PLAN TO EVADE CAPTURE. >> SHE HAD ALTERED HER 1150 01:12:25,445 --> 01:12:27,147 APPEARANCE, INCLUDING POTENTIALLY HAVING HAD SOME 1151 01:12:27,147 --> 01:12:29,249 COSMETIC SURGERY OR SOME ALTERATION DONE TO HER FACE. 1152 01:12:29,249 --> 01:12:30,817 >> Reporter: YES >> AND HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN 1153 01:12:30,817 --> 01:12:32,919 THAT -- "HEY, I'M GONNA GO ON VACATION AND DYE MY HAIR AND GET 1154 01:12:32,919 --> 01:13:03,616 A NOSE JOB"? >> Reporter: SURE. 1155 01:13:03,616 --> 01:13:05,185 >> HOW -- HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT 1156 01:13:05,185 --> 01:13:07,053 >> Reporter: YOU CAN MOVE ON QUICK IF YOU WANT TO 1157 01:13:07,053 --> 01:13:08,355 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> Reporter: AS LONG AS THE 1158 01:13:08,355 --> 01:13:09,923 MARSHALS AREN'T LOOKING FOR YOU. >> YEAH. 1159 01:13:09,923 --> 01:13:11,524 >> Reporter: SURF INSTRUCTOR AND BEACH PHILOSOPHER TEAL AKERSON 1160 01:13:11,524 --> 01:13:13,259 HAS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VIEW OF KAITLIN. 1161 01:13:13,259 --> 01:13:15,195 >> WELL, IT'S A BUMMER AND, YOU KNOW, THE BUMMER STORY 1162 01:13:15,195 --> 01:13:16,963 I MEAN, WE'RE JUST PEOPLE. WE'RE GOD'S LOST CHILDREN. 1163 01:13:16,963 --> 01:13:18,365 EVERYONE'S ON THEIR LIFE TRIP TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT. 1164 01:13:18,365 --> 01:13:20,066 AND NO MATTER HOW WISE YOU ARE, HOW SMART, HOW ENLIGHTENED YOU 1165 01:13:20,066 --> 01:13:22,769 ARE, HOW MUCH YOGA YOU KNOW, YOU'RE STILL JUST ONE OF THOSE 1166 01:13:22,769 --> 01:13:24,070 PEOPLE ON THAT -- ON THAT RIDE >> Reporter: IT WAS A HOT SUMMER 1167 01:13:24,070 --> 01:13:26,373 DAY, THE KIND TEXAS SPECIALIZES RIDE ENDED WITH HER LOCKED IN A 1168 01:13:26,373 --> 01:14:35,442 JAIL CELL, INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF MORIAH WILSON. 1169 01:14:35,442 --> 01:14:37,077 BAIL WAS SET AT $3.5 MILLION IF CONVICTED, SHE'LL FACE 1170 01:14:37,077 --> 01:14:38,845 99 YEARS IN PRISON BUT CASE CLOSED? 1171 01:14:38,845 --> 01:14:40,280 HARDLY KAITLIN ARMSTRONG HAS A ROBUST 1172 01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:42,282 DEFENSE AND A VERY CONFIDENT DEFENDER 1173 01:14:42,282 --> 01:14:43,883 >> KAITLIN ARMSTRONG IS NOT GUILTY 1174 01:14:43,883 --> 01:14:45,452 AND IF THIS CASE GOES TO TRIAL, SHE WILL BE FOUND NOT GUILTY 1175 01:14:45,452 --> 01:14:50,323 >>> COMING UP -- DOES THE DEFENSE KNOW SOMETHING 1176 01:14:50,323 --> 01:14:51,324 PROSECUTORS DON'T? >> EVIDENCE WILL COME OUT THAT 1177 01:14:51,324 --> 01:15:00,300 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG WAS NOWHERE NEAR THE SCENE OF MISS WILSON'S 1178 01:15:00,300 --> 01:15:01,901 MURDER >>> I'LL SAY JUST A FEW WORDS 1179 01:15:01,901 --> 01:15:04,437 TODAY BECAUSE I DO UNDERSTAND THERE'S INTENSE MEDIA INTEREST 1180 01:15:04,437 --> 01:15:06,106 IN KAITLIN ARMSTRONG'S CASE. >> Reporter: OH, BOY, THERE 1181 01:15:06,106 --> 01:15:08,241 CERTAINLY WAS. ONCE THE MARSHALS BROUGHT HER 1182 01:15:08,241 --> 01:15:10,343 BACK TO AUSTIN, KAITLIN ARMSTRONG PLEADED NOT 1183 01:15:10,343 --> 01:15:13,513 GUILTY AND HIRED THIS MAN TO DEFEND HER, AN ATTORNEY WHO 1184 01:15:13,513 --> 01:15:15,415 EXUDES CONFIDENCE -- RICK COFER. >> YOU BECOME A LAWYER, IN PART, 1185 01:15:15,415 --> 01:15:17,751 TO WORK ON CASES LIKE THIS >> Reporter: WELL, YES 1186 01:15:17,751 --> 01:15:19,853 BUT IN THIS CASE, IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, THE PUBLIC SEEMS TO HAVE 1187 01:15:19,853 --> 01:15:27,927 ACCEPTED THE IDEA THAT THEY'VE GOT HER DEAD TO RIGHTS 1188 01:15:27,927 --> 01:15:31,097 THEY GOT HER JEEP ON RING VIDEO. SHE GOES OUT AND SELLS HER CAR 1189 01:15:31,097 --> 01:15:32,265 AND GETS A PLANE TICKET AND FLIES TO FIRST SEE HER SISTER, 1190 01:15:32,265 --> 01:15:41,307 AND THEN DOWN TO COSTA RICA AND GETS PLASTIC SURGERY, DYES HER 1191 01:15:41,307 --> 01:15:46,146 HAIR BROWN >> THE CONSTRUCTION OF LAW 1192 01:15:46,146 --> 01:15:54,421 ENFORCEMENT THEORY, WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THIS CASE DECIDED THAT 1193 01:15:54,421 --> 01:15:58,992 ARMSTRONG IN FACT IS NOT A JEALOUS PERSON 1194 01:15:58,992 --> 01:16:02,529 >> REMEMBER HOW COLIN DESCRIBED HER, THE LEAST JEALOUS WOMAN HE 1195 01:16:02,529 --> 01:16:08,668 EVER KNEW. AND THE BALLISTICS TEST THAT 1196 01:16:08,668 --> 01:16:17,677 POLICE SAY CONNECTED CAITLIN'S GUN TO THE SHELL CASINGS 1197 01:16:17,677 --> 01:16:21,114 >> IT IS ESSENTIALLY A JUNK SCIENCE. 1198 01:16:21,114 --> 01:16:35,161 IT IS A TYPE OF RICHCRAFT, IF YOU WILL 1199 01:16:35,161 --> 01:16:40,867 >> Reporter: WELL, HARDLY WITCHCRAFT BUT WHY DID SHE RUN 1200 01:16:40,867 --> 01:16:44,838 AFTER HER INTERVIEW WITH THE POLICE 1201 01:16:44,838 --> 01:16:46,206 BECAUSE, SHE SAID THAT HE WAS AFRAID 1202 01:16:46,206 --> 01:16:48,541 SHE WAS AFRAID THAT COLLIN COULD BE A KILLER. 1203 01:16:48,541 --> 01:16:54,080 >> HER BOYFRIEND OF THREE AND A HALF YEARS, HER BUSINESS 1204 01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:59,652 PARTNER, THE PERSON THAT SHE HAS LIVED WITH AND MADE A LIFE WITH 1205 01:16:59,652 --> 01:17:04,157 SPENT BASICALLY ALL DAY WITH HOMICIDE DETECTIVES BEING 1206 01:17:04,157 --> 01:17:09,095 INTERROGATED FOR MURDER. AND HERE'S ARMSTRONG, AS YOU CAN 1207 01:17:09,095 --> 01:17:11,464 PRETTY WELL IMAGINE, TERRIFIED HER ENTIRE WORLD IS DESTROYED 1208 01:17:11,464 --> 01:17:14,434 AND SHAKEN EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAD 1209 01:17:14,434 --> 01:17:21,374 UNDERSTOOD IS GONE IN A SECOND >> AND BEFORE SHE LEFT TOWN, 1210 01:17:21,374 --> 01:17:29,849 CAITLIN CALLED A LAWYER TO SEE IF SHE'D BE IN ANY LEGAL TROUBLE 1211 01:17:29,849 --> 01:17:37,857 IF SHE DID >> THEY SAID GO SEE YOUR FAMILY. 1212 01:17:37,857 --> 01:17:42,662 HER CLOSEST FAMILIAR I WAS IN NEW YORK 1213 01:17:42,662 --> 01:17:48,168 >> AT WHICH TIME KROGER POINTED OUT THE ARREST WARRANT HAD NOT 1214 01:17:48,168 --> 01:18:03,116 YET BEEN ISSUED. SHE TRAVELED TO NEW YORK AIRPORT 1215 01:18:03,116 --> 01:18:19,165 TO FLY TO COSTA REEKA. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE WHEN HER 1216 01:18:19,165 --> 01:18:26,039 WORLD IS. >> WHEN YOU SAY PASSPORT, OTHER 1217 01:18:26,039 --> 01:18:28,742 THAN HER OWN, THAT WOULD BE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT -- 1218 01:18:28,742 --> 01:18:30,377 >> SO YOU DO KNOW BUT YOU CAN'T SAY IN. 1219 01:18:30,377 --> 01:18:38,685 >> IT WOULDN'T BE APPROPRIATE FOR ME TO COMMENT. 1220 01:18:38,685 --> 01:18:44,057 >> AFTER THE ASSERTION SHE HAD PLASTIC SURGERY, PROVE IT. 1221 01:18:44,057 --> 01:18:53,166 >> THERE'S NO EVIDENCE ANYWAY TO SAY SHE HAD PLASTIC SURGERY. 1222 01:18:53,166 --> 01:18:59,839 >> THE RECEIPT FOR SURGERY SHE LEFT BEHIND IN COSTA RICA, IT 1223 01:18:59,839 --> 01:19:12,218 HAD SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME ON IT. >> THE WHOLE CASE IS PREDICATED 1224 01:19:12,218 --> 01:19:25,665 ON A DEEPLY MISOGYNISTIC VIEW. IT'S PREDICATED ON THE IDEA THAT 1225 01:19:25,665 --> 01:19:34,874 SHE IS A TERRIBLE COVERAGE BUT THERE IS THAT KEY OF ED. 1226 01:19:34,874 --> 01:19:41,881 VIDEO OF HER JEEP HAS THE CRIME SCENE AT THE TIME OF THE MURDER. 1227 01:19:41,881 --> 01:19:54,260 AND SHE. >> THAT'S WHERE THE DETECTIVE 1228 01:19:54,260 --> 01:20:01,701 REALLY WANT TO START TO HANG THE SIGN. 1229 01:20:01,701 --> 01:20:05,505 >> THERE'S NO NUMBER AND HE SAID THAT CAN'T BE CAITLIN IN THE 1230 01:20:05,505 --> 01:20:09,743 JEEP GH FOR ONE REASON, YOU CAN'T TW 1231 01:20:09,743 --> 01:20:12,412 PLACES AT ONCE >> OKAY. 1232 01:20:12,412 --> 01:20:15,582 SO YOU'RE SAYING SHE WASN'T IN THE VICINITY OF THE MURDER 1233 01:20:15,582 --> 01:20:21,554 AND YOU CAN PROVE IT >> I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE IT. 1234 01:20:21,554 --> 01:20:29,863 >> YOU JUST SAID SIMPLE MASK WAS AN ERROR 1235 01:20:29,863 --> 01:20:36,670 IT IMPLIES THAT YOU HAVE PROOF >> I SAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS 1236 01:20:36,670 --> 01:20:39,906 EVIDENCE BUT THEY JUST HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT 1237 01:20:39,906 --> 01:20:46,379 >> WHAT HE DID NOT SAY WAS THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WOULD 1238 01:20:46,379 --> 01:20:49,516 EXONERA EXONERATE KAITLIN. 1239 01:20:49,516 --> 01:21:01,795 >> I WANT TO GET AS MUCH OF THIS AS A POSSIBLY CAN. 1240 01:21:01,795 --> 01:21:07,600 >> THE ELEMENT IS SURPRISE IT WILL COME OUT A 1241 01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:15,909 UNCONTROVERTED FACT THE EXACT TIME THAT MISS WILSON WAS SHOT 1242 01:21:15,909 --> 01:21:28,755 THAT EVIDENCE WILL COME OUT. AND EVIDENCE WILL COME OUT THAT 1243 01:21:28,755 --> 01:21:32,425 KAITLIN ARMTHAT'S WHY THIS HAS TO WORK ITSELF OUT 1244 01:21:32,425 --> 01:21:36,529 OUR JOB IS TO SEE THAT JUSTICE IS DONE AND A GREAT WRONG WAS 1245 01:21:36,529 --> 01:21:44,104 DROP HERE. THE KILL ARE NEED TO BE HELD 1246 01:21:44,104 --> 01:21:59,219 ACCOUNTABLE. BUT REQUEST. 1247 01:21:59,219 --> 01:22:09,462 P. >> THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE A 1248 01:22:09,462 --> 01:22:15,301 GAG ORDER AND WE'LL HAVE TO KNOW THE CHILD SHE WAS MAKING 1249 01:22:15,301 --> 01:22:19,105 >> WHAT HAS THE COMMUNITY LOST WITH HER LOSS? 1250 01:22:19,105 --> 01:22:28,615 >> I MEAN, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU I THINK MORE ABOUT WHAT HER 1251 01:22:28,615 --> 01:22:55,108 FAMILY HAS LOST. >> THAT'S INCALCULABLE FOR SURE. 1252 01:22:55,108 --> 01:23:01,481 >> AND I THINK THE COMMUNITY. >>> SHE WAS, SAID THOSE WHO KNEW 1253 01:23:01,481 --> 01:23:05,118 HER, UNFAILINGLY KIND. >> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION