1 00:00:09,344 --> 00:00:21,586 ♪ 2 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:24,172 >> HERE WITH THE FABULOUS MO 3 00:00:24,172 --> 00:00:25,206 WILSON, YOU ARE READY. 4 00:00:25,206 --> 00:00:26,344 >> I'M READY. 5 00:00:26,344 --> 00:00:27,586 SO EXCITED TO BE HERE. 6 00:00:27,586 --> 00:00:30,034 IT FEEL LIKE THE FIRST BIG RACE 7 00:00:30,034 --> 00:00:32,067 IN A YEAR. 8 00:00:32,067 --> 00:00:32,275 YEAH. 9 00:00:32,275 --> 00:00:33,000 >> IT IS. 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,241 >> READY TO KICK IT OFF. 11 00:00:35,241 --> 00:00:36,931 >> I'M STILL GETTING BETTER. 12 00:00:36,931 --> 00:00:37,793 I'M STILL LEARNING. 13 00:00:37,793 --> 00:00:39,551 IT'S AN EXCITING TIME. 14 00:00:39,551 --> 00:00:39,793 THERE'S. 15 00:00:39,793 --> 00:00:41,068 SO FOR ME TO LEARN. 16 00:00:41,068 --> 00:00:43,000 >> HER NAME WAS MORIAH BUT 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,413 EVERYBODY CALL HER MO. 18 00:00:46,413 --> 00:00:50,931 MY NAME THE PILAR MELENDEZ. 19 00:00:50,931 --> 00:00:52,931 I'M WITH THE "DAILY BEAST." 20 00:00:52,931 --> 00:00:55,034 FUNNY AND FRIENDLY AND SMART AND 21 00:00:55,034 --> 00:00:55,517 DRIVEN. 22 00:00:55,517 --> 00:00:57,344 MO WAS A RISING STAR. 23 00:00:57,344 --> 00:01:01,379 SHE GRADUATED FROM DARTMOUTH IN 24 00:01:01,379 --> 00:01:01,689 ENGINEERING. 25 00:01:01,689 --> 00:01:02,551 EVERYONE THOUGHT SHE WAS ABOUT 26 00:01:02,551 --> 00:01:04,861 TO MAKE HER BIG BREAK IF 27 00:01:04,861 --> 00:01:05,448 CYCLING. 28 00:01:05,448 --> 00:01:07,586 >> I HAVE ALWAYS RELIED ON OTHER 29 00:01:07,586 --> 00:01:11,586 >> I HAVE ALWAYS RELIED ON OTHER PEOPLE TO PUSH MYSELF. 30 00:01:11,586 --> 00:01:15,448 PEOPLE TO PUSH MYSELF. 31 00:01:15,448 --> 00:01:20,241 >> WHAT HAPPENED TO MO WAS A 32 00:01:20,241 --> 00:01:20,517 TRAGEDY. 33 00:01:20,517 --> 00:01:23,862 >> WE FOUND MO INSIDE THE 34 00:01:23,862 --> 00:01:24,206 RESIDENCE. 35 00:01:24,206 --> 00:01:26,413 IT WAS A PRETTY GRISLY SCENE. 36 00:01:26,413 --> 00:01:28,000 SHE HAD BEEN SHOT MULTIPLE 37 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:28,241 TIMES. 38 00:01:28,241 --> 00:01:29,655 >> AT FIRST DETECTIVES THOUGHT 39 00:01:29,655 --> 00:01:31,000 IT WAS A ROBBERY. 40 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:31,827 >> YOU'RE LOOKING INTO THIS 41 00:01:31,827 --> 00:01:33,931 POSSIBILITY OF A ROBBERY OR A 42 00:01:33,931 --> 00:01:34,206 BURGLARY. 43 00:01:34,206 --> 00:01:35,965 BUT PARALLEL TO THAT, THERE IS 44 00:01:35,965 --> 00:01:40,723 THIS NAME, COLIN STRICKLAND. 45 00:01:40,723 --> 00:01:43,378 >> MY NAME IS COLIN STRICKLAND. 46 00:01:43,378 --> 00:01:47,965 I AM A BICYCLE RACER. 47 00:01:47,965 --> 00:01:50,241 >> COLIN STRICKLAND WAS A TOP 48 00:01:50,241 --> 00:01:53,517 BIKER AND ALSO FRIENDS WITH MO. 49 00:01:53,517 --> 00:01:56,033 >> I MEAN, COLIN, HE WAS AN 50 00:01:56,033 --> 00:01:56,655 INTERESTING CHARACTER. 51 00:01:56,655 --> 00:01:58,620 HE HAD A LOT OF LIKE COOL 52 00:01:58,620 --> 00:02:02,034 QUALITIES ABOUT HIM. 53 00:02:02,034 --> 00:02:04,275 MOTORCYCLES -- PROFESSIONAL 54 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:04,827 ATHLETE. 55 00:02:04,827 --> 00:02:06,620 COLIN HAD DATED A FEW GIRL IN 56 00:02:06,620 --> 00:02:07,862 THE CYCLING SCENE. 57 00:02:07,862 --> 00:02:09,033 GIRLFRIENDS HERE AND THERE. 58 00:02:09,033 --> 00:02:12,241 PRETTY STANDARD STUFF. 59 00:02:12,241 --> 00:02:13,655 COLIN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MO 60 00:02:13,655 --> 00:02:16,000 WAS, LIKE THEY WERE BOTH BIKE 61 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:16,241 RACERS. 62 00:02:16,241 --> 00:02:19,034 THEY HAD LIKE A ROMANTIC 63 00:02:19,034 --> 00:02:19,655 RELATIONSHIP. 64 00:02:19,655 --> 00:02:21,275 >> THERE HAD DEFINITELY BEEN 65 00:02:21,275 --> 00:02:26,137 SOMETHING ROMANTIC BETWEEN THEM. 66 00:02:26,137 --> 00:02:28,896 COLIN SAID THEY HAD BROKEN UP. 67 00:02:28,896 --> 00:02:32,000 THE SITUATION WAS COMPLICATED. 68 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,482 THERE WAS ANOTHER WOMAN IN 69 00:02:33,482 --> 00:02:35,137 COLIN'S LIFE. 70 00:02:35,137 --> 00:02:41,103 HER NAME WAS KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. 71 00:02:41,103 --> 00:02:43,517 >> KAITLIN, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, 72 00:02:43,517 --> 00:02:47,241 SHE WAS REALLY NICE. 73 00:02:47,241 --> 00:02:49,137 AROUND THE WORLD, INTERESTED IN 74 00:02:49,137 --> 00:02:49,379 YOGA. 75 00:02:49,379 --> 00:02:50,827 A VERY ATTRACTIVE PERSON INSIDE 76 00:02:50,827 --> 00:02:51,689 AND OUT. 77 00:02:51,689 --> 00:02:53,551 AT LEAST THE KAITLIN I INITIALLY 78 00:02:53,551 --> 00:02:57,517 KNEW. 79 00:02:57,517 --> 00:02:59,241 >> HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WERE VERY 80 00:02:59,241 --> 00:03:02,724 INTERESTED IN TALKING TO KAITLIN 81 00:03:02,724 --> 00:03:03,137 ARMSTRONG. 82 00:03:03,137 --> 00:03:04,275 >> STARTING TO GET THE SENSE 83 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:05,620 THAT THERE COULD BE SOME 84 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:06,758 JEALOUSY TO IT. 85 00:03:06,758 --> 00:03:07,965 SHE HAS A GUN. 86 00:03:07,965 --> 00:03:09,655 A FEW THINGS LIKE THAT START TO 87 00:03:09,655 --> 00:03:11,448 PAINT A PICTURE OF, IT COULD 88 00:03:11,448 --> 00:03:13,724 DEFINITELY BE HER. 89 00:03:13,724 --> 00:03:15,379 WE WERE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE 90 00:03:15,379 --> 00:03:16,551 OUT, WILL THEY HAVE ENOUGH 91 00:03:16,551 --> 00:03:19,482 SITUATION TO SCRATCH OUT A 92 00:03:19,482 --> 00:03:19,724 WARRANT? 93 00:03:19,724 --> 00:03:21,896 >> AT THIS POINT, SHE KIND OF 94 00:03:21,896 --> 00:03:22,172 DISAPPEARS. 95 00:03:22,172 --> 00:03:33,206 NO ONE KNOWS WHERE SHE IS. 96 00:03:33,206 --> 00:03:35,448 >> KAITLIN ARMSTRONG VANISHED 97 00:03:35,448 --> 00:03:36,896 SEEMINGLY INTO THIN AIR SPARKING 98 00:03:36,896 --> 00:03:38,103 WHAT WOULD BECOME AN 99 00:03:38,103 --> 00:03:39,172 INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT. 100 00:03:39,172 --> 00:03:40,344 FIRST LEADING AUTHORITIES ACROSS 101 00:03:40,344 --> 00:03:42,067 THE UNITED STATES AND THEN 102 00:03:42,067 --> 00:03:43,551 EVENTUALLY HERE TO THE BEACHES 103 00:03:43,551 --> 00:03:44,379 OF COSTA RICA. 104 00:03:44,379 --> 00:03:46,896 ALONG THE WAY SHE USED MULTIPLE 105 00:03:46,896 --> 00:03:47,827 IDENTITIES AND CHANGED HER 106 00:03:47,827 --> 00:03:51,655 APPEARANCE, EVEN GETTING PLASTIC 107 00:03:51,655 --> 00:03:51,930 SURGERY. 108 00:03:51,930 --> 00:03:54,310 >> HOW SMART WAS KAITLIN 109 00:03:54,310 --> 00:03:54,620 ARMSTRONG? 110 00:03:54,620 --> 00:03:57,482 >> SHE DID SOME PRETTY 111 00:03:57,482 --> 00:03:58,206 INTELLIGENT THINGS. 112 00:03:58,206 --> 00:04:00,482 THE THING THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW 113 00:04:00,482 --> 00:04:02,034 IS YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE JUST 114 00:04:02,034 --> 00:04:04,482 SMARTER THAN ONE, TWO, THREE, OR 115 00:04:04,482 --> 00:04:05,482 FOUR OF US. 116 00:04:05,482 --> 00:04:07,241 THERE IS A TEAM OF 20 PLUS 117 00:04:07,241 --> 00:04:07,482 PEOPLE. 118 00:04:07,482 --> 00:04:09,344 YOU HAVE TO BE SMARTER THAN A 119 00:04:09,344 --> 00:04:12,931 LOT OF PEOPLE TO GET AWAY WITH 120 00:04:12,931 --> 00:04:13,068 IT. 121 00:04:13,068 --> 00:04:14,068 >> IT ALMOST WORKED. 122 00:04:14,068 --> 00:04:19,793 >> IT ALMOST WORKED. >> IT ALMOST WORKED. 123 00:04:19,793 --> 00:05:02,827 >> IT ALMOST WORKED. 124 00:05:02,827 --> 00:05:03,137 >>> HELLO. 125 00:05:03,137 --> 00:05:05,655 I'M HERE WITH THE FABULOUS MO 126 00:05:05,655 --> 00:05:05,931 WILSON. 127 00:05:05,931 --> 00:05:06,931 YOU ARE LIKE READY. 128 00:05:06,931 --> 00:05:08,241 >> I'M READY. 129 00:05:08,241 --> 00:05:12,344 >> IN MARCH OF 2022, UP AND 130 00:05:12,344 --> 00:05:16,931 COMING BIKE RACER ANNA MORIAH 131 00:05:16,931 --> 00:05:19,000 WILSON KNOWN AS MO TO SOME 132 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,034 APPEARED ON THE PRE-RIDE SHOW. 133 00:05:21,034 --> 00:05:22,482 A PROGRAM ABOUT CYCLING. 134 00:05:22,482 --> 00:05:24,137 >> SO EXCITED TO BE HERE. 135 00:05:24,137 --> 00:05:25,793 IT FEELS LIKE THE FIRST BIG RACE 136 00:05:25,793 --> 00:05:26,379 OF THE YEAR. 137 00:05:26,379 --> 00:05:27,103 SO YEAH. 138 00:05:27,103 --> 00:05:27,965 >> IT IS. 139 00:05:27,965 --> 00:05:29,758 >> READY TO KICK IT OFF. 140 00:05:29,758 --> 00:05:33,448 >> JUST TWO MONTHS LATER, MORIAH 141 00:05:33,448 --> 00:05:34,655 WAS FOUND MURDERED. 142 00:05:34,655 --> 00:05:38,000 THE NEWS SHOCKING THE CYCLING 143 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:38,310 COMMUNITY. 144 00:05:38,310 --> 00:05:39,137 >> I DON'T THINK ANYBODY COULD 145 00:05:39,137 --> 00:05:42,965 REALLY BELIEVE IT AT FIRST. 146 00:05:42,965 --> 00:05:43,620 WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO HURT 147 00:05:43,620 --> 00:05:46,551 OR HARM OR KILL THIS LOVELY, 148 00:05:46,551 --> 00:05:47,758 TALENTED YOUNG WOMAN? 149 00:05:47,758 --> 00:05:50,275 >> LISA GOSSELIN LYNN IS THE 150 00:05:50,275 --> 00:05:51,517 EDITOR OF VERMONT SPORTS 151 00:05:51,517 --> 00:05:52,724 MAGAZINE AND VERMONT SKI AND 152 00:05:52,724 --> 00:05:53,620 RIDE MAGAZINE. 153 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:58,275 SHE'S ALSO A CBS NEWS 154 00:05:58,275 --> 00:05:59,793 CONSULTANT. 155 00:05:59,793 --> 00:06:01,000 LYNN HAD BEEN FOLLOWING MORIAH 156 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,482 WILSON'S CAREER FOR MANY MONTHS 157 00:06:02,482 --> 00:06:04,103 BEFORE HER TRAGIC DEATH. 158 00:06:04,103 --> 00:06:06,206 >> IT IS ALL MORIAH WILSON AS 159 00:06:06,206 --> 00:06:08,620 SHE IS SNAKING THROUGH INTO THE 160 00:06:08,620 --> 00:06:10,206 FINISH -- 161 00:06:10,206 --> 00:06:11,793 >> MORIAH WAS PRETTY MUCH 162 00:06:11,793 --> 00:06:14,034 WINNING EVERY RACE THAT SHE 163 00:06:14,034 --> 00:06:14,724 ENTERED. 164 00:06:14,724 --> 00:06:16,862 >> MORIAH WILSON, THE WINNER OF 165 00:06:16,862 --> 00:06:17,896 ROUND ONE -- 166 00:06:17,896 --> 00:06:19,620 >> WINNING OR FINISHING IN THE 167 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:20,310 TOP TWO. 168 00:06:20,310 --> 00:06:24,586 THE RACES THAT SHE ENTERED WERE 169 00:06:24,586 --> 00:06:26,275 TOP TIER. 170 00:06:26,275 --> 00:06:28,172 MORIAH HAD THE POTENTIAL TO BE 171 00:06:28,172 --> 00:06:30,689 ONE OF THE TOP BIKE RACERS, 172 00:06:30,689 --> 00:06:32,172 DEFINITELY IN THE COUNTRY AND 173 00:06:32,172 --> 00:06:35,482 PROBABLY IN THE WORLD. 174 00:06:35,482 --> 00:06:38,413 >> MO -- 175 00:06:38,413 --> 00:06:40,586 >> Reporter: LYNN SAID MORIAH 176 00:06:40,586 --> 00:06:42,241 WAS NEW TO THE HE PRO CYCLING 177 00:06:42,241 --> 00:06:42,655 WORLD. 178 00:06:42,655 --> 00:06:45,620 HAD HE FIRST PASSION HAD BEEN 179 00:06:45,620 --> 00:06:47,137 DOWNHILL SKI RACING. 180 00:06:47,137 --> 00:06:49,137 >> SHE WAS BORN INTO A FAMILY OF 181 00:06:49,137 --> 00:06:50,137 REALLY GREAT ATHLETES. 182 00:06:50,137 --> 00:06:51,689 HER FATHER ERIC HAD BEEN ON THE 183 00:06:51,689 --> 00:06:54,000 U.S. SKI TEAM AND MORIAH'S AUNT 184 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,655 ACTUALLY WAS A TWO-TIME OLYMPIC 185 00:06:56,655 --> 00:06:57,965 NORDIC SKI RACER. 186 00:06:57,965 --> 00:07:00,896 >> AND IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT 187 00:07:00,896 --> 00:07:03,551 MORIAH WAS DRAWN TO OUTDOOR 188 00:07:03,551 --> 00:07:04,758 ENDURANCE SPORTS. 189 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:06,689 SHE WAS RAISE IN THE NORTHERN 190 00:07:06,689 --> 00:07:10,275 VERMONT NEXT TO KINGDOM TRAILS. 191 00:07:10,275 --> 00:07:12,000 >> THAT WAS HER PLAY GROUND. 192 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,586 >> MORIAH DANIELED BURKE 193 00:07:13,586 --> 00:07:19,896 MOUNTAIN ACADEMY, AN ELITE SKI 194 00:07:19,896 --> 00:07:20,413 SCHOOL THAT PRODUCED GOLD 195 00:07:20,413 --> 00:07:27,689 MEDALISTS LIKE MIKAELA SHIFFRIN. 196 00:07:27,689 --> 00:07:28,689 SHE SWITCHED SPORTS. 197 00:07:28,689 --> 00:07:30,965 >> SHE USED CYCLING AS A WAY OF 198 00:07:30,965 --> 00:07:33,586 REHABBING AND BUILDING BACK HER 199 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:33,862 STRENGTH. 200 00:07:33,862 --> 00:07:35,448 WHAT WAS FASCINATING TO ME WAS 201 00:07:35,448 --> 00:07:37,793 SHE THEN WENT ON TO DARTMOUTH. 202 00:07:37,793 --> 00:07:39,517 SHE GOT AN ENGINEERING DEGREE. 203 00:07:39,517 --> 00:07:40,793 AND AFTER DOING THAT, SHE WENT 204 00:07:40,793 --> 00:07:42,896 TO HER MOTHER AND SAID, HEY, 205 00:07:42,896 --> 00:07:44,448 MOM, IT I WANT TO BE A 206 00:07:44,448 --> 00:07:47,517 PROFESSIONAL CYCLIST. 207 00:07:47,517 --> 00:07:49,413 >> AND MORIAH TOLD THE PODCAST, 208 00:07:49,413 --> 00:07:51,965 WE GOT TO HANG OUT, THAT SHE 209 00:07:51,965 --> 00:07:54,482 WANTED TO DO MUCH MORE THAN JUST 210 00:07:54,482 --> 00:07:55,172 WIN RACES. 211 00:07:55,172 --> 00:07:56,965 >> HOW CAN I INSPIRE PEOPLE? 212 00:07:56,965 --> 00:07:58,758 HOW CAN I GIVE BACK TO THE 213 00:07:58,758 --> 00:07:59,241 CYCLING COMMUNITY? 214 00:07:59,241 --> 00:08:01,103 HOW CAN I BRING MORE PEOPLE INTO 215 00:08:01,103 --> 00:08:01,931 THE SPORT? 216 00:08:01,931 --> 00:08:03,862 HOW CAN I MAKE IT MORE 217 00:08:03,862 --> 00:08:04,448 INCLUSIVE? 218 00:08:04,448 --> 00:08:09,137 I WANT TO FIND MEANING AND 219 00:08:09,137 --> 00:08:11,551 PURPOSE IN CYCLING. 220 00:08:11,551 --> 00:08:12,896 >> MORIAH EVENTUALLY MOVED TO 221 00:08:12,896 --> 00:08:14,413 SAN FRANCISCO WHERE SHE FOCUSED 222 00:08:14,413 --> 00:08:16,655 ON CYCLING AND QUICKLY ROSE TO 223 00:08:16,655 --> 00:08:18,137 THE TOP OF THE SPORT. 224 00:08:18,137 --> 00:08:19,931 >> MORIAH WAS FORGING HER OWN 225 00:08:19,931 --> 00:08:20,172 PATH. 226 00:08:20,172 --> 00:08:22,206 SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO. 227 00:08:22,206 --> 00:08:27,206 AND SHE WAS WORKING HARD TO 228 00:08:27,206 --> 00:08:28,551 PURSUE IT. 229 00:08:28,551 --> 00:08:31,586 >> ON MAY 10th, 2022, JUST ONE 230 00:08:31,586 --> 00:08:33,931 WEEK BEFORE HER 26th BIRTHDAY, 231 00:08:33,931 --> 00:08:35,895 MORIAH ARRIVED IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, 232 00:08:35,895 --> 00:08:39,413 TO PREPARE FOR THE GRAVEL LOCOS 233 00:08:39,413 --> 00:08:40,861 BIKE RACE, A RACE SHE WAS 234 00:08:40,861 --> 00:08:42,000 FAVORED TO WIN. 235 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,827 MORIAH STAYED WITH A CLOSE 236 00:08:43,827 --> 00:08:45,551 FRIEND IN THIS AUSTIN APARTMENT. 237 00:08:45,551 --> 00:08:47,068 BUT THE NEXT EVENING, JUST 238 00:08:47,068 --> 00:08:49,793 BEFORE 10:00 P.M., THE FRIEND 239 00:08:49,793 --> 00:08:51,275 RETURNED HOME AND DISCOVERED 240 00:08:51,275 --> 00:08:53,689 MORIAH WHO HAD BEEN SHOT 241 00:08:53,689 --> 00:08:54,482 MULTIPLE TIMES. 242 00:08:54,482 --> 00:08:56,172 SHE CALLED 911 -- 243 00:08:56,172 --> 00:08:57,793 >> SHE'S LAYING ON THE BATHROOM 244 00:08:57,793 --> 00:09:00,793 FLOOR AND THERE'S BLOOD 245 00:09:00,793 --> 00:09:01,068 EVERYWHERE. 246 00:09:01,068 --> 00:09:03,413 >> MORIAH'S FRIEND TRIED CPR BUT 247 00:09:03,413 --> 00:09:05,862 IT WAS TOO LATE. 248 00:09:05,862 --> 00:09:07,827 >> IT STARTED OFF NEAR THE DOOR 249 00:09:07,827 --> 00:09:09,275 AND WENT BACKWARDS LIKE SHE WAS 250 00:09:09,275 --> 00:09:10,931 TRYING TO GET AWAY OR THERE WAS 251 00:09:10,931 --> 00:09:13,379 SOME SORT OF A STRUGGLE. 252 00:09:13,379 --> 00:09:14,965 >> AUSTIN POLICE OFFICERS MARC 253 00:09:14,965 --> 00:09:16,551 McLEOD AND JONATHAN RILEY WORKED 254 00:09:16,551 --> 00:09:17,931 THE CASE FROM THE BEGINNING. 255 00:09:17,931 --> 00:09:19,344 >> WHOEVER SHOT HER AT THAT 256 00:09:19,344 --> 00:09:20,827 POINT STOOD OVER THE TOP OF HER 257 00:09:20,827 --> 00:09:24,482 AND SHOT HER AT LEAST ONCE. 258 00:09:24,482 --> 00:09:25,551 >> INVESTIGATORS WONDER, WHO 259 00:09:25,551 --> 00:09:28,000 COULD HAVE MURDERED THIS 260 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,620 PROMISING YOUNG ATHLETE? 261 00:09:30,620 --> 00:09:32,517 AS THEY CANVASSED THE IMMEDIATE 262 00:09:32,517 --> 00:09:35,034 AREA, POLICE DISCOVERED A 263 00:09:35,034 --> 00:09:36,310 POSSIBLE CLUE. 264 00:09:36,310 --> 00:09:38,000 MORIAH'S EXPENSIVE RACING 265 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,965 BICYCLE HAD BEEN DISCARDED IN 266 00:09:39,965 --> 00:09:41,000 THE BUSHES. 267 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,379 >> SO AT THAT POINT, OKAY, IS 268 00:09:42,379 --> 00:09:43,689 THIS A BURGLARY? 269 00:09:43,689 --> 00:09:45,206 A ROBBERY GONE WRONG? 270 00:09:45,206 --> 00:09:47,896 >> BUT THAT THEORY WAS QUICKLY 271 00:09:47,896 --> 00:09:49,206 DISMISSED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO 272 00:09:49,206 --> 00:09:51,551 SIGN OF A BREAK-IN. 273 00:09:51,551 --> 00:09:53,586 THEN POLICE LEARNED HOURS BEFORE 274 00:09:53,586 --> 00:09:55,793 MORIAH WAS FOUND MURDERED, ABOUT 275 00:09:55,793 --> 00:09:59,103 8:30 P.M., SHE HAD BEEN DROPPED 276 00:09:59,103 --> 00:10:00,000 OFF BY ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL BIKE 277 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,931 RACER NAMED COLIN STRICKLAND. 278 00:10:01,931 --> 00:10:05,172 >> SO THE FOCUS WOULD BE WHO IS 279 00:10:05,172 --> 00:10:06,517 THIS COLIN STRICKLAND? 280 00:10:06,517 --> 00:10:09,000 >> COLIN STRICKLAND WAS A VERY 281 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,241 GOOD GRAVEL RACER. 282 00:10:11,241 --> 00:10:12,551 HE WAS AT THE TOP ECHELON. 283 00:10:12,551 --> 00:10:14,206 >> COLIN STRICKLAND WHO WAS 35 284 00:10:14,206 --> 00:10:16,896 WAS CONSIDERED A PIONEER IN THE 285 00:10:16,896 --> 00:10:17,241 SPORT. 286 00:10:17,241 --> 00:10:19,310 HE HAD WON SOME OF THE MOST 287 00:10:19,310 --> 00:10:20,724 PRESTIGIOUS RACES AND WAS 288 00:10:20,724 --> 00:10:22,517 SPONSORED BY THE INDUSTRY'S TOP 289 00:10:22,517 --> 00:10:23,482 BRANDS LIKE RED BULL. 290 00:10:23,482 --> 00:10:26,172 >> MY NAME IS COLIN STRICKLAND. 291 00:10:26,172 --> 00:10:30,000 I AM A BICYCLE RACER AND GENERAL 292 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:30,344 ENTERTAINER. 293 00:10:30,344 --> 00:10:33,517 >> IN 2020, HE APPEARED IN AN 294 00:10:33,517 --> 00:10:35,241 ONLINE VIDEO CALLED WAHOO 295 00:10:35,241 --> 00:10:37,068 FRONTIERS ABOUT HIS LONG AND 296 00:10:37,068 --> 00:10:37,793 SUCCESSFUL CAREER. 297 00:10:37,793 --> 00:10:39,724 >> PRETTY EARLY ON I LOOKED UP 298 00:10:39,724 --> 00:10:42,103 TO COLIN. 299 00:10:42,103 --> 00:10:46,551 >> PLEASE WELCOME -- 300 00:10:46,551 --> 00:10:51,793 >> CHRIS TOLLEY IS FRIENDS WITH 301 00:10:51,793 --> 00:10:52,068 STRICKLAND. 302 00:10:52,068 --> 00:10:54,172 >> HE LOVED TO CREATE A SHOW 303 00:10:54,172 --> 00:10:55,172 AROUND BIKE RACING. 304 00:10:55,172 --> 00:10:56,517 SELLING BIKE RACING. 305 00:10:56,517 --> 00:11:00,000 HE WAS REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT 306 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:00,172 IT. 307 00:11:00,172 --> 00:11:02,000 >> AND TOLLEY THAT ALTHOUGH HIS 308 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,103 FRIEND HAD BEEN POPULAR WITH 309 00:11:03,103 --> 00:11:04,448 WOMEN, HE EVENTUALLY BECAME 310 00:11:04,448 --> 00:11:07,068 SERIOUS WITH A WOMAN NAMED 311 00:11:07,068 --> 00:11:07,655 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. 312 00:11:07,655 --> 00:11:10,137 IN A SOCIAL MEDIA POST AFTER THE 313 00:11:10,137 --> 00:11:12,000 CRIME, STRICKLAND WROTE, ABOUT 314 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,068 SIX MONTHS BEFORE MORIAH'S 315 00:11:13,068 --> 00:11:14,724 MURDER DURING A SHORT BREAK-UP 316 00:11:14,724 --> 00:11:16,586 WITH ARMSTRONG, HE DID HAVE A 317 00:11:16,586 --> 00:11:18,827 BRIEF ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH 318 00:11:18,827 --> 00:11:21,103 MORIAH THAT SPANNED A WEEK OR 319 00:11:21,103 --> 00:11:21,655 SO. 320 00:11:21,655 --> 00:11:23,931 HE SAID THAT IT ENDED AND THEIR 321 00:11:23,931 --> 00:11:26,724 RELATIONSHIP HAD TURNED INTO A 322 00:11:26,724 --> 00:11:28,896 PLATONIC AND PROFESSIONAL ONE. 323 00:11:28,896 --> 00:11:30,448 >> HE JUST WANTED TO BE FRIENDS 324 00:11:30,448 --> 00:11:32,379 WITH SOMEONE WHO WOULD DO GREAT 325 00:11:32,379 --> 00:11:34,275 THING IN CYCLING. 326 00:11:34,275 --> 00:11:36,310 >> THE DAY AFTER MORIAH'S 327 00:11:36,310 --> 00:11:38,103 MURDER, POLICE VISITED AND SPOKE 328 00:11:38,103 --> 00:11:40,413 TO COLIN STRICKLAND AT HIS HOME. 329 00:11:40,413 --> 00:11:42,206 >> MY PERSONAL TAKE WAS HE WAS 330 00:11:42,206 --> 00:11:44,000 BEING VERY COOPERATIVE, BEING 331 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 VERY FORTHCOMING. 332 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,379 OBVIOUSLY HE WAS IN SHOCK. 333 00:11:47,379 --> 00:11:49,000 >> BEING VERY TRANSPARENT. 334 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:49,586 >> YEAH. 335 00:11:49,586 --> 00:11:51,482 >> AND INVESTIGATORS SAY WHEN HE 336 00:11:51,482 --> 00:11:53,137 AGREED TO GO DOWN TO THE POLICE 337 00:11:53,137 --> 00:11:54,758 STATION TO BE INTERVIEWED, HE 338 00:11:54,758 --> 00:11:56,172 DIDN'T SEEM TO HOLD BACK WHEN 339 00:11:56,172 --> 00:11:57,931 TELLING THEM ABOUT THE DAY HE 340 00:11:57,931 --> 00:11:58,896 SPENT WITH MORIAH. 341 00:11:58,896 --> 00:12:01,137 A DAY THAT WOULD END UP BEING 342 00:12:01,137 --> 00:12:01,965 HER LAST. 343 00:12:01,965 --> 00:12:06,344 >> THAT DAY IN MAY, IT WAS HOT. 344 00:12:06,344 --> 00:12:07,034 IN THE 80s. 345 00:12:07,034 --> 00:12:10,000 THIS STORY STARTED WITH A SWIM 346 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:10,310 RIGHT HERE. 347 00:12:10,310 --> 00:12:13,103 IT IS A FAMOUS OUTDOOR POOL AND 348 00:12:13,103 --> 00:12:14,758 COLIN STRICKLAND SAID HE TOOK 349 00:12:14,758 --> 00:12:16,551 THE VICTIM, MO WILSON, ON THE 350 00:12:16,551 --> 00:12:18,068 BACK OF HIS MOTORCYCLE TO COOL 351 00:12:18,068 --> 00:12:18,620 OFF. 352 00:12:18,620 --> 00:12:20,137 >> THEY WENT SWIMMING AND THEY 353 00:12:20,137 --> 00:12:21,275 GOT FOOD. 354 00:12:21,275 --> 00:12:22,862 >> MORIAH AND STRICKLAND ARE 355 00:12:22,862 --> 00:12:24,448 SEEN HERE ON THE RESTAURANT'S 356 00:12:24,448 --> 00:12:25,310 SECURITY CAMERA. 357 00:12:25,310 --> 00:12:27,862 >> I KNOW HE'S BEING TRANSPARENT 358 00:12:27,862 --> 00:12:29,103 AT THIS POINT DURING THIS 359 00:12:29,103 --> 00:12:29,379 TESTIMONY. 360 00:12:29,379 --> 00:12:31,068 WHAT HE'S SAYING IS STARTING TO 361 00:12:31,068 --> 00:12:34,827 SOUND A LOT LIKE A DATE. 362 00:12:34,827 --> 00:12:36,379 >> 100%. 363 00:12:36,379 --> 00:12:39,000 >> INVESTIGATORS HAD A LOT OF 364 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,448 QUESTIONS, AND THEIR PRIOR VISIT 365 00:12:40,448 --> 00:12:42,137 TO STRICKLAND'S HOME HAD RAISED 366 00:12:42,137 --> 00:12:44,000 EVEN MORE. 367 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,689 ON THE NIGHT OF MORIAH'S MURDER, 368 00:12:45,689 --> 00:12:46,896 POLICE DISCOVERED AN IMPORTANT 369 00:12:46,896 --> 00:12:49,000 CLUE ON VIDEO FROM A NEIGHBOR'S 370 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:49,793 SECURITY CAMERA. 371 00:12:49,793 --> 00:12:51,655 THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN JUST ONE 372 00:12:51,655 --> 00:12:53,344 MINUTE AFTER MORIAH WAS DROPPED 373 00:12:53,344 --> 00:12:53,655 OFF. 374 00:12:53,655 --> 00:12:55,275 >> IT WAS A VIDEO FROM A RING 375 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:56,827 DOOR BELL CAMERA THAT CLEARLY 376 00:12:56,827 --> 00:12:59,931 SHOWS A BLACK SUV WITH A BIKE 377 00:12:59,931 --> 00:13:00,172 RACK. 378 00:13:00,172 --> 00:13:02,413 YOU CAN'T SEE THE LICENSE PLATE 379 00:13:02,413 --> 00:13:04,103 BECAUSE OF THE BIKE RACK ON IT. 380 00:13:04,103 --> 00:13:06,000 >> SO WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THIS. 381 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,620 >> AND A VEHICLE THAT FIT THAT 382 00:13:08,620 --> 00:13:10,034 DESCRIPTION WAS OUTSIDE 383 00:13:10,034 --> 00:13:11,103 STRICKLAND'S HOUSE. 384 00:13:11,103 --> 00:13:12,448 WHO WAS DRIVING THE BLACK SUV 385 00:13:12,448 --> 00:13:15,689 WITH THE BIKE RACK? 386 00:13:15,689 --> 00:13:17,689 THE ANSWER WOULD LEAD DIRECTLY 387 00:13:17,689 --> 00:13:33,517 THE ANSWER WOULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER WOMAN.>>> THE DAY AFTER MORIAH 388 00:13:33,517 --> 00:13:36,689 TO ANOTHER WOMAN.>>> THE DAY AFTER MORIAH 389 00:13:36,689 --> 00:13:38,000 WILSON'S MURDER, INVESTIGATORS 390 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,034 QUICKLY HAD AN ANSWER TO WHO 391 00:13:40,034 --> 00:13:40,896 COULD HAVE BEEN DRIVING THAT 392 00:13:40,896 --> 00:13:42,896 BLACK JEEP THAT WAS SEEN ON 393 00:13:42,896 --> 00:13:45,517 SECURITY CAMERAS SHORTLY BEFORE 394 00:13:45,517 --> 00:13:46,586 HER DEATH. 395 00:13:46,586 --> 00:13:49,793 INVESTIGATORS HAD SPOTTED A 396 00:13:49,793 --> 00:13:51,000 SIMILAR-LOOKING JEEP IN COLIN 397 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,551 STRICKLAND'S DRIVEWAY WHEN THEY 398 00:13:52,551 --> 00:13:53,448 SPOKE TO HIM. 399 00:13:53,448 --> 00:13:54,862 >> THEY SEE A BLACK REGIME WITH 400 00:13:54,862 --> 00:13:57,758 THE BIKE RACK ON THE BACK OF IT. 401 00:13:57,758 --> 00:13:59,310 AT THAT POINT WE RUN THE LICENSE 402 00:13:59,310 --> 00:14:01,551 PLATE AND IT COMES BACK THAT IT 403 00:14:01,551 --> 00:14:03,379 IS REGISTERED TO KAITLIN 404 00:14:03,379 --> 00:14:04,551 ARMSTRONG. 405 00:14:04,551 --> 00:14:06,965 >> KAITLIN ARMSTRONG, COLIN 406 00:14:06,965 --> 00:14:07,931 STRICKLAND'S GIRLFRIEND. 407 00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:09,689 CHRIS TOLLEY SAID HE KNEW HER 408 00:14:09,689 --> 00:14:10,896 VERY WELL. 409 00:14:10,896 --> 00:14:13,586 >> WE CONNECTED PRETTY EARLY ON. 410 00:14:13,586 --> 00:14:15,275 KAITLIN AND I BECAME FRIEND. 411 00:14:15,275 --> 00:14:17,724 >> THEY WERE BOTH FROM THE 412 00:14:17,724 --> 00:14:17,965 MIDWEST. 413 00:14:17,965 --> 00:14:19,586 >> WE HAD A SIMILAR UPBRINGING 414 00:14:19,586 --> 00:14:21,034 SO I THINK THAT KIND OF HELPED 415 00:14:21,034 --> 00:14:22,724 US BECOME EVEN BETTER FRIENDS. 416 00:14:22,724 --> 00:14:24,793 SHE WOULD COME OVER TO PARTIES I 417 00:14:24,793 --> 00:14:26,827 WOULD HAVE. 418 00:14:26,827 --> 00:14:28,620 >> ARMSTRONG HAD A BACKGROUND IN 419 00:14:28,620 --> 00:14:30,034 FINANCE AND LOVED YOGA. 420 00:14:30,034 --> 00:14:33,275 >> SHE HAD A REALLY STRONG LOVE 421 00:14:33,275 --> 00:14:33,862 FOR TRAVEL. 422 00:14:33,862 --> 00:14:36,793 YOU KNOW, SHE SPENT TIME PRETTY 423 00:14:36,793 --> 00:14:38,275 MUCH GLOBE-HOPPING AROUND THE 424 00:14:38,275 --> 00:14:38,551 WORLD. 425 00:14:38,551 --> 00:14:40,482 AN INTERESTING PERSON. 426 00:14:40,482 --> 00:14:42,379 >> ARMSTRONG GOT CERTIFIED AS A 427 00:14:42,379 --> 00:14:46,068 YOGA INSTRUCTOR IN BALI. 428 00:14:46,068 --> 00:14:47,275 AFTER SHE MET COLIN STRICKLAND 429 00:14:47,275 --> 00:14:50,103 IN 2019, SHE ALSO GOT INTO 430 00:14:50,103 --> 00:14:50,344 CYCLING. 431 00:14:50,344 --> 00:14:52,000 >> HE WAS VERY WILLING TO SHOW 432 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,896 HER WHAT HIS PASSIONS WERE AND 433 00:14:53,896 --> 00:14:54,965 HOW PASSIONATE HE WAS WITH 434 00:14:54,965 --> 00:14:56,172 CYCLING AND GET HER INVOLVED 435 00:14:56,172 --> 00:14:58,206 WITH IT AND SHE ALSO BECAME KIND 436 00:14:58,206 --> 00:14:59,965 OF ADDICTED TO CYCLING ALONG 437 00:14:59,965 --> 00:15:01,896 WITH COLIN. 438 00:15:01,896 --> 00:15:03,379 >> ARMSTRONG EVEN STARTED RACING 439 00:15:03,379 --> 00:15:05,000 ON AN AMATEUR LEVEL. 440 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,517 >> AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT 441 00:15:06,517 --> 00:15:07,965 SEEMED LIKE THEY HAD A PRETTY 442 00:15:07,965 --> 00:15:08,689 NORMAL RELATIONSHIP. 443 00:15:08,689 --> 00:15:10,379 THEY WOULD RIDE BIKES TOGETHER, 444 00:15:10,379 --> 00:15:11,482 DO FUN STUFF. 445 00:15:11,482 --> 00:15:13,103 THEN 2020 HAPPENED AND THE 446 00:15:13,103 --> 00:15:14,034 PANDEMIC STARTED. 447 00:15:14,034 --> 00:15:17,310 SO EVERYONE WAS KIND OF FORCED 448 00:15:17,310 --> 00:15:20,103 INTO CLOSE QUARTERS WITH THEIR 449 00:15:20,103 --> 00:15:20,620 SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. 450 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:21,965 >> THE COUPLE EVENTUALLY MOVED 451 00:15:21,965 --> 00:15:23,000 IN TOGETHER. 452 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,275 >> THE MOMENT I SAW THE 453 00:15:24,275 --> 00:15:25,206 RELATIONSHIP BECOME MORE 454 00:15:25,206 --> 00:15:27,379 SERIOUS, THEY TALKED ABOUT THEY 455 00:15:27,379 --> 00:15:28,793 PURCHASED A HOUSE TOGETHER 456 00:15:28,793 --> 00:15:30,241 RECENTLY, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS A 457 00:15:30,241 --> 00:15:31,551 PRETTY BIG INDICATION THAT IT IS 458 00:15:31,551 --> 00:15:32,965 A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP. 459 00:15:32,965 --> 00:15:34,482 >> THEY ALSO STARTED A BUSINESS 460 00:15:34,482 --> 00:15:35,000 TOGETHER. 461 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,758 RSTORING CLASSIC TRAILERS. 462 00:15:36,758 --> 00:15:37,862 >> I THINK SHE WAS HELPING WITH 463 00:15:37,862 --> 00:15:39,862 THE FINANCE SIDE OF THINGS. 464 00:15:39,862 --> 00:15:42,000 COLIN WAS DOING A LOT OF THE 465 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:42,310 OPERATIONS. 466 00:15:42,310 --> 00:15:43,448 THEIR RELATIONSHIP WENT FROM 467 00:15:43,448 --> 00:15:45,000 JUST A NORMAL COUPLE TO ALSO 468 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,344 OWNING A BUSINESS TOGETHER. 469 00:15:47,344 --> 00:15:50,965 >> BUT THING GOT BUMPY IN LATE 470 00:15:50,965 --> 00:15:51,206 2021. 471 00:15:51,206 --> 00:15:53,793 >> THE BREAK-UP, I PERSONALLY 472 00:15:53,793 --> 00:15:55,068 DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE SPLIT UP 473 00:15:55,068 --> 00:15:55,586 AT THE TIME. 474 00:15:55,586 --> 00:15:56,758 NEITHER OF THEM MENTIONED 475 00:15:56,758 --> 00:15:57,793 ANYTHING TO ME. 476 00:15:57,793 --> 00:16:01,551 >> IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT 477 00:16:01,551 --> 00:16:02,241 COLIN STRICKLAND AND MORIAH 478 00:16:02,241 --> 00:16:04,068 WILSON HAD BRIEFLY DATED. 479 00:16:04,068 --> 00:16:05,206 ALTHOUGH STRICKLAND SAID THEY 480 00:16:05,206 --> 00:16:08,000 HAD BROKEN IT OFF, MORIAH SEEMED 481 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,482 CONFUSED IN THE AFTERMATH. 482 00:16:13,482 --> 00:16:16,103 PILAR MELENDEZ COVERED IT WITH 483 00:16:16,103 --> 00:16:16,965 THE "DAILY BEAST." 484 00:16:16,965 --> 00:16:19,448 >> AROUND THIS TIME SHE 485 00:16:19,448 --> 00:16:20,689 LITERALLY WROTE, THIS WEEKEND 486 00:16:20,689 --> 00:16:21,758 WAS STRANGE FOR ME. 487 00:16:21,758 --> 00:16:24,034 IF YOU JUST WANT TO BE FRIENDS, 488 00:16:24,034 --> 00:16:25,241 THAT'S COOL. 489 00:16:25,241 --> 00:16:27,344 HONESTLY, MY MIND HAS BEEN GOING 490 00:16:27,344 --> 00:16:28,310 IN CIRCLES. 491 00:16:28,310 --> 00:16:30,344 IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE WHO IS IN 492 00:16:30,344 --> 00:16:31,793 HER EARLY 20s WHO JUST WANTS TO 493 00:16:31,793 --> 00:16:34,344 KNOW THE STATUS OF HER 494 00:16:34,344 --> 00:16:35,000 RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE THAT 495 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,793 IS CONFUSING HER AND IT SEEM 496 00:16:36,793 --> 00:16:38,137 TOTALLY REASONABLE THAT SHE 497 00:16:38,137 --> 00:16:40,034 MIGHT BE CONFUSED. 498 00:16:40,034 --> 00:16:41,965 >> STRICKLAND HAD A LOT TO SAY 499 00:16:41,965 --> 00:16:45,241 ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH 500 00:16:45,241 --> 00:16:45,689 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. 501 00:16:45,689 --> 00:16:47,068 >> HE STARTS TO PORTRAY HER AS 502 00:16:47,068 --> 00:16:49,137 BEING THE JEALOUS TYPE. 503 00:16:49,137 --> 00:16:50,862 EVEN SAYING THINGS LIKE, I CAN'T 504 00:16:50,862 --> 00:16:53,655 KEEP PEOPLE IN MY PHONE. 505 00:16:53,655 --> 00:16:55,965 LIKE MO IS NOT IN MY PHONE AS 506 00:16:55,965 --> 00:16:56,206 MO. 507 00:16:56,206 --> 00:16:57,379 >> STRICKLAND TOLD INVESTIGATORS 508 00:16:57,379 --> 00:16:59,206 HE KEPT MORIAH'S PHONE NUMBER 509 00:16:59,206 --> 00:17:01,137 UNDER AN ALIAS IN HER CONTACTS 510 00:17:01,137 --> 00:17:02,551 AND ON THAT EVENING AFTER HE HAD 511 00:17:02,551 --> 00:17:04,103 BEEN OUT WITH MORIAH AT THE 512 00:17:04,103 --> 00:17:06,034 POOL, HE TEXTED ARMSTRONG THAT 513 00:17:06,034 --> 00:17:08,000 HE HAD BEEN RUNNING AN ERRAND. 514 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,137 THAT HIS PHONE HAD DIED. 515 00:17:10,137 --> 00:17:12,862 THAT WAS NOT TRUE. 516 00:17:12,862 --> 00:17:14,137 INVESTIGATORS SAY THERE WERE 517 00:17:14,137 --> 00:17:15,344 OTHER CLUES POINTING TOWARD 518 00:17:15,344 --> 00:17:18,378 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. 519 00:17:18,378 --> 00:17:21,619 >> ON THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER, 520 00:17:21,619 --> 00:17:22,586 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG'S PHONE WAS 521 00:17:22,586 --> 00:17:24,792 NOT CONNECTED TO A CELL NETWORK. 522 00:17:24,792 --> 00:17:25,758 >> NOT CONNECTED. 523 00:17:25,758 --> 00:17:26,792 >> CORRECT. 524 00:17:26,792 --> 00:17:28,827 WHETHER SHE POWERED IT OFF, 525 00:17:28,827 --> 00:17:31,862 WHETHER SHE PUT IT IN AIRPLANE 526 00:17:31,862 --> 00:17:33,310 MODE, SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT 527 00:17:33,310 --> 00:17:34,413 HER PHONE WAS NOT COMMUNICATING 528 00:17:34,413 --> 00:17:36,172 WITH ANY CELL PHONE TOWERS. 529 00:17:36,172 --> 00:17:37,689 >> DO YOU THINK THIS WAS ON 530 00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:37,965 PURPOSE? 531 00:17:37,965 --> 00:17:39,206 >> ABSOLUTELY. 532 00:17:39,206 --> 00:17:41,379 IN THIS DAY AND AGE, IF YOUR 533 00:17:41,379 --> 00:17:43,068 PHONE IS OFF AND NOT CONNECTED 534 00:17:43,068 --> 00:17:44,931 TO A NETWORK, YOU'RE EITHER THE 535 00:17:44,931 --> 00:17:47,137 VICTIM OF A CRIME OR YOU'RE 536 00:17:47,137 --> 00:17:48,724 PROBABLY COMMITTING ONE. 537 00:17:48,724 --> 00:17:50,724 >> A SILENT PHONE SPEAKS LOUDER 538 00:17:50,724 --> 00:17:52,241 IN SOME CASES THAN ACTIONS. 539 00:17:52,241 --> 00:17:53,862 >> ABSOLUTELY. 540 00:17:53,862 --> 00:17:55,620 >> STRICKLAND ALSO SHARED THAT 541 00:17:55,620 --> 00:17:57,310 HE HAD BOUGHT HANDGUNS FOR 542 00:17:57,310 --> 00:17:59,379 ARMSTRONG AND HIMSELF FOR 543 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:00,310 PERSONAL SECURITY. 544 00:18:00,310 --> 00:18:02,241 >> HE TALKS ABOUT HOW THEY 545 00:18:02,241 --> 00:18:03,793 PURCHASED GUNS, AND THAT THERE 546 00:18:03,793 --> 00:18:06,413 ARE THESE TWO GUNS AND SHE HAS A 547 00:18:06,413 --> 00:18:06,689 GUN. 548 00:18:06,689 --> 00:18:08,620 THEY'VE TAKEN LESSONS. 549 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:11,827 THAT THESE GUNS ARE BACK AT THE 550 00:18:11,827 --> 00:18:12,068 HOUSE. 551 00:18:12,068 --> 00:18:14,034 AND SO A FEW THINGS LIKE THAT 552 00:18:14,034 --> 00:18:16,482 START TO PAINT A PICTURE OF THIS 553 00:18:16,482 --> 00:18:18,310 KID, IT COULD DEFINITELY BE HER. 554 00:18:18,310 --> 00:18:19,965 >> POLICE WORKED QUICKLY. 555 00:18:19,965 --> 00:18:21,758 THAT SAME DAY, INVESTIGATORS 556 00:18:21,758 --> 00:18:23,172 PICKED KAITLIN ARMSTRONG UP ON 557 00:18:23,172 --> 00:18:24,827 AN OLD WARRANT FOR FAILING TO 558 00:18:24,827 --> 00:18:27,965 PAY FOR A BOTOX TREATMENT. 559 00:18:27,965 --> 00:18:29,586 >> SHE WAS JUST KIND OF SITTING 560 00:18:29,586 --> 00:18:30,068 THERE. 561 00:18:30,068 --> 00:18:31,310 SHE'S NOT SHOWING VERY MUCH 562 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:32,241 EMOTION AT ALL. 563 00:18:32,241 --> 00:18:33,344 >> WHAT WERE YOU DOING 564 00:18:33,344 --> 00:18:33,689 YESTERDAY? 565 00:18:33,689 --> 00:18:35,620 >> I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE, I 566 00:18:35,620 --> 00:18:35,862 THINK. 567 00:18:35,862 --> 00:18:37,689 >> TYPICALLY WHEN WE SEE THIS 568 00:18:37,689 --> 00:18:39,103 INTERVIEW GOING ON, IF YOU 569 00:18:39,103 --> 00:18:40,793 DIDN'T DO IT, LIKE YOU'RE GOING 570 00:18:40,793 --> 00:18:42,620 TO BE LIKE, NOT ME, NOT IT. 571 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:44,275 I WANT OUT OF THIS ROOM. 572 00:18:44,275 --> 00:18:45,758 WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW SO YOU 573 00:18:45,758 --> 00:18:47,103 DON'T COME BACK LOOKING FOR ME, 574 00:18:47,103 --> 00:18:48,517 AND THERE WAS NONE OF THAT. 575 00:18:48,517 --> 00:18:50,482 >> IS THERE ANY EXPLANATION AS 576 00:18:50,482 --> 00:18:51,655 FAR AS WHY THE VEHICLE WOULD BE 577 00:18:51,655 --> 00:18:52,413 OVER THERE? 578 00:18:52,413 --> 00:18:54,344 >> I WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE NOW. 579 00:18:54,344 --> 00:18:56,172 >> SHE WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY 580 00:18:56,172 --> 00:18:57,034 DISINTERESTED IN HEARING WHAT 581 00:18:57,034 --> 00:18:59,586 THE DETECTIVES HAD TO SAY. 582 00:18:59,586 --> 00:19:01,586 >> SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS A 583 00:19:01,586 --> 00:19:02,896 BIG RED FLAG IMMEDIATELY. 584 00:19:02,896 --> 00:19:03,896 >> ABSOLUTELY. 585 00:19:03,896 --> 00:19:06,172 >> BUT INVESTIGATORS HAD TO LET 586 00:19:06,172 --> 00:19:06,724 ARMSTRONG GO. 587 00:19:06,724 --> 00:19:08,793 THERE WAS A PROBLEM. 588 00:19:08,793 --> 00:19:09,827 ARMSTRONG'S BIRTHDAY DID NOT 589 00:19:09,827 --> 00:19:12,137 MATCH THE DATE ON THE WARRANT SO 590 00:19:12,137 --> 00:19:13,482 THE WARRANT WASN'T VALID. 591 00:19:13,482 --> 00:19:15,586 AND POLICE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TO 592 00:19:15,586 --> 00:19:17,896 CHARGE HER WITH ANYTHING ELSE. 593 00:19:17,896 --> 00:19:20,206 TWO DAYS AFTER THAT INTERVIEW, 594 00:19:20,206 --> 00:19:22,482 POLICE GOT AN UNEXPECTED CALL. 595 00:19:22,482 --> 00:19:24,655 IT WAS FROM A FRIEND OF KAITLIN 596 00:19:24,655 --> 00:19:25,551 ARMSTRONG. 597 00:19:25,551 --> 00:19:28,448 POLICE SAY THE CALLER TOLD THEM 598 00:19:28,448 --> 00:19:31,206 THAT ARMSTRONG WAS SO ANGRY 599 00:19:31,206 --> 00:19:33,344 ABOUT STRICKLAND'S RELATIONSHIP 600 00:19:33,344 --> 00:19:35,413 WITH MORIAH THAT SHE WANTED TO 601 00:19:35,413 --> 00:19:36,172 KILL HER. 602 00:19:36,172 --> 00:19:37,827 IT WAS YET ANOTHER INDICATION 603 00:19:37,827 --> 00:19:38,689 THAT THEY WERE ON THE RIGHT 604 00:19:38,689 --> 00:19:39,000 TRACK. 605 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,793 A FEW DAYS LATER AN ARREST 606 00:19:40,793 --> 00:19:41,689 WARRANT WAS ISSUED. 607 00:19:41,689 --> 00:19:44,068 WHEN POLICE WENT LOOKING FOR 608 00:19:44,068 --> 00:19:52,379 WHEN POLICE WENT LOOKING FOR KAITLIN ARMSTRONG -- 609 00:19:52,379 --> 00:20:01,827 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG -- 610 00:20:01,827 --> 00:20:03,000 VANISHED, U.S. MARSHALS GOT THE 611 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,068 JOB OF TRACKING HER DOWN. 612 00:20:08,068 --> 00:20:12,344 >> PLAIN AND SIMPLY, THE 613 00:20:12,344 --> 00:20:14,965 MARSHALS ARE MANHUNTERS. 614 00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:18,000 >> CHRIS GODSICK PRODUCES A 615 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:18,827 SHOW. 616 00:20:18,827 --> 00:20:20,517 >> THIS IS CHASING EVIL. 617 00:20:20,517 --> 00:20:23,241 >> HIS PODCAST TELLS THE STORIES 618 00:20:23,241 --> 00:20:25,137 OF SOME OF THE U.S. MARSHALS' 619 00:20:25,137 --> 00:20:26,724 BIGGEST CASES, INCLUDING THE 620 00:20:26,724 --> 00:20:29,655 HUNT FOR KAITLIN ARMSTRONG. 621 00:20:29,655 --> 00:20:31,103 >> NOBODY THOUGHT KAITLIN 622 00:20:31,103 --> 00:20:32,620 ARMSTRONG WOULD RUN AND SHE 623 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:33,517 SURPRISED THEM ALL. 624 00:20:33,517 --> 00:20:35,344 SHE DISAPPEARED. 625 00:20:35,344 --> 00:20:36,758 >> KAITLIN ARMSTRONG RAN FROM A 626 00:20:36,758 --> 00:20:37,758 MURDER CHARGE. 627 00:20:37,758 --> 00:20:40,689 BUT THE U.S. MARSHALS' LONE STAR 628 00:20:40,689 --> 00:20:42,793 FUGITIVE TASK FORCE HAD A 629 00:20:42,793 --> 00:20:43,827 DIFFERENT PLAN. 630 00:20:43,827 --> 00:20:45,586 >> SO TAKE ME THROUGH THIS. 631 00:20:45,586 --> 00:20:46,689 WHERE DO YOU BEGIN WHEN YOU'RE 632 00:20:46,689 --> 00:20:48,275 LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY THAT DOES 633 00:20:48,275 --> 00:20:49,344 NOT WANT TO BE FOUND? 634 00:20:49,344 --> 00:20:51,206 >> IT DEPENDS ON THE CASE, 635 00:20:51,206 --> 00:20:51,620 HONESTLY. 636 00:20:51,620 --> 00:20:53,206 WE LOOK FOR FRIENDS. 637 00:20:53,206 --> 00:20:54,793 SOMETIMES WE LOOK FOR FAMILY. 638 00:20:54,793 --> 00:20:56,586 >> ONE OF THE THING THAT I DID 639 00:20:56,586 --> 00:20:59,896 WAS COLLECT AS MANY PHOTOS AS I 640 00:20:59,896 --> 00:21:00,482 COULD. 641 00:21:00,482 --> 00:21:06,482 >> DAMIEN FERNANDEZ AND EMIR 642 00:21:06,482 --> 00:21:08,482 PEREZ JOINED JONATHAN RILEY AND 643 00:21:08,482 --> 00:21:11,103 MARC McLEOD ON THE CASE. 644 00:21:11,103 --> 00:21:13,620 THE TEAM BASED IN TEXAS IS KNOWN 645 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:15,517 AS THE LONE STAR FUGITIVE TASK 646 00:21:15,517 --> 00:21:19,758 FORCEFUL WITH NO SIGN OF KAITLIN 647 00:21:19,758 --> 00:21:23,275 ARMSTRONG, THE TASK FORCE 648 00:21:23,275 --> 00:21:25,000 SUSPECTED SHE MAY HAVE HEADED TO 649 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,551 UPSTATE NEW YORK TO HER SISTER'S 650 00:21:26,551 --> 00:21:26,793 PLACE. 651 00:21:26,793 --> 00:21:28,344 >> WE WERE THINKING MAYBE SHE 652 00:21:28,344 --> 00:21:29,206 WAS DRIVING ACROSS COUNTRY. 653 00:21:29,206 --> 00:21:30,448 WE DIDN'T KNOW. 654 00:21:30,448 --> 00:21:32,103 >> THEIR INSTINCTS WERE RIGHT. 655 00:21:32,103 --> 00:21:33,793 IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, ANOTHER 656 00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:36,586 DEPUTY MARSHAL MANAGED TO TRACK 657 00:21:36,586 --> 00:21:37,827 DOWN ARMSTRONG'S SISTER. 658 00:21:37,827 --> 00:21:40,172 >> WHAT DID THE SISTER SAY? 659 00:21:40,172 --> 00:21:41,448 >> SHE SAID HER SISTER HAD COME 660 00:21:41,448 --> 00:21:43,068 TO STAY WITH HER A COUPLE DAYS 661 00:21:43,068 --> 00:21:45,379 BUT SHE HAD DROPPED HER OFF AT 662 00:21:45,379 --> 00:21:47,551 THE AIRPORT IN NEWARK. 663 00:21:47,551 --> 00:21:49,172 AND LAST SHE HEARD, SHE WAS 664 00:21:49,172 --> 00:21:52,241 GOING TO BOARD A FLIGHT BACK TO 665 00:21:52,241 --> 00:21:53,724 AUSTIN, BUT THEN CALLED HER BACK 666 00:21:53,724 --> 00:21:55,517 LATER AND SAID THAT SHE DECIDED 667 00:21:55,517 --> 00:21:59,551 THAT SHE WAS GOING TO DRIVE 668 00:21:59,551 --> 00:22:01,620 BACK. 669 00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:03,413 IT MADE NO SENSE TO ANY OF US 670 00:22:03,413 --> 00:22:05,413 THAT YOU WOULD DRIVE BACK. 671 00:22:05,413 --> 00:22:07,827 >> WHEN THE TASK FORCE CHECKED 672 00:22:07,827 --> 00:22:09,344 OUTBOUND FLIGHTS AT NEWARK 673 00:22:09,344 --> 00:22:11,137 AIRPORT, NO RESERVATIONS HAD 674 00:22:11,137 --> 00:22:13,000 BEEN MADE IN KAITLIN ARMSTRONG'S 675 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:13,275 NAME. 676 00:22:13,275 --> 00:22:16,275 >> WE NEVER GOT A HIT ON KAITLIN 677 00:22:16,275 --> 00:22:17,137 ARMSTRONG'S PASSPORT. 678 00:22:17,137 --> 00:22:20,965 >> THE TEAM HAD A HUNCH. 679 00:22:20,965 --> 00:22:22,206 BECAUSE CHRISTIE TOLD THE DEPUTY 680 00:22:22,206 --> 00:22:23,310 MARSHALL IN NEW YORK THAT SHE 681 00:22:23,310 --> 00:22:25,344 DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HER PASSPORT 682 00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,275 WAS SO THEY CHECKED WITH HER 683 00:22:27,275 --> 00:22:29,793 CONTACT AT HOMELAND SECURITY. 684 00:22:29,793 --> 00:22:30,586 >> WITHIN MINUTES OF REACHING 685 00:22:30,586 --> 00:22:34,827 OUT, HE GOT BACK TO ME SAYING 686 00:22:34,827 --> 00:22:37,482 WE'RE SHOWING SHE CHECKED OUT OF 687 00:22:37,482 --> 00:22:38,034 INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON A 688 00:22:38,034 --> 00:22:40,344 ONE-WAY FLIGHT TO COSTA RICA. 689 00:22:40,344 --> 00:22:41,758 >> YOU KNEW IT. 690 00:22:41,758 --> 00:22:43,000 >> I SAID THERE'S NO WAY THE 691 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,310 SISTER LEFT AND WE'RE LOOKING 692 00:22:44,310 --> 00:22:46,793 FOR HER AND WE CAN'T FIND 693 00:22:46,793 --> 00:22:47,413 KAITLIN? 694 00:22:47,413 --> 00:22:47,655 NO. 695 00:22:47,655 --> 00:22:48,827 THAT'S KAITLIN. 696 00:22:48,827 --> 00:22:50,241 >> THE MARSHAL SUSPECTED THAT 697 00:22:50,241 --> 00:22:51,620 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG HAD USED HER 698 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:54,137 SISTER'S PASSPORT TO FLEE. 699 00:22:54,137 --> 00:22:56,482 CHRISTIE ARMSTRONG LATER 700 00:22:56,482 --> 00:22:57,206 EMPHASIZED TO AUTHORITIES SHE 701 00:22:57,206 --> 00:22:58,655 DID NOT GIVE HER SISTER THE 702 00:22:58,655 --> 00:22:58,965 PASSPORT. 703 00:22:58,965 --> 00:23:00,965 SHE HAS NEVER BEEN CHARGED WITH 704 00:23:00,965 --> 00:23:12,137 ANY CRIME RELATED TO THIS CASE. 705 00:23:12,137 --> 00:23:13,931 >> AND THIS IS WHERE KAITLIN 706 00:23:13,931 --> 00:23:17,103 ARMSTRONG LANDED. 707 00:23:17,103 --> 00:23:17,931 COSTA RICA. 708 00:23:17,931 --> 00:23:19,068 GEM OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 709 00:23:19,068 --> 00:23:21,413 HOME TO MOUNTAINS, TROPICAL RAIN 710 00:23:21,413 --> 00:23:23,724 FORESTS AND WHITE SAND BEACHES 711 00:23:23,724 --> 00:23:27,448 AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE. 712 00:23:27,448 --> 00:23:29,275 BUT SHE DIDN'T SPEND MUCH TIME 713 00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:30,793 HERE IN SAN JOSE. 714 00:23:30,793 --> 00:23:33,448 SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING, KAITLIN 715 00:23:33,448 --> 00:23:35,551 ARMSTRONG DISAPPEARED AGAIN AND 716 00:23:35,551 --> 00:23:37,655 SHE HAD A HUGE LEAD ON THE U.S. 717 00:23:37,655 --> 00:23:41,310 MARSHALS. 718 00:23:41,310 --> 00:23:44,206 >> MARSHALS EMIR PEREZ AND 719 00:23:44,206 --> 00:23:45,724 DAMIEN FERNANDEZ ARRIVED IN 720 00:23:45,724 --> 00:23:48,620 COSTA RICA A MONTH AFTER 721 00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:48,931 ARMSTRONG. 722 00:23:48,931 --> 00:23:51,000 >> THIS IS YOU GUYS NOW ON THE 723 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:51,275 HUNT. 724 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:53,275 HOW INTENSE IS IT ONCE YOU TOUCH 725 00:23:53,275 --> 00:23:54,965 DOWN IN COSTA RICA? 726 00:23:54,965 --> 00:23:55,482 WHAT HAPPENS? 727 00:23:55,482 --> 00:23:57,448 >> YOU'RE ON A TIME LINE. 728 00:23:57,448 --> 00:23:59,551 >> I HEAR TIME LINE AND I HEAR 729 00:23:59,551 --> 00:24:00,620 THE PRESSURE IS ON. 730 00:24:00,620 --> 00:24:02,000 >> THE PRESSURE IS ON. 731 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,137 >> WE WERE SITTING IN THE PLANE 732 00:24:04,137 --> 00:24:04,482 TALKING. 733 00:24:04,482 --> 00:24:06,482 WHAT'S THE GAME PLAN? 734 00:24:06,482 --> 00:24:08,103 >> ALTHOUGH THEY WOULD HAVE HELP 735 00:24:08,103 --> 00:24:10,137 FROM THE COSTA RICAN AUTHORITIES 736 00:24:10,137 --> 00:24:11,172 AND U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT 737 00:24:11,172 --> 00:24:12,620 OFFICERS ON THE GROUND, THEY 738 00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:14,758 KNEW FINDING ARMSTRONG WAS GOING 739 00:24:14,758 --> 00:24:17,172 TO BE A BIG CHALLENGE. 740 00:24:17,172 --> 00:24:18,862 >> WE HAD OTHER INTELLIGENCE 741 00:24:18,862 --> 00:24:21,448 INDICATING THAT SHE WAS STAYING 742 00:24:21,448 --> 00:24:23,344 IN HOSTELS IN COSTA RICA. 743 00:24:23,344 --> 00:24:24,517 AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW 744 00:24:24,517 --> 00:24:27,517 ANYTHING ABOUT COSTA RICA BUT 745 00:24:27,517 --> 00:24:30,448 COSTA RICA HAS A LOT OF HOSTELS. 746 00:24:30,448 --> 00:24:33,172 AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF 747 00:24:33,172 --> 00:24:33,413 HOSTELS. 748 00:24:33,413 --> 00:24:35,413 >> THE MARSHALS WOULDN'T TELL US 749 00:24:35,413 --> 00:24:37,413 EXACTLY HOW THEIR INTELLIGENCE 750 00:24:37,413 --> 00:24:38,931 GATHERING WORKED BUT THEIR TEAM 751 00:24:38,931 --> 00:24:40,000 BACK IN THE STATES HAD MANAGED 752 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,586 TO TRACK DOWN THE PHONE NUMBER 753 00:24:41,586 --> 00:24:45,103 FOR AN AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN THEY 754 00:24:45,103 --> 00:24:45,689 BELIEVED HAD CONNECTED WITH 755 00:24:45,689 --> 00:24:46,758 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG AT SOME POINT. 756 00:24:46,758 --> 00:24:47,931 >> WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT CITY HE 757 00:24:47,931 --> 00:24:48,517 WAS IN. 758 00:24:48,517 --> 00:24:51,551 WE DECIDED, LET'S JUST COLD-CALL 759 00:24:51,551 --> 00:24:51,724 HIM. 760 00:24:51,724 --> 00:24:53,137 WE CALL HIM AND WE'RE IN THE 761 00:24:53,137 --> 00:24:54,103 CONFERENCE ROOM. 762 00:24:54,103 --> 00:24:55,620 HEY, IT'S THE U.S. MARSHALS. 763 00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:57,413 MY NAME IS MARK. 764 00:24:57,413 --> 00:24:59,551 AND HE SAID I DON'T WANT ANY. 765 00:24:59,551 --> 00:24:59,862 CLICK. 766 00:24:59,862 --> 00:25:02,689 JUST HANGS UP LIKE A 767 00:25:02,689 --> 00:25:03,034 TELEMARGARETER. 768 00:25:03,034 --> 00:25:05,413 >> AFTER THREE OR FOUR CALL 769 00:25:05,413 --> 00:25:06,551 ATTEMPTS THE BUSINESSMAN FINALLY 770 00:25:06,551 --> 00:25:08,586 STAYED ON THE LINE TO ANSWER THE 771 00:25:08,586 --> 00:25:09,448 MARSHAL'S QUESTIONS. 772 00:25:09,448 --> 00:25:12,482 >> AND WE ENDED UP SENDING A 773 00:25:12,482 --> 00:25:13,862 PICTURE OF KAITLIN WHILE WE'RE 774 00:25:13,862 --> 00:25:15,517 ON THE PHONE WITH HIM. 775 00:25:15,517 --> 00:25:17,275 HE LOOKS AT IT AND SAYS YES, BUT 776 00:25:17,275 --> 00:25:18,655 SHE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT AND 777 00:25:18,655 --> 00:25:20,413 SHE'S NOT USING THAT NAME. 778 00:25:20,413 --> 00:25:22,758 >> DID HE TELL YOU HER NEW NAME? 779 00:25:22,758 --> 00:25:23,896 >> HE DID. 780 00:25:23,896 --> 00:25:25,068 >> IT WAS BETH. 781 00:25:25,068 --> 00:25:26,000 GOING BY BETH. 782 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,448 >> AND THE BUSINESSMAN SAID, 783 00:25:28,448 --> 00:25:29,896 ARMSTRONG NO LONGER LOOKED LIKE 784 00:25:29,896 --> 00:25:30,241 THIS. 785 00:25:30,241 --> 00:25:32,827 SHE HAD CUT HER HAIR AND CHANGED 786 00:25:32,827 --> 00:25:33,896 ITS COLOR. 787 00:25:33,896 --> 00:25:36,241 >> BROWN INSTEAD OF RED. 788 00:25:36,241 --> 00:25:38,000 >> THE BUSINESSMAN TOLD THE 789 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,344 MARSHALS, HE HAD NO IDEA THAT 790 00:25:39,344 --> 00:25:41,172 THE WOMAN WHO CALLED HERSELF 791 00:25:41,172 --> 00:25:43,551 BETH WAS ACTUALLY KAITLIN 792 00:25:43,551 --> 00:25:43,827 ARMSTRONG. 793 00:25:43,827 --> 00:25:45,896 BUT HE DID TELL THEM WHERE THEY 794 00:25:45,896 --> 00:25:46,620 MIGHT FIND HER. 795 00:25:46,620 --> 00:25:49,896 >> HE WAS LIKE, I MET HER AT A 796 00:25:49,896 --> 00:25:55,034 YOGA STUDIO IN JACO. 797 00:25:55,034 --> 00:25:56,206 >> THIS IS JACO. 798 00:25:56,206 --> 00:25:58,586 A POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION 799 00:25:58,586 --> 00:26:00,931 KNOWN FOR ITS NIGHT LIFE AND ITS 800 00:26:00,931 --> 00:26:02,655 BEACHES AND THE PERFECT PLACE TO 801 00:26:02,655 --> 00:26:02,965 HIDE. 802 00:26:02,965 --> 00:26:06,034 IT WAS THE MARSHAL'S FIRST REAL 803 00:26:06,034 --> 00:26:08,896 TIP SO THEY RUSHED OUT HERE. 804 00:26:08,896 --> 00:26:10,965 THEY CANVASSED THE AREA, COMBED 805 00:26:10,965 --> 00:26:12,310 THROUGH HOURS OF SURVEILLANCE 806 00:26:12,310 --> 00:26:14,068 VIDEO, BUT COULD NOT FIND A 807 00:26:14,068 --> 00:26:17,068 SINGLE SIGN OF KAITLIN ARMSTRONG 808 00:26:17,068 --> 00:26:17,344 ANYWHERE. 809 00:26:17,344 --> 00:26:20,758 IT WAS A BUST. 810 00:26:20,758 --> 00:26:22,551 >> THE MARSHALS HAVE ONE MORE 811 00:26:22,551 --> 00:26:23,344 SOLID LEAD. 812 00:26:23,344 --> 00:26:25,758 AND THAT TAKES THEM TO A 813 00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:29,862 BEAUTIFUL TOURISTY BEACH TOWN, A 814 00:26:29,862 --> 00:26:30,517 ONE-STREET TOWN CALLED SANTA 815 00:26:30,517 --> 00:26:51,896 ONE-STREET TOWN CALLED SANTA TERESA. 816 00:26:51,896 --> 00:26:55,068 TERESA. 817 00:26:55,068 --> 00:26:57,344 >>> ONE MONTH AFTER KAITLIN 818 00:26:57,344 --> 00:26:59,068 ARMSTRONG DISAPPEARED, THE U.S. 819 00:26:59,068 --> 00:27:01,827 MARSHALS WERE IN HOT PURSUIT OF 820 00:27:01,827 --> 00:27:02,000 HER. 821 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,275 AND ANOTHER AREA OF COSTA RICA. 822 00:27:05,275 --> 00:27:06,827 A SOURCE HAD SUGGESTED SHE MIGHT 823 00:27:06,827 --> 00:27:09,206 HAVE GONE TO A SMALL VILLAGE ON 824 00:27:09,206 --> 00:27:11,275 THE PACIFIC COAST. 825 00:27:11,275 --> 00:27:12,655 >> THE MARSHALS TOOK A FERRY 826 00:27:12,655 --> 00:27:15,034 LIKE THIS ONE TO REACH A REMOTE 827 00:27:15,034 --> 00:27:15,310 PENINSULA. 828 00:27:15,310 --> 00:27:18,793 ONCE THERE THEY DROVE BY CAR 829 00:27:18,793 --> 00:27:20,000 THROUGH THOSE MOUNTAINS TO THE 830 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 TINY TOWN OF SANTA TERESA. 831 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,965 THEY FINALLY ARRIVED, THEY RAN 832 00:27:24,965 --> 00:27:30,448 INTO AN UNEXPECTED PROBLEM. 833 00:27:30,448 --> 00:27:32,344 SANTA TERESA, WAS IT EASY TO 834 00:27:32,344 --> 00:27:33,551 FIVE HER THERE FROM THE OTHER 835 00:27:33,551 --> 00:27:34,620 PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE? 836 00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:36,758 >> I THINK FROM THE GET-GO, WE 837 00:27:36,758 --> 00:27:38,310 WRE TOLD, YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN 838 00:27:38,310 --> 00:27:39,206 FOR A SURPRISE. 839 00:27:39,206 --> 00:27:41,931 A LOT OF THE WOMEN IN SANTA 840 00:27:41,931 --> 00:27:43,379 TERESA LOOK JUST LIKE KAITLIN. 841 00:27:43,379 --> 00:27:44,551 A LOT OF THEM. 842 00:27:44,551 --> 00:27:45,931 >> AND IT TURNS OUT THAT ADVICE 843 00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:46,586 WAS RIGHT. 844 00:27:46,586 --> 00:27:50,965 THE TOWN WAS FULL OF FOREIGN 845 00:27:50,965 --> 00:27:51,206 TOURISTS. 846 00:27:51,206 --> 00:27:52,827 DEPUTY MARSHALS FERNANDEZ AND 847 00:27:52,827 --> 00:27:54,689 PEREZ ARRIVED IN SANTA TERESA 848 00:27:54,689 --> 00:27:55,551 AFTER DARK. 849 00:27:55,551 --> 00:27:58,793 >> SO WE GET THERE AND HE STARTS 850 00:27:58,793 --> 00:28:00,931 WALKING DOWN A MAIN STRIP THAT'S 851 00:28:00,931 --> 00:28:02,827 DOWN THE STREET. 852 00:28:02,827 --> 00:28:04,827 >> THERE'S ONLY ONE ROAD IN THAT 853 00:28:04,827 --> 00:28:05,103 TOWN. 854 00:28:05,103 --> 00:28:06,034 A MAIN ROAD. 855 00:28:06,034 --> 00:28:07,931 >> HE SEES A GIRL AND HE SAYS 856 00:28:07,931 --> 00:28:09,517 THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE HER. 857 00:28:09,517 --> 00:28:11,689 WELL, A COUPLE MINUTES LATER WE 858 00:28:11,689 --> 00:28:13,551 SEE ANOTHER ONE. 859 00:28:13,551 --> 00:28:15,620 AND IT IS LATE AT NIGHT. 860 00:28:15,620 --> 00:28:16,517 THAT'S TWO. 861 00:28:16,517 --> 00:28:18,551 AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER ONE. 862 00:28:18,551 --> 00:28:21,758 >> AS THE MARSHALS TRY TO FIND 863 00:28:21,758 --> 00:28:23,310 ARMSTRONG, THEY EVEN HAD ONE OF 864 00:28:23,310 --> 00:28:25,034 THEIR FEMALE OPERATIVES START 865 00:28:25,034 --> 00:28:27,103 GOING TO YOGA CLASSES TO SEE IF 866 00:28:27,103 --> 00:28:29,206 THEY COULD SPOT HER. 867 00:28:29,206 --> 00:28:30,448 >> SHE ACTUALLY DID THREE 868 00:28:30,448 --> 00:28:31,655 DIFFERENT CLASSES FOR US. 869 00:28:31,655 --> 00:28:33,758 >> Reporter: AND THEY TAPPED 870 00:28:33,758 --> 00:28:35,310 INTO LOCAL CONTACTS. 871 00:28:35,310 --> 00:28:36,620 >> WE MADE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE 872 00:28:36,620 --> 00:28:38,413 THAT WOULD SEND US PICTURES. 873 00:28:38,413 --> 00:28:41,103 OH, LOOK, I THINK I SAW HER AT 874 00:28:41,103 --> 00:28:43,517 THIS RESTAURANT YESTERDAY. 875 00:28:43,517 --> 00:28:43,931 SHE'S IN THE BACK. 876 00:28:43,931 --> 00:28:45,310 IN THE BACK ROW OF A PHOTO THAT 877 00:28:45,310 --> 00:28:45,965 I TOOK. 878 00:28:45,965 --> 00:28:47,000 STUFF LIKE THAT. 879 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,172 >> IN FACT, PEOPLE HAD SEEN 880 00:28:50,172 --> 00:28:51,517 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG AT LOCAL SPOTS 881 00:28:51,517 --> 00:28:54,068 IN SANTA TERESA BUT THEY DIDN'T 882 00:28:54,068 --> 00:28:55,931 REALIZE WHO SHE WAS. 883 00:28:55,931 --> 00:28:58,379 ARMSTRONG WAS HIDING IN PLAIN 884 00:28:58,379 --> 00:29:00,344 SIGHT, USING DIFFERENT NAMES. 885 00:29:00,344 --> 00:29:01,827 >> SHE HAD LIKE MULTIPLE NAMES. 886 00:29:01,827 --> 00:29:03,724 >> YEAH. 887 00:29:03,724 --> 00:29:05,344 SHE CAME IN -- 888 00:29:05,344 --> 00:29:06,551 >> BETH -- 889 00:29:06,551 --> 00:29:08,517 >> WASN'T BETH. 890 00:29:08,517 --> 00:29:09,827 >> ARI. 891 00:29:09,827 --> 00:29:10,655 RIGHT. 892 00:29:10,655 --> 00:29:10,931 ARI. 893 00:29:10,931 --> 00:29:12,275 >> GREG HABER IS AN AMERICAN 894 00:29:12,275 --> 00:29:14,448 FROM THE NEW YORK AREA WHO OWNS 895 00:29:14,448 --> 00:29:16,172 A RESTAURANT CALLED KOOKS 896 00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:19,448 SMOKEHOUSE AND BAR IN SANTA 897 00:29:19,448 --> 00:29:19,793 TERESA. 898 00:29:19,793 --> 00:29:20,310 >> ARI. 899 00:29:20,310 --> 00:29:23,034 WHAT DID ARI LOOK LIKE? 900 00:29:23,034 --> 00:29:23,620 DID SHE STAND OUT TO YOU. 901 00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:24,206 >> PRETTY. 902 00:29:24,206 --> 00:29:26,034 INTRODUCED HERSELF AS A YOGA 903 00:29:26,034 --> 00:29:27,068 TEACHER WHICH IS BASICALLY 904 00:29:27,068 --> 00:29:28,275 ANYBODY ELSE DOWN HERE. 905 00:29:28,275 --> 00:29:30,310 HEY, I MOVED HERE. 906 00:29:30,310 --> 00:29:31,517 TEACHING YOGA DOWN THE STREET 907 00:29:31,517 --> 00:29:32,517 AND THAT WAS IT. 908 00:29:32,517 --> 00:29:34,275 >> WHAT WAS HER GENERAL VIBE 909 00:29:34,275 --> 00:29:34,517 LIKE? 910 00:29:34,517 --> 00:29:35,965 >> SHE DEFINITELY SEEMED LIKE 911 00:29:35,965 --> 00:29:37,000 SHE WAS TRYING TO ESTABLISH 912 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:37,551 ROOTS HERE. 913 00:29:37,551 --> 00:29:38,965 LIKE THIS WOULD BE HER NEW HOME. 914 00:29:38,965 --> 00:29:41,172 >> Reporter: AND ABLER SAID ONE 915 00:29:41,172 --> 00:29:42,068 DAY HE NOTICED SOMETHING 916 00:29:42,068 --> 00:29:42,965 DIFFERENT ABOUT HER. 917 00:29:42,965 --> 00:29:44,620 >> I SAW HER ON THE BEACH. 918 00:29:44,620 --> 00:29:46,310 I WALK MY DOG ON THE BEACH EVERY 919 00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:47,689 NIGHT AT SUNSET. 920 00:29:47,689 --> 00:29:49,758 WALKING THROUGH, I SAW THE 921 00:29:49,758 --> 00:29:51,793 BANDAGE ON HER FACE. 922 00:29:51,793 --> 00:29:52,551 WHAT HAPPENED? 923 00:29:52,551 --> 00:29:54,413 A SURFBOARD HIT ME IN THE FACE. 924 00:29:54,413 --> 00:29:56,517 IT HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY AT LEAST 925 00:29:56,517 --> 00:29:56,758 ONCE. 926 00:29:56,758 --> 00:29:58,896 YOU WOULDN'T EVEN QUESTION THAT 927 00:29:58,896 --> 00:29:59,620 STORY HERE. 928 00:29:59,620 --> 00:30:00,689 YOU SEE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. 929 00:30:00,689 --> 00:30:03,034 >> IT TURNS OUT THAT BANDAGE 930 00:30:03,034 --> 00:30:04,689 WOULD LATER PROVE TO BE AN 931 00:30:04,689 --> 00:30:06,448 IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY AND 932 00:30:06,448 --> 00:30:08,172 ONE OF THE REASON THE MARSHALS 933 00:30:08,172 --> 00:30:09,896 SAY ARMSTRONG WAS SO HARD TO 934 00:30:09,896 --> 00:30:10,241 FIND. 935 00:30:10,241 --> 00:30:12,758 >> SO YOU'RE THIS CLOSE TO 936 00:30:12,758 --> 00:30:13,310 GIVING UP. 937 00:30:13,310 --> 00:30:17,034 >> FINALLY, THEY DECIDED ON ONE 938 00:30:17,034 --> 00:30:17,620 LAST THING. 939 00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:21,862 THEY TURNED TO A LOCAL FACEBOOK 940 00:30:21,862 --> 00:30:22,034 PAGE. 941 00:30:22,034 --> 00:30:25,068 >> WE DECIDED TO PUT AN AD OUT 942 00:30:25,068 --> 00:30:26,379 FOR A YOGA INSTRUCTOR. 943 00:30:26,379 --> 00:30:29,172 >> SO THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF 944 00:30:29,172 --> 00:30:29,724 CRAIGSLIST. 945 00:30:29,724 --> 00:30:32,517 >> A LITTLE BIT. 946 00:30:32,517 --> 00:30:34,206 HEY, WE'RE AT THIS HOSTEL. 947 00:30:34,206 --> 00:30:36,379 WE'RE LOOKING FOR A YOGA 948 00:30:36,379 --> 00:30:37,689 INSTRUCTOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. 949 00:30:37,689 --> 00:30:40,206 PLEASE CACTUS AT THIS NUMBER. 950 00:30:40,206 --> 00:30:42,034 >> AFTER ALMOST A WEEK OF 951 00:30:42,034 --> 00:30:43,793 HUNTING, OOMS EVEN THAT DIDN'T 952 00:30:43,793 --> 00:30:44,724 SEEM TO BE WORKING. 953 00:30:44,724 --> 00:30:47,241 >> SUNDAY WE DECIDED, WE HAVEN'T 954 00:30:47,241 --> 00:30:48,517 GOTTEN ANY RESPONSE BACK. 955 00:30:48,517 --> 00:30:49,172 >> NOTHING. 956 00:30:49,172 --> 00:30:51,206 >> SO SUNDAY, OKAY, WE'RE DONE. 957 00:30:51,206 --> 00:30:53,275 NONE OF THEM HAVE PANNED OUT. 958 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:55,172 SO WE'RE GOING BACK TO SAN JOSE. 959 00:30:55,172 --> 00:30:57,344 >> NOW BACK IN SAN JOSE, THE 960 00:30:57,344 --> 00:30:59,000 MARSHALS WERE GETTING READY TO 961 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,724 HEAD HOME WHEN SUDDENLY -- 962 00:31:01,724 --> 00:31:04,137 >> WE GOT A BITE. 963 00:31:04,137 --> 00:31:04,931 SOMEBODY THAT IDENTIFIED HERSELF 964 00:31:04,931 --> 00:31:07,827 AS A YOGA INSTRUCTOR AND SAID 965 00:31:07,827 --> 00:31:10,344 THEY WANTED TO MEET WITH US AT A 966 00:31:10,344 --> 00:31:12,034 PARTICULAR HOSTEL. 967 00:31:12,034 --> 00:31:14,275 AND WE SAID THIS IS OUR CHANCE. 968 00:31:14,275 --> 00:31:15,793 >> DEPUTY MARSHALS PEREZ AND 969 00:31:15,793 --> 00:31:18,275 FERNANDEZ RUSHED BACK TO SANTA 970 00:31:18,275 --> 00:31:22,172 TERESA JUST AHEAD OF A TROPICAL 971 00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:28,344 STORM. 972 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:30,103 WAS NOT CARLOS SOLANO'S TEAM 973 00:31:30,103 --> 00:31:32,310 HELPED THEM IN THEIR SEARCH FOR 974 00:31:32,310 --> 00:31:32,586 ARMSTRONG. 975 00:31:32,586 --> 00:31:34,551 THEY DID SURVEILLANCE ON A 976 00:31:34,551 --> 00:31:35,896 HOSTEL CALLED DON JOHN'S WHERE 977 00:31:35,896 --> 00:31:37,965 THE YOGA INSTRUCTOR, THE ONE WHO 978 00:31:37,965 --> 00:31:39,275 ANSWERED THE ONLINE AD, WAS 979 00:31:39,275 --> 00:31:40,965 BELIEVED TO BE. 980 00:31:40,965 --> 00:31:43,344 >> SO THERE IS THIS MASSIVE 981 00:31:43,344 --> 00:31:44,551 INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT AND OF ALL 982 00:31:44,551 --> 00:31:46,551 PLACES IN THE WORLD, IT ENDS IN 983 00:31:46,551 --> 00:31:54,103 THIS VERY DISCREET HOSTEL. 984 00:31:54,103 --> 00:31:55,620 >> IT WAS NOW TIME FOR THE 985 00:31:55,620 --> 00:31:57,827 MARSHALS TO MAKE THEIR MOVE. 986 00:31:57,827 --> 00:32:00,310 >> SO I WALKED UP AND I GOT IN. 987 00:32:00,310 --> 00:32:02,172 >> THEY DECIDED THAT DEPUTY 988 00:32:02,172 --> 00:32:03,689 MARSHAL PEREZ WOULD APPROACH THE 989 00:32:03,689 --> 00:32:04,344 WOMAN ALONE. 990 00:32:04,344 --> 00:32:06,103 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SCARE HER 991 00:32:06,103 --> 00:32:06,448 OFF. 992 00:32:06,448 --> 00:32:08,241 HE WOULD PRETEND TO BE A TOURIST 993 00:32:08,241 --> 00:32:10,000 AND TRY TO GET A REALLY GOOD 994 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,103 LOOK AT HER FACE. 995 00:32:11,103 --> 00:32:13,379 >> AND I SAW TWO INDIVIDUALS 996 00:32:13,379 --> 00:32:15,724 SITTING THERE AT A TABLE OFF TO 997 00:32:15,724 --> 00:32:18,413 THE LEFT AS SOON AS I WALKED IN. 998 00:32:18,413 --> 00:32:20,586 >> HE SAYS ONE WAS A WOMAN. 999 00:32:20,586 --> 00:32:22,862 >> SHE LOOKED LIKE KAITLIN. 1000 00:32:22,862 --> 00:32:24,034 BUT NOT 100%. 1001 00:32:24,034 --> 00:32:26,000 SO I THOUGHT, HOW CAN I APPROACH 1002 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,241 HER OR GET CLOSE ENOUGH? 1003 00:32:28,241 --> 00:32:29,310 WHERE I STARTED ASKING 1004 00:32:29,310 --> 00:32:30,517 QUESTIONS, WHERE SHE DOESN'T 1005 00:32:30,517 --> 00:32:31,137 SUSPECT SOMETHING. 1006 00:32:31,137 --> 00:32:32,793 SO I DECIDED THAT I WOULD SPEAK 1007 00:32:32,793 --> 00:32:34,206 TO HER IN SPANISH. 1008 00:32:34,206 --> 00:32:36,827 SO I SPOKE TO HER IN NOTHING BUT 1009 00:32:36,827 --> 00:32:37,310 SPANISH. 1010 00:32:37,310 --> 00:32:38,793 >> SO YOU'RE COMMUNICATING. 1011 00:32:38,793 --> 00:32:40,862 SHE GOES TO USE HER PHONE FOR 1012 00:32:40,862 --> 00:32:41,827 GOOGLE TRANSLATE -- 1013 00:32:41,827 --> 00:32:43,586 >> I GOT A LITTLE CLOSER. 1014 00:32:43,586 --> 00:32:45,482 I SAW SHE WAS TRYING TO GET TO 1015 00:32:45,482 --> 00:32:47,103 GOOGLE TRANSLATE ON HER PHONE. 1016 00:32:47,103 --> 00:32:48,896 SHE WOULD RAISE IT UP TO ME AND 1017 00:32:48,896 --> 00:32:50,172 I GOT EVEN CLOSER. 1018 00:32:50,172 --> 00:32:51,965 I NOTICED THAT SHE HAD A BANDAGE 1019 00:32:51,965 --> 00:32:54,103 ON HER NOSE AND POSSIBLY HER 1020 00:32:54,103 --> 00:32:55,000 LIPS WERE SWOLLEN. 1021 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,551 AND I SAW HER EYES. 1022 00:32:56,551 --> 00:32:59,137 THE EYES ARE THE EXACT SAIL ONES 1023 00:32:59,137 --> 00:33:01,000 THAT I SAW IN THE PICTURE. 1024 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,965 THIS IS HER 100%. 1025 00:33:02,965 --> 00:33:04,620 >> HE GETS IN THE CAR AND HE'S 1026 00:33:04,620 --> 00:33:05,482 LIKE, THAT'S HER. 1027 00:33:05,482 --> 00:33:06,620 SHE'S IN THERE. 1028 00:33:06,620 --> 00:33:08,965 >> LOCAL POLICE MOVED IN TO MAKE 1029 00:33:08,965 --> 00:33:10,862 THE ACTUAL ARREST. 1030 00:33:10,862 --> 00:33:13,896 AND SOON, THE MARSHALS 1031 00:33:13,896 --> 00:33:14,793 DISCOVERED WHY ARMSTRONG HAD 1032 00:33:14,793 --> 00:33:16,482 BEEN SO HARD TO FIND. 1033 00:33:16,482 --> 00:33:18,586 SHE HAD BEEN GETTING PLASTIC 1034 00:33:18,586 --> 00:33:21,551 SURGE WHEN THEY FIRST ARRIVED IN 1035 00:33:21,551 --> 00:33:23,482 SANTA TERESA AT THE HOSTEL THEY 1036 00:33:23,482 --> 00:33:24,896 FOUND A RECEIPT. 1037 00:33:24,896 --> 00:33:31,103 >> THE RECEIPT FOR SURGERY. 1038 00:33:31,103 --> 00:33:33,137 >> IN THESE SIDE BY SIDE PHOTOS 1039 00:33:33,137 --> 00:33:35,241 YOU CAN SEE SHE CHANGED THE 1040 00:33:35,241 --> 00:33:36,931 SHAPE OF HER NOSE. 1041 00:33:36,931 --> 00:33:38,172 THE DEPUTY MARSHAL SAID THE 1042 00:33:38,172 --> 00:33:40,068 FEMALE OPERATIVE, THE ONE THEY 1043 00:33:40,068 --> 00:33:42,172 SENT TO YOGA CLASSES TO FIND 1044 00:33:42,172 --> 00:33:44,931 ARMSTRONG SAID ARMSTRONG'S NEW 1045 00:33:44,931 --> 00:33:46,000 LOOK WOULD HAVE TRICKED HER. 1046 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,379 >> SHE SAID IT IF I WOULD HAVE 1047 00:33:47,379 --> 00:33:49,827 RUN INTO HER AT THE YOGA STUDIO, 1048 00:33:49,827 --> 00:33:50,793 I DON'T THINK I WOULD AVE 1049 00:33:50,793 --> 00:33:51,931 RECOGNIZED HER. 1050 00:33:51,931 --> 00:33:53,379 >> WOW! 1051 00:33:53,379 --> 00:33:54,172 IT ALMOST WORKED. 1052 00:33:54,172 --> 00:33:57,137 >> IT ALMOST WORKED. 1053 00:33:57,137 --> 00:33:58,931 >> THE MARSHALS TOOK ARMSTRONG 1054 00:33:58,931 --> 00:34:00,517 BACK TO TEXAS WHERE SHE WAS 1055 00:34:00,517 --> 00:34:02,689 CHARGED AND HELD IN JAIL. 1056 00:34:02,689 --> 00:34:04,310 BUT JUST WEEKS BEFORE SHE WAS 1057 00:34:04,310 --> 00:34:06,517 DUE TO STAND TRIAL FOR THE 1058 00:34:06,517 --> 00:34:08,827 MURDER OF MORIAH WILSON, KAITLIN 1059 00:34:08,827 --> 00:34:14,034 ARMSTRONG ESCAPED AGAIN. 1060 00:34:14,034 --> 00:34:15,862 >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE 1061 00:34:15,862 --> 00:34:26,000 >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE INVESTIGATORS' UNDERCOVER 1062 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,034 INVESTIGATORS' UNDERCOVER 1063 00:34:30,034 --> 00:34:31,931 >>> ALMOST THREE WEEKS BEFORE 1064 00:34:31,931 --> 00:34:34,655 HER TRIAL, FORMER FUGITIVE 1065 00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:35,241 KAITLIN ARMSTRONG SOMEHOW 1066 00:34:35,241 --> 00:34:38,447 MANAGED TO ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY. 1067 00:34:38,447 --> 00:34:39,793 >> SHE WAS AT A DOCTOR'S 1068 00:34:39,793 --> 00:34:41,688 APPOINTMENT AND TRIED TO ESCAPE 1069 00:34:41,688 --> 00:34:44,275 AS THEY WERE WALKING OUT. 1070 00:34:44,275 --> 00:34:46,827 >> PILAR MELENDEZ SAID ARMSTRONG 1071 00:34:46,827 --> 00:34:48,206 DIDN'T GET FAR BEFORE DEPUTIES 1072 00:34:48,206 --> 00:34:49,000 CAUGHT HER. 1073 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,413 >> IT WAS PRETTY ASTONISHING 1074 00:34:50,413 --> 00:34:52,103 THAT SHE DID THAT GIVEN THAT SHE 1075 00:34:52,103 --> 00:34:54,585 HAD TRIED TO ESCAPE PROSECUTION 1076 00:34:54,585 --> 00:34:55,206 PRIOR. 1077 00:34:55,206 --> 00:34:57,000 >> THIS WAS JUST MORE EVIDENCE 1078 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000 OF HER GUILT. 1079 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,586 >> JOSE GARZA IS TRAVIS COUNTY'S 1080 00:35:00,586 --> 00:35:01,310 DISTRICT ATTORNEY. 1081 00:35:01,310 --> 00:35:04,344 HE SAYS HIS TEAM OF PROSECUTORS, 1082 00:35:04,344 --> 00:35:05,620 RICKEY JONES AND GUILLERMO 1083 00:35:05,620 --> 00:35:06,620 GONZALEZ, WERE MORE THAN READY 1084 00:35:06,620 --> 00:35:08,068 TO TRY THE CASE. 1085 00:35:08,068 --> 00:35:09,586 >> WHEN WE LEARNED THAT SHE HAD 1086 00:35:09,586 --> 00:35:13,586 TRIED TO ESCAPE, IT JUST ADDED 1087 00:35:13,586 --> 00:35:14,827 TO OUR CONFIDENCE LEVEL IN THE 1088 00:35:14,827 --> 00:35:16,620 FACTS OF THIS CASE THAT WE WOULD 1089 00:35:16,620 --> 00:35:19,448 BE ABLE TO SECURE JUSTICE FOR 1090 00:35:19,448 --> 00:35:20,758 MORIAH AND HER FAMILY. 1091 00:35:20,758 --> 00:35:24,862 >> ON HAVE NO 1st, 2023, 1092 00:35:24,862 --> 00:35:28,275 ARMSTRONG'S TRIAL BEGAN. 1093 00:35:28,275 --> 00:35:32,310 >> THE LAST THING MO DID ON THIS 1094 00:35:32,310 --> 00:35:34,103 EARTH WAS SCREAM IN TERROR. 1095 00:35:34,103 --> 00:35:35,482 >> IN OPENING STATEMENTS, JONES 1096 00:35:35,482 --> 00:35:37,827 TOLD THE JURY ABOUT CHILLING 1097 00:35:37,827 --> 00:35:40,172 AUDIO FROM A SECURITY CAMERA 1098 00:35:40,172 --> 00:35:41,620 THAT CAPTURED THE LAST MOMENTS 1099 00:35:41,620 --> 00:35:43,965 OF MORIAH'S LIFE. 1100 00:35:43,965 --> 00:35:45,517 >> THOSE SCREAMS WERE FOLLOWED 1101 00:35:45,517 --> 00:35:54,241 BY -- POW, POW, TWO GUNSHOTS. 1102 00:35:54,241 --> 00:35:57,758 PUT A THIRD SHOT RIGHT IN MO 1103 00:35:57,758 --> 00:36:00,000 WILSON'S HEART. 1104 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,724 >> PROSECUTORS SAID ARMSTRONG 1105 00:36:01,724 --> 00:36:03,413 HAD BEEN TRACKING MORIAH WILSON 1106 00:36:03,413 --> 00:36:05,931 USING A SPORTS APP. 1107 00:36:05,931 --> 00:36:07,965 >> KAITLIN PRIOR TO THE MURDER 1108 00:36:07,965 --> 00:36:10,379 HAD BEEN FOLLOWING HER ON THE 1109 00:36:10,379 --> 00:36:13,551 STRAVA APP THAT TRACKS A 1110 00:36:13,551 --> 00:36:14,965 RUNNER'S MILES AND BIKING. 1111 00:36:14,965 --> 00:36:16,448 SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE SHE WAS. 1112 00:36:16,448 --> 00:36:18,448 >> THEY SAID THAT ARTICLE STRONG 1113 00:36:18,448 --> 00:36:20,551 ON THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER WAS 1114 00:36:20,551 --> 00:36:22,379 MOST LIKELY TRACKING COLIN 1115 00:36:22,379 --> 00:36:23,448 STRICKLAND AS WELL. 1116 00:36:23,448 --> 00:36:26,620 >> SHE DID HAVE THE ABILITY TO 1117 00:36:26,620 --> 00:36:28,551 MONITOR HIS COMMUNICATIONS. 1118 00:36:28,551 --> 00:36:31,241 SHE HAD ACCESS TO ALL OF HIS 1119 00:36:31,241 --> 00:36:31,517 PASSWORDS. 1120 00:36:31,517 --> 00:36:34,068 SHE HAD ACCESS TO HIS INSTAGRAM 1121 00:36:34,068 --> 00:36:34,344 ACCOUNT. 1122 00:36:34,344 --> 00:36:37,862 >> I BELIEVE THAT WHEN MO SENT 1123 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:40,689 COLIN A TEXT, LETTING HIM KNOW 1124 00:36:40,689 --> 00:36:43,689 THE ADDRESS WHERE SHE WAS, I 1125 00:36:43,689 --> 00:36:45,862 BELIEVE THAT KAITLIN ARMSTRONG 1126 00:36:45,862 --> 00:36:49,034 WAS AT HOME ON COLIN 1127 00:36:49,034 --> 00:36:49,482 STRICKLAND'S LAPTOP. 1128 00:36:49,482 --> 00:36:50,551 SHE SAW THAT MESSAGE. 1129 00:36:50,551 --> 00:36:52,344 >> AFTER MURDERING MORIAH AND 1130 00:36:52,344 --> 00:36:54,103 BEFORE LEAVING THE SCENE, JONES 1131 00:36:54,103 --> 00:36:56,862 TOLD THE JURY THAT ARMSTRONG 1132 00:36:56,862 --> 00:36:59,000 TOOK MORIAH'S BIKE AND DISCARDED 1133 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,137 IT IN THE BUSHES JUST YARDS AWAY 1134 00:37:01,137 --> 00:37:05,551 FROM WHERE HER JEEP WAS PARKED. 1135 00:37:05,551 --> 00:37:07,000 >> I BELIEVE SHE MAYBE STAGED IT 1136 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,655 TO LOOK LIKE A ROBBERY OR 1137 00:37:08,655 --> 00:37:11,793 SOMETHING, OR ANOTHER THEORY IS, 1138 00:37:11,793 --> 00:37:15,034 MO WILSON'S BIKE IS A TOOL OF 1139 00:37:15,034 --> 00:37:16,068 HER TRADE. 1140 00:37:16,068 --> 00:37:17,724 IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LIKE THE 1141 00:37:17,724 --> 00:37:19,655 BULLET SHOT IN THE HEART. 1142 00:37:19,655 --> 00:37:21,344 I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU IN THE 1143 00:37:21,344 --> 00:37:21,620 HEART. 1144 00:37:21,620 --> 00:37:24,310 I'M GOING TO THROW AWAY YOUR 1145 00:37:24,310 --> 00:37:25,241 BIKE. 1146 00:37:25,241 --> 00:37:26,724 >> BUT THEY SAID ARMSTRONG MADE 1147 00:37:26,724 --> 00:37:28,413 ONE BIG MISTAKE. 1148 00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:31,379 SHE LEFT HER DNA BEHIND ON THE 1149 00:37:31,379 --> 00:37:35,896 HANDLEBARS AND SEAT OF MORIAH'S 1150 00:37:35,896 --> 00:37:37,896 BIKE AND THAT'S NOT ALL THE 1151 00:37:37,896 --> 00:37:39,068 EVIDENCE PROSECUTORS HAD AGAINST 1152 00:37:39,068 --> 00:37:39,379 ARMSTRONG. 1153 00:37:39,379 --> 00:37:41,172 THERE WAS THAT RECEIPT THAT 1154 00:37:41,172 --> 00:37:43,310 SHOWED ARMSTRONG HAD RECEIVED 1155 00:37:43,310 --> 00:37:44,758 PLASTIC SURGERY WHITE HIDING OUT 1156 00:37:44,758 --> 00:37:45,896 IN COSTA RICA. 1157 00:37:45,896 --> 00:37:47,413 >> EVERYTHING SHE DOES, IT IS 1158 00:37:47,413 --> 00:37:49,034 ALL CONSISTENT WITH TRYING TO 1159 00:37:49,034 --> 00:37:49,620 EVADE AUTHORITIES. 1160 00:37:49,620 --> 00:37:53,137 >> WHEN IT WAS THE DEFENSE'S 1161 00:37:53,137 --> 00:37:54,241 TURN, THEY SAID THERE WAS NO 1162 00:37:54,241 --> 00:37:55,655 DIRECT EVIDENCE, INCLUDING 1163 00:37:55,655 --> 00:37:57,551 SECURITY FOOTAGE THAT ACTUALLY 1164 00:37:57,551 --> 00:37:58,689 SHOWED ARMSTRONG WAS AT THE 1165 00:37:58,689 --> 00:38:00,689 SCENE OF THE CRIME. 1166 00:38:00,689 --> 00:38:05,551 >> NOT ONE WITNESS SAW KAITLIN 1167 00:38:05,551 --> 00:38:08,862 ARMSTRONG ALLEGEDLY COMMIT THIS 1168 00:38:08,862 --> 00:38:09,517 MURDER. 1169 00:38:09,517 --> 00:38:11,827 >> THEN WHY WOULD ARMSTRONG FLEE 1170 00:38:11,827 --> 00:38:13,793 AND HIDE FROM AUTHORITIES? 1171 00:38:13,793 --> 00:38:15,896 THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY POINTED THE 1172 00:38:15,896 --> 00:38:17,068 FINGER AT COLIN STRICKLAND. 1173 00:38:17,068 --> 00:38:19,068 >> WAS SHE SCARED? 1174 00:38:19,068 --> 00:38:20,689 WHAT DO YOU THINK? 1175 00:38:20,689 --> 00:38:22,103 DO YOU THINK THAT SHE MAY HAVE 1176 00:38:22,103 --> 00:38:23,896 BEEN CONCERNED A LITTLE BIT THAT 1177 00:38:23,896 --> 00:38:28,655 HER BOYFRIEND HAD KILL SOMEONE? 1178 00:38:28,655 --> 00:38:30,482 FEAR RESULTS IN FIGHT OR FLIGHT. 1179 00:38:30,482 --> 00:38:31,551 IT WAS FLIGHT. 1180 00:38:31,551 --> 00:38:33,000 >> BUT JONES SAID THERE WAS A 1181 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,862 BIG PROBLEM WITH THIS THEORY 1182 00:38:35,862 --> 00:38:36,689 BECAUSE STRICKLAND HAD NOTHING 1183 00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:39,000 TO DO WITH THE MURDER OF MORIAH 1184 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:39,206 WILSON. 1185 00:38:39,206 --> 00:38:41,655 >> IN FACT, AT THE TIME OF THE 1186 00:38:41,655 --> 00:38:43,413 MURDER, HE WAS ACTUALLY ON THE 1187 00:38:43,413 --> 00:38:47,206 PHONE SPEAKING WITH SOMEONE. 1188 00:38:47,206 --> 00:38:49,724 IT WASN'T COLIN STRICKLAND. 1189 00:38:49,724 --> 00:38:51,000 >> ARMSTRONG'S DEFENSE TEAM DID 1190 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,379 NOT RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR 1191 00:38:52,379 --> 00:38:53,275 AN INTERVIEW. 1192 00:38:53,275 --> 00:38:55,413 AFTER A TWO-WEEK TRIAL -- 1193 00:38:55,413 --> 00:38:57,344 >> THE DEFENDANT WILL PLEASE 1194 00:38:57,344 --> 00:38:57,551 RISE. 1195 00:38:57,551 --> 00:39:00,482 >> IT TOOK THE JURY AROUND TWO 1196 00:39:00,482 --> 00:39:02,482 HOURS TO DECIDE ARMSTRONG'S 1197 00:39:02,482 --> 00:39:02,689 FATE. 1198 00:39:02,689 --> 00:39:05,551 >> WE THE JURY FIND THE 1199 00:39:05,551 --> 00:39:06,620 DEFENDANT KAITLIN ARMSTRONG 1200 00:39:06,620 --> 00:39:09,482 GUILTY OF THE OFFENSE OF MURDER. 1201 00:39:09,482 --> 00:39:13,275 >> AS A PROSECUTOR, THE FIRST 1202 00:39:13,275 --> 00:39:15,689 ROW RIGHT BEHIND YOU IS THE 1203 00:39:15,689 --> 00:39:15,931 FAMILY. 1204 00:39:15,931 --> 00:39:17,827 AND YOU BEGAN TO FEEL THEIR PAIN 1205 00:39:17,827 --> 00:39:22,000 AND THEIR DESIRE FOR A JUST 1206 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,827 OUTCOME FOR THEIR LOVED ONES. 1207 00:39:23,827 --> 00:39:26,206 >>> ONE DAY AFTER HER 1208 00:39:26,206 --> 00:39:27,172 CONVICTION, ARMSTRONG WAS 1209 00:39:27,172 --> 00:39:30,482 SENTENCED TO 90 YEARS BEHIND 1210 00:39:30,482 --> 00:39:30,896 BARS. 1211 00:39:30,896 --> 00:39:33,344 >> YOU MAY BE SEATED. 1212 00:39:33,344 --> 00:39:34,896 >> BUT BEFORE THE CASE CAME TO 1213 00:39:34,896 --> 00:39:38,034 AN END, JUDGE BRENDA KENNEDY 1214 00:39:38,034 --> 00:39:40,517 ALLOWED CAITLYN CASH, MORIAH'S 1215 00:39:40,517 --> 00:39:42,931 CLOSE FRIEND WHOSE APARTMENT SHE 1216 00:39:42,931 --> 00:39:44,586 HAD BEEN STAYING AT, WHO FOUND 1217 00:39:44,586 --> 00:39:46,344 THE BODY, TO TAKE THE STAND AND 1218 00:39:46,344 --> 00:39:48,862 SPEAK DIRECTLY TO ARMSTRONG. 1219 00:39:48,862 --> 00:39:51,068 >> SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM 1220 00:39:51,068 --> 00:39:53,448 HAVE LOST SO MUCH. 1221 00:39:53,448 --> 00:39:59,206 I'M ANGRY AT YOU, AT THE UTTER 1222 00:39:59,206 --> 00:40:02,724 TRAGIC NATURE THAT WAS 1223 00:40:02,724 --> 00:40:04,862 SENSELESSNESS AT NOT BEING ABLE 1224 00:40:04,862 --> 00:40:07,000 TO HEAR MO'S VOICE AGAIN. 1225 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,172 I FEEL DEEP SADNESS FOR THE ROAD 1226 00:40:10,172 --> 00:40:10,896 AHEAD. 1227 00:40:10,896 --> 00:40:13,103 >> THEN IT WAS MORIAH'S MOTHER'S 1228 00:40:13,103 --> 00:40:13,344 TURN. 1229 00:40:13,344 --> 00:40:17,586 >> I HATE WHAT YOU DID TO MY 1230 00:40:17,586 --> 00:40:18,896 BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. 1231 00:40:18,896 --> 00:40:22,206 IT WAS VERY SELFISH AND 1232 00:40:22,206 --> 00:40:23,413 COWARDLY. 1233 00:40:23,413 --> 00:40:26,000 A VIOLENT ACT. 1234 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,275 IT WAS COWARDLY BECAUSE YOU 1235 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:31,793 NEVER CHOSE TO FACE HER WOMAN TO 1236 00:40:31,793 --> 00:40:34,551 WOMAN IN A CIVIL CONVERSATION. 1237 00:40:34,551 --> 00:40:37,379 SHE WOULD HAVE LISTENED. 1238 00:40:37,379 --> 00:40:39,689 SHE WAS AN AMAZING LISTENER. 1239 00:40:39,689 --> 00:40:41,068 SHE WOULD HAVE CARED ABOUT YOUR 1240 00:40:41,068 --> 00:40:43,413 FEELINGS. 1241 00:40:43,413 --> 00:40:46,620 >> BUT DESPITE THE PAIN, KAREN 1242 00:40:46,620 --> 00:40:48,724 WILSON CLOSED WITH WORDS OF LOVE 1243 00:40:48,724 --> 00:40:50,827 AND OPTIMISM BECAUSE SHE SAID, 1244 00:40:50,827 --> 00:40:52,551 THAT'S HOW MORIAH WOULD HAVE 1245 00:40:52,551 --> 00:40:53,379 WANTED IT. 1246 00:40:53,379 --> 00:40:56,655 >> YOU KILLED HER EARTHLY BODY 1247 00:40:56,655 --> 00:41:00,103 BUT HER SPIRIT IS SO VERY MUCH 1248 00:41:00,103 --> 00:41:00,551 ALIVE. 1249 00:41:00,551 --> 00:41:06,793 AND YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE THAT. 1250 00:41:06,793 --> 00:41:08,620 >> TODAY IN KINGDOM TRAILS IN 1251 00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:10,310 NORTHERN VERMONT, A PLACE SACRED 1252 00:41:10,310 --> 00:41:12,517 TO MORIAH, A TRAIL WAS BUILT IN 1253 00:41:12,517 --> 00:41:14,103 HER HONOR. 1254 00:41:14,103 --> 00:41:17,448 IT'S CALLED MORIAH'S ASCENT. 1255 00:41:17,448 --> 00:41:20,310 >> MORIAH WAS A VERMONTER. 1256 00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:22,379 SHE WAS GIVING, SHE WAS 1257 00:41:22,379 --> 00:41:24,068 HARD-WORKING, SHE WAS HONEST, 1258 00:41:24,068 --> 00:41:24,724 SHE WAS CARING. 1259 00:41:24,724 --> 00:41:26,931 AND SHE CAME FROM A WONDERFUL 1260 00:41:26,931 --> 00:41:28,586 FAMILY AND THAT FAMILY REALLY 1261 00:41:28,586 --> 00:41:33,310 WANTS THAT LEGACY AND ALL OF HER 1262 00:41:33,310 --> 00:41:34,000 GOOD QUALITIES TO INSPIRE 1263 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,724 GOOD QUALITIES TO INSPIRE OTHERS. 1264 00:41:38,724 --> 00:41:47,275 OTHERS. 1265 00:41:47,275 --> 00:41:49,137 >>> A GOOD FAMILY MAN 1266 00:41:49,137 --> 00:41:49,448 DISAPPEARS. 1267 00:41:49,448 --> 00:41:52,068 >> I KNEW SOMETHING BAD WAS 1268 00:41:52,068 --> 00:41:52,344 LAPPING. 1269 00:41:52,344 --> 00:41:54,103 >> THEN A HIGH-SPEED CHASE 1270 00:41:54,103 --> 00:41:54,827 REVEALS CLUES. 1271 00:41:54,827 --> 00:41:56,379 >> IT WAS LIKE THE SCENE OUT OF 1272 00:41:56,379 --> 00:41:57,172 A MOVIE. 1273 00:41:57,172 --> 00:41:59,586 >> AND A POWERFUL MOTIVE. 1274 00:41:59,586 --> 00:42:00,068 REVENGE. 1275 00:42:00,068 --> 00:42:01,793 >> I HAD NO IDEA THE TYPE OF 1276 00:42:01,793 --> 00:42:01,931 EVIL