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Whatever happened,

this was a cold-blooded killing.

Whoever did this,

they went there for one reason.

-This was personal. -[Gunshot]

But, we needed evidence to figure out her killer.

He didn't have one firearm. He has two firearms.

A female patrol officer located a bicycle.

This mysterious car is now seen slowing down.

Who was inside of this car?

These big pieces of evidence worked together

to get a killer.

♪

[Gunshot]

♪

[Narrator] When homicide investigators

collect evidence from a crime scene,

they hold the pieces of a puzzle.

Only by connecting those pieces back together...

can they catch the killer.

♪

♪

Austin's a rapidly growing town.

Kind of right in the centre of Texas.

It's been known for its live music scene.

But also, Austin is very well-known

for competitive cyclers.

It's very suitable for different gravel races or

road cycling just because of the complex terrain

that's out there.

TIM: We have cyclists come from all over the world

to compete and to practice in this area.

♪

RICHARD: Around 9:50 PM

on May 11, 2022,

Caitlin Cash arrives back at her apartment...

finds the door is unlocked.

TIM: You can basically see most everything inside,

right from the front door.

She sees her friend, Moriah Wilson,

lying in the bathroom.

RICHARD: She asked Moriah how she was doing,

what's going on...

but there was no response.

♪

She sees Moriah was covered in blood,

and was no longer breathing.

TIM: She immediately calls 9-1-1.

TIM: The 9-1-1 operator begins to give her

instructions to perform CPR,

and to start lifesaving measures.

TIM: None of those worked.

Moriah is pronounced dead.

[Vibrating]

RICHARD: At 10:47 PM I received a phone call

from the on-call Sergeant,

who told me that there was a single victim

with a gunshot wound.

No perpetrator had been identified at this time.

♪

We responded to the scene to begin this investigation.

♪

TIM: This apartment is an elevated,

upstairs apartment over a garage.

There's a set of wooden steps that lead up to

the apartment, and a wooden deck outside.

RICHARD: There's one alleyway that runs

directly behind this apartment,

but another alleyway that runs

right beside it as well.

TIM: I walk into the apartment, and...

I see the apartment is extremely small.

RICHARD: The kitchen, it just has an island,

which leads directly into the bathroom.

TIM: I see the female decedent.

She's lying supine on her back.

♪

And I see her legs sticking out

into the kitchen area.

♪

The victim, Moriah Wilson,

known to her friends as "Mo,"

was a young, upbeat 25-year-old.

She had started to gain prominence

in that world of gravel racing,

and was travelling all over the nation

competing in races.

♪

Upon first inspection of Moriah,

I observed a wound on one of her hands

that appeared to be a small-

maybe some type of grazing wound or cut.

RICHARD: It appeared as though whenever the

perpetrator fired a gunshot that Moriah was holding

her hand trying to stop this bullet from

striking her in the head.

TIM: I observed a lot of blood on her face

and in her hair.

We couldn't tell exactly what those wounds were.

The decedent was wearing what appeared to be

a swimsuit and a coverup.

There didn't appear to be any...

indication that a sexual assault occurred.

Whatever happened, this was a cold-blooded killing.

This is a homicide.

♪

TIM: Forensics experts arrived and began

processing the crime scene.

During the exam of the decedent on scene,

we discovered that she possibly had

two gunshot wounds to her face and head area.

While examining her hair, we felt something hard,

and it ended up being a fired projectile

that had passed through her head.

We did locate a gunshot wound that appeared

to go through her chest,

and pass through the front through her back

and into the floor below her.

That coincided with a fired cartridge case that

we observed on the ground next to her.

♪

RICHARD: There were three spent cartridge cases

that were on scene.

Two of them were in the kitchen.

And the third one was inside of the bathroom

next to where we found Moriah.

The head stamp on the spent cartridge cases

read "JAG 9mm," all three of them.

TIM: It's a very common round that can show us that

maybe the person shooting the weapon

was an amateur gun user.

A lot of people, when they first buy a handgun,

it will be a 9mm or something similar.

Also, 9mm ammo is a lot cheaper.

It's on store shelves and readily available.

♪

Police believe that the murder weapon in this case

is most likely a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol.

Common name brands associated with that type of firearm

include GLOCK, SIG Sauer, Springfield,

and Smith & Wesson.

But the GLOCK 9mm, investigators know,

is among the most popular 9 mm semi-automatic

handguns in the United States today.

Statistically speaking, this makes it more likely than not

that GLOCK is the firearm involved.

TIM: We discovered a partially eaten energy bar

on the floor near the decedent.

It appeared that the decedent had been eating

the energy bar when she was confronted

by somebody else.

RICHARD: The apartment itself is very clean.

There's no signs of a disturbance.

Furniture is not knocked over.

The door is not damaged.

Nobody actually kicked the door open.

The windows, they're all locked and secured.

Doesn't appear as though anyone had tried to

open a window or broke a window

to gain access into this apartment.

TIM: Right near the door is a sofa.

On the sofa, I observed

a laptop and two cell phones.

It could have been a robbery or a burglary gone bad.

But I felt that that might not be the case.

If it were, somebody would've grabbed

those items on their way out the door.

♪

RICHARD: As we searched the residence,

we found that there was no gun that was

anywhere else inside.

Based on everything we are seeing on scene,

it appears as though Moriah may have been

standing next to the kitchen counter.

TIM: She was possibly eating a snack,

and somebody came through the unlocked door

and confronted her.

RICHARD: It appears as though Moriah puts her hand

in front of her face trying to shield her

from what's about to happen.

[Gunshot]

TIM: The first two shots were fired from a distance away.

Based on the fired cartridge case

that was right near the decedent,

it appeared that someone had stood over the decedent

and shot her directly through the chest.

[Gunshot]

Somebody standing over her and shooting her after

she had already been shot in the head,

makes it sound like it was personal,

that there was some type of issue between

the killer and the decedent.

RICHARD: Whoever did this, they went there for

one reason, and that was to kill Moriah Wilson.

Who would hate Moriah so much

that they would want her dead?

♪

TIM: At this point, we didn't have enough

evidence to figure out her killer.

It was late at night.

TIM: And a female patrol officer who was

securing part of the alleyway...

...located a bicycle in an abandoned lot,

partially concealed by some trees.

It appeared to be a very expensive bike.

It's not normally one that you would see

discarded in an abandoned lot.

So, I began to Google the brand of the bike,

which was S-Works.

This bike was very expensive.

I mean, anywhere from 13 to $20,000.

And usually this bike was only owned by...

people that were racing professionals.

One of the patrol officers on scene

Googled Moriah Wilson, and there were

social media pictures

with her being on that bike.

So I began to think, why would it be

50 yards down the alleyway?

There is a possibility that somebody who had

no knowledge of this bike started riding it away

and figured out that they couldn't ride it.

A lot of these expensive racing bikes

have certain pedals.

You have to be wearing special shoes to be able to

click into the pedals.

So, they just ditch it.

We ended up taking swabs from the handlebar,

from the crossbar, and from the seat of the bike...

and those swabs were preserved for

later DNA testing.

We basically processed the crime scene throughout

the night to preserve that initial evidence.

With the evidence gathered at the crime scene-

the slugs and cartridges,

clothing, an energy bar,

electronics, and the ditched bicycle-

detectives have the building blocks of the case.

Now they'll try to put the pieces back together to

deduce who killed Moriah Wilson.

The first clue detectives look into is the digital lock

on the front door of Caitlin Cash's apartment.

They consider more closely when and how the killer

appears to have bypassed that lock,

shortly before Mo Wilson was killed.

TIM: Caitlin Cash did provide some

initial statements at the scene.

Cash told us that Moriah Wilson

was in town for...

a gravel race that was gonna occur the

following weekend in Hico, Texas,

and she was staying at Cash's apartment.

RICHARD: Cash has an electronic door lock

on her door.

It's connected to an app that's on her phone.

Anytime that someone uses a, a code to

lock or unlock the door,

a notification is sent to her phone.

TIM: Cash told us that around 5 PM

she left the apartment to go out to dinner,

and she left Moriah in the apartment.

♪

RICHARD: Cash said that at 5:55 PM

she received a notification saying that

her door was locked, indicating that

Moriah was leaving to go out to dinner.

At 8:36 PM Cash received another notification

indicating the door was unlocked.

This showed that Moriah had just arrived home.

TIM: We didn't receive the 9-1-1 phone call from Cash...

until about 9:55 PM that night.

So that tells us, obviously, that the time of death

would've been somewhere in that timeframe.

Cash had stated to detectives that nobody else

knew the code to get into her apartment.

RICHARD: This told me that Moriah,

either she knew the perpetrator and

allowed them to come inside,

or she left the door unlocked,

which allowed the perpetrator to

freely enter into the apartment.

♪

Cash is also able to tell me exactly

where she was throughout the evening,

the friends that she was with.

Cash was nowhere near the scene of the shooting

when it occurred.

I didn't believe that she was the perpetrator

in this shooting.

♪

That night back at Austin Police Headquarters,

I called Moriah's family.

I wanted to express my condolences.

And I want to get as much background information

as I can on Moriah.

Who does she know? Who is she friends with?

Because this crime was someone that knew her,

someone that she's very familiar with.

Someone had so much hate against Moriah,

but what was that hate from?

The family was just unaware about it.

They had no idea who would want to kill Moriah.

TIM: We didn't have any possible suspects

for the case at the time.

But, while working the crime scene,

and then doing a canvass of the neighborhood,

we observed that the garage apartment appeared to be

on the same property as a larger residence.

RICHARD: Who lives here?

Could they potentially have been involved in this murder?

♪

TIM: We knocked on the door,

and we made contact with Derek Peel.

He advised that he lived in that residence,

and that he rented the garage apartment to Cash.

RICHARD: I asked Derek if he had

heard anything that night.

Was there any disturbance, anybody yelling?

Did he hear any gunshots?

He answered, "No."

I found that to be kind of shocking because Derek

lives just a few feet away from where this happened.

The sound of a gunshot is so loud,

he would've had to have heard it.

Derek possibly could have done this.

Was he responsible for the murder of Moriah Wilson?

♪

[Gunshot]

[Gunshot]

He indicated to me that the night of the murder,

he had done a 3D printing project.

He knew it was going to take some time for

this project to complete,

and so he went outside into the garage.

As he opened the garage, he recalled hearing

something that sounded like loud footsteps.

It sounded as though someone was

coming down the stairs with a bike.

He thought maybe it was Cash

going out for a night ride.

♪

If Derek is telling me the truth,

then this means that the sound of the garage opening

may have startled the perpetrator,

and they ran down the stairs with the bicycle

in an attempt to flee the scene.

Derek indicated that he went back inside and...

He was later awakened due to police responding to

the apartment above his detached garage.

[Camera shutter clicking]

At that time, there was no indication to show that

he had any ill will against Moriah,

that he wanted to hurt Moriah,

or even knew who Moriah was.

We have no reason to believe that Derek

committed this murder.

The evidence was not matching up.

The motive wasn't there.

♪

During the night of the incident,

while I was processing the crime scene,

I was approached by one of the patrol officers...

who stated that a kid had walked up into

the crime scene near the garage area

while they were putting up crime scene tape.

♪

The patrol officer advised that

he seemed a little weird.

He had headphones on, and he was just kind of

oblivious to a lot of police activity,

to yellow crime scene tape that

you're not supposed to cross.

Pretty late at night.

We did make contact with him about his whereabouts

that night and why he came up the alleyway.

The kid's name is Samuel Peel,

and he's 17 years old.

Samuel Peel lives at the residence

with his father, Derek Peel.

He basically stated that he had been on a run

in the neighbourhood, he had his headphones on,

and every time he goes on a run,

he walks down that alleyway and comes back in the garage

and walks through the garage to get to his house.

That kind of explained maybe why he was disregarding the

crime scene tape and the officers in the area

because he does this every day.

He puts his headphones on, he just kind of blindly

walks up through his garage to go home.

So at this point in the investigation,

we have no physical evidence linking the landlord

or his son to the murder.

Caitlin Cash's landlord, Derek Peel,

told investigators he may have heard the assailant

leaving the crime scene while actually

carrying a bicycle down the back stairs

before exiting out into an alley.

While Mr. Peel didn't see who exactly was

carrying the bicycle, investigators began to

wonder whether or not this individual might have

been captured on neighbouring CCTV cameras.

TIM: After the initial crime scene is broken down,

we start going door to door in the apartments and

houses around the scene of the crime.

We're looking for video footage, cameras,

doorbell cameras that might have

caught somebody in the area.

And we do locate a resident who has a camera that

faces the back alleyway toward Cash's apartment.

♪

RICHARD: This camera, it was motion activated.

And it was activated at 8:37 PM,

showing a black SUV.

It had chrome around the windows.

And at 8:37, this mysterious car is now seen

slowing down at the bottom of these stairs.

It appeared as though it started coming to a stop

near where the stairs lead up to this front door.

TIM: I would consider this video evidence

the first break in the case.

♪

RICHARD: This car could potentially be

my perpetrator responsible for the murder.

But the windows on this SUV,

they were dark.

I didn't even know how many occupants were inside.

Now I need to know who was inside of this car.

a black SUV with a distinct wheel pattern.

So, that was obviously

a pretty good piece of evidence

to continue the investigation forward.

But at this point, we can't identify

who the driver was, or the owner of this vehicle.

♪

Investigators' strongest lead is the video footage of

a black SUV driving in the alley behind the crime scene

around the time Moriah Wilson was killed.

But to figure out who was driving that vehicle,

they need to know who Moriah interacted with in

the days and hours before she was killed.

So they look for answers from Moriah's friend,

Caitlin Cash.

RICHARD: Later, on the night of the murder,

Caitlin Cash arrives to the headquarters.

She's very upset.

She's very emotional about everything that

she has gone through.

Cash tells me she wants to do anything and everything

that she can to find out who was responsible

for killing Moriah.

Cash confirms that Moriah was only going to be in town

for a couple of days.

Whoever did this had to have known that she would've

been in town for just this very small window of time.

TIM: She advised that Moriah had gone out on a date...

with a friend of hers named Colin Strickland...

that evening that Mo was killed.

And Cash returned to the apartment later.

RICHARD: I want to know about Moriah's friend, Colin,

who possibly was the last person to actually see her.

Cash was able to tell me that Colin Strickland is a friend

that Moriah knew from the cycling community,

who is also a fellow professional cyclist.

I asked Cash to describe

what type of relationship Moriah has with Colin.

Or what their past relationship was.

How do they know each other?

Cash indicated that Moriah had briefly dated Colin

in October of 2021, just for a few weeks.

After that, she believed that their relationship had ended.

They're just friends at this point,

just racing companions.

♪

The morning after the murder, I wanted to actually have a

face-to-face meeting with Colin Strickland.

I wanted to know his whereabouts

during the time of this murder.

What happened on whenever him and Moriah

were actually out together.

I don't know if he's a perpetrator

responsible for this.

I don't know if he's involved,

or if maybe he's just a witness.

As I approach Colin's house, I see this black SUV

with chrome around the windows in the driveway.

♪

It's parked next to a white motorcycle,

and an older model brown Cadillac.

This SUV appeared to be the same vehicle that was

seen in the surveillance footage,

stopping or slowing down next to the apartment

at 8:37 PM.

RICHARD: He said, "No, I don't know who that is."

He was lying to me.

I knew that Colin had just been

out with her the night prior.

♪

This is something suspicious.

TIM: His behaviour was really strange.

RICHARD: He seemed as though he was taken back.

I began asking him more questions about

his whereabouts the night of the murder.

Colin had indicated that he had taken Moriah out

on his motorcycle that evening,

and that they went to the pool on his motorcycle.

And then they went to eat, on his motorcycle.

And then he drove back to Moriah's apartment,

and dropped her off on his motorcycle.

He drove back home on his motorcycle.

He mentioned this motorcycle to me so many times,

it just seemed as though he was trying to

distance himself from the black SUV

that we were standing next to

that's parked in his driveway.

♪

I asked Colin to come to the headquarters.

Give me a good statement.

He agreed, and he drove his own vehicle.

But instead of driving this black SUV,

he decided to drive this older Cadillac

that was in the driveway.

Again, it appeared to me as though he's distancing

himself from being an owner of this black SUV.

I began asking him about the night out with Moriah.

He explains that they did go swimming.

And then, they went to a nearby restaurant.

They left from the restaurant and

drove back to Cash's apartment.

He drops off Moriah and then drives home.

He was able to tell me his exact route that he took to

get from Cash's apartment back to his residence.

TIM: We asked Colin if he had observed anything suspicious

around the apartment where she was staying.

And he advised that

he didn't see anything suspicious.

So he was very forthcoming with

a lot of detailed information.

But we didn't have a way to

confirm what he was saying.

♪

RICHARD: I asked Colin more about the black SUV

that was parked in the driveway.

Who is it that drives this black SUV?

Who owns this car?

He said, "Well, that's my girlfriend's car.

She lives with me. That's Kaitlin Armstrong."

Kaitlin Armstrong is also part of the gravel racing

community that Colin and Moriah Wilson rode in.

RICHARD: Colin indicated this was more of a...

matter of convenience for their relationship.

They are business partners together,

and they both live together in the same house.

I asked Colin if he knew where Kaitlin Armstrong

was the night of the murder.

TIM: He stated that she's a realtor,

and she had had a meeting about buying some land

and then she taught a yoga class.

♪

RICHARD: If Colin was telling me the truth then

Kaitlin Armstrong possibly has an alibi.

Colin has said that that night,

he was in his garage working on bicycles,

and that he saw Kaitlin arrive to the house

in the black SUV, and that she was alone.

TIM: We felt he could be lying.

He was trying very hard to distance himself

from that black SUV.

And trying very hard to put himself

on a motorcycle that night.

He could have been driving that black SUV,

or he could have been a passenger in that black SUV

at the time of the murder.

We believe that Colin Strickland could be

ultimately responsible for the murder of Moriah Wilson.

So, I decided to take this in a different direction.

After we searched Cash's apartment,

we found three 9mm spent casings and

bullets at the crime scene.

We know that we are looking for someone

who would've had access to a 9mm handgun.

I had asked Colin if he had owned any firearms.

Colin indicated, yes, he, he owned a firearm.

He owned a pistol...

which happened to be a 9mm Springfield handgun.

I found this very interesting because his 9mm handgun

could have potentially fired the spent

cartridge cases that we found on scene.

It was the same calibre, so it matched.

I know that Colin and Kaitlin both have access to

this 9mm handgun because they live together.

They both have access to this black SUV

that is seen on surveillance footage.

TIM: At this point in the investigation,

both Colin Strickland and Kaitlin Armstrong

were looking suspicious.

♪

I want to talk with Kaitlin, and find out

what she was doing the night of the murder.

We looked at Kaitlin's background details

prior to interviewing her.

It was found that Kaitlin had

an active warrant for her arrest.

♪

It was issued for not paying for Botox.

We used the warrant as a way to be able to force Kaitlin

to come to the headquarters to give a statement to us.

TIM: So, we had officers locate her at the residence

that she shared with Colin Strickland,

and arrest her for that warrant.

She was then transported to the homicide office.

TIM: We wanted to ask her questions about

where she was around the time of the murder.

She was very apprehensive to talk.

TIM: She basically just didn't respond to the

questions that were asked of her.

TIM: She just kept asking if she could leave.

TIM: And then, we presented her with the photo,

which was taken from the video evidence of

a black SUV driving near the crime scene

right around the time of the murder.

TIM: She nodded, slumped back in her chair,

but didn't say a word.

She wouldn't tell us who was driving that vehicle

or if she knew who was driving that vehicle.

RICHARD: Kaitlin simply just wanted to

stop talking with us.

I found this to be very strange.

Her car is seen at the crime scene on video

prior to this murder happening.

Yes, that was her car.

She doesn't dispute,

but she wouldn't give us an explanation.

♪

At this point, I don't know

who is responsible for this crime.

I don't know if Kaitlin is the one that did it.

I don't if Colin was the one that did it.

I don't know if maybe they worked together...

or, potentially, they were both

trying to cover for the other person.

♪

[Knocking]

...we realise that there was a possible

clerical error on the warrant.

She was free to leave, and she did.

So far, key evidence points to

both Colin and Kaitlin.

Both had access to the black SUV that

drove past Cash's apartment.

Both had access to Colin's Springfield,

a weapon that fires 9mm rounds

like those found at the crime scene.

So detectives now either have to confirm

Colin and Kaitlin worked together,

or find a way to rule one of them out.

RICHARD: Colin said that he did pick Moriah up on his

motorcycle to go swimming and out to eat.

TIM: We're actually able to find video footage of the

two of them at Pool Burger around the exact same time

that Colin said they were there.

We were able to get a receipt for

their food and drink order.

And we actually had video footage of the two of them

leaving Pool Burger on Colin's motorcycle,

♪

We also located video footage that showed Colin

getting on Interstate 35 to head

southbound toward his residence

just a few minutes after he said he dropped

Moriah Wilson off, at approximately 8:36 PM.

But, one minute later

we observed the black SUV

circling through the alley way at about 8:37 PM.

TIM: So now we know that Colin Strickland

wasn't in the black SUV.

RICHARD: I had asked Colin Strickland to come to

the headquarters for a second interview.

He agreed.

I told Colin that I believe what he was telling me about

his whereabouts during the time of this murder.

TIM: And then we basically confront him by telling him

that we observed Kaitlin's SUV in the area of the

crime scene at the time of the murder.

RICHARD: Colin starts holding his head in his hands

just shaking his head back and forth.

And he says,

"I knew I shouldn't have bought that gun."

Then Colin actually told me he didn't have one firearm,

but he has two firearms.

TIM: He stated that he had purchased a

Springfield 9mm for himself,

and a SIG Sauer 9mm for Kaitlin.

Colin stated that he had bought the handgun for

Kaitlin just because she was a realtor.

She was going into houses alone,

and she just felt like she might need it for protection.

While I was processing the crime scene,

I observed the three 9mm fired cartridge cases

near Mo's body, and I began to think,

was there a possibility that those 9mm cases

I found at the scene could match

one of these guns.

RICHARD: A search warrant was issued to search

Colin and Kaitlin's residence.

TIM: We did find two guns.

One was a Springfield 9mm,

and one was a SIG Sauer 9mm.

We noticed that the Springfield seemed very clean.

There was no carbon buildup in the chamber.

It had possibly had never been fired,

or if it had been fired,

it had been cleaned really well.

Upon inspection of the SIG Sauer,

we noticed that the chamber was extremely dirty,

a lot of carbon buildup.

It had obviously been fired.

RICHARD: Both of those handguns were taken to

our crime scene laboratory.

They were fingerprinted and swabbed for DNA.

TIM: We need to test those weapons...

against the fired cartridge cases that

we observed at the crime scene.

RICHARD: This was done by microscopically measuring the

distance between the pin mechanism inside of the

handgun and the indention that was on the

spent cartridge cases.

TIM: We quickly get a report from our firearms unit.

RICHARD: It was determined that the SIG Sauer handgun

had been used to fire the cartridges that were

located at the scene of the murder.

♪

if Kaitlin is the one that committed this crime,

I wanted to know how was it that

Kaitlin knew where Moriah was staying?

Moriah actually uses Strava.

Strava is just a social media platform that's

used to track cycling, running.

Different users can visit your page on Strava

and view the different rides,

and it's going to show your location.

♪

Strava provided me with some very valuable data.

The data showed that,

on May 11th, the day of the murder,

Kaitlin viewed Moriah's profile four times.

♪

But not only does she view Moriah's profile,

she viewed a ride that Moriah

had taken that morning in Austin.

You can actually see that it started at Cash's apartment

and that it ended at Cash's apartment.

Investigators now have strong evidence

linking Kaitlin Armstrong to the crime.

They only thing they do not have is motive.

RICHARD: It appeared as though Kaitlin knew

where Moriah was staying...

based on Moriah's Strava ride.

If Kaitlin was the person that did this,

why did she hate Moriah so much?

Now I need to know motive in this crime.

The Austin Police Department issued a press release

indicating that this murder had occurred,

and identified Moriah as the victim in this crime.

There were many people that called in to give tips.

TIM: And we began to get information that there was

a lot of jealousy between Kaitlin Armstrong

and Moriah Wilson.

Kaitlin really didn't like the fact that

Moriah was friends with Colin,

or had a brief romantic relationship with Colin

while they were on a break.

RICHARD: One of the tipsters had said that

in January of 2022,

Moriah, Colin, and Kaitlin were all at a banquet.

At this event, Kaitlin saw Moriah.

She became enraged. She was furious.

Kaitlin told this caller that she wanted to kill Moriah.

TIM: Moriah was younger.

She was well liked and well respected.

We began to feel that

Kaitlin could be very jealous of Moriah.

What we're looking at here is a love triangle.

♪

RICHARD: So, I went back to the evidence

collected from the search warrant.

During the search warrant of Colin and Kaitlin's house,

Kaitlin's laptop and cell phone,

they were taken as evidence.

I searched that phone,

as well as the phone records through her carrier,

and what I found was very interesting.

Kaitlin's phone, it had lost connection with the

cell phone towers prior to the murder happening.

And it doesn't actually reconnect

until 9:55 PM,

where it shows to be at her residence.

TIM: We received the 9-1-1 phone call from Cash

about 9:55 PM that night.

RICHARD: Kaitlin turned off her phone,

which would no longer send a signal to the cell phone

towers that would track her location.

It seems as though she's trying to hide

her whereabouts, hide her location and

her movement during the time of the murder.

We need to look at the black SUV

that belonged to Kaitlin Armstrong.

TIM: Most modern vehicles have

systems contained inside them that

track GPS and track movements.

We quickly learned that the black SUV was

no longer parked in front of her residence.

Finding that SUV was extremely important.

We were able to locate the SUV at a local car dealership.

It appears that Kaitlin Armstrong

had sold the SUV for cash.

Inside that SUV is what we call

an infotainment centre.

And one of our digital forensics experts

was able to take the information from the

infotainment centre to get GPS data.

So the GPS data showed,

on the day of the murder,

that Kaitlin Armstrong left her residence,

drove through downtown Austin, and then

began circling the area around Cash's apartment.

It shows that she stopped in a grassy area at the end

of the alleyway, and turned the vehicle off.

We briefly lost the GPS signal.

Once she turns the vehicle back on,

the GPS signal pops back up...

and we're able to...

show that she drove from the crime scene

back to her residence.

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This was the first time that we were actually able to

place Kaitlin Armstrong at the scene of the murder.

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And we were also able to locate video evidence

from a residence that was...

down the street from the scene.

In the video footage, around 9:15,

we were able to hear a loud scream...

[Screaming]

And then two gunshots.

[Gunshots]

There was a few second break,

and then we heard a third gunshot.

[Gunshot]

That told us that the time of the murder

was around 9:15.

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Now we have enough evidence to get an arrest warrant

for Kaitlin Armstrong.

Very quickly, we learned that she had taken a flight to

Costa Rica and entered Costa Rica

using her sister's passport.

Costa Rican authorities deport Kaitlin back to the US.

TIM: So once Kaitlin Armstrong was

back in the country, we were able to get

a DNA sample from her.

That sample we took from Kaitlin Armstrong

was compared to the swabs...

that were taken from the crime scene,

on the bike that we found in the abandoned lot,

It came back as a match

to Kaitlin Armstrong.

We knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt,

that Kaitlin Armstrong had been on scene,

and that she had handled that bike and was ultimately

responsible for the murder of Moriah Wilson.

RICHARD: Now we know what happened

that very tragic night.

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TIM: Kaitlin Armstrong had access to

Colin's texts via her laptop,

and she was able to figure out that...

Colin and Mo were gonna spend some time together.

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RICHARD: Kaitlin knew where Moriah was staying,

based on the Strava ride.

TIM: Kaitlin knew that they would be

coming back to that apartment.

She saw Mo get off Colin's motorcycle

and walk into the apartment.

Once Kaitlin parked the Jeep in the

alleyway nearby...

she walked up the steps to the apartment.

She went through the unlocked door,

and she confronted Mo, who was...

basically just standing in the kitchen area,

eating a snack.

[Gunshots]

TIM: She fired two shots, striking Mo in the head,

And then she walked across the apartment,

and stood over Mo as she laid on the bathroom floor.

[Gunshot]

RICHARD: At that point, Kaitlin fired

directly into Moriah's chest...

killing Moriah.

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TIM: On November 16th, 2023,

Kaitlin Armstrong was found guilty

of the murder of Moriah Wilson.

RICHARD: The jury sentences her to 90 years in prison,

and requires her to pay the family $10,000.

TIM: There was an overwhelming amount of

evidence in this case that showed that

Kaitlin Armstrong was the killer.

We had the DNA match on the bike.

We had the GPS information...

from Kaitlin's SUV that put her on scene

at the time of the murder,

and we had the ballistics match from the firearm

that was in her possession.

All three of these big pieces of evidence worked together

to get a conviction for murder.

This was a very senseless and...

cold-blooded killing.

She was a very young, by all accounts

happy person and...

Moriah Wilson did not deserve to die.

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