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Speaker 1: old world class cyclists is murdered, found shot dead multiple

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Speaker 1: times in the gentrified East Austin neighborhood full of beautiful

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Speaker 1: twenty five year old girl, I me, Nancy Grace. This

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Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here

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Speaker 1: at Fox Nation and series M one eleven. Let's kick

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Speaker 1: it off, take it listen to our friends at seven.

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Speaker 1: Police are investigating a suspicious death in East Auston. This

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Speaker 1: happened on Maple Avenue near East seventeenth Street overnight. A

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Speaker 1: they found the victim had gunshot wounds. A US provided

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Speaker 1: Police do not know how long she was inside the home,

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Speaker 1: a gun was found on scene. Suspicious man. They're staying

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Speaker 1: Fox seven tonight, we're learning the victim of a deadly

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Speaker 1: better known by her middle name Mariah, was pronounced dead

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Speaker 1: Austin Police were called there after a friend of Wilson's

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Speaker 1: They're urging anyone with information or video of what happened

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Speaker 1: magazine Vello, Wilson was in Texas ahead of today's gravel

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Speaker 1: Vellow published a statement from her family saying she was

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Speaker 1: You know, when I hear the address Maple Avenue, that

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Speaker 1: there's a pretty ritzy area there in Austin joining me

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Speaker 1: out to Tony Plahetski, longtime friend, colleague, investigative reporter with

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Speaker 1: The Austin American Statesman and KVUE Twitter at t Plaatski. Tony,

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Speaker 1: tell me about East Austin. I got the word gentrified

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Speaker 1: Maple Avenue. It sounds like it's out of a fable

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Speaker 1: so over the years, this area of East Austin has

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of when I moved to Atlanta and

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Speaker 1: What is is, Tony Plahatski. It's an endurance sport. I mean,

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Speaker 1: friends at crime online dot com. At first, suspecting a robbery,

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Speaker 1: Armstrong is Colin Strickland girlfriend of three years and they

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00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: lived together here in Austin and actually operate a business

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00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: together in the Austin area. Caitlin Marie Armstrong, age thirty four,

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Speaker 1: is the living girlfriend of Colins Strickland. Collins Strickland is

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00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: who Mariah went swimming with. That's exactly right. Mariah and

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00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: Colin Strickland and had gone to a well known pool

433
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: community pool here in Austin called Deep Betty and went

434
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: swimming together and then picked up a couple of burgers

435
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,679
Speaker 1: at a nearby popular spot, and then as we know,

436
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: he dropped her off back at the apartment on her

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00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: motor Fighter. Okay, I'm trying to take in everything that

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00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: you just said. Take a listen to our cut ten

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00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: Angela Shan Fox seven. The search is on for Caitlin Armstrong.

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00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: Officials are asking for the public's help and finding her.

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00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: According to the core of paperwork, an anonymous caller had

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00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: called police saying Armstrong set she wanted to kill Wilson

443
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: after finding out she was involved with her boyfriend. Now.

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00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: The affidavit says the knight of the murder, Wilson went

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00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: for a swim with Colin Strickland, another cyclist. After that

446
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: he dropped her off at her friend's house. Wilson was

447
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: visiting from California and was an Austin ahead of a

448
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: race in Hiko. The paperwork says Strickland and Caitlin Armstrong

449
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: were in a relationship before briefly ending it for a

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00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: couple of weeks last year. At that time he was

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00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: involved with Wilson. Armstrong's car was seen on surveillance video

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00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: at Wilson's friend's home. A race director we spoke with

453
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: earlier this week, says this is how he remembers Wilson.

454
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: We all just marveled at, you know, just what an

455
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: wonderful personality and a great athlete and an ambassador for

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00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: our support. And then all of a sudden, how could

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00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: this happen? And please say, at this point Armstrong has

458
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: not been found. They are asking for the public's help

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00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: and finding her. Time stories with Nancy Grace to you,

460
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: Tony Platski. I'm trying to make sense of what we

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00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: are learning. So I understand Mariah was not in a

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00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: love relationship a sex relationship with Colin Strickland. Explain this

463
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: love triangle. So Mariah Uh and Colin Strickland did have

464
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: a relationship months ago while he was apparently broken up

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00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: with Kristin Armstrong. That is what he tells the police

466
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: that they that they had. Can you slow down and

467
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: tell me the dates and everything else, you know? Yeah,

468
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: it was last fall in October when Colin reports. So

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00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: must a year ago when when Colin reports that he

470
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: and Armstrong were broken up and that he did have

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Speaker 1: a brief relationship with Mariah Wilson. However, since that time,

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00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: according to him, Uh and what he told police is

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Speaker 1: that they had been friends. Can you say relationship? Are

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Speaker 1: you talking about a love relationship a sex relationship? It wasn't,

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00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: based on my understanding, a romantic relationship. I mean that

476
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: that is the way that it has been described. Okay,

477
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: so let me understand this. About a year ago, when

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00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: Colin Strickland was broken up with Caitlin Armstrong, he had

479
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: a love relationship with Mariah Wilson, the cycling star. Right,

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00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: that's right, and then they called it off and he

481
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: got bat with Caitlin Armstrong. Is that right? That is correct? Okay,

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00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: go from there. And so over time, over the past

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00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: several months, Mariah and Strickland did maintain contact and apparently

484
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: their relationship transitioned more into platonic, more into friendship. But

485
00:31:53,720 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: at the same time, Kitlyn Armstrong discovered this relationship and

486
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: was able to learn more both from Holla Strickland himself

487
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: and also apparently looking at a cell phone, learned more

488
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: about his ongoing friendship with Mariah Wilson and did not

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00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: like it. And so that is what he told police

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00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: as part of a very lengthy interview. Okay, wait, even

491
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: though they were platonic, she still didn't like it. That's exactly.

492
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: That exact is the understanding. Yeah, oh my goodness. You

493
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: know the first thing I would do, runya man, carry us,

494
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: joining us from crime staffers Houston. I would get all

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00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: Caitlin Armstrong, age thirty four, cell phone records and if

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00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: she's got a landline, and I would find out how

497
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:58,719
Speaker 1: many times she had been checking her boyfriend's messages and

498
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: cell phone messages. I would want to find out how

499
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: she hacked into his email. Everything I could prove digitally

500
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: to see how long she had been doing a slow

501
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: burn over her boyfriend, Colin Strickland's relationship now platonic with

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00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: Maria the Cyclist Star. Well, it looks like that's what

503
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: they've been doing. And they've uncovered that Colin and Maria

504
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: had been exchanging texts and phone calls, although he changed

505
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: Maria's name on his phone to not infuriate his girlfriend,

506
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: but she discovered it and she started calling Mariah incessantly.

507
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: Mariah blocked the number, started following her on Instagram and

508
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: following her on what we understand to be Strava, a

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00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: fitness app, to determine her whereabouts so we can see

510
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: Caitlin's actions. That's good, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

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00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: what did you say about an app? It's called Strava

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00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: or Strava, and it basedically allows a cyclist to check

513
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: in and show his or her followers, you know, the

514
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: point of departure for a bike ride, and then the

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00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: point of return. And apparently, you know, Wilson had had

516
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: pinged her location to the home of Caitlin Cash as

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: a as a start of the bike ride and as

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00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: a point of where she returned. And that's where we

519
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: believe our un learned of Wilson's whereabouts, so she would

520
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: like chart her her bike courses online so her followers

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00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: can note where she was riding. And it's very common,

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00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: you know, given technology today, a lot of us live

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00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: our daily lives, sharing our exact whereabouts in real time

524
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: with this community and network of people who follow us.

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00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: That's a big thing that I talk about in terms

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00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: of how dangerous that that really is and really can

527
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: be so dangerous, so dangerous, this is reminding me. Anybody

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00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: on the panel jump in. Remember this is no tea

529
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: party at High Grove. Of two cases number one, Diane Zamora.

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00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: This was commonly called the Cadet murders. She was dating

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00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: a guy David Graham. One catch this was in the

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00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: Naval Academy, now hard that is to get into the

533
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: other one was in West Point, as I recall, and

534
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: the guy David Graham, they're all like eighteen nineteen twenty

535
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: had a one time fleeing with a sixteen year old

536
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: girl he met like how a Wendy's drive through Adrian Jones,

537
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: And when Zamora found out, she demanded revenge. Here you

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00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: go Naval Academy, West Point. She demanded revenge. So the

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00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: two of them go and murder the sixteen year old

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00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: little girl. I mean brutal over what a one ninth

541
00:35:53,760 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: stand that lasted five minutes, seriously and completely completely uncontrolled impulses.

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00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: Then it reminds me of another case if anybody remembers it,

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00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: in the case of this gorgeous pediatrician out of Texas.

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00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: You'll remember this Tony Polhetsky Kendra Hatcher, and she got

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00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: engaged or was getting engaged to doctor McDreamy. She ended

546
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: up getting gunned down in the parking lot, the parking

547
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: garage of her luck's high rise because his ex girlfriend

548
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: had been following her on an app and wanted revenge

549
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: because her boyfriend dumped her and had her gunned down

550
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: dead over a love triangle. Do you remember Kendra Hatcher,

551
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: the pediatric dentist. That's what she was, being gunned down

552
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: and outside of her high rise you got the same

553
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: thing playing out here, Tony Polhatsky. A ridiculous love triangle. Absolutely,

554
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: and that is one of the things that so many

555
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: people have commented upon. I mean, when you look at Armstrong,

556
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: it is her public image and even her image among

557
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 1: people who knew her stands in stark contrast to what

558
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: she is now accused of doing. She is described as successful,

559
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: accomplished in her own right in the world of business.

560
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: She was a yoga instructor for several years in Bali,

561
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: and so people you mean Caitlin Armstrong, and so people

562
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: are so she was a yogee she was, and balis

563
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: no less, and so people are trying to reconcile that

564
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: image of her based on what police are saying she did.

565
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the video and there's no doubt about it.

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00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: You see Armstrong's black suv going back and forth. It's

567
00:37:56,239 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: it's it's a jeep Cherokee driving around outside the home.

568
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: She's just circling it. Like a vulture. The cars again

569
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: spotted that night after I guess they love object. Collins

570
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: Strickland drops off the victim, twenty five year old Marine

571
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: Wilson and his yogi girlfriend just couldn't stand it. Yoga

572
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 1: teacher Caitlin Armstrong could not stand it, and now she

573
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: is on the run. Tony Platsky, there's no question, I

574
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: guarantee you she's made from Mexico. I mean, I think

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00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: that is a true open question. And what law enforcement

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00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: officials tell me is that they really don't have a

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00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: good sense of where she is. I mean, for starters,

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00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: they're looking Nancy right now or the black Cheep Cheep Cherokee,

579
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: and they have not been able to find it anywhere

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00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 1: in the city of Austin or beyond, so obviously they

581
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 1: want to start there and whether or not it may

582
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: lead them to Caitlin Armstrong ultimately. But priority one, of

583
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: course is finding her. But anything they can do to

584
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: help that in the course of that, including finding the jeeps,

585
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: would be big. Can't check the border crossing. What's the

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00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: closest border crossing, Tony Blahatskin to Mexico from there, and

587
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: it's about three hours south of here. And she's gone. Yeah,

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00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: she probably drove all night long and I would be

589
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: watching the love object Colin Strickland's cell phone. It's gonna

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00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: be very hard for me to believe that she just

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00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: cuts it off cold turkey after she killed for him.

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00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: Doctor Sherry Schwartz helped me a love triangle. I mean,

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00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: if you got a guy is cheating on you who

594
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: wants him anyway, I would send him straight to her

595
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: house CD cash on delivery and don't send him back

596
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: no returns. Absolutely, I agree one hundred percent, Nancy. But

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00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: clearly it seems that Caitlin suffers from this obsessive, pathological,

598
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: toxic jealousy that led to violence, possibly against Mariah. Mm.

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00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: Now I'm wondering where she did go across to Mexico

600
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: and she got away and nobody can find this SUV

601
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: who's helping her. Is one of the things that I'm wondering,

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00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: Jess Goot Morgan, how are they processing the scene? How

603
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: are we going to prove that it is in fact

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00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: the yoga loving girlfriend Caitlin Armstrong. Well, I'm glad you

605
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: ask that question because at Austin PD actually served a warrant.

606
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: Let's go back to where she was domiciled with Strickland.

607
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: And this is what they found out. They actually recovered

608
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: two pistols at that scene, one in which was a

609
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: six hour nine millimeter. Guests who had access to it

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00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: only armstrong. That's it. And guess what else they did.

611
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: They took this weapon and they test fired it. And

612
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: when they test fired it, it came back. There's a

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00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: high probability that those ejected shells that they found at

614
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: the scene match this particular weapon. What kind of strikes

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00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: me is baffling to me is that they actually this

616
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: individual left this weapon at the scene where it could

617
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: be recovered. I don't know what that actually says about

618
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: this individual, but it tells me she didn't make any

619
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: effort to try to take it and throw it in

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00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: a river. Tells me she was highly emotional at the

621
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: time and not thinking correctly. That is not insanity under

622
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: the law. The stoking, the leaving, the hiding out, the

623
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: going on the run shows she knew what she did

624
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: was wrong and for what. And I can tell you

625
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: another thing, SA nobody asked if you're a boyfriend or

626
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:43,240
Speaker 1: a husband is hiding somebody's name and their cell phone out,

627
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: there's a reason he's hiding it. There is a reason

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00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: I've checked my husband's cell phone so many times my

629
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: eyes bled. It was so boring. I quit. Also, he lied,

630
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: didn't he lie? Tony Platski about where he was going

631
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: that day? He's going to a big municipal pool. Anybody

632
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: can see them the deep Eddy. It's not like a

633
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: watering hole. It's a big municipal pool. Anybody could see

634
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: him there. Why did he have to lie about it, Tony?

635
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: Or did he? Well? He lied? According to his text

636
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: messages to Armstrong, he lied to her about where he was.

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00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: He described his battery dying, that he had he had

638
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: delivered flowers for someone and then its boone battery died.

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Speaker 1: Nancy Gray's crimes story, signing off goodbye friend,