TX - Moriah Wilson, 25, Cyclist Fatally Shot Before Race, Austin, 2022 *arrest* #5

[Charlot123]

• Numerous credit cards under various names: Kaitlin Armstrong, Wheelhouse Mobile, Colin Strickland, and Dynamis Racing
• Papers with handwritten names, phone numbers, and credit card numbers

I assume that CS could have cancelled the credit card that was in his name, unless this was a joint account and he was the main credit card holder and had added her name. But if that is the case, then a bank will normally issue a second card in that card holder's name.

KA and CS may have had joint accounts and credit cards for Wheelhouse Mobile and Dynamis Racing, time will tell.

With regard to the handwritten credit card numbers, I wonder if KA's father and sister maybe gave her their credit card numbers for her to use in case she needed them. This would explain why they were handwritten and she didn't have the actual cards with her.

Names and phone numbers don't raise any red flags, of course, since she would need to take them with her to be able to contact family and anyone else close to her.


ETA source

Search warrant: Kaitlin Armstrong had $6k plastic surgery receipt from Costa Rica, sister’s passport

A search warrant for Armstrong’s belongings was executed and it shows that she had her sister’s passport, as well as a United Airlines boarding pass, also under her sister’s name,…

www.kxan.com

Not necessarily they don’t raise red flags. With the abundance of websites and portals, clients’ credit cards might be processed remotely. In case of a dishonest vendor, your credit card is in someone’s hands

 

[Charlot123]

Wow. I respectfully disagree & think that LE and the prosecutor would too. Just because we haven't anyone else charged with some form of culpability in any of her crimes, doesn't mean no one will be. Maybe she had a legal right to use all of those credit cards (if she did use them). But maybe not.

I just find the whole scenario from the night of the crime she spent with CS forward to the NY contact with her sister then the fleeing to be fishy from a co-conspirator standpoint. Whether that ever leads to legal charges or not.

Let's not close the stable door until all the horses are accounted for. Just because they are roaming free right now doesn't mean they shouldn't lawyer up.

I don't trust KA, CA or CS and will always have questions about the latter two whether they ever face charges or not. YMMV
MOO

Well, I trust that CS and CA were not involved in the murder. Neither had the motive; in case of CS, rather, the opposite; logically, he stood to lose a lot with that murder, and he is logic-driven, so I firmly cross him off the suspects’ list. About CA, I have no clue, but I assume she has the alibi.

That either of them could later help KA escape? It is possible, but for very different reasons. MOO.

 

[RickshawFan]

And so did @Seattle1!

Or maybe it was someone’s identity from Austin? Discovery will hopefully provide us with more info.

IIRC there was a lot of vehement pushback about my suggestion on the 3rd passport, way back on the day KA was captured in CR, and the first marshal statement. IMO the way the capture was described, there had to have been a 3rd passport.

Fugitive yoga teacher was trying to set up new life in Costa Rica

Kaitlin Armstrong, 34, was living in a hostel and attending yoga surf lessons in Santa Teresa de Cobano, Costa Rica, when she was arrested on Thursday for the May 11 murder of Moriah Wilson.

www.dailymail.co.uk

She was finally arrested by the authorities in Costa Rica after local police ran a background check on a name she gave them during a stop in the town, and found no record of her entering the country.

She then confessed that her real name was Armstrong, which led them to the high priority arrest warrant which had been issued for her.

 

[steeltowngirl]

IDK, but had to google the name Alison Paige (spelled slightly different from this article) who is a country singer that coincidentally has a similar nose to KA’s new nose along with what could be some other similar features.

There is also an actress named Allison Paige, who (to my eye) resembles the cosmetically re-engineered KA. Allison Paige played the supportive wife in Bennett‘s War, and I can imagine KA visualizing herself as the key support system behind ‘Team Colin’, but ultimately feeling used.
JMO

Allison Paige
Sophie Bennett is one of the main characters of the film Bennett's War. She is the supportive wife of Marshall, an injured veteran, and a mother to a one-year-old boy. When Marshall resolves to get back on his bike, she is initially apprehensive, but ultimately comes around and becomes a crucial member of his team.

Sophie Bennett

Sophie Bennett is one of the main characters of the film Bennett's War. She was portrayed by actress Allison Paige She is the supportive wife of Marshall, an injured veteran, and a mother to a one-year-old boy. When Marshall resolves to get back on his bike, she is initially apprehensive, but...

bennettswar.fandom.com

 

[WingsOverTX]

There is also an actress named Allison Paige, who (to my eye) resembles the cosmetically re-engineered KA. Allison Paige played the supportive wife in Bennett‘s War, and I can imagine KA visualizing herself as the key support system behind ‘Team Colin’, but ultimately feeling used.
JMO

Allison Paige
Sophie Bennett is one of the main characters of the film Bennett's War. She is the supportive wife of Marshall, an injured veteran, and a mother to a one-year-old boy. When Marshall resolves to get back on his bike, she is initially apprehensive, but ultimately comes around and becomes a crucial member of his team.

Sophie Bennett

Sophie Bennett is one of the main characters of the film Bennett's War. She was portrayed by actress Allison Paige She is the supportive wife of Marshall, an injured veteran, and a mother to a one-year-old boy. When Marshall resolves to get back on his bike, she is initially apprehensive, but...

bennettswar.fandom.com

The resemblance makes one wonder!

I will repeat your insightful comment, as it strikes me as getting to the heart of her problems & motivations: "I can imagine KA visualizing herself as the key support system behind ‘Team Colin’, but ultimately feeling used."

I do think KA perhaps had her identity & view of success too tied up with CS, which was a huge mistake. Classic case of "he's just not that into you." Killing her perceived rival then trying to morph herself into another person is very revealing of her true character - the one no amount of yoga practice could change - sadly.

JMO

 

[SpanishInquisition]

Well, I trust that CS and CA were not involved in the murder. Neither had the motive; in case of CS, rather, the opposite; logically, he stood to lose a lot with that murder, and he is logic-driven, so I firmly cross him off the suspects’ list. About CA, I have no clue, but I assume she has the alibi.

That either of them could later help KA escape? It is possible, but for very different reasons. MOO.

I do potentially think others we haven't even heard of could have a motive, like it could have been a case of mistaken identity in that it was CC's apartment and was owned by DH who also lived at that address. The target might not have intentionally been MW but instead could have been aimed at CC or DH or those close to them.

One problem I see is that after all this time it's not clear we know what happened, like with the timing on the arrest warrant being off and it coming out some of the other things CS said during the interview. I just noticed for instance that the incident DH described with the bicycle - if it happened - was something that occured way before MW returned. DH said it happened around 20 minutes before it got dark out, which would place that long before MW got back. I'd really like to know why the arrest warrant stated this alleged event happened between 8:30-9:30 PM when anyone can verify that it was dark or just look at the related video still of KA allegedly arriving after it is already dark to see the going down the stairs sounds couldn't have happened after the video still of KA's vehicle apparently driving up. DH might have hallucinated the whole thing but LE included it as fact and if we're to take what DH says as fact anyone can look at the video still to see it's already dark out when KA allegedly pulls up:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/05/21/20/58104033-10839453-The_car_was_spotted_again_that_night_after_Strickland_dropped_of-a-24_1653161156601.jpg

What he might have heard was someone going upstairs and breaking in through porch window with it being whoever that was 20 minutes before dark who shot MW when she opened the door, which would explain why the door was unlocked despite KA apparently arriving 7 minutes after MW opened it as MW might have been dead by the time that video showed the vehicle driving up...it could have been KA that broke in and that was her driving away rather than arriving in the dark, but if we're to take what DH says as credible according to LE, we have to look at what DH actually said and that means explaining the event 20 minutes before dark that is described in the arrest warrant.

 

[Sundog]

I do potentially think others we haven't even heard of could have a motive, like it could have been a case of mistaken identity in that it was CC's apartment and was owned by DH who also lived at that address. The target might not have intentionally been MW but instead could have been aimed at CC or DH or those close to them.

One problem I see is that after all this time it's not clear we know what happened, like with the timing on the arrest warrant being off and it coming out some of the other things CS said during the interview. I just noticed for instance that the incident DH described with the bicycle - if it happened - was something that occured way before MW returned. DH said it happened around 20 minutes before it got dark out, which would place that long before MW got back. I'd really like to know why the arrest warrant stated this alleged event happened between 8:30-9:30 PM when anyone can verify that it was dark or just look at the related video still of KA allegedly arriving after it is already dark to see the going down the stairs sounds couldn't have happened after the video still of KA's vehicle apparently driving up. DH might have hallucinated the whole thing but LE included it as fact and if we're to take what DH says as fact anyone can look at the video still to see it's already dark out when KA allegedly pulls up:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/05/21/20/58104033-10839453-The_car_was_spotted_again_that_night_after_Strickland_dropped_of-a-24_1653161156601.jpg

What he might have heard was someone going upstairs and breaking in through porch window with it being whoever that was 20 minutes before dark who shot MW when she opened the door, which would explain why the door was unlocked despite KA apparently arriving 7 minutes after MW opened it as MW might have been dead by the time that video showed the vehicle driving up...it could have been KA that broke in and that was her driving away rather than arriving in the dark, but if we're to take what DH says as credible according to LE, we have to look at what DH actually said and that means explaining the event 20 minutes before dark that is described in the arrest warrant.

Will the defense's strategy of using this and other examples that could lead one member of the jury to conclude there is reasonable doubt prevail over the prosecution's strategy of arguing for consciousness of guilt based on KA's actions? Time will tell.

 

[Charlot123]

I do potentially think others we haven't even heard of could have a motive, like it could have been a case of mistaken identity in that it was CC's apartment and was owned by DH who also lived at that address. The target might not have intentionally been MW but instead could have been aimed at CC or DH or those close to them.

One problem I see is that after all this time it's not clear we know what happened, like with the timing on the arrest warrant being off and it coming out some of the other things CS said during the interview. I just noticed for instance that the incident DH described with the bicycle - if it happened - was something that occured way before MW returned. DH said it happened around 20 minutes before it got dark out, which would place that long before MW got back. I'd really like to know why the arrest warrant stated this alleged event happened between 8:30-9:30 PM when anyone can verify that it was dark or just look at the related video still of KA allegedly arriving after it is already dark to see the going down the stairs sounds couldn't have happened after the video still of KA's vehicle apparently driving up. DH might have hallucinated the whole thing but LE included it as fact and if we're to take what DH says as fact anyone can look at the video still to see it's already dark out when KA allegedly pulls up:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/05/21/20/58104033-10839453-The_car_was_spotted_again_that_night_after_Strickland_dropped_of-a-24_1653161156601.jpg

What he might have heard was someone going upstairs and breaking in through porch window with it being whoever that was 20 minutes before dark who shot MW when she opened the door, which would explain why the door was unlocked despite KA apparently arriving 7 minutes after MW opened it as MW might have been dead by the time that video showed the vehicle driving up...it could have been KA that broke in and that was her driving away rather than arriving in the dark, but if we're to take what DH says as credible according to LE, we have to look at what DH actually said and that means explaining the event 20 minutes before dark that is described in the arrest warrant.

Well, DH is a witness. What he hears, or sees, it testimony, but as any human testimony, it may be imprecise. Besides, unless it has been refuted, there is media evidence. 1) KA biking next to MW’s place of stay the day before murder - I guess it is on camera? Why? 2) KA’s case in direct vicinity of MW’s house at the time of the murder, 3) KA reaching MW on phone messaging to tell that she was living in CS house, 4) (not media, but worse than media, as executed with violation of laws) KA, essentially, becoming a fugitive almost immediately after the conversation in the police department.

After that, i have to be hard-pressured to be convinced that there was another person, and case of mistaken identity. If KA happened to be, by poor luck, in the vicinity of the murder at the time of the murder, she is a valuable witness, and should behave like such, not leave the country on her sister’s passport and do plastic surgery not to look like herself.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Well, DH is a witness. What he hears, or sees, it testimony, but as any human testimony, it may be imprecise. Besides, unless it has been refuted, there is media evidence. 1) KA biking next to MW’s place of stay the day before murder - I guess it is on camera? Why? 2) KA’s case in direct vicinity of MW’s house at the time of the murder, 3) KA reaching MW on phone messaging to tell that she was living in CS house, 4) (not media, but worse than media, as executed with violation of laws) KA, essentially, becoming a fugitive almost immediately after the conversation in the police department.

After that, i have to be hard-pressured to be convinced that there was another person, and case of mistaken identity. If KA happened to be, by poor luck, in the vicinity of the murder at the time of the murder, she is a valuable witness, and should behave like such, not leave the country on her sister’s passport and do plastic surgery not to look like herself.

Agree with all of the above.

KA‘s cell phone data will also be valuable evidence.
And if her DNA was found at the crime scene, defense would not be able to explain that away to a competent jury.

 

[RickshawFan]

There is also an actress named Allison Paige, who (to my eye) resembles the cosmetically re-engineered KA. Allison Paige played the supportive wife in Bennett‘s War, and I can imagine KA visualizing herself as the key support system behind ‘Team Colin’, but ultimately feeling used.
JMO

Allison Paige
Sophie Bennett is one of the main characters of the film Bennett's War. She is the supportive wife of Marshall, an injured veteran, and a mother to a one-year-old boy. When Marshall resolves to get back on his bike, she is initially apprehensive, but ultimately comes around and becomes a crucial member of his team.

Sophie Bennett

Sophie Bennett is one of the main characters of the film Bennett's War. She was portrayed by actress Allison Paige She is the supportive wife of Marshall, an injured veteran, and a mother to a one-year-old boy. When Marshall resolves to get back on his bike, she is initially apprehensive, but...

bennettswar.fandom.com

Great find!

This tendency of KA's to become someone else is giving me the heebee jeebees. She is not acting like someone; she is becoming them with identity, looks, etc. IMO to do that, or to have the intent to do that, speaks to a person that is a blank slate. To me, that's a scary person.

 

[Charlot123]

Great find!

This tendency of KA's to become someone else is giving me the heebee jeebees. She is not acting like someone; she is becoming them with identity, looks, etc. IMO to do that, or to have the intent to do that, speaks to a person that is a blank slate. To me, that's a scary person.

Almost several blank slates. She continued to play her role of a kind, helpful person for CS, and at the same time, was training at the shooting range with her sister, to murder MW at a close distance (whose role was that?). And then, she came home and continued her helpful and now, helpless, even, role with CS. Extreme splitting of the personality.

 

[Sundog]

Almost several blank slates. She continued to play her role of a kind, helpful person for CS, and at the same time, was training at the shooting range with her sister, to murder MW at a close distance (whose role was that?). And then, she came home and continued her helpful and now, helpless, even, role with CS. Extreme splitting of the personality.

Training at a shooting range is something that women do all the time, no reason to see it as indicative of training to shoot someone at close range, IMO.

CS stated that a road range incident led to the purchase of the firearms, so it makes sense that following such an incident and then the gun purchases, that there would be practicing at the firing range.

As a witness at trial, CS will likely be asked about what led him to purchase a firearm for KA, and he will be asked about the road rage incident that he reported to LE during his interview at the police station.

 

[Tippy Lynn]

"Also found were medical cards and paperwork, including a receipt for $6,360 for plastic surgery for 'Alisson Paige' on June 23 at a medical center in Costa Rica."

Search warrant: Kaitlin Armstrong had $6k plastic surgery receipt from Costa Rica, sister’s passport

A search warrant for Armstrong’s belongings was executed and it shows that she had her sister’s passport, as well as a United Airlines boarding pass, also under her sister’s name,…

www.kxan.com

This screams premeditated to me.

 

[jash]

IIRC there was a lot of vehement pushback about my suggestion on the 3rd passport, way back on the day KA was captured in CR, and the first marshal statement. IMO the way the capture was described, there had to have been a 3rd passport.

Fugitive yoga teacher was trying to set up new life in Costa Rica

Kaitlin Armstrong, 34, was living in a hostel and attending yoga surf lessons in Santa Teresa de Cobano, Costa Rica, when she was arrested on Thursday for the May 11 murder of Moriah Wilson.

www.dailymail.co.uk

She was finally arrested by the authorities in Costa Rica after local police ran a background check on a name she gave them during a stop in the town, and found no record of her entering the country.

She then confessed that her real name was Armstrong, which led them to the high priority arrest warrant which had been issued for her.

If there is a third passport, it would resolve question in my mind about how KA's sister would ever be able to travel internationally again (short of them FedEx'ing the single passport to each other each time they wanted to travel, LOL).

So did she use her sister's passport in the interim because she figured they looked similar enough to pass but longer term she was having work done to her face to look more like this "Alisson Paige"? But then that begs the question, who is AP how come she doesn't need her passport?

 

[WingsOverTX]

Training at a shooting range is something that women do all the time, no reason to see it as indicative of training to shoot someone at close range, IMO.

CS stated that a road range incident led to the purchase of the firearms, so it makes sense that following such an incident and then the gun purchases, that there would be practicing at the firing range.

As a witness at trial, CS will likely be asked about what led him to purchase a firearm for KA, and he will be asked about the road rage incident that he reported to LE during his interview at the police station.

I would want something other than CS's word that a road rage incident led to KA owning a gun. It's just hearsay without something like a police report or independent witness to back that up, including time, date & location.

IMO any time CS offers "evidence" there needs to be believable corroboration. I personally don't believe ANYTHING he has said since this crime was committed. Others MMV.

Until I see definitive video evidence proving he was riding his motorcycle far away enough from the scene of the crime to prove no nexus, I'm not believing that either. We only have the AA stating that. And the AA has & may continue to be proven to be riddled with significant errors.

MOO

 

[Sundog]

This screams premeditated to me.

It seems to me that all of the items described as found by LE in KA's possession in Costa Rica, were most likely related to her "unlawful flight," and don't necessarily point to premeditation of the murder. The murder of MW happened on May 11th and KA left Austin to go to New York on May 14th. Then she left New Jersey airport on May 18th, one day after the arrest warrant was issued for her. I think that during the 4 days she travelled to be with her sister, she came up with the plan and gathered the documents/info she would need to take with her as she left the country. She also was putting together information/documents she would need as she prepared to leave Austin during the 4 day period from May 11 to May 14. LE took her cell phone, so writing out information on pieces of paper make sense. She would need telephone numbers, financial information, etc., and credit cards to pay for this flight.

I think if this all was premeditated in relation to the murder of MW, she would have had more cash at the ready and more things packed and ready to go. Probably not so many aliases, either.

I can see KA working on her aliases, etc. while at the upper New York state camp while she was with her sister. I don't think, however, that any of this is related to premeditation of murder of MW. I think that the murder of MW by KA was a crime of passion, and related that night to CS's actions that including lying texts, etc.

IMO, the only argument for premeditation that can be definitively made based on the evidence that we know about so far is the fact that she had a gun with her that night. But now CS has given an explanation for how that could have come about, that she kept it in the car due to an unsettling incident of road rage in winter of 2021. It was so unsettling, that he went out and bought her a gun.

 

[Mrspratcher]

It seems to me that all of the items described as found by LE in KA's possession in Costa Rica, were most likely related to her "unlawful flight," and don't necessarily point to premeditation of the murder. The murder of MW happened on May 11th and KA left Austin to go to New York on May 14th. Then she left New Jersey airport on May 18th, one day after the arrest warrant was issued for her. I think that during the 4 days she travelled to be with her sister, she came up with the plan and gathered the documents/info she would need to take with her as she left the country. She also was putting together information/documents she would need as she prepared to leave Austin during the 4 day period from May 11 to May 14. LE took her cell phone, so writing out information on pieces of paper make sense. She would need telephone numbers, financial information, etc., and credit cards to pay for this flight.

I think if this all was premeditated in relation to the murder of MW, she would have had more cash at the ready and more things packed and ready to go. Probably not so many aliases, either.

I can see KA working on her aliases, etc. while at the upper New York state camp while she was with her sister. I don't think, however, that any of this is related to premeditation of murder of MW. I think that the murder of MW by KA was a crime of passion, and related that night to CS's actions that including lying texts, etc.

IMO, the only argument for premeditation that can be definitively made based on the evidence that we know about so far is the fact that she had a gun with her that night. But now CS has given an explanation for how that could have come about, that she kept it in the car due to an unsettling incident of road rage in winter of 2021. It was so unsettling, that he went out and bought her a gun.

I don’t think it’s been reported that she kept the gun in her car. Perhaps I missed that?

 

[Tippy Lynn]

It seems to me that all of the items described as found by LE in KA's possession in Costa Rica, were most likely related to her "unlawful flight," and don't necessarily point to premeditation of the murder. The murder of MW happened on May 11th and KA left Austin to go to New York on May 14th. Then she left New Jersey airport on May 18th, one day after the arrest warrant was issued for her. I think that during the 4 days she travelled to be with her sister, she came up with the plan and gathered the documents/info she would need to take with her as she left the country. She also was putting together information/documents she would need as she prepared to leave Austin during the 4 day period from May 11 to May 14. LE took her cell phone, so writing out information on pieces of paper make sense. She would need telephone numbers, financial information, etc., and credit cards to pay for this flight.

I think if this all was premeditated in relation to the murder of MW, she would have had more cash at the ready and more things packed and ready to go. Probably not so many aliases, either.

I can see KA working on her aliases, etc. while at the upper New York state camp while she was with her sister. I don't think, however, that any of this is related to premeditation of murder of MW. I think that the murder of MW by KA was a crime of passion, and related that night to CS's actions that including lying texts, etc.

IMO, the only argument for premeditation that can be definitively made based on the evidence that we know about so far is the fact that she had a gun with her that night. But now CS has given an explanation for how that could have come about, that she kept it in the car due to an unsettling incident of road rage in winter of 2021. It was so unsettling, that he went out and bought her a gun.

I don’t know and it’s hard to say for sure until we have all the details. With that being said, I’m still in the premeditated camp.

 

[Sundog]

I don’t think it’s been reported that she kept the gun in her car. Perhaps I missed that?

No, it hasn't been reported as far as I know. But the defense may argue that this was the case, and given the road rage incident that CS reported to LE in his interview, one would expect that to be the case. He went out and bought a gun for her so she would have protection if another incident of road rage occurred. So makes sense that she would keep it in her car. I don't think a jury would have any problem connecting the dots with this line of thinking.

 

[WingsOverTX]

It seems to me that all of the items described as found by LE in KA's possession in Costa Rica, were most likely related to her "unlawful flight," and don't necessarily point to premeditation of the murder. The murder of MW happened on May 11th and KA left Austin to go to New York on May 14th. Then she left New Jersey airport on May 18th, one day after the arrest warrant was issued for her. I think that during the 4 days she travelled to be with her sister, she came up with the plan and gathered the documents/info she would need to take with her as she left the country. She also was putting together information/documents she would need as she prepared to leave Austin during the 4 day period from May 11 to May 14. LE took her cell phone, so writing out information on pieces of paper make sense. She would need telephone numbers, financial information, etc., and credit cards to pay for this flight.

I think if this all was premeditated in relation to the murder of MW, she would have had more cash at the ready and more things packed and ready to go. Probably not so many aliases, either.

I can see KA working on her aliases, etc. while at the upper New York state camp while she was with her sister. I don't think, however, that any of this is related to premeditation of murder of MW. I think that the murder of MW by KA was a crime of passion, and related that night to CS's actions that including lying texts, etc.

IMO, the only argument for premeditation that can be definitively made based on the evidence that we know about so far is the fact that she had a gun with her that night. But now CS has given an explanation for how that could have come about, that she kept it in the car due to an unsettling incident of road rage in winter of 2021. It was so unsettling, that he went out and bought her a gun.

Sitting in a campground in NY inventing aliases may not be premeditation for murder but is evidence of careful preparation to flee. I think she may have some prior use of aliases that we don't know about going back earlier in her life. There is so much we don't know. I'd be willing to leave the door open on when and what she planned.

Just because she may not have had a day and time worked out before MW conveniently appeared in Austin again does not mean there was no premeditation. It could affect the weight given to such evidence that she acted when she did. The more we hear about KA, the more a forensic exam of her past might be valuable in determining what she was planning & when.

How convenient for her to get CS to buy her a weapon within a couple of months after his so-called "fling" with MW & only a few months until that weapon may have been used to kill MW.

JMO