GUILTY TX - Moriah Wilson, 25, Cyclist Fatally Shot Before Race, Austin, 2022 *arrest* #9

[Seattle1]

Don't be a shadow.

"...The bike gives me freedom in that it's such a simple companion. It doesn't require fueling, it doesn't require registration,... no massive investment up front -- you know it's pretty resilient...take a spill, pick it back up, get back on. It's a simple tool that opens up, ... perfect compliment to the human body... except for maybe wings..."

Self-fulfilling, prophetic words of CS

 

[acutename]

Don't be a shadow.

"...The bike gives me freedom in that it's such a simple companion. It doesn't require fueling, it doesn't require registration,... no massive investment up front -- you know it's pretty resilient...take a spill, pick it back up, get back on. It's a simple tool that opens up, ... perfect compliment to the human body... except for maybe wings..."

Self-fulfilling, prophetic words of CS

easy come, easy go- the women are dead/in jail... where will he go now?

 

[BeachSky]

A Murder Roils the Cycling World

In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt.

www.newyorker.com

Wow. Thanks.
What a huge amount of back story information!

 

[steeltowngirl]

Parents of Kaitlin Armstrong's victim slam boyfriend Colin Strickland

As Kaitlin Armstrong, 35, was sentenced to 90 years in prison for murdering love rival Moriah Wilson, the victim's father slammed the man in the middle of the deadly love triangle.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[BrownRice]

Someone previously posted this article which was published 13 days before the murder. I didn’t initially look at the photo gallery but noticed KA in one of the article’s photos. In looking through the gallery, I now see KA is in several photos. In addition to her jealousy regarding CS, I think MW had two things that were unattainable for KA… cycling prowess and youth.

Art on Wheels: Colin Strickland’s Retirement Plan – Gideon Tsang & Colin Strikland

Colin Strickland’s path to becoming a Red Bull cycling athlete started by scooting around on a 20-inch huffy, throughout the dirt paths of his family's 23-acre organic farm near Austin, TX. As a young child, the sensation of losing traction and skidding tires on dusty trails foreshadowed a...

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Well, at 35 you’re still pretty youthful. So sad she didn’t see worth in herself and only measured her self’s value by her relationship with CS. He devalued and disrespected her. She could have risen above this and went on to have a better life. And now this will be her every day. Prison. Regret.

 

[BeachSky]

A Murder Roils the Cycling World

In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt.

www.newyorker.com

acutename posted this link up thread
It’s rather long but my oh my….
JMO

…last year the couple bought an investment property in Lockhart—a town, south of Austin, that has begun to attract what Tolley calls “artist-esque” people. “Owning property together—I was, like, Whoa, that’s a big step for Colin,” Tolley told me. When Tolley and Armstrong talked, he said, she seemed happy with her relationship. “She was in love with Colin. She wanted him to be—you know—the one.”

….Rockwell recalled that, whenever Strickland had to explain his relationship with Armstrong to people who didn’t know them well, he gave the impression that Armstrong was a difficult, volatile ex from whom he couldn’t quite disentangle himself. “It was, ‘We’re stuck in this business relationship,’ ” she said.

….Strickland also referred to their relationship almost as something to which he’d acceded. He said that he’d had to see past “stupid things, like, you know, the kind of clothes she wears.” In an aside to his lawyer, he said that there were a lot of people he “could’ve been spending my last three years with”

…Her (Rockwell) memory of a brief affair with him, that year, is an unhappy one. “I don’t want to present it as if I had zero interest in him—he was an attractive, successful man in the sport,” she said. “But, looking back, there was this massive power imbalance and dependency—these things that you can’t really see at the time, when you’re just chasing this one goal, blindly, doing whatever you feel is going to get you closer.”
When, at the end of the 2018 season, she told him that she wasn’t renewing her contract, he responded with what she called a tirade, telling her that she’d never find success. “His reaction wasn’t to try to coax me, or offer me more, win me over,” she said. “It was to try to bring me low enough—to a point of maintaining my dependency on him.”

… Armstrong, in a conversation with Tolley, once described herself as being too jealous to ever have agreed to be in an open relationship.

 

[billyzkid]

89 years, 364 days to go more or less (depending on when the sentence started).

Perhaps she got credit for time already served, in which case, it’s 88 years and change.

Either way, that’s a long time to rot in a TX state prison. She already looks like she aged 15 years.

Poor Kait.

 

[Megnut]

I think KA wanted CS to pay. Made good on her evil threat.

90 years.

Mo's family got a life sentence.

KA made sure her family got a life sentence too, different in character, because she's still alive and they can visit her. They'll bring in family photos, I imagine. Weddings, baptisms. In time, they might drag children into prison to see her. She brought that on.

They might love her unconditionally but she didn't love them enough to control her behavior.

None of this needed to happen.

JMO

 

[SteveP]

89 years, 364 days to go more or less (depending on when the sentence started).

Perhaps she got credit for time already served, in which case, it’s 88 years and change.

Either way, that’s a long time to rot in a TX state prison. She already looks like she aged 15 years.

Poor Kait.

While there is no guarantee that she will get out earlier, she will become eligible for parole after serving 30 years. I would be surprised if she is released the first time that she is eleigible, but she may be released at a subsequent hearing. JMO

 

[billyzkid]

While there is no guarantee that she will get out earlier, she will become eligible for parole after serving 30 years. I would be surprised if she is released the first time that she is eleigible, but she may be released at a subsequent hearing. JMO

Yes, technically, but it will not happen.

She evaded arrest, escaped custody, and has not admitted guilt or shown remorse. They still haven’t tacked on the additional time she’ll get for the escape attempt, which will be served consecutively.

There is zero chance she gets parole in 30 years. She could be a model prisoner from here on out, admit guilt, and she will still not get parole, especially if Mo’s family decides they have anything to say about it.

If I was Mo’s bro, the parole hearing is already on my 2053 calendar (not that he needs a reminder).

 

[Legal]

They might love her unconditionally but she didn't love them enough to control her behavior.

This is so true and thought-provoking.
Most of us control our urges to do detrimental things because we don't want to hurt the ones we love but she put herself first.

 

[SteveP]

Yes, technically, but it will not happen.

She evaded arrest, escaped custody, and has not admitted guilt or shown remorse. They still haven’t tacked on the additional time she’ll get for the escape attempt.

There is zero chance she gets parole in 30 years. She could be a model prisoner from here on out, admit guilt, and she will still not get parole, especially if Mo’s family decides they have anything to say about it.

If I was Mo’s bro, the parole hearing is already on my 2053 calendar (not that he needs a reminder).

Yes, I agree that she will never be released until she admits guilt and shows remorse, That certainly is not going to happen now, and while we may feel it will never happen, 30 years is a long time to think about one's actions. If it reaches the point that the only thing keeping her behind bars are the wishes of the Wilson family, and she has admitted guilt, shown true remorse and apologized to them, she may have a chance to be released some day. The Wilsons seem to be a family of strong faith, and if anyone could forgive her, (I couldn't), it may be them. JMO

 

[Megnut]

While there is no guarantee that she will get out earlier, she will become eligible for parole after serving 30 years. I would be surprised if she is released the first time that she is eleigible, but she may be released at a subsequent hearing. JMO

New rule: no convict should get paroled unless they tell where the bodies are and/or acknowledge responsibility for the crime they're in for.

My rule.

JMOO

 

[BrownRice]

A Murder Roils the Cycling World

In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt.

www.newyorker.com

Wow. That was a super long read, but wish I would have seen that earlier. It really gives a deep dive into CS’s womanizing lifestyle. KA was very good to his bank account, and apparently that’s why he kept her around imo. Also, imo, she definitely didn’t agree to his open relationship lifestyle, as was mentioned before (they both dated other people on break and she was fine with it). Of course KA should have left him and gone on to someone who would respect her, definitely wasn’t going to be CS, who seemed to play every woman he met.

And then poor Mo, being led on by him too……such a sad story.

 

[CrimeDawg123]

Someone previously posted this article which was published 13 days before the murder. I didn’t initially look at the photo gallery but noticed KA in one of the article’s photos. In looking through the gallery, I now see KA is in several photos. In addition to her jealousy regarding CS, I think MW had two things that were unattainable for KA… cycling prowess and youth.

Art on Wheels: Colin Strickland’s Retirement Plan – Gideon Tsang & Colin Strikland

Colin Strickland’s path to becoming a Red Bull cycling athlete started by scooting around on a 20-inch huffy, throughout the dirt paths of his family's 23-acre organic farm near Austin, TX. As a young child, the sensation of losing traction and skidding tires on dusty trails foreshadowed a...

web.archive.org

I think CS would be a pretty cool neighbor. He seems old-school Austin if you know what I mean.

 

[jepop]

Yes, I agree that she will never be released until she admits guilt and shows remorse, That certainly is not going to happen now, and while we may feel it will never happen, 30 years is a long time to think about one's actions. If it reaches the point that the only thing keeping her behind bars are the wishes of the Wilson family, and she has admitted guilt, shown true remorse and apologized to them, she may have a chance to be released some day. The Wilsons seem to be a family of strong faith, and if anyone could forgive her, (I couldn't), it may be them. JMO

Yes, it struck me from victim impact statements that Mo's mom feels and believes forgiveness necessary to move forward.Jmo. She did not imply that forgiveness meant forgetting or denying accountability Imo.

The impression I am left with after listening to this beautiful, wise (Imo) woman speak is that 30 years from now, if KA was to admit guilt and demonstrate genuine remorse, she would not necessarily rigidly advocate for KA to be refused parole. That's just my opinion, noting that 30 years is a long time and none of us have a crystal ball to see into the future!

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I don't think she should get parole, regardless. With her escape attempts, she put others at risk -- LE and even her own sister. The murder was planned (not well, but planned) and vicious. Society isn't going to be safe from her.

 

[steeltowngirl]

89 years, 364 days to go more or less (depending on when the sentence started).

Perhaps she got credit for time already served, in which case, it’s 88 years and change.

Either way, that’s a long time to rot in a TX state prison. She already looks like she aged 15 years.

Poor Kait.

90 years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated president. Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Prohibition was repealed.

90 years is a loooooong time.
Lots of time to think it all over, KA.

 

[mrjitty]

I guess there have been any number of cases on here where we've asked why didn't killer get a divorce instead of murdering his wife/partner

To me the unusual things are KA is not a man, and it was the affair partner murdered - hence this is being called a love triangle case and not sociopath does a murder

But my wild speculation is similar dynamics apply. She wasn't prepared to give up what was 'hers'. Not merely CS himself but the community/business/industry she'd worked into. So instead of acting like a functional human she decided doing a murder was a better idea than starting over.

Again that's the thought process of a high risk taking sociopath who often inhabits a fantasy more than the real world

I also note that stalking is always a major red flag in intimate partner homicides. (Though here the partner was not the person murdered).

 

[BrownRice]

90 years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated president. Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Prohibition was repealed.

90 years is a loooooong time.
Lots of time to think it all over, KA.

Love this perspective. 30 yrs tho is completely different. Pretending she has the ability to get out at her first opportunity, she may still have a few decades to make up for the missed sunrises and sunsets. I’m old enough to remember 30 yrs ago, and some of those memories seem just like yesterday. But, I assume 30 yrs in prison is more like a million years.