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[gentle music playing]

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[Eric Wilson] The red one.

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-Now it's recording. Hi.
-[baby fussing]

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-[Karen Wilson] Hi.
-Look.

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Okay, now you can…
you can move in and out.

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Okay, and then this right here
is the focus.

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And we have…

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And I'm cooking the breakfast.

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…Karen cooking the breakfast.

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And here's our little baby, Moriah.

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Moriah is eight weeks old right now.

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[Karen] Moriah was born
during a thunder and lightning storm.

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Flashing, thundering.

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All this energy all around her.

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And her lungs were like thunder.

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[baby babbling]

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[vocalizing]

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Probably one of the reasons
why she was a good athlete,

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because she exercised
those lungs like crazy.

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[gentle music continues]

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So many precious moments to cherish.

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-Yes, so many.
-[Eric] Yeah.

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It was amazing seeing her being born.

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Seeing her take her first breath.

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She's sitting up.
That's her sitting up for the…

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Pretty much for the first time.

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She's starting to learn.

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And that light of her
was twinkling already.

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[Eric] Oh, I see you.

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There we go.

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Show us how you can ride.

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It was as if I always had known her.

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[voice breaking]
It was, like, so familiar.

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Yeah. Still happy, though.

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[Eric] Hi.

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[Karen] And then
within days of her being born,

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I was sitting on the couch
listening to a Shawn Colvin song.

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And the song made me think
that she's gonna leave me someday.

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["You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome
When You Go" by Shawn Colvin plays]

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[Karen] First time Moriah on skis.

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♪ I've seen love go by my door
It's never been this close before ♪

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[Eric] Well, we got two of them coming.

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♪ It's never been so easy or so slow… ♪

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Here comes Moriah.

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How you doing?

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-Good.
-[Eric] Good. You having fun?

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-Yeah.
-[Eric] All right.

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♪ You're gonna make me lonesome
When you go ♪

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It is interesting that, looking back,
somehow her body or her soul

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in some way knew
that she had less time than most people.

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And that's why she was…

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Maybe had that sense of anxiety,

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that sense of urgency
underlying everything she did.

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[announcer] Five, four, three, two, one!

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[upbeat music playing]

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[Eric] Nice job, Mo.

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[commentator 1] Not even looking
like she's slowing down.

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An incredible ride as Moriah Wilson
knows exactly where to go.

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[commentator 2] She looks so comfortable.

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I know she trains hard.
I know she trains long.

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She is no stranger
to these sort of conditions.

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This is Moriah Wilson,

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the winner of round one
of the 2022 Life Time Grand Prix.

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-[spectator] Go, go, go!
-[Eric] Come on, Mo.

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[upbeat music continues]

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[Allen Lim] She was an absolute
diamond in the rough.

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She was a once-in-a-generation athlete.

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[laughs]

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[Lim] She knew
she was coming into her own.

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And emotionally,

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it was filled with just raw possibility.

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[music turns poignant]

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[call connecting]

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[responder] Austin 911.

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[Cash in shaky voice] Um, my friend
is staying with me, and I just walked in,

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and she's laying on the bathroom floor
and there's blood everywhere.

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[tense music playing]

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It's hard kind of reliving it.

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-[responder] What's your name?
-My name is Caitlin.

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-[responder] Caitlin, are you with her?
-Yes, I'm with her now.

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-[responder] Is she awake?
-[Cash] She's not awake.

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There's blood all over her face
and all on the back of her head.

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[responder] Is she breathing?

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[Cash] She's…

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No.

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[responder] I'm getting help
started right now,

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and then I'm gonna tell you
exactly what to do, okay?

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[Cash] Okay.

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[responder] Lay her flat
on her back on the floor.

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Place the heel of your hand
on the breastbone

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and put your other hand
on top of that hand.

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[Cash] Yeah.

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[responder] Then pump the chest
hard and fast at least twice per second

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and two inches deep.

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Count out loud so I can count with you.

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[Cash] One, two, three,

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four, five, six…

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[responder] Good. Keep going.

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There's a lot of help
coming as fast as they can. Keep going.

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[Cash] …13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

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[responder] Keep going. There might be
a police officer coming in soon.

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That's okay.
Don't leave her alone and don't stop.

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[Cash] I won't. Two, three… I hear them.

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[responder] Okay, that's good. Keep going.
Don't leave her. They'll come to you.

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[Cash] It's the back house.
They have to come in the back alley.

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26, 27, 28, 29, come in.

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[responder] Keep going. Don't stop.
Keep going. You're doing good.

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Keep going.

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[Cash crying] Uh, do I stop?
I don't know what happened!

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You're not… [indistinct]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[unsettling music playing]

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-[responder] Is that the police with you?
-[Cash] Yeah.

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Yeah, that's the police officers.

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[sobbing] She doesn't live here.

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She was with our friend Colin.

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-[officer 1] What's Colin's last name?
-Colin Strickland.

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[Cash] I could not understand

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why they weren't bringing her down
to take her to the hospital.

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[officer 2] What's her name?

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Her name is Moriah.

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Moriah is her middle name.
Her first name is Anna.

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And so finally, I asked
the officer questioning me. I said…

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"Why is it taking them so long
to get her into the ambulance?"

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"Like, she needs help."

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His words were something
along the lines of,

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"Your friend didn't make it."

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[poignant music playing]

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Two years ago today,

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on May 12th…

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[music fades]

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…2022…

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I was out here
laying down pieces of cardboard

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to kill off the grass

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because I wanted
to make our garden a little bit bigger,

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because Moriah was gonna move home.

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And then I looked
down there at the driveway,

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and I saw state--

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The state police.

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And he asked me if I…

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knew--

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"Do you know Anna? Anna Wilson?"

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[voice breaking] And I said,
"Yeah, it's my daughter. Is she okay?"

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And he said, "No, she's… she's gone."

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[Karen sniffles]

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And, like,

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it just didn't make sense.

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It didn't make sense. It still doesn't…

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It still doesn't make sense.

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…make sense, really. We just… [sniffles]

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Some things we just…

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aren't gonna understand and figure out.

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There's really no good explanation.

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[pensive music playing]

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[Richard Spitler] I was at home.
And all of a sudden, my phone rings.

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It was the on-call sergeant.

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He gave me just the small details
of, "Hey, there's been a murder."

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"Um, one person has been shot,
and there's no suspect information."

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Can you have a seat right here
on this white chair right here?

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The, uh, detective's gonna come
and talk to you.

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[Spitler] This was my first homicide
investigation as a lead detective.

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I was definitely nervous.

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You know,
I-- I didn't know what to expect.

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Whenever she got here,

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did she say that she had
already spoken to anybody else?

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Or any plans that she may have mentioned

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of saying,
"Hey, I've talked to so-and-so?"

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-Only Colin.
-Okay.

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Yeah. She doesn't know any people here.
She's not…

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-Okay.
-She hasn't spent a long time here.

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-Okay.
-This is only her second time to Austin.

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My colleague had already
kind of described the scene to me.

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Uh, he had mentioned that there was
no forced entry into the residence.

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Nothing was damaged.

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It didn't look as though
anything was thrown around,

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which indicated to me
that there was no disturbance.

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We're just gonna have them
swab your hands for gunshot residue.

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Okay.

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I realized that I was being questioned

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as a potential suspect.

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[Spitler] So a buccal swab.

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What that is
is basically just a small little DNA swab.

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Just goes on the inside of your mouth.

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Well, we took, you know, DNA samples,
and they swabbed my hands,

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took my photos,

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and eventually let me wash my hands.

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When I'm washing my hands
in the police station bathroom,

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I'm seeing…

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all of her,

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you know, blood go down the…
go down the sink,

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and I have a very… [chuckles dryly]

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I have a very distinct memory of…

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wanting… wanting it back.

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Did they take her from my house?

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[Spitler] So our crime scene unit,
they're still there right now.

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They're processing everything. Um…

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She's just still laying there?

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So right now, she is.

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Um, because we want to make sure
that we do everything right.

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[crying] No, I understand,
but she's just by herself.

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-I know.
-[sniffles]

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-[Spitler] I know.
-Okay.

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But they're not gonna leave her?

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[Spitler] No. No.

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Like, she'll never be,
like, actually alone?

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[Spitler] No. No. Not at all.

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Um…

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[interviewer]
Before we get into everything else,

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I want to hear
about how you met the Wilson family,

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and who did you meet first?

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-Mm-hmm.
-Because you met them before you met Mo.

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Yes. Yeah.

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I was…

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Let's see, let me start that again.

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Let me think through this.

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Yeah.

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[gentle music playing]

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Right after the pandemic,
I moved up to Vermont for the summer.

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I was a part business owner

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of a small bed and breakfast
in East Burke.

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I didn't have any friends in Vermont,

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and so I sign up
for all of these women's gravel clinics,

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mountain biking clinics, things like that.

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And found this really wonderful community,

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and was asked to do the social media
for a race called Rooted Vermont.

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[cheering]

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[Karen] The only time we ever saw
Moriah race was at the Rooted race.

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We were on the road cheering her on,
and we ran into this girl.

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[Cash] And I was like,
"Who are you here supporting?"

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They're like, "Our daughter Moriah."
I was like, "There is no way." [laughs]

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"There is no way. She's my favorite."

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"And I can't say that because I have
to be impartial about everything."

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[announcer] Moriah Wilson coming in.

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Third place, women.

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[gentle music continues]

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Cash tells us that she's part owner
of an inn down here in East Burke.

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[Cash] Just was such a kind of
one of those moments where it's like,

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"Wow, this is really meant to be.
I'm supposed to be here in Vermont."

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"I'm supposed to be meeting this family.
I'm supposed to be seeing this."

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[Matt Wilson] Moriah hears
about Cash through us,

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and they eventually meet later that fall.

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["Silver Lining" by Rilo Kiley playing]

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[Cash] She was racing
a bike race called Big Sugar.

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It's a 110-mile course.

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And I was riding the 50-mile course.

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And I finished my race.

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And I swear, ten minutes later,

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they're like,
"First place, Moriah Wilson."

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And she had done double the distance
that I had done in the same time.

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♪ Hooray, hooray ♪

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♪ I'm your silver lining ♪

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♪ Hooray, hooray… ♪

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[Eric] They became
like sisters, just like that.

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They just bonded, you know, immediately,
and were just instant friends.

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-♪ And I was your silver lining… ♪
-[laughing]

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Just was really a special thing to have,
to have a friend in a new community.

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Here's Mo Wilson doing laps around me.

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She's got her 14th lap. She's come back.

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It was really inspiring
to see her succeed.

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She had the racing down.

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She had the athleticism.
She had the drive.

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♪ Now I'm gold ♪

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[music fades]

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[Karen] Starting from a young age,

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Moriah had
the natural inclination to be athletic.

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She was very determined.

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If she didn't do well, she'd be so upset.
So she would just work harder.

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[upbeat music playing]

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We would spend a lot of time
downhill skiing.

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[Eric] Hey!

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-How's it going, sweetie?
-Good.

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[Karen] I remember when she first
went to her first ski race,

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she studied the people on the podium.

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She had this look in her eye
like, "I want to be up there."

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[Eric] She writes quite a bit
about that in her journal.

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[chuckles]

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"So inspired by the Olympics."

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"I want to be an Olympian so badly."

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"One day, I will. One day, I will."

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Moriah, free skiing.

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[Moriah Wilson speaking]

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[Eric] Burke Mountain Academy
started in 1970.

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They had the first program in the country

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that really was focused
around skiing half a day

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and going to school half a day.

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[Matt] One of the main requirements
for going here

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is that you aspire
to be an Olympic-level athlete.

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She had that dream from the beginning,

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a lot inspired by our father

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who was on that track
and missed the Olympics by one spot.

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[Eric] Moriah, first run still.

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[Moriah speaking]

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[Eric] Oh. Oh, no.

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[Matt] Injuries were a big part
of why she didn't reach her goals.

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She tore her ACL in high school,

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and then she tore it again after that.

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[Karen] She still loved skiing and I think
it was hard for her to let go of that.

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But she knew that it was over.
Her skiing career was over.

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[Moriah] I had spent a lot of time
riding bikes growing up with my family,

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and then I discovered
that gravel cycling was a thing

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and, like, ended up buying a gravel bike.

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[Karen] She was determined
to be a professional cyclist,

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and I really encouraged her
to go for it, that she could do it.

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[cheering]

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[Eric] Let's go, Mo!

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Hang in there, Mo!
You got it, Mo! You got it!

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["Vagabond" by Caamp playing]

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Let's go, Mo!

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Let's go, Mo!

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[Lim] The thing about a bike race
is that there's only one winner.

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And if 3,000 people start at the line,

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you have a 1-in-3,000 chance to win.

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♪ A hundred miles an hour in my head… ♪

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[Eric] Nice job, Mo!

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[Lim] The probability of winning
in a bike race is really, really low.

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So for Mo to always be on the podium,

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that was extraordinary.

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[announcer] Here is our women's champion,
Moriah Wilson!

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Give it up for Mo!

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[Ian Dille] I was talking with a friend.

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He was like,
"Man, have you heard about Moriah Wilson?"

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"You need to know this name."

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"She's gonna be dominating pro bike racing
moving forward for a long time."

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[Maude Farrell] In the span of two years,
she won, like, six or seven races.

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And not by minutes, not by--
I mean, she won things by hours.

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[announcer] The champ is in the house!

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This is Moriah Wilson!

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[Eric] Go, Mo!

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-[reporter 1] Wilson, just untouchable.
-[reporter 2] What an impressive result.

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♪ My heart does beat
Like a Cherokee drum… ♪

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In early 2022, we were talking.

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She was like, "I'm coming to Austin."
I was like, "When are you coming?"

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She's like, "Two days from now."
I was like, "What?"

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She ended up coming to live with me
at my house for a couple of weeks

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while she was in town.

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So we were co-working together.
We were eating all of our meals together.

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And it was
this incredibly beautiful unfolding

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of this friendship.

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♪ …in the fast lane ♪

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[laughs]

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♪ 100 miles an hour till I'm done ♪

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[music fades]

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[Guillermo González] When this case
came in, I didn't know anything

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other than it was a young woman
who had been murdered

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and that she, uh, had some kind
of relationship to the cycling community.

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I certainly had really no idea
who Moriah was at the time.

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[Rickey Jones] Guillermo's very intense.
Very intense.

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And because we tried these types of cases,

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it's a lot of pressure if you're the kind
of person that feel the pressure.

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And I think he does feel the pressure.

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-[interviewer] Do you?
-No.

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[Pamela Mazak] This was the big case
everyone was working on.

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And it was shocking
because nobody could figure out

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a reason why somebody
would want to kill this person.

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-[officer 1] 74 to 17.
-[officer 2] Is there a bike? See a bike?

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She said she'd put it by the door.

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-[officer 3] No, no bike.
-[officer 2] No bike.

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[González] It certainly seemed
that it could have been a home invasion,

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robbery event.

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But, uh, the more
we started digging into it,

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it became more and more likely
that something else was going on.

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I needed more, and I started immediately

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trying to pick out things
that needed to be followed up on.

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Most people's houses have cameras on them.

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Uh, you know, everybody has a phone.

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The amount of digital evidence
is just overwhelming.

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The only other person she knows
is Colin Strickland,

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who she was supposed
to be meeting tonight.

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Does he-- He still lives here in Austin?

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-Yeah, he lives in Austin.
-Okay.

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Colin Strickland was the last person
to see Moriah alive.

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So I wanted to talk to Colin
and find out, you know, what happened.

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Myself and the other detective,
we approached and introduced ourselves.

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Hey, I'm looking for Mr. Strickland.

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-That's me.
-Hey.

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-So Colin, is that your first name?
-Yes.

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Hey. So, um, do you know Anna?

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Um… Mo?

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-Anna Mo?
-Yeah.

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-Everybody calls her Mo. Um…
-No.

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Mon-- Monique-- Monic… uh…

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Last name is Wilson.

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-Rider, she's a gravel rider.
-Oh, yes.

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-Yes, I do.
-Okay, so…

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Um… there's really no easy way
to say this, sir.

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So, apparently last night she passed away.

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How did that happen?

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She-- Right now,
it's an open investigation,

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but it is being investigated
as a homicide.

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Wow. Okay.

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[tense music playing]

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-Are you okay?
-Yeah. I'm good.

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Um…

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[Spitler] My first thought is,

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"Wow, like, you just went out
on a date with her the night before."

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"You killed my victim.
You killed Moriah Wilson."

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[Gunnar Shaw] I didn't meet Mo until 2017.

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I was up in Burke, Vermont,
with a good friend of mine,

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going mountain biking.

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George said, "Mo's gonna join us."

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And I said, "Great, can she keep up?"

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And George goes,
"That's not gonna be a problem."

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[Shaw chuckles]

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[upbeat acoustic music playing]

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It's not often that you meet
another person who can keep up.

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You know, I really liked
that she was a strong athlete,

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but not in an egotistical way.

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Just in a, you know,
"I'm here, I'm strong,

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and I'm not afraid
to show you my strength."

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I was her first real boyfriend.

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I liked that she was
a quiet and reserved person,

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because I'm not.

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She was a little bit
of a consummate introvert,

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always thinking, but not always expressing
or telling you what she was thinking.

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We both grew up in Vermont.
We both went to Dartmouth.

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And so there's tons of overlap
and similarities there.

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[Matt] Gunnar and Moriah
started dating her sophomore year.

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He was out of college at that point.

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[Shaw] I was in a transitionary period,
having graduated a couple years ago.

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Trying to get a job in California.

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Even though we would end up having to date
for almost two years long-distance,

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I was very sure
about things at that point, so…

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-Aah.
-[Moriah panting]

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[both] Mm…

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[Shaw] In October of 2020,

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we moved to Mill Valley,
which is close to San Francisco.

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It was a ton
of excitement at that point of,

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"Can't wait to live
in the same city together."

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We're doing this journey together,
and it felt right.

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She was just so focused on bike racing

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and being fast and fit,

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that we just lost a lot of the spark
and romance in our relationship.

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And it was a hard thing for both of us.

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I remember her saying,
"I am more in love with biking,

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and I find all the emotion and feedback

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and pleasure in my life
from riding my bike."

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And yeah, that said
kind of all I needed to hear.

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[Kimmi Bolsinger] I met Moriah
at Dartmouth.

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We were very close throughout school.

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I moved out to San Francisco
after my boyfriend and I had broken up,

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and I was really looking
for kind of a change of pace.

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-Cheers!
-Cheers.

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[Bolsinger] Happy Valentine's Day.

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And so we moved in together
in January 2022.

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She understood what I was going through,

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and I understood
what she was going through.

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We had to learn how to do
some things on our own

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and figure out exactly
what it was that we were looking for.

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[Karen] One of the things
that she told me was,

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"I've got to date other guys.
I've never dated other guys."

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And she gravitated to people
who were successful.

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She liked to learn from them.

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[Spitler] Do you just want
to take a seat in here?

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So yesterday, run me through,
like, your day and stuff yesterday.

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[Strickland] Um, Mo had said that Cash had
some event that night with some friends.

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So that's why I proposed
going to the pool.

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'Cause, I mean, she's in town,

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and… she's kind of a loner person,
so I wanted, you know…

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[Spitler] Yeah.

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[Strickland] I wanted to catch up with her
and do something fun.

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[Spitler] Yeah.

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[Dille] Colin and I knew each other
through the cycling community in Austin.

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I'm a journalist,

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00:25:42,999 --> 00:25:46,127
writing and covering outdoor recreation,

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00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:47,879
sports, things like that.

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00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:51,675
And I have done stories
with him professionally.

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We are here in Austin, Texas,
outside the garage

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of 2019 Dirty Kanza winner
Colin Strickland.

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00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:07,899
-Hey, Colin.
-Hey, Ian.

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00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:09,568
-How you doing, man?
-How are you?

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00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:11,486
-Doing good?
-Welcome to my garage.

476
00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,738
Yeah, this is, uh…

477
00:26:13,822 --> 00:26:16,866
-You got a lot of stuff, man. [chuckles]
-I do have a lot of stuff.

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00:26:16,950 --> 00:26:18,410
Where do we start?

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00:26:18,493 --> 00:26:22,163
[Dille] Colin Strickland
really dedicated himself

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to gravel racing and being
the best gravel racer in the world.

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00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:32,173
He was really sort of at the forefront
of realizing how he could accrue sponsors

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00:26:32,257 --> 00:26:35,844
and make a living
by kind of building up his personal brand

483
00:26:35,927 --> 00:26:37,262
and social media presence.

484
00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:40,056
I can take you through
some of the stuff I did on this ABLE.

485
00:26:40,140 --> 00:26:41,808
-So this was my most recent build.
-Yeah.

486
00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:44,352
[Strickland] Up shift, down shift.

487
00:26:44,436 --> 00:26:46,187
[Kate Quay] I remember Moriah telling me,

488
00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:48,940
"I went on a training ride
with Colin Strickland."

489
00:26:49,024 --> 00:26:52,902
She said it in a way that, like,
I should have known who Colin was.

490
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:54,821
[Dille] You're a Texas state champion.

491
00:26:54,904 --> 00:26:57,574
Yeah. Yes, I am. Yes.

492
00:26:57,657 --> 00:27:03,330
I knew that he had a history
of manipulating women in relationships.

493
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:08,293
And I was aware of past things.

494
00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:13,590
[Strickland] I had met Moriah
at Rebecca's Private Idaho.

495
00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:15,342
She just smashed the race.

496
00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:17,636
We just kind of chatted briefly
during the event.

497
00:27:17,719 --> 00:27:21,306
And then at the end of the event,
I invited her out to get a beer.

498
00:27:21,389 --> 00:27:22,432
I had a girlfriend.

499
00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:24,768
We didn't have
any romantic conversations at all.

500
00:27:24,851 --> 00:27:27,020
We just talked about her future career.

501
00:27:27,103 --> 00:27:30,357
And I told her, like,
"You are going to win so many events."

502
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,318
Definitely was attracted to her,
but also just wanted to be helpful.

503
00:27:33,401 --> 00:27:36,363
And at that point,
it was totally inappropriate to be dating.

504
00:27:36,863 --> 00:27:40,241
He didn't go to bike races
and act like he had a girlfriend.

505
00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:44,829
He wouldn't talk about her
or bring her around.

506
00:27:45,497 --> 00:27:48,083
[Dille] It was sort of like a joke.

507
00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:49,626
"Who is Kaitlin?"

508
00:27:49,709 --> 00:27:52,337
Oh, she was the woman

509
00:27:52,420 --> 00:27:55,173
standing right next to Colin
that he didn't introduce you to.

510
00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:58,551
[Shaw] I remember hearing about Colin

511
00:27:58,635 --> 00:28:02,806
because Moriah had come back
from that race and was like,

512
00:28:02,889 --> 00:28:08,436
"I met Colin Strickland, and he's going
to help me with potential sponsors."

513
00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:14,067
Male cyclists historically have gotten
more attention and sponsorship dollars,

514
00:28:14,150 --> 00:28:17,904
and, motives aside,
will help female cyclists.

515
00:28:19,614 --> 00:28:22,826
[Caldwell] Mo wanted to go
to a gravel race in Texas.

516
00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:26,496
That was, like, at the end of 2021.

517
00:28:26,579 --> 00:28:29,040
I had signed up for it,
and then it got canceled.

518
00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:32,043
She was like, "Do you still want to go?"
I was like, "No."

519
00:28:32,961 --> 00:28:36,506
[Bolsinger] She said that
she was excited to see Colin in Texas,

520
00:28:36,589 --> 00:28:40,552
that there might be something more there
than just a friendship.

521
00:28:40,635 --> 00:28:42,846
[atmospheric music playing]

522
00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:46,599
[Strickland] Moriah and I had
no romantic anything at this point.

523
00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:50,186
I was driving home
with my girlfriend, Kaitlin,

524
00:28:50,270 --> 00:28:53,523
all the way back from Bentonville,
and we essentially had a breakup drive.

525
00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:57,026
I just told her, like, "I don't feel it.
I can't do this anymore."

526
00:28:57,110 --> 00:28:59,070
We didn't really fight at all.

527
00:28:59,571 --> 00:29:02,907
And we were partners
in so many different things.

528
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:08,204
A few days later,
I get a message from Moriah saying,

529
00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:10,665
"Hey, I'm visiting a friend
in Austin for a week."

530
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:12,208
"I'm just gonna work remotely."

531
00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:14,711
Kaitlin moved into a separate room,

532
00:29:14,794 --> 00:29:17,672
and we had had, like,
a very clear breakup.

533
00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:19,632
We were not together.

534
00:29:19,716 --> 00:29:23,052
I needed, personally,
to close the door on the relationship.

535
00:29:23,136 --> 00:29:25,513
That's kind of what I felt.
Like, no turning back.

536
00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:27,265
Make her angry at me.

537
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:30,435
And I effectively
started dating Moriah for a week

538
00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:32,145
when she was in Austin.

539
00:29:32,896 --> 00:29:36,441
Colin was "on a break" with Kaitlin,

540
00:29:36,524 --> 00:29:39,694
even though she was still living
in the same house in a separate room.

541
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:43,490
And Moriah and Colin started hanging out

542
00:29:43,573 --> 00:29:47,410
and were romantic or intimate
during that time period.

543
00:29:47,494 --> 00:29:51,080
I definitely warned her about Colin,
but not in the--

544
00:29:51,164 --> 00:29:55,251
Like, you could never think, like,
"He would hurt her."

545
00:29:56,961 --> 00:30:01,966
[Spitler] Do you know if Mo or Cash owned
any, like, firearms or anything like that?

546
00:30:02,050 --> 00:30:04,511
-[Strickland] I would highly doubt it.
-[Spitler] Okay.

547
00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:07,388
Do you own any firearms?
Would they ever come and talk to you…?

548
00:30:07,472 --> 00:30:09,307
I own a-- I actually bought a--

549
00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:12,602
I bought a pistol last fall,

550
00:30:12,685 --> 00:30:14,562
and I have actually never shot it.

551
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:16,564
[Spitler] What type of gun was that?

552
00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:18,525
Um, it's a 9mm.

553
00:30:18,608 --> 00:30:20,151
[suspenseful music playing]

554
00:30:20,735 --> 00:30:23,822
[Spitler] He indicated that he does own
his 9mm handgun.

555
00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:28,493
The cartridge cases that were
recovered on scene were 9mm cartridges.

556
00:30:28,576 --> 00:30:31,663
[Strickland] I have it in a case,
and I've never shot it.

557
00:30:31,746 --> 00:30:33,790
-Haven't made the time.
-[Spitler] Okay.

558
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:38,419
[Strickland] She sent me
a photo of her on the bike.

559
00:30:38,503 --> 00:30:40,421
-[Spitler] Is that Mo?
-[Strickland] That's Mo.

560
00:30:40,505 --> 00:30:42,924
-This is more complexity.
-[Spitler] What time was that at?

561
00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:45,802
[Strickland] I have it saved
as a different name just because.

562
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:49,556
[Spitler] Why was it that you had
to change the name from Mo?

563
00:30:49,639 --> 00:30:52,809
[Strickland] Because in the past,
Kaitlin has looked at my phone,

564
00:30:52,892 --> 00:30:54,644
and I just didn't want to…

565
00:30:55,603 --> 00:30:58,523
I just didn't want to surface…

566
00:30:58,606 --> 00:31:01,860
-[Spitler] That would always start fights.
-[Strickland] Exactly.

567
00:31:03,027 --> 00:31:06,781
Kaitlin had all of my passwords.
She managed all of my bank accounts.

568
00:31:06,865 --> 00:31:10,326
She went into my phone
and read everything.

569
00:31:10,827 --> 00:31:14,080
She had blocked
a bunch of contacts in my phone.

570
00:31:14,163 --> 00:31:17,125
I knew that she could find information
if she wanted to.

571
00:31:17,208 --> 00:31:19,794
[suspenseful music heightens]

572
00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:31,514
[Moriah speaking]

573
00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:53,244
[Cash] There were questions that she had
in terms of her footing with Colin.

574
00:31:53,328 --> 00:31:56,956
He had kind of disappeared
and really pulled back,

575
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,126
both, you know, friendship-wise,
relationship-wise,

576
00:32:00,209 --> 00:32:03,838
and, um, wasn't very communicative.

577
00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:05,965
[Moriah speaking]

578
00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:21,356
A lot of times, we weren't able
to connect over the phone.

579
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:25,860
And so if there was something
that she really needed a quick opinion on,

580
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:28,571
I'm like, "Leave me a voice memo
and I'll get back to you."

581
00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:30,698
[Moriah] Hey.

582
00:32:30,782 --> 00:32:33,368
Got to Arkansas yesterday.

583
00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:36,371
Kind of just been hanging out by myself.

584
00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:40,166
I have not heard from Colin at all.

585
00:32:40,249 --> 00:32:41,709
Total radio silence.

586
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:44,545
Uh, have you seen him in Austin at all?

587
00:32:46,047 --> 00:32:49,175
There just hasn't been
any communication from either of us

588
00:32:49,258 --> 00:32:51,260
until I texted him today,

589
00:32:51,344 --> 00:32:54,889
at which point my text didn't go through.

590
00:32:54,973 --> 00:33:00,019
Maybe he thinks
that I'm not interested or something.

591
00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:01,437
Not quite sure.

592
00:33:03,022 --> 00:33:05,024
Okay, last night.

593
00:33:05,108 --> 00:33:09,737
I went to the Meteor
for happy hour and who do I see?

594
00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:13,950
Colin and Kaitlin and a couple other guys.

595
00:33:14,033 --> 00:33:17,954
Eventually, Colin comes over
and we hug each other.

596
00:33:18,037 --> 00:33:21,582
Don't really say that much.
Just are like, "Oh, great to see you."

597
00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:25,628
Like, I don't know. Super, kind of, weird.

598
00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:29,257
And yeah, I haven't seen him
or heard from him since.

599
00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,677
I need some sort of closure.

600
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,137
I don't know how to get it.

601
00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:37,098
I'm probably gonna see him tonight
because there's this party.

602
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:42,061
But if Kaitlin's there, like,
he's probably not going to talk to me.

603
00:33:43,187 --> 00:33:45,356
Very uncomfy.

604
00:33:50,987 --> 00:33:55,324
[Spitler] Mo's going to be taken
to the medical examiner's office, um…

605
00:33:55,408 --> 00:33:59,495
Full autopsy, you know, is gonna be done,
everything on her.

606
00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:00,621
Um…

607
00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:07,128
That being said, are you sure,
at any point in time,

608
00:34:08,212 --> 00:34:09,505
did y'all have sex?

609
00:34:09,589 --> 00:34:12,467
[Strickland] We had not.
We had no physical intercourse.

610
00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:15,762
-[Spitler] Okay.
-[Strickland] Didn't… We didn't even kiss.

611
00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:16,763
[Spitler] Okay.

612
00:34:16,846 --> 00:34:20,641
I-- I just want to check
because with the autopsy,

613
00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:22,393
they're gonna check everything.

614
00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:24,103
-[Strickland] I know.
-[Spitler] So…

615
00:34:24,187 --> 00:34:25,897
[Strickland] I understand that.

616
00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:27,565
Nope, nothing.

617
00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:28,608
[Spitler] Okay.

618
00:34:29,734 --> 00:34:32,403
Colin was really struggling
with whether he was gonna be

619
00:34:32,487 --> 00:34:34,072
in a committed relationship or not.

620
00:34:34,155 --> 00:34:39,869
But he'd saw that Kaitlin
was a compassionate, caring person.

621
00:34:39,952 --> 00:34:43,414
I think the biggest thing for him, too,
is she was incredibly helpful.

622
00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:48,544
Colin was trying to build
the Spartan Trailer business.

623
00:34:49,545 --> 00:34:53,466
Kaitlin was definitely
very knowledgeable in finance

624
00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:55,802
and was obviously,
like, smart about money.

625
00:34:55,885 --> 00:34:59,347
She did a lot of the managerial stuff
for the business,

626
00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:02,558
which allowed Colin
to focus on other elements

627
00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:06,312
of his cycling career and whatever else.

628
00:35:08,356 --> 00:35:11,901
[Strickland] Moriah and I had reset
our relationship in my mind.

629
00:35:12,610 --> 00:35:16,197
I was kind of on the end of the scene
and kind of burned out.

630
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,533
And she was needing to get, like, momentum

631
00:35:18,616 --> 00:35:20,993
and she was enthusiastic with it,
and that's great.

632
00:35:21,077 --> 00:35:24,330
But I just saw it as
I wasn't gonna be a great match for her.

633
00:35:24,413 --> 00:35:27,166
She was gonna be the most
dominant racer in the US by far.

634
00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:29,418
And I would just get in the way of that.

635
00:35:30,753 --> 00:35:34,632
Kaitlin didn't want to separate.
She liked being a part of my life.

636
00:35:35,925 --> 00:35:37,677
[Moriah speaking]

637
00:36:05,204 --> 00:36:07,790
[commentator] And now, there she is!

638
00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:10,126
-[spectator 1] Yeah, Mo!
-[spectator 2] Yeah, Mo!

639
00:36:10,209 --> 00:36:16,507
-[commentator] Mo Wilson!
-[spectator 3] Yeah!

640
00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:20,720
[commentator] The women's champion
leaves no doubt about it.

641
00:36:20,803 --> 00:36:24,807
Mo Wilson absolutely crushes
the Belgian Waffle Ride.

642
00:36:24,891 --> 00:36:26,225
[woman] Congrats, girl.

643
00:36:26,309 --> 00:36:28,728
-[reporter] Another dominant performance.
-Thank you.

644
00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,397
[reporter] What's next for you?
What are you winning next?

645
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,773
[chuckles] Um…

646
00:36:33,357 --> 00:36:37,570
The next gravel race
that I do will be Gravel Locos.

647
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:42,742
Moriah was going down to Austin
to race in the Gravel Locos race.

648
00:36:43,409 --> 00:36:46,454
[reflective music playing]

649
00:36:50,124 --> 00:36:53,961
[Cash] Mo came a couple of days
before the race.

650
00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:57,506
And I am just so excited that she's there.

651
00:37:01,886 --> 00:37:04,764
I made some coffee.

652
00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:06,766
We were just hanging out.

653
00:37:07,266 --> 00:37:13,731
So I take a video,
and I send this text message to Karen.

654
00:37:15,191 --> 00:37:16,984
All right, wave to the camera.

655
00:37:17,610 --> 00:37:18,694
[Cash laughs]

656
00:37:19,195 --> 00:37:21,572
-[Moriah giggles]
-[Cash] Welcome to the Texas heat!

657
00:37:21,656 --> 00:37:22,865
-[Moriah] Wow!
-[giggles]

658
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:24,951
-[Cash] Okay, be safe. Ride fast.
-Thanks.

659
00:37:25,034 --> 00:37:26,744
-[Cash] Bye.
-Bye.

660
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:31,123
[Karen] Oh, yeah, that text.

661
00:37:31,707 --> 00:37:36,462
It was of Moriah getting ready
to go out for a training ride on her own.

662
00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:39,715
And Cash sent it to me and said,

663
00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:42,551
"Your girl's here, safe with me."

664
00:37:43,678 --> 00:37:47,348
[Cash] I feel a lot of guilt
about sending that text message.

665
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:54,313
Like, I can't believe that I told her mom
she was okay and in good hands when, um…

666
00:37:54,981 --> 00:37:56,941
I couldn't protect her.

667
00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:01,362
[music turns somber]

668
00:38:04,198 --> 00:38:06,742
[Cash] Mo texted me later and she said,

669
00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:11,163
"Just FYI, I'm going to go swim
and eat dinner with Colin tonight."

670
00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:18,963
[Strickland] I had contacted Mo, like,
"Hey, you want to go swimming?"

671
00:38:19,046 --> 00:38:20,631
"Yeah, sounds good."

672
00:38:21,132 --> 00:38:23,718
Picked her up, drove to Deep Eddy.

673
00:38:24,218 --> 00:38:27,305
Went to Pool Burger,
grabbed two drinks and a burger,

674
00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:30,182
and we just chatted, essentially,
about her career, my career,

675
00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:33,477
and the relevance
of what does it mean to be a bike racer?

676
00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:35,521
What's the point of it all?

677
00:38:37,898 --> 00:38:41,027
And then Kaitlin called me
while I was at Pool Burger,

678
00:38:41,110 --> 00:38:43,070
and I didn't answer it.

679
00:38:46,866 --> 00:38:49,660
Yeah, dropped off Moriah
at the base of the steps.

680
00:38:50,369 --> 00:38:54,749
Said, "All right, cool, see you tomorrow
at this Gravel Locos pre-dinner."

681
00:38:57,543 --> 00:39:00,379
That was the last I saw her.

682
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:08,304
[poignant music playing]

683
00:39:10,181 --> 00:39:11,307
[Moriah speaking]

684
00:40:00,356 --> 00:40:04,819
[Cash] Karen called me,
and I was really afraid to talk to her.

685
00:40:05,778 --> 00:40:09,407
[voice breaking] Karen said,
"Cash, I love you so much."

686
00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:11,409
[sniffles]

687
00:40:14,954 --> 00:40:17,415
And I needed to hear that because I felt

688
00:40:18,207 --> 00:40:22,711
so inadequate and so guilty.

689
00:40:22,795 --> 00:40:26,507
I'm like,
"If only I would have come home sooner,

690
00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:28,926
if only I would have not gone to dinner,

691
00:40:29,009 --> 00:40:31,387
if only I'd have
forced her to come with me."

692
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:35,141
There was a million "what if" questions

693
00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:39,270
that I was endlessly
playing in a loop in my head.

694
00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:43,691
What could I have done
differently to help?

695
00:40:45,151 --> 00:40:47,611
I remember seeing
two missed calls from my dad,

696
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:49,989
a text from my dad, "Call me ASAP,"

697
00:40:50,072 --> 00:40:53,993
and… I think a call from Karen too,

698
00:40:54,076 --> 00:40:56,287
before my dad had called me.

699
00:40:58,789 --> 00:41:02,334
That was bad. I knew that was bad.

700
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:03,961
Something had happened.

701
00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:08,257
[Bolsinger] I was in, uh, Hawaii
with my family.

702
00:41:09,008 --> 00:41:12,678
Um, I got a phone call and it was Gunnar.

703
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:17,683
I will never forget him saying, uh…

704
00:41:18,559 --> 00:41:20,769
[voice breaking] …"Moriah died today."

705
00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:23,981
My husband had put our daughter to bed,

706
00:41:24,064 --> 00:41:27,860
and I just collapsed on the ground,
and I'm sobbing. I'm so--

707
00:41:27,943 --> 00:41:30,279
Like, I have never cried like this before.

708
00:41:30,362 --> 00:41:33,741
And my husband's like,
"Oh, my God, are you okay?"

709
00:41:33,824 --> 00:41:37,328
And I was like, "No, I'm not okay."

710
00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:39,830
Like, "Moriah's been shot."

711
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,502
"She was left alone to die."

712
00:41:46,295 --> 00:41:48,422
It feels a lot like her death came

713
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:51,425
right as she was starting
to open up to the world,

714
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:55,930
and that she was starting to learn
what was important to her, and…

715
00:41:56,931 --> 00:42:01,101
[voice breaks] …learn that it was safe
to open up to people.

716
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:04,021
[tense music playing]

717
00:42:09,860 --> 00:42:12,780
[music turns intriguing]

718
00:42:15,157 --> 00:42:17,117
[Katy Conner] I was working
my regular shift,

719
00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:20,246
and I found out
that there was a murder the night before.

720
00:42:20,329 --> 00:42:22,623
Typically, when we have a murder,
it's all hands on deck.

721
00:42:24,625 --> 00:42:26,168
Detective Spitler was there.

722
00:42:26,252 --> 00:42:28,337
He was already
interviewing Colin Strickland.

723
00:42:28,420 --> 00:42:29,588
[indistinct chatter]

724
00:42:29,672 --> 00:42:32,675
We have a conference room,
and in that conference room we have a TV

725
00:42:32,758 --> 00:42:36,262
that we're able to actually watch
the interview while it's taking place.

726
00:42:36,345 --> 00:42:40,015
I'm able to see
what's being said and verify his story.

727
00:42:42,101 --> 00:42:45,354
[Spitler] One of the detectives
found a video clip

728
00:42:45,437 --> 00:42:47,231
from a motion-activated camera

729
00:42:47,314 --> 00:42:50,901
in an alleyway
that's directly next to Cash's apartment.

730
00:42:51,694 --> 00:42:55,072
The video shows
a black SUV with chrome windows,

731
00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:56,991
a luggage rack on the roof,

732
00:42:57,074 --> 00:43:01,120
and a bicycle rack
that was mounted onto the trailer hitch.

733
00:43:01,996 --> 00:43:06,375
And at 8:37 p.m.
the brake lights illuminate,

734
00:43:06,458 --> 00:43:09,169
indicating that it's slowing down
or even stopping,

735
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:12,590
right where the stairs lead up
to the front door of the apartment.

736
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,718
[Conner]
One of the other detectives realized,

737
00:43:15,801 --> 00:43:20,014
"Hey, that's a vehicle that looks just
like a vehicle that was in their driveway

738
00:43:20,097 --> 00:43:23,309
when detectives had gone
out there to speak with Colin."

739
00:43:24,184 --> 00:43:26,770
That was something
we relayed to Detective Spitler,

740
00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:29,815
and so he starts
bringing that up in the interview.

741
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:35,279
[Spitler] Colin had mentioned
that he took Moriah on his motorcycle

742
00:43:35,362 --> 00:43:37,114
that was parked in the driveway.

743
00:43:37,197 --> 00:43:40,743
So I asked him about the Jeep.
"Who is it that owns that black Jeep?"

744
00:43:40,826 --> 00:43:43,537
He said, "That's my girlfriend
Kaitlin Armstrong's car."

745
00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:46,957
When Kaitlin got back home,
did she tell you anything?

746
00:43:47,041 --> 00:43:49,168
Like where she was, what she was doing?

747
00:43:49,251 --> 00:43:52,338
[Strickland] I didn't ask.
I was working on stuff in the garage.

748
00:43:52,421 --> 00:43:55,174
Getting my bicycles ready for this race.

749
00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:58,677
[González] The police
served a search warrant

750
00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:00,929
on the home of Colin Strickland.

751
00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:03,349
While there,
they found a couple of pistols.

752
00:44:04,016 --> 00:44:07,227
[Spitler] Are there
any other firearms that are inside?

753
00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:08,729
[Strickland] There's two pistols.

754
00:44:08,812 --> 00:44:10,939
-[Spitler] Two pistols?
-[Strickland] Two pistols.

755
00:44:11,523 --> 00:44:13,609
[Spitler] Where is the other pistol?

756
00:44:13,692 --> 00:44:15,402
[Strickland] That I don't know

757
00:44:15,486 --> 00:44:17,946
because that would be Kaitlin's pistol.

758
00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:19,573
[Spitler] So Kaitlin has a pistol?

759
00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:21,909
[Strickland] Kaitlin has a pistol
that I purchased for her.

760
00:44:23,202 --> 00:44:26,288
I do remember saying
to the officer… [sniffles]

761
00:44:27,956 --> 00:44:30,626
[exhales] "…I bet
it was Colin's girlfriend."

762
00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:33,629
[interviewer] Wait, what?

763
00:44:35,589 --> 00:44:38,509
I said the only person
I could think of that didn't like her was…

764
00:44:40,094 --> 00:44:41,470
this guy's girlfriend.

765
00:44:43,013 --> 00:44:45,641
[Spitler] I know for a fact,

766
00:44:45,724 --> 00:44:47,851
through our investigation,

767
00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:51,980
that her vehicle was at that apartment.

768
00:45:00,781 --> 00:45:02,825
[Strickland] I don't know
what to say to that.

769
00:45:12,459 --> 00:45:13,419
[sniffles]

770
00:45:17,923 --> 00:45:19,174
Mm.

771
00:45:20,217 --> 00:45:21,719
[sniffles]

772
00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:32,604
[Conner] All right,
so I'm Detective Conner.

773
00:45:33,188 --> 00:45:38,277
And, um, so, my partner is actually
talking, uh, to Colin right now.

774
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,529
It sounds like you may
have some information,

775
00:45:40,612 --> 00:45:44,074
may have witnessed something,
so I just wanted to chat about some stuff.

776
00:45:44,158 --> 00:45:44,992
Um…

777
00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:47,661
Can you give me any information
on what you're talking about?

778
00:45:47,745 --> 00:45:51,373
Did you hear about what's happened
over the past 24 hours?

779
00:45:51,457 --> 00:45:52,499
Colin walked in the house

780
00:45:52,583 --> 00:45:55,043
and said one of the women
in the cycling community passed away.

781
00:45:55,127 --> 00:45:56,503
Yes. Yeah.

782
00:45:56,587 --> 00:45:59,965
Um, while Colin was talking to us,
your name came up.

783
00:46:00,048 --> 00:46:04,052
And it sounds like there's
a lot of stuff that's going on,

784
00:46:04,136 --> 00:46:06,054
and it sounds like, you know,

785
00:46:06,138 --> 00:46:09,266
Colin's been maybe
talking to this girl for a little bit

786
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:11,268
and kind of threw your name in there.

787
00:46:11,351 --> 00:46:16,190
I think he might be saying some stuff,
and I want to get your side of it, okay?

788
00:46:16,273 --> 00:46:18,650
I feel like I should have
an attorney present.

789
00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:20,068
So that's totally your choice.

790
00:46:20,152 --> 00:46:24,323
Um, so you-- So at this point,
you are free to leave at any point.

791
00:46:24,406 --> 00:46:27,826
So this is going to be consensual
because you're not under arrest, okay?

792
00:46:27,910 --> 00:46:29,077
So…

793
00:46:29,161 --> 00:46:30,704
[Brown] We were really good friends,

794
00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:35,959
and I always thought she was just
this really sweet, kind individual.

795
00:46:36,543 --> 00:46:39,588
She wasn't getting what she wanted,

796
00:46:39,671 --> 00:46:41,340
and Colin wasn't…

797
00:46:41,423 --> 00:46:42,966
Right, didn't want to give it

798
00:46:43,050 --> 00:46:46,303
or couldn't give it,
or didn't have it to give.

799
00:46:47,262 --> 00:46:51,225
They'd break up, they'd get back together,
they'd break up, they'd get back together.

800
00:46:51,308 --> 00:46:54,520
It sounds like maybe he went out
with this girl the other day,

801
00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:57,648
and maybe it sounds like,
from what he's saying,

802
00:46:57,731 --> 00:46:59,483
that you were a little upset about it.

803
00:46:59,566 --> 00:47:01,902
And so that's why
I wanted to get your side of it

804
00:47:01,985 --> 00:47:04,530
because that's not fair
if he's just saying one thing

805
00:47:04,613 --> 00:47:07,199
and trying to-- to go down a route.

806
00:47:07,282 --> 00:47:10,661
I… That is not accurate.

807
00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:13,497
Yeah, and that's why I wanted
to chat with you because…

808
00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:15,415
It's a guy.
[chuckling] He's gonna say stuff.

809
00:47:15,499 --> 00:47:18,669
And so we want to make sure
that we get both sides of the story

810
00:47:18,752 --> 00:47:19,837
and clear it up.

811
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,840
So what… What were you doing yesterday?

812
00:47:22,923 --> 00:47:24,591
I would like to leave, I think.

813
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:27,761
That's-- That's completely your choice,
but understand if you do,

814
00:47:27,845 --> 00:47:30,222
then we only have
one side of the story to go on.

815
00:47:30,806 --> 00:47:33,183
Well, I just am uncertain

816
00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:36,186
as to even what you mean
or what he could have said

817
00:47:36,270 --> 00:47:39,982
because I didn't have any idea
that he spoke, he saw,

818
00:47:40,065 --> 00:47:41,650
or went out with this girl.

819
00:47:41,733 --> 00:47:43,318
-Okay, yeah.
-Like, recently. I--

820
00:47:43,402 --> 00:47:45,571
Had he been, like,
talking to her on the side?

821
00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:48,574
I would like to leave.
I don't actually know.

822
00:47:48,657 --> 00:47:50,200
And I would like to leave.

823
00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:54,037
Um, but again, that limits us to where
we only have one side of the story.

824
00:47:54,121 --> 00:47:58,083
And your vehicle
was seen next to her house,

825
00:47:58,166 --> 00:48:02,546
um, and we needed
to talk about that, okay?

826
00:48:03,088 --> 00:48:06,008
[Bolsinger] I remember
being in our apartment,

827
00:48:06,091 --> 00:48:08,385
and Moriah came into my room and said,

828
00:48:08,468 --> 00:48:10,637
"You'll never believe
what happened today."

829
00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:15,642
She looked down at her phone,
and she saw an unknown number calling her,

830
00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:17,811
but because it was a Texas number

831
00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:21,773
and she had a sponsorship in Austin,
she thought she should answer it.

832
00:48:21,857 --> 00:48:25,652
So she picked up the phone,
and someone just said, "Hi, Mo."

833
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,655
And Moriah said,
"Hello," you know, "who is this?"

834
00:48:28,739 --> 00:48:30,741
And she said, "It's Kaitlin."

835
00:48:30,824 --> 00:48:33,243
Moriah just said that Kaitlin mentioned,

836
00:48:33,327 --> 00:48:35,621
"Hey, Colin and I
are still seeing each other,

837
00:48:35,704 --> 00:48:37,664
so it would probably just be better

838
00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:41,084
if you, you know,
didn't involve yourself in that anymore."

839
00:48:41,919 --> 00:48:46,632
It sounds like there are
some issues between you and this girl,

840
00:48:46,715 --> 00:48:50,093
and I think that there's
probably a lot more to it

841
00:48:50,177 --> 00:48:51,929
that you could help explain.

842
00:48:52,012 --> 00:48:54,556
Maybe you were upset
and you were just in the area.

843
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,601
Like, I don't know,
because I don't have your story.

844
00:48:57,684 --> 00:49:00,479
And all I see is
that your vehicle's over there.

845
00:49:00,562 --> 00:49:04,441
That kind of makes it
look not too good, right?

846
00:49:04,524 --> 00:49:08,362
Okay? And then when we're talking
to Colin and we're hearing, like,

847
00:49:08,445 --> 00:49:11,156
"Yeah, there was
some jealousy stuff going on."

848
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,659
Like, that doesn't sound very good.

849
00:49:13,742 --> 00:49:16,912
Um, so that's why I really want
to get your side of the story,

850
00:49:16,995 --> 00:49:19,498
because maybe there's a lot more going on.

851
00:49:21,375 --> 00:49:23,335
I would like to leave
if I am free to leave.

852
00:49:23,418 --> 00:49:24,252
Okay.

853
00:49:27,214 --> 00:49:28,423
[Jones] They let her go.

854
00:49:28,507 --> 00:49:32,427
They concluded that they didn't quite have
enough information to hold her on.

855
00:49:32,511 --> 00:49:35,639
I don't even think at the time
they had enough information to say

856
00:49:35,722 --> 00:49:37,307
Colin wasn't driving the Jeep,

857
00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:39,518
he couldn't have parked the motorcycle
and doubled back.

858
00:49:39,601 --> 00:49:42,062
You know in your heart what took place.

859
00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:43,897
I don't know what took place.

860
00:49:43,981 --> 00:49:47,693
You're asking me to tell you
that I think Kaitlin did this.

861
00:49:47,776 --> 00:49:50,195
-Is that what you're asking?
-I'm asking what you think.

862
00:49:50,278 --> 00:49:52,280
-Is she capable of doing that?
-I don't believe she--

863
00:49:52,364 --> 00:49:56,576
I wouldn't be living with a fucking person
who I think is capable of doing this.

864
00:49:56,660 --> 00:49:59,454
So the answer is no, I don't believe it.

865
00:50:00,205 --> 00:50:02,958
[somber music playing]

866
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,296
[Brown] I was there when we were
all sitting outside the Meteor.

867
00:50:08,380 --> 00:50:10,215
I'm the one who asked her, I was like,

868
00:50:10,298 --> 00:50:13,010
"What would you do
if you saw Colin with another person?"

869
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,764
And, you know, she blankly
and coldly said, "I'd kill them."

870
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,684
And we thought she was joking.

871
00:50:29,401 --> 00:50:31,820
[Strickland] No. No.

872
00:50:32,946 --> 00:50:36,992
No, no, no, no.

873
00:50:37,743 --> 00:50:39,119
No.

874
00:50:43,749 --> 00:50:48,420
[Dille] The police had come
and really turned their house upside down.

875
00:50:48,503 --> 00:50:52,966
Kaitlin was worried the house was bugged
or that the police were listening,

876
00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:54,801
so she wanted to go somewhere else.

877
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:59,056
So the next morning
they walked to a coffee shop.

878
00:50:59,139 --> 00:51:01,349
And Colin was basically like,

879
00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:03,226
"Look, from a criminal standpoint,

880
00:51:03,852 --> 00:51:10,400
we just need to account for where we were
every minute of the day yesterday."

881
00:51:12,778 --> 00:51:15,697
The police took
Kaitlin and Colin's phones.

882
00:51:15,781 --> 00:51:18,241
And so Kaitlin was like,
"What should we do?"

883
00:51:18,325 --> 00:51:19,743
"Where should we get phones?"

884
00:51:19,826 --> 00:51:21,787
They were walking back
from the coffee shop.

885
00:51:21,870 --> 00:51:25,332
Colin was like, "Why don't you just
go over to Walmart or something

886
00:51:25,415 --> 00:51:26,500
and get a new phone?"

887
00:51:26,583 --> 00:51:29,294
[suspenseful music playing]

888
00:51:29,377 --> 00:51:32,964
[Spitler] A few days after the murder,
I returned back to the neighborhood.

889
00:51:33,048 --> 00:51:37,928
I want to see who has cameras,
who may have captured this black SUV.

890
00:51:38,011 --> 00:51:39,513
Maybe I can see who the driver is.

891
00:51:39,596 --> 00:51:41,890
I was contacted by one of the neighbors,

892
00:51:41,973 --> 00:51:45,811
and he provided me with two hours
of video from a doorbell camera.

893
00:51:45,894 --> 00:51:48,105
But what was significant
about this doorbell camera

894
00:51:48,188 --> 00:51:50,190
was that it constantly recorded.

895
00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:51,900
It wasn't motion-activated.

896
00:51:51,983 --> 00:51:54,319
And so it had video,
but it also had audio.

897
00:51:54,903 --> 00:51:58,949
I would be typing my report or anything
that I needed to do with the case,

898
00:51:59,032 --> 00:52:01,451
and I had this video
playing in the background.

899
00:52:01,535 --> 00:52:05,038
If I heard a vehicle passing,
I would stop what I was doing,

900
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:08,333
see if this is the black SUV
that I was looking for.

901
00:52:08,834 --> 00:52:12,170
At 9:15 p.m. on the video,

902
00:52:12,254 --> 00:52:15,382
all of a sudden
I start hearing a female scream,

903
00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:17,968
and I hear two gunshots.

904
00:52:18,468 --> 00:52:21,429
The screaming stops,
and there's a six-second pause,

905
00:52:21,513 --> 00:52:23,265
and then there's a third gunshot.

906
00:52:24,349 --> 00:52:27,811
So I knew exactly
when this murder happened.

907
00:52:27,894 --> 00:52:31,439
The first thing we tried to do
was not put her in the Jeep,

908
00:52:31,523 --> 00:52:33,900
but take Colin out of the Jeep.

909
00:52:34,401 --> 00:52:36,403
Look at him so close

910
00:52:36,486 --> 00:52:39,197
where he could not have been
the person driving the Jeep.

911
00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:42,909
[Mazak] As soon as he dropped Moriah off,

912
00:52:42,993 --> 00:52:45,871
Colin's motorcycle is seen leaving.

913
00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:50,625
[Jones] We were able
to trace his path back home.

914
00:52:51,418 --> 00:52:54,504
He receives a phone call,
um, while he's at home.

915
00:52:55,130 --> 00:52:57,632
His phone was shown to be at his residence

916
00:52:57,716 --> 00:53:00,427
at the time
that the gunshots could be heard.

917
00:53:00,510 --> 00:53:03,805
Now it becomes
very difficult for you to say,

918
00:53:03,889 --> 00:53:05,640
"Well, Colin was driving the Jeep."

919
00:53:06,141 --> 00:53:08,185
So that only leaves her with access to it.

920
00:53:11,104 --> 00:53:15,108
[Spitler] Later on that day, I'd received
information from our ballistics unit

921
00:53:15,192 --> 00:53:17,736
that had said that the gun recovered

922
00:53:17,819 --> 00:53:19,863
during the search warrant
at Colin's residence

923
00:53:19,946 --> 00:53:24,034
was the gun that was used
during the commission of this murder.

924
00:53:24,117 --> 00:53:28,663
It was the same type of cartridges
that were located inside the apartment.

925
00:53:29,581 --> 00:53:33,793
There were only two people that actually
had access to this firearm at that time.

926
00:53:33,877 --> 00:53:35,378
Colin and Kaitlin.

927
00:53:35,462 --> 00:53:37,881
And because I knew
where Colin was the entire time,

928
00:53:37,964 --> 00:53:39,633
but I didn't know where Kaitlin was,

929
00:53:39,716 --> 00:53:42,135
I believed that there was
enough probable cause

930
00:53:42,219 --> 00:53:46,640
that indicated that Kaitlin was the person
responsible for this murder.

931
00:53:46,723 --> 00:53:50,727
So on May 17th, I issued
a warrant out for Kaitlin's arrest.

932
00:53:50,810 --> 00:53:53,772
The only problem was, Kaitlin was gone.

933
00:53:53,855 --> 00:53:56,942
[suspenseful music rising]

934
00:53:57,025 --> 00:54:00,403
[reporter 1] Police, U.S. Marshals,
and the FBI are all on the hunt

935
00:54:00,487 --> 00:54:03,657
for the killer of a 25-year-old cyclist.

936
00:54:03,740 --> 00:54:07,452
[reporter 2] Law officials are now asking
for the public's help to find her.

937
00:54:07,535 --> 00:54:09,204
A municipal court judge issued a warrant

938
00:54:09,287 --> 00:54:11,498
for Armstrong's arrest
for the offense of murder.

939
00:54:11,581 --> 00:54:14,584
The United States Marshal Service
and Lone Star Fugitive Task Force

940
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:16,628
are leading the fugitive investigation.

941
00:54:16,711 --> 00:54:20,340
Do you think that she would go back home
to Detroit to be with family?

942
00:54:20,423 --> 00:54:21,800
I think that's very possible.

943
00:54:22,509 --> 00:54:25,971
A manhunt underway for a Texas woman
accused of murdering an elite cyclist.

944
00:54:26,054 --> 00:54:28,473
[reporter 3] The 34-year-old woman
has disappeared

945
00:54:28,556 --> 00:54:30,183
since her interview with police.

946
00:54:30,267 --> 00:54:32,602
[reporter 4] They do believe
the realtor and yoga teacher

947
00:54:32,686 --> 00:54:35,063
is likely still in the Austin area.

948
00:54:35,146 --> 00:54:37,607
[reporter 5] Their biggest clue
right now is her car.

949
00:54:37,691 --> 00:54:40,110
They're looking
for a black Jeep Grand Cherokee.

950
00:54:40,193 --> 00:54:45,782
[Jones] Detectives were able to find
that she had sold her Jeep to CarMax.

951
00:54:45,865 --> 00:54:49,911
[Mazak] The CarMax video, she's actually
setting up one of her new iPhones.

952
00:54:50,495 --> 00:54:53,873
[Conner] We start looking at flights.
We start looking at buses.

953
00:54:53,957 --> 00:54:56,626
Any capabilities of leaving.

954
00:54:56,710 --> 00:54:59,379
[Jones] She flew from Austin to Houston

955
00:54:59,462 --> 00:55:01,381
and from Houston to New York.

956
00:55:01,464 --> 00:55:06,052
[Conner] We found out that she went to see
her sister in Upstate New York.

957
00:55:06,136 --> 00:55:09,556
We were able to confirm
that Kaitlin Armstrong was dropped off

958
00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:12,517
at that airport in Newark, New Jersey.

959
00:55:13,268 --> 00:55:16,855
[Spitler] The marshals in New York locate
a video that showed Kaitlin

960
00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:19,107
walking through the airport.

961
00:55:19,190 --> 00:55:21,234
And she had changed her hairstyle.

962
00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:25,947
She was trying to make herself
appear more like her sister.

963
00:55:26,031 --> 00:55:30,160
We have not been able
to confirm or identify any flight

964
00:55:30,243 --> 00:55:34,622
in the name of Kaitlin Armstrong
that was outbound from the Newark airport.

965
00:55:34,706 --> 00:55:36,833
[Spitler] There was no record
of Kaitlin's passport

966
00:55:36,916 --> 00:55:38,626
ever actually leaving the US.

967
00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:44,382
So I had asked the marshals in New York
to just check for her sister's passport.

968
00:55:44,466 --> 00:55:47,135
They discovered that her sister's passport

969
00:55:47,218 --> 00:55:50,805
had been used to fly
from New York to Costa Rica.

970
00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:52,098
[suspenseful music continues]

971
00:55:52,182 --> 00:55:55,226
[Mazak] She knows she looks
similar enough to her sister,

972
00:55:55,310 --> 00:55:58,938
takes that passport,
and flees the country.

973
00:55:59,647 --> 00:56:03,360
[Filla] We were able
to actually have factual information

974
00:56:03,443 --> 00:56:08,073
that Kaitlin Armstrong boarded
United Airlines headed towards Costa Rica.

975
00:56:08,865 --> 00:56:11,368
When she escaped, we just were like…

976
00:56:12,744 --> 00:56:15,663
We were just blown away that she could
actually get out of the country.

977
00:56:15,747 --> 00:56:18,416
I don't see… I don't know
how that could happen.

978
00:56:19,084 --> 00:56:22,879
[reporter] U.S. Marshals retracing
the steps of Kaitlin Armstrong

979
00:56:22,962 --> 00:56:24,381
have a new lead.

980
00:56:24,464 --> 00:56:26,007
[suspenseful music playing]

981
00:56:31,846 --> 00:56:35,892
Now everyone is just on this full hunt
trying to track her down.

982
00:56:35,975 --> 00:56:39,521
And we were starting
to get worried she would escape.

983
00:56:45,527 --> 00:56:46,903
[music stops]

984
00:56:48,488 --> 00:56:52,325
During this time, we are trying
to strengthen our case

985
00:56:52,409 --> 00:56:54,994
and make it clear
that there would be no reasonable doubt

986
00:56:55,078 --> 00:56:56,704
that Kaitlin Armstrong was the killer.

987
00:56:56,788 --> 00:56:58,248
[uneasy music playing]

988
00:56:58,331 --> 00:57:00,875
It was clear early on
that Kaitlin Armstrong

989
00:57:00,959 --> 00:57:04,921
had either turned off
or put her phone into airplane mode.

990
00:57:05,004 --> 00:57:08,174
And so the phone records
that a lot of times are helpful

991
00:57:08,258 --> 00:57:10,343
to show someone's
at the scene of the crime

992
00:57:10,427 --> 00:57:13,304
weren't actually going to be
very effective in this case.

993
00:57:13,388 --> 00:57:15,890
And so we were trying to look
for any other way

994
00:57:15,974 --> 00:57:19,644
we could show her presence
or her whereabouts

995
00:57:19,727 --> 00:57:21,896
at the time of the murder.

996
00:57:24,149 --> 00:57:28,069
[Spitler] During the search warrant,
we also searched Kaitlin's Jeep.

997
00:57:28,153 --> 00:57:32,031
I noticed that it had
an infotainment system installed in it.

998
00:57:32,866 --> 00:57:34,784
I checked with our digital forensics unit

999
00:57:34,868 --> 00:57:40,081
and asked them, "What type of information
would this infotainment system collect?"

1000
00:57:40,748 --> 00:57:43,877
One of the things that they said
that it collected was track logs,

1001
00:57:44,586 --> 00:57:46,171
your GPS data.

1002
00:57:46,254 --> 00:57:50,091
We knew that the Jeep
was actually sold at CarMax.

1003
00:57:50,175 --> 00:57:53,178
I went to CarMax and located the Jeep.

1004
00:57:54,387 --> 00:57:58,892
I researched on how
you pulled this device out

1005
00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:01,019
from various videos,

1006
00:58:01,102 --> 00:58:03,021
and submitted it
to our digital forensics unit

1007
00:58:03,104 --> 00:58:04,230
for them to process it

1008
00:58:04,314 --> 00:58:07,525
and see if there was
any data that was still on the device.

1009
00:58:08,776 --> 00:58:11,738
Kaitlin had a pretty promising career.

1010
00:58:11,821 --> 00:58:15,033
Colin actually described her
as being a financial guru,

1011
00:58:15,116 --> 00:58:19,496
that she was in charge of all
of the financial aspects of their company.

1012
00:58:19,996 --> 00:58:25,793
Colin had told me that he did provide
Kaitlin $40,000 to invest in the company.

1013
00:58:25,877 --> 00:58:28,129
So we knew that Kaitlin was on the run

1014
00:58:28,213 --> 00:58:31,424
with a significant amount of cash
available to her.

1015
00:58:33,384 --> 00:58:36,137
[Brown] Kaitlin's one
of those types of people

1016
00:58:36,221 --> 00:58:40,433
that she gets an idea in her head
and she makes it happen.

1017
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,939
[Jones] The U.S. Marshals
were close to giving up

1018
00:58:46,022 --> 00:58:47,941
because they couldn't find her.

1019
00:58:48,024 --> 00:58:49,651
That was a scary thought to me.

1020
00:58:49,734 --> 00:58:52,487
[probing music playing]

1021
00:58:53,196 --> 00:58:56,783
[González] Based on
her strong interest in yoga,

1022
00:58:56,866 --> 00:59:01,246
they put out an ad in the town
where they thought she might be,

1023
00:59:01,329 --> 00:59:03,665
seeking a yoga instructor.

1024
00:59:08,169 --> 00:59:09,254
Amazingly,

1025
00:59:10,421 --> 00:59:12,423
there was a response.

1026
00:59:14,342 --> 00:59:15,969
They went to that location,

1027
00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:18,513
and they saw her.

1028
00:59:20,890 --> 00:59:24,269
Someone asked her
if she was Kaitlin Armstrong…

1029
00:59:25,979 --> 00:59:27,605
and she said yes.

1030
00:59:32,527 --> 00:59:35,113
[Filla] I'm here to announce
that Kaitlin Armstrong

1031
00:59:35,196 --> 00:59:37,532
was captured on June 29th

1032
00:59:37,615 --> 00:59:40,577
by foreign officials
in the Republic of Costa Rica

1033
00:59:40,660 --> 00:59:44,163
following a 43-day fugitive investigation.

1034
00:59:47,041 --> 00:59:48,626
[Mazak] After she was arrested,

1035
00:59:49,127 --> 00:59:53,298
we find out that she actually
went through plastic surgery,

1036
00:59:53,798 --> 00:59:56,593
trying to make herself
look more like her sister.

1037
00:59:56,676 --> 01:00:00,013
I think she just thought
she was smarter than everybody else

1038
01:00:00,096 --> 01:00:01,764
and that she could get away with it.

1039
01:00:01,848 --> 01:00:04,350
[tense music playing]

1040
01:00:06,269 --> 01:00:10,189
[reporter] Armstrong is now in custody
at the Travis County Jail.

1041
01:00:10,273 --> 01:00:14,902
She's currently being held
under a $3.5 million bond.

1042
01:00:16,029 --> 01:00:18,489
[Rick Cofer] Unfortunately,
a lot of the information

1043
01:00:18,573 --> 01:00:22,660
that's been presented so far in the media
is simply not accurate.

1044
01:00:22,744 --> 01:00:26,414
The police have a vested interest
in painting a picture

1045
01:00:26,497 --> 01:00:29,584
that supports
their initial assumptions and actions.

1046
01:00:29,667 --> 01:00:33,087
We look forward
to this legal process ahead

1047
01:00:33,171 --> 01:00:36,299
and these issues being heard
in a court of law.

1048
01:00:36,382 --> 01:00:38,426
[intriguing music playing]

1049
01:00:39,636 --> 01:00:42,013
[Jones] 18, 19 days before trial,

1050
01:00:42,096 --> 01:00:45,183
someone from the sheriff's office
called me and said,

1051
01:00:45,266 --> 01:00:47,477
"Put your coffee down,
you won't believe this."

1052
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,605
Kaitlin Armstrong escaped

1053
01:00:51,189 --> 01:00:53,399
from the Travis County Jail.

1054
01:00:53,983 --> 01:00:56,319
[reporter] Two deputies
escorted Kaitlin Armstrong

1055
01:00:56,402 --> 01:00:58,404
to a doctor's appointment
Wednesday morning.

1056
01:00:58,488 --> 01:01:02,992
She had this injury
that she could not have leg restraints on

1057
01:01:03,076 --> 01:01:05,328
that required her
to go see an outside doctor.

1058
01:01:05,411 --> 01:01:07,622
And so they allowed her to.

1059
01:01:07,705 --> 01:01:10,416
The minute she left that doctor's office,
she booked it.

1060
01:01:11,668 --> 01:01:14,837
[officer] Deputy chasing an inmate
in the area.

1061
01:01:14,921 --> 01:01:16,673
[officer speaking]

1062
01:01:16,756 --> 01:01:18,216
[Conner] We were hearing

1063
01:01:18,299 --> 01:01:21,969
that she did start working out
excessively leading up to that,

1064
01:01:22,053 --> 01:01:24,055
so there was definitely
some thought process

1065
01:01:24,138 --> 01:01:25,473
that went into this escape.

1066
01:01:26,307 --> 01:01:32,480
She ran, and they apprehended her
about a mile down the road.

1067
01:01:33,815 --> 01:01:36,067
[Sullivan] It was just even more evidence

1068
01:01:36,150 --> 01:01:40,363
that Kaitlin Armstrong really thought
she could get away with this.

1069
01:01:40,446 --> 01:01:43,324
And that she wasn't going
to have to answer for what she did

1070
01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:45,785
like anyone else might have to.

1071
01:01:47,453 --> 01:01:49,038
[Karen sniffles]

1072
01:01:51,916 --> 01:01:54,627
[melancholic music playing]

1073
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:57,505
Oh, my gosh.

1074
01:02:03,428 --> 01:02:04,512
[sighs]

1075
01:02:05,763 --> 01:02:08,975
[Karen] When I open drawers in her room,

1076
01:02:09,058 --> 01:02:11,310
I love picking things up

1077
01:02:11,394 --> 01:02:14,147
and just sticking them
in my face and smelling them.

1078
01:02:14,230 --> 01:02:17,233
And sometimes that makes me feel good,
and sometimes that makes me,

1079
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:19,444
you know, feel sad too.

1080
01:02:22,739 --> 01:02:26,868
The more that I can be thankful
for the fact that…

1081
01:02:26,951 --> 01:02:28,327
[crying]

1082
01:02:28,411 --> 01:02:32,081
…that I, you know, that we had
Moriah here for 25 years…

1083
01:02:32,165 --> 01:02:33,124
[sniffles]

1084
01:02:33,207 --> 01:02:35,585
…the more I can give thanks for that

1085
01:02:35,668 --> 01:02:38,963
and, um, and not focus on the loss.

1086
01:02:39,547 --> 01:02:40,757
And, um…

1087
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:47,305
You know, it's not easy, though, because
I still want her to be here and, um…

1088
01:02:48,389 --> 01:02:50,308
[sniffles] …and I miss her.

1089
01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:54,562
[melancholic music continues]

1090
01:03:00,943 --> 01:03:01,944
[Karen] Moriah?

1091
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:04,363
Okay? Okay, Mommy?

1092
01:03:04,447 --> 01:03:06,532
-[Karen] Love you.
-Love you.

1093
01:03:06,616 --> 01:03:07,617
[Karen] Mm.

1094
01:03:09,035 --> 01:03:11,120
[Eric] Aw, that's a nice picture.

1095
01:03:12,705 --> 01:03:14,081
Hi, everybody.

1096
01:03:14,165 --> 01:03:16,042
[Karen and Moriah] Hi!

1097
01:03:16,125 --> 01:03:19,253
[melancholic music continues]

1098
01:03:37,396 --> 01:03:39,690
[Karen] Grief is like a big mud puddle.

1099
01:03:40,983 --> 01:03:44,320
You can walk around it and around it.

1100
01:03:45,279 --> 01:03:48,157
Just be circling it
for the rest of your life.

1101
01:03:49,408 --> 01:03:52,328
Or you can walk right through it

1102
01:03:52,829 --> 01:03:54,705
and out the other end.

1103
01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:01,587
[suspenseful music playing]

1104
01:04:02,797 --> 01:04:06,634
[reporter 1] A highly anticipated
murder trial gets underway here in Austin.

1105
01:04:07,218 --> 01:04:11,806
[reporter 2] It's a case that has received
international media attention.

1106
01:04:11,889 --> 01:04:15,101
[González] There's a large contingency
of news reporters.

1107
01:04:15,184 --> 01:04:20,898
There's spectators, people tweeting live
the proceedings in the courtroom.

1108
01:04:20,982 --> 01:04:24,193
[reporter 2] Did Kaitlin Armstrong
shoot and kill Moriah Wilson?

1109
01:04:24,277 --> 01:04:27,113
That is a question
that a jury will answer.

1110
01:04:27,697 --> 01:04:30,241
[Spitler] Sometimes when there's
no direct evidence, no eyewitness,

1111
01:04:30,324 --> 01:04:31,701
no video of the murder,

1112
01:04:31,784 --> 01:04:34,912
it's enough for a jury to hang
their hat on and acquit somebody.

1113
01:04:42,336 --> 01:04:45,256
[Cofer] Evidence will come out
that Kaitlin Armstrong

1114
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:50,344
was nowhere near the scene
of Miss Wilson's murder.

1115
01:04:50,428 --> 01:04:53,431
[Judge Kennedy] To the allegations
in paragraph one of the indictment,

1116
01:04:53,514 --> 01:04:54,557
how do you plead?

1117
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:55,641
[Kaitlin] Not guilty.

1118
01:04:55,725 --> 01:04:58,436
[Judge Kennedy] To the allegations
to paragraph two of the indictment,

1119
01:04:58,519 --> 01:04:59,478
how do you plead?

1120
01:04:59,562 --> 01:05:00,396
[Kaitlin] Not guilty.

1121
01:05:00,479 --> 01:05:01,939
[Judge Kennedy] You may be seated.

1122
01:05:04,984 --> 01:05:11,866
We're going to start by giving you
information about three key players.

1123
01:05:14,368 --> 01:05:16,454
Number one will be Mo Wilson.

1124
01:05:18,456 --> 01:05:21,626
Second key player is Colin Strickland.

1125
01:05:22,251 --> 01:05:26,005
The third player is Kaitlin Armstrong,
the defendant,

1126
01:05:26,505 --> 01:05:27,965
who lived with Colin

1127
01:05:28,049 --> 01:05:31,677
in an on-again, off-again
romantic relationship.

1128
01:05:32,553 --> 01:05:34,805
Kaitlin Armstrong was not happy

1129
01:05:34,889 --> 01:05:37,308
with Colin still communicating

1130
01:05:38,809 --> 01:05:41,729
with Mo Wilson
after their romantic relationship ended.

1131
01:05:41,812 --> 01:05:47,193
What a wonderful and easy way
to paint a woman and to tell a story.

1132
01:05:47,860 --> 01:05:49,987
The woman scorned.

1133
01:05:50,947 --> 01:05:54,158
She had to be portrayed

1134
01:05:54,241 --> 01:05:57,954
as a jealous psycho to create the motive.

1135
01:05:58,037 --> 01:05:59,413
[somber music playing]

1136
01:05:59,497 --> 01:06:02,667
[Jones] Mo was so young,
had so much life ahead of her.

1137
01:06:02,750 --> 01:06:06,003
My main thing was to hold
Kaitlin Armstrong accountable.

1138
01:06:07,004 --> 01:06:09,465
[Cash] I was the second to take the stand.

1139
01:06:09,548 --> 01:06:12,343
All of a sudden, it's like,
"Get up, we're going in."

1140
01:06:12,426 --> 01:06:14,637
"We're swearing you in. It's starting."

1141
01:06:15,429 --> 01:06:19,392
There's no way to actually prepare you
for going into a situation like that,

1142
01:06:19,475 --> 01:06:20,768
where you're on the stand

1143
01:06:20,851 --> 01:06:23,646
facing Kaitlin Armstrong,
right there looking at you.

1144
01:06:25,481 --> 01:06:28,359
I just became hyper-focused.

1145
01:06:28,442 --> 01:06:31,737
I went into this, like, zone of,

1146
01:06:31,821 --> 01:06:35,533
"This is the most important thing
I could possibly do in my life."

1147
01:06:35,616 --> 01:06:37,660
"I want to see justice served,

1148
01:06:37,743 --> 01:06:42,665
and I want to do
my absolute best for my friend."

1149
01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:47,420
I fought for Mo
with everything I had that night.

1150
01:06:48,671 --> 01:06:53,384
From the moment that I got home,
I started doing chest compressions,

1151
01:06:53,467 --> 01:06:56,470
which was the longest ten minutes
of my entire life.

1152
01:06:57,972 --> 01:07:00,433
When I stepped down from the stand,

1153
01:07:00,516 --> 01:07:04,145
I looked Kaitlin Armstrong in the eyes,

1154
01:07:04,812 --> 01:07:06,522
and she showed nothing.

1155
01:07:07,273 --> 01:07:09,316
Absolutely nothing.

1156
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,194
[unsettling music playing]

1157
01:07:12,278 --> 01:07:13,863
[officer] Hey, come here.

1158
01:07:17,908 --> 01:07:20,661
Somebody might be in here.
This might be the bike, okay?

1159
01:07:20,745 --> 01:07:21,829
Like-- Oh, look.

1160
01:07:21,912 --> 01:07:26,000
[Jones] We had evidence
Kaitlin Armstrong drags Mo's bike

1161
01:07:26,083 --> 01:07:27,793
and throws it in the weeds.

1162
01:07:27,877 --> 01:07:29,295
[officer 1] Over there.

1163
01:07:30,296 --> 01:07:31,464
[officer 2] Okay, um…

1164
01:07:31,547 --> 01:07:33,716
[officer 1] 432, I located the bike.

1165
01:07:36,135 --> 01:07:39,722
[Jones] I don't know if she did that
just to thumb her nose at her,

1166
01:07:40,389 --> 01:07:42,767
or she was trying
to make it look like a robbery.

1167
01:07:44,435 --> 01:07:48,147
One of the hardest things
was when they rolled her bike in.

1168
01:07:48,230 --> 01:07:51,817
That… That kind of hit me,
seeing her bike.

1169
01:07:52,651 --> 01:07:54,195
[Matt] Yeah, I remember it.

1170
01:07:55,696 --> 01:07:57,281
It was in the bag.

1171
01:07:59,450 --> 01:08:01,243
[sighing deeply] Oh…

1172
01:08:04,246 --> 01:08:05,915
That was her bike.

1173
01:08:06,415 --> 01:08:09,210
That was what she cared about.
That's what gave her joy.

1174
01:08:11,629 --> 01:08:13,547
When they recovered the bicycle,

1175
01:08:13,631 --> 01:08:17,384
they had processed it
for DNA and fingerprints.

1176
01:08:17,468 --> 01:08:21,472
I asked them to process
a couple other spots or items on the bike,

1177
01:08:21,555 --> 01:08:23,057
just to be sure.

1178
01:08:23,140 --> 01:08:26,227
We compared it with the DNA
that we collected from Kaitlin.

1179
01:08:26,310 --> 01:08:29,939
That comparison showed that Kaitlin's DNA

1180
01:08:30,022 --> 01:08:32,024
was actually on the bicycle.

1181
01:08:32,108 --> 01:08:37,154
The simplest, logical,
most reasonable explanation

1182
01:08:37,238 --> 01:08:40,157
for the defendant's DNA
to be on this bike?

1183
01:08:40,241 --> 01:08:43,285
The defendant touched the bike
after she exited.

1184
01:08:43,369 --> 01:08:46,205
She took the bike out,
and she threw it outside.

1185
01:08:46,997 --> 01:08:52,711
Every person that handled this bike
handled it in the same way.

1186
01:08:55,965 --> 01:09:02,263
I was very upset about the way
that Attorney Cofer handled the bike.

1187
01:09:02,763 --> 01:09:05,850
I didn't think that showed much respect.

1188
01:09:05,933 --> 01:09:08,853
[Cofer] And what's astounding, right here.

1189
01:09:09,478 --> 01:09:14,483
This was the area not swabbed for DNA.

1190
01:09:14,567 --> 01:09:19,446
What if it had shown
yet another unknown profile?

1191
01:09:27,454 --> 01:09:31,041
[Karen] I mean, it's hard for all of us
to be in that room with Armstrong.

1192
01:09:31,125 --> 01:09:34,753
-And I think it's especially…
-[Matt] Yeah.

1193
01:09:34,837 --> 01:09:37,590
I mean, it's hard for all of us, for sure.

1194
01:09:37,673 --> 01:09:41,093
-It feels cold in there. It's like…
-[Karen] Yeah, it can be still.

1195
01:09:41,177 --> 01:09:44,096
I don't even feel that much
because I'm just like,

1196
01:09:44,180 --> 01:09:46,682
this just doesn't feel like a space

1197
01:09:46,765 --> 01:09:50,019
where I'm being encouraged
to feel anything. [chuckles]

1198
01:09:50,102 --> 01:09:53,981
Seeing her not show any emotion at all,

1199
01:09:54,064 --> 01:09:55,816
all I see is a stone.

1200
01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:57,818
When I look at her,
she looks like a stone.

1201
01:09:58,611 --> 01:10:02,489
Every once in a while,
I look and I just think, "Is there any…"

1202
01:10:03,407 --> 01:10:07,411
"Is there any softness
in that heart anywhere?"

1203
01:10:07,494 --> 01:10:10,915
"Is there any flesh in that heart,
or is it all stone?"

1204
01:10:11,415 --> 01:10:12,541
[chuckling] I don't know.

1205
01:10:12,625 --> 01:10:14,460
-[sucks air over teeth]
-[Matt clears throat]

1206
01:10:15,753 --> 01:10:19,006
[reporter 1] Testimony on day three
of the Kaitlin Armstrong murder trial

1207
01:10:19,089 --> 01:10:23,010
with Colin Strickland,
Armstrong's then on-and-off boyfriend.

1208
01:10:24,261 --> 01:10:28,807
[Sullivan] It was hard to watch Colin
on the witness stand.

1209
01:10:30,017 --> 01:10:36,232
He did not look like the same person
in trial that he was before Moriah died.

1210
01:10:38,734 --> 01:10:42,279
[Bolsinger] It was hard
to see Colin face-to-face.

1211
01:10:42,363 --> 01:10:45,115
Particularly because I placed
so much blame on him

1212
01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:49,828
for… his manipulation
of both Moriah and Kaitlin.

1213
01:10:49,912 --> 01:10:53,874
Colin Strickland gave many
noncommittal answers to attorneys today,

1214
01:10:53,958 --> 01:10:57,336
and also sat with his body
angled away and his hand up

1215
01:10:57,419 --> 01:11:00,047
in what may have been
an attempt to block out Armstrong.

1216
01:11:00,965 --> 01:11:02,383
His demeanor was,

1217
01:11:03,467 --> 01:11:05,010
"I do not want to be here."

1218
01:11:05,094 --> 01:11:06,387
He looked away.

1219
01:11:06,470 --> 01:11:08,180
He had his head down often.

1220
01:11:08,264 --> 01:11:10,516
He was slumped over the microphone.

1221
01:11:10,599 --> 01:11:13,018
He would put his hand
on his head like this.

1222
01:11:13,102 --> 01:11:14,937
His eyes were often closed,

1223
01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:18,440
and rarely would he look at the person
who was questioning him,

1224
01:11:18,524 --> 01:11:20,359
whether it was us or the other side.

1225
01:11:21,443 --> 01:11:25,030
[Karen] When Colin was asked
in his cross-examinations

1226
01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:27,324
if he knew the defendant,

1227
01:11:27,408 --> 01:11:29,535
he actually came out and said, like, "No."

1228
01:11:30,911 --> 01:11:35,624
And I think it was a statement of,
"I thought I knew her, but I don't."

1229
01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:38,961
He had very pertinent information

1230
01:11:39,461 --> 01:11:42,923
to help us put this case together
to get justice for Mo.

1231
01:11:43,007 --> 01:11:44,842
And I didn't like the fact that…

1232
01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:49,013
he came off as being
very reluctant at times.

1233
01:11:49,096 --> 01:11:52,349
And I wanted to tell him, "Come on, dude."

1234
01:11:53,434 --> 01:11:56,520
"Do it like this
and make it easy on yourself."

1235
01:11:58,397 --> 01:12:01,025
[reporter] The state pulled up texts
between Strickland and Armstrong

1236
01:12:01,108 --> 01:12:02,192
from October 2021.

1237
01:12:02,276 --> 01:12:05,779
That was a time when Wilson
and Strickland met up in Austin.

1238
01:12:05,863 --> 01:12:09,575
The message that's seemingly
from Armstrong to Strickland,

1239
01:12:09,658 --> 01:12:13,037
"I know you better than to show up
at Meteor with that girl."

1240
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:16,665
Strickland says "that girl"
is a reference to Wilson.

1241
01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:19,626
Jurors were shown
a text message sent to Strickland

1242
01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:24,048
containing a video at some kind
of firing range, shooting a gun.

1243
01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:26,216
The person's face isn't shown,

1244
01:12:26,300 --> 01:12:29,762
but Strickland testified
he believed it's Armstrong.

1245
01:12:30,596 --> 01:12:34,641
Colin ended up in the middle
of some very unfortunate events.

1246
01:12:35,309 --> 01:12:38,354
I don't think that he ever anticipated

1247
01:12:38,437 --> 01:12:42,274
or intended for things
to happen the way that they did.

1248
01:12:42,358 --> 01:12:45,986
But I also don't think
that we can look at what happened

1249
01:12:46,070 --> 01:12:48,906
without acknowledging his involvement.

1250
01:12:51,158 --> 01:12:53,827
[Jones] It bothers me that him lying

1251
01:12:53,911 --> 01:12:58,415
created the situation
and the scenario that led to Mo's death.

1252
01:12:58,499 --> 01:13:01,418
But on the other hand,
he didn't pull the trigger.

1253
01:13:01,502 --> 01:13:02,878
He didn't kill her.

1254
01:13:03,712 --> 01:13:07,966
And there's nothing
about Kaitlin Armstrong, in my opinion,

1255
01:13:08,050 --> 01:13:09,718
that suggested to Colin,

1256
01:13:09,802 --> 01:13:12,763
"I'd better be careful.
This girl could kill someone."

1257
01:13:12,846 --> 01:13:14,973
I don't think he saw it coming.

1258
01:13:15,474 --> 01:13:18,185
And if he did, maybe he'd have done
something different.

1259
01:13:23,982 --> 01:13:26,985
We wanted Pam Mazak
to be our final witness

1260
01:13:27,486 --> 01:13:30,739
to summarize the whole case, all the data,

1261
01:13:30,823 --> 01:13:34,159
and following it
in a chronological timeline.

1262
01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:37,037
[tense music playing]

1263
01:13:37,121 --> 01:13:38,539
[Mazak] From Colin's phone,

1264
01:13:38,622 --> 01:13:43,252
we realized he had Moriah
in his phone as Christine Wall.

1265
01:13:43,836 --> 01:13:47,464
Around 4:45, Colin's asking Moriah

1266
01:13:47,548 --> 01:13:51,135
if she'd like him to come
pick her up on the motorcycle.

1267
01:13:51,218 --> 01:13:55,597
Kaitlin did have access
to a lot of his information,

1268
01:13:55,681 --> 01:13:57,182
and there was an iPad at home,

1269
01:13:57,266 --> 01:14:01,437
and she more than likely would be able
to see all of this texting

1270
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,856
between Colin and Moriah.

1271
01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:08,152
At around 4:49,

1272
01:14:08,235 --> 01:14:12,656
Moriah sends Colin
the address of where she's staying.

1273
01:14:13,157 --> 01:14:15,117
Now, it is under Christine Wall,

1274
01:14:16,076 --> 01:14:20,789
but Moriah sends a picture from her ride.

1275
01:14:21,790 --> 01:14:26,545
So, Kaitlin knows absolutely
that's who he's making plans with.

1276
01:14:29,214 --> 01:14:31,425
Kaitlin leaves the house,

1277
01:14:31,508 --> 01:14:34,595
and we believe she's got the gun with her.

1278
01:14:35,596 --> 01:14:39,766
She is heading up Lamar
towards the downtown area.

1279
01:14:39,850 --> 01:14:40,893
[intriguing music playing]

1280
01:14:40,976 --> 01:14:46,940
Then she takes a left
onto West 6th and heads west,

1281
01:14:47,524 --> 01:14:51,987
which would take you
to Deep Eddy, or that area.

1282
01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:57,034
But then, she turns around
and she starts heading east, onto 5th.

1283
01:14:57,784 --> 01:15:01,705
Then, her car takes a turn
around another block.

1284
01:15:01,788 --> 01:15:04,666
It's like she's trying
to figure out what to do.

1285
01:15:04,750 --> 01:15:09,338
And she pulls over into a parking lot area
and sits there for about a minute.

1286
01:15:10,047 --> 01:15:13,300
I don't know if initially
she was just going to go confront them.

1287
01:15:13,383 --> 01:15:17,429
A jealous person might, you know,
yell, scream, you know, slap, pull hair.

1288
01:15:17,513 --> 01:15:19,556
But that's not what happened.

1289
01:15:20,724 --> 01:15:25,479
She sits there for a minute and then makes
the decision to turn her phone off.

1290
01:15:26,897 --> 01:15:30,317
And then her Jeep starts heading east

1291
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:33,111
and goes straight to Cash's neighborhood.

1292
01:15:35,322 --> 01:15:40,494
Kaitlin's Jeep locations match exactly
with all the surveillance video.

1293
01:15:42,788 --> 01:15:45,040
She's circling that neighborhood,

1294
01:15:45,123 --> 01:15:50,003
and she's sitting in her car and waiting
at about three different spots, at least.

1295
01:15:52,089 --> 01:15:56,009
We see Moriah and Colin heading back over.

1296
01:15:56,093 --> 01:15:58,470
Kaitlin's circling the block

1297
01:15:59,805 --> 01:16:02,391
until she sees them come home.

1298
01:16:05,185 --> 01:16:07,688
[music turns ominous]

1299
01:16:08,981 --> 01:16:11,441
They're within a block of each other.

1300
01:16:12,276 --> 01:16:14,236
She's waiting for Colin to leave.

1301
01:16:17,864 --> 01:16:22,411
I know how it ends, and it's still
just really hard to watch this unfold.

1302
01:16:23,829 --> 01:16:26,331
[Bolsinger] One of the most horrific
things that we learned

1303
01:16:26,415 --> 01:16:31,628
was just how long
she had circled Cash's house.

1304
01:16:31,712 --> 01:16:33,589
Just how intentional it was.

1305
01:16:36,717 --> 01:16:39,636
She basically stalked her.

1306
01:16:41,597 --> 01:16:43,390
[Sullivan] It was mind-blowing

1307
01:16:43,473 --> 01:16:46,268
just that we were able
to put all of that together

1308
01:16:46,351 --> 01:16:49,396
and that, really,
that-- that digital evidence

1309
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:52,024
almost became
another witness in the trial.

1310
01:16:53,191 --> 01:16:57,571
You can't really accuse data of lying.

1311
01:16:58,947 --> 01:17:00,574
[Jones] 8:35, he drops her off.

1312
01:17:01,658 --> 01:17:02,909
Then Colin goes home.

1313
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:07,748
He does stop at 8:38 on MLK,

1314
01:17:07,831 --> 01:17:09,041
a few blocks

1315
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:12,044
from dropping Mo off.

1316
01:17:12,127 --> 01:17:15,589
Then he texts Kaitlin
about the errand he was running.

1317
01:17:15,672 --> 01:17:16,965
Said, "Finished."

1318
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:19,134
"Want to get something to eat?"

1319
01:17:19,217 --> 01:17:20,469
She doesn't respond.

1320
01:17:20,552 --> 01:17:23,847
[unsettling music playing]

1321
01:17:23,930 --> 01:17:27,476
[Mazak] As soon as he leaves,
she circles that alley.

1322
01:17:27,559 --> 01:17:29,728
She parks her Jeep.

1323
01:17:29,811 --> 01:17:32,564
And then she sits
in the Jeep for a little while.

1324
01:17:33,982 --> 01:17:35,525
Moriah unlocks the door.

1325
01:17:35,609 --> 01:17:37,027
She gets in.

1326
01:17:37,110 --> 01:17:43,450
And then she's, uh, texting
a podcaster around 9:13.

1327
01:17:43,533 --> 01:17:44,993
A few minutes later,

1328
01:17:45,077 --> 01:17:48,997
the… the screams
and the gunshots are heard.

1329
01:17:49,081 --> 01:17:51,583
Pow! Pow!

1330
01:17:52,709 --> 01:17:53,960
Two gunshots.

1331
01:17:55,295 --> 01:17:57,005
One to the front of the head.

1332
01:17:58,090 --> 01:17:59,966
One to the side of the head

1333
01:18:00,050 --> 01:18:03,345
that hits the index finger as it passes.

1334
01:18:04,888 --> 01:18:07,891
After four or five seconds of silence,

1335
01:18:08,642 --> 01:18:10,185
Kaitlin Armstrong

1336
01:18:10,852 --> 01:18:12,312
stood over Mo Wilson

1337
01:18:13,021 --> 01:18:14,564
and put a third shot

1338
01:18:15,107 --> 01:18:16,733
right in Mo Wilson's heart.

1339
01:18:18,777 --> 01:18:21,405
[voice breaks] Hearing those screams,
you know, they…

1340
01:18:22,239 --> 01:18:23,323
still bother me.

1341
01:18:23,407 --> 01:18:27,452
[sniffles] I try not to listen
to that one. It's-- It's very difficult.

1342
01:18:27,953 --> 01:18:30,831
[somber music playing]

1343
01:18:45,137 --> 01:18:47,222
[Cash] I was coming to terms with,

1344
01:18:47,305 --> 01:18:49,224
"What if she's not put away?"

1345
01:18:50,058 --> 01:18:53,145
What does that mean for the Wilsons?
What does that mean for me?

1346
01:18:56,857 --> 01:19:00,944
[Matt] I felt tense, nervous.

1347
01:19:02,696 --> 01:19:04,823
It's up to these 12 people.

1348
01:19:06,408 --> 01:19:11,788
[González] Everything we do
all comes down to the jury.

1349
01:19:11,872 --> 01:19:13,999
If they didn't like it,
or they didn't buy it,

1350
01:19:14,082 --> 01:19:16,710
or even one of them didn't like it
or didn't buy it,

1351
01:19:17,294 --> 01:19:18,336
you're done.

1352
01:19:22,215 --> 01:19:24,342
[music fades]

1353
01:19:29,473 --> 01:19:31,349
The defendant will please rise.

1354
01:19:34,895 --> 01:19:39,691
In cause number D1DC22301129,

1355
01:19:39,775 --> 01:19:42,819
verdict of the jury
for the offense of murder,

1356
01:19:42,903 --> 01:19:46,072
we, the jury, having found
the defendant, Kaitlin Armstrong,

1357
01:19:46,156 --> 01:19:47,824
guilty of the offense of murder.

1358
01:19:47,908 --> 01:19:51,745
This court hereby
sentences you to 90 years

1359
01:19:51,828 --> 01:19:53,789
in the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice

1360
01:19:53,872 --> 01:19:57,667
and a $10,000 fine as imposed by the jury.

1361
01:19:57,751 --> 01:19:58,668
You may be seated.

1362
01:19:58,752 --> 01:19:59,711
[woman sobbing]

1363
01:20:01,296 --> 01:20:03,715
[Kennedy] Is there
any allocution to be done?

1364
01:20:03,799 --> 01:20:05,008
[Jones] Yes, Your Honor.

1365
01:20:06,134 --> 01:20:07,344
[Karen sniffling]

1366
01:20:16,770 --> 01:20:18,814
Kaitlin Armstrong.

1367
01:20:21,733 --> 01:20:25,237
I'm not sure if my words
can penetrate your heart,

1368
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:26,738
but I'm gonna try.

1369
01:20:28,406 --> 01:20:31,034
I hate what you did
to my beautiful daughter.

1370
01:20:32,869 --> 01:20:35,622
It was very selfish and cowardly,

1371
01:20:36,331 --> 01:20:38,792
that violent act on May 11th.

1372
01:20:39,543 --> 01:20:41,253
It was cowardly

1373
01:20:42,045 --> 01:20:43,672
because you never chose

1374
01:20:43,755 --> 01:20:48,385
to face her woman to woman
in a civil conversation.

1375
01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:50,846
She would have listened.

1376
01:20:51,388 --> 01:20:53,682
She was an amazing listener.

1377
01:20:54,349 --> 01:20:56,935
She would have cared about your feelings.

1378
01:20:57,435 --> 01:21:00,230
She was a caring, empathetic person.

1379
01:21:00,939 --> 01:21:04,317
If you allowed yourself
to actually know her,

1380
01:21:04,401 --> 01:21:08,446
you never, ever would have
wanted to hurt her.

1381
01:21:09,739 --> 01:21:12,117
When you shot Moriah in the heart,

1382
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,245
you shot me in my heart.

1383
01:21:15,328 --> 01:21:16,204
[sniffles]

1384
01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:20,250
You shot Eric and Matt in their hearts.

1385
01:21:26,882 --> 01:21:31,845
I don't know why God let this happen,
but He let it happen.

1386
01:21:33,471 --> 01:21:36,391
We trust that there's going
to be good come from it.

1387
01:21:36,474 --> 01:21:39,352
[poignant music playing]

1388
01:21:40,478 --> 01:21:44,274
[Eric] Maybe it'll help somebody,
you know, down the road…

1389
01:21:46,526 --> 01:21:48,695
so something like this doesn't happen.

1390
01:21:50,363 --> 01:21:51,364
[sniffles]

1391
01:21:54,367 --> 01:21:57,579
[poignant music continues]

1392
01:22:03,251 --> 01:22:05,170
There really are no winners here.

1393
01:22:06,212 --> 01:22:08,924
This is not a time for celebration,

1394
01:22:09,007 --> 01:22:10,592
but a time for prayer.

1395
01:22:11,801 --> 01:22:13,678
A time to pray for our family,

1396
01:22:14,346 --> 01:22:17,557
our friends, the Armstrong family,

1397
01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:18,642
and their friends.

1398
01:22:19,476 --> 01:22:21,811
This sad story is a perfect example

1399
01:22:21,895 --> 01:22:27,359
of why integrity and honesty are crucial
in our personal relationships.

1400
01:22:28,485 --> 01:22:32,989
And how dishonesty can often lead
to unintended consequences.

1401
01:22:33,907 --> 01:22:39,704
Selfish manipulation, jealousy, and hatred
never lead to positive outcomes.

1402
01:22:40,789 --> 01:22:42,832
Violence is never a good way.

1403
01:22:43,416 --> 01:22:45,335
It only leads to more suffering.

1404
01:22:47,128 --> 01:22:49,130
Our lives are changed forever,

1405
01:22:50,131 --> 01:22:53,218
but with this challenging ordeal
now behind us,

1406
01:22:53,802 --> 01:22:58,014
we are ready to move forward
and continue our healing.

1407
01:22:59,349 --> 01:23:04,521
And we will do this
with Moriah's strong, determined,

1408
01:23:04,604 --> 01:23:06,940
gentle and kind spirit,

1409
01:23:07,607 --> 01:23:10,443
for we know
this is what she would want us to do.

1410
01:23:11,861 --> 01:23:15,156
[poignant music continues]

1411
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:29,295
[Matt] This is someone
that I'm sure most people in her life

1412
01:23:29,379 --> 01:23:32,007
couldn't have imagined her
doing something like this.

1413
01:23:32,090 --> 01:23:34,551
So it raises all these questions of, like,

1414
01:23:35,218 --> 01:23:37,178
"Do you ever really know anyone?"

1415
01:23:37,262 --> 01:23:39,431
"Am I capable
of doing something like that?"

1416
01:23:39,514 --> 01:23:41,683
"Is everyone capable
of doing something like that?"

1417
01:23:43,518 --> 01:23:48,273
[Karen] This just
is still so incomprehensible.

1418
01:23:49,232 --> 01:23:51,776
And when I do get angry,

1419
01:23:51,860 --> 01:23:53,153
all I can think of is,

1420
01:23:53,236 --> 01:23:57,282
"You stupid girl,
Kaitlin Armstrong, you stupid girl."

1421
01:23:57,991 --> 01:23:59,784
"Look what you did."

1422
01:24:11,212 --> 01:24:14,507
[gentle music playing]

1423
01:24:17,927 --> 01:24:22,098
[Matt] Kaitlin Armstrong took
so many things away from my sister.

1424
01:24:22,182 --> 01:24:23,975
She took away her life.

1425
01:24:24,476 --> 01:24:25,810
Her freedom.

1426
01:24:26,853 --> 01:24:29,814
Her ability to experience this world.

1427
01:24:30,315 --> 01:24:33,568
Her ability to feel joy.

1428
01:24:34,527 --> 01:24:38,281
The only just consequence for that

1429
01:24:38,364 --> 01:24:42,869
is that she should no longer be able
to have any of those experiences either,

1430
01:24:43,953 --> 01:24:45,455
for the rest of her life.

1431
01:24:47,624 --> 01:24:50,668
[gentle music rising]

1432
01:25:00,637 --> 01:25:01,554
[barking]

1433
01:25:09,979 --> 01:25:12,107
[Karen] In my belief system,

1434
01:25:12,190 --> 01:25:16,861
whenever we make choices
and they have negative consequences,

1435
01:25:16,945 --> 01:25:19,447
we can't just walk away.

1436
01:25:20,740 --> 01:25:23,409
It's about what's right and wrong.

1437
01:25:25,286 --> 01:25:27,413
And being held accountable.

1438
01:25:32,252 --> 01:25:34,629
It was just such a senseless crime.

1439
01:26:05,410 --> 01:26:07,745
[Strickland] This is pretty much
my life these days.

1440
01:26:07,829 --> 01:26:10,206
Just… time alone in the shop.

1441
01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:12,625
[mechanical clicking]

1442
01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:15,670
Part of that's just,
things are just outside of my control.

1443
01:26:15,753 --> 01:26:18,548
So I shrunk my world massively

1444
01:26:18,631 --> 01:26:21,134
so that it could feel
some kind of control.

1445
01:26:21,217 --> 01:26:24,304
Things are spinning out of…
out of control.

1446
01:26:25,555 --> 01:26:27,724
[whirring]

1447
01:26:32,228 --> 01:26:35,231
I regret everything.
I'm ashamed of everything I've done.

1448
01:26:37,275 --> 01:26:40,278
I would have never
fucking started bike racing.

1449
01:26:41,404 --> 01:26:43,364
Not ever met Kaitlin.

1450
01:26:44,324 --> 01:26:46,075
Not ever met Moriah.

1451
01:26:47,285 --> 01:26:50,872
Not ever… spoken with Moriah in private.

1452
01:26:52,498 --> 01:26:53,666
Every single thing.

1453
01:26:54,918 --> 01:26:56,544
Because it all led to this.

1454
01:27:10,266 --> 01:27:12,101
[Cash] This is what I found
in a thrift store

1455
01:27:12,185 --> 01:27:13,728
when I was trying to decide

1456
01:27:13,811 --> 01:27:18,066
whether or not I was going to be capable
of moving back into this space or not.

1457
01:27:18,149 --> 01:27:21,986
And I pulled it
out of a wall of 300 frames.

1458
01:27:22,070 --> 01:27:24,322
And it has a little bike
going out of the frame,

1459
01:27:24,405 --> 01:27:27,700
which feels really appropriate
for what was happening at the moment.

1460
01:27:27,784 --> 01:27:30,411
It's got a bloom over here,
so there's some hope going on.

1461
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:33,289
Um, and then it says,
"With you all the way."

1462
01:27:33,373 --> 01:27:39,337
And I just kind of, um,
was totally overcome when I saw this.

1463
01:27:42,465 --> 01:27:43,549
When I moved back in,

1464
01:27:43,633 --> 01:27:47,679
I wanted this space
to feel joyful and bright.

1465
01:27:47,762 --> 01:27:50,598
And so I wanted there to be
a lot of color on the walls.

1466
01:27:50,682 --> 01:27:53,726
I wanted every single thing
I brought back into this home

1467
01:27:53,810 --> 01:27:55,979
to be intentional and to be joyful.

1468
01:27:57,689 --> 01:28:02,860
Everyone assumed that I would not
move back into my house.

1469
01:28:02,944 --> 01:28:07,198
My landlord, my dad, kept asking

1470
01:28:07,282 --> 01:28:09,826
if we needed to start moving my stuff out.

1471
01:28:09,909 --> 01:28:12,704
And I just was really reluctant.

1472
01:28:13,288 --> 01:28:15,456
I somehow felt

1473
01:28:16,499 --> 01:28:19,460
a strong connection there
and a strong pull.

1474
01:28:19,544 --> 01:28:21,504
[poignant music playing]

1475
01:28:21,587 --> 01:28:23,214
When I look back at it,

1476
01:28:23,298 --> 01:28:25,842
the last day of her life
was really beautiful.

1477
01:28:25,925 --> 01:28:28,678
We laughed a lot together.

1478
01:28:28,761 --> 01:28:30,805
We made breakfast and coffee.

1479
01:28:30,888 --> 01:28:32,890
She went on a bike ride.

1480
01:28:32,974 --> 01:28:37,103
We talked about life and boys and family.

1481
01:28:37,186 --> 01:28:42,317
And it was a really beautiful last day.

1482
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:44,485
And that feels sacred to me.

1483
01:28:45,570 --> 01:28:48,448
I want to safeguard that.

1484
01:28:49,949 --> 01:28:51,492
I feel her there.

1485
01:28:51,576 --> 01:28:54,620
I feel her joy there.

1486
01:28:55,413 --> 01:29:00,084
And I'm able to take that and harness it.

1487
01:29:00,793 --> 01:29:04,339
And I think she would be proud.
She'd be proud that I didn't just give up.

1488
01:29:04,422 --> 01:29:08,217
[poignant music rising]

1489
01:29:12,555 --> 01:29:14,599
[Matt] Growing up,
going to Burke with Moriah,

1490
01:29:14,682 --> 01:29:16,017
and now coaching.

1491
01:29:16,601 --> 01:29:18,144
Alright, line up on the red line.

1492
01:29:19,228 --> 01:29:21,564
Being around the kids in this community

1493
01:29:22,482 --> 01:29:25,193
has been really healthy in a lot of ways.

1494
01:29:25,276 --> 01:29:28,112
Millie's to Trillium, to Magill,

1495
01:29:28,196 --> 01:29:30,490
to Moose Deuce, to Moriah's Ascent.

1496
01:29:31,908 --> 01:29:34,660
I do think
about what Mo would say quite often.

1497
01:29:36,287 --> 01:29:40,124
To get yourself
a little bit out of that hole,

1498
01:29:40,208 --> 01:29:43,586
she would tell me to get on my bike.

1499
01:29:45,463 --> 01:29:48,591
Just try to get
a little bit of momentum there.

1500
01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:53,137
And take it one step at a time.

1501
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:02,897
[Moriah speaking]

1502
01:31:00,037 --> 01:31:03,040
[poignant music soaring]

1503
01:31:26,022 --> 01:31:29,066
[Eric] Come on, Mo! Come on! Get up there!

1504
01:31:29,609 --> 01:31:31,068
Yeah, Mo!

1505
01:31:35,698 --> 01:31:38,201
Mo! Let's go, Mo!

1506
01:31:38,284 --> 01:31:41,287
Get up the hill! Dig it, Mo!

1507
01:31:41,913 --> 01:31:44,499
Go, go, go, go, go!

1508
01:32:16,656 --> 01:32:17,907
[music softens]

1509
01:32:33,714 --> 01:32:37,218
["Otherside of Paradise"
by The Revivalists playing]

1510
01:32:43,099 --> 01:32:45,768
♪ If my senses fail ♪

1511
01:32:47,019 --> 01:32:50,731
♪ Meet me on the other side of paradise ♪

1512
01:32:50,815 --> 01:32:53,943
♪ Free from complications ♪

1513
01:32:54,694 --> 01:32:57,405
♪ Of our sense of time ♪

1514
01:32:58,531 --> 01:33:01,450
♪ Fill my windless sail ♪

1515
01:33:02,159 --> 01:33:05,913
♪ With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life ♪

1516
01:33:05,997 --> 01:33:09,125
♪ Whispered conversations ♪

1517
01:33:10,042 --> 01:33:13,754
♪ Twisted faces in the clouds ♪

1518
01:33:20,177 --> 01:33:24,432
♪ I've been hot-winged and hoodwinked
And dead on my feet ♪

1519
01:33:26,976 --> 01:33:31,063
♪ The sound and the fury remain over me ♪

1520
01:33:33,733 --> 01:33:37,570
♪ And all of the footprints
That fall in a line ♪

1521
01:33:37,653 --> 01:33:43,326
♪ Were our common ancestors
Wandering hills in the night ♪

1522
01:33:46,287 --> 01:33:49,874
♪ If my senses fail ♪

1523
01:33:50,374 --> 01:33:54,128
♪ Meet me on the other side of paradise ♪

1524
01:33:54,211 --> 01:33:57,506
♪ Free from complications ♪

1525
01:33:58,049 --> 01:34:00,968
♪ Of our sense of time ♪

1526
01:34:01,761 --> 01:34:04,847
♪ Fill my windless sail ♪

1527
01:34:05,514 --> 01:34:09,352
♪ With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life ♪

1528
01:34:09,435 --> 01:34:12,605
♪ Whispered conversations ♪

1529
01:34:13,356 --> 01:34:17,193
♪ Twisted faces in the clouds ♪

1530
01:34:23,783 --> 01:34:27,787
♪ Let unanswered question marks
Fall where they will ♪

1531
01:34:30,373 --> 01:34:34,585
♪ The thoughts that imprison me
Walk with me still ♪

1532
01:34:37,088 --> 01:34:41,008
♪ And seconds that fly by
Like days of my life ♪

1533
01:34:41,092 --> 01:34:46,180
♪ Were hours spent wasted
On chasing the words of the wise ♪

1534
01:34:49,725 --> 01:34:52,561
♪ If my senses fail ♪

1535
01:34:53,521 --> 01:34:57,316
♪ Meet me on the other side of paradise ♪

1536
01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:00,528
♪ Free from complications ♪

1537
01:35:01,195 --> 01:35:04,281
♪ Of our sense of time ♪

1538
01:35:05,199 --> 01:35:08,077
♪ Fill my windless sail ♪

1539
01:35:09,036 --> 01:35:12,707
♪ With broken echoes
Of a never-ending life ♪

1540
01:35:12,790 --> 01:35:16,085
♪ Whispered conversations ♪

1541
01:35:16,669 --> 01:35:18,671
♪ Twisted faces… ♪