It was uncovered that a “killer” yoga instructor who fled after allegedly killing a romantic rival had a receipt for almost $6,000 in cosmetic surgery under a false identity.
The 34-year-old Kaitlin Armstrong is charged with murdering Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson on May 11 in Austin, Texas.
After learning that elite cyclist Wilson, 25, was seeing her boyfriend, Colin Strickland, Armstrong allegedly erupted in a furious frenzy.
Armstrong was using her sister’s passport to evade investigators for more than a month after the shooting, according to a search warrant executed on her possessions.
According to News Nation, it included a receipt for $6,360 for cosmetic surgery performed on a person using the alias “Alisson Paige” on June 23 in Costa Rica.
A boarding pass for a United trip from Newark to Costa Rica, along with clothing, tiny wallets, credit cards with several names, including Strickland’s, an iPhone, foreign cash, a driver’s licence, and a social security card, were also discovered.
She is accused of committing first-degree murder, and US Marshals have also acquired a warrant for her arrest on suspicion of fleeing the country illegally in order to escape being prosecuted.
When Armstrong left Texas in May, she took a flight from Newark Airport in New Jersey to Costa Rica, where she arrived before being apprehended at a hostel on Santa Teresa Beach.
Armstrong’s case of unauthorised flight was dropped by a federal court, but prosecutors may decide to re-file it in the future.
With her docket call scheduled for October 19, Armstrong’s counsel have submitted a petition for a speedy trial, stating that she “wants her day in court.”
Despite a state attorney’s contention that Travis County has more than 100 murder cases backlogged, it is anticipated that the trial will begin the following week.
Armstrong’s accusations of receiving insufficient legal representation should be dropped if the case proceeds to trial, he said, adding: “I don’t know what sort of privilege this particular defendant has to cut in front of all of these individuals who have been waiting for trial.”
Since we don’t have all the material to provide to Armstrong’s legal team, I am aware that they haven’t seen it.
Who broke into Armstrong and Strickland’s house the night of Wilson’s death was a subject of discussion for her defence team.
She’s being detained in the Travis County Jail right now on a $3.5 million bail.
Before officials found Armstrong and brought her back to the US to face prosecution, she was missing for 43 days.
After receiving an anonymous tip and seeing the yoga instructor’s automobile on security video outside Wilson’s apartment, police detained the instructor.
They questioned her about Wilsons’s death using her open misdemeanour warrant for theft of services after getting a tip that she had lost control of herself in January.
The dirt bike champion had been sleeping at Wilson’s friend’s house when Armstrong’s black Jeep Grand Cherokee was seen passing by.
According to search warrants, Armstrong visited a shooting range with her sister before to the murder and received $450,000 from Strickland.
Armstrong was not a jealous person, according to Strickland, who characterised her as the “least volatile” woman he had dated in fresh court papers submitted by her counsel in mid-August.
On August 17, Armstrong’s attorney, Rick Cofer, submitted fresh paperwork in an effort to suppress the evidence, arguing that his client was not informed of her Miranda rights before being questioned.
He asserts that the evidence was acquired using a “illegal arrest order” and charges that the arrest affidavit was created by police using “lies and a reckless disdain for the truth.”
The day following the murder, she was detained on a different misdemeanour case, but cops mistakenly released her because they believed the warrant wasn’t genuine.
Armstrong’s attorneys are now contending that any testimony from the interview is inadmissible since she was never given the opportunity to read her Miranda Rights during it.
A timeline of Kaitlin Armstrong’s activities after the killing of her boyfriend’s girlfriend
On May 11, a 25-year-old cyclist named Moriah “Mo” Wilson is discovered dead in an Austin, Texas, apartment. The two had just returned from the pool with Armstrong’s lover Colin Strickland.
In a security video taken outside Wilson’s apartment on May 13, Armstrong sells her Jeep Grand Cherokee. On May 15, she receives a check for $12,200.
May 14: A report from a police officer who wishes to remain unnamed claims that Armstrong lost his cool when he learned about Strickland’s relationship with Wilson.
Police had to release Armstrong after questioning him on an old warrant that had already expired.
When the police pointed out that Armstrong had been close to the apartment at the time of the murder, Armstrong said it “doesn’t look good” during the police questioning.
Austin police are informed by an unnamed caller that Armstrong just bought a handgun.
Armstrong is freed and flees the law by boarding a flight at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport bound for Houston Hobby before transferring to a Southwest flight bound for LaGuardia in New York.
May 17: After a firearm was found at Strickland’s house, police concluded it had a “substantial potential” to be the weapon used in the crime.
Armstrong was last seen on May 18 at Newark Liberty International Airport, around 2.5 hours’ drive from Camp Haven in Livingston Manor, where she is said to have been sighted a month ago.
After a 43-day search, Armstrong is captured on June 30 at a hotel in Costa Rica.
Armstrong entered a not-guilty plea on July 20 in relation to Moriah “Mo” Wilson’s murder.