Justice Served: Moriah Wilson Pt. 2

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1:05to stay hidden, and a trial that finally laid bare the full scope of her obsession. Welcome to Crime House 24-7, I'm Vanessa Richardson. Twice a day every day we bring you the best, most timely and gripping cases from across the entire Crime House network, all in one place right here. And every Friday is justice served, where we follow a case all the way to the evidence, the arrests, and the verdict that finally delivered justice. This week we're opening the file on the murder of Moe Wilson. And this case is still with us. Caitlin Armstrong's conviction sent shockwaves through the true Crime World, but her legal fight isn't over. Appeals are ongoing, and a cycling community that lost Moe is still reckoning with what happened in its ranks. This community exists because of listeners like you. Want even more? Join Crime House Plus for every episode of Crime House 24-7, Add Free. Not only that, but you'll get complete access to an exclusive limited series every month,

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5:13with. She and Colin Strickland met on a dating app in October of 2019. Things moved quickly. When Caitlin's Austin apartment flooded in 2021, she moved into Colin's house. What started as a temporary arrangement turned into something much more intertwined. She managed his finances. She ran his LLC. She helped operate a trailer restoration business he'd started called Wheelhouse Mobile. She had access to his bank accounts, his phone, his social media logins, his email. Their lives were tangled up in every possible way. It would have been hard for either them to walk away cleanly, even if they'd wanted to. When the people around them noticed something strange about their dynamic early on, Colin went to races and almost never mentioned he had a girlfriend.

6:13He was well known in the cycling community for having a lot of female friends. Well, that wasn't necessarily unusual, and the gravel racing community is small, and everybody knows everybody. But Caitlin didn't see it that way. She monitored all of his female friends. She kept tabs on who Colin was talking to, who he was texting, who he was spending time with, and she confronted him over and over. And Colin's own behavior made the situation worse. He told friends more than once that he didn't see a long-term future with Caitlin, but he never pulled the trigger on leaving for good. He'd end things, and then they'd drift back together. He'd pull away, and then he'd let her stay. It was this cycle that just kept going, and neither of them seemed capable of breaking it. When there's one detail that captures the dynamic perfectly, in early 2022, Colin posted

7:15a video from a race, and Mo appeared briefly in the background of the frame. Caitlin texted him afterward and said, to send her love to Mo, Colin later said it felt extremely passive-aggressive. But that was the tone of their relationship by that point. Everything was loaded. Everything carried a threat underneath the surface. And that was the life Colin was living at the time of Mo's death, under constant close surveillance from a woman who had access to every corner of his digital world. When investigators dug into Caitlin's digital footprint after the murder, what they found went way beyond a jealous girlfriend keeping tabs on her boyfriend's phone. Caitlin had access to Colin's iPad, which was synced to his phone. That meant every text he sent or received showed up on a device she could check at any time she wanted.

8:16She'd been reading his messages for months. She knew about Mo, she knew about their texts, she knew about the fake contact name. And in the weeks before Mo came to Austin, Caitlin had been logging into Colin's Instagram and email accounts. And investigators would later describe her behavior as active, systemic surveillance of his digital life. She'd also been tracking Mo directly through Strava, a fitness app that cyclists and runners used to log their workouts and share routes publicly. Mo posted her rides to help build her brand as a professional athlete. It was standard practice. But through those public posts, Caitlin could see that Mo had recently completed a ride in Austin. And that's how she knew Mo was in town before Colin told her anything about it. One investigators examined Colin's phone. They found 71 blocked contacts.

9:18Colin said he didn't remember blocking most of them. At least four were women he could identify by name, including Mo. It was pretty clear what had happened. Caitlin, who had full access to his devices, had been going through his contacts and removing women from his life one by one. She wasn't just watching him. She was controlling who he could talk to. And Colin, who had to have known on some level, didn't stop it. He just kept hiding things, kept lying to both women, kept building workarounds instead of dealing with it. There was another incident that came up at the trial. In early 2022, Caitlin saw that Mo's Strava activity placed her in Austin. He confronted Colin about it, Colin denied any contact with Mo. But because of the iPad, Caitlin could already see that he was lying.

10:20She had the texts, she had the proof, and still Colin kept denying it. That cycle of deception and discovery of lies layered on top of more lies had been escalating from months. And then there were the threats. At least two of Caitlin's friends came forward and told investigators that in the months leading up to Mo's death in May 2022, Caitlin had literally said that she was so jealous of Mo, she could kill her. One friend Nicole Mertz said Caitlin told her directly that she'd kill anyone who started a relationship with Colin. The people who heard those words, soon she was blowing off steam, just venting nobody took it literally. But prosecutors would later argue that Caitlin meant exactly what she said. And on the evening of May 11th, everything Caitlin had been tracking converged.

11:23Through the synced iPad, she could see Mo's text to Colin. She saw that Cherry would address Mo sent him. She knew he was lying when he told her he was going on a solo motorcycle ride. She even called him while he was sitting at Pooleberger with Mo and he bled at ring. There is surveillance footage from the restaurant showing the moment that the call came through. So Caitlin grabbed her yoga mat, which would later serve as both a cover story and an alibi prop and left the house. She drove the Jeep straight toward the address she'd pulled from Colin's texts. On May 12th, 2022, the day after the murder, police brought 34-year-old Caitlin in for questioning, but they didn't have a murder warrant yet. The forensics hadn't come back and while the circumstantial evidence was strong, it wasn't enough on its own. They needed something to hold her on while the lab work cut up.

12:27So they dug into her background and found an old warrant. In 2018, Caitlin had gotten a Botox treatment at an Austin medical spa, told the staff she'd left her car in the car and walked out the front door. She never came back to pay for the $650 worth of Botox she'd gotten. She'd been charged with theft of service at the time, but was never arrested. The warrant had been sitting there dormant for four years. The detectives used it. They arrested Caitlin on the old charge and brought her into an interrogation room. The footage from that interview was striking. The detective tried everything. Empathy, logic, anything you could think of. He told Caitlin he understood this was a difficult situation. He explained that if she walked out without talking, investigators would only have one side of the story. He laid out what they already knew and gave her every opening to respond to explain herself

13:30to offer an alibi. Caitlin's response was the same every time. I'd like to leave. She said at four times, same flat tone, same length expression each time. She asked for a lawyer. At one point, the detective brought up Moe's connection to Colin. Caitlin turned her head and rolled her eyes. She gave them absolutely nothing. No emotion, no explanation, no reaction. She just sat there like a wall. And then there was an odd on the door. A detective stepped in and passed a note to the lead interviewer. The date of birth on the theft of service warrant didn't match the date of birth in their system. The discrepancy meant the warrant was technically invalid. Just like that, the one thing keeping Caitlin Armstrong in that room evaporated.

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17:39The night 34-year-old Caitlin Armstrong walked out of the police station, she went home and asked Colin whether he thought the house was bugged. The next morning, they went to a coffee shop. When Colin pressed her for her alibi for the night of May 11th, she didn't say it out loud. She wrote it down on a piece of paper, yoga, and a visit to a healer. No mention of cherry wood, no mention of mo, no mention of any of it. Meanwhile, the forensics were coming back and they confirmed what investigators already suspected. The shell casings recovered from the bathroom floor were a match for the casings fired from Caitlin's SIGS Sauer P365, the gun Colin had bought her in December 2021. Her gun was the weapon that killed Mo Wilson. Then there was the bicycle. Mo's bike, the one that had been found, tossed, and the bushes outside the apartments, was

18:42processed for DNA. The comparison to Caitlin's sample came back positive. Her DNA was on Mo's bike. When that bicycle was later wheeled into the courtroom at trial, Mo's helmet was still hanging off the side, like she just parked after a training ride and stepped away for a moment. It quieted the entire room. The defense could try to poke holes in the rest of the evidence, but they couldn't explain how Caitlin's DNA ended up on Mo Wilson's bicycle and the prosecution didn't even need to spell out exactly how it got there. The facts were enough. On May 17, 2022, six days after the murder, a warrant was issued for Caitlin Armstrong's arrest for the murder of Mariah Wilson. The forensics were in the case was solid. But Caitlin was nowhere to be found.

19:45Police scrambled. They pulled her recent activity and pieced together what she'd been doing since she walked out of the interrogation room five days earlier and it turned out she'd been moving fast. Two days after the murder on May 13, Caitlin had sold her Jeep to CarMax. She drove it in and got $12,200 for it. Security cameras at the dealership caught the whole thing. She was even setting up a new iPhone while she signed a paperwork. It took investigators until late June to track the vehicle down at the CarMax lot. It hadn't been sold yet, which was lucky, because what was inside it turned out to be one of the most important pieces of evidence in the entire case. Detective Richard Spitler had remembered something from the original search warrant. The Jeep had a factory infotainment system and the kind that silently collects GPS data in the background.

20:46He went to CarMax, researched how to pull the unit, extracted it himself, and sent it to the Austin PD Digital Forensics team. What they recovered was extraordinary. They were able to reconstruct Caitlin's exact movements on the afternoon and evening of May 11th, turned by turn at 4.49 pm. Mo had texted Colin the address where she was staying in Cherrywood. Caitlin monitoring his messages through the sinked iPad at home. Now the address too. The GPS showed Caitlin leaving the house and heading west toward deep Eddie Pool where Colin and Mo were still swimming. Then she stopped. Turned around. She headed east instead, pulled into a parking lot, and sat there for about a minute. Others believe this is the moment she powered off her phone to avoid being placed near

21:47the scene by cell tower records. But she didn't know her Jeep was keeping its own record of everywhere she went. The GPS showed the Jeep driving directly to the Cherrywood address. Then circling the block again and again. Stopping at three different positions around the building. She was watching. She probably sat in that Jeep and watched as Colin dropped Mo off at the base of the stairs and rode away on his motorcycle. She watched him leave and then at some point after he was gone, she went inside. Caitlin had done everything to avoid detection in the moment. She turned off her phone. She circled the block to make sure no one was watching. She waited for Colin to leave. She planned this. But she didn't think about the car. The car was keeping its own record the entire time. Silently tracking every turn, every stop, every minute she spent sitting outside that apartment

22:52building. The prosecution would later call the GPS data another witness. When they walked the jury through the root reconstruction trial, took about three minutes to lay it all out. And it removed just about every reasonable doubt in the room. But before this case would ever get to a prosecutor's desk, detective still had to find Caitlin. They learned that after she sold her car, she flew from Austin to Houston, then from Houston to New York. Airport cameras at Austin Berksdum caught her heading through the terminal. Long red hair, backpack, yoga mat, slung over one shoulder. She looked like any other young woman catching a flight. Nothing about her screamed fugitive. Her sister Christy picked her up at LaGuardia Airport and drove her to a remote cabin about a hundred miles north of Manhattan. Caitlin told her she just needed to get away for a bit. She said nothing about Austin, nothing about Mo, nothing about the police.

23:57As far as Christy knew, her sister was just visiting. On that cabin, Caitlin watched the news obsessively. Reports were starting to mention Colin's name. He'd been publicly cleared, but Austin PD still hadn't named a suspect. Caitlin had no way of knowing how close investigators were or how much they'd already found. So she watched, waited and planned her next move. On May 17th, the arrest warrant went public. Her name and photo were everywhere. That evening, when Christy came home, Caitlin told her she was heading back to Austin. It was a lie, of course. She had no intention of going back to Texas, but Christy drove her to Newark Airport the next morning. They hugged at the curb and Caitlin told her she'd be in touch. Then she walked into the terminal and vanished. The investigators searched for flights booked under Caitlin's name and found nothing.

25:00But working with Interpol, they confirmed that Christy's passport had been scanned at Newark on May 18th with a destination of San Jose, Costa Rica. Caitlin had gone through the cabin while her sister was out, found the passport, and booked the flight under Christy's identity. And police showed up at Christy's door. She cooperated immediately. She had no idea what any of it meant. She told them Caitlin had taken the passport without her knowledge. Or a view of Caitlin's internet search history from the cabin showed she'd been researching yoga retreats, surf towns, and hostels in Costa Rica. One place kept coming up. Santa Teresa, a small beach community on the Nikoia Peninsula. They're among American expats for its laid back culture and warm water. There's a kind of place where a person could disappear into the surf and yoga scene without

26:02raising too many eyebrows. After that, Caitlin's online trail went cold. She'd installed a VPN and gone completely dark. Investigators would later piece together what she did when she landed. She checked into a hostel in Santa Teresa under the name Ari Martin. She started working shifts at the front desk to help pay for her room. She went to a bar in town a few nights a week, social enough to not seem suspicious, but careful not to invite too much attention. She cut her long red hair short and died at dark brown. She went to a surgical center in San Jose and paid $6,350 in cash for a brow lift, the nose job, and lip fillers. All under yet another fake name, Allison Page. When the surgeon reached for a camera to take pre-op photos, she refused.

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31:14In Marshals, started canvassing. They sent a female operative into three local yoga studios to ask around. No sign of Caitlin. Wanted posters went up around town. Nothing came back. Then, one of the deputies had an idea. They knew Caitlin was running low on money and would need work. So they coordinated with a local studio and posted a job listing online for a yoga instructor. Another day, nobody bit. The Marshals were running out of leads and getting ready to fly home empty handed when they finally got a response. Someone applied. The name on the application was Ari Martin. Through the submission, they traced the applicant to Don John's Lodge, a hostel in Santa Teresa. On the afternoon of June 29, agents walked into the lobby. A woman was sitting in the corner on her laptop.

32:14She had dark hair, a different nose and fuller lips than Caitlin. They spoke to her in Spanish. She fumbled for her phone and held up a translation app. When one of the agents leaned in closer, he noticed bloody nostrils, a bandage still on her nose, and the swelling of someone who'd recently had worked on. Then he looked at her eyes. He knew those eyes. It was Caitlin Armstrong. They stepped outside and called the local police. And once Caitlin was in custody, they searched her room. Inside a lock box, they found two things. Her sister Christie's passport and the surgery receipt from a clinic in San Jose. The receipt was made out to Allison Page, $6,350 for a brow lift, a nose job, and lip fillers. In front of the station, she gave yet another fake name and stopped talking.

33:15It didn't matter. The 43-day manhunt for Caitlin Armstrong was over. Within days, she was on a plane back to Texas in handcuffs with reporters and cameras waiting on the tarmac. Caitlin was booked into Travis County jail on July 5, 2022. Bond was set at $3.5 million. At her arrangement, she entered a plea of not guilty. Over the next 14 months, while prosecutors built their case, Caitlin worked out obsessively in jail, running in place, doing squats, practicing yoga in her cell. Jail personnel documented it. It seemed relentless, almost like she was training for something. A three weeks before trial on October 11, 2023, she told officials her leg was injured and needed medical attention. The jail arranged to transport her to a doctor's office off site.

34:19Because of the reported injury, her lower body was left unshackled during the trip. Her wrists were cuffed in front. When she walked out of the medical building, she took off running. She sprinted across the parking lot, one correction officer tripped trying to chase her down. Caitlin scaled the perimeter fence, dropped to the other side and kept going. She made it about a mile before backup cut up and brought her to the ground. She fought with officers and came away with minor injuries along with a new felony charge, a cape causing bodily injury. All that training in her cell suddenly made a lot more sense. The trial began on November 1, 2023. The prosecution laid out the full picture piece by piece. They showed the jury the doorbell camera footage from the night of the murder.

35:20They walked through the GPS reconstruction from the Jeep's infotainment system, minute by minute tracing Caitlin's route to the Cherrywood address and how she'd circled the block, waiting. They presented the ballistics match on the 6th hour and the DNA found on most bicycle. They played the Strava tracking data and walked through the evidence from Colin's synced accounts. They put Caitlin's own friends on the stand. They testified about the threats Caitlin had made and the comments about wanting to kill Moe, the jealousy that had been building for months before it finally boiled over. Colin's Strickland testified for eight hours over two days. He was slumped over the microphone for much of it, eyes closed, physically angled away from the defense table. Prosecutors later described him as reluctant on the stand. He wore a mask and sunglasses when entering and exiting the courthouse each day and shoved

36:21a photographer's camera away during a break. At one point, when asked if he knew the defendant, he said no. People in the courtroom took that to mean something like, I thought I knew her, but I didn't. He clearly didn't want to be there. The defense argued that Caitlin wasn't a jealous killer, but a frustrated partner who'd been lied to repeatedly. Then they pointed out that roughly 30 people had the door code to Caitlin Cash's building and that no camera ever captured Caitlin arriving at or leaving the apartment. They raised chain of custody questions about the DNA evidence. They said Caitlin fled to Costa Rica not to escape justice, but out of fear. That was their case and then they rested. The jury deliberated for two and a half hours in a case with this much evidence that's not a long time, but for the people in the gallery waiting for the answer every minute

37:21felt like an hour. On November 16, 2023, the jury came back with a verdict, guilty of murder. Moe's family and friends cried openly in the courtroom. Caitlin sat completely still staring straight ahead, expressionless. She was sentenced to 90 years under Texas law. She's eligible for parole after serving 30, which would set her first review for a 2052. If she serves her full sentence, she won't be released until 2112. Moe's mother, Karen Wilson, gave her victim impact statement directly to Caitlin. She said Moe was a caring, empathetic person. If Caitlin had let herself actually get to know Moe was a human being, she never would have wanted to hurt her.

38:22Karen said, quote, when you shot Mariah in the heart, you shot me in my heart. You shot Eric and Matt in their hearts. Moe's father, Eric, was measured and deliberate. She called the case a perfect example of why integrity and honesty matter in relationships and how dishonesty can lead to consequences nobody anticipates. He said there were no winners in that room. And then he asked for prayer for their family, for their friends, and for the Armstrong family too. Here sentencing the questions didn't stop. Caitlin filed for a appeal 10 days later, claiming inadequate representation and alleging she'd been pregnant at the turn of her arrest. Her father submitted an affidavit supporting the pregnancy claim, but no medical documentation

39:23was ever provided. The appeal was denied. She filed again in September of 2024, and in January of 2026, the Texas Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed her conviction. Moe's family filed a wrongful death suit in May of 2024. When Caitlin failed to appear, a judge issued a $15 million default judgment. The family's attorney was direct about the purpose. If Caitlin Armstrong ever has the opportunity to profit from this crime, whether through a book deal paid interview or any media appearances, that judgment will intercept it. As for Colin Strickland, his life after the trial will look nothing like the one before it. He lost nearly all his sponsors. He stopped racing entirely. In an interview with Cycling News in June of 2025, he described what the aftermath had

40:26done to his relationship with the sport. He said, quote, every aspect of it was just horrific and wasteful. I immediately had no interest in cycling. Everything was burning like my whole world was on fire. He restores vintage cars and Spartan trailers now. He still rides around Austin, but he hasn't competed since 2021. And then there's the question about Colin's role in all of this. He didn't pull the trigger. Nobody disputes that. But the prosecutors said it plainly at trial. Colin's dishonesty created the conditions that led to Moe's death. He kept Caitlin in a relationship that wasn't working. He kept his feelings about Moe, deliberately ambiguous. He lied to Caitlin about where he was on the night of May 11th. And years of deception gave a possessive, controlling person just enough fuel to convince herself that the only solution was violence.

41:30Moe's friend, Kimmy Bolsinger, said in the Netflix documentary that she held Colin responsible for manipulating both women. Another friend noted that Colin had a documented pattern of dishonesty in his relationships. None of that excuses what Caitlin did. But it is part of the story. And the people closest to Moe believe it deserves to be said. Moe's friend, Caitlin Cash, moved back into the Cherrywood apartment after the trial. No one expected that, but Cash said she felt a strong pull to stay. She wanted the space to feel intentional and full of life, not abandoned. She found a print at a thrift store, small bike riding out of the frame, a bloom in one corner, and the words with you all the way. She hung it on the wall. I feel her there, Cash said. I feel her joy there.

42:33His brother, Matt, now coaches young skiers at Burke Mountain Academy, the same school where Moe trained on the same trails where she first learned what she could do on a pair of skis. He named a trail there, Mariah's Ascent. When things get hard, he thinks about what Moe would say. She would say, get on your bike, one step at a time. Since her death, the Wilson family has established the Mariah Wilson Foundation. Our mission is to promote healthy living and community building by supporting organizations that expand access to recreation, sports, and educational programs. They host an annual ride from Moe events every May. Moe Wilson was 25 years old. She was a week away from her birthday. She had erased that Saturday, a season ahead of her, and the whole life she hadn't gotten to live yet. She deserved the chance to race in Africa that summer.

43:33She deserved to see how far her talent could take her. She deserved to grow old. She didn't get any of that. But the people who loved her are making sure the world remembers who she was. Not as a headline, not as a case number. As Moe, the girl from Vermont who rode her bike into the hills every morning and didn't come home until dark. The woman who made everyone around her feel like they mattered. The athlete who turned a broken knee into a second dream and chased it with everything she had. Thanks for listening to this episode of Crime House 24-7. Be sure to come back tomorrow for cults and cons, where we get into two of the most brazen cults and con artists who ever lived. And to enhance your listening experience, join Crime House Plus and get every episode of

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