A few weeks ago, I wrote about the murder of up-and-coming gravel racing star Anna Mariah "Mo" Wilson. On Wednesday, her suspected killer, Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, was arrested in Costa Rica.
Armstrong had been dating road-turned-gravel racer Colin Strickland for some time. The 35-year-old Strickland and 34-year-old Armstrong reportedly took a "hiatus" from their relationship for a couple of months. During that time, Strickland started dating Wilson, a decade his junior.
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| Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson |
On the 11th of May, Strickland and Wilson went to the Deep Eddy pool and then had dinner at a nearby restaurant. That night, he dropped off Wilson at a friend's house in Austin, Texas but didn't accompany her inside. Later that night, she was found unconscious and bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds.
An anonymous tipster told police that Armstrong, who'd purchsed two 9 millimeter handguns, had talked about killing Wilson. And, a vehicle that looked like her Jeep Cherokee was seen at the house around the time of the shooting. Two days later, Armstrong sold her Cherokee at a Car Max location before taking a flight to Houston, then to New York. She was spotted at Newark-Liberty Airport, but no outbound flights were booked in her name. So, her whereabouts remained a mystery until she was tracked in Costa Rica.
I don't mean to make light of a senseless killing. But I couldn't help but to notice that what might be the first major scandal or tragedy, depending on how you see it, involves an Armstrong--from Texas, no less.
