The Murder of Mo

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Discretion advice. This is ten minute
murder. Anna Mariah Wilson, known as

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Moe, grew up surrounded by people
with a deep love for sports. Her

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entire family was athletic in some way, and as a young child, Moe

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quickly fell in love with competitive cycling. She was also a talented skier,

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but cycling was the sports that she
wanted to spend the rest of her life

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doing. Even after graduating from high
school and then receiving her Bachelor's of Engineering

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degree, cycling was at the center
of Moe's life, and eventually she was

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able to launch into a career as
a professional gravel cyclist. In late twenty

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twenty one, Moe had a fling
with another professional gravel cyclist, world champion,

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Colin Strickland. Even though the two
shared a deep passion for the sport,

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the romantic part of the relationship quickly
ended. But while Moe and Colin

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were quick to move on, Colin's
ex girlfriend, Caitlyn Armstrong was not.

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Colin and Caitlin, who was a
relator and yogurt teacher from Michigan, had

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an on again, off again kind
of relationship. During one of their separations,

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Colin started dating Mo but afterwards he
decided to get back together with Caitlin.

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On the eleventh of May twenty twenty
two, Moe was staying at a

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friend's house in Austin, Texas,
while preparing to compete in a cycling race.

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While she was in town, she
decided to meet up with Colin.

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The pair traveled to the Deep Eddy
pulled together for a swim, and then

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had dinner together before Colin dropped her
back off at her friend's house. Before

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leaving to see Mo, Colin lied
to Caitlin about where he was going,

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hoping that she would not find out
that he was meeting up with Moe.

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However, after using her laptop to
look at his messages, Caitlyn managed to

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use the exercise app Strava to track
his location. Only a couple of hours

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later, Moe's friend Caitlin Cash got
home and found Moe lying in a pool

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of blood on the tiled bathroom floor. This, by the way, is

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a different Caitlyn spelled with the sea
instead of a K. She dialed nine

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one one, telling the operator quote, I can't tell what happened. She's

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not awake and there's blood all over
her face. When first responders arrived at

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the house, they pronounced Mo dead
at the scene. Mo's autopsy revealed that

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her cause of death was blood loss
due to multiple gunshot wounds, one to

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the chest and two to the head. The angle and positioning of the bullet

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holes revealed that she had been shot
while lying face up on the floor,

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in the same position where her body
was later found. Several nine millimeter casings

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were found at the scene, but
the gun that was used to shoot Mo

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was nowhere to be found. Now
that investigators knew that Moe had been murdered,

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it became crucial to find out who
had been in and out of the

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house before Caitlin Cash arrived home at
nine forty five. Police were able to

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recover footage from several neighborhood surveillance cameras
which showed Colin Strickland pulling up outside the

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address and dropping Moe off. It
was clear from the footage that Colin remained

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in the vehicle, he had not
followed Moe inside, and he had not

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returned to the property after leaving.
However, less than two minutes after Moe

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had gone inside the house, a
second vehicle had been captured near the address,

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a black twenty twelve jeep Grand cherry
Key, identical to the car that

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Caitlyn Armstrong drove. Initially, Colin
told the police that he didn't know Mo,

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but after a while he admitted that
the two of them were still romantically

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linked, and that he often deleted
text messages from his phone to prevent Caitlin

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from finding out. And to pause
the story really quick, if you've ever

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find yourself in Colin's situation here,
which I hope and pray that you never

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do. But Colin is asked by
the police if he knows Mo. He

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says he does not, when they
know he definitely knows Mo. Doing that

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only makes him look like he's hiding
something He's guilty in some way. So

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if you ever find yourself in that
situation, do not lie tot the police,

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especially about something that they already know. They're just asking to see what

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you say to gauge whether or not
you could be a suspect. It makes

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the investigation go by smoother, and
the police were able to focus on the

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possibility of who actually committed the crime. Okay, back to the story.

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Despite Colin's best attempts at hiding his
infidel, Caitlyn found out and she was

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willing to do anything to make sure
that Colin and Moe could no longer see

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each other. The police received an
anonymous tip from somebody close to Caitlin,

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claiming that shortly after finding out about
Colin and Moe's continued relationship, Caitlyn expressed

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interest in buying a gun. The
jeep's plates were traced and investigators confirmed that

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the car was registered to Caitlin and
Colin's address. On the twelfth of May,

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police searched the property and recovered Caitlyn's
firearm, a nine millimeter handgun,

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which matched the casings that had been
found with Moe's body. On that same

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day, coincidentally, Caitlyn was arrested
due to an unrelated misdemeanor theft warrant.

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Four years prior. She had gotten
botox done and left the SPA without paying

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for her treatment. The police questioned
her, but then released her immediately afterwards

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because of an error that caused her
recorded date of birth in the police database

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not to match the one printed on
the outstanding warrant. It was only a

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technicality, but it meant that Caitlin
was free to leave. The following day,

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she went to a dealership and sold
the jeep Cherokee. After that,

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she began the process of fleeing the
country altogether. On the fourteenth of May,

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Caitlyn got on a flight to New
York and visited her sister Christine.

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She spent four days there before boarding
a flight to San Jose, Costa Rica,

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but the ticket was under Christine's name
instead of her own. From then

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on, Caitlyn stopped using her own
name, instead introduced herself as Ari and

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using the full name Alison Page.
She arrived in Santa Teresa, a small

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beach town located west of San Jose, and booked accommodation at a surf and

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yoga lodge called Don John's. Caitlyn
tried to blend in with the other travelers,

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working on her laptop on the lodge's
patio and going out for drinks with

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the other guests in the evening.
Despite going by a different name, Caitlin

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was still concerned that she would be
recognized. There was a warrant out for

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her arrest, and the Austin Police
Force had asked the US Marshals for their

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assistance in locating her, and on
the twentieth of May, the Marshals released

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a wanted poster with Caitlyn's picture on
it. So after spending a few weeks

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in Santa Teresa, Caitlyn made a
trip back to San Jose, where she

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dropped thousands of dollars on plastic surgery
to change the appearance of her face.

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By late June, the US Marshals
were closing in and they had started to

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interview locals and travelers staying in Santa
Teresa. According to CBS News, who

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interviewed one of the US marshals signed
to tracking her down, he said,

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quote, we decided we were going
to put out an ad or multiple ads

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for a yoga instructor and see what
would happen. Those Craigslist ads appeared to

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pay off. Less than a week
later, they were able to locate Caitlyn

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sitting outside Don Johns on the patio. One of the marshals who apprehended Caitlin

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initially didn't recognize her due to to
the plastic surgery, saying quote, Initially

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it didn't appear to be her,
but as I got closer, I realized

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it was her. It appeared she
had a bandage on her nose and her

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lips were a bit swollen. Her
hair was a little bit lighter. The

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marshals escorted Caitlyn to the closest jail
before she was extradited back to the United

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States. On the eleventh of October
twenty twenty three, only a few weeks

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before the trial, Caitlyn attempted to
escape from law enforcement a second time.

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She was escorted out of jail by
several corrections officers to go to a medical

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appointment, but after her appointment was
finished, she was able to break free,

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removing the restraints from one of her
hands and sprinting away from the officers.

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While she was running, Caitlyn ripped
down her jailed pants, revealing that

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she was wearing thermals underneath in a
hope to be less recognizable. After her

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path was blocked by a six foot
tall fence, Caitlyn attempted to climate and

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was grabbed by one of the corrections
officers in pursuit. It was pretty clear

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that the escape attempt was not spontaneous. In fact, prison staff had noticed

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Caitlyn exercising vigorously for months before her
escape attempt, doing squats in her cell,

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practicing hours of yoga, and running
as much as she was able to.

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Caitlyn also made sure to complain about
an injury that would guarantee her leaving

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to go see a doctor without any
restraints on her legs. A search of

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her jail cell revealed a thin,
sharp piece of metal, which investigators believe

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that she used to remove one of
her handcuffs. With Caitlyn's attempted escape failing,

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the trial's opening statements began on the
first of November. More than twenty

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witnesses testified, including one of Caitlyn's
close friends, Nicole Mertz. Nicole told

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the court that during a conversation with
Caitlyn, she asked her what she would

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do if Colin ever started dating someone
else. Seriously, Caitlyn had been quick

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to reply, I would kill her. The trial concluded on the sixteenth of

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November, when after only a couple
of hours of deliberation, the jury reached

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their verdict. Caitlin Armstrong was guilty
of Moe Wilson's murder and received a ninety

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year prison sentence. During the trial's
punishment phase, Moe's mother told the jury

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quote from the day she was born, Moe had a force in her.

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She lived as if every day was
her last day, and she lived it

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so fully. She never wasted any
time. It's as if she knew her

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life would be short. That's ten
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exactly which one you're listening for.
A killer stalked the streets of nineteen nineties

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apartheid South Africa, targeting vulnerable women
and leaving a trail of brutality behind him,

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using a front and the promise of
a potential job to lure his victims.

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In this twisted, sadistic murderer perpetrated
the life of pain that seemed to

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follow him like a dark cloud.
Right, it sounds pretty interesting, so

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do not miss that one coming up
on the next episode of Ten Minute Murder.

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