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Dramatic videos have emerged for the first time revealing key moments in the investigation and frantic 43-day international manhunt for convicted love-triangle killer Kaitlin Armstrong.
Armstrong notoriously fled to Central America and even altered her face through plastic surgery after fatally shooting professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in May 2022 in a jealous rage over a past relationship with Armstrong’s boyfriend.
The Texas native is now serving a 90-year prison sentence for killing Wilson after she was nabbed by the US Marshals who caught her because she responded to a phony ad placed for a yoga instructor in the one-street town in Costa Rica.
Never-before-seen surveillance footage shot outside the courtroom and obtained by Fox 7 Austin shows gunshots ringing out and screams the night Armstrong tracked down Wilson’s apartment on a fitness app and killed her.
“My friend is staying with me and I just walked in, and she’s lying on the bathroom floor and there’s blood everywhere and I don’t know what happened,” Wilson’s friend, Caitlin Cash, frantically tells the dispatcher after she found her friend’s lifeless body.
Wilson, who was preparing for an upcoming cycling race, was visiting from California and staying at Cash’s East Austin home. Earlier that day, she had reconnected with a fellow professional cyclist and Armstrong’s boyfriend Colin Strickland. The two had gone swimming and ate lunch.
New video also shows the crushing moment police tell Strickland that his friend has been murdered. His mouth drops as the officer tells him Wilson’s death is being investigated as a homicide, the Fox 7 clip shows.
Strickland told police he’d lied to Armstrong about meeting with Wilson. After their day out together, which he said was not a date, Wilson was dropped off at Cash’s house. When he got home he couldn’t get in touch with Armstrong, but she later returned home as if nothing had happened.
Armstrong was interrogated by Austin Police a day after the killing, dramatic footage released this week shows. She had been brought in on a warrant out for her arrest for a misdemeanor, a theft of service charge from when failed to pay for a Botox treatment in 2022.
She was told she was not under arrest and was free to leave due to her date of birth being wrong — but police hint in the footage that she is being eyed in Wilson’s murder. Meanwhile, police were searching Armstrong and Strickland’s home for evidence.
“Your vehicle was seen next to her house,” an Austin police interrogator tells her, before she decides to leave.
“She probably knew they had a lot of information on her about where she suddenly sold her assets and she was able to get cash within 24 hours of $12,200,” Deputy U.S. Marshal Brandon Filla told Fox 7.
She was seen on camera boarding a plane in Austin for Houston before hopping a flight to New York City. Armstrong was long gone by the time police positively identified a handgun found as the murder weapon on May 17 — having used her brunette sister’s passport to flee to Costa Rica.
A “small paper trail” led authorities to a tiny town near the coast called Santa Teresa, Filla said. They began conducting surveillance — but Armstrong had changed her appearance.
They decided to let her come to them, and after 43 days finally arrested her through the yoga advertisement.
She had cut and dyed her hair, had a bandage over her nose and swollen lips when she was taken into a hostel. Authorities found a cosmetic surgery receipt under the name Alisson Page.
Local cops made the arrest, and the feds brought her back to Texas. She was charged with Wilson’s murder and held in jail before she briefly escaped.
A Texas jury took just two hours to convict Armstrong and a judge put her behind bars for nine decades at sentencing a day later. She was also ordered to pay $15 million to Wilson’s family.
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