Shattered Dreams: The Killing of Moriah “Mo” Wilson

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast. Or I tell stories of real crimes with real victims whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, kJ you're back another episode of Unspeakable? What is going on with you? I've got a hell of a story for you today, and uh, we're gonna just jump right on into this one. But I want to start with a question for you. Have you ever set goals for yourself?

1:16 And I don't mean just regular goals. I mean like big goals, like the ones that are not going to be short term, it's going to be a long term, huge investment. But the return on that investment is something that you would be like beyond your wildest dreams. Because I know that I have set goals in my life that I always thought were obtainable. Nothing was ever just like over the top in my you know, in my opinion. And I don't know, is it lack of confidence maybe, you know, it could be, Or is it the belief that or the understanding that I'm not elite enough in whatever area I'm talking about to truly master it. That probably seems more like it. Of why I would never shoot for just the things that I just think are unobtainable. Well, what I mean here is like Olympian level aspirations, okay, people that actually want to make it to the Olympics.

2:11 As a kid, I watched the Magnificent Seven as they were called, if you remember them, those athletes. They were gymnasts and they would dominate the gymnastics world at the Olympics, and I was so inspired as a young girl watching them. Now, was I ever a gymnast, hail, No, okay? But did I jump and flip and pretend to be on the balance beam and destroy my mother's home in the process, You bet you, okay? Because I wanted to be like those gymnasts, and competition is something that I love, I always have. But to be an Olympian like that, man, that's a real legit goal right there. And I remember this too, that back years and years ago at LSU, I was on the track team for a while at through the javelin, and I watched in awe while I was at practice because A Lolo Jones was on the team the same era that I was there, and I watched her practice beside me. She was just so beautiful and elegant and just a frickin' machine, all of those things that I knew I would never be one day.

3:21 I you know, she just was special. But just to be in her presence was cool. And if you don't know about Lolo, she is an Olympian in track. She ran the hurdles and she also did I believe, the bob sled and some other things. But I did give her a ride home from practice one day. If that counts, as you know, running with Olympians, that'll be my claim to fame. But to that point, some women really do make it a goal, Okay, Lolo did, and so did another girl named Mariah Wilson. And Mariah who was affectionately called Mo by her family, this girl was adventurous from birth all right. To get you the vibe here, she was outdoorsy, driven, full of untapped energy. The girl was just a straight up force of nature by the by the time she you know, her feet hit the ground.

4:12 And God knew what he was doing. I really believe this. He knew what he was doing when he gave her to her parents, because that adventure in her was something that they let her tap into. They fostered it throughout her youth, and they really wanted her to try all of these new things. And from a very young age, her daddy had her on the ski slopes, holding her between you know, his legs on his skis as they slid down the mountain together, the wind blowing through her hair. She could feel it, you know, on her skin, just that excitement into her. They were going one hundred miles an hour, but as Mom panned out further on the recordings, when she was taking this all in, they were barely moving but paired to the others man, they may have been going slow, but in Moe's mind, they were flying.

5:06 And it was in those moments that it built confidence, in a fierceness that Moe would need for the life ahead. Her Mama would pull back her hair into a crisp ponytail just for the ease of putting on her goggles so that not only did she ski well, but she looked good while she did it. And Moe. Also on top of skiing and snowboarding and all of those types of things, she also loved to ride bikes, but more than the average kid. Okay, like she could ride ride, she had stamina in those legs. They knew no distance or terrain that she couldn't dominate. And it was wild to see what she could do on a bike. It was not like the average kid whenever they would go out for some fun. It was far beyond the average person her age as well. And growing up in Vermont, Mariah really took to skiing as her first love as far as sports went, and considering Vermont is the premier ski destination on the East Coast, it was only fitting.

6:12 It was perfect so with great snow and varied terrain, mid November through April is a great time for the skiers and it was go time for Mariah. She would wake up early on an absolute blue bird day. She would see the mountain shining the massive dump of fresh powder overnight, and she would get up there, snatch that first chair and then roll down those untouched first tracks just an awesome, awesome way to spend a day. So with natural talent combined with insane work ethic, Mariah was headed for athletic success far beyond regular competition. She was thrilled to be enrolled at Burke Mountain Academy when she was a tea teenager. And this school is quite unique because it's somewhat of an exclusive opportunity for someone with specifically Olympic level dreams. The school was one that would combine comprehensive academics but also with the demands of high performance ski racing. So basically the perfect school for someone needing the support of long term development as a student athlete who is going to fully invest in their athletic potential.

7:31 So when Mariah stepped on the scene, she made her impact full force from the start. By her sophomore year in high school, she was ranked third in the nation for her age in the giant slalom. Now, for the casual viewer, this would be that fast downhill ski They've got those colored flags, they call them gates, and they usually have a pole in each hand as they fly down the mountain. If you've watched the Olympic, you know what I'm talking about. But just as she was on top of the world and continuing to climb, she faced a horrible injury for a skier because she tore her ACL.

8:15 And since your ACL is the key ligament in the center of your knee that's connecting your thigh bone to your shin, obviously you can see why this would be just a simply devastating injury for someone to sustain all of the work. It took for years for her to get to that point. Just to have it stopped in just in a moment was completely disheartening. And she had written in her journal for years that she wanted to make the Olympics, almost writing it into reality. I mean hell or her dad had missed the Olympics by just one spot in his golden days. But now, poof, you know, training was over for both of them. It just came to a crashing halt. Or was it, Because it may have taken her another full three years, but Mariah wasn't a quitter and amazingly, incredibly, I don't even know what the right word would be to use here, that's not average, but she bounced back so well, in fact, that she was able to join the Dartmouth Alpine ski team when she went to college. That was also a dream of hers since childhood. So as Moe was killing it on the slopes, she also found love. She's now in college, she's a little bit older, and we insert Gunner. Okay, low key, cool ass name. By the way, I think the name Gunner is awesome. I never had a son,

9:45 but if I did, kind of like that name. Well, she and Gunner their love sparked, like so many, It started out unexpectedly. They met through another friend while they were out biking. Moe had been invited by this other friend, and when Gunner heard that this other friend had invited this girl Mo, he was like, great, you know, I hope she can keep up and the friend just kind of laughed and I was like, uh, dude, just wait. Well, when they all went on that ride, they hit it off and he would become her real first boyfriend. So she was still a sophomore in college when all of this was taking place. Gunner had already graduated, and time would pass and their personalities just complimented one another. Moe was more of a quiet and reserved thinker, while Gunner was extroverted and just an easy talker type of dude, and they would continue to date for two years, but that two years would be long distance because he ended up having to move for a job opportunity. But no worries.

10:49 They were both very committed, very loyal to one another. And not only that, but Gunner towards the end of that two year Mark was pretty sure in his heart that Mariah was the one he was going to marry this girl. So Mariah, who I'm sure you've picked up on by now goes by Mo. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in engineering in twenty nineteen, and then she took a job working as a demand planner for a company called Specialized, which is a biking equipment company plus more. But it really has to do with that athletic side of biking. But as is common, once together constantly, so they moved. In October of twenty twenty, Gunner and Moe moved in together and they were in the San Francisco area, super hopeful for the future. You know, life was taking off, just young professionals making life happen. But as is common, once they were together constantly, focuses shifted a bit. Moe was more focused on her bike training and Gunner's interests kind of went elsewhere. Nothing angry, nothing mad, no blow up, just different and it kind of became an elephant in the room. And once they finally addressed it, she basically said, look, I love biking more than trying to make this relationship work. I'm very invested in my

12:21 career here and both Gunner and Moe I want you to know we're good people. The breakup was somewhat mutual. I mean they both understood that this is not working. It's still hurt, but it just was what it was. And so she moved out and it turned out she had another friend named Kimmy that she had met in college, and she and Kimmy were a great fit together, good friends. They ended up moving in together and just kind of became the girls taking on San Francisco together. Well, more time would pass and Mo decided that she did want to step out and date more. She would talk to her mama and her friends about this. Listened, and she encouraged her. Yeah, baby, you know, take your time and don't be quick to jump on anything. But one thing I know, and I think that Moe knew this too, is that you can be picky if you want when you're picking someone to be interested in, you have goals.

13:20 And whenever you have strong goals like she did, you have to have a partner who has needs that fit in with your goals and plans as well. And I don't think that's selfish. I think that that's smart. You've got to be on the same page. You've got to both be working towards the same things. So for now and the foreseeable future, those goals and plans for Moe were to dominate the gravel racing world, so much so that Mo ended up quitting her job to focus solely on being a professional bike racer. And like I said, it was in that niche of gravel racing. So what is that real quick? Gravel racing is crazy intense. Basically, it's going to be like road cycling, you know, the long distance cycling, but it's done out in the woods and it's in the hills, and it's one of those things that's wanting to bring in more fun and adventure more than the monotony of riding the road. Now, there can only be one winner, right, and Moe's training would pay off wildly as she was consistently on the podium, winning time after time after time, and in short time, she was absolutely dominating in the cycling world. And put this into perspective, these rides take hours, y'all. This isn't like a fifteen minute trek through the woods. This is like cross country meets a bicycle meets cycling meets going through the woods and terrain and all of that. It's just insane what it takes to do this and to

14:52 actually win. I just have to tell you that I tried cycling before, but it was not a gravel It was just cycling, you know, on the roadways, and I went twenty three miles one time, which was my max that in one day, in one stint, And holy crap, twenty three miles is of freaking go when you're when you're peddling, and she's doing this off row. Just mad. Respect for these types of athletes and this community of racers is huge, but relationships are made and maintained as these competitors travel across the globe and end up racing against each other in all of these different places. Well, a very good friend of Moe's, she went by the name Cash. She lived in Austin, Texas, and the two shared that love of racing, which is where they had originally met. There was a big race though at the time I'm speaking of, that was coming up, and this race was known as the Gravel Locos. So Cash and Mo made plans for Moe to fly in and she was going to stay with Cash for a few weeks in preparation for this race. Both of them were super excited to see one another and to get to spend extended time together. It's kind of like whenever you have a sleepover, you know, and that excitement that we don't have to go home at the end of the day, we get to hang out the whole time. So it was May of twenty twenty two when Moe finally arrived, and this constant companionship with no breaks was something that

16:23 they just were totally, you know, stoked to have. They would go out to eat, they would have coffee. It was just constant laughing and friendship and just someone you could lean into, relax and you'd trusted. You know. It's just a good time, all the things you want with good friends. And on the morning of May eleventh, the girls got up and they hung out a bit in the kitchen over coffee, while Moe was getting fueled up for a long training ride that she had planned for the day. They laughed. They spoke about what each of their respective plans were and what journeys they were going to be taking, so they just kind of were on the same page with one another as to what they could expect. Moe, of course, was going to be riding.

17:08 This would be a long ride and she had to get ready for it, so she put on her tight riding shorts. She had on a tight fitted three quarter sleeve moisture wicking riding top. You know, there's things to ensure that you're an aerodynamic and also breatheability. Because she's in this hot Austin sun, she snapped on her helmet. She picked up her bike, and she rolled it out the kitchen door, waving by to Cash and saying, you know, I'll see you later. But what she didn't realize right as she was walking out of the door was that Cash actually was filming her doing this, and so Moe kind of chuckled when she realized it, and Cash yelled out, I have a safe ride, and she waved and then the door closed behind her. And because Cash was a good friend and loved Moe's family. Cash sent that video to Moe's mama, telling her, your girls here, She's safe with me and she's having a good time. And her mama appreciated that update. You know, of course, she wants to know what her girl's up to and that she's having a good time. So Cash then finished getting ready for the morning, and then she left out as well.

18:12 So the day went on and it turned into evening, and both Mo and Cash had been exchanging text messages and talking throughout the day, and after Mo completed her ride, she was going to go swim with a friend named Colin and then maybe go grab a bite to eat, and it was gonna be a pretty chill day for her after this exhausting ride in all of that heat. And it was that early evening of that same day, about five thirty when Cash returned home to the house and Moe was there. They hammered out their plans for the rest of the night and Cash was going to leave out to go have dinner with some of her friends and Moe was going to hang with Colin like they had said. Now before she left, Cash told Moe, look, don't leave your bike cover bag out on the front porch because I'm afraid somebody might steal it. She's like, oh, okay, yeah, sorry about that, I'll get it. She grabbed it and she brought it into the house.

19:06 Well. Later that night, around nine forty five pm, Cash returned from dinner and she parked. She went inside, and she was surprised when she came up the stairs. Let me set the vision for you real quick. The house that she lived in. I don't want you to think it's just a house, like in a neighborhood type situation. It was a neighborhood, but Cash actually was renting. I would call it either an apartment or a loft, a studio apartment type situation that was on top of a garage attached to somebody's house. Okay, so you had to go up the stairs to get to the house or the apartment however I refer to it. Just understand that's what we're dealing with. So when she got up the stairs, she was kind of surprised that her front door was unlocked, but she made her way inside, shut the door behind her, and she's like, moh hey, it's me, I'm home. No answer, and the house. You need to understand of the apartment.

20:04 It's not that big, you know, when you look in you can see everything right there where from the front door, so it wasn't like Moe couldn't have heard her. So as she walked through the through the apartment, straight through the you know, the back of the house, she came upon the bathroom where she immediately felt all of the air just instantly sucked from her lungs because Moe was there. But she was laying on the floor very clearly she was wounded. There was blood everywhere. It was coming out of her head as well as out of her chest, and she dropped down. Oh my god, MO, MO, what's going on?

20:45 Mo? And this was within two minutes of her entering the house that Cash was frantically trying to grab her cell phone and dial nine to one one. That call came into dispatch at nine fifty four pm and the police as well as medical you know, ambulance and all of that were dispatched to race to the scene. So Cash desperately began giving CPR to Moe, who was completely unresponsive. At the time, she looked gaunt, she was lifeless. But Cash continued and when she got on the phone with that operator. They started CPR and Cash was pumping her chest over and over and over and praying Mo would just wake up. Come on, wake up, Moe. Come on.

21:28 You're tough, right, Mo was tough. She was full of resilience and grit. Her body was fit, she wasn't weak. Come on, Moe, come on. And she's pumping her chest. She's counting off with the dispatcher as she's pumping her chest, and the operator continues to give her instructions. Don't stop, they will come to you, the responders will come in the house. Keep working, do not stop. And this call would last almost ten minutes. That is a long long time to be giving CPR to somebody. But the site that Cash was seeing while she is doing this and trying to save her best friend's life, I have to tell you it's nothing short of traumatic what she's looking at.

22:14 She's pumping Moe's chest and with every pump blood is coming out. But the horrors that were happening in conjunction with that are just beyond And while I don't want to sensationalize this, I want you to hear in a snippet what Cash tells the nine one one operator as she's continuing to give CPR to her friend Bee. Her brain is leaking her brain. Can you imagine? Can you imagine by what you just heard, what Cash is seeing. And I bring this up because we don't think about often the trauma of a non medical person, someone who's not trained, who's not used to this, having to see something like this, not only to see it, but to know it's coming from someone that you love and your friend. And then as she began or she continued pumping Moe's chest, fluid then began to come out of Moe's mouth.

23:22 I think she's throwing up. Okay. If she's throwing up, turn her head to the side to clean out her mouth and nose. Yeah it's inside okay, but it's inside her mouth. Turn her to her side to clean out her mouth and nose, to do it real quick. And then we're gonna lay her right back down and continue compressions. Yep, yep, okay. And as that just ended, you hear Cash saying yep, yep, almost agreeing in a way with Moe's body. Do what you've got to do, Do what you've got to do. Yes, come on, friend, come on, And then she jumped back into compressions. Next thing she knew, an officer came rushing through the door. She had heard those sirens wailing in the distance, but they had gotten louder and louder and louder, and that officer came bounding through the door. Now refusing to quit. She just kept working and the officers finally got Cash to her feet.

24:18 They escorted her up and over to the couch where she just plopped down and she's just sobbing. And while she's sobbing, there's bodycam footage of this, so I know how to tell you what you're seeing. Her friend's blood is all over her hands. It's complete devastation, and she's like help her, please, please help her, help her. And the medical folks are soon filling the apartment. The home was buzzing with people in all different uniforms. They're carrying gear. But in just a moment from them rushing in, everyone started to just slow, you know. They they weren't rushing Moe out of the out of the door, the gurney wasn't being brought brought in. And Cash is now, you know, outside of the apartment, and she's and she's just stressed, like get her the ambulance. Y'all need to hurry. Why aren't y'all helping her? Go get her? Please? My friend is up there, she's on the floor. Please. What is taking so long? This is horrific. And the answer to that question was was actually a really, really, really hard one because the officers had to break it to her that we're not bringing the gurney because your friend is dead.

25:43 She didn't make it the CPR that that you were applying. It was too late. She was already gone. Moe's blood had already poured out of her body and had spilled out all over the floor, and her heart was just not beating. It couldn't. It couldn't because there was a bullet that had torn through it and completely destroyed it in the process. Mariah Wilson was pronounced dead just minutes after that call for help had been placed, and Cash, as you can imagine, was in just disbelief, utter disbelief.

26:25 This isn't real, this is not real. You watch her looking at the police officers. Her eyes are wide as saucers, they're wide open, and she's staring in just utter shock back at the officers. I just walked in the house. We're supposed to just have an evening and now I'm down here and you're telling me she's dead. Her mouth. Cash's mouth literally dropped open as she stood there listening to what these officers were telling her. But it was true, this was real, and now police wanted to take Cash down to the station to talk to her about these traumatic events that had just unfolded before her eyes. And she gets in the car. She agrees to do this, and just looking down at her hands, they are they're literally covered in blood, and the gravity of what had just occurred was just simply overwhelming. It was it was too much. And she's thinking, my god, Oh my god, what am I gonna tell Mo's mom? What do I tell her Mama? How am I going to share this? Oh?

27:31 My god? Mo Is gone. So at the station, Cash was escorted into an interrogation room for further questioning, and she guided the investigators through everything that I've just shared with you, and she wanted to go to the bathroom, but before she was allowed to do that, they're like, sorry, but we're gonna we're gonna have to get some photographs of you and do some things before you can go to the bathroom. So they bring in and the photographer. They take pictures of her. This includes her bloody hands. They took a DNA sample from her as well as swabbed her hands for gunshot residue before they finally let her go to the bathroom and wash up. And so she goes in there. She shuts the door and she turns on the faucet, letting the water flow, and the basic act of hand washing would become another tragedy in and of itself, because she puts her hands under the water and as she's rubbing them together, that clear water quickly became brown and rusty, and she's washing her hands and she's watching it just go down the drain and as she's doing this, she's watching that water just disappear, and then eventually the water turned back clear, all of the blood washed off and gone down the pipes. And

29:01 emotion is a very very strange thing. Grief is very strange. But in that moment, Cash wanted that bloodback, She wanted to pull it back out of the sink because that was all that she physically had left of her friend, and she felt like she had just washed her away. Her hands were clean, and it felt like her friend was gone well. Back at the house, Moe still remained dead on the floor. Crime scene and investigator detectives and all that they show up and photos of this crime scene documentation was in full force. The home was one that was fresh, It was orderly. It was reminiscent of an outdoorsy young person. When you walked in there there were ivs and plants that were neatly potted on the porch.

29:55 Inside of the house, it was not fussy or dramatic. It was light, would floors, white cabinets. It was simple and easy. There were stairs. When you walk through the front door to your left, there were some stairs that led up surrounded by this basic white banister. And the home, like I told you, was more of like a studio apartment that was two levels. Now that main entry, like I told you, when you walk in that door, you were directly into a very open space that was a shared living room slash kitchen. There was a stackable washer and dryer that was neatly nestled into an inset area on the back wall, right next to the fridge, and then right next to that stackable to the left, there was a door. And that door is the one that opened up to the bathroom where Maria lay, and so you could easily see everything by just taking a couple of steps from the time that you walk in the front door. And there's a reason that I'm telling you this as the story progresses. So by now it was very clear that Moe had been shot multiple times, which it appeared to be from a pistol, but Cash had not noticed due to all the stress and the shock of coming upon the scene. Cash had noticed this, but there were multiple bullet casings on the floor around Moe and some outside of the room. So whoever had pointed

31:27 that trigger or pointed that gun and pulled that trigger had the evidence that they were there was plain to see. They had not tried to pick it up or clean up the area. Now. Notably, the gun was missing from the scene, and this matters because that's proof that this was not a suicide. You can't shoot yourself multiple times and then the gun disappear. But there was also no sign of a struggle at all. There was no tossed furniture, nothing was knocked over, nothing slid off with the counters. There wasn't blood anywhere except where the body was poured out, obviously, but it wasn't like swiped down the walls like there had been a fight for life, and the door was not forced to open. So the question is did Mariah know her killer and let this person in or was it possible that she had been taken by surprise while she was in the bathroom and attacked there. Well, this was yet to be known, but police knew that they would have to continue to work the scene and start right there and then work their way outward. Well, Moe's body was going to be sent for autopsy, and the examiner's findings showed brutality that was concluded by absolute execution.

32:46 This shooting was purposeful and it was meant to kill Mo with every shot that was taken. The first shot Mo took was to the face. She was shot through the right side of her face and the bullet went straight through, blowing out of the left side of her jaw. The second gun shot was also to the right side of her head and it exited through her chin, so what you're seeing here is kind of like a downward trajectory. And then the final bullet that was shot went through Moe's chest completely and it exited partially through her back.

33:29 But because she must have been already lying down on the ground. It did not fully penetrate her back, and that is why that is believed to have been the final execution shot was the one to the chest. It was also noted that Moe's index finger had also been shot, but it was believed that that was part of like a defensive wound where you throw your hands up in protection of yourself, because the bullet went through her finger, but then was the same bullet that struck her body at some point as well. So what I'm telling you here is that Moe never stood a chance. Never she was shot twice in the head and then an execution shot to the chest. This was the term cold blooded murder.

34:16 This was it to a t, so as police initially saw it, the killer either came in or was let in and then surprised Moe, where she likely retreated back to the bathroom after you as she was being shot. She then collapsed on the bathroom floor and was shot again and never was able to get up from from that spot, dying right where she was found. So the last person to have seen Mo, according to what everyone had said to this point, was that friend Colin. So the following morning on the twelfth, investigators went to his home very early to ask him some questions. Now lived in a nice middle class home. It was a brick house.

35:04 It had a garage, and the door was open on that garage when they approached, and Colin was actively working on a bicycle whenever they walk in, so he kind of greets them, Oh, hey, how are y'all. He's Colin's tall and lanky, but he's but he's lean and he's fit. Okay. He's kind of a toned guy, super chill, low key, very calm attitude, and he did not seem to be worked up at all that police were there at his house. He was pleasant, very normal. He was very casually dressed. He was barefoot, in shorts and a T shirt. Just very average looking dude that seemed like he was not expecting company of any sort to be walking up. And so they introduced themselves and they asked him do you know Anna? And he says no, I do not, and they go you don't and he says, no, I don't know who Anna is. And so he looks down at his paperwork. The detective does and he goes, okay, what about a Mariah? And he says oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.

36:10 Quickly he goes, oh, oh yeah, yeah yeah. That's when they realize that Moe's first name was actually Anna. Okay, so when they when they clarified this, he says, oh, yes, absolutely, I know Mo. We're friends. We both are gravel riders and you know I met her through writing and she's my friend. And he's just kind of like looking at him like, but you know why. And that's when the police break the news to him that she's dead. They say, there is no easy way to say this to you, but Mariah passed away last night. Genuine shock is on his face. His mouth drops open, just like cash Is did when they when she was talking to police and they told her. His mouth and there is an extremely long pause where he just kind of looks up and stares off in the distance. His hands are on his hips.

37:11 He's just silent. He looks like the wind had been knocked out of him. And the police officers said nothing at this point. They just stood there and it's a long pause and he just stares off into the distance, and then eventually it's like he comes back around and he looks at the cop and he goes, Okay, what happened, and they say, look, she was killed last night, and that's what we're trying to figure out. You were the last one with her as far as we know, so we need you to come down to the station and talk to us. And he says, okay, no problem, and he goes straight down to the station for questioning. So he confirms that they had been out the night before.

37:54 He said, we went swimming at a place called Big Eddies, and then we had burgers at a little joint down the road before I dropped her back off at home. And so they asked a little bit more about can you tell us more about how that happened whatever? He says, we rode my motorcycle that night, and he said when I dropped her back off, it was on my motorcycle at the house. And they say, okay, so can you tell me more about how how did y'all meet? How do y'all how did y'all become friends? I know you said y'all were racers and he says, yeah, we originally met back at a race a while back, and he said she was absolutely the greatest female biker he had ever seen, and considering that he himself was a professional biker.

38:37 He knew true talent whenever he saw it, and his explanation was like, this is once in a lifetime level talent. Now, when I say that Colin was a professional racer, this is legit. He was very successful, and he also already had big sponsors, ones like Red Bull, and Mariah was at the level where she was getting sponsors now and she could really benefit from someone with experience. And so they liked to talk about biking and about about cycling and everything that I had to do with it on a professional business level. And so that's really how they had hit it off. He said, I build bikes, I do training rides. Mariah and I even went on a couple of training rides in the past, and so she needed to grow and gather her sponsorships. So it was just a natural friendship based on mutual respect for the sport.

39:34 So they say, okay, can you tell us a little bit more about you. Colin says, yeah, I have a girlfriend that that lives with me. She's also my business partner of sorts. She runs the financial part of my business. He said. Our relationship has been on and off. We're off right now, but we are remaining living together because it was not only a good fit for this you know, the business dealing and such, but she knew all of the ins and outs. She had been running his business for a long time. She knew all the passwords, all the banking, that level of intertwining into their lives. So it just made sense for them to maintain partners even though the relationship had, you know, not not made it.

40:19 They maintained different bedrooms in the house, but the reason they stayed also was because they both uh maintained bedroom separate bedrooms in the house. Okay, but because they both had ownership in the home, like financially they both had invested in that house. It was working for them in that manner to just sleep in separate bedrooms but not have to go through all the you know, property splitting or whatever. For the moment. So the investigators kind of were like, Okay, look, dude, was there anything going on with Mariah maybe sexually or you all have in a relationship, because her autopsy is going to show us if you were having sex with her or anything of that nature.

41:03 And Colin was adamant, absolutely not nothing of the sort. Do the autopsy whatever, You're not gonna find my DNA anywhere as far as that's concerned. He said, we've never even kissed. So the way he answered that question too, because you know there's everything's videotaped, he was not observably rattled by that question as an outsider looking in either. He was just answering the questions very matter of fact. So the investigators at some point left the room to go do whatever. I don't know what they were doing. Sometimes that's a tactic to just see what somebody will do. But after he was alone and kind of left with his own thoughts in the silence, he became extremely emotional.

41:49 He you know, when people get fearful or people get scared, they tend to like make their bodies very small. Even when we're defensive, we do that, you know, we cover our chests, we pull up our legs or whatever. Well, he even damn near got on the floor in the fetal position at one point, like leaning against the wall, and he just kept repeating over and over, no, no, no, no, no no. He really looked to be hurting and overwhelmed by everything that was happening, everything that was being thrown at him, and he was starting to pay the emotional price right there in the room. So investigators would come back and they would press further into Colin and ask him more about this on again, off again girlfriend and they're like, would she know anything or have anything to do with this possibly? And Colin confirmed, well, you know the women, they're not friends. My girlfriend. Caitlyn and Moe were not friends with one another, and he said, you know, Caitlyn, my ex. She didn't really like Mo either, so like they weren't best friends or anything. So they knew who each other were, but they weren't friends or anything, and so they had to ask. Investigators are like, okay, well, why why didn't she like Mo? And he explained that after one of the recent races, and by recent, I mean I think it was the prior year, but one of the races in the past. Afterwards, Mo and Colin had a beer together and they talked about her writing future,

43:22 the sport, what she could look forward to as she advanced. He said it was strictly platonic, but Caitlyn had gotten upset by it that he went and had this beer with Mo, and Caitlyn ended up getting so upset that they got in a huge fight while they were driving home. And they broke up at that point, but they again, they still remained roommates, they were still business partners. That was a while back, and that was you know, water under the bridge or whatever. But that's why they didn't like one another. So all right, cool looking into Mo, they wanted investigators wanted to kind of get more about her, what was she about? And what they quickly found was that Moe was just not a high risk victim. She was definitely not someone you would expect to be murdered like this. She did not do drugs, She did not hang with a rough and tumble crowd. She didn't go starting fights. Moe was low, low key. She liked to cook, she liked to write, Her favorite thing was taco Tuesdays, and she liked traveling. But most importantly, what was discovered about Moe was that she loved spending time alone and in her head. She liked challenging herself physically on the bike, you know, pushing herself to the max. But she really was someone who liked to use her mental toughness, her mental strength to push through and complete her training. The other thing you have to realize, too, is that Moe was not from Texas. Where she was just brutally murdered,

44:54 so it wasn't like she had established enemies there. She's in a completely different state than where she's even from. She had just flown in days prior when Cash picked her up at the airport and brought her to the house, So detectives chose to look for more physical evidence to try to piece all of this together. So, after Mo's body was removed from the property, police were still scouring the outside area to see if there was anything that they could find that might lend itself to an explanation. And Cash had told them that there was only one thing missing from the house, so they didn't think that this was a robbery because nothing of value so to speak, was taken except Moe's bike. Moe's bike was missing, Well why the fuck would somebody steal a bike? But then it's like, oh, well, I mean unless it was maybe their getaway method that would make sense, So I don't know.

45:47 Maybe you go into to burglarize the house, you get surprised by moving there because you don't think there's a car, or you don't see a car, so you don't think somebody is there. Oh no shots fired, and then you steal the bike as a getaway, that's plausible, that makes sense. But then just roughly seventy feet from the house, the apartment whatever, there was some dense bamboo and investigators found Moe's bike up inside of that bamboo. This is her prized and expensive bike just haphazardly tossed into this bamboo. But her body was inside shot to death. So the bike's not that far from the scene. It just okay, doesn't fit now, that doesn't make sense. If you were going to take the bike as a getaway, why would you dump it just seventy feet away. So they had to keep they had to keep thinking on this one.

46:44 So cameras obviously would be an excellent thing to locate and see what could be found. If anything could be found. Well, Cash was able to give more information after she had calmed down a bit that would really really assist in creating a timeline of events. And it all had to do with the lock on the apartment. Because the lock on the residents wasn't just a simple turnkey style lock. It was actually electronic and so it could be opened two ways, either by using the key or by entering a code. Well, if a code was entered. It would notify Cash anytime that the house was unlocked, so it would timestamp when someone was entering the home. Well, based on her records, the system was showing Cash that at five point fifty five pm the lock was set, so that would have been whenever Mo left to go swim with Colin. It unlocked again at exactly eight thirty six pm, and the code that was used was a unique code specifically given to just Mo to unlock the house. It wasn't the main code, so it had to be Mo that unlocked the door unless she gave it to somebody else, okay, which they weren't believing that to be the case. So that meant that Moe's murder happened between eight thirty six and the nine one one call placed about nine fifty okay, so we have about about an hour and a few

48:14 minutes to work with here. So using that time reference, police were able to locate a camera on a neighbor's house that pointed at the driveway, including where Cash's stairs were located. So one more time, the main house faced the road and then there was like an alleyway that you would turn into to go past the house, and then that's where the garage was located, and the stairs and the apartment that led above the garage were right off that alleyway. So using the time reference that they had, police did find that camera and they could see down that alleyway, and watching the tape, police saw a dark suv past at eight thirty seven pm. This is just one minute after the lock on the apartment had been disabled by mo. So the suv came nearly to a stop and they knew that because they could see the break lights light up, and it had some specific features on it that made it stand out, one being a luggage rack on the top of it, the other being a bike rack mounted on the hitch. Incredibly, this was the only vehicle to pass by at all until the first responder vehicles came flying up about an hour and a half later, the only vehicle to be seen. So

49:45 focusing on this as a lead, a detective was kind of thinking back and he's like, man, that vehicle looks really similar to the one in the driveway when we went to go talk to Colin the day after the murder. So a review of that bodycam footage would show, in fact that there were three vehicles in the driveway whenever they went by. There was a BMW motorcycle, there was a Mercedes car, and then there was a jeep Grand Cherokee. Colin owned the bike and the Mercedes. Caitlin, the ex girlfriend that lived there, owned the Grand Cherokee. That Grand Cherokee also had a bike rack on the hitch and a luggage rack. So I don't know what you think about that, but most people would say that's a clue.

50:37 But when Colin was asked about whether Colin knew where Moe was, he said absolutely not. Not only did Caitlyn not know that Moe was in town or that Moe was there, Caitlyn didn't know Cash, so Caitlyn wouldn't have known where Cash lived. There was no link there between Caitlin and the location of Mo or Cash. But remember how I said that Moe really loved to do things, you know, the cooking and all of that, and she also liked to write a lot. Well, this would actually come into play because Mo was an avid journaler. She documented everything, her thoughts and all of that, and her journal was found, which the entries that she wrote in there, when they were reviewed would shed some more light on her interactions with Colin. So Moe had written in some entries about how much she liked Colin and that the affection or the interactions between them was starting to really charm her. She was smitten, is what I would call it.

51:48 But she had also documented later on after that that it seemed like he had been pulling back and the communication wasn't necessarily what she thought it was, so she wasn't very clear about his feeling or what his thoughts were, and she was very clear that she was now kind of didn't know what to think about and wasn't very sure about what to think. And she also wrote in there that she went to an event and she ran into Colin with Caitlin, so they were on again at that point, I guess, And she said how awkward it was and it was just super uncomfortable. Later on in a writing she said that they eventually spoke about this, that they had cleared the air, that she and Colin were not on the same page, there would not be a relationship between them, but that was okay with her.

52:39 This was not some full blown love affair, if that is what was believed to be possibly happening, and so it kind of solidified that there may have been some flirtation, maybe some possible interest, but they had kind of talked through this and they weren't going to be dating. But then people that knew Colin kind of started rumbling a little bit. There were expressions of Colin not being very open and honest about his relationship with Caitlin. Now I mean this historically speaking so like she was with him, but he was much less likely to mention if he was with her, okay, depending on who he was with and what he was doing. And so when investigators were initially questioning Colin, he was talking with them about his last interactions with Mo, and he was like, yeah, look and he takes his phone, he turns it around and he shows them the last communication. But the investigator noticed that there was something very curious about this because when Colin showed him the phone, it didn't say MO. It said the name Christine Wall on the screen. So obviously they wanted answers, is this really Mo? And if it is Mo, then why is her name changed? If things are strictly platonic. You know, it's just natural questions that you would kind of wonder. Well, Colin explained, Okay, look a while back, Moe and I had sort of kind

54:10 of started talking. I don't know if I would call it dating, but they were kind of talking. And that had been during a breakup with Caitlin, but it was in the past and that was no more. But what happened was once they hashed that out, that they were not on the same page. Previous to that, Caitlin had been looking in Colin's phone and had blocked a bunch of people without his knowledge because she would go through his phone, he wouldn't know, and she would go blocking people without telling him. And so Moe and him had hashed things out. It wasn't going to be a relationship or anything, but he still wanted to be in contact with Mo for the racing world and all the business building, and so he didn't want Caitlyn to go in and block MO because she still had access to his phone.

55:00 So they're like, all right, I get it, all right, that makes sense, But who exactly is Caitlin? Now? Okay, we want to know more about this about this girl? Well, Caitlin was described as a very compassionate, very kind, smart, and very I would say like mother. Earthy vibes are given off by her very natural kind of granola. If that makes I use that word, I say someone's crunchy or they're kind of granola. She did cycle too, though, she cycled with with Colin, and she was super into things like yoga and you know, natural healing stuff like that. But she was also very knowledgeable in finance, and so that her finance knowledge was actually really really strong, and so when she was working doing the managerial things for the business, that really made it easy for Colin to focus on his cycling career and all the other aspects of things that he needed to do. And low key, this is just your girl Kelly talking. But Moe and Caitlyn kind of favored each other too. So what I'll say is Colin had a type, all right. So both of these women, long and lean, fit, long brown hair, more natural beauty, not a ton of makeup type stuff.

56:22 So that's kind of the vibe you get from Caitlin, not like a dangerous criminal or anything like that. So they did ask Colin also about weapons. Do you own any weapons? And he said, yep, I own a gun. I do I have one? He said, Actually I have two, he said a while back, whenever they were dating, he and Caitlyn. He had bought him one and he had also bought Caitlyn one. But he said, I've never shot the guns. They're actually still in the case. I've never had anything to do with the gun. The caliber, he said, was a nine millimeter and that, by the way, I will let you know, was the same caliber used to kill Mariah. So when asked directly by the police, all right, Colin, do you think that Caitlyn could have done this, he was adamant. They may have been ex's, but he was adamant, absolutely not. She's not capable of something like that. You've got this wrong, okay, because that's just not who who Caitlyn is. So police are not going to take anyone's word for that, obviously, and so they wanted to have a word with Caitlin, and they brought her in. Now.

57:33 Once in the interrogation room, she does ask, okay, I need to know why I'm here. Okay, why am I in this interrogation room? And police mentioned to her that a woman in the cycling community had passed away and that her name had come up whenever Colin was being questioned. So immediately Caitlin does not like this. I'm not saying that she was yelling and screaming anything like that. Nothing of that nature. Very calm, very but she's can tell that She's like, wait what and kind of draws back from this, and so she does ask for an attorney whenever she figures out, wait a second, I'm being talked about about a murder. I think I want an attorney.

58:13 And the police say, look, I just want to ask you some basic questions. You are not under arrest, You are free to go. But Colin told us that you were very upset a while back whenever he had gone out with Moe. Wants to have a beer, and Caitlyn says, yeah, you know, she's hesitant, but she's she's kind of shaking her head when when they're telling her this, But she says, but that's somewhat inaccurate, you know, to tie me being upset about that back then to something that's happened right now. And so the more that they say Colin was saying she didn't like mo, Caitlyn becomes much more frustrated that her name was even brought up into the mix. And so she gets frustrated and she wants to leave. She says, I'm leaving. I'm very uncomfortable right now with with what with what's happening, and I'd like to go. So the investigator says, that's fine, but I need to tell you something.

59:06 She said, we saw your vehicle outside of the house, and if you can't answer questions about why we think we saw your vehicle outside of the house before this writer was murdered, that doesn't look very good and that's all that we have to go off of. Caitlyn says, nope, I'm done. This is wild. I want to leave, and she does so, but not before police take her cell phone as well as Collins as evidence to go look at and see if they can find something that may connect the two. But Caitlyn ends up leaving the police department. But police had another issue here. If Caitlyn's SUV was the same vehicle seen on tape, if it even was okay, what if Colin was driving the vehicle and not Caitlyn Because you could not see the driver in the video.

1:00:05 That was kind of a big issue to try to figure out if this was even the same vehicle. So police had to take their time. They kept digging. They were looking for more evidence and it would pay off because the landlord that rented the apartment above the garage to Cash was the same guy he actually lived in that house. He wasn't renting the house, so he would tell police that on the very night of the murder, he was actually in his garage below the apartment when he heard what sounded like someone running down the stairs very quickly. And he said, my garage door was actually up, so not all the way but kind of partially open.

1:00:45 And he said, after I heard the feet running down the stairs, I saw someone ride a bike past the garage door. All right, Well, that's kind of fitting in with sort of what police thought may have happened. But ror surveillance footage would be provided to police from a house, and this device was much different than the original surveillance footage that they had because this one constantly filmed. It was not motion activated that just filmed when someone pulled up like a ring camera or something like that. That meant that it was recording all the time, and that would hopefully mean that it was recording during the time that the murder took place. Not only that, but this camera had audio. It recorded sound and visual constantly. So detectives are like scrambling, holy shit, we got to look at this. So they get it. They open it up, and sure enough, at approximately nine to fifteen pm on the night of the murder, you can hear very clearly a female scream out, very very loud, followed by two gunshots.

1:02:03 There's then a six second pause, and then a third gunshot. Unbelievably, it seemed that the murder of Moe Wilson had been captured on audio. That is unheard of that you would actually get that clearly too. So let me ask you something. What do you think Moe's last moments sounded like like, can you envision it? Can you hear it? Well, get ready because you're about to hear them for yourself. Please don't let this get lost on you. What I'm playing it is not theatrics. This is real life terror. What do you think about that? What did you hear just now?

1:03:06 Because I know what I heard when I first listened. What I heard was that Moe realized that someone was in that apartment with a gun. She saw it. She started screaming out of absolute life, you know, potential life ending, sheer terror, and then she started running away from her assailant. That is what I heard no, no, or screaming, and then she turns from her assailant. But the problem at that point was that she had nowhere to go. Remember, there's only up the stairs in that door to enter in, so the shooter was in between the only exit and Moe.

1:03:52 So when she saw that gun come through the door, she yelled out and then she tore off, running in the opposite direction of the door to the furthest point that she could, which was the bathroom right there. She was shot just as she was turning no, no, right, and she shot as she's running just basically ten fifteen feet Twice she is shot in the face and in the head. Moe manages to make it though to that back bathroom, which was just steps away. She collapsed on the bathroom floor, falling back on her back, and as she lay there, you're hearing that pause, she looked up as her killer had just taken seconds to catch up to her, and that killer she looked at her as that murderer then stood over her, pointed the gun at her chest, and pulled the trigger, effectively ending her life right then. That is horrifying to me to even think like I can visualize what Mo saw and what she endured, and even though it was just seconds, you heard it, guys, You heard it as it played out, and so did the police. And this only fueled the fire in them to solve this murder, and to solve it quickly. There had to be more cameras in the area. There had to be more. We've heard it, We've seen this car come by. Now all we got to do is figure out the rest. And I know that sounds like you

1:05:23 know a lot, and it is, but they were going to do it. They had to figure this out, and they were able to eventually piece together Moe's final movements before her killing using cameras from around town, and what they found was that Colin was actually telling the truth. He picked Moe up at Cash's house, where Moe locked the door just after five, They jumped on the motorcycle. They went swimming. Then they ate their scene on camera eating very casual, just sitting outside on an outdoor porch. While they were eating, Caitlin called Colin, but Colin checks his phone, but he ignores the call. Whenever they were done eating, Colin then drove and dropped Mo off at the house on his motorcycle and then he drives off.

1:06:15 It's all seen on camera and that was the last contact that he had with Mo. Now, looking into Colin's cell phone data, his cell phone showed that his movements afterwards were very clearly followed, and it showed that he went straight home. Whenever he got home, he then received a phone call which he was actively on the phone when the murder was taking place. They could line up the timeline. There is no way that he could have been driving the motorcycle straight to the house and then answering the phone at the house at the exact same time that a jeep drove up and Moe was murdered.

1:07:00 Proof in itself right there that he was not the murderer. He couldn't be, because he couldn't be in two places at the same time. But if Caitlin was thought to have done this, how would she have found Mo? How was there even a link there? She didn't know Cash and she did not know where Cash lived. But this was answered by detectives in an aha moment when reviewing evidence that had been taken when a warrant was executed on Colin and Caitlyn's home, and one of the things that was taken was a laptop, but when the detective looked at the brand of the laptop, that's when it hit him. It was an Apple laptop, and the detective started thinking about the fact that Apple products are linked.

1:07:47 So whenever he turned over the laptop to forensics, they were able to confirm that Caitlin was absolutely able to see all of Colin's communications, including his texts, via the lapp top in live time. She could see it, she could go look or with in recent time. Well. The morning of the murder, Mo had sent a picture of herself while taking her morning bike ride before the swim to Colin. She's on the bike. That means that even though she was saved under the name Christine Wall, Caitlyn would have realized Christine Wall was Mo because she sent the picture on the bike. A little while later, Moe then sent Cash's address to Colin so he could pick her up on the motorcycle. Colin was telling the truth when he said that Caitlyn did not know where Cash lived, but the reason he was telling the truth was because he didn't know that he was being watched the whole time by her and that she was monitoring his communication, so he really didn't know that Caitlyn now knew where she was. Examining Caitlyn's cell phone records wouldn't ness Brely become a smoking gun, though, because Caitlin's phone didn't register her anywhere near the crime scene whenever they checked it. A forensic examination would show that Caitlyn's phone was either turned off or it was an airplane mode right or before the murder. But right before her phone

1:09:23 switched either to off or airplane mode, they could see where the cell phone was, and that's when they saw that she was located heading towards the swimming area where Colin and Moe were at that time. So what detectives wondered was, all right, we don't have any proof of putting her there with the cell phone. We know what we're thinking, but we've got to find a way to put her there other than you know, there's too much reasonable doubt here if we can't even put her there. And so that's when they started thinking back about the jeep. They wondered what all was the jeep equipped with, And it turned out that that jeep had an infotainment system, and within the infotainment system there was a GPS system.

1:10:13 So they go and they take that system out and they have it forensically analyzed, and a review would show that it picked up right after where the cell phone was shut off, and it was in the exact same place as the cell phone, near the swimming hole. And then the path that it took was eerie. You can almost see this happening. But the car was parked for a bit near the swimming hole before being placed in drive and heading straight to Cash's home. Additional footage from other cameras in the area would pick up the jeep exactly where it said it would be, and so they were able to prove without a doubt that that is this jeep in it's on camera right where it says it was geographically, And so Caitlyn would be followed and she would sit and she would wait in a few different spots before she would move around and you're the house, and periodically on camera you would then see her drive by slowly, and then the car would go park, and then she'd come back a little while later, drive by slowly like a shark in the water, eyeing its next meal, but just not yet quite ready to strike. Well. Colin's motorcycle then pulls up and it drives off from Cash's house at eight thirty five PM, and Caitlyn was, unbeknownst

1:11:45 to either Moor or Colin, just one to two blocks away from them this entire time Colin drives off, Moe makes her way up the stairs, unlocks the door, which is alerted on Cash's phone, and once inside, Moe had enough time to you know, set down her stuff, and then she got on her phone and she was texting a podcaster believe it or not, that she was working with on a future project. About that time, Caitlin's jeep pulls up. Caitlyn gets out of her jeep, made sure that her gun was loaded and cocked before creeping up the stairs gun in hand under the cloak of darkness.

1:12:29 When she opened the door, Moe was expecting Cash, not Caitlin, but she immediately knew that she was in grave danger. It was now nine to fifteen PM as the screaming and the gun shouts start ringing out, and you know what happened from there. The nail in the coffin for Caitlin would be the when the ballistics came back. They had confiscated both of the guns during the warrnt execution of Colin and Caitlyn's house, and it was confirmed that it was Caitlin's gun that had fired the shots that killed Moe. Game over, y'all, A warrant for Caitlin's arrest for the murder of Mariah Wilson was issued, and on May seventeenth, just roughly a week after a Moe's murder, police went to go take Caitlin into custody. But you you didn't think it was gonna end right here, did you.

1:13:25 Ain't no way you thought that it was just gonna end right here, not even close. Because when police arrived to get Caitlin, she was gone. But she wasn't gone like she had run to the store or gone like she went to go visit somebody. No, she was gone, gone, and she could not be located. She had up and vanished no trace of her, so much so that the Marshal's Office, the FBI, local and state officials, all of them were looking for her. But she had disappeared, and she was now officially a fugure from justice. It made news headlines, It was in the paper, it was online, This was everywhere. And of course every agency that I just mentioned to you used every tool that they had in their possession to track her down, and what they were able to locate was that her vehicle had been sold to a CarMax. So if she sold her car and got rid of it, she's got no ride. Where might she be well, investigators found that her sister lived in upstate New York. So their thought process was, was it possible that she may have gone there to hide out with her sister. So they checked buses, they checked flights, and eventually they tracked the fact that she had gotten on an airplane and she had flown to New York.

1:14:49 And this was confirmed whenever they reviewed the camera in the airport and you could see her their white pants, blue jacket, she's masked up because this is around COVID time and they were gonna go get her. So they take it to New York, go and they go to take her into custody. But guess what, as you can imagine, she was not there. That would have been too easy. So what do you think happened? Most people would think that she's like fled the country, right, She's trying to get out of here. It's exactly what law enforcement thought. So they checked to see where Caitlin's passport had been used last and what they found was that she hadn't used She had not used her passport. All right, Well, this is now posing a problem. You're not with your sister, you haven't fled the country, so that means you're here.

1:15:39 But if you're here, then you've got to have a way to stay afloat. You have to have a way to take care of yourself and to buy food and all of that. So you got to have money. How in the world was she able to stay afloat without any of her accounts being used, not or you know, she's not using her credit cards to leave a trail or anything like that. Well, there was an unfortunate chain of events just prior to Moe's murder that would answer this question, because Colin told police that he had recently given Caitlin a lot of money that was supposed to be placed into an investment account. Now I've seen some reports about this that it was somewhere around forty thousand dollars, okay, But I was looking at the actual warrant affidavit in this case, and it said that that was four hundred and fifty thousand dollars that she had in her possession.

1:16:38 Almost half a million dollars is what it says on the warrant. Either way, she's got a ton of cash, and she had not returned that money to Colin, nor has she invested it as she was instructed to do. So. Now there's an even bigger problem because she can stay under the radar for a long time with that much cash. So detectives are trying to figure this out. They're trying to see, Okay, where could she be? New York is huge, There's a billion people there, right, so what are we going to do? So they kind of went back to the airport video and they were looking at her. And while they're looking, they noticed that something just seemed off. Caitlyn's hair looked different than usual. Nothing huge. It wasn't like she had chopped it off and dyed it black or something like that. No, it was It was still her, but it was noticeably more styled, like how her sister usually wore hers. Hmm. So on a hunch, investigators wondered, what if she had possibly used her sister's passport, And so they go and they check into this and they hit pay dirt there it was bingo, she had used her sister's passport to fly from New York to Costa Rica on May the nineteenth, And in that moment, y'all minds are blown that it was that easy for her to escape and get out of the country using someone else's passport and just made it right on through. So two weeks after the murder, the US Marshals were tracking

1:18:11 her all the way to Costa Rico. But time kept passing, days kept passing, and the marshals could not find her ass And so they're like, we got to do something here. We've got to think outside of the box. And that's when they got really creative. Because if there's anything we know, it's that a tiger does not change its stripes, and y'all people are no different. They may change small things, but what's built into them, they don't change it. And law enforcement decided that they were going to simplify their search. They were going to quit chasing her. They were going to have her come to them. Yep, that's what they were going to do. And you're like, what, And this is how they did it. They decided that they were going to put an ad out where they believed that she was living. And this ad was going to be looking to hire a yoga instructor for a fake studio.

1:19:06 Sure as shit if they did not get a response from somebody, and guess what it was her? She literally came to them, just like they thought she would. Who would have thunk it so. On June twenty ninth, after a long forty three day fugitive hunt, Caitlin Armstrong was arrested and officially back in police custody. But even now that she was in custody, she looked even more different. Nothing, nothing wild, okay, Like it wasn't like, you know, her ears were in a thighs or something, but she still looked different. And it was more than a new hairstyle, okay, her face looked just off. And come to find out, while she was on her getaway, just a few days after her initial arrival, she had made an appointment under a fake name to have plastic surgery to change her appearance.

1:20:06 Her adjustments, if you're wondering, included a nose job, a brow lift, some lip filler. You know, that's sort of stuff. I've heard of a mommy makeover before. I have never heard of a murderer makeover. But there you have it. Her goal of the surgery wasn't to completely look different. It was to look more like her sister and to be able to pass herself off as her sister. And by the way, on Patreon, I've got actual photos of her face before, during, and after immediately after the surgery, if you want to check that out. So, she was extradited back to the States and slapped with a three and a half million dollar bond, and now she was going to be headed for trial. But a few days before the trial, she had to go to a doctor's appointment, which required her to travel outside of the jail facility.

1:21:00 She had this injury that required a specialist, and because the injury was her leg, she wasn't able to be put in leg restraints. Yeah you see where this is going, don't you. Well, at some point after being brought to the medical facility, she took her chance, and that bitch bolted. Remember she's a pretty fit girl, and when she took off, she meant it. So Caitlyn, still dressed in her maroon prison top and her big stripe the black and white pants that you wear in jail, was moving with purpose and she led law enforcement on a foot chase for roughly a mile before she was again recaptured, and a portion of this was even caught on film, which is even it's not funny, but it's funny, like just to see her running in this cop trying to take her down, but she was caught and she was brought back into custody again. On October thirtieth, twenty twenty three, Caitlyn Armstrong went on trial after pleading not guilty, which garnered tons of coverage both locally and nationally, and even more was exposed during the trial and opened a lot of people's eyes to just how troublesome the situation had become. Without Moe really understanding how volatile the situation had shifted. Colin was clearly playing both women, although he never would fully admit it, very clearly, and I want to give you an example so you can see what I mean. Texts

1:22:30 like the one that he sent Caitlin right after he dropped off Moe, right after he dropped her off on that motorcycle. It showed that he drove off and I know I said he went straight home. He did, but he pulled over for just a second on the motorcycle, and what they were able to see was that he sent a text message to Caitlin when he stopped, and the text said direct quote, hey are you out? I went to drop some flowers for Alison at her son's house up north and my phone died heading home. Unless you have another food suggestion, does that sound like a guy that's hiding something from his so called ex girlfriend or does that sound like a guy who's still with that girl and telling her a bunch of lies because he's playing her. Don't like that, guys, he was lying because he didn't want Caitlyn to know that he was with Moe. It would also be revealed that Caitlyn had also been harassing Mo at one point, and it was to the point that Moe had blocked her number. She was like, I'm not dealing with this. She just blocked the number, not realizing that this was escalating on that side of things. And then there was a party before the shooting and a friend would talk to police. A friend of Caitlyn's, by the way, would come forward because she knew what she saw and she said they were at a party. Caitlyn got so angry that her body was physically shaking. She was so angry, she was just vibrating back and forth when she saw mo and she

1:24:03 told her friend that if she ever saw another woman with Colin, she would kill her. Pretty damning words, I would say for the woman that's sitting there behind the defendant's table. So, after all the evidence was weighed, everything from forensic data to DNA on Mariah's dumped bicycle. On November the sixth, Caitlyn Armstrong was found guilty of the murder of Mariah Wilson and sentenced to ninety years in prison. But before she was let off, you know that you get to have these victim impact statements, and Mariah's mother would address Caitlyn directly in court, and her first sentence is what I found to be an unintentional mic drop on Mariah's mother's part because she started with this quote, I'm not sure if my words can penetrate your heart, but I'm gonna try. And clearly this is a mother's plea to reach Caitlyn emotionally, when that is exactly where Caitlyn had targeted her daughter when she penetrated her heart with a bullet. Now was this intentional, I don't know, but those words hung with me whenever she said them.

1:25:25 This whole case boils down to a jealous woman allowing herself to be used by a guy who didn't want her. It's obvious how many times did Colin have to cheat, lie, and be dismissive for her to get it now. Don't get me wrong, I find Colin to be an absolute asshole in all of this too. But when it's all said and done, he didn't kill Mo. Caitlyn did. Moe was a top tier athlete with a kind soul who was murdered by a woman who was nowhere near her caliber in either of those categories. Was elite, not only in athletics but also in Colin's eyes. But the thing about true competition is that a winner wins and the losers lose. That's the way it goes, and removing the other competitors altogether won't ever make you the winner either.

1:26:20 All it does is it cancels the race, and in this case, a subpar cyclist with a disinterested boyfriend for got to read the rule book. You have to make the cut to even matter, Caitlyn, And unfortunately for Caitlin, removing Moe didn't solve anything, because Moe wasn't the issue. Caitlyn was, and the hard truth she's yet to face is that when it is completed, you cannot compete where you do not compare