June 30, 2026

Shattered Dreams: The Killing of Moriah “Mo” Wilson

Shattered Dreams: The Killing of Moriah “Mo” Wilson
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Season 11

In the world of competitive cycling, Moriah "Mo" Wilson was a rising star — a world-class athlete whose talent, determination, and vibrant spirit lit up every race she entered. But on a warm May evening in 2022 in Austin, Texas, her life was brutally cut short in a shocking act of violence that stunned the sports world and beyond. What began as a weekend trip for a gravel race turned into a nightmare when the 25-year-old champion was gunned down inside a friend's home.

Investigators quickly zeroed in on a suspect fueled by obsessive jealousy: Kaitlin Armstrong, a yoga instructor and the on-again, off-again girlfriend of pro cyclist Colin Strickland, who had spent time with Wilson.

This episode dives deep into the heartbreaking story of Moriah Wilson's remarkable journey — from her early days as a standout skier to her meteoric rise in the gravel cycling scene. We explore the toxic love triangle that led to her murder, the calculated planning behind the crime, Armstrong's dramatic six-week international manhunt (complete with a fake passport and plastic surgery in Costa Rica), her eventual capture, and the high-profile trial that ended with a 90-year prison sentence.

Timestamps
01:01 Mo’s Early Drive
13:34 Gravel Racing Glory
18:34 A Night Turns Dark
20:53 CPR and Shock
34:46 Colin Under Scrutiny
53:22 Caitlin Enters the Case
1:05:35 Timeline Breakthrough
1:17:33 Capture and Surgery

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning Unspeakable as intended

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey y'all, kJ

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you're back another episode of Unspeakable? What is going on

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with you? I've got a hell of a story for

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you today, and uh, we're gonna just jump right on

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into this one. But I want to start with a

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question for you. Have you ever set goals for yourself?

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And I don't mean just regular goals. I mean like

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big goals, like the ones that are not going to

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be short term, it's going to be a long term,

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huge investment. But the return on that investment is something

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that you would be like beyond your wildest dreams. Because

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I know that I have set goals in my life

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that I always thought were obtainable. Nothing was ever just

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like over the top in my you know, in my opinion.

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And I don't know, is it lack of confidence maybe,

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you know, it could be, Or is it the belief

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that or the understanding that I'm not elite enough in

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whatever area I'm talking about to truly master it. That

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probably seems more like it. Of why I would never

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shoot for just the things that I just think are unobtainable. Well,

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what I mean here is like Olympian level aspirations, okay,

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people that actually want to make it to the Olympics.

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As a kid, I watched the Magnificent Seven as they

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were called, if you remember them, those athletes. They were

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gymnasts and they would dominate the gymnastics world at the Olympics,

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and I was so inspired as a young girl watching them. Now,

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was I ever a gymnast, hail, No, okay? But did

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I jump and flip and pretend to be on the

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balance beam and destroy my mother's home in the process,

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You bet you, okay? Because I wanted to be like

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those gymnasts, and competition is something that I love, I

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always have. But to be an Olympian like that, man,

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that's a real legit goal right there. And I remember

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this too, that back years and years ago at LSU,

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I was on the track team for a while at

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through the javelin, and I watched in awe while I

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was at practice because A Lolo Jones was on the

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team the same era that I was there, and I

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watched her practice beside me. She was just so beautiful

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and elegant and just a frickin' machine, all of those

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things that I knew I would never be one day.

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I you know, she just was special. But just to

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be in her presence was cool. And if you don't

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know about Lolo, she is an Olympian in track. She

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ran the hurdles and she also did I believe, the

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bob sled and some other things. But I did give

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her a ride home from practice one day. If that counts,

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as you know, running with Olympians, that'll be my claim

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to fame. But to that point, some women really do

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make it a goal, Okay, Lolo did, and so did

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another girl named Mariah Wilson. And Mariah who was affectionately

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called Mo by her family, this girl was adventurous from

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birth all right. To get you the vibe here, she

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was outdoorsy, driven, full of untapped energy. The girl was

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just a straight up force of nature by the by

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the time she you know, her feet hit the ground.

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And God knew what he was doing. I really believe this.

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He knew what he was doing when he gave her

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to her parents, because that adventure in her was something

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that they let her tap into. They fostered it throughout

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her youth, and they really wanted her to try all

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of these new things. And from a very young age,

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her daddy had her on the ski slopes, holding her

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between you know, his legs on his skis as they

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slid down the mountain together, the wind blowing through her hair.

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She could feel it, you know, on her skin, just

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that excitement into her. They were going one hundred miles

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an hour, but as Mom panned out further on the recordings,

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when she was taking this all in, they were barely

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moving but paired to the others man, they may have

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been going slow, but in Moe's mind, they were flying.

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And it was in those moments that it built confidence,

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in a fierceness that Moe would need for the life ahead.

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Her Mama would pull back her hair into a crisp

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ponytail just for the ease of putting on her goggles

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so that not only did she ski well, but she

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looked good while she did it. And Moe. Also on

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top of skiing and snowboarding and all of those types

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of things, she also loved to ride bikes, but more

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than the average kid. Okay, like she could ride ride,

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she had stamina in those legs. They knew no distance

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or terrain that she couldn't dominate. And it was wild

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to see what she could do on a bike. It

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was not like the average kid whenever they would go

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out for some fun. It was far beyond the average

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person her age as well. And growing up in Vermont,

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Mariah really took to skiing as her first love as

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far as sports went, and considering Vermont is the premier

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ski destination on the East Coast, it was only fitting.

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It was perfect so with great snow and varied terrain,

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mid November through April is a great time for the

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skiers and it was go time for Mariah. She would

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wake up early on an absolute blue bird day. She

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would see the mountain shining the massive dump of fresh

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powder overnight, and she would get up there, snatch that

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first chair and then roll down those untouched first tracks

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just an awesome, awesome way to spend a day. So

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with natural talent combined with insane work ethic, Mariah was

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headed for athletic success far beyond regular competition. She was

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thrilled to be enrolled at Burke Mountain Academy when she

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was a tea teenager. And this school is quite unique

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because it's somewhat of an exclusive opportunity for someone with

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specifically Olympic level dreams. The school was one that would

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combine comprehensive academics but also with the demands of high

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performance ski racing. So basically the perfect school for someone

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needing the support of long term development as a student

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athlete who is going to fully invest in their athletic potential.

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So when Mariah stepped on the scene, she made her

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impact full force from the start. By her sophomore year

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in high school, she was ranked third in the nation

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for her age in the giant slalom. Now, for the

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casual viewer, this would be that fast downhill ski They've

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got those colored flags, they call them gates, and they

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usually have a pole in each hand as they fly

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down the mountain. If you've watched the Olympic, you know

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what I'm talking about. But just as she was on

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top of the world and continuing to climb, she faced

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a horrible injury for a skier because she tore her ACL.

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And since your ACL is the key ligament in the

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center of your knee that's connecting your thigh bone to

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your shin, obviously you can see why this would be

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just a simply devastating injury for someone to sustain all

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of the work. It took for years for her to

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get to that point. Just to have it stopped in

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just in a moment was completely disheartening. And she had

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written in her journal for years that she wanted to

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make the Olympics, almost writing it into reality. I mean

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hell or her dad had missed the Olympics by just

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one spot in his golden days. But now, poof, you know,

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training was over for both of them. It just came

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to a crashing halt. Or was it, Because it may

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have taken her another full three years, but Mariah wasn't

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a quitter and amazingly, incredibly, I don't even know what

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the right word would be to use here, that's not average,

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but she bounced back so well, in fact, that she

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was able to join the Dartmouth Alpine ski team when

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she went to college. That was also a dream of

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hers since childhood. So as Moe was killing it on

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the slopes, she also found love. She's now in college,

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she's a little bit older, and we insert Gunner. Okay,

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low key, cool ass name. By the way, I think

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the name Gunner is awesome. I never had a son,

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but if I did, kind of like that name. Well,

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she and Gunner their love sparked, like so many, It

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started out unexpectedly. They met through another friend while they

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were out biking. Moe had been invited by this other friend,

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and when Gunner heard that this other friend had invited

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this girl Mo, he was like, great, you know, I

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hope she can keep up and the friend just kind

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of laughed and I was like, uh, dude, just wait. Well,

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when they all went on that ride, they hit it

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off and he would become her real first boyfriend. So

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she was still a sophomore in college when all of

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this was taking place. Gunner had already graduated, and time

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would pass and their personalities just complimented one another. Moe

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was more of a quiet and reserved thinker, while Gunner

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was extroverted and just an easy talker type of dude,

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and they would continue to date for two years, but

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that two years would be long distance because he ended

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up having to move for a job opportunity. But no worries.

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They were both very committed, very loyal to one another.

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And not only that, but Gunner towards the end of

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that two year Mark was pretty sure in his heart

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that Mariah was the one he was going to marry

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this girl. So Mariah, who I'm sure you've picked up

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on by now goes by Mo. She earned her Bachelor

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of Arts degree in engineering in twenty nineteen, and then

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she took a job working as a demand planner for

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a company called Specialized, which is a biking equipment company

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plus more. But it really has to do with that

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athletic side of biking. But as is common, once together constantly,

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so they moved. In October of twenty twenty, Gunner and

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Moe moved in together and they were in the San

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Francisco area, super hopeful for the future. You know, life

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was taking off, just young professionals making life happen. But

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as is common, once they were together constantly, focuses shifted

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a bit. Moe was more focused on her bike training

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and Gunner's interests kind of went elsewhere. Nothing angry, nothing mad,

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no blow up, just different and it kind of became

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an elephant in the room. And once they finally addressed it,

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she basically said, look, I love biking more than trying

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to make this relationship work. I'm very invested in my

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career here and both Gunner and Moe I want you

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to know we're good people. The breakup was somewhat mutual.

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I mean they both understood that this is not working.

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It's still hurt, but it just was what it was.

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And so she moved out and it turned out she

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had another friend named Kimmy that she had met in college,

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and she and Kimmy were a great fit together, good friends.

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They ended up moving in together and just kind of

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became the girls taking on San Francisco together. Well, more

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time would pass and Mo decided that she did want

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to step out and date more. She would talk to

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her mama and her friends about this. Listened, and she

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encouraged her. Yeah, baby, you know, take your time and

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don't be quick to jump on anything. But one thing

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I know, and I think that Moe knew this too,

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is that you can be picky if you want when

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you're picking someone to be interested in, you have goals.

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And whenever you have strong goals like she did, you

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have to have a partner who has needs that fit

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in with your goals and plans as well. And I

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don't think that's selfish. I think that that's smart. You've

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got to be on the same page. You've got to

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both be working towards the same things. So for now

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and the foreseeable future, those goals and plans for Moe

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were to dominate the gravel racing world, so much so

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that Mo ended up quitting her job to focus solely

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on being a professional bike racer. And like I said,

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it was in that niche of gravel racing. So what

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is that real quick? Gravel racing is crazy intense. Basically,

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it's going to be like road cycling, you know, the

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long distance cycling, but it's done out in the woods

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and it's in the hills, and it's one of those

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things that's wanting to bring in more fun and adventure

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more than the monotony of riding the road. Now, there

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can only be one winner, right, and Moe's training would

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pay off wildly as she was consistently on the podium,

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winning time after time after time, and in short time,

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she was absolutely dominating in the cycling world. And put

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this into perspective, these rides take hours, y'all. This isn't

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like a fifteen minute trek through the woods. This is

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like cross country meets a bicycle meets cycling meets going

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through the woods and terrain and all of that. It's

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just insane what it takes to do this and to

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actually win. I just have to tell you that I

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tried cycling before, but it was not a gravel It

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was just cycling, you know, on the roadways, and I

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went twenty three miles one time, which was my max

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that in one day, in one stint, And holy crap,

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twenty three miles is of freaking go when you're when

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you're peddling, and she's doing this off row.

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Just mad.

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Respect for these types of athletes and this community of

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racers is huge, but relationships are made and maintained as

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these competitors travel across the globe and end up racing

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against each other in all of these different places. Well,

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a very good friend of Moe's, she went by the

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name Cash. She lived in Austin, Texas, and the two

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shared that love of racing, which is where they had

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originally met. There was a big race though at the

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time I'm speaking of, that was coming up, and this

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race was known as the Gravel Locos. So Cash and

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Mo made plans for Moe to fly in and she

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was going to stay with Cash for a few weeks

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in preparation for this race. Both of them were super

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excited to see one another and to get to spend

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extended time together. It's kind of like whenever you have

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a sleepover, you know, and that excitement that we don't

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have to go home at the end of the day,

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we get to hang out the whole time. So it

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was May of twenty twenty two when Moe finally arrived,

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and this constant companionship with no breaks was something that

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they just were totally, you know, stoked to have. They

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would go out to eat, they would have coffee. It

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was just constant laughing and friendship and just someone you

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could lean into, relax and you'd trusted. You know. It's

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just a good time, all the things you want with

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good friends. And on the morning of May eleventh, the

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girls got up and they hung out a bit in

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the kitchen over coffee, while Moe was getting fueled up

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for a long training ride that she had planned for

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the day. They laughed. They spoke about what each of

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their respective plans were and what journeys they were going

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to be taking, so they just kind of were on

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the same page with one another as to what they

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could expect. Moe, of course, was going to be riding.

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This would be a long ride and she had to

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get ready for it, so she put on her tight

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riding shorts. She had on a tight fitted three quarter

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sleeve moisture wicking riding top. You know, there's things to

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ensure that you're an aerodynamic and also breatheability. Because she's in

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this hot Austin sun, she snapped on her helmet. She

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picked up her bike, and she rolled it out the

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kitchen door, waving by to Cash and saying, you know,

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I'll see you later. But what she didn't realize right

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as she was walking out of the door was that

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Cash actually was filming her doing this, and so Moe

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kind of chuckled when she realized it, and Cash yelled out,

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I have a safe ride, and she waved and then

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the door closed behind her. And because Cash was a

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good friend and loved Moe's family. Cash sent that video

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to Moe's mama, telling her, your girls here, She's safe

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with me and she's having a good time. And her

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mama appreciated that update. You know, of course, she wants

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to know what her girl's up to and that she's

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having a good time. So Cash then finished getting ready

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for the morning, and then she left out as well.

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So the day went on and it turned into evening,

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and both Mo and Cash had been exchanging text messages

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and talking throughout the day, and after Mo completed her ride,

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she was going to go swim with a friend named

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Colin and then maybe go grab a bite to eat,

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and it was gonna be a pretty chill day for

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her after this exhausting ride in all of that heat.

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And it was that early evening of that same day,

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about five thirty when Cash returned home to the house

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and Moe was there. They hammered out their plans for

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the rest of the night and Cash was going to

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leave out to go have dinner with some of her

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friends and Moe was going to hang with Colin like

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they had said. Now before she left, Cash told Moe, look,

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don't leave your bike cover bag out on the front

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porch because I'm afraid somebody might steal it. She's like, oh, okay, yeah,

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sorry about that, I'll get it. She grabbed it and

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she brought it into the house.

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Well.

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Later that night, around nine forty five pm, Cash returned

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from dinner and she parked. She went inside, and she

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was surprised when she came up the stairs. Let me

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set the vision for you real quick. The house that

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she lived in. I don't want you to think it's

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just a house, like in a neighborhood type situation. It

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was a neighborhood, but Cash actually was renting. I would

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call it either an apartment or a loft, a studio

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apartment type situation that was on top of a garage

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attached to somebody's house. Okay, so you had to go

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up the stairs to get to the house or the

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apartment however I refer to it. Just understand that's what

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we're dealing with. So when she got up the stairs,

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she was kind of surprised that her front door was unlocked,

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but she made her way inside, shut the door behind her,

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and she's like, moh hey, it's me, I'm home. No answer,

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and the house. You need to understand of the apartment.

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It's not that big, you know, when you look in

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you can see everything right there where from the front door,

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so it wasn't like Moe couldn't have heard her. So

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as she walked through the through the apartment, straight through

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the you know, the back of the house, she came

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upon the bathroom where she immediately felt all of the

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air just instantly sucked from her lungs because Moe was there.

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But she was laying on the floor very clearly she

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was wounded. There was blood everywhere. It was coming out

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of her head as well as out of her chest,

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and she dropped down. Oh my god, MO, MO, what's

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going on?

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Mo?

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And this was within two minutes of her entering the

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house that Cash was frantically trying to grab her cell

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phone and dial nine to one one. That call came

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into dispatch at nine fifty four pm and the police

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as well as medical you know, ambulance and all of

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that were dispatched to race to the scene. So Cash

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desperately began giving CPR to Moe, who was completely unresponsive.

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At the time, she looked gaunt, she was lifeless. But

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Cash continued and when she got on the phone with

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that operator. They started CPR and Cash was pumping her

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chest over and over and over and praying Mo would

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just wake up. Come on, wake up, Moe. Come on.

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You're tough, right, Mo was tough. She was full of

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resilience and grit. Her body was fit, she wasn't weak.

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Come on, Moe, come on. And she's pumping her chest.

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She's counting off with the dispatcher as she's pumping her chest,

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and the operator continues to give her instructions. Don't stop,

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they will come to you, the responders will come in

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the house. Keep working, do not stop. And this call

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would last almost ten minutes. That is a long long

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time to be giving CPR to somebody. But the site

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that Cash was seeing while she is doing this and

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trying to save her best friend's life, I have to

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tell you it's nothing short of traumatic what she's looking at.

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She's pumping Moe's chest and with every pump blood is

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coming out. But the horrors that were happening in conjunction

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with that are just beyond And while I don't want

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to sensationalize this, I want you to hear in a

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snippet what Cash tells the nine one one operator as

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she's continuing to give CPR to her friend Bee.

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Her brain is leaking her brain.

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Can you imagine? Can you imagine by what you just heard,

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what Cash is seeing. And I bring this up because

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we don't think about often the trauma of a non

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medical person, someone who's not trained, who's not used to this,

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having to see something like this, not only to see it,

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but to know it's coming from someone that you love

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and your friend. And then as she began or she

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continued pumping Moe's chest, fluid then began to come out

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of Moe's mouth.

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I think she's throwing up. Okay. If she's throwing up,

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turn her head to the side to clean out her

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mouth and nose. Yeah it's inside okay, but it's inside

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her mouth. Turn her to her side to clean out

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her mouth and nose, to do it real quick. And

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then we're gonna lay her right back down and continue compressions.

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Yep, yep, okay. And as that just ended, you hear

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Cash saying yep, yep, almost agreeing in a way with

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Moe's body. Do what you've got to do, Do what

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you've got to do. Yes, come on, friend, come on,

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And then she jumped back into compressions. Next thing she knew,

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an officer came rushing through the door. She had heard

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those sirens wailing in the distance, but they had gotten

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louder and louder and louder, and that officer came bounding

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through the door. Now refusing to quit. She just kept

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working and the officers finally got Cash to her feet.

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They escorted her up and over to the couch where

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she just plopped down and she's just sobbing. And while

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she's sobbing, there's bodycam footage of this, so I know

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how to tell you what you're seeing. Her friend's blood

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is all over her hands. It's complete devastation, and she's

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like help her, please, please help her, help her. And

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the medical folks are soon filling the apartment. The home

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was buzzing with people in all different uniforms. They're carrying gear.

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But in just a moment from them rushing in, everyone

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started to just slow, you know. They they weren't rushing

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Moe out of the out of the door, the gurney

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wasn't being brought brought in. And Cash is now, you know,

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outside of the apartment, and she's and she's just stressed,

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like get her the ambulance. Y'all need to hurry. Why

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aren't y'all helping her? Go get her? Please? My friend

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is up there, she's on the floor. Please. What is

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taking so long? This is horrific. And the answer to

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that question was was actually a really, really, really hard

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one because the officers had to break it to her

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that we're not bringing the gurney because your friend is dead.

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She didn't make it the CPR that that you were applying.

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It was too late. She was already gone. Moe's blood

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had already poured out of her body and had spilled

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out all over the floor, and her heart was just

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not beating. It couldn't. It couldn't because there was a

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bullet that had torn through it and completely destroyed it

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in the process. Mariah Wilson was pronounced dead just minutes

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after that call for help had been placed, and Cash,

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as you can imagine, was in just disbelief, utter disbelief.

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This isn't real, this is not real. You watch her

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looking at the police officers. Her eyes are wide as saucers,

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they're wide open, and she's staring in just utter shock

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back at the officers. I just walked in the house.

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We're supposed to just have an evening and now I'm

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down here and you're telling me she's dead. Her mouth.

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Cash's mouth literally dropped open as she stood there listening

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to what these officers were telling her. But it was true,

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this was real, and now police wanted to take Cash

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down to the station to talk to her about these

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traumatic events that had just unfolded before her eyes. And

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she gets in the car. She agrees to do this,

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and just looking down at her hands, they are they're

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literally covered in blood, and the gravity of what had

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just occurred was just simply overwhelming. It was it was

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too much. And she's thinking, my god, Oh my god,

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what am I gonna tell Mo's mom? What do I

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tell her Mama? How am I going to share this? Oh?

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My god? Mo Is gone. So at the station, Cash

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was escorted into an interrogation room for further questioning, and

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she guided the investigators through everything that I've just shared

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with you, and she wanted to go to the bathroom,

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but before she was allowed to do that, they're like, sorry,

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but we're gonna we're gonna have to get some photographs

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of you and do some things before you can go

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to the bathroom. So they bring in and the photographer.

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They take pictures of her. This includes her bloody hands.

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They took a DNA sample from her as well as

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swabbed her hands for gunshot residue before they finally let

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her go to the bathroom and wash up. And so

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she goes in there. She shuts the door and she

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turns on the faucet, letting the water flow, and the

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basic act of hand washing would become another tragedy in

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00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:33.759
and of itself, because she puts her hands under the

465
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.799
water and as she's rubbing them together, that clear water

466
00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:43.640
quickly became brown and rusty, and she's washing her hands

467
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:48.279
and she's watching it just go down the drain and

468
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.440
as she's doing this, she's watching that water just disappear,

469
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:57.119
and then eventually the water turned back clear, all of

470
00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:00.720
the blood washed off and gone down the pipes. And

471
00:29:01.839 --> 00:29:06.720
emotion is a very very strange thing. Grief is very strange.

472
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:12.680
But in that moment, Cash wanted that bloodback, She wanted

473
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.359
to pull it back out of the sink because that

474
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:17.960
was all that she physically had left of her friend,

475
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.119
and she felt like she had just washed her away.

476
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:25.200
Her hands were clean, and it felt like her friend

477
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:30.920
was gone well. Back at the house, Moe still remained

478
00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.559
dead on the floor. Crime scene and investigator detectives and

479
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.920
all that they show up and photos of this crime

480
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:42.160
scene documentation was in full force. The home was one

481
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:47.279
that was fresh, It was orderly. It was reminiscent of

482
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.480
an outdoorsy young person. When you walked in there there

483
00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:55.440
were ivs and plants that were neatly potted on the porch.

484
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.680
Inside of the house, it was not fussy or dramatic.

485
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:03.759
It was light, would floors, white cabinets. It was simple

486
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.839
and easy. There were stairs. When you walk through the

487
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:09.880
front door to your left, there were some stairs that

488
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:15.279
led up surrounded by this basic white banister. And the home,

489
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:17.039
like I told you, was more of like a studio

490
00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:20.880
apartment that was two levels. Now that main entry, like

491
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:24.160
I told you, when you walk in that door, you

492
00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:27.519
were directly into a very open space that was a

493
00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:32.559
shared living room slash kitchen. There was a stackable washer

494
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:37.200
and dryer that was neatly nestled into an inset area

495
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.799
on the back wall, right next to the fridge, and

496
00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:45.359
then right next to that stackable to the left, there

497
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:47.680
was a door. And that door is the one that

498
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.319
opened up to the bathroom where Maria lay, and so

499
00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.079
you could easily see everything by just taking a couple

500
00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:58.599
of steps from the time that you walk in the

501
00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:00.400
front door. And there's a reason that I'm telling you

502
00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:04.240
this as the story progresses. So by now it was

503
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:08.200
very clear that Moe had been shot multiple times, which

504
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:11.759
it appeared to be from a pistol, but Cash had

505
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:14.640
not noticed due to all the stress and the shock

506
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:17.599
of coming upon the scene. Cash had noticed this, but

507
00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:21.799
there were multiple bullet casings on the floor around Moe

508
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:27.119
and some outside of the room. So whoever had pointed

509
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:30.200
that trigger or pointed that gun and pulled that trigger

510
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.799
had the evidence that they were there was plain to see.

511
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.200
They had not tried to pick it up or clean

512
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.079
up the area. Now. Notably, the gun was missing from

513
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:43.920
the scene, and this matters because that's proof that this

514
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:46.599
was not a suicide. You can't shoot yourself multiple times

515
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:50.640
and then the gun disappear. But there was also no

516
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:54.640
sign of a struggle at all. There was no tossed furniture,

517
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.880
nothing was knocked over, nothing slid off with the counters.

518
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:03.759
There wasn't blood anywhere except where the body was poured out, obviously,

519
00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:05.559
but it wasn't like swiped down the walls like there

520
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:08.640
had been a fight for life, and the door was

521
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:12.519
not forced to open. So the question is did Mariah

522
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:16.519
know her killer and let this person in or was

523
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.960
it possible that she had been taken by surprise while

524
00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:23.160
she was in the bathroom and attacked there. Well, this

525
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:26.960
was yet to be known, but police knew that they

526
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:31.039
would have to continue to work the scene and start

527
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:35.799
right there and then work their way outward. Well, Moe's

528
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:38.119
body was going to be sent for autopsy, and the

529
00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:45.400
examiner's findings showed brutality that was concluded by absolute execution.

530
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:50.000
This shooting was purposeful and it was meant to kill

531
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:55.279
Mo with every shot that was taken. The first shot

532
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:58.759
Mo took was to the face. She was shot through

533
00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.519
the right side of her face and the bullet went

534
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.559
straight through, blowing out of the left side of her jaw.

535
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.240
The second gun shot was also to the right side

536
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:15.440
of her head and it exited through her chin, so

537
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.079
what you're seeing here is kind of like a downward trajectory.

538
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:24.079
And then the final bullet that was shot went through

539
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:29.119
Moe's chest completely and it exited partially through her back.

540
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:33.079
But because she must have been already lying down on

541
00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:36.599
the ground. It did not fully penetrate her back, and

542
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:38.640
that is why that is believed to have been the

543
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:42.039
final execution shot was the one to the chest. It

544
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:46.079
was also noted that Moe's index finger had also been shot,

545
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.880
but it was believed that that was part of like

546
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.480
a defensive wound where you throw your hands up in

547
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:58.160
protection of yourself, because the bullet went through her finger,

548
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:01.640
but then was the same bullet that struck her body

549
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:05.039
at some point as well. So what I'm telling you

550
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:09.000
here is that Moe never stood a chance. Never she

551
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:11.599
was shot twice in the head and then an execution

552
00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:16.480
shot to the chest. This was the term cold blooded murder.

553
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:21.280
This was it to a t, so as police initially

554
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:25.920
saw it, the killer either came in or was let

555
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:31.440
in and then surprised Moe, where she likely retreated back

556
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:35.079
to the bathroom after you as she was being shot.

557
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:39.880
She then collapsed on the bathroom floor and was shot

558
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:42.960
again and never was able to get up from from

559
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:47.039
that spot, dying right where she was found. So the

560
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.920
last person to have seen Mo, according to what everyone

561
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:53.000
had said to this point, was that friend Colin. So

562
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:57.119
the following morning on the twelfth, investigators went to his

563
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:00.679
home very early to ask him some questions. Now lived

564
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:04.159
in a nice middle class home. It was a brick house.

565
00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:07.760
It had a garage, and the door was open on

566
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.760
that garage when they approached, and Colin was actively working

567
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:16.239
on a bicycle whenever they walk in, so he kind

568
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:19.639
of greets them, Oh, hey, how are y'all. He's Colin's

569
00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:23.639
tall and lanky, but he's but he's lean and he's fit. Okay.

570
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:26.719
He's kind of a toned guy, super chill, low key,

571
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.639
very calm attitude, and he did not seem to be

572
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.000
worked up at all that police were there at his house.

573
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.920
He was pleasant, very normal. He was very casually dressed.

574
00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:40.960
He was barefoot, in shorts and a T shirt. Just

575
00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:44.840
very average looking dude that seemed like he was not

576
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:48.760
expecting company of any sort to be walking up. And

577
00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:52.159
so they introduced themselves and they asked him do you

578
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:57.719
know Anna? And he says no, I do not, and

579
00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:01.039
they go you don't and he says, no, I don't

580
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:04.239
know who Anna is. And so he looks down at

581
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.239
his paperwork. The detective does and he goes, okay, what

582
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.519
about a Mariah? And he says oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.

583
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:13.719
Quickly he goes, oh, oh yeah, yeah yeah. That's when

584
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:18.639
they realize that Moe's first name was actually Anna. Okay,

585
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.400
so when they when they clarified this, he says, oh, yes, absolutely,

586
00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.719
I know Mo. We're friends. We both are gravel riders

587
00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:29.639
and you know I met her through writing and she's

588
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.679
my friend. And he's just kind of like looking at

589
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.760
him like, but you know why. And that's when the

590
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:39.280
police break the news to him that she's dead. They say,

591
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.039
there is no easy way to say this to you,

592
00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:49.880
but Mariah passed away last night. Genuine shock is on

593
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.719
his face. His mouth drops open, just like cash Is

594
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:57.960
did when they when she was talking to police and

595
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:02.559
they told her. His mouth and there is an extremely

596
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:06.360
long pause where he just kind of looks up and

597
00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:11.719
stares off in the distance. His hands are on his hips.

598
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:15.079
He's just silent. He looks like the wind had been

599
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.800
knocked out of him. And the police officers said nothing

600
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.760
at this point. They just stood there and it's a

601
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.800
long pause and he just stares off into the distance,

602
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:28.280
and then eventually it's like he comes back around and

603
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.920
he looks at the cop and he goes, Okay, what happened,

604
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:35.880
and they say, look, she was killed last night, and

605
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.360
that's what we're trying to figure out. You were the

606
00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:40.760
last one with her as far as we know, so

607
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:43.079
we need you to come down to the station and

608
00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:46.159
talk to us. And he says, okay, no problem, and

609
00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:50.800
he goes straight down to the station for questioning. So

610
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.159
he confirms that they had been out the night before.

611
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:56.559
He said, we went swimming at a place called Big Eddies,

612
00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.679
and then we had burgers at a little joint down

613
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.920
the road before I dropped her back off at home.

614
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:05.199
And so they asked a little bit more about can

615
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.320
you tell us more about how that happened whatever? He says,

616
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:11.880
we rode my motorcycle that night, and he said when

617
00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:14.360
I dropped her back off, it was on my motorcycle

618
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.800
at the house. And they say, okay, so can you

619
00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:20.840
tell me more about how how did y'all meet? How

620
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:22.360
do y'all how did y'all become friends? I know you

621
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.679
said y'all were racers and he says, yeah, we originally

622
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:27.960
met back at a race a while back, and he

623
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:32.239
said she was absolutely the greatest female biker he had

624
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:36.559
ever seen, and considering that he himself was a professional biker.

625
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:41.119
He knew true talent whenever he saw it, and his

626
00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:46.599
explanation was like, this is once in a lifetime level talent. Now,

627
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:49.079
when I say that Colin was a professional racer, this

628
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:52.360
is legit. He was very successful, and he also already

629
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.480
had big sponsors, ones like Red Bull, and Mariah was

630
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:00.559
at the level where she was getting sponsors now and

631
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:04.400
she could really benefit from someone with experience. And so

632
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:10.440
they liked to talk about biking and about about cycling

633
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:12.000
and everything that I had to do with it on

634
00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:16.039
a professional business level. And so that's really how they

635
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.400
had hit it off. He said, I build bikes, I

636
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.440
do training rides. Mariah and I even went on a

637
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.039
couple of training rides in the past, and so she

638
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:27.800
needed to grow and gather her sponsorships. So it was

639
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:33.039
just a natural friendship based on mutual respect for the sport.

640
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:35.360
So they say, okay, can you tell us a little

641
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:39.079
bit more about you. Colin says, yeah, I have a

642
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:43.119
girlfriend that that lives with me. She's also my business

643
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:48.119
partner of sorts. She runs the financial part of my business.

644
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:52.360
He said. Our relationship has been on and off. We're

645
00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:56.599
off right now, but we are remaining living together because

646
00:39:56.599 --> 00:39:59.199
it was not only a good fit for this you know,

647
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:02.800
the business dealing and such, but she knew all of

648
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:05.000
the ins and outs. She had been running his business

649
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.320
for a long time. She knew all the passwords, all

650
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:11.280
the banking, that level of intertwining into their lives. So

651
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:15.719
it just made sense for them to maintain partners even

652
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:19.280
though the relationship had, you know, not not made it.

653
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:23.800
They maintained different bedrooms in the house, but the reason

654
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.079
they stayed also was because they both uh maintained bedroom

655
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:32.000
separate bedrooms in the house. Okay, but because they both

656
00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:34.719
had ownership in the home, like financially they both had

657
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.800
invested in that house. It was working for them in

658
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:41.159
that manner to just sleep in separate bedrooms but not

659
00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:43.679
have to go through all the you know, property splitting

660
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.679
or whatever. For the moment. So the investigators kind of

661
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:50.079
were like, Okay, look, dude, was there anything going on

662
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:54.800
with Mariah maybe sexually or you all have in a relationship,

663
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:58.679
because her autopsy is going to show us if you

664
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.199
were having sex with her or anything of that nature.

665
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:07.000
And Colin was adamant, absolutely not nothing of the sort.

666
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.280
Do the autopsy whatever, You're not gonna find my DNA

667
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.079
anywhere as far as that's concerned. He said, we've never

668
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:18.760
even kissed. So the way he answered that question too,

669
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:23.199
because you know there's everything's videotaped, he was not observably

670
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:27.199
rattled by that question as an outsider looking in either.

671
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.440
He was just answering the questions very matter of fact.

672
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:34.960
So the investigators at some point left the room to

673
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.199
go do whatever. I don't know what they were doing.

674
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.559
Sometimes that's a tactic to just see what somebody will do.

675
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:43.079
But after he was alone and kind of left with

676
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:48.159
his own thoughts in the silence, he became extremely emotional.

677
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:54.400
He you know, when people get fearful or people get scared,

678
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:57.679
they tend to like make their bodies very small. Even

679
00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:59.519
when we're defensive, we do that, you know, we cover

680
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:03.199
our chests, we pull up our legs or whatever. Well,

681
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:06.840
he even damn near got on the floor in the

682
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:10.360
fetal position at one point, like leaning against the wall,

683
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:14.440
and he just kept repeating over and over, no, no, no, no,

684
00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:19.960
no no. He really looked to be hurting and overwhelmed

685
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.480
by everything that was happening, everything that was being thrown

686
00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.360
at him, and he was starting to pay the emotional

687
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:29.599
price right there in the room. So investigators would come

688
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.679
back and they would press further into Colin and ask

689
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:36.440
him more about this on again, off again girlfriend and

690
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:38.760
they're like, would she know anything or have anything to

691
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:43.559
do with this possibly? And Colin confirmed, well, you know

692
00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:47.599
the women, they're not friends. My girlfriend. Caitlyn and Moe

693
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:53.400
were not friends with one another, and he said, you know, Caitlyn,

694
00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.800
my ex. She didn't really like Mo either, so like

695
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:58.840
they weren't best friends or anything. So they knew who

696
00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:01.800
each other were, but they weren't friends or anything, and

697
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:04.480
so they had to ask. Investigators are like, okay, well,

698
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.920
why why didn't she like Mo? And he explained that

699
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:10.760
after one of the recent races, and by recent, I

700
00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:13.400
mean I think it was the prior year, but one

701
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:17.679
of the races in the past. Afterwards, Mo and Colin

702
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:21.599
had a beer together and they talked about her writing future,

703
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.719
the sport, what she could look forward to as she advanced.

704
00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:28.920
He said it was strictly platonic, but Caitlyn had gotten

705
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.599
upset by it that he went and had this beer

706
00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:36.039
with Mo, and Caitlyn ended up getting so upset that

707
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.679
they got in a huge fight while they were driving home.

708
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:42.880
And they broke up at that point, but they again,

709
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:45.840
they still remained roommates, they were still business partners. That

710
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:48.679
was a while back, and that was you know, water

711
00:43:48.760 --> 00:43:51.920
under the bridge or whatever. But that's why they didn't

712
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:55.480
like one another. So all right, cool looking into Mo,

713
00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:59.159
they wanted investigators wanted to kind of get more about her,

714
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:02.440
what was she about? And what they quickly found was

715
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:06.000
that Moe was just not a high risk victim. She

716
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:08.559
was definitely not someone you would expect to be murdered

717
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:11.280
like this. She did not do drugs, She did not

718
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:13.960
hang with a rough and tumble crowd. She didn't go

719
00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:19.519
starting fights. Moe was low, low key. She liked to cook,

720
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:23.400
she liked to write, Her favorite thing was taco Tuesdays,

721
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:28.159
and she liked traveling. But most importantly, what was discovered

722
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:31.679
about Moe was that she loved spending time alone and

723
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:37.800
in her head. She liked challenging herself physically on the bike,

724
00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.239
you know, pushing herself to the max. But she really

725
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:44.119
was someone who liked to use her mental toughness, her

726
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:49.000
mental strength to push through and complete her training. The

727
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:51.440
other thing you have to realize, too, is that Moe

728
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.719
was not from Texas. Where she was just brutally murdered,

729
00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:57.400
so it wasn't like she had established enemies there. She's

730
00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:59.840
in a completely different state than where she's even from.

731
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:03.159
She had just flown in days prior when Cash picked

732
00:45:03.159 --> 00:45:05.960
her up at the airport and brought her to the house,

733
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:11.440
So detectives chose to look for more physical evidence to

734
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:14.800
try to piece all of this together. So, after Mo's

735
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:19.039
body was removed from the property, police were still scouring

736
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:21.079
the outside area to see if there was anything that

737
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:24.400
they could find that might lend itself to an explanation.

738
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:28.039
And Cash had told them that there was only one

739
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.920
thing missing from the house, so they didn't think that

740
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.280
this was a robbery because nothing of value so to speak,

741
00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:39.920
was taken except Moe's bike. Moe's bike was missing, Well

742
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.239
why the fuck would somebody steal a bike? But then

743
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:44.159
it's like, oh, well, I mean unless it was maybe

744
00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:47.119
their getaway method that would make sense, So I don't know.

745
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.639
Maybe you go into to burglarize the house, you get

746
00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:53.199
surprised by moving there because you don't think there's a car,

747
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:55.280
or you don't see a car, so you don't think

748
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.519
somebody is there. Oh no shots fired, and then you

749
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:01.679
steal the bike as a getaway, that's plausible, that makes sense.

750
00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:07.719
But then just roughly seventy feet from the house, the

751
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:13.199
apartment whatever, there was some dense bamboo and investigators found

752
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:17.440
Moe's bike up inside of that bamboo. This is her

753
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:25.559
prized and expensive bike just haphazardly tossed into this bamboo.

754
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:29.840
But her body was inside shot to death. So the

755
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.719
bike's not that far from the scene. It just okay,

756
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:35.400
doesn't fit now, that doesn't make sense. If you were

757
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.039
going to take the bike as a getaway, why would

758
00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:41.119
you dump it just seventy feet away. So they had

759
00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:43.840
to keep they had to keep thinking on this one.

760
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:47.719
So cameras obviously would be an excellent thing to locate

761
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:51.360
and see what could be found. If anything could be found. Well,

762
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:55.199
Cash was able to give more information after she had

763
00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:58.239
calmed down a bit that would really really assist in

764
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:01.519
creating a timeline of events. And it all had to

765
00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:04.760
do with the lock on the apartment. Because the lock

766
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:08.079
on the residents wasn't just a simple turnkey style lock.

767
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:10.719
It was actually electronic and so it could be opened

768
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.800
two ways, either by using the key or by entering

769
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:18.440
a code. Well, if a code was entered. It would

770
00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:23.360
notify Cash anytime that the house was unlocked, so it

771
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:27.360
would timestamp when someone was entering the home. Well, based

772
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.960
on her records, the system was showing Cash that at

773
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:35.360
five point fifty five pm the lock was set, so

774
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:38.599
that would have been whenever Mo left to go swim

775
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:44.280
with Colin. It unlocked again at exactly eight thirty six pm,

776
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:47.800
and the code that was used was a unique code

777
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:52.920
specifically given to just Mo to unlock the house. It

778
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.039
wasn't the main code, so it had to be Mo

779
00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:58.920
that unlocked the door unless she gave it to somebody else, okay,

780
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.320
which they weren't believing that to be the case. So

781
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:04.719
that meant that Moe's murder happened between eight thirty six

782
00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:10.960
and the nine one one call placed about nine fifty okay,

783
00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:14.239
so we have about about an hour and a few

784
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:18.000
minutes to work with here. So using that time reference,

785
00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:21.159
police were able to locate a camera on a neighbor's

786
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:27.880
house that pointed at the driveway, including where Cash's stairs

787
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:31.400
were located. So one more time, the main house faced

788
00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:34.800
the road and then there was like an alleyway that

789
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:38.800
you would turn into to go past the house, and

790
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:41.480
then that's where the garage was located, and the stairs

791
00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:44.760
and the apartment that led above the garage were right

792
00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:50.079
off that alleyway. So using the time reference that they had,

793
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:54.079
police did find that camera and they could see down

794
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.199
that alleyway, and watching the tape, police saw a dark

795
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:03.559
suv past at eight thirty seven pm. This is just

796
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:07.679
one minute after the lock on the apartment had been

797
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.480
disabled by mo. So the suv came nearly to a

798
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:14.119
stop and they knew that because they could see the

799
00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:19.000
break lights light up, and it had some specific features

800
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.679
on it that made it stand out, one being a

801
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:25.840
luggage rack on the top of it, the other being

802
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:33.400
a bike rack mounted on the hitch. Incredibly, this was

803
00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:37.679
the only vehicle to pass by at all until the

804
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:41.519
first responder vehicles came flying up about an hour and

805
00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:45.400
a half later, the only vehicle to be seen. So

806
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:49.719
focusing on this as a lead, a detective was kind

807
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:52.559
of thinking back and he's like, man, that vehicle looks

808
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:56.159
really similar to the one in the driveway when we

809
00:49:56.239 --> 00:50:00.000
went to go talk to Colin the day after the murder.

810
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:04.360
So a review of that bodycam footage would show, in

811
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.880
fact that there were three vehicles in the driveway whenever

812
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:11.960
they went by. There was a BMW motorcycle, there was

813
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.880
a Mercedes car, and then there was a jeep Grand Cherokee.

814
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:20.079
Colin owned the bike and the Mercedes. Caitlin, the ex

815
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:25.119
girlfriend that lived there, owned the Grand Cherokee. That Grand

816
00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:30.559
Cherokee also had a bike rack on the hitch and

817
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:33.880
a luggage rack. So I don't know what you think

818
00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:37.119
about that, but most people would say that's a clue.

819
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:42.559
But when Colin was asked about whether Colin knew where

820
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:48.679
Moe was, he said absolutely not. Not only did Caitlyn

821
00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:52.320
not know that Moe was in town or that Moe

822
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:57.360
was there, Caitlyn didn't know Cash, so Caitlyn wouldn't have

823
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:01.039
known where Cash lived. There was no link there between

824
00:51:01.280 --> 00:51:07.719
Caitlin and the location of Mo or Cash. But remember

825
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:11.559
how I said that Moe really loved to do things,

826
00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:13.079
you know, the cooking and all of that, and she

827
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:16.519
also liked to write a lot. Well, this would actually

828
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:20.400
come into play because Mo was an avid journaler. She

829
00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.760
documented everything, her thoughts and all of that, and her

830
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:29.280
journal was found, which the entries that she wrote in there,

831
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:32.440
when they were reviewed would shed some more light on

832
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:37.800
her interactions with Colin. So Moe had written in some

833
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:41.519
entries about how much she liked Colin and that the

834
00:51:41.559 --> 00:51:44.639
affection or the interactions between them was starting to really

835
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:47.480
charm her. She was smitten, is what I would call it.

836
00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:51.519
But she had also documented later on after that that

837
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:54.119
it seemed like he had been pulling back and the

838
00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:58.280
communication wasn't necessarily what she thought it was, so she

839
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:02.039
wasn't very clear about his feeling or what his thoughts were,

840
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:03.920
and she was very clear that she was now kind

841
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:06.599
of didn't know what to think about and wasn't very

842
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:11.000
sure about what to think. And she also wrote in

843
00:52:11.039 --> 00:52:14.039
there that she went to an event and she ran

844
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:17.400
into Colin with Caitlin, so they were on again at

845
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:20.320
that point, I guess, And she said how awkward it

846
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:24.960
was and it was just super uncomfortable. Later on in

847
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:27.719
a writing she said that they eventually spoke about this,

848
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:31.639
that they had cleared the air, that she and Colin

849
00:52:31.719 --> 00:52:34.639
were not on the same page, there would not be

850
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:37.840
a relationship between them, but that was okay with her.

851
00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:41.960
This was not some full blown love affair, if that

852
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.119
is what was believed to be possibly happening, and so

853
00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:47.760
it kind of solidified that there may have been some flirtation,

854
00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:51.000
maybe some possible interest, but they had kind of talked

855
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:56.119
through this and they weren't going to be dating. But

856
00:52:56.199 --> 00:53:00.400
then people that knew Colin kind of started rumbling a

857
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:05.440
little bit. There were expressions of Colin not being very

858
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:09.840
open and honest about his relationship with Caitlin. Now I

859
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:15.159
mean this historically speaking so like she was with him,

860
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.440
but he was much less likely to mention if he

861
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:21.679
was with her, okay, depending on who he was with

862
00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:24.519
and what he was doing. And so when investigators were

863
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:29.320
initially questioning Colin, he was talking with them about his

864
00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:32.519
last interactions with Mo, and he was like, yeah, look

865
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:35.039
and he takes his phone, he turns it around and

866
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:40.360
he shows them the last communication. But the investigator noticed

867
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:43.239
that there was something very curious about this because when

868
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:48.039
Colin showed him the phone, it didn't say MO. It

869
00:53:48.159 --> 00:53:51.559
said the name Christine Wall on the screen. So obviously

870
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:56.000
they wanted answers, is this really Mo? And if it

871
00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:59.719
is Mo, then why is her name changed? If things

872
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:02.599
are strictly platonic. You know, it's just natural questions that

873
00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:06.000
you would kind of wonder. Well, Colin explained, Okay, look

874
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.639
a while back, Moe and I had sort of kind

875
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:12.559
of started talking. I don't know if I would call

876
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:15.199
it dating, but they were kind of talking. And that

877
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:18.320
had been during a breakup with Caitlin, but it was

878
00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:23.760
in the past and that was no more. But what

879
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:26.840
happened was once they hashed that out, that they were

880
00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:32.519
not on the same page. Previous to that, Caitlin had

881
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:35.559
been looking in Colin's phone and had blocked a bunch

882
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.400
of people without his knowledge because she would go through

883
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:40.320
his phone, he wouldn't know, and she would go blocking

884
00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:44.400
people without telling him. And so Moe and him had

885
00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:46.639
hashed things out. It wasn't going to be a relationship

886
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:49.840
or anything, but he still wanted to be in contact

887
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.760
with Mo for the racing world and all the business building,

888
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:56.480
and so he didn't want Caitlyn to go in and

889
00:54:56.559 --> 00:55:00.639
block MO because she still had access to his phone.

890
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:03.800
So they're like, all right, I get it, all right,

891
00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:06.159
that makes sense, But who exactly is Caitlin? Now? Okay,

892
00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:08.480
we want to know more about this about this girl? Well,

893
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:15.119
Caitlin was described as a very compassionate, very kind, smart,

894
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:19.679
and very I would say like mother. Earthy vibes are

895
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:23.480
given off by her very natural kind of granola. If

896
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:26.239
that makes I use that word, I say someone's crunchy

897
00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.840
or they're kind of granola. She did cycle too, though,

898
00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:34.960
she cycled with with Colin, and she was super into

899
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:39.760
things like yoga and you know, natural healing stuff like that.

900
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:43.920
But she was also very knowledgeable in finance, and so

901
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:49.920
that her finance knowledge was actually really really strong, and

902
00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:52.719
so when she was working doing the managerial things for

903
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:56.239
the business, that really made it easy for Colin to

904
00:55:56.280 --> 00:55:59.159
focus on his cycling career and all the other aspects

905
00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.639
of things that he needed to do. And low key,

906
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:05.199
this is just your girl Kelly talking. But Moe and

907
00:56:05.639 --> 00:56:09.639
Caitlyn kind of favored each other too. So what I'll

908
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:13.719
say is Colin had a type, all right. So both

909
00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:18.840
of these women, long and lean, fit, long brown hair,

910
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:22.400
more natural beauty, not a ton of makeup type stuff.

911
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:26.320
So that's kind of the vibe you get from Caitlin,

912
00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:30.760
not like a dangerous criminal or anything like that. So

913
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:33.840
they did ask Colin also about weapons. Do you own

914
00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:37.000
any weapons? And he said, yep, I own a gun.

915
00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:38.719
I do I have one? He said, Actually I have two,

916
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:43.079
he said a while back, whenever they were dating, he

917
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:46.039
and Caitlyn. He had bought him one and he had

918
00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:50.360
also bought Caitlyn one. But he said, I've never shot

919
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:54.000
the guns. They're actually still in the case. I've never

920
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:57.880
had anything to do with the gun. The caliber, he said,

921
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:00.199
was a nine millimeter and that, by the way, I

922
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:02.760
will let you know, was the same caliber used to

923
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:07.440
kill Mariah. So when asked directly by the police, all right, Colin,

924
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:10.800
do you think that Caitlyn could have done this, he

925
00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:15.280
was adamant. They may have been ex's, but he was adamant,

926
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:19.519
absolutely not. She's not capable of something like that. You've

927
00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:24.239
got this wrong, okay, because that's just not who who

928
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.480
Caitlyn is. So police are not going to take anyone's

929
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:29.239
word for that, obviously, and so they wanted to have

930
00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:33.119
a word with Caitlin, and they brought her in. Now.

931
00:57:33.159 --> 00:57:36.679
Once in the interrogation room, she does ask, okay, I

932
00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:38.920
need to know why I'm here. Okay, why am I

933
00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:42.599
in this interrogation room? And police mentioned to her that

934
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:46.039
a woman in the cycling community had passed away and

935
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:49.960
that her name had come up whenever Colin was being questioned.

936
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:56.159
So immediately Caitlin does not like this. I'm not saying

937
00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:58.159
that she was yelling and screaming anything like that. Nothing

938
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:00.360
of that nature. Very calm, very but she's can tell

939
00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:03.239
that She's like, wait what and kind of draws back

940
00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:06.760
from this, and so she does ask for an attorney

941
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:09.360
whenever she figures out, wait a second, I'm being talked

942
00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:12.400
about about a murder. I think I want an attorney.

943
00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:16.840
And the police say, look, I just want to ask

944
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:19.800
you some basic questions. You are not under arrest, You

945
00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:23.199
are free to go. But Colin told us that you

946
00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:26.599
were very upset a while back whenever he had gone

947
00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:30.079
out with Moe. Wants to have a beer, and Caitlyn says, yeah,

948
00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:33.039
you know, she's hesitant, but she's she's kind of shaking

949
00:58:33.079 --> 00:58:36.920
her head when when they're telling her this, But she says,

950
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:41.880
but that's somewhat inaccurate, you know, to tie me being

951
00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:45.079
upset about that back then to something that's happened right now.

952
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:47.760
And so the more that they say Colin was saying

953
00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.480
she didn't like mo, Caitlyn becomes much more frustrated that

954
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:54.559
her name was even brought up into the mix. And

955
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:57.119
so she gets frustrated and she wants to leave. She says,

956
00:58:57.159 --> 00:58:59.920
I'm leaving. I'm very uncomfortable right now with with what

957
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.360
with what's happening, and I'd like to go. So the

958
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:05.519
investigator says, that's fine, but I need to tell you something.

959
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:11.199
She said, we saw your vehicle outside of the house,

960
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.920
and if you can't answer questions about why we think

961
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:18.280
we saw your vehicle outside of the house before this

962
00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:22.199
writer was murdered, that doesn't look very good and that's

963
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:26.599
all that we have to go off of. Caitlyn says, nope,

964
00:59:27.239 --> 00:59:31.199
I'm done. This is wild. I want to leave, and

965
00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:34.880
she does so, but not before police take her cell

966
00:59:34.920 --> 00:59:38.480
phone as well as Collins as evidence to go look

967
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:41.400
at and see if they can find something that may

968
00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:45.119
connect the two. But Caitlyn ends up leaving the police department.

969
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:51.000
But police had another issue here. If Caitlyn's SUV was

970
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:54.920
the same vehicle seen on tape, if it even was okay,

971
00:59:56.159 --> 01:00:00.000
what if Colin was driving the vehicle and not Caitlyn

972
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:03.679
Because you could not see the driver in the video.

973
01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:07.920
That was kind of a big issue to try to

974
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:11.079
figure out if this was even the same vehicle. So

975
01:00:11.159 --> 01:00:13.639
police had to take their time. They kept digging. They

976
01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:16.000
were looking for more evidence and it would pay off

977
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:19.559
because the landlord that rented the apartment above the garage

978
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:22.559
to Cash was the same guy he actually lived in

979
01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:25.880
that house. He wasn't renting the house, so he would

980
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:28.599
tell police that on the very night of the murder,

981
01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:33.519
he was actually in his garage below the apartment when

982
01:00:33.559 --> 01:00:37.320
he heard what sounded like someone running down the stairs

983
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.079
very quickly. And he said, my garage door was actually up,

984
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:44.920
so not all the way but kind of partially open.

985
01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:47.480
And he said, after I heard the feet running down

986
01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:51.559
the stairs, I saw someone ride a bike past the

987
01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:55.000
garage door. All right, Well, that's kind of fitting in

988
01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:59.320
with sort of what police thought may have happened. But

989
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:05.519
ror surveillance footage would be provided to police from a house,

990
01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:10.440
and this device was much different than the original surveillance

991
01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:15.079
footage that they had because this one constantly filmed. It

992
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:18.480
was not motion activated that just filmed when someone pulled

993
01:01:18.559 --> 01:01:20.800
up like a ring camera or something like that. That

994
01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:24.239
meant that it was recording all the time, and that

995
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:27.719
would hopefully mean that it was recording during the time

996
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:32.639
that the murder took place. Not only that, but this

997
01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:40.119
camera had audio. It recorded sound and visual constantly. So

998
01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:42.920
detectives are like scrambling, holy shit, we got to look

999
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:46.119
at this. So they get it. They open it up,

1000
01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:50.760
and sure enough, at approximately nine to fifteen pm on

1001
01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:54.800
the night of the murder, you can hear very clearly

1002
01:01:55.360 --> 01:02:02.960
a female scream out, very very loud, followed by two gunshots.

1003
01:02:03.719 --> 01:02:10.920
There's then a six second pause, and then a third gunshot. Unbelievably,

1004
01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:16.199
it seemed that the murder of Moe Wilson had been

1005
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:20.960
captured on audio. That is unheard of that you would

1006
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:27.559
actually get that clearly too. So let me ask you something.

1007
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:33.280
What do you think Moe's last moments sounded like like,

1008
01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:35.440
can you envision it? Can you hear it? Well, get

1009
01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:39.840
ready because you're about to hear them for yourself. Please

1010
01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:43.639
don't let this get lost on you. What I'm playing

1011
01:02:43.760 --> 01:03:01.000
it is not theatrics. This is real life terror. What

1012
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:06.079
do you think about that? What did you hear just now?

1013
01:03:06.559 --> 01:03:11.880
Because I know what I heard when I first listened.

1014
01:03:13.119 --> 01:03:17.400
What I heard was that Moe realized that someone was

1015
01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:21.559
in that apartment with a gun. She saw it. She

1016
01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:28.480
started screaming out of absolute life, you know, potential life ending,

1017
01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:34.199
sheer terror, and then she started running away from her assailant.

1018
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:37.719
That is what I heard no, no, or screaming, and

1019
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:41.400
then she turns from her assailant. But the problem at

1020
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:44.920
that point was that she had nowhere to go. Remember,

1021
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:48.320
there's only up the stairs in that door to enter in,

1022
01:03:48.920 --> 01:03:52.559
so the shooter was in between the only exit and Moe.

1023
01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.679
So when she saw that gun come through the door,

1024
01:03:56.199 --> 01:03:59.039
she yelled out and then she tore off, running in

1025
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:02.000
the opposite direction of the door to the furthest point

1026
01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:06.960
that she could, which was the bathroom right there. She

1027
01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:11.760
was shot just as she was turning no, no, right,

1028
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:15.280
and she shot as she's running just basically ten fifteen

1029
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:18.559
feet Twice she is shot in the face and in

1030
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:21.599
the head. Moe manages to make it though to that

1031
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:25.039
back bathroom, which was just steps away. She collapsed on

1032
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:28.320
the bathroom floor, falling back on her back, and as

1033
01:04:28.360 --> 01:04:32.639
she lay there, you're hearing that pause, she looked up

1034
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.800
as her killer had just taken seconds to catch up

1035
01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:40.679
to her, and that killer she looked at her as

1036
01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:45.840
that murderer then stood over her, pointed the gun at

1037
01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:50.760
her chest, and pulled the trigger, effectively ending her life

1038
01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:56.480
right then. That is horrifying to me to even think

1039
01:04:56.559 --> 01:05:00.360
like I can visualize what Mo saw and what she endured,

1040
01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:03.800
and even though it was just seconds, you heard it, guys,

1041
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:07.079
You heard it as it played out, and so did

1042
01:05:07.079 --> 01:05:09.840
the police. And this only fueled the fire in them

1043
01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:12.679
to solve this murder, and to solve it quickly. There

1044
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:15.360
had to be more cameras in the area. There had

1045
01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:17.920
to be more. We've heard it, We've seen this car

1046
01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:20.159
come by. Now all we got to do is figure

1047
01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:23.159
out the rest. And I know that sounds like you

1048
01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:25.119
know a lot, and it is, but they were going

1049
01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:26.960
to do it. They had to figure this out, and

1050
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:31.480
they were able to eventually piece together Moe's final movements

1051
01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:35.840
before her killing using cameras from around town, and what

1052
01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:39.559
they found was that Colin was actually telling the truth.

1053
01:05:40.360 --> 01:05:43.199
He picked Moe up at Cash's house, where Moe locked

1054
01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:46.960
the door just after five, They jumped on the motorcycle.

1055
01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:52.039
They went swimming. Then they ate their scene on camera

1056
01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:55.599
eating very casual, just sitting outside on an outdoor porch.

1057
01:05:56.199 --> 01:06:02.519
While they were eating, Caitlin called Colin, but Colin checks

1058
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:06.639
his phone, but he ignores the call. Whenever they were

1059
01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:11.079
done eating, Colin then drove and dropped Mo off at

1060
01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:15.239
the house on his motorcycle and then he drives off.

1061
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:18.159
It's all seen on camera and that was the last

1062
01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:22.760
contact that he had with Mo. Now, looking into Colin's

1063
01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:27.920
cell phone data, his cell phone showed that his movements

1064
01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:32.039
afterwards were very clearly followed, and it showed that he

1065
01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:36.400
went straight home. Whenever he got home, he then received

1066
01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:40.760
a phone call which he was actively on the phone

1067
01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:44.840
when the murder was taking place. They could line up

1068
01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:47.960
the timeline. There is no way that he could have

1069
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:52.079
been driving the motorcycle straight to the house and then

1070
01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:54.679
answering the phone at the house at the exact same

1071
01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:59.559
time that a jeep drove up and Moe was murdered.

1072
01:07:00.440 --> 01:07:03.599
Proof in itself right there that he was not the murderer.

1073
01:07:03.719 --> 01:07:05.920
He couldn't be, because he couldn't be in two places

1074
01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:10.079
at the same time. But if Caitlin was thought to

1075
01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:14.280
have done this, how would she have found Mo? How

1076
01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:17.480
was there even a link there? She didn't know Cash

1077
01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:20.960
and she did not know where Cash lived. But this

1078
01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:25.920
was answered by detectives in an aha moment when reviewing

1079
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:29.960
evidence that had been taken when a warrant was executed

1080
01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:33.360
on Colin and Caitlyn's home, and one of the things

1081
01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:36.639
that was taken was a laptop, but when the detective

1082
01:07:36.719 --> 01:07:39.239
looked at the brand of the laptop, that's when it

1083
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:43.079
hit him. It was an Apple laptop, and the detective

1084
01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:46.360
started thinking about the fact that Apple products are linked.

1085
01:07:47.599 --> 01:07:51.039
So whenever he turned over the laptop to forensics, they

1086
01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:55.079
were able to confirm that Caitlin was absolutely able to

1087
01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:59.719
see all of Colin's communications, including his texts, via the

1088
01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:03.360
lapp top in live time. She could see it, she

1089
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:05.480
could go look or with in recent time.

1090
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:06.800
Well.

1091
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:10.480
The morning of the murder, Mo had sent a picture

1092
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:14.119
of herself while taking her morning bike ride before the

1093
01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:18.920
swim to Colin. She's on the bike. That means that

1094
01:08:19.079 --> 01:08:22.840
even though she was saved under the name Christine Wall,

1095
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:27.399
Caitlyn would have realized Christine Wall was Mo because she

1096
01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:30.840
sent the picture on the bike. A little while later,

1097
01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:35.119
Moe then sent Cash's address to Colin so he could

1098
01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:39.000
pick her up on the motorcycle. Colin was telling the

1099
01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:41.840
truth when he said that Caitlyn did not know where

1100
01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:44.520
Cash lived, but the reason he was telling the truth

1101
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:46.840
was because he didn't know that he was being watched

1102
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:49.359
the whole time by her and that she was monitoring

1103
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:53.600
his communication, so he really didn't know that Caitlyn now

1104
01:08:53.680 --> 01:08:59.039
knew where she was. Examining Caitlyn's cell phone records wouldn't

1105
01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:03.279
ness Brely become a smoking gun, though, because Caitlin's phone

1106
01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:07.840
didn't register her anywhere near the crime scene whenever they

1107
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:12.359
checked it. A forensic examination would show that Caitlyn's phone

1108
01:09:12.439 --> 01:09:15.920
was either turned off or it was an airplane mode

1109
01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:23.479
right or before the murder. But right before her phone

1110
01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:28.159
switched either to off or airplane mode, they could see

1111
01:09:28.199 --> 01:09:31.359
where the cell phone was, and that's when they saw

1112
01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:38.640
that she was located heading towards the swimming area where

1113
01:09:38.680 --> 01:09:44.000
Colin and Moe were at that time. So what detectives

1114
01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:47.119
wondered was, all right, we don't have any proof of

1115
01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:49.239
putting her there with the cell phone. We know what

1116
01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:51.439
we're thinking, but we've got to find a way to

1117
01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:53.960
put her there other than you know, there's too much

1118
01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:56.720
reasonable doubt here if we can't even put her there.

1119
01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.640
And so that's when they started thinking back about the jeep.

1120
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:04.720
They wondered what all was the jeep equipped with, And

1121
01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:08.600
it turned out that that jeep had an infotainment system,

1122
01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:12.560
and within the infotainment system there was a GPS system.

1123
01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:16.800
So they go and they take that system out and

1124
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:21.319
they have it forensically analyzed, and a review would show

1125
01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:25.920
that it picked up right after where the cell phone

1126
01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:28.359
was shut off, and it was in the exact same

1127
01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:31.439
place as the cell phone, near the swimming hole. And

1128
01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:36.039
then the path that it took was eerie. You can

1129
01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:39.159
almost see this happening. But the car was parked for

1130
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:43.119
a bit near the swimming hole before being placed in

1131
01:10:43.199 --> 01:10:50.079
drive and heading straight to Cash's home. Additional footage from

1132
01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:52.680
other cameras in the area would pick up the jeep

1133
01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:55.920
exactly where it said it would be, and so they

1134
01:10:55.920 --> 01:10:58.079
were able to prove without a doubt that that is

1135
01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:00.359
this jeep in it's on camera right where it says

1136
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:05.720
it was geographically, And so Caitlyn would be followed and

1137
01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:09.560
she would sit and she would wait in a few

1138
01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:13.119
different spots before she would move around and you're the house,

1139
01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:17.119
and periodically on camera you would then see her drive

1140
01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:20.640
by slowly, and then the car would go park, and

1141
01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:23.560
then she'd come back a little while later, drive by

1142
01:11:23.640 --> 01:11:28.079
slowly like a shark in the water, eyeing its next meal,

1143
01:11:28.800 --> 01:11:34.359
but just not yet quite ready to strike. Well. Colin's

1144
01:11:34.439 --> 01:11:39.199
motorcycle then pulls up and it drives off from Cash's

1145
01:11:39.239 --> 01:11:44.960
house at eight thirty five PM, and Caitlyn was, unbeknownst

1146
01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:49.880
to either Moor or Colin, just one to two blocks

1147
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:56.600
away from them this entire time Colin drives off, Moe

1148
01:11:56.720 --> 01:11:59.960
makes her way up the stairs, unlocks the door, which

1149
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:04.479
is alerted on Cash's phone, and once inside, Moe had

1150
01:12:04.560 --> 01:12:07.600
enough time to you know, set down her stuff, and

1151
01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:09.680
then she got on her phone and she was texting

1152
01:12:09.680 --> 01:12:12.079
a podcaster believe it or not, that she was working

1153
01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:18.039
with on a future project. About that time, Caitlin's jeep

1154
01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:22.000
pulls up. Caitlyn gets out of her jeep, made sure

1155
01:12:22.039 --> 01:12:25.199
that her gun was loaded and cocked before creeping up

1156
01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:28.560
the stairs gun in hand under the cloak of darkness.

1157
01:12:29.279 --> 01:12:34.039
When she opened the door, Moe was expecting Cash, not Caitlin,

1158
01:12:34.359 --> 01:12:38.600
but she immediately knew that she was in grave danger.

1159
01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:42.520
It was now nine to fifteen PM as the screaming

1160
01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:46.159
and the gun shouts start ringing out, and you know

1161
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:50.439
what happened from there. The nail in the coffin for

1162
01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:54.600
Caitlin would be the when the ballistics came back. They

1163
01:12:54.600 --> 01:12:57.600
had confiscated both of the guns during the warrnt execution

1164
01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:00.680
of Colin and Caitlyn's house, and it was confirmed that

1165
01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:04.840
it was Caitlin's gun that had fired the shots that

1166
01:13:05.039 --> 01:13:09.880
killed Moe. Game over, y'all, A warrant for Caitlin's arrest

1167
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:13.359
for the murder of Mariah Wilson was issued, and on

1168
01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:17.520
May seventeenth, just roughly a week after a Moe's murder,

1169
01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:22.680
police went to go take Caitlin into custody. But you

1170
01:13:23.479 --> 01:13:25.319
you didn't think it was gonna end right here, did you.

1171
01:13:25.960 --> 01:13:28.479
Ain't no way you thought that it was just gonna

1172
01:13:28.560 --> 01:13:33.000
end right here, not even close. Because when police arrived

1173
01:13:33.119 --> 01:13:37.039
to get Caitlin, she was gone. But she wasn't gone

1174
01:13:37.199 --> 01:13:39.279
like she had run to the store or gone like

1175
01:13:39.319 --> 01:13:42.199
she went to go visit somebody. No, she was gone, gone,

1176
01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:46.239
and she could not be located. She had up and

1177
01:13:46.359 --> 01:13:50.840
vanished no trace of her, so much so that the

1178
01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:54.880
Marshal's Office, the FBI, local and state officials, all of

1179
01:13:54.920 --> 01:13:57.760
them were looking for her. But she had disappeared, and

1180
01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:02.359
she was now officially a fugure from justice. It made

1181
01:14:02.399 --> 01:14:05.479
news headlines, It was in the paper, it was online,

1182
01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:10.079
This was everywhere. And of course every agency that I

1183
01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:12.600
just mentioned to you used every tool that they had

1184
01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:16.439
in their possession to track her down, and what they

1185
01:14:16.439 --> 01:14:19.720
were able to locate was that her vehicle had been

1186
01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:23.920
sold to a CarMax. So if she sold her car

1187
01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:27.199
and got rid of it, she's got no ride. Where

1188
01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:32.560
might she be well, investigators found that her sister lived

1189
01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:35.840
in upstate New York. So their thought process was, was

1190
01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:38.760
it possible that she may have gone there to hide

1191
01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:42.560
out with her sister. So they checked buses, they checked flights,

1192
01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:46.319
and eventually they tracked the fact that she had gotten

1193
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:49.199
on an airplane and she had flown to New York.

1194
01:14:49.840 --> 01:14:53.079
And this was confirmed whenever they reviewed the camera in

1195
01:14:53.119 --> 01:14:55.199
the airport and you could see her their white pants,

1196
01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:57.880
blue jacket, she's masked up because this is around COVID

1197
01:14:57.920 --> 01:15:02.159
time and they were gonna go get her. So they

1198
01:15:02.199 --> 01:15:05.560
take it to New York, go and they go to

1199
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:08.880
take her into custody. But guess what, as you can imagine,

1200
01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:11.880
she was not there. That would have been too easy.

1201
01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:15.359
So what do you think happened? Most people would think

1202
01:15:15.359 --> 01:15:17.680
that she's like fled the country, right, She's trying to

1203
01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:20.439
get out of here. It's exactly what law enforcement thought.

1204
01:15:21.079 --> 01:15:24.880
So they checked to see where Caitlin's passport had been

1205
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:28.520
used last and what they found was that she hadn't

1206
01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:33.479
used She had not used her passport. All right, Well,

1207
01:15:33.479 --> 01:15:35.640
this is now posing a problem. You're not with your sister,

1208
01:15:36.039 --> 01:15:38.840
you haven't fled the country, so that means you're here.

1209
01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:42.119
But if you're here, then you've got to have a

1210
01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:43.920
way to stay afloat. You have to have a way

1211
01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:45.640
to take care of yourself and to buy food and

1212
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:48.079
all of that. So you got to have money. How

1213
01:15:48.119 --> 01:15:50.439
in the world was she able to stay afloat without

1214
01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:52.439
any of her accounts being used, not or you know,

1215
01:15:52.479 --> 01:15:54.319
she's not using her credit cards to leave a trail

1216
01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:58.960
or anything like that. Well, there was an unfortunate chain

1217
01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:02.960
of events just prior to Moe's murder that would answer

1218
01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:08.960
this question, because Colin told police that he had recently

1219
01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:12.840
given Caitlin a lot of money that was supposed to

1220
01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:17.920
be placed into an investment account. Now I've seen some

1221
01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:24.279
reports about this that it was somewhere around forty thousand dollars, okay,

1222
01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:29.119
But I was looking at the actual warrant affidavit in

1223
01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:33.159
this case, and it said that that was four hundred

1224
01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:37.479
and fifty thousand dollars that she had in her possession.

1225
01:16:38.359 --> 01:16:41.439
Almost half a million dollars is what it says on

1226
01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:44.600
the warrant. Either way, she's got a ton of cash,

1227
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:47.920
and she had not returned that money to Colin, nor

1228
01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:51.439
has she invested it as she was instructed to do. So.

1229
01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:53.439
Now there's an even bigger problem because she can stay

1230
01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:56.720
under the radar for a long time with that much cash.

1231
01:16:57.960 --> 01:17:00.399
So detectives are trying to figure this out. They're trying

1232
01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:02.720
to see, Okay, where could she be? New York is huge,

1233
01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:04.920
There's a billion people there, right, so what are we

1234
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:07.079
going to do? So they kind of went back to

1235
01:17:07.239 --> 01:17:10.680
the airport video and they were looking at her. And

1236
01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:14.920
while they're looking, they noticed that something just seemed off.

1237
01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:20.039
Caitlyn's hair looked different than usual. Nothing huge. It wasn't

1238
01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:21.800
like she had chopped it off and dyed it black

1239
01:17:21.880 --> 01:17:25.399
or something like that. No, it was It was still her,

1240
01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:29.960
but it was noticeably more styled, like how her sister

1241
01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:36.520
usually wore hers. Hmm. So on a hunch, investigators wondered,

1242
01:17:37.319 --> 01:17:41.359
what if she had possibly used her sister's passport, And

1243
01:17:41.439 --> 01:17:43.520
so they go and they check into this and they

1244
01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:48.199
hit pay dirt there it was bingo, she had used

1245
01:17:48.239 --> 01:17:52.560
her sister's passport to fly from New York to Costa

1246
01:17:52.640 --> 01:17:57.399
Rica on May the nineteenth, And in that moment, y'all

1247
01:17:57.479 --> 01:17:59.479
minds are blown that it was that easy for her

1248
01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:03.359
to escape and get out of the country using someone

1249
01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:07.479
else's passport and just made it right on through. So

1250
01:18:07.600 --> 01:18:11.319
two weeks after the murder, the US Marshals were tracking

1251
01:18:11.800 --> 01:18:17.600
her all the way to Costa Rico. But time kept passing,

1252
01:18:17.680 --> 01:18:20.479
days kept passing, and the marshals could not find her

1253
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:22.760
ass And so they're like, we got to do something here.

1254
01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:24.640
We've got to think outside of the box. And that's

1255
01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:28.079
when they got really creative. Because if there's anything we know,

1256
01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:30.680
it's that a tiger does not change its stripes, and

1257
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:34.279
y'all people are no different. They may change small things,

1258
01:18:34.479 --> 01:18:38.239
but what's built into them, they don't change it. And

1259
01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:43.000
law enforcement decided that they were going to simplify their search.

1260
01:18:43.800 --> 01:18:46.560
They were going to quit chasing her. They were going

1261
01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:51.199
to have her come to them. Yep, that's what they

1262
01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:53.479
were going to do. And you're like, what, And this

1263
01:18:53.560 --> 01:18:56.479
is how they did it. They decided that they were

1264
01:18:56.479 --> 01:18:58.560
going to put an ad out where they believed that

1265
01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:01.279
she was living. And this ad was going to be

1266
01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:04.960
looking to hire a yoga instructor for a fake studio.

1267
01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:10.119
Sure as shit if they did not get a response

1268
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:15.319
from somebody, and guess what it was her? She literally

1269
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:18.920
came to them, just like they thought she would. Who

1270
01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:22.039
would have thunk it so. On June twenty ninth, after

1271
01:19:22.119 --> 01:19:26.039
a long forty three day fugitive hunt, Caitlin Armstrong was

1272
01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:32.199
arrested and officially back in police custody. But even now

1273
01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:36.960
that she was in custody, she looked even more different. Nothing,

1274
01:19:37.560 --> 01:19:40.960
nothing wild, okay, Like it wasn't like, you know, her

1275
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:43.720
ears were in a thighs or something, but she still

1276
01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:48.079
looked different. And it was more than a new hairstyle, okay,

1277
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:53.800
her face looked just off. And come to find out,

1278
01:19:54.359 --> 01:19:57.000
while she was on her getaway, just a few days

1279
01:19:57.079 --> 01:20:00.760
after her initial arrival, she had made an appointment under

1280
01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:05.760
a fake name to have plastic surgery to change her appearance.

1281
01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:10.199
Her adjustments, if you're wondering, included a nose job, a

1282
01:20:10.239 --> 01:20:14.920
brow lift, some lip filler. You know, that's sort of stuff.

1283
01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:17.800
I've heard of a mommy makeover before. I have never

1284
01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:21.279
heard of a murderer makeover. But there you have it.

1285
01:20:22.359 --> 01:20:26.560
Her goal of the surgery wasn't to completely look different.

1286
01:20:27.079 --> 01:20:29.479
It was to look more like her sister and to

1287
01:20:29.560 --> 01:20:32.880
be able to pass herself off as her sister. And

1288
01:20:32.920 --> 01:20:36.720
by the way, on Patreon, I've got actual photos of

1289
01:20:36.760 --> 01:20:42.399
her face before, during, and after immediately after the surgery,

1290
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:45.000
if you want to check that out. So, she was

1291
01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:47.239
extradited back to the States and slapped with a three

1292
01:20:47.279 --> 01:20:49.800
and a half million dollar bond, and now she was

1293
01:20:49.840 --> 01:20:52.760
going to be headed for trial. But a few days

1294
01:20:52.760 --> 01:20:55.920
before the trial, she had to go to a doctor's appointment,

1295
01:20:56.079 --> 01:21:00.000
which required her to travel outside of the jail facility.

1296
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:03.640
She had this injury that required a specialist, and because

1297
01:21:03.640 --> 01:21:06.560
the injury was her leg, she wasn't able to be

1298
01:21:06.760 --> 01:21:09.359
put in leg restraints. Yeah you see where this is going,

1299
01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:12.520
don't you. Well, at some point after being brought to

1300
01:21:12.520 --> 01:21:16.079
the medical facility, she took her chance, and that bitch bolted.

1301
01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:20.520
Remember she's a pretty fit girl, and when she took off,

1302
01:21:20.960 --> 01:21:24.359
she meant it. So Caitlyn, still dressed in her maroon

1303
01:21:24.439 --> 01:21:27.560
prison top and her big stripe the black and white

1304
01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:31.319
pants that you wear in jail, was moving with purpose

1305
01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:34.920
and she led law enforcement on a foot chase for

1306
01:21:35.079 --> 01:21:40.000
roughly a mile before she was again recaptured, and a

1307
01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:43.239
portion of this was even caught on film, which is

1308
01:21:43.600 --> 01:21:46.119
even it's not funny, but it's funny, like just to

1309
01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:48.399
see her running in this cop trying to take her down,

1310
01:21:48.479 --> 01:21:51.520
but she was caught and she was brought back into

1311
01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:57.840
custody again. On October thirtieth, twenty twenty three, Caitlyn Armstrong

1312
01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:01.680
went on trial after pleading not guilty, which garnered tons

1313
01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:06.840
of coverage both locally and nationally, and even more was

1314
01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:10.239
exposed during the trial and opened a lot of people's

1315
01:22:10.239 --> 01:22:14.279
eyes to just how troublesome the situation had become. Without

1316
01:22:14.439 --> 01:22:20.159
Moe really understanding how volatile the situation had shifted. Colin

1317
01:22:20.319 --> 01:22:24.520
was clearly playing both women, although he never would fully

1318
01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:27.000
admit it, very clearly, and I want to give you

1319
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:29.920
an example so you can see what I mean. Texts

1320
01:22:30.239 --> 01:22:33.680
like the one that he sent Caitlin right after he

1321
01:22:33.760 --> 01:22:36.600
dropped off Moe, right after he dropped her off on

1322
01:22:36.600 --> 01:22:39.560
that motorcycle. It showed that he drove off and I

1323
01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:41.560
know I said he went straight home. He did, but

1324
01:22:41.600 --> 01:22:43.920
he pulled over for just a second on the motorcycle,

1325
01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:45.680
and what they were able to see was that he

1326
01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:49.840
sent a text message to Caitlin when he stopped, and

1327
01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:53.439
the text said direct quote, hey are you out? I

1328
01:22:53.479 --> 01:22:56.720
went to drop some flowers for Alison at her son's

1329
01:22:56.720 --> 01:22:59.960
house up north and my phone died heading home. Unless

1330
01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:04.760
you have another food suggestion, does that sound like a

1331
01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:09.039
guy that's hiding something from his so called ex girlfriend

1332
01:23:09.119 --> 01:23:10.760
or does that sound like a guy who's still with

1333
01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:13.399
that girl and telling her a bunch of lies because

1334
01:23:13.439 --> 01:23:17.520
he's playing her. Don't like that, guys, he was lying

1335
01:23:17.800 --> 01:23:19.600
because he didn't want Caitlyn to know that he was

1336
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:25.000
with Moe. It would also be revealed that Caitlyn had

1337
01:23:25.039 --> 01:23:28.399
also been harassing Mo at one point, and it was

1338
01:23:28.439 --> 01:23:30.920
to the point that Moe had blocked her number. She

1339
01:23:31.000 --> 01:23:32.520
was like, I'm not dealing with this. She just blocked

1340
01:23:32.560 --> 01:23:37.439
the number, not realizing that this was escalating on that

1341
01:23:37.560 --> 01:23:41.239
side of things. And then there was a party before

1342
01:23:41.279 --> 01:23:46.239
the shooting and a friend would talk to police. A

1343
01:23:46.279 --> 01:23:48.760
friend of Caitlyn's, by the way, would come forward because

1344
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:52.119
she knew what she saw and she said they were

1345
01:23:52.119 --> 01:23:55.720
at a party. Caitlyn got so angry that her body

1346
01:23:55.840 --> 01:23:58.680
was physically shaking. She was so angry, she was just

1347
01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:03.119
vibrating back and forth when she saw mo and she

1348
01:24:03.279 --> 01:24:06.800
told her friend that if she ever saw another woman

1349
01:24:06.840 --> 01:24:10.840
with Colin, she would kill her. Pretty damning words, I

1350
01:24:10.880 --> 01:24:14.199
would say for the woman that's sitting there behind the

1351
01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:18.439
defendant's table. So, after all the evidence was weighed, everything

1352
01:24:18.520 --> 01:24:22.960
from forensic data to DNA on Mariah's dumped bicycle. On

1353
01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:26.279
November the sixth, Caitlyn Armstrong was found guilty of the

1354
01:24:26.359 --> 01:24:30.920
murder of Mariah Wilson and sentenced to ninety years in prison.

1355
01:24:32.079 --> 01:24:34.680
But before she was let off, you know that you

1356
01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:39.680
get to have these victim impact statements, and Mariah's mother

1357
01:24:40.439 --> 01:24:44.840
would address Caitlyn directly in court, and her first sentence

1358
01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:49.279
is what I found to be an unintentional mic drop

1359
01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:55.039
on Mariah's mother's part because she started with this quote,

1360
01:24:55.359 --> 01:24:58.359
I'm not sure if my words can penetrate your heart,

1361
01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:03.960
but I'm gonna try. And clearly this is a mother's

1362
01:25:04.079 --> 01:25:11.920
plea to reach Caitlyn emotionally, when that is exactly where

1363
01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:16.359
Caitlyn had targeted her daughter when she penetrated her heart

1364
01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:20.479
with a bullet. Now was this intentional, I don't know,

1365
01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:24.000
but those words hung with me whenever she said them.

1366
01:25:25.239 --> 01:25:28.840
This whole case boils down to a jealous woman allowing

1367
01:25:28.880 --> 01:25:31.520
herself to be used by a guy who didn't want her.

1368
01:25:32.199 --> 01:25:36.119
It's obvious how many times did Colin have to cheat, lie,

1369
01:25:36.479 --> 01:25:40.239
and be dismissive for her to get it now. Don't

1370
01:25:40.239 --> 01:25:42.119
get me wrong, I find Colin to be an absolute

1371
01:25:42.159 --> 01:25:44.680
asshole in all of this too. But when it's all

1372
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:49.359
said and done, he didn't kill Mo. Caitlyn did. Moe

1373
01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:53.239
was a top tier athlete with a kind soul who

1374
01:25:53.319 --> 01:25:56.640
was murdered by a woman who was nowhere near her

1375
01:25:56.680 --> 01:26:01.960
caliber in either of those categories. Was elite, not only

1376
01:26:01.960 --> 01:26:07.479
in athletics but also in Colin's eyes. But the thing

1377
01:26:07.479 --> 01:26:11.119
about true competition is that a winner wins and the

1378
01:26:11.159 --> 01:26:15.520
losers lose. That's the way it goes, and removing the

1379
01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:19.680
other competitors altogether won't ever make you the winner either.

1380
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:24.720
All it does is it cancels the race, and in

1381
01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:29.760
this case, a subpar cyclist with a disinterested boyfriend for

1382
01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:32.800
got to read the rule book. You have to make

1383
01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:39.039
the cut to even matter, Caitlyn, And unfortunately for Caitlin,

1384
01:26:39.680 --> 01:26:44.279
removing Moe didn't solve anything, because Moe wasn't the issue.

1385
01:26:45.039 --> 01:26:49.359
Caitlyn was, and the hard truth she's yet to face

1386
01:26:50.119 --> 01:26:55.199
is that when it is completed, you cannot compete where

1387
01:26:55.199 --> 01:26:56.199
you do not compare