Woman Wanted for the Austin Murder of a Pro Cyclist in Love Triangle Captured in Central America

 

AUSTIN – Fugitive Texas murder suspect Kaitlin Armstrong has been captured in Costa Rica, more than six weeks after Austin police obtained a murder warrant in the death of pro cyclist Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson.

U.S. Marshals announced the arrest Thursday morning 43 days into the manhunt and said she had been captured Wednesday.

Costa Rican authorities assisted U.S. law enforcement in tracking Armstrong to a hostel on Santa Teresa Beach in Proincia de Puntarenas, the Marshals announced. Authorities said she used a "fraudulent passport" to fly from Newark, New Jersey, to San Jose, Costa Rica, on May 18.

Austin police found Wilson, 25, with multiple gunshot wounds in a friend’s home around 10 p.m. on May 11. Wilson was one of the country’s top pro cyclists and was visiting Texas ahead of a competition when she went out for an evening with Colin Strickland, another pro cyclist whom police describe as Armstrong’s boyfriend.

Moments after Strickland dropped Wilson off that evening, according to investigators, Armstrong’s SUV showed up on surveillance video outside.

The 34-year-old yoga teacher was questioned and released on May 12. By May 17, she was named in a murder warrant. By then, she’d already flown from Texas to New York.

This is a developing story. 

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