Tying It All With a Bow: Love Triangle Murder Trial Day 8 Recap | TX v. Kaitlin Armstrong
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- This is the Day 8 Recap from the so-called "Love Triangle Murder Trial," aka TX v. Kaitlin Armstrong.
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FOR CONTEXT:
Yoga instructor Kaitlin Armstrong is on trial for murdering a professional bicyclist named Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson. Kaitlin was in a relationship with professional bicyclist Colin Strickland. When Kaitlin and Colin were on a break in their relationship, Colin very briefly dated Mo. Friends described this as basically a very casual, very brief dating period, without much emotional connection. Things didn't work out romantically for Colin and Mo, but they allegedly remained friends. Prosecutors allege that Kaitlin became very jealous of Mo ever since, and that this jealousy drove her to take Mo's life.
After she was questioned by police, she fled to Costa Rica on her sister's passport, where she dyed her hair and had plastic surgery that changed her face dramatically. After she was apprehended, she tried escaping a second time, this time from a doctor's appointment she had in jail.
Trial in this case began on October 30th in Austin, TX when a jury was paneled. On November 1st, the prosecution and defense gave their opening statements.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Witness No. 1 - Steven Aston (Ballistics forensice)
2:06 Witness No. 2 - Dr. Bernadette Derussy (Medical Examiner)
3:48 Witness No. 3 - Officer Rosalba Johnson
5:00 Witness No. 4 - Alejandra Gil (forensic DNA scientist)
6:42 Witness No. 5 - Samantha Perkins (TX Dept. of Public Safety)
11:32 Witness No. 6 - Pamela Mazak (Criminal Intelligence Analyst)
19:27 What Do YOU Think?
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What do you think about the prosecution's case as a whole?? Let us know in the comments!!
The easiest case in town for them. Even the best criminal defense attorneys in the country could not get her off.
I would love it if you did more summaries like this because being concise is a true skill many dont have and you have a way of getting us the we want without wasting time and in a smooth delivery that doesn't make me lose attention and have to go back. It really hard to find that so you would save me a few hours per episode because every episode you do, is more concise that the couple hours i already spent finding that info. I think youtube has too many people who waffle all day on live and more intelligent minds are more likely to be working and too busy for all of that and i think you cater to more intelligent minds. Clearly im not concise and i actually tried to be here.
Thank you! I do love making these summaries, and especially for people who don't have the time to tune in but don't necessarily want to get the information by scanning the internet for articles that give only pieces of information. I plan to focus a lot more on trials like this for this kind of content moving forward.
You seriously have a talent for this type of content. Very informational and entertaining. Thank you for all you do
Thank you, that's very kind of you!
Thanks for finishing out this recap series!
You're welcome! It was going to seriously bother me if I didn't finish it, even if super late.
@@LegalBytesMedia I was only following the story through your channel, so I wasn't bothered by the series being finished later. ;)
I came to this channel for the excellent coverage, but I stay because the dog gets properly introduced too at the start ❤
And also, there’s a cat. No brainer 🤷♀️
I remember, I had accidentally tuned into the closing arguments. The part of the closing argument that I tuned into discussed transfer DNA. It was at that point that I was convinced the defense can't win.
Transfer DNA isn't necessarily always a losing argument. In this case, though, it was an especially tough argument because of the number of transfers they had it would take. Also, the way they went about it simply was not convincing--the more I've thought about their argument about where someone handles a bicycle like that (middle bar versus handlebars/bike seat) the more I thought it was Kaitlin who touched the bike. It seems like someone who's very familiar with the bike (like Mo) would pick it up in the middle, but someone who is new to handling it (like Kaitlin) would much more likely handle it like a normal bike (handlebars/bike seat).
@@LegalBytesMedia yes, yes! I didn't really go into detail in my comment about their use of transfer DNA in this case was just too implausible to be taken seriously. (I was kind of driving, didn't pause the video, and used speech-to-text and my brain just doesn't allow me to split focus like that AND be coherent.)
Thanks for finishing this series. It’s bizarre and fascinating.
Really appreciate your breakdowns. Waiting with the closing and verdict videos until your recaps are caught up
This whole time I thought she was like 18... She is a lot older then in my head. It made it so much worse.
Edit: your video is really clear. Is it new??
Yay youre back! my favorite narrator on this
On May 12, Colin asked Kaitlin to write down everywhere she had been on Sunday afternoon and evening. I wish the prosecution could have asked Colin about that on the stand. He could have answered that Kaitlin wrote down that she had gone to a cosmetic procedure and then visited a person to have a talk about spiritual matters. I guess it's so bizarre that Kaitlin has no alibi and the defense just leaves that issue hanging with no offer of an alibi, when that would be so critical. But that's the privilege of the defense to not offer that information - of an alibi.
The defense also has the privilege to have Kaitlin decline to testify on her behalf. But I wonder why the prosecution didn't say, "What's Kaitlin's alibi? She offered no alibi to exonerate herself. Wouldn't an innocent person, in order to prove their innocence, offer an alibi?" My thought is that if you are the defense and you are going to offer that someone else could have driven her car and had her phone, then you'd at least offer up where you happened to be while someone was driving your car. I know the defense is not required to, but it makes Kaitlin look so much more guilty to leave this issue unanswered.
It drives me crazy that Kaitlin won't admit what she did. I was glad to hear Mo's mother say directly to Kaitlin that reconciliation was available to her, but she had to admit what she'd done first. It's so hard to read Kaitlin. When her attorney asked if she wanted to testify in her defense, she froze like a frightened animal. Then her defense attorney told her this was not a trick question. Then she mouthed, "Sorry" to her family. What is she thinking????? I can't get a read on what is going on in her head.
This reminds me of the Jodi Arias case - where jealously becomes such an obsession that logic is just pushed out of their brain and the obsession occupies their mind against their will. It also reminds me of the Stephanie Lazarus case. Stephanie Lazarus murdered her ex-boyfriend's wife in a fit of jealousy and got away with it for 20 years and just went on about her life like nothing happened - got married, had a child and advanced very far in her career. Then she was caught and has been in jail for about 10 years or so, and just got approved for parole, if it gets approved by another entity. Then she's out, which I find disgusting.
As far as this being a premeditated murder - my friends and I have talked a LOT about that and we are really still left wondering. A couple of my friends have said that it was a crime of passion with no planning, and I see why. But my gut feleing is she had been planning this murder all the way back to the time she told her friend, "I'm going to kill her." I think the plan could've also been hatched way before that, and Kaitlin had a ruse that she was almost attacked by a man when she was on her bike ride, in order for persuade Colin to purchase the gun for her - under Kaitlin's guise of "a gun for her protection". I think Kaitlin had big plans for that gun the second she bought it. And Colin was just too clueless and unaware to see that he had a ticking time bomb on his hands.
Then Kaitlin told another friend that she wanted to kill Mo and had bought a gun. The friend said on the stand she didn't remember the exact words, but she said the words "gun" and "kill" were both used. I think she was planning it all the way back then. The plan would be all laid out, and she would lie in wait for the days, weeks and months until the opportunity presented itself. In the mean time, she would make an escape plan to Costa Rica - I think she spent tons of time planning that escape, too. Going on the run as a fugitive is not something that can be improvised. She seems like she knew exactly what she was doing. She was able to navigate that 43-day run because of planning, I believe. In case she got caught.
Finally, the time came. Colin lied to her and ignored her calls when he was on an evening swim with his former fling. Oh, the RAGE Kaitlin must have felt! I just can't imagine the white-hot rage that took over her body! Kaitlin had been stalking for days before the actual murder date. I think she was planning the murder and the plan was set in motion - and once that dynamite was ignited there was no turning back. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. It seems like she was snooping in Colin's texts and phone messages and knew that Mo was coming in town, and knew that there were some kind of loose plans to meet up - Kaitlin just didn't know exactly when the meet-up would happen. And of course she knew Mo had a race in Hico all from the online stalking.
I think she'd gone over this fantasy in her head hundreds and hundreds of times and actually rehearsed it. I think she could have gone to the shooting range more than just that one time they have her on film. She was a pretty good shot. That takes practice. By the time she actually carried out the murder, she did what she thought was a very efficient job, and probably thought she'd committed close to the perfect murder. She forgot about the mountain of digital receipts that she'd left all over the place. I'm surprised, because Kaitlin is so smart. It seems like she would have planned some of the details better. And what a bad choice to pick up the bike and move it. She probably thought that was going to provide a motive for the murder - as being a robbery for Mo's bike, which I think is extremely lame.
Who would execute a woman with 3 gunshots for a bicycle, even an expensive bicycle? There are property crimes all over my neighborhood, but they are crimes of opportunity and don't involve guns and murder - just low-level stuff. Murders are rare. I think Kaitlin is super smart, but didn't have the presence of mind to think things through because the obsession was taking over her brain.
Her escape to Costa Rica just doesn't seem like a spur of the moment thing. The logistical details are not the kind of thing people can make up as they go. Anyway, I think this plan was hatched the second she found out that Mo and Colin had had a fling.
I also have a very strong feeling (but we'll never know) that Colin let Mo believe that his relationship with Kaitlin was completely over, and Kaitlin was moving out as soon as she could, and that he was available to pursue another relationship. I wonder if Mo didn't understand that she was dealing with a player who could be dishonest with women.
I'll never stop wondering about these things and many, many more things . . . I would love to know what Kaitlin threw away in that dumpster . . .
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First her right to not speak means that using her lack of speech against her to imply guilt would be improper.
Second: she was stalking her then kullled her then ran. How is any of that not premeditation.
Premeditation doesn’t mean you have to have a full on pre-planned conspiracy. It means that you decided even a second prior to the act to kill. This was not a conversation gone bad.
Your friends are actually debating if she did a first degree murder or if she did a planned for months first degree murder.
Third. You ended with a big old “how do we validate first degree murder and stalking by blaming a victim”?
Oh, thank you for your answers to all of my wonderings. I do find myself all the time with questions about the law and how things work. It sounds like you know a lot about legal matters. I still have so many questions they drive me crazy. Can I ask your opinion if you feel comfortable - what do you think about Kaitlin planning this murder for months? Do you think it could be possible? Do you ever wonder what goes through Kaitlin's mind and what is wrong with her? Thanks if you can answer these questions. @@Somero5115
You should watch the SNL sketch, The Californians, goes into the California highway lingo
I’ve seen it! It’s both accurate and hilarious 😂
All said, the accused should never take the stand in cases like this. Intent prior to buying the gun is key, if witnesses are available to substantiate the prosecutions claims, fine. So many ways to get busted or framed these days, I don't see how the accused gets out of this if it is obvious and proveable that she stalked the victim.
Its not a defense but Kaitlyn has a right to be out of her mind, an emotional victim as much as a possible murderer. There exists a veritable and verifiable conspiracy to assault Kaitlyn's person. No one is free of guilt in this case.
I don't really know if it was possible for the prosecution's case to be any stronger :D Ofcourse barring direct evidence with recordings or witnesses seeing Kaitlin there, which don't seemingly exist, improvement in the small details could make less room for doubt. Such as the ballistics expert learning beforehand the process of how exactly every part of a gun is manufactured and other such details to be informed and ready for the cross-exam questions (which will probably happen for his future trials since he was caught unaware here). But obviously any doubt such details can cause doesn't seem likely or reasonable considering overall the overwhelming separate bits of evidence stacking up. If every individual aspect of the evidence is 95-98% convincing on their own, that still makes one heck of a strong case!
Do you know if there was any investigation into the dumpster mentioned at 17:36? My first thought was that this could have been for evidence disposal, although no items have been flagged as missing as far as I can recall.
One of the investigators did testify about visiting the location, but I don't remember anything actually materially coming of it (and I remember paying attention, thinking maybe she would've discarded the remainder of an ammunition box, perhaps).
Saying “the” in front of freeway and highways is such a cali thing. I still do it and I dont live there.
I left California in 2010, returned in 2014, and then left again in 2019. It's still a habit, so I think it's going to be a forever thing😂
@@LegalBytesMedia If it's any consolation, in at least several European countries we exclusively do that.
@@LegalBytesMedia oh it’s definitely a forever thing. 9 years since living there and I still get looks whenever I say it
Having analyzed their in-court and post-trial speeches, I've come to the realization that they're kind of delusional. I mean, the mom said that her daughter would have listened if KA had talked to her woman-to-woman. Wasn't her mom aware of the fact that KA phoned her daughter and asked her to back tf off on several occasions, which prompted Mo to block KA's number? Even Mo's friends, who had dated Colin previously, warned Mo to not get involved with this dude because KA meant business. This is really making me question her judgment and character. What the hell was she thinking? I highly doubt she was this dumb and gullible. Then her dad emphasized how honesty and integrity are crucial in personal relationships while being totally oblivious to the fact that his daughter was chasing a taken guy with a live-in, deranged girlfriend who confided to her friends that she'd kill if Colin started dating someone else.