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- Kaitlin Armstrong was sentenced to 90 years in prison and a $10,000 fine after being found guilty for the murder of Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson. Friends and family of Wilson took to the stand to share their final thoughts.
Reporter Alex Caprariello joins “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to discuss Friday’s sentencing.
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Imagine throwing your life away because you liked a guy that wasn’t all that into you so you killed the woman he was sleeping with…..Crazy
I can't.
He was sleeping with both of them. He lied.
Even if he lied…. His lies, deception not worth throwing your life away… time heals all wounds and if she just had accepted the fact that he is not serious, she could’ve looked back at this and laugh
@@mandybradley3079 yeah ok so what. Justifies murder?
And now she'll be behind bars for life whilst he goes on to date womrn who aren't her! It was all for nought! To think an innocent woman lost her life for such a stupid thing 😢
She has to be pretty screwed up to kill someone because she couldn't control her jealousy and her emotions. And so she effectively ended two lives--the victim's and her own. She could have just dumped her lame boyfriend.
Spot on...
Just about everyone in prison is there because of their inability to control their emotions. Prison is a place for the emotionally disturbed.
Don’t toy with emotions.
🎶 You've got me feeling emotions
Deeper than I've ever dreamed of 🎵
@richardernsberger5692 -- you are so right. I was thinking the same thing...she could have eventually met a great guy, but she threw it all away for a player who probably moved on to the next woman before she was even arrested. Two lives destroyed!!!
Stole somebody’s life from them, and threw her own life away. Over some guy. sad..
She will regret it from on😮 !
What did her family expect? A 5-7 year sentence? She ruthlessly MURDERED someone! Kaitlyn is a lunatic. She should never get out of prison.
She won't.
@@sowhat1431 At least not alive.
Twenty Years and no Parole . That would be horrific enough for anybody at all . Your life is damaged enough by that .
@@blinkyblonk4912 she has more charges for a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. She will be in there 30-40 years.
Well 7 years would have been about the standard for this type of killing. A couple of women fighting over some guy. Not exactly out of the ordinary these days.
I've never heard a news reporter say "yoga instructor" with such disdain. She didn't even talk about her crime with that amount of disdain. 😂
Well spotted!
She really hates Yoga
@@johnnysacrimoni2404Who doesn't 😅
@@70777taaviyour hamstrings must be so tight
LOL. Actually, that was spoken Chris Farley air quotes-- any self-proclaimed "yoga instructor" who murders gals out of jealousy are not really "yoga instructors". This gal is psycho.
Taking a human life should not be taken lightly.
Just a senseless death !! R.I.P. Moe !! For what? A relationship that didn't exist!!
No relationship is worth killing someone over...
If your partner ain't that into you- dump them and move on, learn how to handle rejection (it happens to everyone at some stage) and if your lover wants another, they aren't worth a dime..
Just such a senseless loss of life... Rip to Moe😢
Well said; especially the part about 'handling rejection'.
@@makaha5750
Ty... 🙏🙏
Real talk.
Agree
So, wait. Let me get this straight. Because the guy didn’t want to be with some obviously crazy bit@# and decided to be with somebody else, he’s not worth a dime?!! Damn! That’s some hella’ logic. I guess he should’ve stayed with the murderess.
Well, at least she'll be out when she's 123. She'll be able to enjoy her life, travel and spend time with her family
😢 family !
The Dept. of Corrections should take into account that she is a flight risk. No low security facilities.
Everyone in prison is a flight risks. They don’t wanna be there
I am 💯 % positive that she will be working on something more sophisticated this time - she has nothing to loose ..NOTHING, she has already death in prison sentence so successful escape would surely changed that.
35+90=125
Watch her for googling Ruja Ignatova
They will
@@0Shane13 Sure, but she specifically fled the country, got a nose job, used a fake name, etc. which is clearly the highest kind of flight risk. That's some El Chapo type shit.
@@KnockOut242 they only need one to help her! CALVACANTES, Gonzalo Lopez (killing 5 more people) WHITES, Sean Williams & many others. You folks don’t understand that employees are helping them in organize crime just like the ones CUTTING RAZOR WIRES on the border to let criminals in or Vickey White - doing it openly?!
She gunned down another woman because of her jealousy over a guy? Why would she want a guy who was a cheater anyways? How crazy. Doesn't sound like he's worth sitting in prison for 90 years. If you have to check up on your boyfriend and stalk his every move it's probably time to find a new boyfriend. That poor girl cornered in her bathroom and executed, I feel for her family.
“A guy who was a cheater anyway”?!! Ummm… none of you all are a part of this situation nor close enough to have ANY real idea why he didn’t want to be with a… oh, I don’t know… a crazy murderous bit@#. He OBVIOUSLY saw something in her that drove him in a different direction. But I guess you think he should’ve just stayed with the crazy one.
@@Torrque scram troll🤡
@@Torrquethe guy just wasn’t willing to commit … I think that guys instincts were pretty much on point.
That’s the kind of women who would murder you in your sleep in a few years
Yep every case like this I see on crime TV the guy they kill over is cheating with other women smh
👏
How could anyone let someone else hold such power over them that they'd ruin their lives and betray their morals over is beyond me. There's always someone better around the corner, or just be alone! I'd rather be alone than deal with games or players.
Ego problem. Not a man problem.
What 😳
LOL
I disagree. I think it is a mental health problem but she does need to be locked up.
Possessive, coercive, controlling, spiteful, manipulative, violent. It's in their nature. She was like that from birth. Nurtured that way by her mother.
All the man did was to say NO! Must be his fault then.
@@oddball7483unless he had a 7 inch tongue and a 9 inch pecker
Jealousy is a very very bad emotion was it worth it, no person is worth going to jail for
Why anyone would think that taking a life is the answer I will never understand! No man is worth 90 years in jail! What bad choices this woman made. She will have to pay with her life being lived in jail and then pay again in the afterlife for all the hurt she caused others by taking the life of Ms. Wilson.
For the last time, this isn’t about the man. Very likely she has BPD. Most women naturally have borderline traits (fear of abandonment, drama, etc) but they have some logic circuit left that regulate their behavior. But women with BPD don’t have the mechanisms to regulate their behavior so when they flip out all hell breaks loose. I recommend watching the movie Fatal Attraction. The character Alex Forest is a great example of a female with full blown BPD…
Or women
@@Chad_Maxmost women do not “naturally” have borderline traits. This is a diagnosis that both men and women can have. That would be like if I said most men have narcissistic traits. Many do but not most. Generalizations do not help anyone.
@@ricardoortiz-ij6io
Yes, yes....but just now we're talking about a man who was killed.
Green rage (jealousy) turns off the brain's thinking switch. The very simple answer to your question.
A narcissist doesn’t care about the families of their victims. She is where she belongs.
Why are you not showing the defendants reaction to sentence ?
She had no reaction anyway, although she did hang her head at one point as if feeling regret to what she had done. She had been stoic since her trial (probably a suggestion of her lawyers).
There is a picture of KA right after the sentence in the Austin Statesmen newspaper as she is being led away by the police. I have followed this case, and while not an expert, it appears that KA in incapable of showing emotion. She reminds me very much of the Manson girls, who waited until they were in their 60s and 70s before they expressed any remorse. Some of the Manson girls died in prison, some are still in prison, and one was paroled this year. KA's first possible parole hearing is in 2053. She will be 65-years old. I can't imagine she'll be released.
I wish we had a justice system as efficient as this in the UK!
Seriously? You wish for an American justice system?
@@jesseredden7123 She can wish for it knowing she will never get it and wouldn't want it if she had it.
I don't understand why people think they can get away with murder. Cameras, phone, license plate, DNA, fingerprint, ballistics, blood splatter, autopsy, eye witnesses, motive, credit card transactions, flight manifest, etc. There's almost no way to get away with murder.
Were all of those a factor in this case or are just speaking generally?
Hate and anger usually blinds you of rational thinking. Or she was just stupid and evil
Edit : Or she IS stupid and evil
Because they women. She can get away with so many things.. She think she can get away with murder to.
Its because she didnt want to lose her freedom and comfort, so the answer is selfishness and lack of accountability!
we have something in common we watch the same shows YOU CANT GET AWAY WITH MURDER
So much for yoga being calming 😮
She should try goat yoga.
@@billgoforth7426 GOAT meaning Greatest of all time yoga. Weird point but ok.
Ha
God I love that our American neighbours to the south know how to serve justice.
Wow, 90 years is wild bro 😮
I know 90 days is crazy!
Why is it wild?? It was first degree murder!
your only option is to walk away and have a better life
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"...from William Congreve's play "The Mourning Bride" in 1697.
Oh, good grief. "Thanks for Googling". 🤣
Ain't that the truth!
True...Very True
What a shame to throw your life away and take someone else’s life for a man who’s surely with another woman as I type this comment
NOT a problem - HE’s gonna wait for her!
This is why I completely remove myself from having any type of formal relationship anymore. I’d hate to be on the receiving end of this rage, and I’ve been in some close calls!
Be real, you just can't get a girlfriend.
@@undefinedd1147 yeah, that’s it slick. I’m not a playboy like you that can scoop up 10 girls in one night with a single eyebrow raise!
Indulging every appetite as immediately as possible is the opposite of strength. Strength tests itself. Pride declares itself. Cautionary tale. Show the world how strong you are. Keep your clothes on.
Haha, wasn't prepped for that last sentence. 😂
Wise words being spoken.
Human beings man, i find it so incomprehensible that a person would ever give serious thought to killing another human being , let alone actually doing it especially in America where you will get caught . Getting a life sentence is essentially being dead . I'll never understand it
When is her sister going to be tried as an accessory to the federal crimes she committed when she handed her sister her passport and access to funds, harbored her and aided in her flight out of the country? I don’t think she cooperated in the search for her sister in spite of knowing her location?
This is an excellent question. However, the official narrative is that KA "stole" the passport from her sister. Even Prosecutor Rickey Jones used those words. My supposition is that KA didn't want to throw her sister under the bus, so they may have developed the "stole the passport" story, where Christine could use plausible deniability.
There no way to prove that in a court of law.
I agree. I think they don’t take those offenses as seriously as they should- aiding and abetting is grossly under prosecuted.
Plenty of fish in the sea, no reason to punch someone's ticket.
The ironic thing is that if it hadn't been the victim it would have been some other girl he was seeing behind her back. Was she going to shoot every single girl he went out with?
No man is worth killing for. And apparently he wasn't if he was stringing two women along. So sad that innocent young woman is dead .
Imagine losing your life for jealousy over a man smdh
👀 isn’t yoga supposed to place you in a place of peace and serenity?
There are a lot of fake yogis who just want to look cool.
Goat yoga.. not quite the same thing..😅
Not when it’s those narcissistic yoga influencers who take pictures of themselves constantly posting to Instagram with “words to live by”.
Ouch. That $10,000 fine must have hurt the worst.
No doubt because she knows she will be out in 70 years and not have to do the full 90 but $10,000 is $10,000
From what I have read, she is ineligible for prison commissary until she pays that fine.
@@gregXxo... Likely she’ll be dead in 70. Hard to get money from a corpse.
What she saw in that guy is beyond me. He on the other hand should change his name to gigolo. Lol. Ladies please respect yourself. If a guy messes around tell him "don't let the door hit you on your way out"
How is he a gigolo? Kaitlin sleep with more men in their breakup than Colin... and its Mo that keep chasing Colin... is he a jerk .. yes ... but thats it... if this Men kill and other man over women , that women will be just another victim and it will be death sentence..
No man is worth that...
Are you telling us u would'nt hook up with a 6ft tall, physically fit gravel racer like Colin Strickland? Clearly he's handsome enough that 2 women cost them their life and liberty
Typical woman trying to pin this on the innocent man.
Oh, lordy. Yep: "This is the guy's fault." Shaddup.
The sister is only upset that her sister got caught. She should be held accountable as well!
It was interesting when Christine described her sister KA as a "good person." Prosecutor Rickey Jones raised his voice and reminded KA that her sister was convicted of first degree murder, to which Christine replied, "I accept the verdict of the jury."
Again and again I say no one is worth taking another person's life for. If you have eliminate someone in other to have a chance with other person you like then that person isn't for you. It's a very lame thing to do
Jealous hate is a very emotional crime, huge sentence! YET every hour & every day people in the US are killing for NO reason and get out on bond in days or hours. Child abductors repeadly let out to reharm... My point, she deserved a strong sentence for sure BUT where is true justice across the board for the truley gross people harming kids and sensless others. Judges need to be re examined.
What has the US got to do with this?
Really? OK first of all, it's literally in the U.S. Second, each point stated refers to the crimes as mentioned that are happening hourly and daily in the America. What other countries do we have white dudes mass killing, black dudes shooting thier own. Mass home invasions which are terrifying. They are not just robbing, they are torturing innocent people. As for mentioned sentencing, look it up. Brutal and violent people are out on bail daily. Your question is absurd, not sure why I even began to answer it but alas it's fine to communicate what is happening. The U.S. is 100% self imploding. Tell me otherwise.@@ruthgiles8926
In civilized countries 2nd degree murders like this get 15-20 years not Life in prison. @@ruthgiles8926
Great, now if only we can come down on the rest of the criminals that the system let go.
They could’ve said LIFE … 90 years sound better lol
Completely outrages to think a person would even think of killing someone over a relationship then only to throw away the rest of your life behind bars or even executed in some states, the bible says be slow to anger being it can cause many issues & in this case jealousy that lead to murdering another human being.
So she was sentenced to 90 years and a $10,000 fine. Really what happens if she doesn't pay the $10,000 fine, will she get another 10 years since she was only allowed 90 years?
How dumb is that!
About as dumb as murder
TWO LIVES GONE FOR JUST STUPID JEALOUSY!!!
1.. You don't count the one that do the murder..
Tale as old as time...
And now the boy toy with other women’s
Jealousy is the worst emotion. I'm glad I only experienced it once, as a 4 year old.😞😞😞
Ruined her life and her face for literally nothing...
Good night, Kaitlin.
Bye Felicia
Love is patient, someone with love in their heart, would not even think it.
what was the sister expecting? 10 years
I very much doubt that what these people have to say will have any effect on a person that just received a 90 prison sentence.
It would if they said they are going to become pen pals with the general population of the prison she ends up being shipped to.
Her sister crying for who? Hopefully the victim…
What was Colin Strickland's attitude to this on off relationship?
Does he have any remorse over his part?
Seems the "calming & centering effects" of Yoga didn't work very well for Ms. Armstrong.
Obsession is a dangerous thing!
Taking someone's life "over a man" is the most absurd thing I can imagine. No MAN is worth this..... no WOMAN is worth this.....No relationship is worth this.
That attempted escape from the hospital was just unbelievable. She couldn't escape costa rican authorities why would she be able to survive on the lam in usa?
Happy birthday😂, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, etc etc etc 90 yrs Kaitlin!!!!
90 years in prison is insanity.
So is morbid jealousy and murder.
It just means “life.” She will be eligible for parole much sooner. I don’t think she should ever get parole.
You expect 90 days community service for first degree murder? if she is a man it will be death sentence.
@@GH-oi2jf She won't even be eligibile for parole until she is about 65 or so. Even then, she'll likely not be granted parole, due to her escape attempt, and I'll be surprised if she ever shows the remorse and self accountability required to be set free.
This is America. Not Europe where people get a comfy cell, all the fashion choices they could want, and 9 years of prison time
Well, like Saul Goodman said in the final episode of Better Call Saul: "Well, with good behavior..."
Pride
Jealousy is Bad
Revenge is Evil..
👿..
She can do 90 years standing on her head, literally.
A monster.
Look at that killer's sister crying and carrying on.....what did you expect woman? She cruelly and callously shot her in the head and heart.....cry for the victim not your evil sister
i hear that!
Sister: I'm just as much of a drama queen, too!
Who will get The Interview? 60 minutes?
Mean while the guy that was throwing his willy around gets off Scott free,screwing around 98% of the time ends in heartache,believe me i know
Im so happy to see Elizabeth Vargas on your show....she looks great and healthy....good hire, News Nation 👏
Don't drop the soap 😂
Wow I can't believe they gave that WG 90 Years.
Times have changed.
Race card pulled again.
Because she kept trying to elude the crime She kept trying to escape.
90 years. I wonder what she plans on doing when she gets out ? She's 35 now. If she keeps up with the yoga she will be the most limber 125 year old out there.
Her first possible parole hearing will be in 2053, when KA is 65. She'll be like the Manson girls, in prison either until she dies, or possibly gain parole when she's 80 or so. She certainly won't live another 90 years.
Who knows she's into yoga she may just well live past that.. I'm sure she's already requested a goat for her yoga.
Soooooooo sad and stupid 😢😢😢
Kaitlin Armstrong is not an unattractive lady. She could have accepted the rejection and moved on with her life. She would have found someone else. But no. Now Moria "Mo" Wilson, a vibrant young woman, is dead, leaving her family to grieve for her for the rest of their lives. And her killer is going to spend the rest of her life locked up in a concrete box because she couldn't handle rejection. What a tragic waste.
Gosh 35, thought she was 55
The yoga do her wonder
yoga ages women a lot
@@faustopacheco120How does that work?
Wow that was deep praying shes at some sort of peace now justice is amazing but nothing bring this young ldy back jealous is a diseas i hope everybody gets treatment forit because it lwads to deadly senseless crimes very sad
punctuation is a thing
Why not the death sentence???
People have no regard for human life whatsoever.
Easy access to guns allow normal sane people to do crazy things in a moment of mental imbalance. The only sane thing to do is to have strict ownership laws (if not total ban) - but there again I am talking to the USA where there are no sane people.
I knew there had to be a biker connection somewhere in this.
Mother never taught her daughter what is loyalty and jealousy mean. Blame who ?
Texas v rival girlfriend...outcome shot through the heart.....in Australia it would’ve been an argument in the street...no guns allowed here....I know where I’d rather be...why can’t Americans? Oh that’s right ,it offends their 2nd amendment rights...I forgot....tell the victim and her family & friends that
90 years , 😮 wow ! In a state cell 😮 !!!
I have come to learn that Yoga instructors have an elevated capacity for crazy.
Studies show that people who move on fast to another relationship are healthier. Don’t cry, don’t linger, don’t plot, don’t care. There’s always a better bad romance.
They aren't healthier, just shallow and unemotional, so they just don't care. Sure they feel less stress, depression, etc, but I certainly don't want to associate with robots like that.
Namaste.
How can you kill someone just because of jealousy. You just not ruined someone's life and family. You just did the same with your life. There are so many guys out there.
I’ve seen serial killers get far less time.. why is this case so exceptional?
I just watched a serial killer get 17 yrs with the possibility of parole.
90years??
Well, I haven't heard of any "serial killers" who got less than 20 years, with parole...but supposing that actually happened, I think most reasonable people would think that such a sentence would be far too light for some who committed multiple first-degree murderers in succession. So it's kind of silly for you to declare this woman's sentence as "exceptional" based on that case - which sounds FAR more exceptional. Instead of picking out some extreme example, you would bolster your case with more of an apples-to-apples comparison - i.e., a similar case where premeditated murder occurred within a love triangle or some situation akin to the one Armstrong was in. And if you see cases of one or more killers getting significantly less time, then use those.
As far as this sentencing being exceptional...it's not a life sentence, and she will be eligible for parole. There are plenty of first-degree murders out there that ended with a life-without-parole sentence. Chances are, many of those sentences were more exceptional than Armstrong's. The case itself was unusual due to the lengths Armstrong went to try to get away - the borrowing of her sister's passport, the rhinoplasty, and then the escape attempt later. All of that plus the lack of any expressed remorse likely removed most, if not all, mitigating factors that could have lessened her sentence.
@@cmsmhpwell said 👍
Where did you see a serial killer get 17 yrs with possiblity of
Parole, send a link 🤨
90s years is too much...
what a stupid sentence
Disagree. She has the opportunity to do less, since she has parole. If she becomes a model prisoner, owns up to what she did and holds herself accountable, she very well could be set free well before 90 years. But thus far, she has shown no remorse and has tried to flee multiple times. Those are aggravating factors which likely added some time to the normal sentence here.
That’s the best picture they have of the victim?
Look for recent Grissly ‘s true crime …. Beginning has tribute to Mo ❤
No man, or woman is worth spending my life behind bars, well, except for someone that messes with my family.
Nothing of value was lost.
Now she will realize that she lost all her life and freedom for a man who would rebuild his life with someone else, was it really worth ?
90 years is insane..just say life in prison
uhm life in prison would be much shorter than 90 years...like half of that.
She's hours into her 90 year sentence.
-What a needle. 😂
Well guess what Ms Killer, that ex of yours will be finding a new partner and then what you gonna do being in a locked cage? Senseless.
If the killer is alive they can harm to others and / or be released .
This was an extremely interesting getaway Escape the way she did it was very genius and she did it on the scramble her problem was she tried to settle down has she kept moving around and finally ended up moving with an old timer they would have never found her especially in those third world countries but when she tried to settle down that's how they zeroed in on her United States Marshals are some of the best at tracking people don't kid yourself about them
Punctuation, ......is a thing. Jus' sayin'
@@empfangwien521 I'll make it simple for you she should have kept moving. Thank you for the comment
You can run but you can't hide
@@benijen most people don't know what they're doing but there are people that have gotten away and have never been found a good example is DB Cooper who jumped out of the airplane all they found was some burnt money that he used to warm himself when he jumped into the snow that's all they ever found it can be done
yoga teacher gets 90 years wow that's a long stretch.!
Lock her up!
GOD BLESS TEXAS WHERE JUSTICE IS STILL HANGING ON 🙏
Amore!